I'd love to see MERCS/SCUM, but as neutral units. Their own faction would be cool. But it would be easier to roll them out as neutral, and then when there's enough, just make them a faction as well.

3 minutes ago, lologrelol said:

I'd love to see MERCS/SCUM, but as neutral units. Their own faction would be cool. But it would be easier to roll them out as neutral, and then when there's enough, just make them a faction as well.

I would have rather liked if they had made a Scum faction but with the Empire seeming to get the Bounty Hunters as their Operatives and CIS likely to have the same for their own Operatives, though Clone Wars ones like Cad Bane and Embo, we might just not see it happen. I know some dislike the idea of Scum fighting large battles with these other factions but the battles are generally not so big that I couldn't see some explanation for why they couldn't fight. Empire/Republic is wiping out Pirates, Rebels/CIS are either attacking to get gear or being attacked to have gear taken from them.

I really don't want to see Ezra and Kanan. If there is going to be multi Jedi list I want them in the republic faction.

19 minutes ago, NukeMaster said:

I really don't want to see Ezra and Kanan. If there is going to be multi Jedi list I want them in the republic faction.

On the bright side Republic will have the most options. Also the Republic will have the more stronger and true Jedi. Both Kanan and Ezra use blasters.

But since they touched the Phoenix group the two of them will be coming, especially Ezra since he is the main character of the show.

9 hours ago, BRPort said:

Even though I'd like to see Lando at some point, still the biggest character missing for me is Obi-One, or Yoda. They could come to counter Palp who has no matching counterpart

Yoda would be the only true counter to Palp. Personally I think that Legion needs Lobot.

8 minutes ago, Pooleman said:

Yoda would be the only true counter to Palp. Personally I think that Legion needs Lobot.

Are we brothers from different mothers?

17 minutes ago, qwertyuiop said:

Are we brothers from different mothers?

Are you saying we have the same father? Nice.

6 hours ago, NukeMaster said:

I really don't want to see Ezra and Kanan. If there is going to be multi Jedi list I want them in the republic faction.

Well, with Sabine announced the cat is kind of out of the bag. It’s inevitable I think.

That said, the republic might still be the first faction to do it. Especially if an operative comes out fast so we can have Anakin and Ahsoka in a list.

7 hours ago, Animewarsdude said:

I would have rather liked if they had made a Scum faction but with the Empire seeming to get the Bounty Hunters as their Operatives and CIS likely to have the same for their own Operatives, though Clone Wars ones like Cad Bane and Embo, we might just not see it happen.

I would say it’s pretty clear they don’t intend to do that for a long time. Boba Fett could have gone either way (recalling he was an empire pilot in xwing before Scum was a faction). But with a second addition of the same type of line up, I think it’s safe to say scum in Legion is DOA until they get desperate to add content (not for a while).

Wouldnt mind seeing Cad Bane as a CIS operative though. Good call!

Obi-Wan and Yoda should stay with the Republic, as neither did all that much with the Rebellion. I'm not super excited (aka, not at all) about Ezra or Kannan coming to the game, but they undoubtedly will be.

1 hour ago, ScummyRebel said:

I would say it’s pretty clear they don’t intend to do that for a long time. Boba Fett could have gone either way (recalling he was an empire pilot in xwing before Scum was a faction). But with a second addition of the same type of line up, I think it’s safe to say scum in Legion is DOA until they get desperate to add content (not for a while).

I don't think that is necessarily true. They are sure to add multi-faction characters, most notably Palpatine. He will surely go CIS, and if they really wanted to milk it the Republic as well. The bounty hunters could be done in a similar way.

9 hours ago, NukeMaster said:

I really don't want to see Ezra and Kanan. If there is going to be multi Jedi list I want them in the republic faction.

Especially since Ezra was waaaay more proficient in the Force than Luke... Which was a huge sticking point for me with Rebels. Sabine is a counter to Boba Fett, let's just leave it there.

14 hours ago, Darth evil said:

i'm sure FFG is keeping them both for TCW

Yep I can see that. What I mean by " still the biggest character missing for me is Obi-One, or Yoda" is that between the three (Lando, Yoda and Obi-one) the last two I think were more influential for the Rebels than Lando.

3 hours ago, Aurelus said:

Especially since Ezra was waaaay more proficient in the Force than Luke... Which was a huge sticking point for me with Rebels. Sabine is a counter to Boba Fett, let's just leave it there.

Agreed. I think the danger of introducing Ezra or Kanan is that they will overshadow Luke for the Rebel faction's iconic Jedi role. I could potentially see them adding Season 2 Ezra, so he would be a weaker version of Luke.

