Mission spoilers ahead, obviously

All abilities have a certain time window, no matter how small. You may only use it during that time window (in other words, your opportunity to use that ability is gone as soon as that timing window closes). Nobody would be upset if you just say "hold it, before you do that, I want to do my ability XYZ" All abilities may only be used once. You cannot "use multiple times" for ANY of the abilities in the game unless explicitly specified like Saska's Energy Shield. The exact wording for eAlliance Ranger is "Elite Sniper: ...you may reroll up to 2 attack dice". So you trigger Elite Sniper once and that's it I think the confusion for you here is that you thought "while attacking" is a time window, it's not. The timing window depends on the specific ability For example, eAlliance Ranger is "reroll", so we look it up and see "Aha, it's step 3 of attack in RRG". So you must do all those rerolls there Another example, campaign Fenn's "Havoc shot" is "blast 1". Blast is a keyword and is applied at the very end. Hence why you may havoc shot after the dice are rolled edit: this link might be overkill but re-iterates that every ability does have a timing window

This is actually another interesting point. Until a full FAQ comes out, casual skirmish at home and tournament skirmish are now very different. Before it was really only the time limit and general tournament stuff like rounds, sportsmanship and allowable materials that were extra. I wonder if they'll fix that or just leave casual play as some forgotten step child. I disagree, I never play tournaments but from now on I will be using these new tournament rules (score according to figure costs rather than deployment cards). Every problem that manifests tournament scene also happens in home-casual skirmish, especially with repeated play I guess it's just a matter of perspective and how "casual" is "casual". I never tell my newbies what are the tournament meta, but from repeated play he started to notice the trend and he's already picking up Rebel Twins

Makes most sense to me, I like it Pretty certain this will take "reinforcement" out of the must-take cards from trooper spam lists Heck, there might not even be a trooper spam list anymore. It takes away the point denial strategy: I'm being rewarded as soon as I kill your dudes, I really don't care if you run that last trooper all the way back there

Right, so it looks like my suspicions are confirmed: exact wordings: CALCULATING VICTORY POINTS A player earns victory points during a game each time he or she defeats an opponent’s figure or through card or mission effects. When a figure is defeated, the opposing player scores victory points equal to that figure’s figure cost (see “Figure Cost” in the “Rules Updates” section of the FAQ). Players do not score victory points equal to the deployment cost of a group when the last figure in that group is defeated. When the last figure in a group is defeated, if that group had an attachment, the opposing player scores victory points equal to that attachment’s cost. DEFEATED FIGURES When a figure is defeated, the owner of that figure places it on its respective Deployment card. If a defeated figure is placed back on the map, the owner places a strain token on that figure’s deployment card to track the previous defeat. Which means I get VP and may spend it as soon as I kill off your trooper, which means I can score potentially up to 15VP on a twice reinforced eStorm

Can you post the confirmation for Waylay? Looks like Indomitable and Waylay are much stronger than I thought Indomitable is basically "1 threat: add a black die to a villain's defense pool" Waylay is "1 strain: choose a friendly figure within 3 space to attack, limit twice but no duplicates (2 hero or 2 ally)"

Thematic Rebel list? Jedi Luke 12 Obi wan 7 Rebel Trooper 9 Han Solo 12 OR Farmboy Luke 10 Chewbacca 15 Han Solo 12 R2-D2 3

The "need the corresponding expansion" mostly comes from needing the map tiles for their respective missions Cross-posting my response from BGG forum here: If you're playing campaign, you can safely buy these without needing extra map tiles: all of wave 1,3,7, wave 2 Boba Fett, wave 4 Alliance Smuggler If you're playing skirmish though, you can safely buy: all of wave 1,3,4,7, wave 2 R2D2&C-3PO, wave 2 Kayn Somos

I thought the consensus (from Worlds) on Sorin was that he's okay now with Adv Comm? Same goes for Kayn although to a less effective degree now

You must be doing it well then I've seen people calculate and recalculate using their fingers. until you play way too much and calculate with your eyes

So the way I read it, there's 2 parts to it: 1. "get VP equal to deployment cost when entire card is destroyed" becomes "get VP equal to reinforcement cost when a figure is destroyed" 2. "get VP later when entire card is destroyed" becomes "get VP now" For example, if I kill 1/3 eStorm (so now 2/3 left) , I get 3VP right away, 4VP if I got Jabba (and may spend it) You reinforce back to 3/3 eStorm? Sure thing I'll kill one again and get another 3VP right away Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though

Which one, "A Dark Power" to reduce by 5, that card? I've yet to see people combining Nemeses + that card + Vader though. On threat level 6 you could drop Vader with 18 - 5 (agenda card) - 5 ("Leave them to me") - 6 + 1 (Nemeses starter) = 3 threat Which makes an interesting question (I've never encountered it but I'm sure there's a ruling): can you have negative deployment costs? what about 0 (free)?. My gut says no negative but free is possible

I'm pretty sure the rule about only activating an ability once per trigger is still in effect... But if they're different attacks aren't they different triggers? Ricope, I'm pretty sure that what you've described is exactly how the card works. That card is kind of the anti-Loku, as it gives the imperials a huge advantage in any mission where the rebel objective is to "kill villain x" not really, I was referring to same attacks. So to be clear, I want to do stuff like this (but apparently not allowed): Rebel #1 action #1: hit Vader, I exhaust to add a black dice. action #2: hit Vader, I spend 1 threat to ready, then exhaust immediately to add a black dice again Rebel #2 action #1: hit Vader, I spend 1 threat to ready, then exhaust immediately to add a black dice again...

