So my friend and I really like the Clone Wars, and we really like mass battles. Unfortunately, Clones have a tendency to suck. Bad. So yesterday we got to brainstorming on how to make them better, and came up with this:

Clone Trooper Sergeant

10 pts

30 HP
16 DEF
10 ATK
20 DMG

Order 66

CE: Trooper followers within 6 squares that have Order 66 gain +3 attack and +3 defense.
Additionally, we gave a permanent +10 hit points to everything with Order 66, except the Commandos and ARCs.

Now, that Sergeant is just for regular battles. But when we have mass battles, at 250+, we decided to incorporate a squad tactic to keep track of activations. We haven't figured out points for squads yet, though 100 looks about right. Clone squads have 9 men in them, and to keep balance, we gave droid squads double this. A standard Clone Squad would like:

Clone Trooper Sergeant
Clone Trooper x3
Clone Trooper Supply Officer
Clone Trooper Engineer
Clone Trooper Medic
Clone Trooper Support Gunner
Assault Trooper

We altered the Sergeants so that only soldiers in their squads could be subject to their CEs (which replace their old ones -- the one that sucks against an army of droids anyway). The stats look like this:

Clone Trooper Supply Officer

20 HP
13 DEF
6 ATK
10 DMG

Supply Officer (other troopers in this character's squad gain Grenades 10)

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Clone Trooper Engineer

20 HP
13 DEF
6 ATK
10 DMG

Splash 10
Short-Range Weapons (may only attack an enemy character within six squares)
Override
Repair 10
Industrial Repair 10

**

Clone Trooper Medic

20 HP
13 DEF
6 ATK
10 DMG

Emergency Life Support
Heal 10

Notes: The Medic may only use his special abilities on squadmates.

**

Clone Trooper Support Gunner

30 HP
13 DEF
3 ATK
10 DMG

Quadruple Attack
Twin Attack
Heavy Weapon

Notes: This is meant to be a guy with a chaingun.

**

Assault Trooper

20 HP
13 DEF
0 ATK
0 DMG

Rockets 30 (like Missiles, but without the splash)
Grenades 10
Satchel Charge
Penetration 10

**

In addition to the regular squads, there are specialized squads that only use certain types of troopers, with several regular Clone Troopers as guards.

The only types of characters not listed above are:

Clone Trooper Sniper

20 HP
14 DEF
8 ATK
20 DMG

Stealth
Accurate Shot
Deadeye

Clone Trooper Spotter

20 HP
13 DEF
6 ATK
10 DMG

Stealth
Spotter +10
Rangefinder
Recon

**

Civilian Medic

10 HP
13 DEF
1 ATK
10 DMG

Heal 20
Emergency Life Support Systems
Melee Attack

There's also the command squads. Command squads constitute any non-sergeant commanders, and a detail of guards. There's no one custom in there unless we use custom commanders (such as my own Jedi, Rane Selth, and my own Commander, Jatne).

So those are the custom clones.

Here are the droids:

Droid Squad:
Battle Droid Sergeant
Battle Droid x8
Super Battle Droid x4
Engineer x2
Assault Droid x2
Battle Droid Sniper

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OOM Battle Droid Sergeant

20 HP
13 DEF
4 ATK
10 DAM

Droid
Advantageous Cover

CE: Other droids in this character's squad gain Advantageous Cover.

**

Super Battle Droid (revised)

30 HP
13 DEF
5 ATK
20 DMG

Droid
Damage Reduction 10
Synchronized Fire (droids in squad)
Charging Fire

**

OOM-Engineer Droid

10 HP
9 DEF
0 ATK
0 DMG

Droid
Grenades 10
Repair 10
Industrial Repair 10
Override

**

OOM-Assault Droid

10 HP
9 DEF
0 ATK
0 DMG

Droid
Rockets 30
Grenades 10
Satchel Charge
Penetration 10

**

OOM-Sniper

10 HP
9 DEF
8 ATK
20 DMG

Droid
Stealth
Accurate Shot

**

Then there's the ones that aren't in the average squad:

Battle Droid Spotter

10 HP
9 DEF
0 ATK
10 DMG

Droid
Spotter +10

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Battle Droid Pilot

10 HP
9 DEF
0 ATK
10 DMG

Grenades 20
Industrial Repair 10
Gunner


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Corporate Alliance Tank Droid

120 HP
14 DEF
7 ATK
30 DMG

Droid
Twin Attack
Double Attack
Rigid
Mounted Weapon
Outrigger (like the Rebel Troop Cart, except it can carry up to six, and they all have to be medium, and they count as the nearest enemy, not the tank)


**

Crab Droid

80 HP
20 DEF
12 ATK
20 DMG

Droid
Momentum
Vulnerable Area -10 (this character gets -10 defense against adjacent enemies)
Limited Field of Fire

**

Well, that's it. A Droid command squad would be reminiscent of the clone one, except the Security Droids in it would have bodyguard for their principles.

Enjoy!

Also, critique would be appreciated. Remember, these guys were made with mass battles in mind. Thanks!

I loved this idea when I first heard you talk of it, but you really ran with it and made it great. Nice James.

For the CA Tank Droid, is the Troop Cart aspect of it the outrigger? If so, i would rename "Snail Tank" to "Outrigger"

Possibly a good idea. Thanks.

Gratzi. When you come over, hopefully you'll get to play with it.

Cool! I like the ideas! The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is the Penetration 10 on the guys with Rockets 30. I think I undestand what you're going for with that (want Rockets to not be affected by Damage Reduction) but Penetration (under the normal rules) only applies to normal attacks, not special abilities. Still, pretty cool!

A valid point... houserule time.