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Your uncle wouldn't allow it.

Hit Points: 120
Defense: 20
Attack: 12
Damage: 20
Rarity: Rare
Base: Medium
Gender: Male
Creator: General_Grievous
Created: 2/12/2015
Updated: 9/8/2016

Special Abilities

  • Unique
  • Twin Attack (Whenever this character attacks, he makes 1 extra attack against the same target)
  • Cyborg (Counts as both a Droid and a non-Droid; living; subject to critical hits and commander effects)
  • Prideful (While this character has a higher printed cost than any other character in your squad, Separatist allies whose name contains battle droid with a Damage value greater than 0 get +4 Attack and +10 Damage until this character is defeated)
  • Independent (Your squad may not contain more than one other Separatist commander)
  • Rival (This character cannot be in a squad that contains any character whose name contains Loathsoam.)
  • Tactician +6 (Add +6 to the initiative roll except on a roll of 1)

Commander Effect

Droids are subject to this effect: Separatist battle droid followers who combine fire grant +6 Attack instead of +4. Separatist allies whose name contains battle droid gain Swarm +2 (+2 Attack against a target for each allied battle droid adjacent to that target)

"Prepare for attack!"

Average Rating: 10.00 (2)
Creator's Rating: 10/10
darthwhovian
2/12/2015 6:54:43 AM

Great representation of a strategic Grievous! Also makes battle droids mote than filler! 10
SignerJ
2/12/2015 12:02:41 PM

I'm concerned about the possible strength of a Battle Droid swarm when combining this guy and General Whorm Loathsome.
darthwhovian
2/12/2015 12:51:25 PM

Agreed! I read your independent wrong, thiught it said he could be the only sep commander. Maybe change it, to take care of a Whorm BD swarms?
donnyrides
2/12/2015 2:29:44 PM

Currently you can make crazy BD squads. At best this piece would allow for BDs to have twin +8 attack for 30 damage if you use fire control and roger roger. In the current game you can get BDs up to twin, triple +12 for 20 damage pretty easily, so I don't feel this piece is out of control. I love the use of Prideful. I think every faction should have at lease one piece that grants it. GG, did you start thinking about prideful after seeing my Darth Desolous, Utapaun Warlord custom?
General_Grievous
2/12/2015 3:36:03 PM

I have been thinking about a prideful piece for the seps for a bit but that was the push to finally make one. Battle droid swarms seem strong but has anyone actually seen them played? The main reason is lack of tech (mobile, evade, death shots, unstoppable damage) that make other swarms more viable. And the fact that Bastilla/disruptive almost completely shuts them down.
General_Grievous
2/12/2015 3:36:26 PM

As it stands they are an average B swarm at best and distant behind the others. That being said I do still want the option to bring Nute, San, OOM9, Nuvo Vindi, Sideous, etc but I see the whorm worries and will add in a rival for him to balance it out. And increase cost to 37 so Sideous can still be brought.
jen'ari
2/12/2015 3:40:25 PM

Nothing about Grievous makes it possible for jedi to not deflect or evade a shot from a battle droid. In fact, they take on like 60 of them at one time. The episode where Yoda takes on a whole platoon of droids with three stormtroopers comes to mind
SithBot
2/12/2015 3:46:00 PM

wait, does evade fall under preventing?
General_Grievous
2/12/2015 4:07:50 PM

The same could be said for stormtroopers and clone troopers especially where Yoda and Obi Wan cut down waves of them no problem. But gameplay wise and lesser Jedi have absolutely fallen to waves of battle droids. Great examples being the Battle of Geonosis where simple battle droids/supers were cutting down swathes of Jedi every second before the clones showed up. Also many other examples in the show.
General_Grievous
2/12/2015 4:10:00 PM

The point behind the piece is to make it so Grievous, leading a swarm of battle droids on his own could overwhelm and kill other enemies. That being said to pull it off you need to already have droids within 6 squares of your target to be able to combine fire. The higher costed more mobile force users can avoid it. Any other ideas for a CE though to reflect sheer numbers winning the day?
General_Grievous
2/12/2015 4:10:23 PM

And yes evade does fall under preventing
General_Grievous
2/12/2015 4:24:35 PM

Changed CE to handing out swarm with the combined fire bonus for a true strength in numbers feel
SithBot
2/12/2015 4:33:40 PM

Maybe an ability: Cannot ignore the swarm (If there are 5 or more unactivated battle droids within 3 squares of a target that target does not receive benefits from commander effects and has to end his turn adjacent to one of the inactivated battle droids within 6 squares.) Or something like that.
countrydude82487
2/12/2015 7:13:11 PM

He works decent with the New Gunray too, since they all gain Improved Spotter.
General_Grievous
2/13/2015 6:24:18 AM

Thanks and that was the intent to work with him
SignerJ
2/13/2015 6:37:13 AM

I like this cost increase. Suddenly, B3 Ultra Battle Droids become quite intimidating. One or two of them with Sidious, Nacht, and a ton of Battle Droids would make for a fun squad. (Also, maybe bump up the swarm to +2? +1 is extremely weak in today's game, especially for a piece with such low base Attack anyways.)
kkj
9/8/2016 9:15:38 AM

I would change Swarm to Gang, i wanted to create a custom that gives it to Battle Droids anyway!
General_Grievous
9/9/2016 3:04:12 AM

Gang is a weird name for it but it is what makes sense. Or maybe synergy?
CorellianComedian
9/9/2016 3:11:44 AM

Haha, I kinda like the idea of a Battle Droid gang. "Watch out, Jedi! We're bad to the core processor!" "Leave us alone! You're not cool enough to socialize with us!" "If you don't listen, we might have to teach you a lesson!" "A lesson? I thought we were hardened criminals, not teachers!" "No, he means we'll have to shoot at them." "Oh, okay, that makes more sense. Hey, where did those Jedi go?"
General_Grievous
9/9/2016 12:34:40 PM

Hahahahaha nice
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