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Well if you really want a different Darth Vader sculpt, and you're gonna be in Chicago for Star Wars Celebration 2019 you're in luck.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/2/27/the-power-of-the-dark-side-1/

Two new units previewed today and it looks like Hoth fans are in luck:

Gah. Each new release makes me wish a little bit more that these were in scale with the Star Wars minis I already have... :(

Like that FFG didn't call them "Hoth Troopers" or "Rebel Snow Troopers" or something dumb like that. I like to be able to pretend that these two militaries exist within their own fantasy world and aren't just categorized by the costume the actor wore, unfortunately the way "Snow Troopers" were. Am I supposed to believe they've divided their military up by the setting they'll be fighting in? What if they think they're going to a snow planet but then the Rebels are actually on a beach, but they didn't bring any beach troopers? Do they have to go back? Just surrender?

There aren't any worlds that have snow and beaches. There are snow worlds, and there are beach worlds.

Probably why the galactic empire lost. If they send a star destroying somewhere for military operations, they have to bring some snow troopers, some jungle troopers, some desert troopers, some city troopers, etc. So they'll always have some soldiers for whatever kind of world they need to be sent to, but they'll always have most of their soldiers sitting idle on the ship.

 insaniak wrote:
Gah. Each new release makes me wish a little bit more that these were in scale with the Star Wars minis I already have... :(

Yep same here dude, ‘tis a shame also fortunate as I think if I bought any more with minis with the current backlog the girlfriend would smack me.

New releases look amazing, I am in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll_bvPcTw4M

Clone Wars coming Q3 2019, 100 dollars base box (Obi-Wan + clone troopers vs Grievous + B1 and some Droidekas)
2 troop expansion boxes, 25 dollars each (clone troopers and B1 droids)
card expansion box, 10 dollars

 Vector Strike wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll_bvPcTw4M

Clone Wars coming Q3 2019, 100 dollars base box (Obi-Wan + clone troopers vs Grievous + B1 and some Droidekas)
2 troop expansion boxes, 25 dollars each (clone troopers and B1 droids)
card expansion box, 10 dollars

Republic half:



BARC Speeder can be assembled with or without sidecar, and the sidecar swivels to face the rear arc like in the show. Phase 1 Trooper armour, obviously.

Clankers:




Extremely cool models. EDIT: Oh wow, hard plastic and on frames. The droids anyway, not clear if the Troopers are as well. Greivous apparently has a daft amount of poses - arms joined together, arms separated, lightsabers, one pistol arm, and all of them are ball & socket joints at the shoulder.

Droid frame:



Grievous with cape option:

Now that is somewhat more like it. Actual militaries during it out.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Now that is somewhat more like it. Actual militaries during it out.

Don't start that pish again.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Now that is somewhat more like it. Actual militaries during it out.

I see this as "one more small step towards meesa being able to own a bombad army"

Oh my, very tempting to get the clone wars box. Ugh...this isn't good...between this and all the other stuff coming out, i'm going to have to make some hard choices.

Nooooo, I didn't need to see this! Not after the Capital Supremacy update for Battlefront II!

Aw crap.

YESSSSS

i’m in for sure!

Yodhrin, it’s a fair criticism.

Galactic Civil War isn’t really noted for army action. Fleet? Yes. But on the ground, the Rebellion was more guerilla. With little standardisation of equipment.

Clone Wars? Much better for a TTWG. Lots of variety in terms of canonical units and vehicles. Both able to fight actual battles.

Yes, Yes, Yes, Will be getting on this hard. Still not 100% convinced of the games mechanics but these armies need to end up in the display cabinet (next to their Lego counterparts!)
Hope we get a bunch of the vehicles down the pipeline, but wondering how they will deal with the bigger stuff.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Yodhrin, it’s a fair criticism.

Galactic Civil War isn’t really noted for army action. Fleet? Yes. But on the ground, the Rebellion was more guerilla. With little standardisation of equipment.

Clone Wars? Much better for a TTWG. Lots of variety in terms of canonical units and vehicles. Both able to fight actual battles.

Have to agree. Even for skirmishes, the Rebel Alliance wasn't notable for them, much less an ARMY. The Grand Army of the Republic and Droid Army are far better candidates for a Star Wars wargame.

I will be getting this box.

Fantastic looking additions.

Rebels are fine for the size of the game. Most battles are essentially Endor size and Rebel armies pull that off fine currently. They have issues fielding larger models, but the game mechanics don't currently reward anything but infantry spam so its kind of irrelevant.

The other big announcement is upgrade card packs, which is something FFG has slept on for far far far too long. Disappointed they're not using it as an opportunity to update cards for a few models (Vader and the aforementioned large models mainly) but good news regardless.

FFG Announcement
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/3/28/the-clone-wars-have-begun-1/

I'm glad droids can be taken in bigger units but sad it only comes with a rocket launcher and no sniper droid.

The absolute mad lads named one of Obi's cards "Hello there."

Unfortunate, but at least they did a good job releasing original trilogy units first.

Fnnnnnnn... Plastic, multipart Destroyer Droids...

The Droids make fun use of the game mechanics. Cheap with horrific bad stats. They get orders relatively easily but can't aim and attack for the most part.

To all those who are saying that Rebels vs. Stormtroopers don't make for a good military army versus military army representation... remember that this game is played on a space that would be smaller than an American Football field. This is a skirmish and not a large scale military battle. We're seeing one very small segment of what is probably a larger battle.

Also... new stuff looks amazing.

I'm glad they are moving to sprues with quality hard plastic. The abs type plastic had mold release residue and the brush on primer didn't stick well even after washing and it was harder to scrape mold lines with that plastic. I can't wait to see the sprues for the clone troopers and droids...and also super battle droids...those were my favorite.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yodhrin, it’s a fair criticism.

Damn right it is. Star Wars Legion being about an actual war, rather than a partisan group fighting a galaxy-dominating star Empire? And the things they can release for the GCW are already running thin, with disparate unrelated Rebel units and the latest being some destroyed units because what else is there?

This on the other hand actually has me interested, because the Clone Wars are awesome, and there's tons of stuff to mine from. And it's an actual war!!!

Not a DC15A in sight? Tsk. Still super excited for this. Republic Commandos are a must!

Edit: Whoops. Yes there is. But these are mid-war Phase 1s where the DC15A was relegated to squad support status instead of being standard issue.

 Siygess wrote:
Not a DC15A in sight? Tsk. Still super excited for this. Republic Commandos are a must!

Pretty sure the clone trooper squads can take a DC15A, I see at least two in the core box.

I don't like seeing the Z-6 though, looks kinda meh...large clunky and it's just not a very nice looking weapon.