I went top 4 today in an admittedly small regional (14 players), but a lot of them were at Worlds, so the level of competition was pretty fierce. I almost made it past the top 4 to the finals, but my opponent was very good at making me split fire, so I never killed off activations and we hit time.
I haven't seen many tourney reports, so I wanted to post mine, and thoughts on my list. It didn't use any troopers, so I got to avoid mirror matches. I was happy with the list, since it could hang with the high end lists that people brought. I saw a lot of the Blaise Worlds lists, and a decent number of Echo Trooper based ones too.
The list:
2x Elite Tuskan
HK Assassin
Greedo
Bossk
Gideon
C3PO
2 Jundland Terror
Comm Disruption
Grisly Contest
Primary Target
Trandoshan Terror
2 Pummel*
Negation
Element of Surprise
Deadeye
Take Init
Tough Luck
Disorient
Fleet Footed
So Pummel kind of sucked in the list, sadly. It always got canceled, or Interrogated, but even when it didn't, it was very hard to use. I'm thinking of removing it (and changing Fleet to Urgency). Not sure what would go in its place: more stuff with movement, maybe? The dream was Jund into Pummel, but that never even came close to going off.
How to play it:
The Tuskan Raiders are there to die. They run at the enemy lines and screen the HKs. In the Hoth and Dianoga maps, they run down the hallway separating the starting areas and try to beat on things while the HKs and focused Bossk deal with threats at range. On the ISB map, they tend to get into that hallway in between the doors and just take up space and hit things with sticks. Don't feel bad when they die, and never bother focusing them unless you have a really good reason to. Never ever block the HK shots. This takes some practice. In "hallway of death" boards, I tend to never have them move into one of the lanes, so the HKs always have a clear line to something. Usually, their first turn is double moving. Your skill with knowing where to place the Tuskans is really what will determine how you do.
The HKs job is first of all, don't get killed. After that, they can take shots. Gideon sticks around them and keeps one of them focused. Never pick up boxes or hold terrain with them. The ISB map tends to have them sit in the hallway on my side of my door. On Hoth, they stand at the end of the hallway for Motion, or behind cover where they can pop out and back for the pick-up one. For the Dianoga, they hang at the swamp entrance.
Greedo tends to play with the Tuskans. They can block LOS for him to get free shots, and people are always surprised when I roll Greedo's attack and go, "ok, six damage." If he's healthy, don't be afraid to take a hit to pop something important. A lot of the time, he sacrifices himself killing the last figure in a unit that's worth more than him. His job is also to open doors on Dianoga and the ISB map. Gideon's push + a move will get him to one of the side doodads on the ISB map to control it and stay out of LOS. It really puts the pressure on your opponent, which the Tuskans and HKs can take advantage of.
Bossk is nigh impossible for the standard stormtrooper lists to actually kill, assuming you don't get too crazy with him. He goes where C3PO goes, so he's always at 1 block and 1 evade and 1 focus. C3PO tends to work his way towards a terminal with Bossk in the ISB map, or at the entrance to the swamp on Dianoga, or wherever the fighting is happening, but around a corner on Hoth. Use Bossk to block LOS on C3PO as much as possible.
It takes some practice to get the pieces moving together with the list. Practice openings with it on the different maps before you play it. This isn't a "point this end at enemy" type list.
Once Jabba drops, throw this list away, because Pigs + Weequay > HKs + Tuskans. But the combined arms of melee and ranged lessons you learn with this will help you with those figures.
Hope this is helpful for people looking for lists to play that aren't trooper based or Banthas!
I totally understand you can't share more. I'm hoping they spoil it before jabba is released with an article. I'm definitely excited to hear about it! 