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Leak from Spiel's convention list has the next GCW releases being Lando and Agent Kallus.

We also seem to have missed out on the Heroes and Legends news in this thread?
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/8/1/heroes-and-legends-1/





Maul is looking good but really excited for the T-Series droid, finally a cheap commander for CIS (55pts).

Prolly gonna grab Agent Kallus. Would be interesting to see if they do ISB Agents to go with him.

Looking forward to the generic clone commander. Always good to have the option for General Nobody.

Lando and Kallus? Nice and, frankly, about time in Lando's case. I really hope FFG isn't going to make us wait as long for Ahsoka, but after R2 and 3PO coming so late as well it looks like they're really dragging out the fan favorites...

There's probably more licensing stuff surrounding characters like Lando, R2, C3PO and the like.

Kallus is one I kinda expected, didn't expect Lando without Lobot though.

Is that actually a thing? I mean, I don't know how this stuff works in the case of Star Wars, but you'd think Disney threw enough money at Lucas and has the kind of legal department that they have full control over the IP they bought. Right?

I can certainly put the two droids down to being a double faction unit and FFG not releasing them before Clone Wars and thus the Republic was out, but still. Can't help but feel they're making some odd choices with their character releases*.



* I mean, look at the Spiel rumor. Rebels get two characters and Empire gets none. Unfair!

Disney owns the IP, but that doesn't necessarily mean there aren't other bits and bobbles moving in the background as well. My wild, pie in the sky speculation has to do with them wanting to establish a 'canon' point for the characters to get included with Legion. As in, "did this actually happen? did this? did this?" tying them in.

Also, it's possible that these two are not the only thing. They said there's 4 GCW items coming awhile back.

Shouldnt it also have to do with the likeness of actors being put into miniature for?

 Geifer wrote:
Can't help but feel they're making some odd choices with their character releases*.

I think its just a problem with the game engine itself. The core system just doesn't incorporate named characters particularly well beyond the one you take as your commander and a lot of the power from characters comes from the cards they bring, which you can only bring in very limited amounts. It really limits the ways character can be worked into the game.

I guess if you focus on the game there is limited design space and once you got a certain angle covered with a character, there's not much point to having more, similar characters included for gameplay reasons.

Still, with it being Star Wars I'd think that they would want everyone to be able to play with (and more importantly be able to buy ) their favorite characters. And with Star Wars being so driven by named characters, it's something that they had to have considered from the start.

Oh well, maybe it's just me waiting for Ahsoka and Bombad General Jar Jar. Got to pass the time somehow...

There are very definitive hints that Ahsoka's coming.

Anakin's coming and he's helpless without her?

But seriously, there are? That's cool.

Leaks were correct again then;


Anakin article; https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/10/20/the-chosen-one/

Worth mentioning that Lando and the Agent weren't leaked by the 'usual' methods. Spiel Essen posted them in the open rather than hidden.

With mutton chops like those, I'd expect that Imperial to have beskar claws that come out of his hands.

 warboss wrote:
With mutton chops like those, I'd expect that Imperial to have beskar claws that come out of his hands.

He gets a big pike instead:

Clearly a missed opportunity now that Disney has gobbled up Lucasfilm, Marvel, and Fox!

Is the full GHOST Crew out now? IIRC, didn't they have that red headed guy from Fallen Empire out there somewhere?

Another guy that we should be seeing should be Darth Jar Jar... with his Patented Klutz Force push.

I'm rebuilding a couple of Tie fighters, so seeing that Inferno squadron show up is pretty neat.

None of the Ghost crew are out, or even announced. Nor is there any stuff from KOTR.

I thought Sabine was out?

Sabine is indeed out
They might be adding more Rebels and non-movie stuff soon because stuff like Wren, Rex and others are out.
Im just sitting here waiting for Clone Commandos and Commander Cody

Damn, you are both quiet right, not sure how I overlooked Sabine!

I thought we were due for another couple of expansions to be announced as well as Lando and Kallus, was sure that there were supposed to be four GCW coming this next wave.


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And forgot to mention this;

Some more infantry would be nice. Some Galactic Marines would be a nice touch, as they're some of the coolest looking Clone Troopers.

Would be cool to get the Imperial soldiers from the Solo movie.

And, frankly, non-cone, non-droid participants in the Clone Wars.

All to add a bit if diversity and choice.

 Geifer wrote:
Would be cool to get the Imperial soldiers from the Solo movie.

And, frankly, non-cone, non-droid participants in the Clone Wars.

All to add a bit if diversity and choice.

Senate Guard would be nice. But with the variaty of clones im fine with just them for awhile.
However, the Cis Operatives expansions have a droid that can heal non droid units, so those might come out. not sure what they will be. Umbarans? Geonosians?

Tarkin, Pryce and of course, Thrawn would be welcomed.

Maul article;
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/10/27/dark-duelist/






I love absolutely everything about this expansion, cool models, fantastic rules, competitive pricing. Makes Vader look like an absolute wimp though, hope they change that with the big shake up expected for next month.

What’s the big shakeup next month?

 Tiberius501 wrote:
What’s the big shakeup next month?

Interested in knowing this info as well. Been slowly working my into starting Legion soon, by clearing out other minis I don't use... but is there going to be a big balance update between the models or something?

Changes to the rules and rebalancing of some points. Nothing is confirmed yet but sounds like they are going to try and make not taken upgrades better and rebalance vehicles using the AAT as a base

 ingtaer wrote:
Changes to the rules and rebalancing of some points. Nothing is confirmed yet but sounds like they are going to try and make not taken upgrades better and rebalance vehicles using the AAT as a base

Oh wow. Very neat indeed! Honestly glad to see how much rules support this game is getting.