3 hours ago, cheapmate said:

Shouldn’t there be an option/models for Luke and Han riding Tauntauns?

Missed opportunity

I want them too. But it's probably a better strategy to roll it out in dribs and drabs. If they release all the Hoth stuff at once, all the Clone Wars people (or whoever) will get bored and wander off. This way I have a chance to catch up on painting, and recover my funds, because I'm not buying Clone Wars. After Clone Wars (or something) is at an even keel, I'll get hit with another wave or two of "must have's" and the life cycle of the wargames customer restarts.

2 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

I want them too. But it's probably a better strategy to roll it out in dribs and drabs. If they release all the Hoth stuff at once, all the Clone Wars people (or whoever) will get bored and wander off. This way I have a chance to catch up on painting, and recover my funds, because I'm not buying Clone Wars. After Clone Wars (or something) is at an even keel, I'll get hit with another wave or two of "must have's" and the life cycle of the wargames customer restarts.

Yeah, I’m happy to have a break for a while once the new GCW stuff is coming out. I have catch up work to do, and got to get more games in to justify much else. I’m ready to not be “oh man monthly releases!!”

49 minutes ago, ScummyRebel said:

Yeah, I’m happy to have a break for a while once the new GCW stuff is coming out. I have catch up work to do, and got to get more games in to justify much else. I’m ready to not be “oh man monthly releases!!”

Same here. I am looking forward to several months of not spending money on this game. Clone wars gets zero interest from me. The break will be nice and like @TauntaunScout I will catch up on painting.

I played with 2 units about a week ago, fantastic sculpts speedy and their action economy is insane.

2 dodges, 2 moves, 2 repositions , and an attack at the end of either move for your two activations all while rolling 4 red with sharpshooter 1. It is really good to run through an opposing unit causing displacement only to shoot backwards at them adding another suppression. The only thing that scares me on them is being laden with suppression because the best location for them is on the flank IE one panic and you're off table.

9 hours ago, Alpha17 said:

I'm happy that @TauntaunScout got his article, but I'll be glad when the currently announced GCW articles are done. I'm only mildly interested in Rebel Vets and Shoretroopers, and couldn't care less about the creatures. One reason I'm hoping that Clone Wars comes out in August is that Deathtroopers were the last unit released I actually cared about, and Legion is getting a little stale.

First world problems, I know, insert joke about Armada players, or Original trilogy purists during the Clone Wars releases here, gotcha. But **** it, I just want units I actually care about.

Genuine question. What miniature release would you care about? As in, what haven't you released that you really want?

4 hours ago, Tonytt1642 said:

Genuine question. What miniature release would you care about? As in, what haven't you released that you really want?

Ewoks and a neutral scenario use Rancor/Tuskan Raiders/Krayt Dragon sets

9 hours ago, Derrault said:

Ewoks and a neutral scenario use Rancor/Tuskan Raiders/Krayt Dragon sets

It's getting downright strange how much Endor-compatible content they've released with no Ewoks. Not my problem, I can't afford to collect everything and I have ewoks from two prior games. Still strikes me as decidedly odd.

14 hours ago, Tonytt1642 said:

Genuine question. What miniature release would you care about? As in, what haven't you released that you really want?

At least two ewok items: a commander and a corps which can total 800 points and more ewoks if 6x that corps and 1x that commander aren't 800 points, Imperial Navy troops, two Hoth rebel commanders: one on foot one on a tauntaun, two storm/sand trooper commanders: one on foot, one on a dewback, Some kind of OT dangerous wild creatures like rancors/wampas. There's a much longer list of stuff I theoretically want... but that's the list of stuff I know I'd buy if they made it.

Even if the ewoks came out as a corps and an operative hero that's fine too. I could take 6x corps plus one squad of rebel commandos and have it look like the movie, and have Chewie and the ewok operative plus Han and Leia fit into a force org chart. Whereas if ewoks are special forces, taking 3+ rebel troopers and an ewoks Special Forces won't look much like ROTJ.

9 hours ago, Derrault said:

Ewoks and a neutral scenario use Rancor/Tuskan Raiders/Krayt Dragon sets

OOOOO. Krayt Dragon terrain? I'd buy that!

23 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

You must be getting a lot more game time in for Legion to be stale. Hats off to you and your spare time. 🙂

I am guessing you will get Clone Wars September with a pre-release at GenCon, though I suppose it doesn’t hurt too much to hope further.

Honestly, I’m sort of happy for CW coming when it does. I think the existing announcements for GCW amount to the things I would hope for (outside of things that won’t come for a long time, when they want to badly add new content - ie Ewoks, Tusken raiders etc) are sufficient for me. I’m happy for you and your CW content, and I’m happy to be able to set a queue with an “end” in sight.