I'd much rather see Hera with an upgrade option to add Chopper

Or C3PO and R2 as an operative team

5 minutes ago, KommanderKeldoth said:

Agreed. I think the danger of introducing Ezra or Kanan is that they will overshadow Luke for the Rebel faction's iconic Jedi role. I could potentially see them adding Season 2 Ezra, so he would be a weaker version of Luke.

I'd much rather see Hera with an upgrade option to add Chopper

Or C3PO and R2 as an operative team

Yea, I'd prefer to see Hera and Chopper or definitely R2 and 3PO next as opposed to Ezra and Kanan. Kanan though might be able to be made more of a support type unit, or even depending on when he is released link him a bit to more Republic faction Jedi as far as abilities go. Ezra on the other hand could be treated as young Ezra with the stun gun saber, and a mix between Han and Luke though they will likely go for a Season 3 or 4 Ezra, so they might let him take a single dark side upgrade or maybe they'd give him an ability that had interplay with animal type units like Tauntauns and the like due to his connection with animals.

When they do release Kanan and Ezra I hope they will give us the option to run Kanan with a season 1/2 head and his season 3/4 mask head with him either duel wielding his blaster and saber of holding his saber with both and Ezra having his season 1/2 head and his season 3/4 head with him either wielding his first or second lightsaber.

19 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

Lando also hasn’t been seen in any real ground fights, a small escape from Bespin is about it.

They may be struggling with a thematic way to bring him in.

They have no such struggles of conscience or we wouldn't see the emperor or certain other things.

I'm beginning to believe the release schedule is determined by a blindfolded child pulling Topps Star Wars trading cards out of a hat.

4 hours ago, Aurelus said:

Especially since Ezra was waaaay more proficient in the Force than Luke... Which was a huge sticking point for me with Rebels. Sabine is a counter to Boba Fett, let's just leave it there.

I have no idea who any of these people are.

The new female human miniature, sans helmet, is a cool looking space pirate type, that I will be happy to incorporate into my games.

Much as I tend to favor generic poses, I am glad Bossk is throwing a grenade instead of being a rehash of every other Bossk mini. He's my favorite bounty hunter but I passed on him in IA due to the 4 trandoshans in the core set.

Kanan and Ezra are probably operatives vs Commanders, though they could have synergy with others (Ezra/Sabine list for instance). Kanan's kit is actually pretty close to luke (he has a saber and gun), but character wise, you could switch up his design, Luke has a bit of an aggressive set with Jump and Charge to get around and slash people, Kanan's kind of a more defensive, steady guy, having been in hiding a long time. So different command cards, keywords and upgrade setup. He'd work best if he was made to play off Hera as a commander, I think. I dunno if I'd say Ezra seems stronger than luke (though Doyalist perspective: Ezra is from a modern CG cartoon, Luke is originally from live action films from the 70s and 80s.), he had more consistent training and his talents lay in a very specific area, but he also flitted with the dark side a lot. I think the best depiction of Ezra might be from his "stapler" saber days, since that was a lightsaber with a stungun glued on, so he could have like say, a two white die Suppressive weapon (as an example). As a character Ezra is also younger and leaner, so even if he had a similar keyword/upgrade setup to Luke, you could make him cheaper and more fragile by say, stepping back to 5/2 and a White defense die. There's a lot of flexibility in Legions simplicity to make things which feel like the characters without being straight up upgrades or displacement of other units.

That said, Legion may want to test the waters with CW first in terms of designing an army where multiple Jedi (or Dark Jedi, or cyborg wannabe Jedi) are likely to run around all at once, swinging glowbats at people, because boy howdy that is something you're gonna have to figure out because that is the crux of the upper level of both those factions, and people are gonna want to roll out like, an Kenobi/Anakin list, or Anakin/Ahsoka or Dooku/Ventress and stuff.

Plenty of expansion ideas in Rebels; Imperial Mandalorians, Rukh, Inquisitors, Gar Saxon, Zeb, Fenn Rau, Old Rex, Kallus, Thrawn, Ahsoka (with Morai), Melch, Rebel mandalorians, Maul and Thrawn.

Kallus would be a good test to have multi faction operatives, as would Ahsoka, Maul, and Fenn Rau.

12 hours ago, Pooleman said:

Are you saying we have the same father? Nice.

1 hour ago, qwertyuiop said:

Do you want to do karate in the garage?

On 2/6/2019 at 3:36 PM, Pooleman said:

Yoda?

Yes, he is definitely included in "the likes of".

On 2/7/2019 at 10:06 AM, Aurelus said:

Especially since Ezra was waaaay more proficient in the Force than Luke... Which was a huge sticking point for me with Rebels. Sabine is a counter to Boba Fett, let's just leave it there.

Ezra only seemed more proficient when you consider he had around four years of Force training to Luke's at most a few months to a few days (depends on how long he was on Dagobah). And Luke with that minimal training was able to fight Vader where as Kanan and Erza couldn't even make Vader try even with a double team.