Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Gideon looks pretty great without being unbalanced. Probably going to be competing with Veers or even Krennic for a space in their type of list, though you can also afford to chuck him into melee. Adds a lot of order control for Dark Troopers who are themselves going to be very interesting to see how fare competitively.

Gideon AND Krennic is going to be wild.

Compel to get a free move on a unit of Stormtroopers with T-21 and Specialist, Ruthless to take a wound and get a free Recover action, use their Specialist, and than shoot with an Aim and end up 1 wound down but having lost all your Suppression and gotten a free Aim out of it.

Not sure how well AMG has thought out how Ruthless is going to combine with the other abilities like Compel or Pull The Strings, unless the new rulebook coming out this month gives a limit to free actions.

edit. Disregard, I mixed up my timing windows for those abilities. Does not work as I mentioned above.

Dark Troopers article - https://www.atomicmassgames.com/star-wars-legion-transmissions/scene-to-stats-dark-troopers





Think the fears of triple DT lists should be allayed with that price point! Not overly impressed at first glance but it is amusing that the unit can take the CIS T-Series, PK, EV and Viper upgrades as it stands.

 ingtaer wrote:
Dark Troopers article - https://www.atomicmassgames.com/star-wars-legion-transmissions/scene-to-stats-dark-troopers

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Think the fears of triple DT lists should be allayed with that price point! Not overly impressed at first glance but it is amusing that the unit can take the CIS T-Series, PK, EV and Viper upgrades as it stands.

It's possible but you'd be pretty low on Activations; not as crippling as before with the Pass introduction but a 7 activation list is still going to have to put out a hell of a lot of damage or have a very gimmicky play in certain scenarios to be remotely viable.

On paper, they look like they've come in at a good spot (same as Gideon), some powerful stuff in the kit, without being too good. That Assault Cannon basically doubles their damage output so it's probably worth its cost on a single squad at least. You sort of have to think of them as a 6+ wound tank that's slow, but durable with some very nice damage potential and activating twice a round can't ever be overlooked, especially when Empire has plenty of options for shenanigans to increase the amount of actions they could pull off. Fire Support from Gideon's 3-Pip will be tasty, especially if it can get dovetailed in to gain some other keywords on an attack. Krennic's 1-Pip could be excellent at getting them running when you need them. Biggest limitations are probably their short-to-average range and they're (appropriately) going to get melted by lightsaber users in melee.

Expecting we'll see a swift errata to anticipate the upgrade options in the revised core rules (next week?), or at least something when the Dark Troopers are released as, yes, currently they can get some daft stuff. The Comms Technician or the Imperial Officer would also basically be just a stupid way of getting an extra Dark Trooper in the squad (with special rules on top no less) for either half or nearly a quarter of the points cost of an actual extra Dark Trooper. Getting a T-Series on them would be hilarious.

MM Sale: SW games, including Legion, spotted: https://www.miniaturemarket.com/sale?start=448&sort=title+asc&sort=title%20asc&utm_content=marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=bluecore&utm_campaign=royal-treatment-sale&

Some broad details have come out on the Imperial Remnants Battleforce from an AMG stream. Sounds fun and weird at the same time. Shouldn't be particularly overpowered.

Gideon as Commander with Stormtroopers, Shoretroopers, Death Troopers and Scout Troopers all counting as Core for purposes of list building (but not command cards or other triggers) and you have to take at least one of each before a multiple of the same unit. You can also mix any Heavy Weapon upgrade into any other squad (so a Scout-Trooper Sniper could go into Death Troopers or the Stormtrooper Missile Launcher could go into Shoretroopers etc.). Going to be some funky lists with trying to get the best keyword combos. Can also take E-Webs, Speeder Bikes and the new Dark Troopers. Some extra shenanigans with giving out Orders beyond a certain range and getting an Independent effect on units.

No Battleforce specific Command Cards and will just be a digital release.

Ventress has dropped - https://www.atomicmassgames.com/star-wars-legion-transmissions






She looks fantastic, 150pts is an absolute bargain and independent dodge is great. Also, 8 Black and a spray attack! Due for release next month.

First pick of Ashoka - Fulcrum, new Rebel operative. No info bar the pic yet.

So weird we get the Rebel version before Snips.

 LunarSol wrote:
So weird we get the Rebel version before Snips.

It is indeed very strange, as Rebels really didn't need another Operative (they already have 7 they can take). GAR (the faction Ashoka was a soldier in first) REALLY needs a combat focused Operative since they only have 2 Operatives, and they are Padme and RD-D2.

Yeah super disappointed with her being for Rebellion. Could've done her as a Padawan or her season 7 version as a Republic Operative, would've been way more useful. Im still shocked they made Republic Chewbacca a commander instead of an operative when they released the Wookie chieftain at the same time.

Hey, wait a minute. I was told Legion was dead! How can they release new models for a dead game???

/s

Happy to see Ashoka in the game, regardless of version.

