I play in a group where Mace is popular. Popular, but certainly not overpowered. If you play in a small group and never venture outside it AND primarily play on one map, then it's pretty obvious why you have problems with certain figures.

I should note that I don't play Mace...he's not my style. If I saw that he was negatively affecting the game, you can bet I'd be vocal about him. Much like LV or Boba, if the rolls don't go your way in playing him, you're in trouble. That's reality.

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the Mace windu figure everyone keeps calling over powered is [Master Windu], cos if that is the case then i am in full affirmative

This is kind of my point. The whole purpose of the Ugnaught Demo IS door control. If you have door control covered, you don't bring more Ugnaughts, because there are 2 other, better 3 point options. In the 2010 GenCon championship I won the title without playing a single Ugnaught in all 9 games I played. Why? Because I had triple override in my base squad and would often bring in a 4th Override piece with Lobot (and possibly a 5th if my opponent was also packing a lot of Override). I didn't want the doors to be blown up; Ugnaughts were my enemy. So I brought in Mouse Droids instead. I had Princess Leia's CE to extend, sure, but mostly I brought them in as defensive fodder. So right there I chose something else over an Ugnaught, because I didn't need more door control, and door control is the purpose of the Ugnaught. If I wanted another small attacker (to, say, go kill Ugnaughts!) I would have brought in a Rodian Brute.

If you want to fill a role other than destroying doors, a Mouse Droid or a Rodian Brute are both better options, so the role that an Ugnaught plays is destroying doors.

Right now we have 3 Fringe pieces that cost 3 points, and I think they each have pretty good places in the game. The Ugnaught blows up doors, but is the worst defensively. The Mouse Droid extends CEs and is the best defensively, but is the only one that doesn't have an attack at all. The Rodian Brute is the best offensively and is the most mobile, and also is a medium base so he works in swap squads. Sithborg pointed out some of the flaws in your ideas, but I do think another 3 pointer that fills another niche like the 3 existing ones is a possibility, but I don't really see a need or a desire for it (from anyone but you, of course). As Scott pointed out, it's very hard to balance things at that level, so it would be a risky design no matter what, and I just don't see the need for it.

Yub yub!

Aren't you forgetting our furry little mainstays prior to uggnaughts? Back in the day, people used Ewoks quite often. Just thought I'd give these little guys some love and make sure they are the 4th fringe piece that costs 3pts. They may not blow doors up or have high defense or run over logs all that well, but they can hold open doors and act all cute while doing so.

The only problem with that is that they must inherently be a shooter. Subject to all the other bonuses that can come with it. A very fine line to walk. See Mouse Droids and Roger, Roger and Advanced Battle Meditation.

The Vong sorta do in the Peace Brigade Thug since he works better there.

Sounds like we see things the same way regarding those 3... choose door control, offense, or defense.

I'd just prefer to see more variety when it comes to the last 20 points of a squad. 1000+ pieces, tons of options in the meta, beatsticks, movement breakers, CEs, etc. But (usually) just 3 options when it comes to making sure you have a bit of cannon fodder/activations. *shrug*

Mas Amedda,
by far the most broken piece in the game. The original game changer and game breaker. All of the swap crapp is made possible through him. The mouse droids are just the answer to him. Something that encourages abuse begets more abuse.

Cheers

I didn't have time to address these comments earlier, but fwiw...



More importantly, they need a devastating handicap. Something like... 'may not combine fire', 'not subject to CEs', 'Speed 2', 'automatically defeated if your initiative roll is less than 20'. Something like that.
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I said slightly higher atk/def, not higher damage. I agree higher dmg would be bad. I was not advocating for a viable attack option. Just something different from the Rodian Brute - not stronger. Maybe you decide between the Brute's stable footing or another piece's +1Attack. Like...

Duros Brute: HP 10 Def 14 Atk 5 Dmg 10, Melee Attack
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It would be able to walk through a door and stand at a spot to hold open a door farther up in the map. Or hold open two doors by standing next to two of them. Just a better door opener is all. With a higher def (not as high as a mouse) but no attacks, it could be useful in some builds.
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re:3pt droid 'assistant' that chooses an ally at the beginning of the skirmish. While adjacent, adds 1 (or 2?) to any save that character makes.

If there are no CEs to propagate and door control is covered, perhaps not. And if +1 is too weak, it could be +2 or +3 or +4. Whatever balances it.
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re:3pt non-attacker with 20hp and nothing else. (And no way to gain Bodyguard.)

If you're just taking it to be cannon fodder, 20hp could be more useful than 10hp. If 20 is useless, then perhaps 30hp. Basically, if you're only taking a Mouse for blocking/door opening, perhaps blocking with a lower defense but more HP would be preferred.

Malfunctioning Droid: HP 30 Def 16 Atk 0 Dmg 0, Droid, Speed 4
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re:3 pointer with a specific immunity/defense. Like Density Projector or something else that's very situational, but you might bring in with Lobot versus the right squad. Perhaps especially Density Projector now that Caedus is running around.

Reinforcements option.
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I understand you oppose new 3 point pieces. You said everything was either broken or pointless, but tweaking to make a broken piece weaker or a pointless piece stronger could find the right balance. There's not a great desire to do so, and the margin for error is thin, but it could be done. (And with the thin margin, it'd be better to err on the side of making them too weak.)

Maybe something like

Shmi Skywalker
Unique
Melee Attack
Slave
Cost 3
HP 10
Defense 16
Atk 1
Dmg 10