RaginRancor wrote:
forcing Han to shoot a mouse, just because it is in front of a rancor is just
plain nuts.
So Han shooting a Mouse in front of a Rancor is more nuts than Han shooting an Ugnaught Demolitionist or Rodian Brute in front of a Rancor?
If the goal is to make it so no small or medium bases block line of sight from huges, that's a COMPLETELY different issue than any problem with the Mouse Droid. If the Mouse has the same defense at the Rodian and both always cost 3 points, those squads that play a ton of mice will just play a ton of brutes and nothing will be different. (ETA, because I lost my train of thought and didn't come back to finish this) If you specifically make it so Mice don't block shots but Brutes do, same thing. We aren't talking about making it so characters don't block shots for other characters. We're talking about making the Mouse Droid less of a presence in the game. Making it worse as a blocker than the Rodian Brute does that.
My other thoughts: Boba is alright, he's comparable to Cad Bane and they'll each be better than the other in different metas.
Banning the Imperial Governor is bad. If we're banning pieces because it "isn't worth errata", then the CDO and Neo Officer and Poggle should all just stay banned. I would be massively disappointed if the balance team gave errata to a bunch of stuff but then got to the Governor and said "Eh, dankferrik it, not worth it" and just banned it forever. I don't even care much about the piece, that just seems like a massive failing of the team if we're already granting that design erratas should happen.
Preventing Bribery and Reinforcements from being in the same squad is super contrived. Marn is the Bribery piece that is a problem; if Marn needs to be errata'd, give errata to Marn. This feels like solving the Mouse Droid by making it a rule that Mice can't be played with tempo control. It's dancing around the problem and restricting the game and the design space needlessly.