**Disclaimer: I only play GAR at time of writing so I may be a little biased towards their reveals**
YODA...YOU SEEK YODA!
Looking at his card, he is pretty expensive at 200 points but I think his rules justify the expense.
First off, the stats. 5 Health (not too bad but definitely keep him hidden behind some clones), 4 Courage (good, not much will panic near him) and both a melee and ranged attack. He surges to both crit and defence. Yoda's Lightsaber is 4 red so pretty choppy but a small lightsaber means a small dice pool. He has Force Wave as his ranged attack (Range 1-2, Blast, Suppressive, 4 Black) which I'm currently unsure on, It's nice to be versatile and I can see it being used to pile suppression onto a already supressed unit but I doubt I'll be relying on it too much.
He also has 3 Force Upgrade slots (goes well with Master of the Force 2) and 1 Command slot. I'm thinking maybe Force Reflexes and Force Barrier to start.
Immune Pierce is pretty standard on lightsaber wielders so no surprises to see it on Yoda's card.
Guidance is a pretty cool rule. It allows a Friendly Trooper Unit with Range 1-2 to make a free non attack action. I can see this being handy for grabbing objectives or getting that vital unit in range to shoot or for just taking a token on a unit that needs to use its actions for other things.
Ataru Mastery: Well this makes Yoda king of the hill. He can perform TWO attack actions in a turn and when he does, he gains a dodge token. This mastery also allows him to gain an aim token after he defends against an attack. Furthermore, Ataru Mastery has built in deflect so when you spend a dodge, the defender suffers a wound for each Surge result rolled. Quite fitting for the Grand Master of the Jedi. I don't think you're going to want to be attacking twice every turn but it'll definitely come in handy for clearing out chaff or trying to take down your opponents power piece.
Overall I really like Yoda. Brings something different to the table and is certainly going to be very fun to use. We don't know what his commands cards will do but I'm sure they'll give him Charge, Relentless, Jump etc as that does seem to be Yoda's weakness right now. Speed 1 also isn't great but luckily there is a gunship that seems perfect to deliver Yoda right into the heart of the fight.
LAAT/LE Patrol Ship, requesting permission to launch
The Republic and Empire (but who cares about them) finally receive some air support. The cards are identical for each Faction.120 points, Health 8, Resilience 6 is pretty good and the Twin Laser Cannons are ok as a base weapon but nothing to rave about. It has 3 upgrade slots, Pilot, Ordinance and what appears to be a Comms slot? (Damn you blurry photos). We haven't seen any Ordinance cards yet but it would be a good guess to expect some sort of missiles as that's what they have in Rebels/ Clone Wars.
Did someone say Pilots?
Both Pilots have the Field Commander keyword which allows them to be your nominated commander if you don't want a regular commander in the army building step. Both come with a free action that are similar but Commander Fox is pretty a better option. Clearing Suppression and giving a Surge token is probably better than an Aim and giving a suppression. Governor Pryce can be used in any Imperial Heavy vehicle though so there may be some combos I'm not aware of that make her horrible to face.
Back to the actual vehicle, it has all the keywords you'd expect to see. Armour, Hover, Cover, Immune: Blast and Suppressive. All extra ways to keep it alive and zooming round the table dropping your favourite Speed 1 Force user into melee range. I don't think you'll be transporting much else other than Yoda or Vader but I'm sure people will surprise me.
Overall: Like it. Will definitely get one for my GAR. Not sure how much I'll use it in game as GAR are pretty expensive but I'm looking forward to trying it out. Probably a harder choice for the Empire are they are generally cheaper so have more points to play with. Looks badass if nothing else. Any future upgrade card reveals may change the above.
RAWRGWAWGGR
Wookies for the GAR! Not much was revealed about these guys except that they'll be a new cross faction box (Rebels/ GAR) with new sculpts and more melee focussed but all previous upgrades will be able to be used. I have to say these guys look amazing and will definitely grab a couple of boxes to fight alongside my GAR and Yoda.
"It's really bad. That droid's extremely intelligent."
Following on from the recent release of the tactical droid, it's super cousin in on it's way. Again, not much revealed but it's a cool model and Kalani is a great character in both Clone Wars and Rebels (did not realise until I was googling Kalani for this article that it was the same character!) I wonder if we'll get Kalani and a generic commander option.
Magna Guards! When I picked up Legion last year one of my first questions was why weren't Grevious' infamous guards already released. Well they're on the way now. Love the pose of this guy, hopefully the rest are just as cool. Not much information released other than that they can take wounds for commanders. Will definitely want a box to go alongside Grevious.
Rebel Truck? Sure. Why not.
Not going to lie, I don't like this hence why it's at the end and why there won't be too many words. Enjoy the pictures, let me know if it's any good.
Well there you have it, all (hopefully) the new releases from the AMG stream overnight. Plenty to get excited about for when we can all game in person again. Now, where did I put my white paint?
Till next time, HAPPY WARGAMING.
