There's one strategy I find that works quite well: Stay out of the line of fire.

A melee character can easily use walls and other terrain to their advantage to prevent being shot at before they close the gap.

build with enough low cost pieces to run an effective grunt screen if your opponent doesnt have any accurate shot. if they do have accurate shot, just hope your low cost grunts are useful in other ways. ugs, and mice are usually the best choices.

Dont get me wrong I love my jedis and I always try to keep them from getting shot up, I play this universe for these cool jedis and if i want to field a team of jedis and I'm facing a seps team it isnt pretty. BTW I never expect any team to win all the time but a team of jedis should win from time to time. I just wanna have fun!!

Quite fortunately, this problem is quickly becoming irrelevent.

The two major Jedi factions are each getting their own counters to shooters: Republic is getting some amazing movement breakers like Yoda on Kybuck, Captain Panaka, R2 Astromech, The Dark Woman, General Skywalker, etc. and the New Republic has Evade, which makes shooters less effective unless their in the Jedi's attack range.

Also, the upcoming restrictions on maps will make it harder for shooters to use distance to their advantage.

For most part, I dislike using Jedi or melee charcters without Twin attack, as they simply take too much effort to march across the board, only to do 20 damage and be shot. Chances are the none-melee attackers will then either let rip at close range, where they often can't avoid the fire, before stepping away and taking a single attack of opptunity. Melee to none melee combat is high risk for little reward unless played very well, while shooting squads only have to really fear better shooting squads. by the time the melee charcter lumbers up to them, they will still have the uggies to match in the way.

It is getting better now though, as mentioned, the Republic have swap, new Repubilic have mass evade and often greater mobile attack. Even the Sith are interesting in the fact that many of their none unqiues are not restricted to melee combat. A few force points can be spent for instant damage within a force lightning or lightsaber throw. O.R have the resistant Jedi Weapon Master for low point games. Just, I don't have the pacience for Melee figures unless they have something good to bring the party, be it huge damage potencial damage output when they get there, surviablity or a good commander effect. Otherwise, I am wasting time when I finally do base that shooter. XD

Generally speaking, I love flexable units, and I love Jedi that do their job well and have twin/huge surviablity. Though generally I will use Melee charcters because most shooters are generally the bottom end stats wise anyways.

There are many ways around that problem. As pointed by some earlier, know your map. It's also not such a good idea to run a pure melee squad. Theoretically it would be powerful but, depending on where you play, you'd probably run into squads that have super-shooters.

Override helps, but the best thing to do is to have an adaptable squad. But if you must, use Jedi that have deflect or can be granted evade. That works well enough.

corran horn, jaina solo, shado vao, kol skywalker aren't bad when combined with wedge and leia

any rule to that effect would make way to much sense .

The poor guys at the end of this IMO are the Sith. Many of their top pieces are melee (although some have a 6 square ranged attack) and the faction doesn't have too many shooters, unless you start bringing in Fringe. No funny movement stuff either (no swaps, I can't recall anyone with more than normal speed, etc). And to top it all off, some of them have no form of defense against shooting unlike the Jedi....

Ah right, I forgot about the JA Palpatine...