Opening up HotE and I'm trying to figure out why there are 4 clawdite figures when there are only 3 single figure deployment cards.

The component list says 16 plastic figures, which works out to the 3 heros, 1 AT-DP, and 4 each of the Riot Troopers, Sentries, and Clawdites. It's not included by accident.

Is there a purpose for the 4th figure or is this an example of extremely poor quality control from FFG?

Technically you could play 4 Clawdites -- 3 start with a form and 1 does not. When one of your Clawdites with a form is defeated, at the beginning of the next round, the formless Clawdite may take the now unused form.

I'm not for sure if you WANT to do that, but you can.

36 minutes ago, cnemmick said:

Technically you could play 4 Clawdites -- 3 start with a form and 1 does not. When one of your Clawdites with a form is defeated, at the beginning of the next round, the formless Clawdite may take the now unused form.

I'm not for sure if you WANT to do that, but you can.

This doesn't explain the mismatch between 4 Clawdite figures and 3 Clawdite deployment cards. Regardless of whether you'd want to use 4, there's either too many figures, or not enough deployment cards.

Personally, I think they've accidentally shipped an extra figure in each box. The historical inclusions for single figures like this is 2x regular and 1x elite, like the deployment cards. For example Ugnaughts, probe droids and imperial officers all follow this pattern.

But he said there are only 3 deployment cards, not just 3 forms. So you can't play the fourth Clawdite, period, with or without a form.

My guess is a mission with the Clawdites will have a "hidden" target mechanic. There will be 4 clawdites on the board, but only 1 is the actual target required.

Yeah. I don't have a clue

My guess is the imperial (grey) non-massive figures are produced in pairs because of whatever process they've been using at their factory. The new designers didn't know this and designed the campaign with 3 clawdites, but when they sent the specs to the factory, they were told it would cost more money to alter the production process to have an odd number of gray figures than it would to just stick an extra figure in the box.

So unless you see a mission in the book that calls for 4 clawedite figures, think of it as an extra figure rather than a missing card.

But why would the Rebels and the unique Imperials have a different assembly line process all to themselves? It's not like they are made from higher quality materials.

Besides, the base game comes with 9 stormtroopers, 3 probe droids, and 3 officers, right? They did odd numbers three years ago, but they can't now?

Possibly because the announcement said 16 figures and it could not be changed. Consider it a bonus figure suitable for modding.

(Even if you were to produce in pairs, you would not need to pack pairs into the boxes. There have even been packing mistakes with 5 Sentry Droids in a box.)

I was just coming here to ask exactly the same question...

I ve skimmed through the campaign setups and at most I can see a mission with 3 shapeshifters. I can’t see one calling for 4 (but I’ve not read all the details of the missions to avoid spoilers). But without a delpoyment card it can’t be used surely?

Also I have checked that the number of models and delpoyment cards match watch listed in the rule book... so it’s correct? By I still don’t understand why.

At first they said 4 Riot Troopers plus 4 Clawdites. Then they said 6 Riot Troopers and 2 Clawdites.

Packaging error?

What did everyone else get?

4 Clawdites here fortunately. Though I'm not sure I'm gonna use more than 1-2 though.

if there are 3 deployment cards for the riot troopers I would have thought to get enough models to field them all in one mission of campaign? here is a picture from the news article they released. bit of an odd one.

There have been various number of different non-uniques in the pictures throughout the articles.

Since the Bespin Gambit there has been an extra regular deployment card so that skirmish players do not need to buy 4 boxes to be able field the maximum 4 regular groups.

The 4th Clawdite seems like a bonus figure though. I would use it for modding or just with a different paint-job to reflect the different forms.

Expansion Setup said:

Note: In a campaign, players are limited to the number of figures
and Deployment cards included in this expansion. For example,
the Imperial player is limited to simultaneously using two Sentry
Droid groups and only one of those groups can be elite, even if he
owns multiple copies of this expansion.

For example the Bespin Gambit has 2 regular Wing Guard and 1 elite Wing Guard deployment cards, but 6 Wing Guard figures (2 groups).

For example Jabba's Realm has 2 regular Jet Trooper and 1 elite Jet Trooper deployment cards, but only 4 Jet Trooper figures (2 groups).

This is likely a production fudge up that was too expensive to fix.

typically these boxes are packaged with 2 regular and one elite of each generic solo unit so for skirmish you can buy two to double up and have the max playable.

Including 4 was some kind of a mistake.

Actually! Note they did not have a release announcement for heart of the empire today? Perhaps they really intended 6 storm troopers and 2-3 clawdites. And they are currently waiting to announce its availability once they figure out what they are going to do about it.

Note that the HotE announcement quoted 16 figures (3 heroes and 13 other figures), so the box needs to have 16 figures. I can't believe believe people are enraged about one additional figure. (Ok, I haven't seen much of a rage yet.)

It's early in the day for "In Stores" article, and I don't expect anything to change regarding the content. The ship has sailed and arrived.

12 minutes ago, TylerTT said:

Actually! Note they did not have a release announcement for heart of the empire today? Perhaps they really intended 6 storm troopers and 2-3 clawdites. And they are currently waiting to announce its availability once they figure out what they are going to do about it.

I doubt it. The FFG release article for Bespin Gambit was a week after the actual release, so it's no the first time that's happened and there were no such issues there. @Majushi is probably right about it being relevant to a mission .

I don't think anyone is enraged about the extra clawdite. They may be disappointed by the lack of two stormtroopers though.

Someone on facebook got four clawdite and five troopers. There was likely a packing confusion at some point.

Not enraged. Just wondering what the answer to the mystery was.

2 hours ago, a1bert said:

The 4th Clawdite seems like a bonus figure though. I would use it for modding or just with a different paint-job to reflect the different forms.

I would like to believe it was intentional for this reason. I haven't painted my figures due to lack of time but I can imagine people may want to paint each figure differently to reflect the four forms.

I probably would've preferred two clawdites and 6 riots, but if there's a silver lining to all this, it's that we have two less troopers to paint.

The consensus seems to be that they just put it in to have 16 figures. I guess it's nice to have the extra figure? Kind of like getting that knitted sweater from Grandma for your birthday in summer.

Thanks so much FFG, this is just what I always wanted!

Sentry Droids also have a mismatch as there are 3 deployment cards but only 4 figures.

18 minutes ago, Deadwolf said:

Sentry Droids also have a mismatch as there are 3 deployment cards but only 4 figures.

That's one of the expected mismatches since The Bespin Gambit when FFG started trying to satisfy the cries of skirmish players by including an extra regular deployment card. (So that you only need to buy 2 boxes instead of 4 to be able to field any legal combination of groups.)

Actually the extra one is for your cat. FFG thought of the little ones with claws and put in an extra clawdite.

I mean, since we are all guessing and all.....