16 minutes ago, Red Castle said:

I think we need to wait and see Episode 9 before getting the Resistance in the game. To be fair, if we only judge the Rebellion fighters from episode 4 and 5, it would probably look the same as the Resistance we have now. Fleet trooper, Hoth trooper and that's pretty much it. 

I think we have to wait that long at the very least considering the fact that next year FFG will likely be fast tracking to get the Republic and CIS up to speed with the Rebel and Imperial factions all the while having to likely release other Rebel and Imperial stuff to give those factions new stuff too.

16 minutes ago, Red Castle said:

As for me, I could be interested in a Resistance army (more than I currently am in a Rebellion one in fact), if only to field Rose Tico and then look at some grown up throw a tantrum about how much they hated the Last Jedi.

I mean, pretty sure you already know Red Castle I don't like the ST but at the same point I feel that FFG should put the product out there for the people who like it. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean that others shouldn't be able to get the part of Star Wars they like/love.

15 minutes ago, C3POFETT said:

I can just see it now, the Resistance takes down the First Order with the help of the Porgs.

I mean, porgs were rather invasive as a species.

Just replace Kirk with Kylo Ren and Tribbles with Porgs.

Edit: Close Enough

15 minutes ago, Lukez said:

I would be down for resistance, best way for me to get a bb-8 model

I'd be down for pretty much anything that adds more droids.

4 minutes ago, Animewarsdude said:

I'd be down for pretty much anything that adds more droids.

Oh yes. That is actually the thing I like most about the "Generic" expansions we will be eventually getting.

Hey, I got a fever and the only cure is more droids. I gotta have more droids.

2 minutes ago, Animewarsdude said:

I think we have to wait that long at the very least considering the fact that next year FFG will likely be fast tracking to get the Republic and CIS up to speed with the Rebel and Imperial factions all the while having to likely release other Rebel and Imperial stuff to give those factions new stuff too.

I mean, pretty sure you already know Red Castle I don't like the ST but at the same point I feel that FFG should put the product out there for the people who like it. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean that others shouldn't be able to get the part of Star Wars they like/love.

Totally agree that there is no point in rushing the FO and Resistance into the game. For my part, I plan to invest in both Clone Wars army anyway, that's what is actually getting me into the game. I hope they don't come too late in 2019...

And yes, I know that you didn't like the Sequel Trilogy but you've been respectful of the opinion of others and that is all that matters. Sadly, not everybody that didn't like the Sequel Trilogy shows that kind of maturity. That people love or hate the ST, I really don't care, as long as they don't act as if it is stupid to think differently than them. And it works both ways; I've seen people that love the Sequel act like d**** too.

Honestly, I plan to play the game mostly at home, anyway, so having adequate numbers of both factions is kinda essential for me, this is another reason why i'd buy the Resistance and FO stuff, if released.

I'm more excited about Clone Wars, though. I am looking forward to those factions, especially the Clones.

Fives! ?

8 minutes ago, manoftomorrow010 said:

I'm more excited about Clone Wars, though. I am looking forward to those factions, especially the Clones.

Fives! ?

Same here, but for the droid army! Ventress!

But a Clone army lead by Anakin and Ahsoka sounds too nice to pass, so I’ll collect a Republic army too.

1 minute ago, Red Castle said:

Totally agree that there is no point in rushing the FO and Resistance into the game. For my part, I plan to invest in both Clone Wars army anyway, that's what is actually getting me into the game. I hope they don't come too late in 2019...

I figure that the Clone Wars stuff will drop after the personal wave, or after both Rebels and Imperials get their 2nd heavy options, likely with another operative thrown in for each. That puts us what at Spring likely for when Clone Wars stuff drops? I suspect then that FFG would either announce ST stuff coming at Gencon 2019 for 2020 with a spring release or they could save the announcement for a December article around Episode 9's release date, which would hopefully mean they'd have more access to stuff to add to Legion for them.

10 minutes ago, manoftomorrow010 said:

Honestly, I plan to play the game mostly at home, anyway, so having adequate numbers of both factions is kinda essential for me, this is another reason why i'd buy the Resistance and FO stuff, if released.

I'm more excited about Clone Wars, though. I am looking forward to those factions, especially the Clones.

Having both factions, then does that mean when you play Clone Wars era you will dress up as Sidious and cackle at your opponent?

I'm super excited about Clones too, already thinking of how to paint them up. Really hope they have Phase 1 and Phase 2 troopers, with Phase 1s using the long rifle from ATOC and the Phase 2s using the shorter carbine from ROTS. I'm thinking if I get four squads of Phase 1s that 'll paint up two in white with the commanders having officer stripes, then one in 501st blue and one in 212th orange. And at least 3 Phase 2s one in white to have a general force, and one 50st, and one 212th with the possibility of buying more if I wanted other Jedi generals to have their specific legion represented with one unique squad and using my white armored clones to fill in.

