Is this my dream Star Wars ground tabletop game? No. That would have been set in the clone wars era for two reasons; a) Clones are awesome and they would have been more fun to paint. b) There is more content there.
Rank and file CW era combat would have been fun I think. So while there were rumors about this game for over a year and it has not been what my brain cooked I think many of us, if not most of us, need to take a step back and wait for the release. If there hadn't been an official leak by alliance a few days ago would anyone be upset today about this announcement? Ok well Nelson and Ben but aside from them? These models mostly look great, and judging by FFgs past mins games it will have at worst a solid rules system. Pretty safe bet there will be plenty of future content as well. Which makes me wonder why everyone is so upset about the contents of the starter and being sad there are no big walkers. They will come. I wouldn't be shocked if we saw AT-STs within a year of release. AT-ATs will be spendy but they'll get here. I'm thinking around the price of an ISD for Armada. Nd saying this is basically IA doesn't quite make sense to me. Disclaimer I have never played it so this is an extremely uneducated opinion but to my understanding IA is a dungeon crawler/grid game more akin to a board game than a table top game. Maybe i'm way off on that.
I guess all this goes to say is I'm REALLY excited for this game, but maybe I'm the only one.