Flyboys or Girls.

Star Wars is famous for its pilots. This week's task is to highlight some of those individuals. Must have the special ability pilot. Max of 7 abilities/force powers excluding pilot, unique, force x.



You may update any existing versions you already have and/or create a new one. You may update/create several versions of the character but you must ultimately select 1 you wish to run with. (this must be done by the schedule below)

2. Place a hyperlink in this forum to make it easier to find your character. You can just post the stats or image here but if changes are needed it would be easier (and save space) if you just used a Hyperlink (If you don't know how to post Hyperlinks in a forum setting please ask and we will help you. It's not hard )

3. Voting works as follows, pick your three favorite customs based on accuracy to the character, design, balance or whatever you decide makes the best incarnation of the challenge character. First place receives 3 points, 2nd place receives 2 points, and 3rd place receives 1 point.

4. You do not have to enter the contest in order to vote. But unless you enter you must have at least 10 forum posts.

5. To make things fair you must vote in order to win the contest. Try to give feedback if possible to help designers out. You must choose three characters entered in the contest and you may not rate or vote for your own character.

6. The winner will be decided by how many points they receive. Ties will be broken by most 1st place votes, then if still tied, 2nd place votes and then 3rd place votes. If still tied, then the outcome is a tie.

7. You may not change or update the entered character AFTER the deadline.

You will have until Sat, May 5th, 2018 @8pm EST to get your submissions in. Anything submitted after this point will not be included in the voting.


Voting will start at 8pm on Saturday evening and end at 11pm EST on Monday, May 7th, 2018.
At the conclusion of the voting the scores will be tallied and the winner will start a new topic with their choice of theme.

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http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/32061/darth-vader--pilot


Pilots can get Gregarious, Opportunist, and Cunning in Imperials for decently cheap.

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/16816/plo-koon--jedi-general

This is to represent him in the clone wars cartoon.

He can grab Cunning from GARY and opp from Thrawn.

I love base 30 damage.

This piece looks fun and simple to play. A lot like 4-lom/zuckuss with the 3 attacks, base 30 and possible damage boost (in terms of fun to play).

Not even going to pretend I didn't want to make a pilot Grievous with a boost for Vulture droids but since we just did droids, this major character has ZERO representation in any custom (on Bloomilk at least) or official form and my wife said to go outside the box this week, here is my entry:

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/32065/fenn-rau

Nothing wrong with this piece. A Brick house Vader Tie Fighter is pretty straight forward. Nothing is out of place on him, fun casual piece, but the curce of being anything bigger than a large and being 70 points of a squad means it would never see competitive play. But it looks like a very fun theme/ scenario piece!



edit.

You know, you could drop Speed 8 and AND evade, and add 2 of the other abilities to make it better, and since he has no CE, he could get Evade and Speed 8 from the Klat Capt. I know its not thematic, but, its an idea. You could add 2 defensive abilities, and then he would get boosted by GARY/Thrawn and a Klat Capt. That would make him a 70 point piece, IMO.

I would say Swap Evade for (Adv)Shields 2 - This is Vader's TIE - it gives him some resistance to any and all damage which seems fitting. If a Hex Droid or Series 2 destroyer can have Adv Shields 2, then surely a 70 point Vader can! (note: Which I see you had Adv Shields on the original.)[/quote]

"It's not thematic" or "it's not playable" is precisely the problem. Would a real Vader really Need the Klat to give him Anything? Heck no, but the limitations set in this are fine for Joe Bloo, flying in Red 10. For Vader, they're rather crippling. I see/hear everything and actually agree with you guys, but somehow I can't see Vader benefitting, thematically, from too many people other than Palpatine ... I may go Calixte .... hmmm .....

Version 4.0

See, as I wrestle with the 7 ability limit, what to wack off/keep, one thing that's alwayas bothered me about characters with flight is that, realistically, how can a character hit a flying object with anything except ranged weapons (Melee Attacks Shouldn't hit Boba flying, never mind something like a snowspeeder ... or Tie Fighter ... and Vader might respect certain people like GARY, but would he take orders (CE's) from them? ... so I think I've worked around some of this taking the Calixte route with having a CE that also affect both your followers and you ....


Darth Vader's TIE Advanced x1







Cheers,

surf

... as an added aside and totally my own take on pilots, somehow I can't mentally tie in a guy running around Speed 8 and doing all this nasty crap without actually BEING in some kind of aircraft ... and Force Users with Melee and Pilots acting as if they're In Crafts but still doing Melee stuff ... just seems weird ...

carry on ....