When I first clicked the preview of General Sorin my first thought was: Cool, a Super Elite Officer

It came to my attention that Sorin can't make other units move ... its attack only ... so this sucks. Movement is so important in this game ...

The next thought was like ok ... put him next of one or two e-Webs and they could stun .... nope ... read again, its Droids and Vehicles only ....

... mostly because I read this card and it says also 'Heavy Weapons' ...

And this somewhat makes me wonder ... did the designers forget about Heavy Weapons when they wrote the text for Advanced Firepower?

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If you would build a list around General Sorin, how would it look like?

Honestly, I don't think you should try to build a list around General Sorin. He's pretty bad, and very squishy for his cost. But, if you're going to do it, the way to do it is with droids. With 3 attack dice and Targeting Computer, elite Probe Droids and regular HK Assassin Droids probably make the best use of Sorin's surge abilities, and they are more efficient choices than any of the vehicles.

I would swarm Probes. Why? Because I find the idea of that hilarious! They also have 3 dice for a very cheap price that allows long-range shots and a high surge chance! Great for Sorin's commanding! Then waltz the one with damage on it up, to explode next turn.

Put him next to General Weiss and behind a row of (hopefully regenerating) probe droids.

I was planning to use him out to test our droid teams.

We've got HK's IG88 Probes all available to him.

He's a much better option for mixing in that 3P0 and R2 were if you went Scum/Rebels.

IG-88 and 2 Elite Probe Droids would be the start of my list.

IG-88 can do a lot of attacks. The Focus is just great for him.

And any 4 Dice attack is great. Therefore, Probe Droids.

I have no idea how he would do in a "serious" list, but playing vs my brother on the new RtH skirmish map, each of us using as many of the new guys as possible, he turned out to be awesome. I had a regular officer for moving my repulser tank around, and then kept him behind it, with a probe droid close by.

We were just messing around, but the turn where my brother made a mistake and I got off three attacks with the Tank, two of them focused thanks to Sorin, was pretty sweet. I had really low expectations for him, so was happily pleased with his performance (even if it was due to a positioning error). Of course, we kinda just build fun derpy lists in our games...so not a great endorsement...but I look forward to playing with him again in fun games.

I bet he will be a ton of fun in 4 person free for all if not picked off right away. Get the focus on droid/vehicles turn, then bombard on his. I'm looking forward to all the random things my brothers and I will play when we have to fight over who gets what for deployment cards.