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Why Play Rebels

Pros

Better infantry shooting.
Cheaper units on average.
Han solo, the infantry killing machine
All around, one of the strongest and most competitive armies that make it to tournaments. The rebels have many abilities that both let you keep your troops on objectives, and let them survive.

Cons

Literally everything in your army (with the exceptions of Luke and Sabine) has white defense dice. literally. everything. Yes Even the Snowspeeder....
This means that you will be constantly spending actions on dodge tokens without either support commander available for the rebels.
You will almost always find yourself fielding either too much, or too little Anti-Tank in your lists, and find it equally punishing.
Without esteemed leader, your heroes are a little too... squishy. And with it, your infantry seem to not stay around as often.
You're not the Empire.

Units

Commanders

1-2 Selections

The focal point of you army they often have game changing abilities.

Han Solo

An unconventional commander who excels at thinning out enemy infantry squads while playing havoc with the Command Cards.

Upgrade Cards

Command Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Aggressive Tactics (10 pts.) - After issuing orders, give 1 surge token to up to 4 friendly units with a face-up order token. It's ok, although surge tokens aren't super useful to Rebels since almost all of them have defensive surge- and some have both.

Commanding Presence (10 pts.) - When issuing orders, you can issue orders at range 1-4. Generally the table sizes are small and this isn't necessary.

Esteemed Leader (5 pts.) - Friendly trooper units at range 1 gain Guardian 1, helping you defend your points investment. Not a terrible pick, allows your cheap Rebel troopers to take a wound instead of your expensive Han Solo.

Improvised Orders* (10 pts.) - Exhaustible, but automatically readies in the end step. Draw 2, pick 1 token from your order pool. Not a bad choice considering Han's ability to screw with Commands. Plus Han's on the card, so....

Strict Orders (5 pts.) - Any unit with a face up order token can choose to remove a suppression token rather than rolling during its Rally step. Can help keep the suppression under control.

Training Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Duck and Cover* (8 pts.) - You can intentionally gain 1 Suppression while being shot at, for cover. Now you have heavy cover on demand, on top of being able to reroll 3 defense dice per attack pool....

Endurance (6 pts.) - At the end of your activation, remove 1 Suppression for free. Han's only got Courage 2 so this can help keep that under control.

Hunter (6 pts.) - When attacking a wounded trooper unit, get 1 free aim token. Han's throwing red dice with surge, so he's already hitting 88% of the time with his pistol, he generally doesn't need this.

Overwatch (4 pts.) - Gain Sentinel, making your standby range 1-3. Generally not that useful to Han since his pistol range is 1-2, and he's probably better off doing other things.

Tenacity (4 pts.) - When making a melee attack, while you are wounded, gain 1 red attack die. Han's not that great in melee, so this gives him a boost, but... he's still not going to be great at melee.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token. A nice way of giving Han something to do while he's out of his pistol's range.

Emergency Stims* (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. Take this if you play on tables that are heavy with difficult terrain.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds. Take this if you play on tables that are loaded with climbable terrain.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy. Gives Han a little push forward at the start of the game, and super cheap.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. Han only shoots two dice, so this is totally unnecessary (Han is crap in melee, you don't want him there).

Command Cards

   0 Pip: "Sorry About the Mess" - [Han Solo] - Counts as having 1 pip for deck-building.  When Han is given his order, he also gains one Aim and one Dodge token.

Han shoots first. 'Nuff said. It's the only zero pip Command Card in the game, meaning you will definitely get first activation, and Han gets to use it.

   2 Pip: "Reckless Diversion" - [Han Solo and 1 Trooper unit] - When an enemy unit makes an attack, it must attack one of your units with a face-up order token, if able.

Essentially turns Han and one unit into sacrificial lambs. Given that most Rebel units aren't very tough, this can be tricky. Be sure to take advantage of cover and Nimble to ensure your guys stay alive while the rest of your army does the killing.

   3 Pip: "Change of Plans" - [Han Solo and 2 units] - When Command Cards are revealed, you may discard this card to force your opponent to return their Command back to their hand; you both redo the Command Phase, and your opponent can't choose the card you just forced them to return.

So Vader is about to Implacable his way into the beating heart of your army and slice it up real good, huh? No, no he's not. Essentially spares you one turn of whatever nastiness your opponent is trying to unleash upon you. Make the best of it!!! Also, since you discard this card, you'll be short one Command for the rest of the battle. Use this one carefully. (Also, see Chewbacca's command cards, below...)

Tactics

Jyn Erso

Stardust herself. Has a baton. Errata dropped her points to 110. She's an all-arounder who is decent at both shooting and melee, and has some quirky abilities that coincide with the Rebel Pathfinders' abilities.

Upgrade Cards

Command Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Aggressive Tactics (10 pts.) - After issuing orders, give 1 surge token to up to 4 friendly units with a face-up order token. Could be useful if you really like surge tokens, although she and her Pathfinders both have built in surges (offense and defense).

Commanding Presence (10 pts.) - When issuing orders, you can issue orders at range 1-4. Might be useful if you intend to rely on her as a commander and you use her infiltration to place her far from your front line. Otherwise, generally a pass.

Esteemed Leader (5 pts.) - Friendly trooper units at range 1 gain Guardian 1, helping you defend your points investment. Rebel characters (except Luke and Sabine) tend to be fairly easy to kill so a little protection is nice.

Improvised Orders (10 pts.) - Exhaustible, but automatically readies in the end step. Draw 2, pick 1 token from your order pool. Meh.

Strict Orders (5 pts.) - Guarantees a trooper unit with face up order token can remove a suppression when they activate, rather than leaving it to chance. The thing is, Jyn and the Pathfinders rely on having suppression tokens for extra defense, and even have rules allowing them to skip suppression removal during the Rally step. But then again, there's no requirement that Jyn be the commander or be in any range- one character simply has to have the upgrade. She could be that character, leaving other characters to take command upgrades that may be more valuable to them.

Training Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Duck and Cover (8 pts.) - You can intentionally gain 1 Suppression while being shot at, for cover. This is a really good choice, because Jyn wants suppression tokens to boost her defensive capabilities, and it doesn't require you to not have any already, so you can keep popping it each time she gets shot and max out her Danger Sense quickly (if she gets shot twice in one turn, if she survives them both she could have 4 Suppression tokens).

Endurance (6 pts.) - At the end of your activation, remove 1 Suppression for free. Jyn wants suppression tokens because they boost her defense, so removing them isn't really what you want. But if you're worried about her getting too many tokens, this could help. Duck and Cover still seems better.

Hunter (6 pts.) - When attacking a wounded trooper unit, get 1 free aim token. Not a terrible choice if you find a way to have her pick on something that's already hurt.

Overwatch (4 pts.) - Gain Sentinel, making your standby range 1-3. Jyn does have a range 3 shooting attack but her range 2 config is better. If you've got 4 points to spend, might as well, although there are probably better options.

Tenacity (4 pts.) - When making a melee attack while you are wounded, gain 1 red attack die. This is a pretty good choice as Jyn's pretty strong in melee anyway and this just makes her better.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token. Because of how she functions, she's probably not going to have a lot of opportunity to use these.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. If you are playing with a lot of difficult terrain, do it up.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds. If you are playing with a lot of leveled terrain and want to safely climb it, do it up.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy. She already has Infiltrate, so she doesn't really need it all that much. Unless you just desperately want to have her slightly closer to the enemy after she infiltrates.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. Meh. It's a lot for something she probably won't use a lot. Could be useful if you get her into melee and pop her "Quick Thinking" ability (which gives her one each Aim and a Dodge tokens).

Armament Upgrade (x1 Slot)

- A-180 Blaster. A free reconfigurable weapon for just Stardust. In rifle mode is has 2 black and a white dice out to range three. In pistol mode it swaps the black dice for reds out to range 2.

