New to the game and working on a list trying out some new goodies I acquired. I wanted to get in Explosive Armaments, but was at 40 points so I pulled Hired Guns (4) to see what I could do. Now I have to come up with 3 points.

IG-88 (12) + Focused on the Kill (0)

HK Assassin Droid (8)

Vinto Hreeda (5)

Weequay Pirate (5)

Hondo Ohnaka (6)

Explosive Armaments (1)

37 points

I like how EA gives bonuses to Vinto, Weequays, HK ADroids and IG. Too tempting to use, or do I punt and put the Hired Guns back in?

4 hours ago, Ice Dragon said:

New to the game and working on a list trying out some new goodies I acquired. I wanted to get in Explosive Armaments, but was at 40 points so I pulled Hired Guns (4) to see what I could do. Now I have to come up with 3 points.

IG-88 (12) + Focused on the Kill (0)

HK Assassin Droid (8)

Vinto Hreeda (5)

Weequay Pirate (5)

Hondo Ohnaka (6)

Explosive Armaments (1)

37 points

I like how EA gives bonuses to Vinto, Weequays, HK ADroids and IG. Too tempting to use, or do I punt and put the Hired Guns back in?

So unfortunately "Explosive Armaments" is an attachment- this means that it's abilities only apply to one deployment card figure/group that it is paired with. So the ability only works for one set of figures.

Are you wanting a more competitive list or just a fun list?

Working with what I know you have, I would honestly just upgrade the Weequays to the elites (they are far far better) and drop EA and add in a regular Jawa. EA is fun but to maximize its value you need to run Gideon + C3PO and focus up the 2 figures (either Elite Weequays or HKs). Without the focus it is much much hard to trigger the double surge.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I found out that it has to be attached, so I put it on the HKs. Still had fun using it. This was only my 3rd time playing so I'm still just flushing out what I want to use and learning the rules better. I have gotten a lot of suggestions to mix in R2/3PO and other Rebels. So far I've been trying to keep the Scum pure, but may have to look at the other options I have as I continue to learn.

1 hour ago, Ice Dragon said:

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I found out that it has to be attached, so I put it on the HKs. Still had fun using it. This was only my 3rd time playing so I'm still just flushing out what I want to use and learning the rules better. I have gotten a lot of suggestions to mix in R2/3PO and other Rebels. So far I've been trying to keep the Scum pure, but may have to look at the other options I have as I continue to learn.

The benefits of 3P0 and R2 are focus and card draw, respectively. If you're looking to keep the all-scum flavour and accomplish largely the same task, you might want to think about picking up Jabba. He does both of those things, and is a pretty cool looking model to boot

I echo the Jabba sentiment! He's actually a competitive figure too and he pairs really nicely with Hondo (Hondo gain earn back the VPs that Jabba spends to order a hit in later rounds). Plus if you want to run Scum to their max potential you want Hunter Cards, and I think there's a few in his pack. The only other scum I would REALLY highly recommend you pick up is Greedo- he is insane for his value.

So going to my Regional tomorrow, and playing around with what I want to run. I don't honestly expect to win any matches, but just want to be competitive since I'm still learning, and of course have fun. Nothing out of the box here, but still have 4 points to play with.

12 - IG88 + Focused on the Kill

7 - Weequay Pirate

6 - Hondo Ohnaka

6 - Jabba the Hutt

5 - Vinto Hreeda

currently @ 36 points. So with my last 4 points I'm looking at these options:

4 - Hired Guns

4 - Clawdite Shapeshifter

3 + 1 - Ugnaught Tinkerer/Junk Droid + Indentured Jester/Salacious B. Crumb (not sure who I would put this upgrade on)

3 + 1 - Gideon Argus + Temporary Alliance

Appreciate any and all feedback!

You will get some seriously upset people if you don't at least put Greedo on the list of options. Also another is - change Vinto to Greedo (what's the difference between rodians) and add EJawa and C3PO. That takes you to 7 activations which you really want when against Spectre.

I've used Greedo a few times, haven't yet seemed to figure out the right way to get anything from him. That's basically why I left him out.

As I continue to look the list over, I guess another option would be to drop Jabba and replace him with Gideon/C3PO/Temp Alliance. I can use all the FOCUS I can get, not sure how much losing Scheme/Order Hit would hurt.

You could drop jabba and take ejawa-3, chopper-3, headhunter (equipped to chopper)-1, c3po-2, and devious. The jawa can put some decent damage through. Chopper with headhunter is really great as you can essentially stop/motivate your opponent from sitting on a terminal as chopper can damage their terminal sitter and force them to discard a card.

I moved my Regional team talk over to the Regional thread. Thanks for all the advice.