Re: The Ewok
The rebel’s special units are all pretty bad, I remember when wookies were the apex predator... this game almost made me hate Chewie ☹️
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It’s not a great unit. I’ve had the best results when I either employ hit and run tactics or follow a bunch of teammates and pick off the enemy while they focus on my taller and more visible teammates.
Here is a general Ewok summary and guide:
The Ewok, despite having 350 health, is a very fragile, low-tier reinforcement. They are best played in a role of aggressive support and stealth, finishing off weakened enemies and attacking from the side. They are about average at objective play, being excellent at setting bombs and carrying packages, while hot garbage at taking a command post.
Rundown of abilities:
Main Weapon: Bow.
This is the most complex weapon in the game, as it is a little luck based and very dependent on aim at the same time. It has two functionalities: aim and charge.
Charge: Zoom while holding the shoot button. This will need to charge up to reach full capacity and will require precise aim. It can OHK with a headshot on infantry, and 2HK on an enforcer at full charge. It is prone to dropping over distance, so you will need to be a good aim.
Aim: this is the simplest and easiest way to pick off enemies. Simply wait until a red circle appears around an enemy, then fire until dead. It does around 70 damage per shot, which would be fine, but it has a really slow rate of fire.Spear: the melee weapon, it does, like 40 damage. It is really bad. Only use it when close to a nearly dead enemy.
Wisties: these fire spirits are launched like a grenade, doing damage over time. They are good at annoying and weakening large groups, though characters with large health pools won’t be affected nearly as much. The best usage they have is clearing out areas, or for guerrilla attacks
Hunter’s instincts: this is a standard scanning ability, but has the unique perk that allows you to see footsteps. It also let’s you tell which enemies are damaged, all the easier to pick off weaklings.
Horn: The worst ability he has, the horn makes the hunter super horny, gives him damage reduction, and increased melee strength. It can’t really be used in a pinch, because it takes four seconds for the animation to run, and it also reveals you on scanners.
Final verdict: The Ewok is a flimsy fighter that relies on stealth to deal any damage or get kills. They have mediocre abilities, one of which doesn’t really fit them. So they are probably the worst reinforcement in the game. The best mode to use them in is Ewok Hunt, because at least then your enemy is blinded, disoriented, outnumbered, and scared.
- They probably should have added an AoE buff to the Horn for the other multiplayer modes to make it more useful. It works great in Ewok Hunt, half the time I use it just to watch the Stormtroopers freak out and start shooting blindly in every direction. But the main reason it works in Ewok Hunt is that the player can stay relatively hidden while the animation plays. The buff it gives is not that strong, and barely lasts long enough to be effective even in Ewok Hunt. (Side note: The "Defeat 5 enemies while Horn Buffed in Ewok Hunt" Daily Challenge can be a real pain in the @$$ to complete)
The Wisties Pouch is best used against large groups, as it can spread from enemy to enemy if/when they are close to each other. It also helps when the target does not know that all they need to do is Combat Roll to shake the Wisties off.
Basically, the Ewok is essentially designed to exploit the environment of Endor at night (lots of cover and darkness to hide in, and dark colored fur for additional camouflage). Unfortunately, these design choices severely hamper the Ewok's usefulness in most of the other Maps/Modes. @DrunkyMacGreed The Ewok only has one skin when it is outside of Ewok Hunt. It is white with brown patches and helps in no way for camouflage, so it can’t really even hide in the shadows. And in the hunt mode, the Imps are blind, so that helps.
- @Commander_Ney0 Yeah, that was my point, that the Ewok's colors work great on the Endor maps at night, but not so much in the daytime or on any other decently lit map. I hadn't realized that they only use one skin outside of Ewok Hunt, mainly because I already had my Infiltrator at prestige level when they were added. As soon as I finished the Ewok-specific Milestones, I stopped using them (because let's face it, the Rebel Reinforcements are pretty much all Weak Sauce in a Can).
I really want to know the genius that recommended the ewok as a infiltrator. This reinforcement is the worse reinforcement I have ever played, he has the worst health, worst weapon, slow as hell, and the worst abilities. And it's even worse when they cost like 2,000 points as much as a AT-ST even though there more powerful then this useless teddy bear. Before the ewok cost like 1,500 points but these geniuses at dice thought that it would be best to increase the cost to 2,000 points, holy mother of god, who's responsible for this garbage like I really want to know who. Out of ALL the rebel reinforcements we could have gotten like a bothan spy, a rebel pathfinder, a rebel vanguard, a rebel spy, a k2so anything besides a goddamn ewok. And another thing the age of rebellion supremacy is broken as hell because the empire has better reinforcement than the rebels and they always win. I can't believe these people left the game like this so they can make their next trash battlefield game, and I played battlefield 5 and it's a really trash game. Why bother dice making another battlefield game, like nobodys going to buy that dumpster fire after how you treated your customers like *, and you lied to them about making a complete ww2 game.
