Squad Leader Archive

SL is more of a play style than it is a skill to play. What I mean is, while most of the SLs I know are ranged I have seen some Melee as well as a crafter or two. Depends on how you want to play it. Lead from the front or direct from the rear. Both effective and both enjoyable. Depends on your personal likes.

Me, I have Carbineer skills because I like the area and state effects. I had rifle before the DOT nerfs because I liked dealing out my own heavy damage. But I found that I started focusing to much on how much damage I did and lost the big picture of the groups status.

Probably didn't answer your question directly, but this prof more than any other is really about how you play the role.

Enjoy

I have sone PvP as a SL for a long time, I can tell you a ranged profession would be your number one choice for PvP. Being a brawler you are up in the fight, while as a ranged profession you can hang back and see what is goin on.

I decided on going master gunfighter since it deals out fast attacks and not insane on my HAM costs. I would have liked to go carbineer but at this point, HAM costs with SL and Carbineers are just way too much for me.

If they do fix the ham issues, i would probably go to carbineer unless the pistoleer specials get fixed and we get dual wield. Also I had the instinct of chosing Zabrak when i first created my character and it was a good choice for SL. Humans in theory would also be good but the leadership bonus is not in at this time.

I wasn't around in beta but what exactly was the leadership bonus applied to?