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I'm in the presumably rare position that I don't even have to think about buying a box of plastic Stormtroopers. I only have two painted PVC squads. One assembled by the book, the other one with arm swaps so I get differently posed models. Without extensive conversion that's as much as I'll get out of the old kit. And let's face it, the early models don't have particularly great poses to begin with. Adding the new squad to maintain variation in my squads makes it instantly appealing to me.

The kit might not sell in bulk to many existing players, but I could see that factoring into people's decision to add a box to their collection.

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Some good looking stuff. I'll pick up the geonosians and republic commandos.

Is there much difference between the current rebel squads and the previewed HIPS version? could add some variety into the army to have a squad or two of both.

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 Tamereth wrote:
Some good looking stuff. I'll pick up the geonosians and republic commandos.

Is there much difference between the current rebel squads and the previewed HIPS version? could add some variety into the army to have a squad or two of both.


The HIPs version of things like the Stormtroopers and the basic Rebel Troopers will likely have all the upgrade options in a single box rather than as a separate pack. Also wouldn't be surprised if they added some new ones in. There'll also be a lot more customization within a single Rebel box in particular; they said those will have a lot of options in terms of heads and weapons.

Only the Pathfinders set is actually an existing Rebel unit, the other (with the dual-pistols) is a new unit; Rebel Saboteurs, based loosely on Andor style civilian-infiltrators.


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 Geifer wrote:
I'm in the presumably rare position that I don't even have to think about buying a box of plastic Stormtroopers. I only have two painted PVC squads. One assembled by the book, the other one with arm swaps so I get differently posed models. Without extensive conversion that's as much as I'll get out of the old kit. And let's face it, the early models don't have particularly great poses to begin with. Adding the new squad to maintain variation in my squads makes it instantly appealing to me.

The kit might not sell in bulk to many existing players, but I could see that factoring into people's decision to add a box to their collection.


Those HIPs revisions aren't due until about 2025 apparently so the crappy soft-plastics have some lifespan left. Personally I'm of a similar opinion; I'll actually bite the bullet and more than willingly get the HIPs versions of Stormtroopers and the like just because I'll get much more enjoyment out of having better models and more natural customization.

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Nice to see the OG republic commandos instead of the Bad Batch style versions.

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 warboss wrote:
Nice to see the OG republic commandos instead of the Bad Batch style versions.

I like 'em both...and luckily, The Bad Batch are coming as a separate kit!
   
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Fair enough and I'm happy for fans of that series spinoff. I'm just glad that the ones I liked back when I was playing the game and reading the comics and novels also get some love.

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 warboss wrote:
Fair enough and I'm happy for fans of that series spinoff. I'm just glad that the ones I liked back when I was playing the game and reading the comics and novels also get some love.


I wonder if we will get an Omega squad card in there along with the Delta squad one?

   
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 Siygess wrote:
 warboss wrote:
Fair enough and I'm happy for fans of that series spinoff. I'm just glad that the ones I liked back when I was playing the game and reading the comics and novels also get some love.


I wonder if we will get an Omega squad card in there along with the Delta squad one?


Might be a tad confusing considering Bad Batch is getting Omega as part of the same release wave and she's far more relevant to current media.
   
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 Siygess wrote:
 warboss wrote:
Fair enough and I'm happy for fans of that series spinoff. I'm just glad that the ones I liked back when I was playing the game and reading the comics and novels also get some love.


I wonder if we will get an Omega squad card in there along with the Delta squad one?


I would hope so. I wouldn't expect a different set of sculpts but that would be a good option to have.

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So, after a bit of a hiatus since summer, the next expansions have a release date. Get your bug spray ready for January 19.

Poggle the Lesser, Sun Fac (who I've, like, totally heard of before, honest!) and Geonosians:








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HIPs does make Star Wars Legion figures much more appealing to me for non-Legion projects. Those Geonosians will make great generic alien bug folk.

