Well, not to toot my horn much , but I was the one that devised and schemed up the broken Evil Men loop that led to many headaches and the banning of
SLM.
For whatever it is worth, the mechanic of the loop still works.
SLM was just gravy on the system. He pushed it just way out there. You can still get crazy actions and swarms down. However, The deck just has to be done a bit differently now.
The biggest issue though was the anti manvr stuff that came out in the last set or two. Gandy was able to hose all the manvr actions... which totally screwed you after spending like 20 minutes doing various manvr actions...