Rebellions are built on hope

 I could not fit everything into one article and I have had some time to figure out Rebels.

Rebels have had most of their heroes drop. Han down to 100pts, Jyn aswell. This opens up these two to play being only 10pts more than Leia or Cassian (per armament.) Jedi Luke dropped 5pts in line with pretty much every other sabre wielder. Commander Luke missed out but he is already 160pts which is in line with Maul and Anakin. R2 D2 up to 45pts like in the GRA. Chewbacca is still 90pts but has gained Scale and Lethal 1 on his melee attack (just like the Wookie Warriors). Sabine's gear have come down aswell. Her Shield is now 5pts and the Darksaber 15pts. The Rebel Officer down inline with the Imperial counterpart now 45pts.

Fleet Troopers dropped to 40pts same as Rebel Troopers, exactly like the Snowtroopers. Hopefully this helps bring them to the table. Pathfinders dropped to 58pts along with Bistan is 28pts and both characters now have two wounds and the config is still free. This looks like a solid change that hopefully will get this unit into the meta. Commandos are 50pts, two points over the strike team. So two extra points gets two extra wounds but reduced to range 5. Without a card like Iden’s Tactical Strike to boast them not sure how much it will help.

T-47 has dropped to 130pts and now has surge to critical. Another drop in points and even more assistance for the snowspeeder. This is a massive assistance for the rebels overall because just the threat of the snowspeeder being across the board with 6 dice surge critical and impact 3. Along with the speeder keyword changes this makes this one unit to watch out for. The X-34 Landspeeder has been dropped to 60pts aswell. This along with the changes to open transport rules meaning characters can take actions including attacking out. The trade off is that they can be attacked aswell. 

Tauntaun Riders have received a slight increase to 95pts. Tauntauns have not been as powerful since Phase 2s so not sure they needed without clone standby and with heavies like the AAT now more likely due to the changes to field commander. 

The Rebel Veterans, the CM-O/93 has increased in range to four and is 26pts. This Crit 2 4 white dice weapon is still not a T-21B in shores but this allows for multiple range 4 options for the rebels.

Nearly all of the personnel and heavy weapons for the corp troopers. I hope that this allows for some list diversity in the this slot.

Overall the Rebels have had a massive help this RRG between the speeder changes and the massive array of points drop, has opened up list building and made pretty much every unit viable.

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