ok I'm still new at running SW EOTE and I'm having a problem. 2 in fact.
1. The marauder is melee and very powerful. She usually sweeps like 3 minions a pop. Now her character is very intimidating and melee oriented. So she like to get up and tear things up. But I keep running into the problem of: "oh if she engages we get a black dice to combat checks while she's engaged with the target-- so let the shooters shoot first. So it can end up with all dead minions and her just yawning and waiting for some action to come again. Lame. Now here is a question; if she engages the minion group since they are a minion group-- is she technically engaged with the whole group or just one dude in the group so only setback to the one dude she is engaged-- but than is it thematically oriented if she does 1 kill and enough crits to kill more minions? Or is that only working if she is technically engaged with the whole minion pack?
2. how do I fix the problem of her getting benched because initiative roll is almost a group effort which PC can slot into a PC a lot on the initiative order because they always vote shooters first melee last because a dinky black dice. She gets sidelined even though she years through minions better than the whole group.
Thanks for help