Command Cards

   1 Pip: "Rebellious" - [Jyn Erso] - Jyn gains Charge.  Once during that same game turn, when an enemy within 2 or less and line of sight of her activates, before it rallies she can gain a suppression token to make a free attack against that unit or make a free move.

The Command makes her into a combat monster for one turn. She can run up and charge something, whack it with her baton, and then when it activates, whack it again. It can also allow her to flee if something dangerous is about to wail on her. It's a pretty versatile Command, a good start.

   2 Pip: "Trust Goes Both Ways" - [Jyn Erso and 1 Trooper] - Jyn gains Inspire and the unit she issues an order to gains Teamwork with her.

A quick way to remove some suppression and potentially dish out some extra tokens, especially since Jyn's got "Quick Thinking". Nothing wrong with that, although maybe a little underwhelming.

   3 Pip: "Complete the Mission" - [3 Troopers] - Jyn gains Low Profile.  When any trooper is given an order, it may gain 1 Suppression token.  Additionally, any Trooper with a faceup order token can't become Suppressed or Panicked for that turn, and may remove one Suppression token at the end of its activation.

Gives at least three units extra cover while rendering them immune to Panic and Suppressed, and ensuring you'll lose some Suppression tokens. All good things.

Tactics

Luke Skywalker

The Rebel Alliance's only Jedi, he represents Luke as he was around the time of The Empire Strikes Back. So he's a pretty heavy hitter but he is not at the level of the actual Jedi or Sith that the other factions can field.

Jump 1 allows him to make a move action that ignores obstacles up to height 1. This gives him the ability to take the high ground over his foes, or ignore barricades the enemy may have been counting on to slow down melee attackers

He has Charge, allowing him to make a free attack after moving. This is why he is so good, as his speed 2 and jump 1 gives him the mobility to press the attack. literally leaping into combat at incredible speeds, he can threaten enemies even when they think they are safe.

Deflect and Pierce:Immune give him the resilience that no other unit other than Sabine has in the Rebel Allience. Combined with "My Ally is the Force" or his twin sister, he can procure many free dodges to fuel Deflect.

He is equipped with his father's lightsaber, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. 6 black dice and surge to crit is extremely deadly, though not as much as a real Jedi. Unlike other Jedi, he carries a gun, and he is quite accurate with it.

Upgrade Cards

Force Upgrades (x2 Slots)

Unaligned Powers

Battle Meditation (10 pts.) - When you issue orders, you can give one of those orders to a friendly unit anywhere on the battlefield, even if it's not normally allowed by the Command Card. Can be pretty situational, but if you have a unit or two that you desperately want to give orders to, this is how. Generally though, giving those units HQ Uplinks or Long-Range Comlink is probably better.

Force Guidance (10 pts.) - As a free action, exhaust this to give one Surge Token to up to two units within range 1-2. If you really want surge tokens, here you go. Rebels have a lot of built-in surges already, so this upgrade's not quite as useful as it is in the Clone Wars-era armies.

Force Push (10 pts.) - As a free action, exhaust this to choose an enemy unit at range 1 and make it do a speed 1 move. A solid choice to help Luke get into melee.

Force Reflexes (15 pts.) - As a free action, exhaust this to gain one Dodge token. You want this, since you need Dodge tokens to trigger Deflect.

Saber Throw (10 pts.) - allows you to make a ranged attack with one of you melee weapons at range 1-2, using half of that weapon's dice (rounded up). For Luke, it'll be doing 3 black with Pierce 2 and Impact 2. Luke's pistol does 2 red (because Luke has inherent critical surge, his red dice hit 88% of the time while black hit 63%) at the same range and with Pierce 2. See the problem here? You're generally better off sticking with the pistol unless you're very worried about enemy tanks.

Light-side Powers

Hope (3 pts.) - Gain Inspire 1, allowing you to remove up to 1 suppression token from a friendly trooper unit at range 1-2, after your rally step every turn. Not terrible, and if you have a spare 3 points and a slot available, there are worse things do to with them. But there are other powers that are probably more useful if you can afford them.

Jedi Mind Trick (5 pts.) - As a free action, exhaust this to place 2 suppression tokens on one enemy unit within range 1-2. Pretty situational- for example, Vader renders all Imperial troops within range 3 of him fully immune to it, and battle droids are unaffected by suppression (unless you can manage to get them to Panic level). If you're not facing an opponent who is highly resistant to suppression, and your army focuses heavily on dishing out suppression, this is a worthy addition. Otherwise, there are probably more useful powers to choose from.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token. You don't really want Luke standing around trying to do a General Veers impression. Pass.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. Luke's Jump should generally help with difficult terrain unless you're playing on a table that is overly full of it.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds. Again, Jump should help here and this is largely unnecessary.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy. Not a bad choice- it's super cheap and gets Luke slightly closer to the enemy- which is where you want him.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. If it were easy to get Luke an Aim token, this wouldn't be bad, since he's tossing black dice with his saber. But... it isn't easy. Luke is best used moving quickly into melee, and having to stop and do an Aim Action slows him down.

Command Cards

   1 Pip: Son of Skywalker - Nominating only Luke, after Luke performs his first attack, he may perform one additional attack.

Say it with me now. awesome. There is no other character, save for Darth Vader, who can put out this much attack potential in one turn. And since this is free right after he attacks, it is even considered superior to Darth's 2nd attack ability since he has to shuffle his order back into the pool, meaning Luke has more damage output in dire situations.

   2 Pip: My ally is the Force - Nominating 2 troopers, whenever a friendly trooper is issued an order, it gains 1 dodge token.

So, this card is an interesting one as well. Most often than not, you'll be issuing one of those 2 orders to Luke, in order to get the most out of his deflect ability. Now what you might not recognize is how well this synergizes with Han and Chewie's partnership ability, which means when you give one to Han, you give a free one to Chewie as well, and vice versa. Note that this doesn't require the troopers in question to have been issued their order specifically by Luke- HQ Uplinks and Coordinates will also grant the token.

   3 Pip: Return of the Jedi - Nominating Luke Skywalker and 2 units, when Luke Skywalker is issued an order, he gains 1 dodge token. When Luke Skywalker activates, each friendly trooper unit at range 1-3 of him may remove 1 suppression token.

Luke seems to be all about those dodge tokens. And for good reason too. His innate deflect ability makes him a great commander to keep alive since he will be usually stationed near your troops. Especially useful at countering Darth Vader's command card "Master of Evil".

Tactics

Leia Organa

A more traditional commander who excels at short-ranged sniper attacks and making the Rebels around her fight better.

Upgrade Cards

Command Upgrades (x2 Slots)

Aggressive Tactics (10 pts.) - After issuing orders, give 1 surge token to up to 4 friendly units with a face-up order token. Not a bad choice if you want some offensive surges on your troopers (since most of your doods will have defensive surge already). Just be sure to have some way of issuing orders to extra units for when your Command Cards don't allow it. Also bear in mind that Leia has to be the active Commander that turn to use it- so, for example, you won't be able to use it in the turn that Luke pops his "Son of Skywalker" command.

Commanding Presence (10 pts.) - When issuing orders, you can issue orders at range 1-4. Generally not that useful since the table size is fairly small. Might be useful if you're using lots of Pathfinders, Commandos, and/or Speeders and are concerned about them getting out of range.

Esteemed Leader (5 pts.) - Friendly trooper units at range 1 gain Guardian 1, helping you defend your points investment. Leia's best used as a "lead from behind" sort of commander, so this shouldn't be necessary unless you're doing a theme or something.

Improvised Orders (10 pts.) - Exhaustible, but automatically readies in the end step. Draw 2, pick 1 token from your order pool. If you want a little insurance to try to get that one order token when you really want it... this could help.