Except you can get an upgrade like Indomitable to deal with these pesky rebels. Imagine the Royal Guard Champion with BBW defense, doesn't seem bad. Or Boba Fett with BB, one block and one evade, paired with possible recovery makes it really hard to deal with, at any stage of the game. If you are going with big heroes anyways, Indomitable is pretty useful. Nothing worse than having a big baddy getting stunned. If you're going for mid-sized villains like Bossk or Terro, you might prefer devastating legion though. I noticed for Indomitable both triggers are "when an attack targeting a villain is declared", so there's a timing conflict = I (Imperial player) gets to choose the order So can I do something like this? Rebel 1: attack Vader, exhaust Ind to add def Rebel 2: attack Vader, I pay 1 threat to ready then exhaust again to add def Rebel 3: attack Vader, I pay 1 threat to ready then exhaust again to add def... basically I gain the ability: "spend 1 threat for 1 extra black defense dice"

Wow I didn't notice the bounty token is maintained between missions either, that changes up quite a bit and probably isn't as OP as originally thought but still as the Imperial player, even if I lose previous mission I can still concentrate on the heroes that didn't flip during current mission Agreed with Military Might (my fav deck), ComVet + Shock Trooper or Sustained fire is just nuts. Also "Endless ranks" might be usable again now we got plenty of TROOPERS from expansions

Actually not quite, the starting/free card for HM deck (already spoiled here) states that all Rebel heroes take a bounty token before starting a mission, and is only discarded when they're wounded. So no in every mission every single Rebel hero will have a bounty token to start with

I have to disagree with you on the casual group part, this means you pretty much won 3 missions in a row which means Rebels should have got a kicker bonus (houserule recommended by dev to stop snowball). It seems you might have ignored everything else (which was reasonable since you were playing "me vs. me solo") and the snowball just kept on rolling Great analysis though, would you compare this deck (HM) to Sub Tac (ST) deck? Looks like both focuses on annoying players + ridiculous firepower outburst, but does not offer protection/increase survivability of Imperial troops Probably not for a total newbie, but any semi-experienced player should know the balance of power tilts dramatically once one side gets 4xp cards. I'm still doubtful you'd get the same result had you played with other actual humans

Normally no, but the 1-point "Temporary Alliance" overrides that Note though you only may include deployment cards. So you cannot include other factions' skirmish upgrade cards (ex. play as Imperial -> take Temp Alliance -> may take Merc -> take Temp Alliance -> take Rebel is illegal)

Yes that is correct Easy way to think: You never actually target "figures", you target "spaces" (exact wording for Grenadier is "Choose a space...Each figure on or adj...) So you throw the grenade. Who are the figures on or adj to that space? No the AT-ST is still one figure, not multiple figures

If the card corresponds to a single-figure, the figure cost is the deployment cost (ex. Bossk is 8) If the card corresponds to multiple figure, the figure cost is the reinforcement cost (that small number beside it) So eStorm's figure cost is 3

Oh I thought by "hoard XP" you meant "saving up". If your entire group feels happy about it then sure test it out. I just feel xp purchases should be important decisions. If I'm the Imperial player faced with all-newbies I might allow one-time xp-tradein after mission #4 or when everyone got 4xps, but definitely not "after every mission". It allows (pretty much) perfection for every mission: Hey next mission is "A New Threat"! Gaarkhan you sell off that 1xp Wook Fortitude, Fenn you sell off that 1xp take over and buy adrenaline rush....

Perhaps you meant otherwise, but I can see a ton of problem in balance with these #1 You actually punish hoarding xps. Let's say I have 3xp in total right now, I will make sure to spend it all because I know the 4xp ones will be available to me after next mission anyway (i.e. If I don't spend it all I'm losing out 3xp abilities for this mission) #2 Let's say I'm a cutthroat Rebel player. I'll make sure to hoard everything until the finale (much like the frequently-complained "Imperial player hoarding secret one-shot agenda cards until finale) #3 is fine, it's actually a fairly popular houserule to "always draw 2" vs. original rule "that 1 sucky mission always stays"

Whoa so you're now telling me I can do this? Ug1: spot wield, move. Droid move, move Ug2: Droid move, attack. move, spot wield, Droid move, attack i.e. Droid can actually attack twice per Ugnaught's activation (well, technically they're 2 different droids) if the droid is already on the map

So to be clear, the deployment point is where that snowtrooper is? The one adjacent to Gideon What you did is perfectly legal. Since you cannot deploy to that point, you pick the "closest point possible", which are these points (I've re-uploaded your pic) Since it's a large figure, you must pick one that you can legally place it which is any one of these