With the upcoming "Generic"Rebel and Imperial Specialists expansions for the GCW era, it made me wonder what we would get with the upcoming CW era product.

Are they basing this off of the Prequel trilogy or the animated series? I ask only because that seems to be the current direction of Imperial Assault. With the resurrection of the Clone Wars animated series and Disney truly showing no love of the Prequels I want to speculate our options.

Will we receive specially outfitted Clones only or will we get a "generic" Jedi and a Clone commander?

Will they go the route of the animated series and EA Star Wars Battlefront and introduce a Clone Officer which looks like an early version of an Imperial Officer paired with a unique Clone?

I could see FFG holding off T-Series or Super Tactical Droids for such an expansion.

I would like to hear what others anticipate or wish for in these expansions.

Let the Gungan and Jar Jar Binks remarks begin to fly!

I’d like to see Republic Commandos as a special forces unit

15 minutes ago, lukecook said:

I’d like to see Republic Commandos as a special forces unit

Abso-freakin-lutely! I would love to have them in game, the only thing is I would want each of them to have a seperate card as they are each a unique special force in their own right.

@Skullforge Studios offers a set of Republic Commandosto those who just cant wait. He also offers their unique back packs as a setas well.

3 hours ago, C3POFETT said:

Abso-freakin-lutely! I would love to have them in game, the only thing is I would want each of them to have a seperate card as they are each a unique special force in their own right.

@Skullforge Studios offers a set of Republic Commandosto those who just cant wait. He also offers their unique back packs as a setas well.

They could be like the specialist pack, that way they would add their own ability to the squad you add them to.

21 hours ago, C3POFETT said:

With the upcoming "Generic"Rebel and Imperial Specialists expansions for the GCW era, it made me wonder what we would get with the upcoming CW era product.

Are they basing this off of the Prequel trilogy or the animated series? I ask only because that seems to be the current direction of Imperial Assault. With the resurrection of the Clone Wars animated series and Disney truly showing no love of the Prequels I want to speculate our options.

Will we receive specially outfitted Clones only or will we get a "generic" Jedi and a Clone commander?

Will they go the route of the animated series and EA Star Wars Battlefront and introduce a Clone Officer which looks like an early version of an Imperial Officer paired with a unique Clone?

I could see FFG holding off T-Series or Super Tactical Droids for such an expansion.

I would like to hear what others anticipate or wish for in these expansions.

Let the Gungan and Jar Jar Binks remarks begin to fly!

Cool options. I think a generic jedi with a battlefront 2 officer would be my choice. I agree on the tactical droids for the seperatists but they weren't included until the animated series.

I know it falls in as canon but not everyone watches the animated shows. I had to watch Rebels after the show ended since we don't get Disney XD. Star Wars battlefront 2 has been nothing but a disappointment especially with the constant need for nerfing everything. Every update makes the game more lopsided.

I agree that a Tactical Droid is a good possibility for the CIS generic commander/specialist. I also would love to see a generic jedi for the Republic generic commander/specialist.

I imagine there will be a comms specialist for both like there are for the Empire/Rebels sets, so maybe a Clone with a radio pack and something similar for the droids?

We do not really know enough about the other specialists right now to make too many guesses about them, but for the Republic, I would imagine they would have similar to the Empire/Rebels with a medical droid and some sort of astromech droid and would likely serve similar roles. For the CIS....they do not really need a medical droid, but maybe some sort of droid that provides a similar bonus as the medical droids will be providing to other factions (once we learn what that is).

Why a generic Jedi when there's scads of named Jedi in the film's themselves? I just don't see it.

1 hour ago, GreatMazinkaiser said:

Why a generic Jedi when there's scads of named Jedi in the film's themselves? I just don't see it.

Sure there are, and I am sure we will see quite a few of the named Jedi as commanders (and maybe some as operatives). I am certain we will see Aniken, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace Windu and likely some others.

But, one reason for a generic Jedi commander/specialist is that those named Jedi will likely have a point cost that falls between what Luke and Vader cost (and should likely be closer in cost to Vader). So, there are likely to be people that would want a cheaper Jedi commander option in case they want a particular type of list.

