Scrambler Balance?

[Joggies]

Sound's like you haven't had your booty whooped by a scrambler yet ;-)

I like your post and the discussion and thought I might give you another way to look at the economic value of the scrambler.

Lets say you build one, move it once or twice and take a soldier. That cost you 9-10 wits. But you effectively killed a solider (worth 2 wits, plus at least one movement point invested in it, and quite possibly buffed). Not only that but you gained a soldier with 1hp. Let's call that worth 2 witpoint to you (it's damaged, but it is also deployed). So you've just earned 5-7 back on your investment minimum. You can see that even a reckless suicide mission with a scrambler makes about three quarters of its value back. Now used sensibly, it can really make stunning returns. If you can take a juicy prize, or somehow protect it to take a small prize and live another day you are laughing.

And that's just the offensive side. They are probably at their most wicked defensively. It can be pretty daunting trying to attack an area with a couple of those scrambly spiders lurking...