With Piett's ability (effectively) confirmed, what's his niche? He seems like a good fit for:

1. The SSD, obviously. Double super commands on the centerpiece of your fleet? Yes please.

2. Thrawn 2 ship. 6 points cheaper, works every round, slicerproof. The downsides being he only affects one ship and you need a token (Wulff/Hondo/Vet Captain?) Not necessarily better than Thrawn, but there definitely seems to be a place for him there.

3. More generally, a carrier battleship list centered around an ISD, which can throw squads and do something else.

4. Someone mentioned the Interdictor, which can refresh him and makes a good flagship.

So what are your plans for him?

So, when did i miss his ability?

Just now, dominosfleet said:

So, when did i miss his ability?

When a friendly ship spends only a command token to resolve a command, you may exhaust this card. If you do, that ship resolves a command as if it had spent a dial of the same type instead.

He's my favorite minor character and I want to be able to take him on different types of lists, not just an SSD list. Interdictor+title w/ ISD list could be good.

He leaves the big question, can he trigger on more than one token at the same time?

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When a friendly ship spends only a command token to resolve a command, you may exhaust this card. If you do, that ship resolves that command as if it had spend a dial of the same type instead.

Lets say I reveal a squad dial and have a CF and a Nav token. Can I exhaust him to turn both tokens to a dial?

The wording leaves some room for interpretation. Guess we might need an errata on this one to clarify.

6 minutes ago, LordCola said:

He leaves the big question, can he trigger on more than one token at the same time?

Lets say I reveal a squad dial and have a CF and a Nav token. Can I exhaust him to turn both tokens to a dial?

The wording leaves some room for interpretation. Guess we might need an errata on this one to clarify.

No errata needed, you resolve commands one at a time. Text says he exhausts when you spend a token, ergo once you spend a token and use him, he's exhausted and cannot be used for the second token.

Furthermore, he doesn't turn tokens to dials, you just spend the token as if you had spent a dial instead. So with a CF token you would wait till you're shooting, then exhaust Piett for an extra dice instead of a reroll.

Piett on Dictor for the lolz 😀

10 engineering a turn haha 😂

5 minutes ago, LordTesla said:

10 engineering a turn haha 😂

Doesn't work that way, you can't use him on a Token if you also resolved a dial of that command that turn.

I don't see any reason this would allow you to resolve an engineering dial twice. You can't "double up" with Thrawn, for example.

Edit: his card specifically says when you spend ONLY a token to resolve the command. No dial plus token.

(Disregard my point about the Interdictor. I thought he was an officer, not a Commander.)

I think the Interdictor with Piett could be good especially with Wulff.

Put Wulff on a Quasar, take a Squad token, now you have a slicer proof carrier...

Put Wulff on an ISD, take a Squad token and no need for a Quasar.

Some combo of an ISD, Interdictor, Comms Net Gozanti and Squads could be powerful.

@Green Knight I fixed my post. Thanks.

I wonder if Piett becomes a major factor if Ion Cannon Batteries will start to see some play...

6 minutes ago, Thrindal said:

I wonder if Piett becomes a major factor if Ion Cannon Batteries will start to see some play...

Or just MS-1s to exhaust Piett?

1 hour ago, svelok said:

Or just MS-1s to exhaust Piett?

DCO 😀

He doesnt seem that useful unless I misunderstand him and he is merely an officer and not a commander

9 minutes ago, chr335 said:

He doesnt seem that useful unless I misunderstand him and he is merely an officer and not a commander

He's a commander. All the announcements show that he is a commander.

22 minutes ago, chr335 said:

He doesnt seem that useful unless I misunderstand him and he is merely an officer and not a commander

He has the potential to give an SSD a Thrawn level of command power for more than 3 turns for a significant cost reduction

he's pretty much only good for low number of big ships lists. MSUs wouldn't like him a lot.

9 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

He has the potential to give an SSD a Thrawn level of command power for more than 3 turns for a significant cost reduction

Still he seems limited to one ship a round which seems really weak for a commander. I guess FFG seemed to think the low ship count imperials needed more help

34 minutes ago, chr335 said:

Still he seems limited to one ship a round which seems really weak for a commander. I guess FFG seemed to think the low ship count imperials needed more help

Yeah - he’s cheap, and they rate command power highly

4 hours ago, Thrindal said:

Doesn't work that way, you can't use him on a Token if you also resolved a dial of that command that turn.

Dream crusher

1 hour ago, chr335 said:

Still he seems limited to one ship a round which seems really weak for a commander. I guess FFG seemed to think the low ship count imperials needed more help

Well since the SSD will probably be at most a 1 or 2 ship build in standard 400 point games i think thats fine.

1 hour ago, chr335 said:

Still he seems limited to one ship a round which seems really weak for a commander. I guess FFG seemed to think the low ship count imperials needed more help

'dictor title should work fine with him. The Commander slot is a type of 'upgrade card' that is 'equipped to a ship' - at least according to page 3 of the RRG.

So an ISD + 'dictor list (or SSD + 'dictor) can get use from him on both ships...

1 hour ago, Drasnighta said:

Yeah - he’s cheap, and they rate command power highly

Question, is it possible his wording allows the Spent Token to generate another token on the SSD, Since the SSD gets a matching command token (I don't remember the timing... Is the free token upon reveal?)