The designers seem to be doing a great job. I wouldn't be surprised if Tier 1 includes at least one squad type from every faction.

Jaina, Sword of the Jedi was the most requested figure in the votes for what people want to see... so I'd assume she's in there and probably on the level of Revan in terms of being a power piece (probably lower cost and power but equally powerful when taking cost into account).

Sith Revan Builds will be T1. Revan's weakness is KKJBM and Rebels, he can beat most of the other matchups he has depenging on his build.

Mandalorian's get a bunch of good tech pieces that they have been lacking that will give them some t1.5 builds that will destroy otherwise good squads.

Vong i predict will be in everyones mind when they are designing new squads. Their main beat character costs 20 points and is pretty ridiculosly hard to kill for that low of a cost. Look for mandos to be used a lot as a counter to the purple people eaters

Old Republic can filed some pretty mean Anti-Melee squads, the OR Senetor hasnt gotten that much talk and it was one of the first pieces out. The Senetor and Jedi Seers will be in most OR builds now.

New republic. Kyle+Mara is going to be even more important with all the new killer CE's out. Kyle will continue to get better each set. "kyle katarn once got into a lightsaber fight, he won the lightsaber lost"

Rebels get some neat tricks and cool stuff. Their build is still roughly the same.

Seps have loads of options now, Their main squad "Lancer" didnt get better it just got worse. Look for lancer to still be dangerous though. I predict Whorm builds taking over GGDAC builds in power.

Republic. Not a ton for them. The double Death shot squad is T2 but OMG is it fun to play. The Spaarti Clone is a good scrub killer and door control piece. Ill prob use 1-2 in my Rex squads to kill uggies for me +5 attack (with rookiee) is nothing to sneeze at for 5 points. I'll be using Ki-Adi in my Yobuck squads, he has some really fun tricks

Imperials. B&B variants still. They get debuffed a bit against vong, but that really depends on the build.

Thats just my opinion. I'll comment more once everyone gets their cards :)

to quote luke "Thats not True!!! THATS IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!"

ya im getting mine through Daniel, so lord knows when he will give me them :)

CRAP! looks like Rebels only for me from now on. Do you really want that? lol

I don't see kyle being that big of an issue for the the vong. Sure, disruptive drains about everything, but a vong jedi hunter with shaper boosts can still tear right through him.

And when most of your vong have wedge's evade/mobile attack, it will be a lot harder to keep the swarms from reaching katarn.

I think the old republic has some potential. Their ability to battle the ever dreaded lancer will definitely put them on a more competitive level then they have been. Without seeing the factions full stats though, all I can say about them now though is the same thing we've been saying about them for the last few sets. They're one good commander effect away from tier 1.

Yep, and odds are you'll see it in V-Set 2.... wait, who said that?