It's the same issue I could have with CW. For the FO, I'm redoing stormtroopers again. There's not a huge difference between TK and TFA armor. Same with the "resistance" and the "rebels." It's a reprint of the OT, and doesn't make it any more interesting. How this relates to the CW depends on the armor FFG is deciding to go with for the clones. If they do Phase 1, they it's actually different from the TK's. Phase 2 is basically TK-beta armor; no difference.

I would love the Resistance to be a battle hardened, quality focused faction, to reflect their low numbers but seeming longevity, bringing a strong core of heroes/operatives, sort of like what Rebels do right now, but with a much different flavor. You'd still have access to chaff units (raw recruits) who joined you on a whim, and their purpose is to protect the very expensive, high quality commando units that are your hardened resistance troopers. This frees them up to take the special forces characters in entirely new directions (direct battlefield manipulation, freezing an enemy trooper unit's activation or lowering their dice quality for a turn, things that we haven't seen yet)

The trick, I suppose, would be not to outshine or overlap the OT characters by introducing "old han" or "old leia," but instead relying on Finn, Poe, Rey and Rose.

5 minutes ago, NoShieldsAllGuts said:

I would love the Resistance to be a battle hardened, quality focused faction, to reflect their low numbers but seeming longevity, bringing a strong core of heroes/operatives, sort of like what Rebels do right now, but with a much different flavor. You'd still have access to chaff units (raw recruits) who joined you on a whim, and their purpose is to protect the very expensive, high quality commando units that are your hardened resistance troopers. This frees them up to take the special forces characters in entirely new directions (direct battlefield manipulation, freezing an enemy trooper unit's activation or lowering their dice quality for a turn, things that we haven't seen yet)

The trick, I suppose, would be not to outshine or overlap the OT characters by introducing "old han" or "old leia," but instead relying on Finn, Poe, Rey and Rose.

Mechanically, a great point. I would also be in favor of them fudging the "Commander" designation, allowing someone like Rey to be a Commander, even though she didn't carry a "rank" like Luke and Han did after IV.

My plan is to get all of the OT content for both sides, and then see what shakes out for the other factions / waves and be more selective about what I get from that point on.

I don’t generally like the PT / Clone Wars aesthetic or characters with a couple exceptions, so the mechanics would have to be fresh for me to dip.

I’m mildly positive on TFA as a movie, I love TLJ, and I’m a big fan of the characters introduced so far. I’d agree that there’s not as big an aesthetic shift between OT and ST as there is from PT to OT, but I like the looks of the FO Stormies / Officers. I suppose we’ll need to see what, if any, Resistance troops show in en masse in Ep IX to know what those units would look like.

34 minutes ago, AintNoPoser said:

It's the same issue I could have with CW. For the FO, I'm redoing stormtroopers again. There's not a huge difference between TK and TFA armor. Same with the "resistance" and the "rebels." It's a reprint of the OT, and doesn't make it any more interesting. How this relates to the CW depends on the armor FFG is deciding to go with for the clones. If they do Phase 1, they it's actually different from the TK's. Phase 2 is basically TK-beta armor; no difference.

Really the only real difference between Phase 1 and Phase 2 Clone armor is the helmet. I personally hope they do both helmet variants as two different core units with Phase 1s being the base with Phase 2s being the Snowtrooper/Fleet Trooper aggressive/shorter ranged type.

With FO Stormies having different enough, at least for me, armor so I'd be happy to see minis of them.

I like the look of the resistance troopers. I believe there are several lego sets that may expand the possibilities for vehicles and such. I think they released something similar to the Naboo security speeder. FO troopers are pretty well rounded already with troopers, close combat/executioner troopers, flametroopers, phasma, kylo ren, at-st and various officers and droids.

I d rather see rogue one and SW Rebels stuff. The First Order would just be rehashing empire. And the resistance has nothing on the rebel alliance as far as wow factor.

Maybe Abrams can bring some neat stuff and battles in 9, but we will have to wait and see.

No.

I'll only be buying OT stuff. Maybe I'll buy some R1 characters but that would be about it.

The only way I'll be buying anything else is if it looks good for painting up as my own custom squads of mercenaries or something.

32 minutes ago, Thalandar said:

I d rather see rogue one and SW Rebels stuff.

I doubt it would be a ST instead of that stuff, in fact I suspect we will likely start seeing Rebels and Rogue One stuff this coming year. At the very least Krennic with Death Troopers seems to be a fairly agreed upon 'wave' that could be released relatively soon. Of course I'm holding out for Rebel and Imperial pilots to better allow crossplay, casually, with Legion and X-Wing.

9 minutes ago, Animewarsdude said:

Of course I'm holding out for Rebel and Imperial pilots to better allow crossplay, casually, with Legion and X-Wing.

This! Yes absolutely pilots!