Strict Orders (5 pts.) - Guarantees a trooper unit can remove a suppression when they activate, rather than leaving it to chance. Leia already has Inspire 2 built in, but if you're facing a suppression-heavy army (like Empire with Palpatine and lots of mortars), this can be useful. Also helpful if you're using Jyn Erso and/or Pathfinders and want to keep their suppression under control.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token. A pretty good choice since you'll probably want her gifting Dodge tokens as well.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. Only useful if you're playing on a table with lots of difficult terrain and desperately need Leia to be able to move.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds. Only useful if you're playing on a table with lots of climbable terrain and desperately need Leia to climb it.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy. Leia isn't really a front-line character like Luke or Sabine Wren. Unless you're going for a theme, pass.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. If Leia is doing Aim actions, something's not going right.

Command Cards

   1 Pip: "Coordinated Bombardment" - [Leia Organa] - At the end of Leia's activation, she calls in up to three long range bombardment strikes at two red dice each and with immunity to deflect.

It's got a very long minimum range of 4, so this is one you'll want to use early in the game or to pick off annoying snipers.

   2 Pip: "No Time for Sorrows" - [2 Troopers] - When friendly units are issued orders, they can make a Speed 1 move.

Gives a little extra boost of movement, nothing too exciting. Interestingly, it doesn't specify that the order must be issued by Leia, so it should work with things like HQ Uplinks.

   3 Pip: "Somebody Has to Save Our Skins" - [Leia and 2 units] - After Leia activates, you may activate a friendly unit with a face-up Order Token within range 1-2 of her.

Basically lets you skip your enemy's activation once per battle. Can be useful in both delaying an inevitable nasty attack and in helping ensure you do damage where you really want to do it.

Tactics

Rebel Officer

Essentially a much cheaper, half-strength Leia Organa.

Upgrade Cards

Command Cards

   1 Pip: "Sabotaged Communications" - [1 Spec Ops or Operative] - your opponent issues one less order than their Command Card normally allows, to a minimum of 1.  Note:  not tied to the Officer, and may be issued by any Rebel Commander.

Meh. There's too many ways around this, and if your opponent uses a card that only issues to one unit, then it's wasted. Nearly useless against Confederacy.

   2 Pip: "Turning the Tide" - [2 Support or Heavy] - each support or heavy unit gains Inspire 2.  Note:  not tied to the Officer, and may be issued by any Rebel Commander.

If you loaded up on gun turrets and speeders, suddenly your suppression tokens start vanishing. Note that it doesn't specify only the Supports/Heavies that were issued the orders, it's all of them.

   3 Pip: "Covering Fire" - [3 Corps] - when a friendly Corps unit makes a ranged attack, another friendly unit at range 1-2 may gain a Dodge token.  Note:  not tied to the Officer, and may be issued by any Rebel Commander.

A nice way of getting extra Dodge tokens onto your Nimble units, especially if you left Leia and the Rebel Officer at home.

Tactics

Captain Cassian Andor

Sneaky Spy with droid Buddy

Upgrade Cards

Command Cards

   0 Pip: "Crack Shot" - [Cassian Andor] -

   2 Pip:

   3 Pip:

Tactics

K2S0

Droid Buddy to a Sneaky Spy

Upgrade Cards

Command Cardse

   He probably has one and (no more) of thes
   0 Pip:

   2 Pip:

   3 Pip:

Tactics

Operatives

0-2 Selections

Some heroes are not meant to lead. Operatives are powerful individual units often with unique abilities.

Chewbaca

Wookiee first mate.

Nork Deddog but smarter, Vitrix Guard but shootier, Tyrant Guard but with eyes.

Upgrade Cards

Command Cards

   1 Pip: "Common Cause" - [Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker] - After either Luke or Chewbacca activates, the other may activate if they still have a face up Order token.

Lets Chewbacca and Luke go roughshod on whatever fools are near them. All of Chewbacca's Commands are synergies like this, so buckle up.

   2 Pip: "Brains and Brawn" - [Chewbacca and Leia Organa] - When Leia makes a ranged attack, if Chewbacca is not engaged in melee, has line of sight to her target, and is within range 1-3 of her target, he can add one of his ranged weapons to the attack pool.

A superior version of the Fire Support rule- Chewbacca doesn't lose his activation when he does this special attack, nor does he have to have a face up order token. It gives Leia's attack a significant boost- in addition to the dice, it gives his Impact 1 and Pierce 1 keywords.

   3 Pip: "Notorious Scoundrels" - [Chewbacca and Han Solo] - You can take one of Han's Command Cards out of the discard pile and return it to your hand.

Remember when you discarded Change of Plans to avoid Vader's Implacable? Well you can get it back. Or get back Sorry for the Mess and let Han shoot first again. The possibilities are... well, not endless but pretty nice.

Tactics

Luke Skywalker

(Currently on Pre-order)

Not to be confused with the Commander of the same name. Note that operative Luke can use commander Luke's Command Cards, and vice versa.

He represents Luke as he was seen in epsiode 6

Upgrade Cards

Command Cards

   1 Pip: "You Serve Your Master Well" - [Luke Skywalker] - Luke gains a free action: choose a friendly trooper unit (except Commanders or Operatives) at range 1 or a Suppressed enemy unit (except Commanders or Operatives) at range 1 and perform a free move or attack action with it.  If the target is an enemy unit, it can attack another enemy unit.

Luke does a super Jedi mind trick to grant a unit a free action, or even make an enemy unit attack one of its friends.

   2 Pip: "Full of Surprises" - [Luke Skywalker] - Luke gains a Dodge token.  Luke gets extra defense dice equal to his Courage minus the number of Suppression tokens he has.

Luke becomes a tank for a turn. Ouch.

   3 Pip: "I Am a Jedi" - [Luke Skywalker] - Luke gains defensive surge but can't attack this turn.  When he is issued an order, he can choose two enemy trooper units within range 1 and they are unable to attack this turn.

Luke spends a turn doing something aside from attacking and paralyzes enemy units. Position him well and shut down the likes of Vader or Dooku.

Tactics

R2-D2

(Currently on Pre-order)

Upgrade Cards

Command Cards

   1 Pip: "Blast Off!" - [R2-D2] - R2 increases his speed by one, and gains a Dodge token, a Suppression token, Disengage, and a Jump 1 action.

Basically gives you a turn where R2 is focused on fleeing the scene.

   2 Pip: "Impromptu Immolation" - [R2-D2] - R2 can make a free move action after making an attack; he also gains a 2 white dice attack with range melee to 1, which also has Blast, Spray, and Suppression.

Remember in Revenge of the Sith when R2 sprayed oil on some super battle droids and then fried them? Yeah, he does that, and it's kind of nasty. White dice limits the power of the attack but if it targets a large unit, you could be tossing some dice.

   3 Pip: "Smoke Screen" - [R2-D2 and 1 trooper unit] - when R2 issues an order to a unit, that unit may make a free speed 1 move.  Additionally, at the start of his activation R2 gains a free action to lay smoke (he can place a smoke token within range 1, and all units fully within 1" of the token get +1 cover).

R2 does that smoke thing from the end of The Empire Strikes Back.

Tactics

Sabine Wren

A powerful Mandalorian warrior who fancies herself an artist. She's a powerful damage dealer who also has the potential to survive a great amount of return damage.

Upgrade Cards

Training Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Duck and Cover (8 pts.) - You can intentionally gain 1 Suppression while being shot at to gain cover. Meh. She's pretty tough already, but she will likely attract a lot of attention. Just bear in mind her Courage is only 2.

Endurance (6 pts.) - At the end of your activation, remove 1 Suppression for free. Relatively low Courage makes this an attractive option, although Dauntless mitigates this a bit.

Hunter (6 pts.) - When attacking a wounded trooper unit, get 1 free aim token. A solid choice. Make sure her target gets hurt just once and then have her chop away with the Darksaber.

Overwatch (4 pts.) - Gain Sentinel, making your standby range 1-3. No No No NO. You don't want her on Standby, you want her moving forward and chopping up the enemy with the Darksaber.

Tenacity (4 pts.) - When making a melee attack while you are wounded, gain 1 red attack die. A pretty good option, assuming you gave her the Darksaber and you can get her wounded before she gets into melee (which can be difficult).

