Woah: huge number of skirmish changes for both Rebels and Imperials:

This basically means a whole new metagame.

Thoughts?

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Update: FFG has been responding to contacts saying that updated cards will be provided in upcoming Organized Play products such as Tournament Kits.

In the meantime: here's a PDF of the new cards released on 12/21 for you to print (I had extra space so I threw in the Smuggler too). It's sized to print on 8.5x11" paper at 100%.

FFG should really find a way to release these errataed cards physically.

So FFG: please put out a booster pack of the new cards shown in your article. Bundle it with another IA release and/or sell them for a reasonable amount (less than $5) individually.

Please like this post if you agree!

Update: see post above: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/196473-skirmish-errata-for-december-2015/?p=1949164

Another question: Why weren't the officers just given separate deployment cards for skirmish vs campaign like R2-D2 has?

I think I'd prefer that template for the cards if I was going to get/make physical versions. The existing one can be the Campaign card and the new one with 2 movement points will be the skirmish one.

Personally, I feel they should be obliged to produce corrected cards. Since you need the cards to field the troops competitively, they should provide replacements. The original cards can be considered 'defective components', after all.

Yeah, the amount of changes for the Royal Guard deployment cards; you'll have to keep a copy of the FAQ whenever you play. I wish there was a way to get new copies of the cards.

That, and the change with the regular officers.

It's going to be a interesting change in the meta.

I need new cards.

Let me say that again: I need new cards.

wow this is wild. Never expected that many changes. Even though they seem good.

Best result here?

Scum can now compete! Almost wish I didn't buy all those saboteurs and Wookiees, cuz I want to mainly play mercenaries.

Vader will be worse. He synergized well with both Royal Guards and regular Officers.

Focus will be less powerful in Rebel lists. A Focus on a Saboteur almost guaranteed a Blast 4, which was very powerful, but is no longer possible.

Focus is still powerful enough to justify its costs.

Another vote for a POD set of replacement cards!

The elite E-Web will be less powerful, as it relied on the Officers' orders.

The elite E-Web will be less powerful, as it relied on the Officers' orders.

Eh. It loses one movement point when moved by an Order. Or you can run an elite Officer, who was not nerfed and allows full movement.

The elite E-Web will be less powerful, as it relied on the Officers' orders.

OTOH the errata only causes 1 move point lost per order on an elite E-web as opposed to 3 on a royal guard or 2 on most other things.

New cards would be nice, but I wonder if that might not be part of the reason for waiting so long to issue errata. If we make them feel obliged to give us new cards now, will that be part of the decision making process the next time they inadvertantly break something?

What normally happens in a situation like this?

Vader will be worse. He synergized well with both Royal Guards and regular Officers.

Vader's not a Guardian, so he still benefits from Sentinel.

Regular Royal guards won't be able to utterly smash white-die users anymore, which should help the Rebels there.

What normally happens in a situation like this?

The only other situation I've encountered with an errata like this it was done as an entire re-release of the game. Of course that was a game made and marketed by an individual rather than a company. I very much doubt that's what's going to happen here. I'd call new figure packs as the most likely way to distribute the cards.

These changes are fantastic. But having cards with a bunch of incorrect text on them isnt. This is such a massive change some sort of updated card distribution feels necessary.

Malifaux reprinted their cards when they made the new edition.

But all in all, they avoided the power creep path and decided to fix what's broken in the original game.

I really hope they give us a way to get updated cards. I understand the game needed it, but having to refer to something else just starts to make the game more of a hassle to play. Hopefully they will address how they plan to fix this issue very soon.

I recommend everyone contact Fantasy Flight Games through their online contact form (https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/contact/support/) to ask that new cards be printed that reflect the changes to figures' stats. That should bring our concerns to the company's attention much faster. I'm directing my message to the customer service department.

And I have a few suggestions to help make for the most effective petition to the company:

• First of all, be civil and polite. It doesn't cost anything and makes people more likely to listen.
• Emphasize that you are and have been a customer for the product, and that you enjoy it.
• Link to the errata announcement, in case the person receiving your message isn't familiar with the news.
• If you feel the errata was needed, mention that.
• Specify what the problem is and how you propose to fix it -- in this case, that the cards you have for these figures are no longer accurate and you want FFG to release (possibly at a nominal fee) corrected versions at the same production standards as the ones that you've already purchased.

And here is a sample message you can send, based on the one I just sent:

Having digested this for a little bit, I have a couple of follow-up thoughts.

1. In total, these changes represent a huge boost to trooper lists. Royal Guards are much more in line with other figures now, and trooper lists don't have to fear elite Saboteurs' Blast 2 anymore.
2. Combat Suit, whether Elite Hoth Troopers' built-in ability or the skirmish upgrade, just got a lot better with Royal Guards trading a +2 damage surge ability for Pierce 1 and regular Saboteurs' Pierce 2 dropping to Pierce 1.

I guess the easy way for FFG to do this would to be to release Royal Guard and Imperial Officer packs, hopefully with 2 or more copies of each deployment card to replace the old ones. Plus it would allow people to buy more of these units aside from secondary markets or buying a second core set. The Rebels Saboteurs though...I don't seem them getting the corrected cards outside of the reprints.