I never play the same lists twice in a row at the house and try to get others to do so.
Phantom more than anything has funneled this game down the path of "Forcing" people playing rebels to field the fat hans and turrets. There is only one ship that can seriously counter the Phantom other than these turrets, that being E-wing with corran horn, boost, advanced sensors. Very expensive option but only serious option IMO.
Phantom should also have been 3 attack dice period. Its been admitted by the designers but they wont go back to change anything or FAQ it like they said on the Scum and Villany podcast interview.
And lastly on the Phantom ***** list is the Autocloak after attack, also unbalancing and "Forcing" rebels into choosing turrets/fat hans or simply die.
One other issue I see is when the game is balanced just for tournament play, then regular house play does suffer. Example... Fat Han may be super annoying as time runs out in tournament play but there is PLENTY of time to kill him at my house. How many games are casual house games versus the tournament play? Uhm... 99.99% of them. FFG please balance the game for house play not tournament play.
Edited by Tokyogriz