Post by osiris on Aug 3, 2023 20:10:07 GMT -5
The Appetite for Destruction box set comes with General Grevious, Kraken Super Tactical Droid, and the B2 Battle Droids
General Grevious is a combat oriented leader. He provides the typical 8 squad points and 3 force. His team is based on getting alot of extra attacks and dealing lots of damage. In fact he has one of the only Area of Attack abilities in the game. His stance with his strongest defenses also has his only ranged attack, which isn't bad and it has early push and pins in the tree. However, he's quite a bit more dangerous in melee. He has more dice, and better expertise results plus that tree is full of quite a bit more damage, and it does still have pushes in it, just further down. He's also fairly mobile, with a full advance with scuttle and an activation ability to give another battle droid a dash. Whenever he attacks, if there's a Battle Droid support character within range 3, they get a free dash and attack. So he's got some decent mobility, and can dish out the pain, and helps droids in his force do the same.
Kraken Super Tactical Droid: 4 point Secondary character
Kraken is not quite as effective as Kalani, but it also only costs 4 points, and has many similar abilities. When it activates, it gives a dash to a battle droid support unit, or itself. It has a decent ranged attack, with options for handing out a pin or more pushes, and with a good enough roll can get to use Tactical Network for free. Giving other battle droids a dash and a free attack. Kraken can stand on an objective to get both steadfast and protection, which will help with the positioning to gain the combat benefits from general Grevious and his own synergies with other droids.
B2 Battle Droids: 4 point supporting Unit
Another shooting droid support unit similar to the B1's, but they dont give any co-ordinated fire like benefits to other units. They actually have a pretty good shooting attack with damage, pushes, and maneuvers, and with all the extra moves and attacks they should be getting from Grevious and Kraken. They even can withstand a little punishment due to having Protection built in.
Who should this team pair up with?
Anyone with battle droids, particularly supporting unit battle droids. At first glance you'd think Asajj and her droids would be the perfect fit, and Kalani is indeed a big boon for a squad like this, but the B1 droids dont bring much more than the B2's, and again, getting more shooting, could actually still work, but the better choice is the Magnadroids. So you could either bring Dooku's whole force to bring them, or just swap them out with the B1's. The magnadroids will be MUCH more useful, because they have the mobility and the protective abilities to keep Grevious alive while he tries to get swarmed by enemies to dish out the most damage. AND their 5 die attack is much MUCH more effective than what the B1's can do with a 5 die attack. So, you can get the extra force from Dooku bring Jango and the Magnadroids. or you can bring an 8 squad point primary like Asajj but swap the magnadroids in instead of the B1's getting a second super tactical droid in the process.
Could someone else lead this team? Well any 8 squad point primary can lead his droids, and someone like Asajj has less synergies to lose, but she doesn't provide the bonus attacks that this team needs to fully function Grevious is really the best primary to lead this team.
General Grevious is a combat oriented leader. He provides the typical 8 squad points and 3 force. His team is based on getting alot of extra attacks and dealing lots of damage. In fact he has one of the only Area of Attack abilities in the game. His stance with his strongest defenses also has his only ranged attack, which isn't bad and it has early push and pins in the tree. However, he's quite a bit more dangerous in melee. He has more dice, and better expertise results plus that tree is full of quite a bit more damage, and it does still have pushes in it, just further down. He's also fairly mobile, with a full advance with scuttle and an activation ability to give another battle droid a dash. Whenever he attacks, if there's a Battle Droid support character within range 3, they get a free dash and attack. So he's got some decent mobility, and can dish out the pain, and helps droids in his force do the same.
Kraken Super Tactical Droid: 4 point Secondary character
Kraken is not quite as effective as Kalani, but it also only costs 4 points, and has many similar abilities. When it activates, it gives a dash to a battle droid support unit, or itself. It has a decent ranged attack, with options for handing out a pin or more pushes, and with a good enough roll can get to use Tactical Network for free. Giving other battle droids a dash and a free attack. Kraken can stand on an objective to get both steadfast and protection, which will help with the positioning to gain the combat benefits from general Grevious and his own synergies with other droids.
B2 Battle Droids: 4 point supporting Unit
Another shooting droid support unit similar to the B1's, but they dont give any co-ordinated fire like benefits to other units. They actually have a pretty good shooting attack with damage, pushes, and maneuvers, and with all the extra moves and attacks they should be getting from Grevious and Kraken. They even can withstand a little punishment due to having Protection built in.
Who should this team pair up with?
Anyone with battle droids, particularly supporting unit battle droids. At first glance you'd think Asajj and her droids would be the perfect fit, and Kalani is indeed a big boon for a squad like this, but the B1 droids dont bring much more than the B2's, and again, getting more shooting, could actually still work, but the better choice is the Magnadroids. So you could either bring Dooku's whole force to bring them, or just swap them out with the B1's. The magnadroids will be MUCH more useful, because they have the mobility and the protective abilities to keep Grevious alive while he tries to get swarmed by enemies to dish out the most damage. AND their 5 die attack is much MUCH more effective than what the B1's can do with a 5 die attack. So, you can get the extra force from Dooku bring Jango and the Magnadroids. or you can bring an 8 squad point primary like Asajj but swap the magnadroids in instead of the B1's getting a second super tactical droid in the process.
Could someone else lead this team? Well any 8 squad point primary can lead his droids, and someone like Asajj has less synergies to lose, but she doesn't provide the bonus attacks that this team needs to fully function Grevious is really the best primary to lead this team.