Another reason is that there are players that either feel that Luke, Han and/or Leia always being the potential commanders for EVERY battle a Rebel unit is in does not feel quite right (same for the Imperial side with Vader and Veers), and thus were happy for the generic commander announcement to add some variation (beyond just the point savings the generic commanders provide). I will admit that this argument becomes a little less of a concern when we talk about the Clone Wars, where Aniken, Obi-Wan and other Jedi were leading Clone Troopers in lots and lots of battles all over the galaxy.

And then there are players that just do not want to have to use a named commander in their armies.

I really do not see a downside for FFG to include a generic Jedi commander/unit leader as part of a Republic specialist set (just as there will be generic commanders/unit leaders in the Rebel and Imperial specialist sets). For those that do not want to run a named commander (or might not always want to), this gives them a Jedi option.

I think the basic tactical droid would make a good generic commander via a specialist pack, with a super tactical droid like Kalani as a Veers/Leia analog.

I think ARC troopers make a better special forces. As to clone commandos.. A single one would make for a better operative level unit in my opinion.

That's the opposite of how the commandos and ARCs were supposed to operate though. The ARCs were trained for individual action, teaming up only rarely. That screams operative to me. The commandos on the other hand were raised and trained in four man squads. I'd see them as being two-man teams with two heavy weapon slots, and three or four options (sniper, anti-armor, mines, ?).

8 hours ago, GunNut said:

That's the opposite of how the commandos and ARCs were supposed to operate though. The ARCs were trained for individual action, teaming up only rarely. That screams operative to me. The commandos on the other hand were raised and trained in four man squads. I'd see them as being two-man teams with two heavy weapon slots, and three or four options (sniper, anti-armor, mines, ?).

But it IS how we see them in canon, i mean on screen. Rex is almost always working with other troops. I remember seeing other ARC troopers as well, working together.

The ONLY clone commando we see in screen is Gregor and he operates by himself, admittedly due to circumstance, but that is how most people will know clone commandos.

What we see on screen takes precedence over any old legends novels. Even the Gendy Tartovsky clone wars had groups of arc troopers working together if I recall.

i want echo,fives,heavy and rex.

On 11/17/2018 at 8:01 AM, That Blasted Samophlange said:

But it IS how we see them in canon, i mean on screen. Rex is almost always working with other troops. I remember seeing other ARC troopers as well, working together.

The ONLY clone commando we see in screen is Gregor and he operates by himself, admittedly due to circumstance, but that is how most people will know clone commandos.

What we see on screen takes precedence over any old legends novels. Even the Gendy Tartovsky clone wars had groups of arc troopers working together if I recall.

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Actually, that's not accurate to the Clone Wars show. Delta Squad showed up as a squad, and Gregor's backstory mentioned him being part of unit that was wiped out, or at least he was cut off from.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Delta_Squad

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gregor

ARCs, on the other hand, seem to operate in 1-3 man groups usually, with the old micro-series being the largest exception, and even then it makes sense due to the mission they were on.

Republic:

Generic Clone Commander, likely in Phase 2 armor with abilities similar to what named Clone Commanders can do but to a lesser extent like we see with Leia/Veers and the generics.

Clone Comms Trooper

Pit Droid for their repair option since they won't want to confuse generic R2s and R2-D2 on the field.

For their medical option they can either go with a combat version with a Clone Medic in armor or for a noncombatant they could do the FX-7 Medical droid which people remember from the original Battlefront games and helps tie into the Empire as they have the FX-6 medical droid.

CIS:

Tactical Droid, they were numerous and still leaves them the option to add a Super tactical droid as a standalone commander down the line like Kraken.

B1 Battle Droid likely with a comm pack on his back, similar to how we see them in TPM.

Repair could be one of three options, the 1st is a generic B1 with the idea of it being a pilot like seen in TPM or Engineer with a fusion cutter, the 2nd is a Buzz Droid, and the 3rd is if they wanted to go for an iconic design by going with the GNK droid provided they didn't want to do Scum since I'd imagine the GNK droid would end up being used there instead then.

As for their medical option they'd likely get an EV series medical droid seeing as Grevious had one in an episode of the Clone Wars.