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Specifically Seperatists. Might mean I’m done buying any more Rebels, even though I like the idea up the upgrade packs.

I'm not particularly fussed about Clone Wars stuff, was hoping for them to announce some Rogue One and Solo tie-in releases or a Scum faction, but it seems like plenty of people like it and it makes sense to try and tap some of the hype from the CW show revival series.

Clone wars is going to be great. Can’t wait. I think it’s a great move.

Super excited to gun down some rogers.

Yah they should be terrible. And cheap.

 Yodhrin wrote:
*Clone Wars is confirmed, more info towards the end of the year.

"This year we're announcing Clone Wars, but we're not going to talk about it at the biggest gaming convention of the year, because that'd just be silly!"

Nice to see that Legions will actually now be about a war, and 6 guys and their dog fighting an entire planet.

 Yodhrin wrote:
So, Gencon stream is done with Star Wars stuff, news:

*Chewie Operative plus Wookie Warriors unit, coming Q4.
*New "Personnel" packs for both factions, containing Officer, Medic, Comms Tech and one other I missed, can be used to upgrade squads but also the Officer can be used as a generic Commander, Rebel one is Q1 2019.
*Clone Wars is confirmed, more info towards the end of the year.

A wookie squad is cool. Good to see that as an option.

Generic officer is for Imperials, too? I really just want a Stormtrooper commander. None of this name character crap.

Clone Wars and roger rogers will be interesting to a friend of mine.

Good stuff.

Well. I want everything.

I dig those specialist packs.

Not sure what I'm going to do with a beeping trashcan, but that's just what I've been looking for. Yay.

Random note, the imperial box has a lady officer for the art, but the mini shown is a dude.

Not sure that is a dude, would want to see a clearer picture. That hair could either be sideburns or a bob haircut.

Nice to see Gideon Argus turning up to save the day

Not a fan of the wookies being close range specialists, but I dig the models.

 AduroT wrote:
Random note, the imperial box has a lady officer for the art, but the mini shown is a dude.

Boo, FFG, for that!

 zend wrote:
Not a fan of the wookies being close range specialists, but I dig the models.

Wookies are mostly known for their excellent ability to rip limbs from people. I'm not sure what else you were expecting. They also help mirror the pure melee squad Empire has.

YES!

Finally I'll join the Legion bandwagon. Can't wait to Roger Roger my enemies out of the table!

Also just realized.. The Rebel officer and Medic are 100% Gideon and MHD-19 from Imperial Assault.

Clone Wars! Consider me invested!

I've always looked at Legion, but I'm just not interested in OT conflict. It's always been more about the heroes and their personal arcs, and whilst I like that in the films, I don't want to recreate that on tabletop.

Clone Wars has the scope to be larger conflicts, with more freedom and plus, Clones are just awesome. As for Droids, there's plenty of room for both organic Seperatist commanders (Lok Durd, Wat Tambor, Admiral Trench), as well as more personalised Droid (Tactical Droid like Kalani, Commando Droids, Magnaguard, etc etc). Plus, you could get Maul, Grevious, and Darth Jar Jar leading the Seperatists!


What do you mean Darth Jar Jar isn't canon?

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:

 zend wrote:
Not a fan of the wookies being close range specialists, but I dig the models.

Wookies are mostly known for their excellent ability to rip limbs from people. I'm not sure what else you were expecting. They also help mirror the pure melee squad Empire has.

I wasn't expecting Wookies besides Chewie at all, because Clone Wars era content hadn't been announced yet. I would've expected them to come with Clone Wars stuff as a supplement to the Clones and possibly even be a mini faction complete with a trooper choice, a commander, and a support vehicle since it would be very easy for FFG to do that just with what's shown in RoTS. I also really like the Wookies bowcaster and wanted a squad full of them, but I just remembered it's considered a heavy weapon in most media so it makes sense that you cant have a full squad of them.

It looks like theyre going to be highly resistant to the effects of suppression though, so it will be fun to run them across the board with Luke or eventually Yoda.

Again - people can keep pretending all they like, but the Clone Wars was not somehow more of a war than the Galactic Civil War.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Again - people can keep pretending all they like, but the Clone Wars was not somehow more of a war than the Galactic Civil War.

