I've been reading over some squads that went to Gen Con this year and noticed the Lack of Boba BH and Cad Bane. It never occurred to me, but i was actually surprised when I realized these two pieces were not being included in tier one squads. I was curious as to why not.

We all know how useful they are, and that they're the two most chased pieces that this game had to release. Looking at their stats, I know I wouldnt want to go up against a squad that has either included... as their abilities make them deadly even in the most inept hands.

So what is it? Is it that these two pieces just aren't as good has people have blown them up to be? Is it that tier one guys avoid these pieces out of some sort of honor? Or is it that they're avoided because theyre "too" good, and its a prideful thing?

Boba Fett actually has pretty limited damage output for his points cost, BH is a really expensive figure that is self saficent, but has a max damage output of 40 which is really low for a figure of his cost, something which Han Solo and Lando at under half of the cost can put out fairly reliabily. Also can't gain that much buzz from many common commanders. He's a cool repentation of the charcter, but you can't rely on him to win games based on his disintergration alone and is ultimately pretty overpriced for most squads, who need those points elsewhere or have better things that they could be buffing.

Merc is somewhat better, since he retains many of BH's great stuff (Accurate Shot, extremely high attack stat and health for a shooter) and conbinues it with some awesome traits of his own (Cunning Attack, Intution) and can actually gain off many commonly used commanders. His high price tag puts people off though, so he tends to be ignored or hard to get anyways.


Cade Bane is kind of the same as a more practical Boba Fett BH. He's got pretty awesome abilitys, including flight, 4 attacks with greater mobile, stealth. But his accuacy is apprently pretty low and he lacks accurate shot so he can often waste shots on things that are not worth the effect and for some reason, people consider him really frail when he's actually above average HP for a shooter. All in all, he's a lot of points for a raw shooter which people can be hard pressed to dedicate to.

Yet, these pieces still remain in the $30-$60 price range. Does this price come from fanboy tax alone? We can all agree that they are good pieces, but that there are probably better options, as made clear by this years gencon winner. However, the pieces we do see showing up... kybuck, rex, luke commando, reikan, while more popular, and effective, are a fraction of the cost of these pieces.

The price is a combination of things...the rarity, how hard they are to pull, and yes there is that fan aspect to them that influences the price.

Take mouse droids as an example. They are still hard to pull and are still valued at $10-12 each. You need to have atleast 5 or 6 to be playable. By that point you have already spent more on them than you have on either Boba or Cad.

They're actually pretty easy to pull. It's just that people want so many of them. There are four Mouse Droids for every Rieekan out there. But when some players want 20 Mouse Droids, it drives up the price. And the $10-$12 is an old price or you're going straight to the retailers. They don't clear $10 on ebay these days, shipping included.

Them costing a lot really has nothing to do with their usefullness. I mean sure Cad Bane and Boba Fett BH are both really cool pieces, the problem you face with them is they are relied on to win the game by themselves for you and they just dont do that very well.

The game has really captured how the characters work, i mean they are bounty hunters that work for themselves and dont like other people helping them thats kind of how the pieces play. (besides Cad working as a sub-in for Vader ina B&B squad but i still consider that extremely fragile).

I think it speaks volumes that you didnt see cad or boba bh in any of the top tables at gencon cause quite frankly they just dont cut it at a T1 200 point tourney, then again not everyone plays T1 all the time. If you still like using Boba and cad then keep playing them, but i think you will find more often then not people will go after cheaper shooters and boost them then play high cost shooters without boosts.

As cabbage has already said your choice comes down to BFBH or Dash AND Rex +1 point the choice there is pretty easy :)

You're basing your conclusion on a very small sample size, jedispyder. If you were to take the count out to infinity, your numbers would level out. It's just like those times when one guy pulls 2 A'Sharad Hett figs out of two boosters, and then one guy gets none out of a case. It's all in a small sample size.

I think I even things out some. I've pulled 2 out of about 8 IE boosters.

My last 3 galaxy at war packs had rex 501st in them :(

Yes, of course. The pieces are bought by a lot more than just the people playing the game. Check the back of any booster box. Play, collect, roleplay. WotC nailed their market. Arguably, collectors and roleplayers have more figures than the game players. The roleplayers are probably the only reason many of those lots of useless (game-wise) commons sell at all. Collectors will drive up the price of the more popular characters. Rieekan and Lobot would be far more valuable if game players were the sole market. As it is, game players can field a competitive squad in many factions using only a single chase piece since many of the more powerful pieces are only $1-4 on ebay.