Here are this weeks cards!

Deployment Cards - Imperial Officer, Rebel Sabetours

Command Cards - Hunter Protocol, Guardian Stance, Ferocity

Also here are the links to our previous WSS threads

Week 1 - Stormtrooper, Gideon Argus - Urgency, To the Limit

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/203235-weekly-skirmish-strategy-1/

Week 2 - Nexu - Take Intiative, Take Cover

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/204065-weekly-skirmish-strategy-2/

Week 3 - Probe Droid, Fenn Signis - Recover, Rally

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/204822-weekly-skirmish-strategy-3/

Week 4 - Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker - Planning, Fleet Footed

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/205606-weekly-skirmish-strategy-4/

Week 5 - Trandoshan Hunters, Diala Passil, E-Web Engineer - Expose Weakness, Element of Surprise, Deadeye

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/206338-weekly-skirmish-strategy-5/

Week 6 - Mos Eisley Cantina - Celebration, Telekinetic Throw, Regroup

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/207009-weekly-skirmish-strategy-6/

Week 7 - Rebel Troopers, Royal Guards - Pummel, Price on their Head, Marksman

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/216334-weekly-skirmish-strategy-7/

Ferocity:

Use at the end of a round. Choose 1 of your or 1 of your opponent's Creatures. Perform 1 attack with that figure.

Niche use card, currently only affects Wampas, Nexu and Banthas. A "must include" in any creature heavy list since it will give you a free attack, but most effective as a "round one" card when used on an opponent's creature. When used with a Bantha, you'll only get a ranged attack which is not nearly as effective as a Wampa or Nexu melee attack. This card's limited target pool (Creatures), means that unless you have a Creature(s) in your list, you will probably not include this command card.

I had a game where my opponent had a single elite Nexu that I played Ferocity on to attack one his own models at the end of round one, and he played the same card against me and my elite Nexu to attack another one of my Nexu right after! Truly there were some unruly beasts that day.

I agree about Ferocity. The only thing I'd add is that in a Creature-heavy meta it might even be worthwhile to take Ferocity in your deck if you don't have any Creatures yourself. It would be used precisely as you've described: attack an opponent's figures with his own figures! It would be even more cool if you could do it with a focused figure! lol

But if Creatures aren't being played by most people then I agree that there's not much room in most decks for it.

in a Creature-heavy meta

Creature-heavy meta doesn't exist....yet! That *may* change this weekend.

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I'd love that! Creatures are fun to play. I still want to see a Rancor though. That could induce a creature-heavy meta!

I'd sack a Bantha for a Rancor!

Imperial Officer - These little guys create a lot of value at just 2 points for a regular figure. Even though the recent errata limited them to 2 movement points they're still key figures in many Imperial lists. They have several important functions:

1. Moving your team into better position: From Vader at the top to just moving a Stormtrooper closer to an objective, gaining 2 movement points is still a powerful ability.
2. Padding out your activation count: even though you can now pass if you have less activations than your opponent, there is some advantage to having more. In particular, it's advantageous to avoid pushing far forward with your units early in the first turn, as this can lead to them getting shot down by your opponent's activations. So it helps to have a couple lesser activations like the officer you can use first. This helps put you in the position to be the one firing at your opponent's figures in the first round.
3. Command card synergy: There are lots of good command cards that require (or are augmented by) the Leader type, so it's useful to have a few in any list. Additionally, a 2 point officer is a lot better activation to sacrifice for your Take Initiative than something that costs many more points.
4. Occasionally they're even useful for attacking if you need to do 1-2 more damage to finish off a figure. They might even get Focused to help a later attack.
5. Assuming that they're next to friendly units, their Cower ability & low point costs makes them undesirable attack targets as they have a 33% 30.5% chance of nullifying the attack.

The elite versions costs 2.5 times more but gives more movement or an attack. This can be situationally powerful when coupled with heavy hitters like Vader, the Royal Guard Champion, or really any figure that rolls 3 die. They also can surge for Stun (good against Banthas and melee units) and have more health than the regulars. However, their point cost at 5 hampers their utility so the elite models are much less common.

Edit: corrected my lazy-math on dodges thanks to Stompburger. Also added "firing at" words.

Assuming that they're next to friendly units, their Cower ability & low point costs makes them undesirable attack targets as they have a 33% chance of nullifying the attack.

They actually only have a 30.5% change to dodge with a reroll; not a huge difference but maybe that will help you feel a little better about it when they fail to do so

Imperial Officer - These little guys create a lot of value at just 2 points for a regular figure. Even though the recent errata limited them to 2 movement points they're still key figures in many Imperial lists. They have several important functions:

1. Moving your team into better position: From Vader at the top to just moving a Stormtrooper closer to an objective, gaining 2 movement points is still a powerful ability.
2. Padding out your activation count: even though you can now pass if you have less activations than your opponent, there is some advantage to having more. In particular, it's advantageous to avoid pushing far forward with your units early in the first turn, as this can lead to them getting shot down by your opponent's activations. So it helps to have a couple lesser activations like the officer you can use first. This helps put you in the position to be the one your opponents figures in the first round.
3. Command card synergy: There are lots of good command cards that require (or are augmented by) the Leader type, so it's useful to have a few in any list. Additionally, a 2 point officer is a lot better activation to sacrifice for your Take Initiative than something that costs many more points.
4. Occasionally they're even useful for attacking if you need to do 1-2 more damage to finish off a figure. They might even get Focused to help a later attack.
5. Assuming that they're next to friendly units, their Cower ability & low point costs makes them undesirable attack targets as they have a 33% chance of nullifying the attack.

The elite versions costs 2.5 times more but gives more movement or an attack. This can be situationally powerful when coupled with heavy hitters like Vader, the Royal Guard Champion, or really any figure that rolls 3 die. They also can surge for Stun (good against Banthas and melee units) and have more health than the regulars. However, their point cost at 5 hampers their utility so the elite models are much less common.

Well said.

As it comes to the Elite Officer, I have found that I really appreciate him in my General Weiss squad. The Pass Rule means that it's not much of a problem to only have 4 activations, but getting another shot with Weiss can be game-changing...especially when you can set up a nice Blast 3 that will hit multiple figures. So in my squad with Weiss (w Targeting Computer) and 2x eStormtroopers I have 5pts left. I could take 2 rOfficers and a 1pt upgrade, or I could take an eOfficer. Personally, I've been quite happy with my eOfficer in that squad. Never really found a use for him outside of that.

So yeah...the Elite Officer is wasted if you don't have a worthwhile 3-dice attacker to use him with. And it's harder to use him with a melee figure, since it requires you to get your eOfficer up there in the mix near your big baddie, and that often results in a dead Officer.