caledre wrote: It just seems kinda lame to take away 'unique.' I think it'd remove a significant check and just wind up being broken. Immediate Clone Reserves makes more sense story-wise. Ko Sai was never called upon to clone Jar Jar for instance, but bringing in 30 points of ARC troopers, that'd be cool.
Well, I can definitely see where you're coming from, and I agree that by altering the Unique rule it opens up lots of possibilites, but whether it's good, bad or lame depends on the situation. How many broken, competitive teams have you played that leverage some aspect of the game? Have you ever faced Darth Sidious using Pawn of the Dark Side on an IG Lancer Droid, giving it a crazy amount of strafe attacks over virtually the entire map? Or have you ever faced Boba Fett, Bounty hunter paired with 4 or more Bothan Nobles, which allows you to make 10 twin attacks per round with one of the most undercosted figures in the game? My point is there are plenty of elements already active in the game that allow people to take advantage competitively.
I also grant that Ko Sai never cloned anything other than Jango, at least as far as we'll ever know. But haven't you ever wanted to run two of a character? This may be the only "in-game" way to do it, without some kind of house rule. The important thing here is to limit it so that it can't be used to make the game no longer fun, to word it so it keeps itself in check.
We made a "Spaarti Cloning Cylinder" (which can be found here) that functions in a way similar to what you're suggesting, but instead of clones it spits out storm troopers and it's Imperial. We limited the faction because we felt that the Imperial faction needed a boost, but it could always be given Affinity for a Republic squad. We might need to revisit the wording of the SA to limit it to Stormtroopers and Clone Troopers.
Lastly, while I agree that there are other possibilities for this character, we're working to add depth to SWM in general. If we want reserves, we can always play Supreme Chancellor Palpatine or Mon Mothma. But if we want to play two Darth Vaders?!
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