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Reveals from the AMG product reveals panel at Adepticon today.

Sorry for the poor quality, snapped screenshots of them while watching it earlier today.
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Interesting idea to have generic Jedi as unit attachments, hope they expand upon that. Not sold in the CIS releases at all, only ever come across one person who was asking for them.

Loving the Riot control squad!

And congrats to Ollie for winning worlds with his raiding party SC list, amazing to see all the rest of the cut as Experimental Droids.

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OG Clone Commandos! I've always been a fan of the Geonosis original versions in white armor that premiered in the comics. I wasn't a fan of the gaudy colors they got in the xbox/PC game afterwards.

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I thought grievous was already in hard plastic?
   
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 lurch wrote:
I thought grievous was already in hard plastic?


He is yeah, and I don’t think this new one is much of an improvement sculpt wise. Weird release.
   
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 ingtaer wrote:
Saved me a job, thanks!

Interesting idea to have generic Jedi as unit attachments, hope they expand upon that. Not sold in the CIS releases at all, only ever come across one person who was asking for them.

Loving the Riot control squad!

And congrats to Ollie for winning worlds with his raiding party SC list, amazing to see all the rest of the cut as Experimental Droids.


From I recall of the panel they revealed these in, is that the generic Jedi can go in ARF troopers or in ARC troopers.

Funny you mention that about CIS, the CIS players I know has been wanting Crab droids so badly.

That final match of Worlds was a nail biter, Ollie played well and got some good assistance from the dice when he needed it. Love it when such a big match ends up being so close like that.


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 lurch wrote:
I thought grievous was already in hard plastic?


He is yeah, and I don’t think this new one is much of an improvement sculpt wise. Weird release.


I agree, the current Grievous sculpt isn't bad at all. They mentioned that some of these minis were sculpted by people not normally on their sculpting team (some were from the engineering team) and I think this Grievous is one of them.

This one doesn't seem to he a huge improvement over the previous one, but I loved the excitement in the panel about when they were naming who did some of these newer sculpts.


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 warboss wrote:
OG Clone Commandos! I've always been a fan of the Geonosis original versions in white armor that premiered in the comics. I wasn't a fan of the gaudy colors they got in the xbox/PC game afterwards.


The colors really only make sense for that game due to making it easier to determine who was who when issuing commands in Republic Commando, it is why they also went with different voices for each one. The limitations of the original Xbox made them have to use colors and sounds for the Commanods to assist the player.

The Republic Commandos box comes with the unit card to make Delta Squad from Republic Commando, or the generic Commandos squad.

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Love that riot squad. Nice to get a roadmap so I don't have to check month after month to see if the Bad Batch finally gets released. Also cool that the Range Troopers are imminent.

Also nice to have rules for a generic Jedi in some capacity. I much prefer unnamed characters most of the time.

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 ingtaer wrote:
Saved me a job, thanks!

Interesting idea to have generic Jedi as unit attachments, hope they expand upon that. Not sold in the CIS releases at all, only ever come across one person who was asking for them.

Loving the Riot control squad!

And congrats to Ollie for winning worlds with his raiding party SC list, amazing to see all the rest of the cut as Experimental Droids.


I've been waiting forever for Crab droids..... and it's the CW version not the far more intimidating Movie version. They went with the cartoony one meant to look like an actual crab, rather than the movie version meant to be an actually intimidating piece of hardware.
   
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So is the Riot Squad anachronistic since they don't have First Order or have the "shock stick & shield" stormtroopers appeared in some Empire era show or book I don't know about?

(In that route, I'd like to see the McQuarrie Stormtroopers with light sabers be done in some fashion).

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 Stormonu wrote:
So is the Riot Squad anachronistic since they don't have First Order or have the "shock stick & shield" stormtroopers appeared in some Empire era show or book I don't know about?

(In that route, I'd like to see the McQuarrie Stormtroopers with light sabers be done in some fashion).


