Okay, my buddy Reuben would never get on here and post this since he would perceive it as bragging about himself. But I feel like this squad should be preserved for posterity, since it was one of the more creative builds that did well in this year's Gencon Championship Tourney.
54 Cad Bane 49 The Jedi Exile 33 Bastila, JM 28 Dash Rendar 21 Houjix 9 Mouse Droid x3 6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2
Map: Hall of Judgement
Reuben had been trying all year to build an effective Bastila-Exile-Cad squad, and he always ran into the problem that the Exile (and to a lesser extent Cad) is too difficult to keep alive for a piece that is so expensive. Solution: a piece that can bodyguard twelve squares and is cheap for its cost, at a moment when direct damage isn't especially prevalent in the meta. So the way that Reuben played this, when he won map roll, was that everyone but Bastila moves right down the middle of the map in a sort of phalanx around the Houjix, with the three mice out front to screen, and then the uggies blow the two doors in the middle of the map at the start of the second round, meaning that virtually the whole map is open for Cad and Dash to start blasting away.
The first time I saw this squad, when we were practicing for Gencon, I was playing Solo Charge, and saw Reuben pull out this OR squad with a Dejarik piece, and thought to myself, "Sweet, I kill the Houjix with accurate, and then I do door tricks, and then I win." By the time the game was over I was telling Reuben that he had to run this thing at Gencon. It's a tough matchup for Solo Charge, and really, if it wins map roll, it's a tricky matchup for anything if the uggies manage to get the central doors blown. It's probably not Tier One, but it has some good matchups with Tier One stuff, especially on shooter-friendly maps.
Crazy Houjix is obviously vulnerable to a lot of stuff, including squads with lots of override on maps with lots of doors, which was what this squad lost to in round 6 at Gencon to keep it out of the Top 8 (Ricky's squad). Still, it finished 14th at Gencon, and in the championship tourney it defeated a national champ (Deri) and a regional champ (yours truly). Its only losses were to players that made the Top 8.
On the way home from Indy, Matt Spry and I were talking about this build in the car, and he threw out this squad idea:
Crazy Houjix 2.0: The Houjixing
49 Jedi Exile 36 Atton "Jaq" Rand 33 Bastila JM 28 Dash Rendar 21 Houjix 18 Klatoonian Captain 9 Mouse x3 6 Uggy x2
Atton only does a potential 120 compared to Cad's potential 180, but the Klatoonian's splash can help to deal w/ mouse walls, and Atton and Dash are now Speed 8 w/ Greater Mobile. The big thing, though, is that you pick up override, which makes map roll less of a do-or-die scenario.
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