@TINT - i brought in a Felucian against Bill and Matt (the report is in the regional results thread) but in both times either Anakin or Mara were dead before the felucian so it was mute. When people see a 7 point piece with devastating consequences for killin git coming at you, they tend to avoid killing it which makes it a decent nuiscance. Interestingly enough, in playtests i wrecked house with UTF but in teh tourney I only got it off once in a mop up fashion. I found his FP2 much more useful in general.
I had Longray in my reinforcements pile but i never used him. The felucian is almost as effective (more so with parry?) for 5 points cheaper.
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I really like the overall idea of the squad, Deri. I think being able to potentially use the MTB could really keep opponent's on their toes as well.
I'm curious why you went with Gha Nachkt though, because you could just go with 4 activations in his place instead. If you went with 4 Mouse Droids there, then you could still do MTB and 4 more Mice, for a total of 8 mice. With Gha and Lobot, the best you can get is 6 mice. So, if you off Gha, you still only get 7 rounds of init control. Seems like it would be better to just run the Mice in there to start with, and then you'd have some extra activations for the matches where you don't run the MTB.
Notice the 2 point mouse in the actual build, if i take Gha and replace with 3 point fodder then you have 14 points in which to do so as you lose the 2 point mouse. So the comparison is 2 activations for 4 (or 9 activations in teh main build V 11 without gha). Then with Gha i can take 10 mice for a total of 19 activations whereas without gha it gives you a max of 17. Gha also allows you to be more creative with lobots reinforcements while keeping your activation count high.
with the MTB i have 7 mice and Gha which is even when you take out Gha and more cost 0 points.
a last point is that i never used the MTB. Its there as a threat but i don't think you need it. If you really want the MTB i think you need to get rid of anakin for more fodder which i didn't want to do.
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I really enjoyed the Han/Mara MTB combo at GenCon 2 years ago though. I may have to revisit this one. Your use of Anakin is extremely interesting, and very different, and I like it.
TINT's point about Logray/Felucian is awesome and something I hadn't thought of. Anakin could be very deadly in that situation, especially if it's combination with the MTB. Have Anakin Unleash in one round, and then Mara/Han clean-up the next round.
I guess you were planning to use Anakin's Unleash as your MTB exit Strategy if it came down to that?
Yeah, anakin is the exit strat but you have to get your MTB moving alongside him, which might get him killed early. Still, you probably only use it for a couple of rounds.