So played 150pts Sealed last night at the midnight release, and pulled the Dark Woman, which is great because she is the VR I wanted the most.
I had better overall options for the event, but I chose to use the DW anyways, simply because I really wanted to start to see what kind of crazy shenanagins phase could really do. And she did not disappoint! For 21pts, you have an incredible figure, and having played her, not just for swap squads, but in general I think she is highly worth it in a lot of different squads. Let me tell you some of the craziness I pulled off.
I chose Yavin Temple for my map, and played on it 2x. It was great fun moving through the walls and doors in the center to make attacks or to run away, etc. The DW was able to collect 5-6 rounds of gambit every game because of it, and ensured I had first turn gambit, even without any other movement breakers - more on this in a minute. One of the great tricks I used almost every game was to use the DW to open a key door, often by moving through a wall to a door my opponent didn't expect. In one game, I had an awesome move. I was down to Leia and the DW, the DW in the one square gambit room, Leia in the middle room, and my opponent in the upper room, all doors were closed. After he moved his 3rd piece into his hiding room, I phased the DW 7, through the wall, out the closed door, and opened both doors, allowing Leia to throw on his piece. It was quite ridiculous and awesome!
Bespin - played one game on Bespin and pulled off the greatest first turn gambit collection in history! I had the right side, moved 12 through the wall into gambit
That's right, no R2, first turn into the room
Great times. In this match up, I moved through the turbolift for an attack, back through the walls into the middle room, etc. Great fun again!
Rancor pit - well you can imagine the fun. It's like Nickname's tile fix was in place for me alone
The DW can't do a lot, but I am telling you, she can get to commanders who would otherwise be protected quite well, and this will make her a beast for swapping. It is really tough to keep track of everywhere she can go, and that's where the great fun comes from!
All in all, didn't do well 1-3 - although all three games had a great chance to win, but I just couldn't overcome my low attack scores enough. Lost 1st round to guy who went 3-1, who ended the game with a 50hp Kol, 10hp Vong Gaurd. I have several chances to put more on Kol and to kill the Gaurd and just missed too many. Round 2 I won, killing Sid and Maul and their support. Round three I lost to Deri, who won it and had the best pulls, Yoda, Vong Gaurd, Vong War, Vong Priest, Hk-50. I killed the HK - but should have killed him an entire 2 rounds earlier than I did, killed the Vong Gaurd, but again, he lasted for an entire extra round, which of course combined to give his War 2 extra rounds of living which proved to be too much for me to overcome. I also miscounted a potencial lightning on Yoda and HK - targeting HK adjacent to Yoda who would have been 7 away for no defense, but that wasn't critical until I failed to kill the HK later that round lol. Yoda ended with 70 left, so anyways, it was quite close. Not bad for my scrubs
Last round was against Lilly, who is great fun to play and we had a very enteraining game, as she had a Dark Woman as well! Talk about shenanigans! Anyways, she also had a Sentinal and Vodo. I killed the Sentinal first, and his DW, and took Vodo down to 20, but she made just enough Parry's and my Ranger missed like 5 times on Vodo to kill all my pieces. It was very close and a great fun sealed game.
All in all, I think I had more fun at this one than any of the 3 sealed I played for IE and really love the new Dark Woman!