The new Barricades pack that is coming out has me thinking a bit. I will likely get a copy of one as well as a copy of Priority Supplies. Primarily because of the new objective cards that come in both as well as a few cool pieces in the Priority Supplies box, though they aren't - pardon the pun - the priority.

I'm currently just thinking over one little issue. I've already bought two core sets, each containing 8 barricades, for a total of 16. When I do get the barricades pack that'll be another 8 for a total of 24 barricades! I checked out @Big Easy's thread about the number of barricades that people are using. The games that I've been playing do make sufficient use of barricades, but I felt that in my last match that I was putting the last few in "just 'cus". I'm well aware that I'm under no obligation to use all of the barricades but I'd like to find a way to put them to use, if not as they stand in a game but perhaps on some other terrain.

To further that, I've watched several battle reports on Youtube/twitch and much of what I've been watching doesn't use a huge number of barricades; 8-12 usually. The common theme there is that many of those games use a greater range of terrain than I have been. It's not that I don't have a lot, I just have been trying to create a more star wars theme with them than using all my 40k ruins area terrain. I've got a few new pieces en route from Amazon and I've been putting together some more of my own to reflect the galaxy far far away.

What I want to do is make use of the barricades in some new terrain. Static pieces with a set of the walls glued down. A fire base perhaps, maybe some checkpoints or blocking positions.

Has anyone been using their barricades to make grander, more elaborate terrain or are they just sitting stock on the battlefield?

I like this idea! A firebase would be cool. You could make a 4x2 barricade squad stronghold that would serve as a stationary squad fire base as a good way to use 6 of them.

Also, barricades on top of flat building roofs is a good way to reward taking high ground (while avoiding the rooftop cover debate).

I really like the sculpt and mechanics of the barricades themselves. Also after playing several 800-point games I'm warming up to the idea of using more of them. I also endorse putting two side-by-side frequently, it effectively keeps the board strategy the same while making those positions slightly more attractive by ensuring more of your squad is in cover.

28 minutes ago, Crawfskeezen said:

The new Barricades pack that is coming out has me thinking a bit. I will likely get a copy of one as well as a copy of Priority Supplies. Primarily because of the new objective cards that come in both

I don't see anything that indicates there will be new objective cards in the barricades set.

7 minutes ago, LunarSol said:

I don't see anything that indicates there will be new objective cards in the barricades set.

Ditto.

I have yet to use any barricades. I do like the sculpt but find that it doesn't fit my board themes (as I prefer using the crates and containers as my barricades, thematically. That said.. I may make an Imperial base surrounded by a city (like Lothal) with checkpoints on 4 sides using the barricades. I might also cut down and partially melt some to make it look like an area was already under attack previously... or maybe make the Imperial base be the part that is already destroyed surrounded by Lothal.

Either way, I agree that with all these barricades.. something purposeful and creative could be done.

15 minutes ago, Lord Cedric said:

something purposeful and creative could be done.

Barricade Stratego? ?

I've considered modifying some of them by adding a plastic canvas security fence with a post attached to either end.

One of my favorite WotC era RPG mini-adventures was the High Alert scenario which I used to have some fences for that disappeared on me, but the adventure is pretty easy to update and convert to both the FFG RPG and could be a very interesting scenario baseline for Legion

On 5/7/2018 at 6:13 PM, LunarSol said:

I don't see anything that indicates there will be new objective cards in the barricades set.

Fair enough. What I was thinking was was from this:

http://starwarslegion.wikia.com/wiki/Barricades_Pack

Maybe it is unsubstantiated.

One of my barricades arrived with a chunk missing, so I've had some fun cutting into the rest of them and painting them to be battle torn.

To be honest, Im not a big fan of the design of the barricades nor do I find them very inspiring. I really wish that instead of getting all of the same barricades, we got half of them as larger wall sections that provide total cover, and then half were the ones we get in the box. Some variety would have been nice, but maybe we will see more in the future!

Im pretty excited for the priority supplies terrain pack though, the new cards look fun and it'll be nice to have some nice models to use as objective tokens.

2 hours ago, Crawfskeezen said:

Fair enough. What I was thinking was was from this:

http://starwarslegion.wikia.com/wiki/Barricades_Pack

Maybe it is unsubstantiated.

Yeah the "Additional Information" section in that link looks inaccurate. We've been told that Priority Supplies expansion includes 12 objective markers (not objective cards) as well as 3 Battle Cards (1 objective card, 1 deployment card, 1 condition card).

From what I can tell, the Barricades Pack only includes 8 barricades; there's no compelling reason to buy this one unless you really want some more barricades, like if your core set barricades get lost or damaged or you want to build them into larger terrain piece.

Build a bunker and use them as walls.

Paint sets of them to match different terrain settings - frost encrusted and flocked with snow for artic; beginning to rust for humid forests; sand blasted for desert; with aubesh warnings and graffiti for urban.

10 hours ago, ShadowKite said:

Yeah the "Additional Information" section in that link looks inaccurate. We've been told that Priority Supplies expansion includes 12 objective markers (not objective cards) as well as 3 Battle Cards (1 objective card, 1 deployment card, 1 condition card).

From what I can tell, the Barricades Pack only includes 8 barricades; there's no compelling reason to buy this one unless you really want some more barricades, like if your core set barricades get lost or damaged or you want to build them into larger terrain piece.

Well bollocks then. Scrap this thread. Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

I own 3 core sets and yes, having 24 barricades seems a bit much. I actually just painted up all my barricades and a set of 8 are used as an add-on piece of terrain. They are set on a base and stacked one in front of the other in 2 rows of 4 and set beside an imperial looking building as "overstock".

My plans are to customize one set of eight and trim off the right support on two of each type and the left support on two of each type and create 4 barricades that create a right angle or an "L shaped" barricade.

7 minutes ago, Crawfskeezen said:

Well bollocks then. Scrap this thread. Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

Not a waste of time, it's a good warning.

I have plans to turn half of my barricades into a bunker. But first I want to get my cores painted.

I have 2 cores worth of barricades and I haven’t used more than 2 because I have a lot of terrain on the board already

incorporate them into other terrain pieces, such as a fire base (glued to something) so that you don't have to set up a fire base each time. Or do a bunker, building, rooftop, etc. to add some unique terrain