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Sith Holocron

Who used the Lightsaber Throw granted to the Sith Holocron in Play Testing?

Dark Allure
When you move adjacent can you move to any square that is adjacent?


You can only choose a unique ally once per skirmish? like the first round I can choose Maul but the second i can't I have to choose Warb Null and than the third I have to choose Cognus?

Unkarr plutt.
Wager before initiative roll you can activate a unique to repress all initiative powers. Choose a single digit number
does not contain that number than you get -9 to your initiative.. if it does contain that number they get-9 to their initiative roll.

Wouldn't you always choose the number 1?


He also had a word form of reserves 12. If you have 5 or more less sactivation you can bring in 12 points of non unique fringe

He also stops all conartist
He gives thugs it's a trap and mighty swing
Pretty sure Chewbacca tops off unkarr's arm

Any Unique ally (not any specific cost) although most people will use Salacious, Mas, Ozzel, etc

The holocron says attach to someone you have not chosen or something..
Can I stay attached to the holding the entire have with the same person?

I thought force pull was shortest rope as well.

Unkarr as a soft counter to reserves....
I don't know if he is.
But man what a confusing and laborious piece. Still get minus 9 for init roll alot.

So - what the what? 'Splain dis!


OK!


Unkar was initially conceived as a multiple counter piece, but has disadvantages to using the counter.

I'll start with the easy stuff -

Thug. ---> (probably obvious, but . . .) A character whose name contains Thug or has the Thug special ability. In other words, the start of a new little subfaction. Probably won't ever be a full subfaction (like an entire squad of all thugs), but it might be fun to give thugs as a group little bonuses now and then.

It's a trap and mighty swing ---> To give out via CE to Thugs. Mostly flavor, having fun with the new tiny subfaction of "thugs"

Junk Boss ---> This went through a lot of iterations. This was intended to be a weak Marn soft counter. We had many ideas about effecting bribery. Some of them just ended up being different ways to steal characters, which is sort of like bribery, so kind of self defeating. Con Artist has been strongly disliked since its inception, and so we focused on that. Again, many ideas - but in the end, we just went with the most simple straightforward counter: Everyone loses con artist. (Hey - Sidious Fans - Bring Unkar and Marn can't single handedly nerf all your force powers!!!)

Local Reserves 12 ----> Weak out-activation help. So you have to bring him in your base squad here, and you can't have an ally that lowers activations (San, Dodonna, Ozzel, etc). Then - if you are heavily out-activated (5 or more characters behind) - then you get a little bonus of 12pts of fringe reserves. Perhaps a couple THUGS? It won't let you out activate your opponent (you can only get 4 characters max - that's why 12 was a chosen), but it will help close the gap.

Rival ----> Tactics broker would be abusive with Wager, you could turn on and off your kill switch. Besides - less MTB is probably good.

Wager ----> First off, how does it work? There's a lot of words there, and it makes it seem more difficult than it is. Before init, you declare if you are going to use the ability. If so, activate a unique ally for the round, and pick a number 0-9. All abilities and CEs that effect init on both sides are shut off for the round. Then roll init. Look at your opponents roll - if it ENDS with the number you chose (1 in 10 chance) - you guessed right! They subtract 9 from their roll. If you didn't get it right, you subtract 9 from your roll. It's as simple as that.

To reiterate - declare before init, activate a unique ally, pick a number 0-9, roll init. If correct opponent gets -9 to init. If incorrect you get -9.

What this is actually, is a weak init control counter. You'd really most likely never use it for init control (you get a -9 to your init most of the time, thus making your chances WORSE) . . . BUT - if your opponent has an MTB or Master tactician, you only have a 2.5% chance to win init normally. With this factored in, you actually have a reasonable shot to win init. Not a GREAT shot, but much better than you had before. If you peg the number (1 in 10 chance, that's already better odds than the 2.5% chance you have vs MTB or MT) - then your chance of winning init is pretty darn good. Assuming you don't peg the number, you still have a better chance to win init than the 2.5% chance vs MTB or MT. Overall, you increase your chances approximately 10 fold vs MTB or MT. It will make people think twice about risking losing init when usually they'd feel pretty secure.

Incidentally, this also reduces the chances to hit a reserves number. If someone gets reserves on 5,10,15,20 - you'll most likely pick 5 or 0, thus reducing the odds that they can get those reserves, but at a cost of most likely LOSING init and activating a unique.




So - that is this seemingly (or actually?) complicated character broken down. When in playtesting, virtually ever player came back and said - Wager is so much easier to understand than it looks like at first. The wording was tricky to get as concisely as possible, but the concept isn't that difficult.


Any questions?

That would be Venku Skirata

Ya she is awesome. (Cough* but that lightsaber should be a melee attack)

My most curious pieces to play are the holocrons and Jacen (wondering how well he will fair)