15 minutes ago, Animewarsdude said:

I doubt it would be a ST instead of that stuff, in fact I suspect we will likely start seeing Rebels and Rogue One stuff this coming year. At the very least Krennic with Death Troopers seems to be a fairly agreed upon 'wave' that could be released relatively soon. Of course I'm holding out for Rebel and Imperial pilots to better allow crossplay, casually, with Legion and X-Wing.

I have been wanting pilots since Imperial Assault came out. I even created custom cards and repainted some WotC miniatures to stand in for some squads. (See IA forums)

I really want Shore Troopers for Legion and even painted up a Stormtrooper squad wearing pieces of Shore Trooper armor as a "Survivors of Scarif" squad.

I believe Skull Forge Studios sells Imperial Pilot miniatures in Legion scale.

2 minutes ago, C3POFETT said:

I have been wanting pilots since Imperial Assault came out. I even created custom cards and repainted some WotC miniatures to stand in for some squads. (See IA forums)

I really want Shore Troopers for Legion and even painted up a Stormtrooper squad wearing pieces of Shore Trooper armor as a "Survivors of Scarif" squad.

I mean, if I can dream I'd love to see a Wedge commander with Rebel Pilots and a Soontier Fel commander with Imperial Pilots. Make the wave about supporting Heavy units, be it through repairs, command cards, or having new pilot options added through the two 'waves' for vehicles. They both could have a pilot with an arc welder as one option with the other being that scattergun from the original Battlefront for Rebels and that grenade launcher that they had in battlefront and the one that the fleet troopers have giving that option to the Empire.

Nope. No desire to buy supermarket own-brand Rebels, I'll stick with the real deal.

15 hours ago, Animewarsdude said:

I mean, if I can dream I'd love to see a Wedge commander with Rebel Pilots and a Soontier Fel commander with Imperial Pilots. Make the wave about supporting Heavy units, be it through repairs, command cards, or having new pilot options added through the two 'waves' for vehicles. They both could have a pilot with an arc welder as one option with the other being that scattergun from the original Battlefront for Rebels and that grenade launcher that they had in battlefront and the one that the fleet troopers have giving that option to the Empire.

I am guilty too of creating a card for Wedge Antilles for Imperial Assault. I painted an Alliance Smuggler in an X-wing pilot scheme to represent him. I did the same for Ackbar, Tarkin, Nien Nunb and ESB Yoda as well as several other characters.

I created a Republic Commando squad of Boss, Fixer, Scorch and Sev. Now that would be awesome for Legion as a Clone Wars Special Forces squad. The miniatures alone would be awesome to have.

**** no.

Prequals att least had some new designs instead of just copying OT stuff.

19 hours ago, AintNoPoser said:

It's the same issue I could have with CW. For the FO, I'm redoing stormtroopers again. There's not a huge difference between TK and TFA armor. Same with the "resistance" and the "rebels." It's a reprint of the OT, and doesn't make it any more interesting. How this relates to the CW depends on the armor FFG is deciding to go with for the clones. If they do Phase 1, they it's actually different from the TK's. Phase 2 is basically TK-beta armor; no difference.

I think that regardless of the similarity of the look of the troopers, Star Wars is more about its characters and our attachment to them.

So even if aesthetically speaking (and probably mechanically too) there would not be a lot of difference between the Rebel and Resistance troopers, there would be about their commanders. Do you want to make an army lead by Han Solo or Poe Dameron? Same goes for the Republic, Empire and First Order. They're all troopers in white armors, but they all have different characters to lead them or act as operative. Do you want to field General Kenobi, Vader or Kylo Ren?

Let's be honest. I don't think most players play this game for the assymmetrical value and style of the different armies (like WH40k) but because this is Star Wars and it allows them to play with the miniatures of their own personnal heroes.... and fielding stormtroopers.

1 hour ago, C3POFETT said:

I created a Republic Commando squad of Boss, Fixer, Scorch and Sev. Now that would be awesome for Legion as a Clone Wars Special Forces squad. The miniatures alone would be awesome to have.

With the Republic Commandos being canon, including Delta Squad, I'd be interested to see how FFG represents their blaster with its different loadouts. Like do they give you two with the standard configuration and then two heavy options for the sniper and demolition variant?

15 minutes ago, Red Castle said:

Let's be honest. I don't think most players play this game for the assymmetrical value and style of the different armies (like WH40k) but because this is Star Wars and it allows them to play with the miniatures of their own personnal heroes.... and fielding stormtroopers.

True, but I think it would be great if they could establish a different feel for each faction the same way they are trying to do so with X-Wing.

1 minute ago, Animewarsdude said:

True, but I think it would be great if they could establish a different feel for each faction the same way they are trying to do so with X-Wing.

I have no doubt that FFG will be able to do it.

Id buy them over clone wars stuff (though I intend to probably get some of that anyway). Though I would have been happier with OT expanding for a year or two first.