Most likely because the rest of the GCW is mostly through the books and expanded universe when it comes to actual battles. Clone Wars is also much more aesthetically pleasing as a war because the sides are rather cohesive rather then grabbing units across several planetary fights and putting them together as they've been doing thus far.

Not to mention that aside from a few battles here and there the Rebellion was mostly guerilla tactics and hit and runs, as overall the military might of the Empire once it found locations tended to break them and their bases like a box of twigs.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Again - people can keep pretending all they like, but the Clone Wars was not somehow more of a war than the Galactic Civil War.

It was demonstrably more of a war. We've seen it. In great detail.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Again - people can keep pretending all they like, but the Clone Wars was not somehow more of a war than the Galactic Civil War.

It was demonstrably more of a war. We've seen it. In great detail.

And you're demonstrably wrong, as I've pointed out several times. You can't just arbitrarily dismiss all the material out there that shows the GCW was a far broader conflict than was shown on screen.

To be fair, George Lucas originally wanted to show much larger conflicts in the original trilogy but couldn't because time and money constraints. We were supposed to get a full army of Wookies, not ewoks.

People forget that the main group of rebels that we see in the OT weren't the only group in action. There were other rebel cells throughout the Galaxy.

That's actually one of the things that piss me off about the new trilogy. They act like the resistance we see is all that's left despite there being a scene where they call for help from their allies in other systems. Rather than having their allies ignore the call out of fear, they should've utilized the now forgotten Knights of Ren by having the resistance's allies respond saying they can't help because they're engaged with some unknown dark Jedi and other first order forces. Boom, instant fix to some of the gaping plot holes in the gakky writing, but this is an off topic rant so...


How do you guys think they'll handle Jedi from CW era? A couple uniques like Yoda and then a generic profile for other Masters? I'd like models for Shaak Ti and Kit Fisto, but they're not likely.

I'd assume the first three commanders will be Yoda, Obi Wan, Anakin, with Ahsoka as the Operative.

I kind of expected these support models to be their chance to add R2 and 3PO. I suppose that'll be later. The Imperial Officer art is fantastic. I forgot that that means I need to expect the mini to be disappointing. Still, cool pack. Interesting that the generic officer can be taken on its own or added to a unit. I'll be very curious to see how the rules actually work for the latter; since this is as far as I can tell, the first time we've seen a model with a different defensive statline added to a unit. Officer as a commander feels a little similar to Veers at a discount. Not sure I'm super excited by that.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Again - people can keep pretending all they like, but the Clone Wars was not somehow more of a war than the Galactic Civil War.

It was demonstrably more of a war. We've seen it. In great detail.

And you're demonstrably wrong, as I've pointed out several times. You can't just arbitrarily dismiss all the material out there that shows the GCW was a far broader conflict than was shown on screen.

People cant arbitrarily dismiss alot of things, that doenst stop them.

Damn, Clone Wars content will be really tempting. Especially if there is a separate starter box. I wonder if any of the models will pull double duty for both eras? The Wookies would certainly fit with the Republic forces.

Edit - Mandalorian models could be used for all four and any future Merc/Scum faction.

Those new sculpts are really hit/miss for me. I'm pretty sure that imperial officer is meant to be female, it just didn't translate at all onto the sculpt very well, just like Leia.

Interest in this game seems to have died off a bit in my area. Clone Wars stuff sounds kind of cool but everybody I know in my personal life regards the prequels poorly and the interest in that stuff seems minimal. I do think the clone wars battles seen in the movies are more fitting for the type of gameplay this game presents though.

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 Yodhrin wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Again - people can keep pretending all they like, but the Clone Wars was not somehow more of a war than the Galactic Civil War.

It was demonstrably more of a war. We've seen it. In great detail.

And you're demonstrably wrong, as I've pointed out several times. You can't just arbitrarily dismiss all the material out there that shows the GCW was a far broader conflict than was shown on screen.

The real problem is that aside from the original trilogy, all the other material to show the Galactic Civil War as a full-on conflict have basically been taken out of canon.