Gear Upgrades (x2 Slots)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token. Sabine is best when moving and attacking, not standing around doing a poor Leia impression. Pass.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to activate one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. She can jump and doesn't need this.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds. She can jump and doesn't need this.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy. Super cheap and gets her slightly closer to the enemy, although with her high movement value, this might be better used on a different unit.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. Especially a good choice if you took Hunter. Otherwise, make sure you have some way of getting her Aim tokens (her "Legacy of Mandalore" command, for example).

Personal Combat Shield(10 Pts.) - Gain Shielded 1 and Recharge 1. It gives you a guaranteed block when active. Recharge allows you to reactivate the free block by using a Recover action. Takes an already tough character and makes her even tougher- and you can use it to block Criticals too (unlike dodge or cover).

Electro Grappling Line(5 Pts.) - Exhaust and spend an action to give one enemy unit within range 1 and line of sight 2 immobilized tokens and 2 suppression tokens. Each immobilized token causes the target to lose one level of movement speed. The immobilized tokens are discarded at the end of the target's activation (not during the End Phase like usual), so it effectively shuts down a powerful enemy for one activation.

Armament Upgrade (x1 Slot)

The Darksaber (25 Pts.) From House Vizsla to Maul to Sabine, Mandalorian Excalibur is a rather powerful sword putting out five black dice in melee with Impact and Pierce of one each. She also gains Dauntless allowing her to take a suppression token for a free move if she's suppressed but not panicked; and Immunity to Pierce when she's in melee. You definitely want this.

Command Cards

   1 Pip: "Explosions!" - [Sabine Wren] - Sabine gains the Arm 2 action, which allows her to drop two bomb tokens within range 1 of her.  After she does so, she can make a free Speed-1 move.  For the rest of the game, she has Detonate 2, and can cause those bombs to explode any time later in the game after a friendly unit performs an action.  The bombs hit all units within range 1 of the bomb token, doing 1 red and 1 white to each affected unit with critical surge and ignoring cover.

A decent 1 pip card that allows you to set traps and potentially control enemy movements. The damage isn't spectacular but a red die per attack means you're almost guaranteed to get at least one hit. Can be useful for thinning out the enemy a little with some careful placement.

   2 Pip: "Symbol of Rebellion" - [Sabine Wren] - when Sabine activates, she recovers.  During her activation, she can place a "graffiti token" on the battlefield.

Allows her to get back her shields and any other exhausted cards, plus she can clear out any suppression tokens she may have. The graffiti token is permanent, and allows your units near it to roll an extra die when trying to Rally, while causing enemy units near it to roll one less. Not a bad way to give your troops a slight morale boost while doing the opposite to your foe.

   3 Pip: "Legacy of Mandalore" - [Sabine Wren and 2 Troopers] - Sabine gains Inspire 1, and each time she issues an order to a Commander, Operative, or Spec Ops unit, she gains 1 Dodge or 1 Aim token.

Very nice way of giving Sabine a boost. Don't forget that she's an Operative herself, so it would trigger the free token too.

Tactics

Corps

3-6 Selections

The meat, they hold the line and die in the trenches.

Fleet Troopers

Dakka troops. A slight points hike over the basic Troopers gives you one of the odder entries in terms of basic troopers. Each trooper throws around two white dice each, but only to range two. The have Ready 1 Giving you an aim token when you go on standby. They are profoundly good on tight maps (like inside a ship) when they can get in close or make the enemy to them. In more open maps they can have trouble getting in to range and end up losing your standby to suppression far more easily.

Upgrade Cards

Heavy Weapon Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Scatter Gun Trooper (23 pts.) - adds a Fleet Trooper carrying a Trandoshan shotgun- 2 red dice at range 1-2 with Pierce 1. Good synergy with the rest of the squad and their short ranged, rapid fire pistols.

MPL-57 Barrage Trooper (25 pts.) - adds a Fleet Trooper carrying a miniature grenade launcher. It fires 1 black and 2 white dice with Ignore Cover and Impact 2 at range 1-3, but must exhaust to fire. A versatile weapon that can help deal with vehicles but also has its uses against infantry (eg negating cover for the whole squad). Having to ready it before firing again can slow down your squad, however, it doesn't have Cumbersome like most anti-tank weapons.

Personnel Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Fleet Trooper (11 pts.) - adds an extra mook to the squad.

Rebel Officer (19 pts.) - adds an old dude to your squad, who becomes your new squad leader. He also increases your squad's Courage by 1, and has Inspire 1. A nice little courage boost for your squad, and can help prevent your squads from panicking.

Rebel Comms Technician (9 pts.) - adds a mook with a radio to your squad; also forces you to take a Comms upgrade on the squad. If you want to anchor your line with HQ Uplink or another comms upgrade, then here's your chance to do just that.

R5 Astromech Droid (8 pts.) - adds a little droid to your squad. It can't fight or be removed as a casualty until only the leader is left, but twice per battle, as a free action, it can repair one hit point or one damage token on a friendly vehicle. If you plan to lean heavily on vehicles, a worthy option. However the short range means it'll be difficult for speeders to benefit.

2-1B Medical Droid (18 pts.) - adds a healer droid to your squad. It can't fight or be removed as a casualty until only the leader is left, but twice per battle as a free action it can heal a lost wound from a nearby trooper squad. It can heal back a wound on a wounded model or resurrect a lost model from a unit (if it's a multiwound unit like Wookiees, the model comes back with only 1 wound) but cannot resurrect a fully destroyed unit. Considering how fragile your Rebels are, this is a pretty good choice, especially if it can save an expensive character from death.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. Ready gives you a aim token when you go on standby and you have a LOT of white dice to reroll.

Grenade Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Concussion Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die, that ignores cover. Short range attack on an already short range unit, although you're only throwing white dice on your normal attacks. Not a terrible choice if cover is a problem; if it's not, fragmentation grenades are superior.

Fragmentation Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 red die and surge to crit. Very nasty surprise for any enemies who get too close.

Impact Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die and Impact 1. Great for making enemy tanks disappear, but short range means they'll see it coming.

Smoke Grenades (6 pts.) - Spend an action to deploy a Smoke Token within range 1 of your unit leader. A smoke token gives you +1 Cover to each unit fully within range 1 of it. It makes your fragile troops just a nudge more difficult to kill (unless they actually are in heavy cover already).

Tactics

Rebel Troopers

They have big rifles and recycle dodges.

Upgrade Cards

Heavy Weapon Upgrades (x1 Slot)

MPL-57 Ion Trooper (32 pts.) - Adds a Rebel trooper with an ion cannon that fires range 1-3, 2 red dice with Ion 1 and Impact 1, but must exhaust to fire. A decent way of whittling down enemy tanks while also slowing them down (Ion causes the vehicle to lose an action). It also works on droid units, so these are super attractive when facing Confederacy. Additionally, the Ion rule gets rid of shield points on any units that may have them (primarily Droidekas). Unfortunately, having to ready it before you can fire it again can slow you down; thankfully it does not suffer from Cumbersome like most anti-tank weaponry.

Z-6 Trooper (22 pts.) - Adds a bad ass Rebel carrying a minigun. Fires 6 white dice at range 1-3, giving you the opportunity to roll a lot of dice that are mostly going to miss. Still, when you manage to get 4+ hits from it, it'll be epic.

SX-21 Trooper (20 pts.) - adds an alien Rebel carrying a blunderbuss-style cannon that fires range 1-2, 2 red and 2 white with Impact 1. You trade some range for some impressive firepower that makes the squad even a little useful against enemy tanks. It's not terrible.

DLT-20A Trooper (26 pts.) - adds an alien Rebel carrying a modified version of the standard Stormtrooper machine gun. Fires 2 black and 1 white at range 1-4 with Critical 1. Range boost and a little extra firepower isn't a bad thing, and Critical 1 is icing on the cake.

Personnel Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Rebel Trooper (10 pts.) - adds an extra mook to your squad. Hooray!