I **might** buy into Clone Wars someday, if I get a ton more game time. But I do plan to finish off my rebel and imperial collections (not completionist, just the ones I want) and have a self-sustained ecosystem where I can get games in with people who are interested.

With the summer break, so I've had more than a little extra time recently. Between regular play, extra games, and RPQs, I've been getting in more than a game a week, and with no real changes to my lists since Deathtroopers, yeah, it isn't the most interesting thing for me right now. I've unfortunately noticed that my lists are becoming increasingly more meta the longer I don't have new stuff to experiment, and I can't say I like that. Probably the definition of First world problems, I know.

15 hours ago, Tonytt1642 said:

Genuine question. What miniature release would you care about? As in, what haven't you released that you really want?

Well, Clone Wars, obviously, but I think that's kinda obvious.

In the Galactic Civil War era, Mudtroopers would be at the top of my list, with Imperial Navy troopers as a close second. Commanders like Thrawn or Piett would also be neat, if they brought their own unique twist on the game. After that, the AT-PT would be cool, but unlikely, with the AT-DT or AT-DP getting interest as well. (assuming they made them interesting, and not just repackaged AT-STs) Dark troopers could be cool, though I will admit to not being the biggest fan. For the Rebels, a hover tank, possibly one based on the Rebel vehicles from the original Battlefront games or Force Commander would be awesome, as well as Obi-Wan as an operative. General Rieekan would be nice, as would everyone's favorite meme fish, Ackbar.

It becomes less of an issue of miniatures after that, and more of concepts. I'd love for honest artillery and indirect fire assets to come into the game, NOT the silly not-mortar that's coming with the Shoretroopers. (which is probably why I'm so "meh" on shoretroopers. They had the chance to do something cool, and didn't) It wouldn't have to be area effect or anything like that, just give it the ability to use units with the Spotter keyword, or even create a new one, like "forward observer" and have it be on a comm upgrade.

10 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

At least two ewok items: a commander and a corps which can total 800 points and more ewoks if 6x that corps and 1x that commander aren't 800 points, Imperial Navy troops, two Hoth rebel commanders: one on foot one on a tauntaun, two storm/sand trooper commanders: one on foot, one on a dewback, Some kind of OT dangerous wild creatures like rancors/wampas. There's a much longer list of stuff I theoretically want... but that's the list of stuff I know I'd buy if they made it.

Even if the ewoks came out as a corps and an operative hero that's fine too. I could take 6x corps plus one squad of rebel commandos and have it look like the movie, and have Chewie and the ewok operative plus Han and Leia fit into a force org chart. Whereas if ewoks are special forces, taking 3+ rebel troopers and an ewoks Special Forces won't look much like ROTJ.

I’m thinking Wicket as operative or commander, Ewok infantry (or special forces) and one with a glider as a support unit.

Command cards could have synergy with Chewbacca to take control of an enemy Vehicle (Chewie and Ewok get placed as passengers aboard enemy vehicle, and control the card until they jointly disembark.); some kind of teleportation (Ewok Ambush); etc

20 minutes ago, Derrault said:

some kind of teleportation (Ewok Ambush); etc

As a genestealer cultist, I have many positive things to say about squads that can disappear to reappear in ambush and are armed only with sharp things.

22 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

It's getting downright strange how much Endor-compatible content they've released with no Ewoks. Not my problem, I can't afford to collect everything and I have ewoks from two prior games. Still strikes me as decidedly odd.

Why is it odd? By not releasing ewok warriors right away, they Have options to continue the line over the next year, at least.

While clone wars is the focus, they can't completely gloss over Existing rebel and Imperial players.

12 hours ago, Derrault said:

I’m thinking Wicket as operative or commander, Ewok infantry (or special forces) and one with a glider as a support unit.

Command cards could have synergy with Chewbacca to take control of an enemy Vehicle (Chewie and Ewok get placed as passengers aboard enemy vehicle, and control the card until they jointly disembark.); some kind of teleportation (Ewok Ambush); etc

Now that some new keywords were revealed during the Clone Wars livestream, here’s my thinking for an Ewok corps (or SF) unit:

5-6 minis for the base unit, low profile, melee weapons have suppressive. Heavy weapon mini has melee-ranged attack with versatile keyword. White defense die. Either nimble keyword or surge -> block. Probably not both.

Wicket would be an interesting operative choice, and I’d be interested in more Ewok themed units. I just don’t know how many flavors of ewok ground troops you can come up with realistically.

34 minutes ago, ScummyRebel said:

Now that some new keywords were revealed during the Clone Wars livestream, here’s my thinking for an Ewok corps (or SF) unit:

5-6 minis for the base unit, low profile, melee weapons have suppressive. Heavy weapon mini has melee-ranged attack with versatile keyword. White defense die. Either nimble keyword or surge -> block. Probably not both.