They show up in Jedi Survivor I know and probably Fallen Order as well.
   
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 NH Gunsmith wrote:

The colors really only make sense for that game due to making it easier to determine who was who when issuing commands in Republic Commando, it is why they also went with different voices for each one. The limitations of the original Xbox made them have to use colors and sounds for the Commanods to assist the player.

The Republic Commandos box comes with the unit card to make Delta Squad from Republic Commando, or the generic Commandos squad.


Indeed! I saw that in the behind the scenes coverage for the game around the time it came out. I just wished that I had the option of making them the "default" white colors too in that game on xbox (no idea if a PC option or mod made that possible). My pleasure in seeing the OG white ones available doesn't mean I don't want others to miss out on playing their preferred versions though.

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 LunarSol wrote:
 Stormonu wrote:
So is the Riot Squad anachronistic since they don't have First Order or have the "shock stick & shield" stormtroopers appeared in some Empire era show or book I don't know about?

(In that route, I'd like to see the McQuarrie Stormtroopers with light sabers be done in some fashion).


They show up in Jedi Survivor I know and probably Fallen Order as well.


They mentioned in the panel that the new Rebel Sleeper Cell and Empire Riot Squad units were something that they talked with Lucasfilm on and got permission to make and was given a bit of creative freedom on.

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Also we have Andor now which shows the Empire to use troops with shields for crowd control, albeit army boyos instead of Stormtroopers. But the practice and equipment are certainly well enough established at this point.

The real issue with this release is that we don't get civilians to beat down. Where's my angry mob?

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 Geifer wrote:
Also we have Andor now which shows the Empire to use troops with shields for crowd control, albeit army boyos instead of Stormtroopers. But the practice and equipment are certainly well enough established at this point.

The real issue with this release is that we don't get civilians to beat down. Where's my angry mob?


I'd have said that the Rebel Sleeper Cells are the angry mob (or at least the ones inciting one).

A version of the Imperial Riot Troopers have appeared in quite a few different media over the years; Jedi Survivor being the most recent, albeit they were wearing a variant of the Scout Trooper armour. These ones are pretty similar other than the helmets. I really like them. Have to think Republic will get their version down the line (maybe even with the 'Hound-Troopers'!) and Commander Fox.
   
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Yeah, I think they're just a little too paramilitary for me. Guns, action poses, trench coats like it's the 90s all over again... one of those guys has a tactical wall, doesn't he?

They're nice for what they are, but I'd just like to have some civilians prior to the "AK-47s for everyone!" stage.

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 Geifer wrote:
Yeah, I think they're just a little too paramilitary for me. Guns, action poses, trench coats like it's the 90s all over again... one of those guys has a tactical wall, doesn't he?

They're nice for what they are, but I'd just like to have some civilians prior to the "AK-47s for everyone!" stage.


Not sure how much less paramilitary they can make a unit until you might as well just run Ewoks though.

Don't really see a point in making a slightly worse Rebel Trooper or Fleet Trooper unit since that would heavily bloat the Rebel Corps options.

Edit. Unless you are just talking about aesthetics now that I realize it. I can imagine the Sleeper Cell box will be pretty easy to kit bash with the redone Rebel Corps options in hard plastic coking out next year if you wanted to tone down their aesthetic a bit.

Although with how similar most Rebels units tends to look, I can see why they went with the action poses so that they can be easily identified.

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Yep, my concern is aesthetics. My Imperials are all uniformed and there's a lot of trooper variety there. I have a Fleet Trooper themed Rebel army and will eventually have a similarly uniform cold weather gear army once I get around to assembling and painting the Echo Base models. What I'm missing is the well meaning but not very well equipped amateur revolutionaries that are mostly civilian in appearance. I'd like to have something like that in my collection. Currently that's a lot of conversion work, and I wouldn't mind if AMG made my life a little easier.

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