Sogot to play my brother on Vassal tonight. He is not very experienced and he had a sub-par squad:

Vader

Elite stormtrooper

Stormtrooper

Elite probe droid

Officer

I used my regular Rebel squad modified to get some of the new rebels in it.

Luke

Biv

R2D2

C3P0

Elite Sabs

Elite troopers

The game was Balance of the force and it was finished in turn 2 when I had killed everything except Vader.

Now, granted that I saw everything on a good day but the new guys were really good.

R2 gave me extra cards and held a terminal just like that, he is really designed to just stand nex to a terminal all game.

3PO gave me focus on 2 turns, pretty much what he does.

Bivs close and personal is really powerful, I got unlucky and rolled really poor for but luckily I had "Stay down" command card and could get the extra attack.

I was not to impressed by Biv in skirmish before, but now that I have played him and realise what he can do, man he is good.

Very pleased with how the new stuff behaved, gonna be interesting to see what happens when my brother (who actually is a tactical genius) actually sits down and thinks about how to play for real.

You can use Bivs surges on the mele attack as weel right?

Have fun

Yes you can use Biv's surge abilities on his melee attack. Sadly I find him very lackluster as he dies so quickly...

I've played 5-10 skirmishes against Biv and the trick to him is to be very aggressive. Charge in so that he's close to two enemies and gets the bonus defense. That generally makes him pretty hard to kill for a figure of his point value. I generally target other figures first because of this and he ends up doing a bunch of damage with his Up-Close attacks unless I'm lucky or careful to buff the guys he can actually reach with extra defense from Royal Guards, etc.