krayt_dragon wrote:
Yeah, and I can't even begin to tell you how incredibly sick I am of the complete brokeness that is Mara Jade. That piece is the worst cheese I've ever seen. I pretty much hate everything about Alliance and Empire, from the utterly garbage sculpts to the square bases to the ridiculous units.
I had a 150 pt Grevious/Tambor droid swarm squad completely wiped out by a New Republic squad that had Mara, Luke, Talon Karde and some fringe scrubs. In the course of the fight, I managed to do 20 points of damage to Luke before my entire force was wiped out. I couldn't even shoot at Mara Jade until she was amongst my squad, and once she and Luke were close enough to attack everything I had died in two rounds. it was pathetic, those figures aren't even remotely close to being balanced. The other guy didn't even need his other two pieces. And thansk to Karrde's reinforcements, he ended the game with twice as many units as he started with.
Yeah.....your problem there has nothing to do with Mara Jade being 'broken'. Your problem is that you are playing a squad that hasn't been competitive since Universe. If Mara was 'broken' then why was there not a single Mara Jade, Jedi based squad in the top 8 at GenCon? I REALLY like playing New Republic, but I decided not to play a NR squad at GenCon because I knew Mara was just not powerful enough, and her power was way too situational, in order for me to win consistently. A friend of mine (who is a VERY good player) did play NR at GenCon and went 3 and 2 before dropping out.
Mara is a good piece, but she is far from unbeatable. It's just that in your situation, you had just about the worst possible squad to face her. Doesn't make her broken, just makes your squad a bad match-up. This says to me that you may need to re-evaluate the type of squads you bring to play at your LGS. It sounds like you're bringing squads to play for fun, and your opponents are bringing squads to win. Someone will have to change their mind-set in order for everybody to have fun.
krayt_dragon wrote:
Only if the Vader player is a complete drooling idiot and doesn't spend his first two rounds Sith gripping Piett.
Well, let's see, it would take Vader 4 rounds to grip Piett to death (since Force Grip on Vader JH only does 10 dmg, and Piett has 40 HP). Plus, Piett would have to be the closest target, which would be stupid. Trust me. I could beat your Vader JH with Piett and 11 Stormies.
krayt_dragon wrote:
If it changes too much, nobody will buy the new stuff and the game will die.
Definitely agree with you here.
krayt_dragon wrote:
That's what has happened to every single other collectible game out there, Star Wars won't be any different. Let me stress that: Every single CCG/CMG on the market has lost market dominance because of power creep obsoleting old sets. If the new sets make the old sets obsolete, then you're stuck in a really idiotic chase to always have the latest set, and you can never catch up...meanwhile everything you're buying is becoming more and more worthless.[/b]
Not sure I agree with you here. So far, Star Wars has been very different. We have had 7 sets so far, and in all those sets, there are still a decent number of pieces from the older sets that can be played and used. Sure, some of them aren't as good in the 'highly competitive' arena anymore, but they are certainly fun to play with still. And so far, Rob has shown a great ability at coming up with new things to make old pieces playable again.
Plus, everything shifts after each set. Heck, after Champions of the Force, most people had written off the Rebel faction. Even BHs didn't help the Rebels much. But, oh man, along comes Alliance and Empire and all of a sudden they are a top contender again. Perhaps next year the NR and OR factions will rise to the top for a while, and then in the fall when the Clone Wars set comes out, maybe we'll see the Seps dominate again.
And that can all be done WITHOUT power-creep. Rob's been doing it with VERY LITTLE power creep so far. There is NOTHING so far to suggest that this game will die because of power creep problems.
Just sit back, relax, and wait for the rest of this set's stats. If there really is legitimate creep at that point, then nobody will argue otherwise. But at this point, it's really kind of silly and immature to make sweeping assumptions that this set (or future ones for that matter) are going to ruin the game.