Martial Artist synergy with FaD specs

By TheShard, in Star Wars: Force and Destiny RPG

Any favorites?

I like shi-Cho knight and Niman disciple, executioner, and the force sensitive emergent (AoR universal spec).

Shi Cho knight for mucho parry (you could even combine with makashi duelist for more mucho parry, or perhaps soresu defender for lots of parry and supreme parry... supreme parry and unarmed parry means that if you fight defensively parrying would only cost 1 strain and you could use improved parry to get your licks in, having a repulsor fist with base 8 or 9 damage is good here and if they rolled extra threat/despair the gm might let you activate concussive with it, and because you're not planning to spend your action to attack spending a maneuver to activate 3 ranks of defensive stance 1 from replusor fist, 2 from soresu defender is not that bad a price, so with 2 upgrades from the sense defense power the incoming melee attack difficulty is 3 red and 1 purple)

Nimán disciple provides 3 ranks of parry and allows you mix lightsaber and Kung fu effectively, let's say you have a repulsor fist (built in brawl weapon) so you're imposing 2 black dice because of defensive training, you've got the sense power defense upgrades maxed so by comitting 1 of your 2 force die the incoming melee difficulty is 2 red and 2 black. Let's say the injury that caused your arm to need to be replaced got you dodge as a scar talent (rules in forged in battle, AoR soldier book), so by spending 1 strain the incoming pool can be 2 red, 1 purple, 2 black so you've got a decent chance of your opponent rolling either a despair or 3 threat at least once per encounter to activate overbalance (dodge instead of defensive stance because defensive stance requires a maneuver to activate, and you want to save your maneuver for force assault), for your attacks your using draw closer making a lightsaber willpower attack and if you miss then you're using force assault to move hurl attack them as a maneuver... which you narrate as an open palm strike that sends the opponent sliding back to short range in typical Kung fu movie fashion but that means you're going to want one or two more force die/dice so maybe force sensitive emergent (because force of will pairs well with this) or exucutioner (because of deathblow), or maybe you went for a 2 force rating spec as your third spec.