Hey I was wondering were a good place to get game maps and minis for "cheap" I'm thinking of pre-ordering legion for the minis and the game. Any ideas?

If you want prepainted minis, try looking around for the old Wizards of the Coast Star Wars Miniatures game. The figures are small, but decent. And the common ones are very cheap. Miniature Market sells individuals, and ebay alway seems to have lots for sale.

Legion and Imperial Assault are good if you want unpainted minis, and want the game also. They are a bit pricey for me if you don't play the parent game, or don't have time to paint them.

I'm a big fan of Pathfinder-style pawns. Super easy, super cheap. DIY link .

I forego minis. My maps are displayed digitally on a TV set screen up. Then, using cardstock and a 1" or 2" scrapbooking die punch, make tokens similar to those in the Beginner Games. For more durable tokens, I 3D print small discs of the appropriate size and glue the cardstock.

It's cheap, easy, and - if your players have selected (or commissioned) pics for their characters, it makes character-specific tokens). It's quick, too. No wait for shipping.

(L-R: Beginner Game token, cardstock-only token, cardstock & 3D-printed disc token)

I generally get the WotC minis from Troll and Toad's website.

I like to use Lego minis. It lets me change out weapons and peripherals too. Want a cape? Now you have a cape.

Between my friend and I, we have a big pile of the WotC minis. I have a stack of Armored Cartographer maps I'll bust out sometimes. Usually we scratch out a map on a large Battlemat.

While certainly not necessary for this system, it sure is fun scooting minis around the table.

Obviously your group likes minis and maps, and the other commenter's suggestions are awesome. I have enjoyed long-running mini-heavy D&D games in the past. I have also used virtual table-tops and spent hundreds of hours in GIMP editing maps and tokens and had a lot of fun with the results.

That said, the thing I have enjoyed most about this game is letting all that go. A couple of reference images are all our group uses. Gameplay is almost purely theatre of the mind.

I can't wait to get my hands on the Genesys core book, so I can port over all my old Pathfinder adventures to the narrative style experience.

I hear ya, O. Our maps are just general environment and placement references. The minute someone tries to get tactical using the tokens (which has yet to happen), I'd shut 'me down. Just makes it easier for some of us to keep track of who and what is where.

One of the most difficult things I did (not that I've ever used minis overmuch in my RPG history) was to let go of trying to keep the maps and tokens to some kind of scale.

I have close to 500 wotc unique minis and multiples of a lot of them. Back in the day I bought common sets and uncommon sets on ebay... these days (for the last decade or so) I buy most of my minis from trollandtoad.com they had been reasonably priced but the cost is creeping up. For maps... two weak ago I would have said "there's a Chris west/maps of mastery Kickstarter going on right now pledge about $250 and you'll get a copy of every maps of mastery map ever printed up until now." However, 1 I didn't even visit the recent kickstarter because I did that last year with the bases and battlestations kickstarter so I don'the know if $250 would still get you that and 2) the kickstarter is now over.

For deck plans I recommend going to colonialchrome, scaling the image to an appropriate size and having office depot/office max print it on the thickest paper available in the 11 by 17 inch size (I have all 4 decks of the consular cruiser stuck together and printed on 10 total 11x17 inch segments. It's slightly below minis scale (as in 1 inch is bigger than 5 feet) but it's close enough to make it work and the entire ship/all 4 decks fit on my "that's not a coffee table, it's a dinner table for Hobbits" coffee table simultaneously.

So I am not the only one .

We started a new "some-sort-of rebels"-Group yesterday and I really like my Lego Lannik Demolishionist with his thermal detonator.

One of the players asked: "what if I want to play a hutt?" - then I have the right mini for you too

More reasons to buy Star Wars Lego...

On 25.8.2017 at 10:25 PM, Genuine said:

I like to use Lego minis. It lets me change out weapons and peripherals too. Want a cape? Now you have a cape.

On 8/25/2017 at 8:02 PM, Nytwyng said:

I forego minis. My maps are displayed digitally on a TV set screen up. Then, using cardstock and a 1" or 2" scrapbooking die punch, make tokens similar to those in the Beginner Games. For more durable tokens, I 3D print small discs of the appropriate size and glue the cardstock.

It's cheap, easy, and - if your players have selected (or commissioned) pics for their characters, it makes character-specific tokens). It's quick, too. No wait for shipping.

(L-R: Beginner Game token, cardstock-only token, cardstock & 3D-printed disc token)

doing exactly the same (even with the same fiskars tool))) and it plays out very well!

1) does not take a lot of work to do (especially after you had some practice)

2) helps the players to visualize all the NPCs.

3) also much easier to store/replace and travel this way than wiht a ton of plastic minis.

Those minis are pricey and there is a finite supply. Better to go with counters or to wait for Legion.