10 hours ago, cnemmick said:

I've been the opponent when a new player attacks my Sabine with a full deployment of rStormies... and Sabine takes a total of 1 DMG from 3 attacks.

You say that like it was the only expected outcome. Dice are Dice, and Random is Random.

Three Regular Stormies (without re-rolls) are only 9% to do 1 damage in three shots against Sabine. Effectively that could happen once in every ten games.

Statistically they should've done 3 damage to her, 1 damage in each attack (55% for each attack) (Max damage is a very unlikely 9. Anything greater than 6 damage was <2%)

All Spectre Cell did to this was bump all expected damage down by 1. Statistically without SC the Stormies would've done 2 each.

That sounds like bad luck, not bad design. (R Stormies are cheap, but not super attackers. Re-rolls are good though, and easy to achieve)

(Now that I've pointed that out, I do fully agree that the RStormies are in dire need of assistance to make them competitive again)

On ‎4‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 5:43 AM, cnemmick said:

The defensive bonus for Heavy Stormtrooper is pretty worthless, and the speed penalty is too steep.

The E-Web Engineer is all sorts of yuck.

Jet Trooper, Sentry Droid and Riot Troopers are pretty ok.

the power creep of Hunters and Spectre Cell should be addressed.

I second all of that. Dewback Troopers are OK, too.

The 3-figure deployments (Stormtrooper, Snowtrooper) just have the problem of the hunters and spectres power creep. It is just too easy to one-shot them. I think they don't need any buff, when the power creep of Hunters and Spectre Cell is addressed.

Apart from that, I would love to see them lose Squad Training and gain Professional OFFICIALLY.

Guys, maybe i was with the lucky few to have experienced the - nearly flawless thematically and tactically- SW Card Collectible Game by Decipher. I am uploading the following 2 cards to have an idea what

Stormtroopers are made for :

1. Deploy For FREE - OR have ENDLESS RESERVES like the Campaign - When someone includes troopers in his List, the Opponent should score a Max 5-10 Vps regardless their number

2. Stormtrooper Garisson - or call it Auto and Free Bodygurard for LEADERS ONLY. You cannot attack an Imperial leader if a Trooper is Adjacent.

3. Troopers should have 3 Health and be easy pickings like the movies.

Combine all the above elements and you get the perfect cannon fodder, body shield, swarm unit

Maybe this attachment???

...I'm not sure I'd want Darth Vader to be immune to attacks as long as a rStorm was standing near him. You could make literal invincible walls by putting a couple of leaders in each path with a single rStorm behind them.

Edit: perhaps instead:

Expendable: While a friendly, adjacent Leader is defending, you may suffer X hits to apply -X hits to the attack results.

This still feels much more like a Guardian rather than a Trooper ability though. At least that's what Plo Koon tells me

i made some changes , only for Regulars...

1 minute ago, topacesteve said:

i made some changes , only for Regulars...

This would be a great answer to Spectre Cell who decimates Vader for nothing