Rebel Officer (19 pts.) - adds an old dude to your squad, who becomes your new squad leader. He also increases your squad's Courage by 1, and has Inspire 1. A nice little courage boost for your squad, and can help prevent your squads from panicking.

Rebel Trooper Captain (14 pts.) - adds a captain to your squad. He gives you a Training upgrade slot, and acts as your squad's leader. Additionally, you can exhaust him at the start of the unit's activation to render it immune to being Suppressed for that activation at the cost of also not being able to remove suppression tokens. Allows your squad one turn to act normally despite being Suppressed, and the upgrade slot can be handy to grab something like Hunter.

Rebel Trooper Specialist (14 pts.) - adds a specialist to your squad. He grants the squad an extra Gear upgrade slot, and you can exhaust him to gain either a Dodge or a Surge token. For 4 pts over the cost of a normal Rebel trooper, you're essentially gaining the ability to automatically get a Dodge token at least once per battle without having the rely on Leia, the Officer, or using a Dodge action. And it doesn't prohibit you from doing a Dodge action or getting a Dodge from Leia/the Officer, so you could potentially have 3 Dodge tokens if you think your squad's about to get lit up.

Rebel Comms Technician (9 pts.) - adds a mook with a radio to your squad; also forces you to take a Comms upgrade on the squad. If you want to anchor your line with HQ Uplink or another comms upgrade, then here's your chance to do just that.

R5 Astromech Droid (8 pts.) - adds a little droid to your squad. It can't fight or be removed as a casualty until only the leader is left, but twice per battle, as a free action, it can repair one hit point or one damage token on a friendly vehicle. If you plan to lean heavily on vehicles, a worthy option. However the short range means it'll be difficult for speeders to benefit.

2-1B Medical Droid (18 pts.) - adds a healer droid to your squad. It can't fight or be removed as a casualty until only the leader is left, but twice per battle as a free action it can heal a lost wound from a nearby trooper squad. It can heal back a wound on a wounded model or resurrect a lost model from a unit (if it's a multiwound unit like Wookiees, the model comes back with only 1 wound) but cannot resurrect a fully destroyed unit. Considering how fragile your Rebels are, this is a pretty good choice, especially if it can save an expensive character from death.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token.

Grenade Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Concussion Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die, that ignores cover. You're already throwing black dice with your basic rifles, but this could be useful if you get up close to the enemy and toss one to ensure you ignore enemy cover.

Fragmentation Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 red die and surge to crit. Very nasty surprise for any enemies who get too close.

Impact Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die and Impact 1. Great for making enemy tanks disappear, but short range means they'll see it coming, and if your opponent has no tanks, they're wasted since you already shoot black dice.

Smoke Grenades (6 pts.) - Spend an action to deploy a Smoke Token within range 1 of your unit leader. A smoke token gives you +1 Cover to each unit fully within range 1 of it. It makes your fragile troops just a nudge more difficult to kill (unless they actually are in heavy cover already).

Tactics

Rebel Veterans

Rebel troopers who've been in a few battles, so they've learned a thing or two.

Upgrade Cards

Heavy Weapon Upgrades (x1 Slot)

CM-0/93 Trooper (31 pts.) - adds a heavy cannon that throws 4 white dice at range 1-3, but adds Critical 2 to the attack. Nice little burst of power for your squad of already solid shooters.

Personnel Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Rebel Veteran (12 pts.) - adds an extra mook to your squad.

Rebel Officer (19 pts.) - adds an old dude to your squad, who becomes your new squad leader. He also increases your squad's Courage by 1, and has Inspire 1. A nice little courage boost for your squad, and can help prevent your squads from panicking.

Rebel Comms Technician (9 pts.) - adds a mook with a radio to your squad; also forces you to take a Comms upgrade on the squad. If you want to anchor your line with HQ Uplink or another comms upgrade, then here's your chance to do just that.

R5 Astromech Droid (8 pts.) - adds a little droid to your squad. It can't fight or be removed as a casualty until only the leader is left, but twice per battle, as a free action, it can repair one hit point or one damage token on a friendly vehicle. If you plan to lean heavily on vehicles, a worthy option. However the short range means it'll be difficult for speeders to benefit.

2-1B Medical Droid (18 pts.) - adds a healer droid to your squad. It can't fight or be removed as a casualty until only the leader is left, but twice per battle as a free action it can heal a lost wound from a nearby trooper squad. It can heal back a wound on a wounded model or resurrect a lost model from a unit (if it's a multiwound unit like Wookiees, the model comes back with only 1 wound) but cannot resurrect a fully destroyed unit. Considering how fragile your Rebels are, this is a pretty good choice, especially if it can save an expensive character from death.

Training Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Duck and Cover (8 pts.) - You can intentionally gain 1 Suppression while being shot at, for cover.

Endurance (6 pts.) - At the end of your activation, remove 1 Suppression for free.

Hunter (6 pts.) - When attacking a wounded trooper unit, get 1 free aim token.

Overwatch (4 pts.) - Gain Sentinal, making your standby range 1-3.

Tenacity (4 pts.) - When making a melee attack, while you are wounded, gain 1 red attack die.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token.

Grenade Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Concussion Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die, that ignores cover. You already chuck black dice when attacking, so this is of limited use, unless you're super worried about cover.

Fragmentation Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 red die and surge to crit. Very nasty surprise for any enemies who get too close.

Impact Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die and Impact 1. Great for making enemy tanks disappear, but short range means they'll see it coming.

Smoke Grenades (6 pts.) - Spend an action to deploy a Smoke Token within range 1 of your unit leader. A smoke token gives you +1 Cover to each unit fully within range 1 of it. It makes your fragile troops just a nudge more difficult to kill (unless they actually are in heavy cover already).

Tactics

Mark II Medium Blaster Trooper

It's a veteran Rebel equipped with a miniaturized version of the Empire's E-Web blaster.

Upgrade Cards

Tactics

Special Forces

0-3

Anything to expensive for the Corps section but to numerous for the operative

Rebel Commandos

Upgrade Cards

Heavy Weapon Upgrades (x1 Slot)

DH-447 Sniper (28 pts.) - Gain a sniper with range 1+ (amended in the 1.51 errata to range 1-5) throwing a black and a white die, with Pierce 1. It also has the "High Velocity" rule, which means that if the attack pool only consists of weapons bearing this rule, the target unit cannot spend Dodge tokens. This makes it pretty valuable for knocking wounds off enemy characters, especially those who rely on Dodges (eg anyone with Block or Deflect).

Proton Charge Saboteur (26 pts.) - Gain a trooper carrying the explosive charges used by the Rebels at Endor. The trooper can drop one per turn within range 1 of himself, and detonate them any time thereafter after a unit completes an action. The explosion does an attack of 1 red and 2 white (with Blast, Impact 1, and critical surge) to all units within range 1 of it. Not a bad way to thin out bottlenecked enemy units, but be wary of blowing up your own unit(s).

Training Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Duck and Cover (8 pts.) - You can intentionally gain 1 Suppression while being shot at, for cover. Not a terrible choice considering the Commandos come with the Low Profile rule; however, if you have them in at least light cover, this is a useless upgrade.

Endurance (6 pts.) - At the end of your activation, remove 1 Suppression for free. Good for keeping the squad's suppression under control, especially if they wind up isolated from a commander.

Hunter (6 pts.) - When attacking a wounded trooper unit, get 1 free aim token. Especially useful if you've gone with the sniper and use him to focus fire on enemy characters.

Overwatch (4 pts.) - Gain Sentinel, making your standby range 1-3. Not a bad choice, especially if your squad doesn't have the sniper. But if you do have a sniper, you're essentially limiting the range of that expensive long range weapon to 3 (you can still fire past range 3 when the Standby triggers- but something has to come within range 3 to trigger the Standby...).

Tenacity (4 pts.) - When making a melee attack while the unit has lost a model, gain 1 red attack die. You don't want these guys in melee. They're not terrible at it, but it's not their strength.

