The expensive nature of early single-unit deployment cards is widely discussed here and on r/ImperialAssaultTMG. However, it's quite scattered and it can be hard to track down opinions on specific characters.

I'd like to create a decently comprehensive set of data to serve as a starting point for cost discussions going forward, and to guide house rules. For this purpose, I've created a survey to assess the community's thoughts on all single-figure units to date. You can find it here.

All questions are optional so feel free to skip any figures you haven't used or don't have an opinion on (marking them as "not sure" is fine too). Note that this survey only covers unit costs, not health or other methods of buffing/nerfing characters. While those are good things to consider too, I wanted to keep this as simple as possible to at least have a place to start.

I'll publish the results sometime next week.

EDIT:

Results are posted on the subreddit (no account required). I got 50 responses in the first evening and none for the next day and a half, so I'm considering it complete.

I didn't see some of the figures in there, are there only certain figures that this includes? Can we see the results after, I dunno, 25 or 50 participants or both?

I still claim that the cost is relevant to abilities and health, so figure could have either altered, and the cost could remain the same.

I didn't see some of the figures in there, are there only certain figures that this includes? Can we see the results after, I dunno, 25 or 50 participants or both?

I still claim that the cost is relevant to abilities and health, so figure could have either altered, and the cost could remain the same.

It only includes single-figure deployment cards since those seem to be the most widely discussed. Did I miss some?

Done!

Results are posted! They're over on the subreddit (no account required). I got 50 results in the first evening and none in the next day and a half so I'm considering the survey completed.

Give Boba "Vehicle" and make him 12 points.

Characters like Vader, Boba, Han, and Chewbacca get most of the attention. What about other characters like Loku, Mak, Gaarkhan, and others from the first waves? They also need change to be playable! I hope that FFG will also address them.

I don't know if every figure NEEDS to be playable. Especially since most are side characters and most were never designed to be used really outside of the campaign as anything other than an afterthought. I think some of the characters you mentioned are playable, just not hypercompetitive. Loku and Mak both have uses, and frankly based on the point system we have, it would be difficult to balance figures anyway. (Imagine a 100 base system of which you could take 40 to build your list, then you could have HK cost 16, elite weequay should be 13, you could differentiate between similar groups easier, Mak could be 5 instead of 3, etc

Give Boba "Vehicle" and make him 12 points.

Even with a new trait I think Boba should be 11 maximum. He's super survivable (Beskar armor is good stuff!) but he just can't pump out the damage he needs to do to justify being nearly a third of the list.

Characters like Vader, Boba, Han, and Chewbacca get most of the attention. What about other characters like Loku, Mak, Gaarkhan, and others from the first waves? They also need change to be playable! I hope that FFG will also address them.

I agree that many of the Skirmish Heroes need rework. Gaarkhan, Jyn, Fenn, Verena, MHD, and Murne could use a straight cost reduction, Mak needs to roll BG, Saska needs a COMPLETE rework, Biv has a great dice pool and abilities but needs more health, and poor Loku just doesn't hit hard enough. Gideon, Diala, and Davith are working fine as is, I think.