I would have liked to see Padawan Ahsoka first to go with Anakin (who I should get around to painting, I suppose...) but Fulcrum Ahsoka is a really nice model, so I can't complain too much.

I think everyone was surprised to see Fulcrum before Padawan, especially given the state of GAR Operative access but it could just be a case of wanting some faction parity for this general wave of releases for the start of the year.

Empire - Gideon and Dark Troopers
CIS - Ventress
GAR - Cody and friends.
Rebels - Ahsoka

Could also be to tie in with the upcoming Ahsoka Disney+ series and it just didn't quite align because something got pushed back or brought forward. I like the model anyway and Rebels were shy another Force user so I won't grumble personally.

Ahsoka in April brings them up to date with the smaller splash releases already announced and May is the time to either release or announce something substantial so wouldn't be surprised to see that Ewok Battleforce get showcased.

JimmyWolf87 wrote:
I think everyone was surprised to see Fulcrum before Padawan, especially given the state of GAR Operative access but it could just be a case of wanting some faction parity for this general wave of releases for the start of the year.

I don't keep up on release dates, but is the release of Asohka (live action version, rather than clone wars padawan) not just likely to be tied in with the new Disney+ series?
Not really a surprise release.

This Ahsoka is closer in the timeline to Mandalorian era Ahsoka, so it may well be meant as a tie-in, but she's the version from the Rebels animated show, not the upcoming live action show.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:

JimmyWolf87 wrote:
I think everyone was surprised to see Fulcrum before Padawan, especially given the state of GAR Operative access but it could just be a case of wanting some faction parity for this general wave of releases for the start of the year.

I don't keep up on release dates, but is the release of Asohka (live action version, rather than clone wars padawan) not just likely to be tied in with the new Disney+ series?
Not really a surprise release.

...did I not suggest exactly that as a possibility?

If that is (was) the intended plan though, it's not quite aligned as the model is dropping in April whereas the D+ series doesn't currently have a release date (and is probably going to be June/July at the very earliest for a guess and potentially quite a bit later).

Regardless, it's not a direct tie-in anyway as this is the younger Fulcrum version from the SW: Rebels animated series rather than live action Rosario Dawson from The Mandalorian and (at some point) Ahsoka on Disney+

It's definitely just a result of the block it was designed in. This release is just part of the Din/Grogu/Gideon/Dark Troopers/Rebel Boba/IG-11/88 release cycle we've been getting. It's basically just all stuff from Mando season 2.

 LunarSol wrote:
It's definitely just a result of the block it was designed in. This release is just part of the Din/Grogu/Gideon/Dark Troopers/Rebel Boba/IG-11/88 release cycle we've been getting. It's basically just all stuff from Mando season 2.

Agreed, though this is ostensibly the Rebels version, not Mando S.2.

AMG's preview article for Cody:

https://www.atomicmassgames.com/star-wars-legion-transmissions/scene-to-stats-clone-commander-cody

Bad Batch. Probably see them come out in 2025

The Bad Batch look great.

Well, I mean, I'll take it. I hope the kit comes with head options so Omega can have her season two helmet and the rest can have bare heads.

 Midnightdeathblade wrote:
Bad Batch. Probably see them come out in 2025

Is this fact or speculation? What's left that we even know of? Cody and pals, Asajj, Ahsoka, Ewoks? There's a lot of 2023 left after that, and the whole of 2024.

Im just being a little gak cause I think AMG is slow lol.

I guess they are.

There was quite a bit shown for the pipeline at Adepticon:

Aforementioned Bad Batch:


Ahsoka's stat card:


Ewoks & command cards from the Battleforce:





Geonosians!:


Inquisitors:


I actually don't mind the release schedule, even if it feels slow because we see things a bit in advance, One steady release a month with the occasional Battleforce tie-in (with multiple sets) seems pretty sustainable to me; it just understandably feels like a drag if you only collect a single faction.

You've messed up a bunch of your img tags there, Jimmy.

 Dysartes wrote:
You've messed up a bunch of your img tags there, Jimmy.

Thanks,

Will take a look.

(Edit: should work now).

Nice. Geonosians. That's what I like to see. Well, not them specifically, but non-droid, non-clone Clone Wars forces. Wese be havin' our time in the sun, boyos!

Cool to get Inquisitors, but I'm not sure I like the AMGification of Seventh Sister's lightsaber. It's still restrained, I suppose, but I'd prefer if we didn't get special effects like that.

 Geifer wrote:
Nice. Geonosians. That's what I like to see. Well, not them specifically, but non-droid, non-clone Clone Wars forces. Wese be havin' our time in the sun, boyos!

Cool to get Inquisitors, but I'm not sure I like the AMGification of Seventh Sister's lightsaber. It's still restrained, I suppose, but I'd prefer if we didn't get special effects like that.

I like Seventh Sister far more than this Fifth Trooper mini. The one for Shatterpoint makes this one look absolutely terrible.