I do heavily disagree with Bastila not doing well under 200pts. Ask Lou how much he dominated with his Bastila and Battlemasters squad at
100pts. Lou - did you ever even lose a game with it?
I see the point about less overall squads becoming viable at 150, but some new ones would become viable that weren't before. The meta would change with any point level change.
But seriously everyone - Let's start a new thread if we're going to discuss changing to 150pt level anymore. It's WAAAAAAYYY off topic.
greentime wrote:
PS: If GOWK makes his saves, at least I'm not being punished for attacking my opponent's pieces, which I kind of thought was like the entire point of the game. Deathshots are so stupid.
So to paraphrase to turn it into a direct statement -
"I kinda thought attacking my opponents pieces was like the entire point of the game." Graham Bingham.
Sigged!
This does reinforce my point that anything that allows a character the chance to defend EVERY
attack is bad. And SSM + lightsaber combat expert DOES punish you back for attacking. FOR FREE. Even Bastila and disruptive can't stop that. Zannah = stupid crap. PS - I hate deathshots too!
greentime wrote:
Paging back through the thread, I think it's pretty funny that we have
1. Tim talking about how much he hates Mace and GOWK
2. Daniel talking about how much he hates Bastila
3. Me talking about how much I hate Naboo deathshots
I think if you put the three of us behind a podium we could all come up with a pretty well-reasoned and solid-sounding five minute argument for why our particular grievance has the most merit and therefore THAT piece should be banned/errata'ed/nerfed/given a counter. And if you put the next three or five or ten people and asked them about their least favorite pieces they could do the same thing. A good meta isn't about having the warm fuzzy for every team that might be top-tier. It's about having legitimate options to win games with, of which at least one or two do give you the warm fuzzy.
As far as I can tell, no one is arguing that Mace and GOWK are so good and so broken that they drive practically everything out of the meta and therefore ruin it. Hey, that's the meta. There will always be squads that the squads we like lose to, or that are particularly miserable to lose against. Unless those NPEs come to define the game, instead of merely being a small part of it, I think we're all right.
This is a great post. It has given me a lot of perspective. I think I'm moving on from this thread.