Grand Moff Boris wrote:
LOL Yeah I decided to give him a whirl, and the reaction at the store was pretty much... whoa, why are you playing him, he sucks, LOL.
I figured I should at least try him out before I wrote him off completely. He wasn't too bad. He plays about like most Hans I have used, plus he has Evade. He's no Han Cannon, but then again he's not 46 pts. either.
Thats pretty much what he is though. He's a support shooter (a pretty good one for taking out support and low defense pieces) more than a significant dmg dealer. He needs help to get the most out of him so you need to synergize with him. Something your squad expmlifies.
You've added ackbar who is a good (albeit old skool) accompanyment to him. By adding Ackbar you've synergized with both NTMTO by insuring Recon will have a use against a lot of squads you'll face (this boosts Ackbars worth) and you've also boosted his worst attribute which is his meger att score (so Ackbar gives back to Han). This makes Han much more worth his 30 points and solidifies his role in the squad.
He's not a han cannon although PL is a great person to run with him as he becomes a mini cannon of sorts. If you put him with PL, Obi FS and Yoda D he becomes a really reliable shooter but obviously thats a lot of points and its pointless to do this unless you have secondary uses for both PL and Leia it not worth it.
Did you build this as a counter to thrawn SS squads or was there some other reason for this particular build?
I read your tourney report. You have an odd meta your way. Lots of power squads, few figs with large HP and dmg. Still, some of them look like they could've caused you some problems so you obviously ran the squad well.