Comms Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Comms Jammer (15 pts., reduced to 5 pts. by rules errata) - Prevents enemy units at range 1 from receiving orders. Might be useful for screwing with Confederacy droids doing their Coordinate daisy chains, or if you've gone the Saboteur route and just want to screw with the enemy, but otherwise, meh. This is primarily a ranged unit and generally shouldn't get close enough to use this.

Comms Relay (5 pts.) - Allows a unit with this equipped to pass an order to another friendly unit at range 1-2, but this means the squad that "passes" the order doesn't get one. If these guys can be issued an order, you probably want them using that order and not passing it on.

HQ Uplink (10 pts.) - Exhaust this to allow a unit to issue an order to itself. Very useful for times when your Command is limited (like Son of Skywalker) and you really want to get this unit an order.

Long-Range Comlink (10 pts., reduced to 5 pts. by rules errata) - You always count as being within range of your commander. Situational, and not very helpful on smaller battlefields. Could be useful if you're doing a mission like Disarray, or their Scout move has pushed this squad too far away from the Commander to be issued orders.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token. Not really that useful for this unit as it's a strong offensive unit that you want shooting, not dumping tokens on other units.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. These guys really shouldn't be moving too much but if you are very afraid of slowing down due to terrain, here's the fix. Also could be useful if using the Saboteur and looking to get up close fast- this gear will ensure that you aren't slowed down as you try to get close.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds. As with environmental gear, this isn't a high priority upgrade unless that specific kind of terrain is an issue for you.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy. Very cheap, and stacks with the Commandos' Scout 2 rule, giving them a hefty Scout 3 move to start the game. Very good option that you should always consider taking.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. These guys throw black dice with surge on offense, so they hit about 63% of the time- rerolls are always welcome. This is a pretty good choice.

Grenade Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Concussion Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die, that ignores cover. You're already throwing black dice and have Sharpshooter 1, so these are of limited usefulness to this squad.

Fragmentation Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 red die with critical surge. A very nasty surprise for enemies who get too close; 1:4 chance of crit even makes them potentially useful against enemy tanks.

Impact Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die and Impact 1. Very useful for popping enemy AT-ST's but the short range means they'll probably see it coming.

Smoke Grenades (6 pts.) - as a normal action, the unit leader gains Smoke 1. This allows him to drop a smoke token within range 1 of him. Any unit that is fully within range 1 of the token gains +1 cover. Stacks with the Low Profile that the squad comes with anyway, so it's not a bad option. But it does take an action to use, meaning you aren't using an action to Aim or Dodge before firing (and you want to be firing with these guys).

Tactics

Rebel Commandos Strike Team

Upgrade Cards

Heavy Weapon Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Training Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Duck and Cover (8 pts.) - You can intentionally gain 1 Suppression while being shot at, for cover.

Endurance (6 pts.) - At the end of your activation, remove 1 Suppression for free.

Hunter (6 pts.) - When attacking a wounded trooper unit, get 1 free aim token.

Overwatch (4 pts.) - Gain Sentinal, making your standby range 1-3.

Tenacity (4 pts.) - When making a melee attack, while you are wounded, gain 1 red attack die.

Comms Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Comms Jammer (15 pts.) - Prevents enemy units at range 1 from receiving orders.

Comms Relay (5 pts.) - Allows a unit with this equipped to pass an order to another friendly unit at range 1-2, but this means the squad that "passes" the order doesn't get one.

HQ Uplink (10 pts.) - Exhaust this to allow a unit to issue an order to itself.

Long-Range Comlink (10 pts.) - You always count as being within range of your commander. Situational, and not very helpful on smaller battlefields.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token.

Grenade Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Concussion Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die, that ignores cover.

Fragmentation Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die, that allows you to convert a hit to a crit.

Impact Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 red die, that allows you to convert surge results to crits.

Smoke Grenades (6 pts.) - Exhaust this card to gain Smoke 1, allowing you to put a smoke token out within range 1, and line of sight, of your unit leader (Probably gives Cover 1 if your opponent shoots through this token, but nothing official, yet).

Tactics

Rebel Pathfinders

The squad of Rebels that accompanied Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor to Scarif at the climax of Rogue One. They excel at sneaking into forward positions and springing surprise attacks while maximizing cover to survive counterattacks.

Upgrade Cards

Heavy Weapon Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Pao (22 pts.) - adds the unique Pao character to your squad. He becomes the squad's leader and has the Inspire 1 rule, plus his rifle fires 1 red and 1 white at range 1-4. He gives a slight bump to ranged firepower plus a morale boost

Bistan (32 pts.) - adds the unique Bistan character to your squad. Exhaust him to make an attack at range 1-4 doing 1 black and 4 white with Impact 1 and Ion 1. He gives your squad some utility against vehicles as well as basically doubling your dice output at long range. Just bear in mind that he exhausts to fire, and you'll have to spend a Recover action to fire him again.

Training Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Duck and Cover (8 pts.) - You can intentionally gain 1 Suppression while being shot at for cover. This works well with the Danger Sense rule, and you should seriously consider taking this.

Endurance (6 pts.) - At the end of your activation, remove 1 Suppression for free. Could be useful to keep your suppression tokens under control, although you do want some tokens for their Danger Sense ability.

Hunter (6 pts.) - When attacking a wounded trooper unit, get 1 free aim token. Aim tokens are always nice, and since your normal and long range configs are throwing white dice, rerolls are very useful.

Overwatch (4 pts.) - Gain Sentinel, making your standby range 1-3. Can be useful if you're trying to set up surprise attacks around bottlenecks and such.

Tenacity (4 pts.) - When making a melee attack while you are wounded, gain 1 red attack die. While Pathfinders aren't terrible at melee, they're not great at it either, and should probably focus on ranged combat.

Comms Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Comms Jammer (15 pts., dropped to 5 pts. by Rules Errata) - Prevents enemy units at range 1 from receiving orders. Could be fun for screwing with B1 and B2 Battle droids trying to make use of their Coordinate rule; otherwise, pretty situational, and there may be better options.

Comms Relay (5 pts.) - Allows a unit with this equipped to pass an order to another friendly unit at range 1-2, but this means the squad that "passes" the order doesn't get one.

HQ Uplink (10 pts.) - Exhaust this to allow a unit to issue an order to itself. Useful for keeping orders on the unit even when they're away from the commander (which is possible considering Pathfinders infiltrate).

Long-Range Comlink (10 pts., dropped to 5 pts. by Rules Errata) - You always count as being within range of your commander. Situational, and not very helpful on smaller battlefields.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token. Pathfinders need to manage their actions carefully and don't really have the luxury of using those actions to pretend to be General Veers.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. If you're playing a table with lots of difficult terrain, here's a remedy.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds. If you're playing a table with lots of climbable terrain, here's a remedy.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy. Works well with Infiltration to get your Pathfinders where you want them, and it's cheap.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. If you're able to reliably get aim tokens (Hunter upgrade, a friendly unit with Electrobinoculars, etc), this will help with the white dice you roll on your long range attacks.

Armament Upgrade (x1 Slot)

A-300 Short Range Config (6 pts., dropped to 0 pts. by Rules Errata) - one red die per trooper at range 1-2. Essentially turns your A-300 into a hard hitting pistol. Recover to flip the card to the Long Range Config.

A-300 Long Range Config (6 pts., dropped to 0 pts. by Rules Errata) - one white die per trooper at range 1-4. Lose a white die to gain a bump in range. Recover to flip the card to the Short Range Config.

Grenade Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Concussion Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die that ignores cover. The short ranged config on your A-300s is probably better.

Fragmentation Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 red die and critical surge. Exactly the same as your Short Range Config but with critical surge instead of normal surge. Could be useful in a pinch if you get stuck with your A-300s in Long Range configuration. Is that worth 5 pts to you?

Impact Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die and Impact 1. These guys don't have any real usefulness against tanks; this makes them rather good against tanks. If you know you're facing an AT-ST, you should consider taking these.

