Thanks to the Return to Hoth spoilers we were able to see what to expect fully from the new heroes. However one ability stands out among all the others. Loku's Scout's Guidance ability.

Scout's Guidance is as follows.

2Strain: Use during your activation to place 1 recon token on another friendly figure.

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While a friendly figure with a recon token is defending, apply +1 anti-surge to the defense results.

3 EXP

Now some things to consider:

1. This can be placed on ANY ally/hero. There is no range limit and doesn't even require line of sight.

2. You do NOT remove the recon token. This is insane. For just 2 strain you give an ally a PERMANENT anti-surge. The closest thing we have to that is Saska's device tokens and her Energy shield ability. But even then, you can only give Device tokens to an adjacent figure AND have to discard the token after one use.

3. You can spam this ability. Saska's device distribution literally says "limit once per activation" unless you get a certain card that lets her use it twice. This ability has no limit. It doesn't require an action, it only costs 2 strain. You could literally give the entire team this PERMANENT buff on your first turn. (Scout's Guidance twice, rest, Scout's Guidance.)

In my opinion, this skill is simply broken. What do you guys think? Is it not that great? Is it amazing? Do you think FFG intended this or that we'll be seeing an errata to fix it?

My only thought is maybe he is limited to a small number of Recon tokens, like 2 or 3, and you have to decide in certain situations if you want to move a Recon token to a different target or something....idk.

Side note: I think its a great skill, I am a big fan of any defensive boost, and the idea of it always being there is really nice. But I dont think its broken, have to play it out first to see. Its just an evade, which is great, but how game changing I guess we will find out.

Chaos take me, I hadn't noticed that thread had spoilers in it yet. I love you forever for accidentally telling me this.

On topic: I think jomayo has it exactly right, Loku's entire kit is built around using recon tokens and if they're all on your allies then all he's doing is giving the team auto evades (you could do worse than that but you could do better too).

He is limited to two recon tokens only.

He is limited to two recon tokens only.

Are there only 2 in the box?

Yes. If I didn't throw away the other ones by mistake !

I think the limit of two is also mentioned in the Rulebook (I have to check).

Yes, it's limited to two as stated in the Return to Hoth Rulebook, page 4.

that would have been really unbalanced otherwise, as you said!