When I first saw SW: Legions, I was really excited – extra star wars miniatures to use for Imperial Assault! But it turns out the models are a slightly different scale, which is really disappointing. My first reaction was "oh well, its a different game that I won't get. No harm, no foul". Then, I got thinking that actually it wasn't all bad.

I'm not particularly interested in Legion as a game, so I don't personally care about using IA models in that game (that's a whole different discussion). I also play exclusively campaign games, no skirmish. There was never going to be official Legion unit rules for IA, so if we were ever going to use those models they would probably need unofficial house rules, or be used as proxies anyway.

Here's the upside though, the models are about 5mm taller so look silly next to IA models. At least that's the human characters – luke, rebels and stormtroopers. We already have tons of those in IA, I don't need more stormtroopers. Sure, higher detail ones would be nice as a replacement, or to use as elite stormtroopers but it's not the end of the world.

What we don't have is a lot of vehicles. I generally use other manufacturers and toy kits of star wars stuff that's generally in scale. Having stuff like skiffs and speeders would be great even if only as terrain. Then there's the droids and aliens. Wookies will be huge, great for a large berserker unit. Combat droids can be any scale, I always assumed probe droids were bigger than in IA anyway. More creatures like the Nexu would be cool too, and again the difference in scale is not going to matter. Ultimately I think the only figures that won't be compatible for use in IA are the ones we already have already.

Now, if you want to play Legion with IA models, that's unfortunate and I would suggest just not getting Legion. As a wargamer, it doesn't look especially amazing, just a fairly standard, basic version of a tabletop wargame with cool models. Get it as you would any other game rather than one to use IA models with.

"Aren't your a little off scale for a stormtrooper?"

Wait, that's not the line...

Interesting thought about some of the models. Maybe a more intimidating Vader wouldn't look too bad, either.

The IA Vader is serviceable, but the Legion one is gonna be far superior!

Also worth bearing in mind is IA luke is one of the smallest models (he was young in the first film!). When you compare him to some other models, rebased on traditional 25mm bases:

1 hour ago, subtrendy2 said:

Interesting thought about some of the models. Maybe a more intimidating Vader wouldn't look too bad, either.

I was actually just thinking about that. I love the pose of the new Legiond Vader figure, and I think some (possibly now out of date) source material once listed him at something like 6'5". The larger scale might actually work.

1 minute ago, Uninvited Guest said:

I was actually just thinking about that. I love the pose of the new Legiond Vader figure, and I think some (possibly now out of date) source material once listed him at something like 6'5". The larger scale might actually work.

Definitely, I think a taller, bigger Vader would feel right at home. Not sure that alone is worth 90 bucks, though...

49 minutes ago, subtrendy2 said:

Not sure that alone is worth 90 bucks, though...

I'm going to go right ahead and say it's not, lol.

There might be a secondary market for it though. A lot of people buy multiple core sets for this type of game. They might not see a reason to have an additional Vader and may just paint it and sell their handy work.

Though, to be honest, that's still not worth it to me.

I'm sure the market will be flooded with extra Vaders if people feel they have to buy multiples of the base game.

Either way, a new Vader isn't the most needed model. If anything, I consider the base game to not be worth getting for IA, unless you want the walker, because the other figures are already available (Speeder bikes are too fast to use in the small scale of Imperial Assault imo).

18 hours ago, subtrendy2 said:

Definitely, I think a taller, bigger Vader would feel right at home. Not sure that alone is worth 90 bucks, though...

The market will be swamped in no time with Legion Vaders and Lukes, because everybody will be getting two core sets.