4-LOM

I’m not generally a fan of unique Droids, at least not ones with double-digit point costs. R2-D2 can stay (hell, he can take beer out of the fridge without asking), but most of the more expensive unique Droids leave me cold. The reason for this (not that you asked, you self-absorbed churl) is that there are very few ways to build a synergistic squad around them. At this point in the game’s history, there are absolutely no commander effects that work on them, and only a couple of ways to enhance them in any way (Gonk, CS Darth Sidious’ Dark Master ability, Thrawn can give them Force Immunity). This means that any unique Droid has to be an extremely self-contained package, not requiring outside assistance to earn his points for your squad.

The original 4-LOM was one of my favorite pieces in Rebel Storm, and remains one of my favorite pieces today. At 21 points, he’s a shooter that does decent damage at a +16 to hit under the right (not too difficult to set up) circumstances, who also has an 18 Defense and 70 whole hit points. Sign me the heck up.

As a side note, Zuckuss has Rapport with any character with “4-LOM” in the name. This is sort of trivial under most circumstances, but it does mean that Mr. LOM comes down to 20 points, the magic number to be used in Fringe Reinforcements 20 or Fringe Reserves. Nice.

Seriously, 4-LOM, dude. 4-LOM.

Overall rating in 100: 4
Overall rating in 200: 4