audrisampson wrote:
That looks like a ton of fun and certainly something I'm going to run a playtest of for the event. Dumb question.. How important are the mouse droids?? My area has ten total and they are used by two players so needless to say I don't own a mouse droid LOL. I know that sounds incredibly stupid for a player that has been around as long myself but mine all got sold off when I got rid of my collection around Dark Times.
You really want Weeks to answer that, but I think you can get away without them - they're not essential, but it makes the squad sub-optimal. The two ranged CEs are the OR Senator's extra attack, and Master Kavar's stat bonus. Assuming you have Kavar on Thon's back and Bastila out the back meditating, you want to give the extra attack to Thon, so you'd need to keep your diplomat within 6 of Thon. It should work fine most of the time, and you could even use him as walking cover if the other team doesn't have anything that can hurt him, although he'll cop it if you ever want to Force Repulse. If the other team has the potential to get to Bastila, having a mouse droid next to her to pass on Kavar's stat bonus is also useful.
Mouse Droids are also really good at just getting in the way - if the other team has a big shooter without accurate shot like Cad Bane, you can get him wasting shots trying to kill a mouse droid (he needs 14s to hit a mouse droid in cover) so he doesn't get so many shots at Thon and Kavar.