Take to the forest and save Endor, as the new Star Wars Shatterpoint Leia Organa and Paploo Ee Chee Wa Maa rules are here!
Here are some of the rules for the miniatures in the Ee Chee Wa Maa expansion pack for Star Wars Shatterpoint, revealed by Atomic Mass Games. Last time, we covered the Luke Skywalker expansion set rules. Now let’s look at the expansion set itself first, which you can order here, or if you’re reading this after 2/16/2024, you can pick it up from your favorite local store!
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An iconic Rebel and her Ewok companions join Star Wars™: Shatterpoint in this new Squad Pack! Featuring both Leia Organa and Chief Chirpa as Primary Units, the Ewok Paploo as a Secondary Unit, and two Ewok Hunters wielding bows as Supporting Units, this pack gives players a variety of new options for creating Galactic Civil War-era squads. In addition to beautifully sculpted miniatures of these characters, this pack also includes all the Stat, Order, and Stance Cards players need to field them in battle.
Players can choose Leia Organa, Freedom Fighter, or Chief Chirpa to lead your Ee Chee Wa Maa expansion pack, which also features Paploo and Ewok Hunters. This is one of the most iconic setups from the original trilogy. Who doesn’t want Ewoks in Shatterpoint?
Star Wars Shatterpoint Leia Organa Rules
Thanks to Unexpected Allies, in any force she leads, all members of the Rebel Alliance and Ewoks gain the benefits of both tags for abilities which require them, greatly facilitating the coordination between these two groups. Taking advantage of Ewok camouflage, she can help her allies Infiltrate to where they’re most needed. She can advance on a key objective making use of Defensive Maneuver to Dash into position while keeping to cover, gaining a Hunker token to safeguard against incoming fire.
She is particularly well suited for contesting and seizing objectives. Her Explosive Charge Active Ability lets her warn her allies to get clear of the imminent blast she is about to inflict on nearby enemies, who take damage from the explosion and lose all Hunker tokens. She can further use her proximity to arrange for Coordinated Fire to inflict Exposed upon enemies that her allies will soon fire upon.
By giving both tags to all models, you get access to many extra abilities. Next, Leia gives you a ton of extra movement and some good defensive abilities. Plus some extra firepower with both Explosive Charge and Coordinated Fire. Explosive Charge is cool, as you get to move, can take cover, and then damage all enemies close to it! This is just really thematic and fun.
Leia Stances
Using her Stealth Mission Stance offers higher Melee Attack and Defense stats and a slightly stronger version of her Self-Defense Expertise Chart, making it marginally preferable when she is engaged by a dangerous melee specialist. This Melee Attack Expertise Chart offers good criticals and a reasonable chance of gaining a Reposition to move elsewhere even when engaged. Though slightly more defensive, this Stance has a solid Combat Tree and Leia is quite capable of defeating foes in melee with her Close Combat Training. The tree offers an early ability to inflict Strained, to either Disarm or Shove her foe (potentially Shoving twice), or to inflict Pinned, along with another chance to Reposition at the end of the tree.
Alternately Leia can rely her Frontal Assault Stance, which maximizes her Ranged Attack and Defense stats and offers the highest potential damage output via its Combat Tree. It’s worth noting these two Stances are not clear-cut melee vs ranged, even with their respective stats—Leia can still deliver strong melee attacks using Frontal Assault or ranged attacks with Stealth Mission. Leia’s high mobility can still be exploited in Frontal Assault, given opportunities to Reposition offered by her Ranged Attack Expertise Chart, her Defense Expertise Chart, and the Combat Tree.
She can either be stealthy and get a lot of movement abilities, extra damage, and, most importantly, great defensive stats. If you need her to survive through to the next struggle, this is the way to go. Then, when you need to storm forward and get objectives, Frontal Assault gives you more damage and maximizes your shooting.
Paploo, Curious Creature Rules
Paploo is a particularly fearless Ewok scout who has shown flagrant disregard for his own safety while diverting or distract enemies, such as when he stole an Imperial speeder to race off between the trees, drawing pursuit after him. His Feigned Retreat Active Ability can be used in just this way to manipulate enemy positions, allowing an allied Ewok (or Leia and her friends) to Reposition away from an engaged enemy, who is then Exposed and will likely Dash to follow. Like any Ewok, Paploo can employ Stealthy Approach. He is also Fearless and Inventive, gaining augmented melee attacks when brave enough to engage multiple foes at once.
As you would expect, Paploo is pretty stealthy but also curious about what everything does and can use that to his advantage. Then, he can be really good in combat, as he can use enemy expertise charts (which can be wild, depending on who he is fighting) and add attack dice to his pool!
As his Loaded Questions stance represents, Paploo is most dangerous in melee with his spear, but also able to attack at range with his sling. He’s a reasonably strong attacker with either weapon and both his Ranged and Melee Expertise Charts offer added damage. As his Defense Expertise Chart suggests, Paploo is rather luckier than most Ewoks, sometimes able to mitigate criticals. This Stance’s Combat Tree offers both decent damage and an immediate chance to Shove the foe plus the potential early infliction of useful conditions such as Strained or Disarmed. Higher up the tree, he gains a chance to Reposition and possibly a second Shove.
His spear is stronger than his sling, which makes sense. Plus he has a decent stance for a smaller character. Then for defense, he is super lucky, and sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good!
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