Done 4 missions so far and I'm pretty happy with my open group choices.

Next mission is Fly Solo.

2 open groups.

The threat level is 4 which opens it up a little.

I really wanna try Royal Guard and I feel it's possible with the threat level and the map is quite small.

So I was thinking Royal Guard + Imp. Officer.

What do you think? Bad/ok/good choice?

When choosing open groups I try to cover different costs so that if I need to I can always spawn.

The Imp. Officer works nice with the Royal Guards.

When I run as the Imperial, I try to bring the Nexu at all times that I am able to. Yes it is repetitive and annoying, but at 4 points for the standard version, WHY NOT!

The regular officer is good at getting your units places, but with the royal guards it might seem not so great since they work well together giving each a free block to adjacent friendlies. I would say instead of the officer, bring a Nexu. With 4 threat you can bring the Nexu or wait a round and get the royal guards.

Yes, I am biased to the kitty, but it is a beautiful kitty that can get where it needs to go.

Can't remember if I confuse this mission with another, but I belive part of this mission is that the heroes have to escape through a narrow corridor that could be blocked quite easily. The Nexu is great for that

Yeah, it is a narrow corrdidor.

Nexu and Royal Guard it is then.

A question, I guess there are no RULES against the IP reading the whole mission and events before choosing Open groups.

Do you think it's against the spirit of the game?

Reading ALL of the rules IS the spirit of the game. You're the Imperial Overlord, you know what it is behind that door, you know your facilitys defense system and you know what reinforcements are on the way, and you plan accordingly