I have a Store championship coming up this weekend and am trying to figure out what to bring; the catch is that the Jabba and Droid waves have not been officially released in the country yet, so the list must be pre-Jabba. I started playing skirmish more or less when Jabba was first released so I don't have any experience with what the meta was like beyond the snippets that I've read about here on the forums, so any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!

So I actually have two lists; hopefully this will be nostalgic for those of you who have been playing for a while

List 1:

• Agent Blaise
• 2x e Stormtrooper w/ Cross training
• r Stormtrooper
• 3x r Imperial Officer
• Zillo
• Rule By Fear

• Grenadier
• 2x Reinforcements
• Squad Swarm
• Comm Disruption
• Strength of Numbers
• Negation
• Intelligence Leak
• Data Theft
• Celebration
• Element of Surprise
• Take Initiative
• Planning
• Espionage Mastery
• Urgency

Not sure how well this would do with the per-unit scoring rules, but at least there's no Jabba to worry about. I added the r Stormtroopers mainly because I think Squad Swarm played at the right time could be really powerful, and they can also run objectives as needed.

List 2:

• Luke Skywalker
• Leia Organa
• C3PO
• Gideon w/ On a Diplomatic Mission
• 2x e Echo Base Trooper

• Grenadier
• Son of Skywalker
• Inspiring Speech
• Heart of Freedom
• Comm Disruption
• Negation
• Intelligence Leak
• Hit and Run
• Devotion
• Take Initiative
• Planning
• Element of Surprise
• Celebration
• Urgency
• Fleet Footed

I like the surprise spy cards even though I only have Leia, they seem too good to pass up and I can't think of anything else I'd rather have. The Echo Base troopers are there because they are hardy and their attack is great and consistent at both close and long range with the reroll from Luke, especially when focused. Leia is the lynchpin though; if I mess up and lose her early, I'll be in trouble for sure.

With list 1) I would drop the rStormtroopers and one Officer to make 8 points for something like eHeavies or rHK (9 points with Temp Alliance, drop Rule By Fear).

For your list 1 there's always ISB but I'm not a fan of cross training. So you could lose the rstormtroopers, both cross training and 2 officers for 2 ISB.

For list 1 rStormtroopers won't last long (campaign has taught me that much).

For list two you could try eSaboteurs; I've heard they can do great things when focused, and they'd give you more spy groups to work with your spy command cards.

I would take out the rTroopers, 1 Imperial Officer and 1 Cross Training for Temporary Alliance and rHK droids.