Soooo SW Legion... being a Star Wars fan I was interested right from the start.
In addition, the more of the rules were introduced, I realised that the game shares some key design elements with my Victory Decision rules. Movement, Suppression markers, alternate unit activation etc.
Always a nice, warm feeling!

The one thing that soon made my less happy were the 1st miniature pictures, for whatever reason FFG chose a different scale as in their Imperial Assault miniatures.
So after getting the game a couple of days ago, I decided to assemble a squad of Stormtroopers and line them up against other SW minis.

from left to right FFG Imperial Assault, Legion, the OOP Knight Model Troopers, Legion, the OOP “bendy” WotC mini and Legion.

And together with another well know miniature line: FFG Legion, GW Primaris Space Marine and Legion.

As you can see the minis are bigger than all other Stormtrooper minis so far release by other companies and FFG themselves.
The minis are of the same quality as Imperial Assault, mold line removal is still a pain, they also share the same mini design style, slightly heroic proportion.
Detail is OK, not as good as GW and way below crisp castings like Prodos AvP or Modiphius Star Trek.
One more thing - being plastic and all, mini conversion will be easy!

A wasted opportunity: Why FFG chose to make them bigger as Imperial Assault minis will always remain a secret for me, IMO they lost a great opportunity of cross promoting the games.
It would be a lot of fun to field the 6 heroes of the core IA box as an elite Rebel commando. The “would be” possibilities are big, unfortunately now they are no more an option.
All in all I am a bit disappointed with Legion, but I have to play a game and paint some of the minis for a final “judgement”.

So the easy unofficial, but likely correct answer, is they want to sell stuff. If people could use their IA models there would be less sales of new stuff. (Unless it results in more IA sales)

I don't think so, the few minis of IA would never give you a platoon level game.

The cross-promoting opportunities alone would be priceless IMO.

25 minutes ago, Agis said:

The “would be” possibilities are big, unfortunately now they are no more an option.

Actually, the size difference seems to be less than first thought (based on the comparison of IA and Legion Luke). I think it will be hardly noticeable on the table top. But it is quite obvious that FFG wanted larger miniatures, maybe for selling more, probably to have miniatures that are comparably sized to GW's offerings.

What you consider priceless is lost revenue for them. They don’t want you reusing minis from other games. They want you to buy all in. IA is a completely different game and I can see why they wanted to do a different scale, they would need to create new cards and other items just for people that have those minis. Get over it folks, it didn’t happen and it’s time to move on from this.

For house rules and casual play at store we are using IA. We just use IA, WotC and other toy items around the same looking scale. More people can see the game and get hooked.

For legit tournament in the future we have original Legion

The GW comparison is to one of their larger models, who in universe are supposed to be what, 10 feet tall? Which means the Legion minis are a bigger scale than WH40k as well.

When I get a chance I'll take a photo of a Rebel trooper next to one of Warlord's WW2 minis, to compare "human size" to "human size."

FFG Legion is indeed way bigger than GW!