Robo-IG-88or

By Rikalonius, in Imperial Assault Skirmish

That's a combination of Robo Cop and the Terminator. That's also the name of his team which tested in a scrimmage skirmish against Johnny Rebs, the team made up of tough as nails Elite Rebel Troopers and Echo Base Troopers, along with their coach Gridiron Gideon Argus and his assistant coach C3P0. Now before we get started, full disclosure, this was not a sanctioned event and I didn't use command cards. I don't think under normal circumstances, IG-88s team would have won, but I enjoyed the test anyway.

Johnny Rebs
Elite Rebel Trooper
Elite Rebel Trooper
Elite Echo Base Trooper
▪ C-3PO
▪ R2-D2
▪ Gideon Argus
Echo Base Trooper
Robo-IG-88or
IG-88 (New and Improved Skirmish model)
HK Assassin Droid - Explosive Armaments
HK Assassin Droid
Trandoshan Hunters
Greedo

The map was Anchorhead Cantina, the mission was Gaining Favor. One of these days I will properly test this. I'm not very experienced playing rebels, so no doubt many things happened that would otherwise not happen. The goal was really just to test IG-88, and he proved pretty darn capable. The Robo-IG-88ors won 41 - 20, but that is because IG-88 got some killer rolls assisted by relentless. At one point he was like the Terminator, moving 2 steps, killing a trooper, getting back behind an HK. I spent the first round getting as many troopers focused as I could. I darted out and got 3 of the objectives right away, granting me 10 VP, and preparing for the onslaught, trying to move into positions that would not give Rebel Troops their aim bonus.

Anyway, I can't do the whole play by play because I'm up to late. I roll by putting all the applicable attack and defense dice into a nice dice cup, shaking it and turning it over. Throughout the course of the match I got one X man, which saved an Elite Trooper from a pretty nasty Trandoshan droid attack. 1 blank, which was rolled by Greedo during slow on the draw, but the reg. Echo Base trooper didn't have enough range when he rolled his red and green. And then the normal mix of white dice.

IG-88 ended the match with 10 health gone. I'm sure that would have been different with command cards. It sucks not having recovery. I was thinking about bringing MHD-19, but then I have to pay for Temp Alliance, and I may as well get Gideon too, and I'm not a huge fan of uniques being on opposing sides. It would have made the whole team different. And really, is MHD-19 worth it?

Well, don't pillory me for my half-a**ed test. It was just something to do. I'd be very interested in a proper test of the character.

Sounds cool. Can't wait to see what IG-88 can do with the Jawas, bringing tripple zero, chopper, and C3PO with them. It may not be top tier (though it might be) but it'll be fun.

-ryanajamal

7 hours ago, ryanjamal said:

Sounds cool. Can't wait to see what IG-88 can do with the Jawas, bringing tripple zero, chopper, and C3PO with them. It may not be top tier (though it might be) but it'll be fun.

-ryanajamal

The "Kill, Kill, Annoy you to death Care Package"?

Ha ha, exactly. Really like how annoying Chopper is :-)

-ryanjamal

What does 000 do? BT-1 looks way more healthy and hurty, I thought for sure you'd include him.

Um, well, yeah that was the one I meant. Oops :-)

-ryanjamal

Should try out the Triangulate command card in there also (you can see it on the wave announcement in the jawa pack). 2 points droid card Action: A figure within 5 spaces and line of sight of the droid playing it takes a damage for each friendly droid (including the one playing it) that has line of sight (range doesn't matter for the additional droids) to it. Max 3 damage.

What does 000 do?

Im still curious about this guy, I haven't read the comics to know about him, it looks like he Is the reverse MHD, his improper procedure makes an adjacent figure take a strain, bleed and lose movement. He can recover 3 on himself and at the end of his activation someone becomes weakened. MHD is a little overpriced due to his adjacent requirements, 0-0-0 is 4 pts. Trusted ally looks like a droid version of Motivation. There are 3 face down command cards which will hopefully fuel the droid revolution.