Played a standard 800 point game at a friend’s this weekend. We learned that there is in fact a curse that haunts units that are played before they are fully painted.
Dice rolls were pretty average most of the game, except for with his shiny new fleet troopers (who were just primed and hadn’t started yet) and Leia (couple of the base coat colors). Anytime they were involved in a dice roll, I either rolled super well and/or he rolled extremely poorly.
Game was limited visibility and key positions - basically we wound up with a left, middle, right objectives. Major offensive put me in a good place for mid and right, but his solid early push with Luke and some troopers made it clear my right flank was going to fail. One stormtrooper unit was left behind to die holding the right objective to force him to come get it and draw Luke away from the centerboard. Vader went up the left to deal with Leia, the fleet troopers, and a rebel trooper. Mid game I only held the center but Vader and speeder bikes cleaned up the left. This is where that curse came in — the fleet troopers and Leia could not roll hits or blocks to save their lives. We blamed this on the fact they weren’t painted yet.
always paint your minis before battle