I wonder how much the heavy weapon will make a difference in if they are worth it? The cards show one that is range 2-3 (I think) and the other has three red dice.

I also wonder if this unit is more of a long term plan. They may not work now because of how expensive everything is now, but if CIS does get a cheap commander and a few other cheap units to throw in then maybe upgrading a few B1s into B2s will not matter in a 12 activation list???? They did say in the Q&A that anything over 12 activations sort of stops being helpful......

6 hours ago, RyantheFett said:

I wonder how much the heavy weapon will make a difference in if they are worth it? The cards show one that is range 2-3 (I think) and the other has three red dice.

I also wonder if this unit is more of a long term plan. They may not work now because of how expensive everything is now, but if CIS does get a cheap commander and a few other cheap units to throw in then maybe upgrading a few B1s into B2s will not matter in a 12 activation list???? They did say in the Q&A that anything over 12 activations sort of stops being helpful......

I feel like the one with the Cannon will be interesting. Cycle seems like it might let it refresh itself. Also has blast and impact 2.

22 hours ago, TheHoosh said:

When did this become about clones, go find your own thread replicas!

I am glad somebody said it.

Back to B2's not being better than B1's please.

14 minutes ago, Uchidan1 said:

I am glad somebody said it.

Back to B2's not being better than B1's please.

I am planning on picking up one unit and trying it out. I've had some success with coms relay on 2 B1s to assign orders to my Droideka every important turn, and adding in B2s kinda kills that chain. And I cant help but have flash backs to my unsuccessful attempts to use wookies and fleets when I look at B2s.

15 minutes ago, Steck638 said:

I am planning on picking up one unit and trying it out. I've had some success with coms relay on 2 B1s to assign orders to my Droideka every important turn, and adding in B2s kinda kills that chain. And I cant help but have flash backs to my unsuccessful attempts to use wookies and fleets when I look at B2s.

B2's are Droid Troopers, so you can put one unit at the end of a chain and have it benefit from Coordinate. B2's just cannot keep the chain going.

I plan to get at least two units to fill out my corp slots (I have four units of B1's from dual core boxes). I just worry that they are going to be too expensive to take more than one unit.

14 minutes ago, Mokoshkana said:

B2's are Droid Troopers, so you can put one unit at the end of a chain and have it benefit from Coordinate. B2's just cannot keep the chain going.

I know, it's the not being able to keep the chain going that makes it awkward, I've been running 2 B1s with uplinks with the idea being I can chain orders through B1s, end on the relay units who then pass onto the droideka (with targeting uplinks) and between my command cards and uplinks I can get the droideka orders just about every turn.

I could put the uplinks on B2, but that puts me having to choose between B2s or droideka for orders at the end of the chain, and I'm sure I want to do that, sure short range means I can still choose what I'm doing most turns, but I miss out on surge tokens on one of the units and aims on the droideka if I keep the targeting uplinks depending on who I choose gets the order.

16 minutes ago, Steck638 said:

I know, it's the not being able to keep the chain going that makes it awkward, I've been running 2 B1s with uplinks with the idea being I can chain orders through B1s, end on the relay units who then pass onto the droideka (with targeting uplinks) and between my command cards and uplinks I can get the droideka orders just about every turn.

I could put the uplinks on B2, but that puts me having to choose between B2s or droideka for orders at the end of the chain, and I'm sure I want to do that, sure short range means I can still choose what I'm doing most turns, but I miss out on surge tokens on one of the units and aims on the droideka if I keep the targeting uplinks depending on who I choose gets the order.

Do you mean "Comms Relay" instead of "Uplinks"?

42 minutes ago, Steck638 said:

I could put the uplinks on B2, but that puts me having to choose between B2s or droideka for orders at the end of the chain, and I'm sure I want to do that, sure short range means I can still choose what I'm doing most turns, but I miss out on surge tokens on one of the units and aims on the droideka if I keep the targeting uplinks depending on who I choose gets the order.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Droidekas cannot get orders from B1s - they're not troopers!

2 minutes ago, Vector Strike said:

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Droidekas cannot get orders from B1s - they're not troopers!

comms relay is what they were using to send the order to the Droidekas

1 hour ago, Mokoshkana said:

I plan to get at least two units to fill out my corp slots (I have four units of B1's from dual core boxes). I just worry that they are going to be too expensive to take more than one unit.

I have a feeling that they wanted you to take one or two to have a specific role. Especially since the weapons options look like 3 red dice at range 1-2 or a 2 red/1 white at are 2-3 with blast/impact. A versatile unit that could be up close fighting for objectives or a turret taking out units in cover/armor while blocking 3 hits before even rolling dice.

My fear is that B1s are just so darn cost effective and with 4 different heavy weapons they they may do everything better? Why not take HQ uplink and the rocket launcher, most likely cheaper, can survive a hit just based off of having 8 a unit, and having a range of 3-4.

1 hour ago, Mokoshkana said:

Do you mean "Comms Relay" instead of "Uplinks"?

Yes, sorry.

3 hours ago, RyantheFett said:

I have a feeling that they wanted you to take one or two to have a specific role. Especially since the weapons options look like 3 red dice at range 1-2 or a 2 red/1 white at are 2-3 with blast/impact. A versatile unit that could be up close fighting for objectives or a turret taking out units in cover/armor while blocking 3 hits before even rolling dice.

My fear is that B1s are just so darn cost effective and with 4 different heavy weapons they they may do everything better? Why not take HQ uplink and the rocket launcher, most likely cheaper, can survive a hit just based off of having 8 a unit, and having a range of 3-4.

Yeah, unless the B2's come out and they change how guardian works. I don't seem them being more useful than a full unit of 8 B1's