I really want to get my grubby little paws on BMST but money is very tight and as I'm not a huge fan of Rebels, the Shadow Caster feels like buying that pack just for the cards - what else is in there that you liked or surprised your with it's efficacy, or was anyone just generally surprised with how good the Shadow Caster is?

I haven't had the chance to put mine on the table yet bit it seems like people are getting good results with Assaj.

I love running Asajj.

The Rigged Cargo and two more BMST are really tempting, but if I can get those separately for ~$10-15, then I'd rather do that than buy another box.

Nothing in there worth just for the cards, yhough latz crew has,potential

Buy it for the ship

If you don't have one, it's worth getting one. I love flying her. A second one would be questionable.

It is a strong ship. Even more important, it is a FUN ship. It is a blast to fly and the mobile arc is so much more satisfying than a boring old turret. No way should you be shelling out half the price of the pack for a couple cards. Save up for the whole ship.

I rwally want one and a Tie Sf, my bOrth day is coming up for that nice Tie sf and my brother may get a shadow scaster on his birthday. YAY Wave nine 2 months later..... then u wing comes out and I must have!!!

I got mine from someone for $20 with the exception that he got to keep both slicer tools cards. That was fine with me since I don't usually make super meta lists anyways.

I enjoyed using the IG88 crew on Engine Upgrade Boba alongside IG88C

Ah, yes, that IS something else - IG crew. Pairing Moralo Eval with IG-B? Or putting an EU on the party bus and pairing it with -C?

And the ship itself looks very interesting. Asajj just handing out free stress? I don't see Ketsu being super-easy to trigger, but it could be devastating if handled properly.

Just because you don't care for Rebels much isn't a valid reason to not buy a good, usable ship IMHO. I mean, I think that Corran Horn is one of the most boring characters in the universe, but it doesn't stop me from having fun with his ship when I decide to play with my buddy's Rebel collection.

The ship is pretty cool. From 33-38 pts, it's not too expensive, either. It's fast and it's got the mobile firing arc, which is different than a turret.

Asajj is great for Scum to dish out the Stress tokens. She's great vs. PTL Arc Dodgers as the mobile arc doesn't activate Auto Thrusters and she's dishing out stress.

I've been really enjoying Ketsu. I've only played a few times, but having a lot of fun. She wants to ram people. Give Dengar for dice modification. EPT's offer a lot of options, but I've enjoyed Fearlessness to push through the damage. She runs up and bumps people for the free Tractor Beam to get them off you, and then you fire at R1 and they are -1 green dice. If you get them to bump you....then they have no actions, -1 agility. You are at 4 red dice w/ Dengar modification, oh, and you add another hit to the total. It's great to want to bump people.

I have been impressed with the shadowcaster against the arc/control lists. Being able to damage and tractor is quite good.

Ketsu is mostly a bump to PS9 for me which is important when I pair her up with Dengar.

I've been flying Asajj with ptl, engine, dengar, glitterstim, and slicer tools recently and it's both fun and successful.

I fly that with a slicer z to block and fenn rau fully loaded and they are a terror. Asajj zooms around the outside pouring stress and dice in on whomever while fenn mixes it up in the knife fight. If they focus asajj then fenn murders them for free and if they focus fenn then usually by the time fenn dies they're crippled and damaged and Asajj picks up the spare.

I've also played around with ketsu using engine, vi, title, dengar and that combined with fenn repeatedly ruined Darth Vader but I found that the vi ketsu build was less self sufficient once fenn died so I don't think it's as good.

As mentioned by others, the Shadow Caster is just loads of fun. I've enjoyed my time using Ketsu as a PS9 ramming disc on drugs with Dengar. Tried it once with double the drug power too and it helped evaporate Turr Phenir before it could ever shoot and next round took Ryad down to 2 hull which Kath's rear arc cleaned up the round later. If you run Ketsu this way, I HIGHLY recommend at least one Glitterstim for Ketsu, but I'm testing two out. It's amazing the first two turns, but the running around afterwards double stressed can be difficult, especially at that point when you can't change your arc. That is normally because I run Engine, but I'll give it a few games before I potentially try Gyro if I use two Glitterstims.

Asajj is great for Scum to dish out the Stress tokens. She's great vs. PTL Arc Dodgers as the mobile arc doesn't activate Auto Thrusters and she's dishing out stress.

Yes it activate AT

No it doesn't. The mobile arc is a firing arc, per the rules insert with the ship. No autothrusters unless they are at range 3.

Anyway, stuff that's good to great with the ship? Latts crew, IG-88 crew has potential, the new illicits are nice, but all in all nothing really screams to me that it's a must have if you aren't going to run the ship itself. That being said, Asajj is really good. With the title and the right upgrades she's essentially a control ship that also hits hard. The ship itself is a little USS Defiant for my tastes, but it's growing on me.

I'll throw in with the Ventress love. She's a lot of fun.

I'd also like to plug Sabine. She can get really tanky with her ability, especially if you give her two Glitterstims.

Asajj is great for Scum to dish out the Stress tokens. She's great vs. PTL Arc Dodgers as the mobile arc doesn't activate Auto Thrusters and she's dishing out stress.

Yes it activate AT

No, the mobile arc does NOT activate autothrusters. You are firing upon a target within arc. Unless range 3... but... meh.

The Shadowcaster is certainly fun. Fast has been an understatement. If I ever get time, for that moment of making my opponent's eyes go big... I think I'll do that SLAM off the starting move... and end in my opponent's deploy section... Just for fun - it's not exactly the smart move.

Asajj is great for Scum to dish out the Stress tokens. She's great vs. PTL Arc Dodgers as the mobile arc doesn't activate Auto Thrusters and she's dishing out stress.

Yes it activate AT

No, the mobile arc does NOT activate autothrusters. You are firing upon a target within arc. Unless range 3... but... meh.

The Shadowcaster is certainly fun. Fast has been an understatement. If I ever get time, for that moment of making my opponent's eyes go big... I think I'll do that SLAM off the starting move... and end in my opponent's deploy section... Just for fun - it's not exactly the smart move.

Oh yeah sorry, I was meaning about R3. My bad to reading

Assaj with Latts is a PITA to kill. Ketsu is nice generally.

The ship as a whole is hella fun to fly, it goes super fast.

Rigged Chute is neat.

But if all you care about is slicers, just but a Captured TIE, it's the cheapest way by far of getting a set.

I've been running Ketsu, N'Dru, and Fenn all at PS9, and murdering with it. Great ship, great dial. Firing first with Ketsu to take an ace's agility down to useless is really nice, especially when followed up with Fenn's 400 dice attack.

How does your exact list look like?

Nothing in there worth just for the cards, yhough latz crew has,potential

Potential?

I'm still waiting for people to figure out that Latts Razzi is THE scum crew for Manaroo in the Dengaroo list. People are still just using Gonk or Recon Specialist out of habit.

Nothing in there worth just for the cards, yhough latz crew has,potential

Potential?

I'm still waiting for people to figure out that Latts Razzi is THE scum crew for Manaroo in the Dengaroo list. People are still just using Gonk or Recon Specialist out of habit.

why?