Smoke Grenades (6 pts.) - Spend an action to gain Smoke 1, which allows you to deploy a smoke token within range 1 and line of sight of your squad leader. Smoke tokens grant +1 Cover to all units that are fully within range 1 of a token. Since these guys infiltrate, there's a good chance they could be isolated away from the rest of your army, and a little extra cover couldn't hurt. But by the same token, their actions need to be managed carefully and spending an action on deploying smoke means you're skipping doing something else (especially once they become Suppressed and lose an action).

Tactics

Wookie Warriors

Do you like tearing arms off things? So do these guys- it's a squad of Chewbaccas.

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Heavy Weapon Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Bowcaster Wookiee (35 pts.) - gives you an extra wookiee carrying a weaker version of Chewbacca's bowcaster- it fires one each of Red and white dice at range 1-3, with Impact 1 and Pierce 1. Gives your squad a little ranged punch and can even ping a wound on an AT-ST if necessary. It's also the only way to add another model to the small unit. With a red dice and Peirce 1 the best use of it its to put a wound on a target so you can trigger hunter when you make it to melee. Even the threat of letting Wookies catch a wounded soft character, basically anyone without a lightsaber, is enough to force a more defensive play style.

Training Upgrades (x2 Slots)

Duck and Cover (8 pts.) - You can intentionally gain 1 Suppression while being shot at, for cover. Wookiees are pretty easy to kill, so anything that can help keep them alive is welcome, and their Indomitable rule helps keep suppression under control.

Endurance (6 pts.) - At the end of your activation, remove 1 Suppression for free. Indomitable makes this not super necessary.

Hunter (6 pts.) - When attacking a wounded trooper unit, get 1 free aim token. Very handy for when you finally get these guys into melee, assuming you manage to wound your target first.

Overwatch (4 pts.) - Gain Sentinel, making your standby range 1-3. Wookiees specialize in close quarters and melee combat; they generally shouldn't be on Standby.

Tenacity (4 pts.) - When making a melee attack while you are wounded, gain 1 red attack die. Another excellent choice as your wookiees are fairly easy to wound and any melee boost is welcome.

Gear Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Electrobinoculars (8 pts.) - Gain the ability to spend an action to give another friendly unit at range 1 an aim token. No. You don't want Wookiees wasting actions on these.

Emergency Stims (8 pts.) - When you would suffer wounds, prevent up to 2 of them, then suffer the same amount you absorbed with this card at the end of your next activation. Lets a unit (hopefully) survive to shoot one more time.

Environmental Gear (3 pts.) - Gain Unhindered, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. Wookiees already have the Unhindered rule and don't need this.

Grappling Hooks (3 pts.) - Gain Expert Climber, allowing you to clamber without rolling dice or taking wounds. Wookiees already have the Expert Climber rule and don't need this.

Recon Intel (2 pts.) - Gain Scout 1, allowing you to make a speed-1 move after you deploy. Gets you slightly closer to the thing you want to rip arms off of, and it's super cheap. A decent choice.

Targeting Scopes (6 pts.) - Gain Precise 1, allowing you to re-roll 3 dice when you spend an aim token. If you've got Hunter or some other way of getting easy Aim tokens, this can be worth taking. But you probably don't want to be stopping your advance to have the Wookiees take an Aim action.

Grenade Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Concussion Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die that ignores cover. Unless your target is in heavy cover, your pistols are probably better. Though you only need to have one [Wookie] throw one to give you whole pool Ignores cover', effectively only giving up one white die. Still might not be worth it since if you are range you probably should have charged.

Fragmentation Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 red die and critical surge. Not a bad choice for when you can't quite get a charge off.

Impact Grenades (5 pts.) - Range 1 attack with 1 black die and Impact 1. These make tanks go boom. However, the small squad size of the wookiees limits the damage potential.

Smoke Grenades (6 pts.) - Spend an action to gain Smoke 1, which allows you to place a smoke token within range 1 and line of sight of the squad's leader. Smoke tokens give +1 Cover to all units that are fully within range 1 of them. While this is handy for helping protect your totally unarmored wookiees as they advance, it's probably better on a cheaper unit like Rebel troopers, and then let them lay down cover for the wooks.

Tactics

Support

0-3 Selections

Light vehicles and Beasts

1.4 FD Laser Cannon Team

The big dish-shaped laser cannon from the Rebel base on Hoth during The Empire Strikes Back.

This turret is 100% stationary and incapable of movement except for pivots, although it can be deep striked when using rapid reinforcements (somehow). As compensation for its inability to move, it has a relatively powerful cannon with range 1-5, 5 black dice, and impact 2, one of your only true anti-tank weapons. This rolls an average of 3 hits per shot and 2 against armor, and outside the range of everything but snipers. It has a hard time pushing through cover on its own but it can still reliably suppress targets. It also has a 4 white dice secondary weapon, but its basically useless, as pivot firing is a better emergency option.

Sentinel grants improved standby range, which is situational but nice to have.

Upgrade Cards

Tactics

AT-RT

Ironstriders, basically. These are your standard light tank, and nothing says janky rebel underdogs than using 20 year old clone war surplus to fight for freedom. They have an anemic 2 white dice attack and a white die with no surge on defence, but have armor to absorb hits. Do not under estimate their tankiness, as anything other than impact weapons has only a 1/8 chance to hit, and they have a decent health pool.

To make up for the weak emergency weapon the pilot carries, it`s hardpoint can be equipped for any mission and all choices hit pretty hard.

It has decent mobility with its larger base giving it a bit more speed and its height lets it cross barricades without being slowed, although this also costs it potential cover. Climbing vehicle lets it climb as if it was a trooper and Expert Climber lets it clamber without hurting itself, so you can take the high ground when the opportunity presents itself. Still abides by vehicle rules so it needs to steer like a car, think ahead of where it will end up so you dont waste actions pivoting.

Upgrade Cards

Hardpoint Upgrade (x1 Slot)

AT-RT Laser Cannon (35 pts, lowered to 20 pts. by rules errata) - range 2-4 firing one red and two black with Fixed: Front and Impact 3. A pretty good anti-tank gun, although the minimum range means you need to make sure you keep your distance. Still, if your opponent brought an AT-ST, this should do a decent job of plugging holes in it.

AT-RT Rotary Blaster (30 pts., lowered to 20 pts. by rules errata) - range 1-3 firing five black dice and with Fixed: Front. Pretty solid, no frills anti-infantry weapon. And with the built-in critical surge of the AT-RT, it can be quite mean.

AT-RT Flame Thrower (25 pts, lowered to 20 pts. by rules errata) - range 1 firing two black with Fixed: Front, Blast (ignore cover), and Spray (add its attack value to the pool once for every visible model in the target unit). Pretty brutal flame thrower attack if you can get close enough to use it.

Comms Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Comms Jammer (15 pts., lowered to 5 pts. by rules errata) - Prevents enemy units at range 1 from receiving orders. Meh. Could be useful to screw with Confederacy B1 droids daisychaining orders while you're roasting them with the flame thrower.

Comms Relay (5 pts.) - Allows a unit with this equipped to pass an order to another friendly unit at range 1-2, but this means the squad that "passes" the order doesn't get one. Probably not super useful since in all likelihood, you're actually going to want to make sure this unit gets that order.

HQ Uplink (10 pts.) - Exhaust this to allow a unit to issue an order to itself. A solid choice to ensure it gets an order even though the Command card you're using is troopers only.

Long-Range Comlink (10 pts.) - You always count as being within range of your commander. Situational, and not very helpful on smaller battlefields. Could be useful if you're doing a wonky scenario, like one that includes the Disarray deployment.

Linked Targeting Array (5 pts.) - Gives you a free Aim token when the unit is issued an order. Aim tokens are always nice to have, especially with the gobs of black dice this guy can throw.

Tactics

Tautaun Riders

Cold weather fast attack.

Upgrade Cards

Tactics

Heavy

0-2 Selections

The other big units to build the rest of the your army around.

