Echo wrote:
TimmerB123 wrote:
Is a 10 mouse dump useful in some games? Of course! Is it Lobot's main function? Of course not, that's absurd!
I guess I would argue that there was a time when it was by far the most common use of him and could be considered his main function. In 2009/2010, if you had replaced Reinforcements on his card with an ability that just said "Bring in 10 Mouse Droids" he would have been played almost as much. Obviously this isn't true anymore, and hasn't been true for a while, and wasn't 100% true at the time, but during that specific time period it was pretty common. Saying that someone "clearly doesn't understand Lobot" seems pretty strong considering that.
This is an old discussion, and I don't really want to go into all of it, but I never quite understood the tremendous value of using Gha to take a dump.
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Seriously, with Gha/Lobot/10mice, you've got 12 activations for 39pts. But with 4 fodder (mice/ugs)/Lobot/6 fodder, you've got 11 activations for the same 39pts. Gha buys you one more activation, but only when you bring in the full 10 mice...when you don't take the dump, you're actually
losing activations. Gha actually
hindered your reinforcement choices in most respects (yes, I'm aware of the R7/GammorBG combo).
Therefore, in my opinion, it was never the Gha dump that was powerful...it was having a tempo control piece (Dodonna/San/Ozzel) and lots of activations in your squad that was powerful.
And yes, I know there are benefits to throwing 10 mice onto the map, but you can do the same thing without Gha (4 mice in the base squad replacing Gha and 6 with Lobot).
Anyway, to keep this post on topic: I think that if people understood Lobot's usefulness only in relation to Gha, then they didn't have a clue about Lobot's purpose. And my observation was that, sadly, many people fell into the trap of including Lobot just for the Gha dump. I'm glad we're getting past that now.