Wicket would be an interesting operative choice, and I’d be interested in more Ewok themed units. I just don’t know how many flavors of ewok ground troops you can come up with realistically.

We must not ignore the Ewok air superiority.

1 hour ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Why is it odd? By not releasing ewok warriors right away,

Strictly speaking in terms of allowing fans to create armies that are an homage to a favorite movie battle scene:

It's weird because of how much stuff they've doubled up on in the process. There's a lot of artistic redundancy in the Legion miniatures line. From that angle, at the very least, Commandos, Scouttroopers and Deathtroopers probably should have been something else entirely. Maybe other squads too.

They'd have "options to continue the line" regardless, the GCW is far from tapped out of interesting miniatures.

On 7/9/2019 at 6:33 AM, cheapmate said:

Shouldn’t there be an option/models for Luke and Han riding Tauntauns?

Missed opportunity

Just wait, they are coming. This is FFG, everything is coming.

10 hours ago, Mep said:

Just wait, they are coming. This is FFG, everything is coming.

For the meantime I stole a spotter* from one of my radar cannons and put him on a spare infantry base. He's my "rebel officer" in Hoth gear, in official FFG plastic and everything! I replaced him with a stack of crates so the cannon's base doesn't seem empty: this killed two birds with one stone. I wanted a Hoth rebel commander, and I have 3 radar cannons... They were getting repetitive. One with a spotter on the left, one with a spotter on the right... any way I sliced it my 3rd one was going to be doubling up, so, supplies and no spotter solved that!

If I really get bored and want to tinker with command cards I can always bring Chewbaccain a Hoth army. So, disclaimer for any other opinions I may give about release schedules: I don't actually have any strong opinions or desires any more for Legion. Any SW minis ambitions I have which I cannot adequately achieve in this game are covered by Imperial Assault, D20, or D6. However, none of those games allowed me my big armies of Hoth guys in a variety of poses, so, Legion has filled in that gap for me quite nicely now. Ok ok, except for a big box of Ewoks in a variety of poses. But for me, that's more for one-off scenarios and stuff anyways so it's fine.

Edit: I dunno if I ever shared pics of the officers. I really need to keep up on my painting thread more.

*I can't take credit for the idea but can't remember which forum member suggested it.

On 7/12/2019 at 6:04 AM, Mep said:

Just wait, they are coming. This is FFG, everything is coming.

Really? In my experience this is where FFG sometimes drop the ball.

If they had included Luke and/or Leia options in the speeder bike kits, they would have sold so much more copies.

Even just the cards would have been nice, another reason to do some conversions.

1 hour ago, cheapmate said:

Really? In my experience this is where FFG sometimes drop the ball.

If they had included Luke and/or Leia options in the speeder bike kits, they would have sold so much more copies.

Even just the cards would have been nice, another reason to do some conversions.

I'm sure that quite early on, someone from FFG stated that they would not have any units that crossed factions, so no Luke or Leia on speeder bikes.

48 minutes ago, Ghost Dancer said:

I'm sure that quite early on, someone from FFG stated that they would not have any units that crossed factions, so no Luke or Leia on speeder bikes.

Soo.. like the z6 which is on both clones and rebels?

58 minutes ago, Ghost Dancer said:

I'm sure that quite early on, someone from FFG stated that they would not have any units that crossed factions, so no Luke or Leia on speeder bikes.

It'll be six kinds of goofy to not give the Republic the AT-RT just because the Rebels were given it first. The **** thing was made for the Clone Wars movies and shows, after all, and only has a single appearance being used after that in BFII(2).

11 minutes ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Soo.. like the z6 which is on both clones and rebels?

And unless Anakin is either not going to be released or won't be armed, "Anakin's Lightsaber" will be cross faction as well.

1 hour ago, Ghost Dancer said:

I'm sure that quite early on, someone from FFG stated that they would not have any units that crossed factions, so no Luke or Leia on speeder bikes.

Luke on a speeder bike is not a cross faction unit. Rebel armies being allowed to use the unit card and models for the imperial speeder bike squad, is a cross faction unit.

1 hour ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Soo.. like the z6 which is on both clones and rebels?

That's a weapon, not a unit!

1 hour ago, Alpha17 said:

It'll be six kinds of goofy to not give the Republic the AT-RT just because the Rebels were given it first. The **** thing was made for the Clone Wars movies and shows, after all, and only has a single appearance being used after that in BFII(2).

And unless Anakin is either not going to be released or won't be armed, "Anakin's Lightsaber" will be cross faction as well.

Agreed. I'm not saying its a good or bad decision, I just recall seeing/reading it a while back.

As to the light sabre, as with the z6, its not a unit.