T-47 Air Speeder

Upgrade Cards

Pilot Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Ryder Azadi (5 pts.) - Unique. Exhaust to increase or decrease your speed by 1 while making a move. Gives a quick burst of speed or slows the unit down right when you need it; but you'll need to do a Recover action to use it again.

Outer Rim Speeder Jockey (10 pts.) - Gain Cover 1 - The speeder has cover one by default so now you always have heavy cover. This is an excellent choice. Bear in mind that Cover is applied to an attack before Impact. If your opponet is crit fishing for their anti-armor needs they will just be only focusing on crits which ignore cover and didge tokens. Meaning that if there aren't a lot of heavy weapons this pilot can be overkill.

Wedge Antilles (5 pts.) - Unique. Exhaust to gain Full Pivot (allows you to make a 360º pivot). Like Ryder Azadi, gives you extra maneuverability at the cost of having to exhaust him.

Hardpoint Upgrade (x1 Slot)

Mo/Dk Power Harpoon (3 pts.) - range 1-2, 1 red die with Impact 1 and Fixed: Rear. Also has a "Tow Cable" rule- if it successfully wounds a vehicle, you can cause that vehicle to execute a Pivot move. The short range is off-putting but you're practically guaranteed to hit that vehicle when you are in range, and the pivot forces the tank to waste a move action to face the direction it wants. It is also cheap so the first time it kills anything even a battle droid it will earn it's points back. Light vehicles are the most vulnerable to it. Scout Bikes and unshielded Destroyers Droids are choice targets.

Ax-108 Ground Buzzer (10 pts.) - range 1-2, 4 black with Fixed: Rear. A pretty good shooting attack that lets you fire backwards as the speeder zips around.

Comms Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Comms Jammer (15 pts., dropped to 5 pts. by Rules Errata) - Prevents enemy units at range 1 from receiving orders. Your fast speeder generally won't be close enough to enemies to actually use this.

Comms Relay (5 pts.) - Allows a unit with this equipped to pass an order to another friendly unit at range 1-2, but this means the squad that "passes" the order doesn't get one.

HQ Uplink (10 pts.) - Exhaust this to allow a unit to issue an order to itself. Not a bad choice, ensures you'll get an order token on the unit at least once when you really want it.

Long-Range Comlink (10 pts.) - You always count as being within range of your commander. Situational, and not very helpful on smaller battlefields.

Linked Targeting Array (5 pts.) - You gain Target 1 (when issued an order, gain an Aim Token). Can't go wrong with Aim tokens.

Tactics

X-34 Land Speeder

Remember watching A New Hope the first time and seeing Luke's beater space car of a land speeder and thinking, wow what a great vehicle to fight main line battle tanks with? No? well you should have picked a faction with a dedicated manufacturing base. Despite the improvised nature of the craft the base vehicle is fairly durable with six wounds Armor 2 and Cover 1 Base line it only has 2 white so it needs those upgrades. There is nothing stopping you from doubling up on the gunner options other than models and cards 2 rifle gunners make it a cheap flak boat and 2 missile launchers will ruin an heavy tanks day, if you shoot first.

Upgrade Cards

Pilot Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Ryder Azadi (5 pts.) - Unique. Exhaust to increase or decrease your speed by 1 while making a move. Gives a quick burst of speed or slows the unit down right when you need it; but you'll need to do a Recover action to use it again.

Outer Rim Speeder Jockey (10 pts.) - Gain Cover 1 - The speeder has cover one by default so now you always have heavy cover. This is an excellent choice. Bear in mind that Cover is applied to an attack before Impact.

Wedge Antilles (5 pts.) - Unique. Exhaust to gain Full Pivot (allows you to make a 360º pivot). Like Ryder Azadi, gives you extra maneuverability at the cost of having to exhaust him.

Crew Upgrades (x2 Slots)

A-300 Rifle Gunner (9 pts.) - Just 2 white dice out to range 3, essentially doubling the "firepower" of the basic unit. Not great but it's more dice being tossed, and the X-34 does have offensive surge.

RPS-6 Rocket Gunner (36 pts.) - adds a missile launcher with range 2-4 and throwing one each white, red, and black dice and with Impact 2. It's a little pricey but unlike most other missile launchers, doesn't exhaust to attack. Even if you're not facing a tank, red and black dice are very welcome, as this vehicle tends to throw a lot of white.

Hardpoint Upgrade (x1 Slot)

Mark II Medium Blaster (34 pts.) - throws four black dice at range 1-3, and with Fixed: Front (can only fire in the front arc). Now we're talking, that's some decent firepower. Combine with the RPS-6 and it's still pretty good even against enemy tanks.

M-45 Ion Blaster (38 pts.) - exhausts to fire, but throws 1 black and 4 white at range 1-4 with Fixed: Front, Impact 1, and Ion 1. Not a bad choice if you know you're facing enemy tanks or battle droids (the ion effect works against them too, plus it negates droideka shields), but exhausting to fire means you'll have to use Recover actions to fire it again. Take with the RPS-6 if you really want to put some hurt on your opponent's AT-ST.

Comms Upgrades (x1 Slot)

Comms Jammer (15 pts., dropped to 5 pts. by Rules Errata) - Prevents enemy units at range 1 from receiving orders. You generally don't really want this close enough to enemies to actually use this.

Comms Relay (5 pts.) - Allows a unit with this equipped to pass an order to another friendly unit at range 1-2, but this means the squad that "passes" the order doesn't get one.

HQ Uplink (10 pts.) - Exhaust this to allow a unit to issue an order to itself. Not a bad choice, ensures you'll get an order token on the unit at least once when you really want it.

Long-Range Comlink (10 pts.) - You always count as being within range of your commander. Situational, and not very helpful on smaller battlefields.

Linked Targeting Array (5 pts.) - You gain Target 1 (when issued an order, gain an Aim Token). Aim tokens are always helpful, especially with the preponderance of white dice this thing tends to throw.

Tactics

Unit Upgrade Boxes

Fantasy Flight Games has seen fit to release new boxes with additional and supplementary upgrades in them. Most of them can be applied to any Trooper unit with the proper slots.

Rebel Specialists Personnel

Personel Upgrades

Tactics & Build Help

Have you tried Taun-Tauns yet?
Taking Luke and Leia, the wonder twins, for their immense synergy is advisable. Luke is fast, hits hard but is the centre of attention while Leia can hand him dodge tokens to trigger deflect and is better at babysitting the troops.
The support rank is probably the best in the game with all 3 being solid choices. Taun-Tauns are hilariously overpowered but the AT-RT is a flexible light tank with competitive hardpoints and the FD laser turret is an underrated but solid artillery piece.

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-Remember watching A New Hope the first time and seeing Luke's beater space car of a land speeder and thinking, wow what a great vehicle to fight main lin battle tanks with? No? well you should have picked a faction with a [[Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Genestealer_Cults(8E)|dedicated manufacturing base]]. Despite the imperviosed nature of the craft the base vehicle is fairly durable with six wounds '''Armor 2''' and '''Cover 1''' Base line it only has 2 <span style="color:grey> white </span>  so it needs those upgrades. There is nothing stopping you from doubling up on the gunner options other than models and cards 2 rifle gunners make it a cheap flak boat and 2 missile launchers will ruin an heavy tanks day, if you shoot first.
+Remember watching A New Hope the first time and seeing Luke's beater space car of a land speeder and thinking, wow what a great vehicle to fight main line battle tanks with? No? well you should have picked a faction with a [[Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Genestealer_Cults(8E)|dedicated manufacturing base]]. Despite the improvised nature of the craft the base vehicle is fairly durable with six wounds '''Armor 2''' and '''Cover 1''' Base line it only has 2 <span style="color:grey> white </span>  so it needs those upgrades. There is nothing stopping you from doubling up on the gunner options other than models and cards 2 rifle gunners make it a cheap flak boat and 2 missile launchers will ruin an heavy tanks day, if you shoot first.
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