So looking at revising my Allies and Mercenaries format from 1st edition to 2nd edition now that all subfactions are separated into their own faction. Still thinking of what to do but the idea is you pick a primary faction and you can ally it with one eligible faction as your subfaction (no unholy alliances like Empire & Resistance) and you can mix from there. Scum & Villainy cannot take any allies but will be available as allies for all the other 6 faction as mercenaries and that is the base of it. The rest is the details and right now I am looking for some feedback for details.

So with faction mixing, do you think it would be better to allow free build or restrict it to the Prebuild threats and use that as a bases. Here are a couple of Examples.

• Example of a Freebuild would be say 200 points or Resistance w/Rebel Alliance since Rebel Alliance is the Ally only 80 points can be spent on Rebel Ships.
• Example of a Prebuild, 1st Order (8 threat limit) with Galactic Empire (1 ship up to 3 threat).

So those are just examples I could extend prebuild to any combination of allied ships not to exceed 3 threat. But what would be your take, prebuild or freebuild?

Free build

As soon as points start getting errated the quickbuilds will become useless... some absolutely broken b/c of pts efficiency, and others never viable again.

11 hours ago, hawk32 said:

Free build

As soon as points start getting errated the quickbuilds will become useless... some absolutely broken b/c of pts efficiency, and others never viable again.

Well the thing about quickbuilds is that they measure the build as a whole and not the sum of its individual upgrades. So increasing the cost of Ruthless by 1 point will not have any bearing on the prebuild Maarek Stele as Ruthless might have become stronger as an upgrade due to pilot/upgrade combinations but the power of Ruthless on Maarek hasn't really changed.

But I do think you do represent the majority as I belive more people will want to select their own upgrades on their ships. There was another possibility and that is a hybrid model when the primary faciton is freebuild but allies are restricted to a prebuild amount of threat depending on how much point has been spent on allies. The most common is that 1 threat = 25 points.