I think Blaise is great with the Inspiring Leadership class deck. Easily give him Executive Field Officer and now he can do lots of different things while staying behind front lines of troopers/RGs

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I think Blaise is great with the Inspiring Leadership class deck. Easily give him Executive Field Officer and now he can do lots of different things while staying behind front lines of troopers/RGs

~D

I think Blaise is great with the Inspiring Leadership class deck. Easily give him Executive Field Officer and now he can do lots of different things while staying behind front lines of troopers/RGs

~D

Really? I figured he was good with the new deck, keep him alive a bit longer

I dont know enough about the new deck to make that assumption. Im guessing it will and he might fit better, but I was just basing him (cost and abilities) off what we have right now.

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I'm pretty happy with everything coming up. The uniques are far better pointed than the old ones, there are lots of interesting new abilities. My only real concern is the Wing Guard seem a bit good, I was hoping for something weaker than Storm Troopers, but these guys, particularly the elites, are pretty competitive if not better.

God **** its such a shame Blaise's figure is so bad. He seems like he'd be tons of fun and appropriate for campaign... It makes so much more sense to be fighting him than it does the generals. And his cheap cost makes it easy to include him and his abilities make him more of a target than a nuisance (unlike most villians.) I hope future imperial uniques are more like Blaise than the generals.

EDIT: Honestly, with barely any interest in his agenda set (Under Surveillance looks like junk and we just use whatever allies/villians we want at any time) and the bad figure (I'd rather use the token) I'll probably skip this pack. Maybe one day we'll get another scout trooper whether unique or not and I'll use that as the figure.

You're going to skip your own expansion Agent Blaise? I understand, why get the copy when you ARE the original.

Okay, so I guess I'm oficially the only person on the planet that does not mind the figure sculpt?

I think FFG is going for a dark and cool bluish-grey for the Infiltrators and a warmer, slightly brownish grey for Blaise in the artwork. The only ISB dude of note in Rebels is Kallus, and he seems to wear a warm shade of flat grey, more like FFGs Blaise than the Infiltrators, but it does seem to vary a bit between appearances. I don't think that'd be a big deal. Mostly grey with any tint you like should work TBH.

No, I love the sculpt. I think it's amusing in of itself, and the community's reaction to it has only made it more endearing.

In most circumstances during a campaign, you can only deploy new units at specific points in the scenario, so the ability to deploy new figures whenever you have the threat makes Agent Blaise one of the most versatile figures in your strike team.

Erm, what? By "specific points in the scenario" do they just mean the end of each round, or have I been playing it wrong?

You're playing it right. You get a deployment every status phase after all activations. The phrasing was a little vague but the original point is also correct.

What happens at specific points of a scenario are additional optional deployment windows, that can happen between activations, often making for a nasty surprise. Which is exactly what the Blaise thing is: an optional deployment window that is out of the regular deployment schedule and between other activations, opening up some clever shenanigans with your activation order.

You're playing it right. You get a deployment every status phase after all activations. The phrasing was a little vague but the original point is also correct.

What happens at specific points of a scenario are additional optional deployment windows, that can happen between activations, often making for a nasty surprise. Which is exactly what the Blaise thing is: an optional deployment window that is out of the regular deployment schedule and between other activations, opening up some clever shenanigans with your activation order.

Phew. The way they said "you can only deploy new units at specific points in the scenari" made me wonder if we were only allowed to reinforce in the status phase or something! Terrible wording!

You're playing it right. You get a deployment every status phase after all activations. The phrasing was a little vague but the original point is also correct.

What happens at specific points of a scenario are additional optional deployment windows, that can happen between activations, often making for a nasty surprise. Which is exactly what the Blaise thing is: an optional deployment window that is out of the regular deployment schedule and between other activations, opening up some clever shenanigans with your activation order.

This is why Blaise is going to be my go-to campaign troll. I am very excited about having him on team, and the +1 threat level for every surge he rolls is going to be utter magic.

To be precise, not for every surge. Just upto one per attack.

To be precise, not for every surge. Just upto one per attack.

yes, apologies. Of course!