Imperial Trooper 5th

I think rhe best current Troooer squad is Veers, Piett, Dark Trooper, Range and Gideon.

Starck can be subbed in for Gideon and is probably better for the TM train in P3 of Heroic Sith. Starck can also find a home in an Iden Versio squad.

If you're trying to decide between Range and Gideon: don't. You need both of them. Plan on doing both.

If you're trying to decide which one to do first, remember that Gideon is a more valuable toon but also requires more gear.

So if IT are a side project while you're also working on other things, definitely gear Range instead of Gideon.

If, however, IT are your sole focus, take this opportunity to do Gideon so that in the future when you're wanting that 6th trooper (for various reasons, including so that you can pair Piett with Vader), gearing up Range doesn't distract you as much as Gideon would.

Veers, Starck, Piett, Gideon, & Range

The core of the best tm train Troopers team is Veers, Piet, Range. The other 2 are flexible.

Veers has the tm gains in both his lead and unique.

Piett feeds this gains by every action from a trooper granting a buff to all troopers, plus he calls at least one assist, usually 2, to increase this further.

Range makes more assists happen, feeding off both the Veers lead and the Piett buffs.

After these 3, the remaining squad doesn't really matter. Starck with zeta can reinforce the train by removing enemy TM. Gideon can get the team ahead, and is very fast to get the train started. But neither of these are really necessary with the core 3, so it can be whatever other members you want. Dark certainly gets the job done faster, and can't go in an Iden team.

Veers, Piett, Dark. That is the core and will beat the most teams. Range is the optimal 4th, and then gideon if you need to outrun teams you cant outrun with piett (that is implying you have like 170 speed on piett and/or gideon, if you dont, work on your mods.)
If you dont need the extra speed from gideon, starck is fine, he will help you with the tm train, and especially in pve his tm reduction passive is very valuable
and if you cant outrun DR even with a super fast gideon, shore trooper is the solution to that particular problem
the other troopers are fine as well mostly, with dark and range trooper in the team, you should never have problems keeping the train going, either by killing a target, or just with all the assists from range

"MasterSeedy;c-2355927" wrote:
If you're trying to decide between Range and Gideon: don't. You need both of them. Plan on doing both.

If you're trying to decide which one to do first, remember that Gideon is a more valuable toon but also requires more gear.

So if IT are a side project while you're also working on other things, definitely gear Range instead of Gideon.

If, however, IT are your sole focus, take this opportunity to do Gideon so that in the future when you're wanting that 6th trooper (for various reasons, including so that you can pair Piett with Vader), gearing up Range doesn't distract you as much as Gideon would.

I have a trash Gideon and I'm doing just fine.