Just wanted to share some fun stuff we did last night at our LGS. I always appreciate the hard work people put into custom pieces and stats. I always thought it a shame that most of the time these guys make these pieces and they just sit there. I always like it when you get to actually play the custom and see how it really performs. Brian did a lot of work compiling a nice little 40 piece set. Some were his customs, some he borrowed, some he borrowed and tweaked. I have included 2 attachments. One PDF is a list of the stat cards and the second is the set Checklist. Feel free to check them out. We will definitely be playing these again and any feedback is much appreciated. For the minis he actually had alot of customs made that looked exactly like the cards which was very impressive. Some of the higher quantity guys were just proxied. What was really cool was Brian supplied all the cards and pieces for everyone which I thought was great.
After seeing the 40 piece set I was a little worried about 4 pieces I thought would be very powerful in sealed. Luke/R2, Emporer Clone, Vader, and Joruus. Only Luke and Joruus were pulled and they didn't turn out to be all that bad.
I wish I took pics to show off some of the sweet custom pieces, but oh well. Here are some highlights.
So for the draft Brian had made cards with the contents of a booster on each card, so basically you drew 2 cards randomly out of the pile. (remember this is just for fun, so most of the VR pieces there just going to be one of since you were playing with a small group and custom minis as well) I think that worked out great. Brian made up about 200 cards of the other guys. We also only made 100 point squads, so after you had your stat cards for your 14 guys and made your 100 point squads no one had an issue with having a piece in their squad that didn't have a card so that worked out nicely.
I ended up with Max Rebo and Han for my 2 uniques. While I would love nothing more to make a Band squad for future play, Ol Max wasn't going to find a spot in my 100 pt army. I ended up using 5 pieces for 97 points. I think they were-
Han Solo Brigand
Fallen Jedi
Bothan Operative
Imperial Scout Trooper Captain
Ewok Marksman
My favorite game of the night came against Joruus, Imperial Spy, and Queen's Handmaiden. I really didn't think my squad had a chance to inflict 200 HP of damage, but in the end it came down to the wire. It was 20HP Joruus against my Bothan based against each other. I win init and he keeps Insane version so he can reroll, so I throw grenade and he misses the save and the FPRR. Wow, now it is my turn and I roll a 9. LOL we all die! I really loved how Joruus played and loved the concept of the flip card. It was epic!
I know we will be playing these guys in constructed squads in the future, so like I said earlier any comments will be appreciated.