Well, here's a couple of things to think about.
First of all, you are extremely unlikely to get Recon on the first round, and probably even on the 2nd round if your opponent plays smart. Yes, Vos is a good piece by himself, but if you manage to roll for Droid Reserves on the first round or two, it might be a lot better to just use some of those 30 points to bring in a Probe Droid. In fact, have you seen the Junk Golem's stats? They were leaked out last night. The Golem is 23 points, but has Rapport with Kazdan to make it 22. So a Probe and a Junk Golem is a perfect combination if Kazdan is in a good position to bring in a Huge piece.
Then on later rounds, you can bring in either the BDO or crab droids, or Dark Troopers. So, I think a better basic build would be:
Kazdan
Ki-Adi
JWM x2
R2
Gran
Ugo x2
Gets you a couple more activations. That way you can worry about bringing in heavy hitters for your droids instead of activations.
The other option to consider is Qui-Gon Jinn JM instead of Ki-Adi. Qui-Gon is a MUCH better piece all around, and easily worth the 11 point increase over Ki-Adi. And Qui-Gon's synergy with the JWMs is awesome. The trouble I'm having is figuring out what to do with the rest of the squad. You could do something like this:
Kazdan
Qui-Gon Jinn JM
Jedi Weapon Master
R2 Astromech
And that leaves you with 25 points, though I can't really figure out what to do with them. Best idea so far would be a Sev and 3 Ugos. Both of these ideas I've listed would give you 8 activations instead, which isn't to bad to start out with, and would quickly be 10-15 depending on what reinforcements you want to bring in.
The more I think about Kazdan, the more I'm thinking that squads with Kazdan will need to be run where you have one or two supporting Jedi to run point, and then you hope for good rolls and bring in a lot of power-hitting Droids. If you have Kazdan in there purely for extra activations, you're just going to get smothered, because you won't have enough in your squad otherwise for damage potential.
I'm also thinking that Kazdan may still be better suited for the Rebel faction, but I haven't really played around with everything yet. We'll see.
_________________ -Aaron Mand'alor "You either die a hero, or you live to see yourself become the villain."
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