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[bountyhunter9]

Yeah.

Threepio is a bit more difficult to use, but he is tied for the second highest HP/Cost ratio in the game (behind the T1 Bulk Loader, and tied with Jagged Fel). Obviously he has some powerful abilities, especially for his cost. To deal with his movement, you could either levitate him with Luke Commando, or you could use Yoda of Dagobah to give C-3 a Force point (via Light Tutor), and then C-3 can be haunted by ghost Obi or ghost Anakin, giving him FR 1 and Mettle. So he can move 2 squares, and reroll failed Evade saves with Mettle, but often it's not worth the points to give him all that. With a lot of Force users with FR, however, the combination with Yoda of Dagobah and dead Annie can be somewhat effective.

Another option would be, because of his Disruptive and Draw Fire, to leave Threepio with your important commanders (Rieekan, Dodonna), and his abilities can protect them somewhat. For 5 points, he's not a horrible piece, just not a good VR.

Lol. I would be happy with Mouse Droids, no matter what else I pulled. Sorry I wouldn't be interested in trading, I already have Kyp.

[Jm419]

Huh. Ok. "not a good VR." I agree with that...the painter completely missed the eye sockets, too. That's real nice.

Grrr. I have two useless pieces, Kyp (in a faction I don't play) and one Mouse Droid.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah. Logray is pretty disappointing too. He doesn't really have any uses, at all. He can be an okay piece, but you're not going to get Corruption off more than once against a good opponent, if at all.

Lol. You're not happy with the Mouse Droid?

[Jm419]

Right.

Eh. It's kinda fun, and a well detailed piece...but in three packs, I would have hoped for a usable rare.

[bountyhunter9]

Lol. Yeah, the rares are big disappointments. But a Mouse Droid is a better pull than half the rares/very rares in that set. Lol.

[Jm419]

True. Lol.

[bountyhunter9]

Lol. It was a nice set, and it has a lot of powerful characters. I like all the little sub-factions it created too.

[Jm419]

True. I'm going to have to look a bit further into it.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah. I like how the Snow and Sand troopers get their own commanders. And the Rebel Commandos get a lot more powerful too.

[Jm419]

Yeah, well, that Imperial training doesn't account for every possibility. Snow/sand planets are only like 40% of the SW universe, after all.

[bountyhunter9]

Lol. True. Does the Empire have specialized urban combat troopers? I think they just use the Stormtroopers for that. I guess you wouldn't need too much special equipment, like the other specialized troopers, but fighting in an urban environment would be a lot different than on a typical battlefield.

[Jm419]

Yeah, harder too. All those windows. But we don't usually see any urban combat anyway, which is kinda odd.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah, that is odd. There's combat between a few characters (Zam vs Anakin and Obi-Wan in Ep. II, for example), but I don't think there were a lot of full-scale urban battles in the movies.

[Jm419]

Right - you can imagine, though. The snipers in the windows, kilometers above the city streets...

Btw, there's a new TOR trailer out, called "Hope." Check it out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpcpdEB_KOQ

[bountyhunter9]

Lol. That would be insane.

Wow, that's an impressive video. I'm wondering two things: is gameplay going to be anything close to that, and when will lightsabers finally cut in video games? Lol.