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Y'know, you can paint them whatever color you like. Don't worry about resale value, this game's not popular enough for that.
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smug jeebus posted:Y'know, you can paint them whatever color you like. Don't worry about resale value, this game's not popular enough for that. Fully aware, figure I'll just go with what strikes the mood. There's no desire to sell these anyways, it's just a fun way for me to relax with friends and scratches that tabletop/star wars itch.
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I went Canon with the first two squads of storms and went and painted my clone army bright red because gently caress white again.
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Yeah I'm doing my own schemes and such for my crew. I was gonna keep default troopers in the white but it is truly maddening to do that a thousand times so I'm thinking it over. My snow troopers are red/tan, might throw red at the regular troops to unify em a bit.
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Dec 2, 2021 16:38
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That’s why my rebel veterans are all jungle-camo scheme, and not Arctic 
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Here is my opinion: don't burn yourself out making a theme match if it means you don't end up playing the thing you bought. I'd rather your stuff doesn't match if it means you get to play with me. Hell, I think it'd be visually cool to fight purple stormtroopers that are clashing with yellow speeders or something, because at least it's different and interesting. This goes for all Wargames ever.
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One thing to keep in mind is we are shown a tiny, tiny fraction of a galaxy with quadrillions of beings, millions of factions, every army having tens of thousands of military units. All kinds of poo poo could be "just off camera." Look at the U-Wing, added in Rogue One but a great fit for the design language of the orig tridge. I mean it's not super likely there were pastel troopers, but why not? And red/hazard yellow? Sure! I tend to like the monochromatic empire and stick at least close to canon but any livery is possible.
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Some platoon trapped in a fringe world adorning their gear in hot pink to scare away predators evolved to read that as poisonous
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 I did a whole unit of rebel troopers as Bajoran militia
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Fortunately I'm only gonna have two sets of stormtroopers, painting those white will be fine. imperial guards will be fun in red, death troopers being black.. and then of course painting the loving at-st. Maybe I should do like, fire decals on the sides and throw a NOS sticker on the back
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Dec 3, 2021 04:20
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I don't know what that is but it looks cool
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smug jeebus posted:I don't know what that is but it looks cool Star Trek crossover I got two mini's 95% done:   GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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Hi thread, I don't play SW Legion but I love Rogue One. That led to me buying and painting these besties: I think I'll slowly grab the rest of the available Rogue One characters, maybe even some Death Troopers because hot drat they're cool. Anyways, thanks for listening to my TED talk.
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Looks great! what did you use for the grass there? I've seen that before. They look a bit dusty, did you dry brush them? The gun looks nice too
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Imagine liking Rogue One and not buying Shoretroopers. The squad leader is the most badass sculpt in the game.
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Director Krennic is a close second.  
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It's going to be a few days for me to finish my rebels, finding time and focusing enough to actually paint is a bit challenging.
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hoiyes posted:Imagine liking Rogue One and not buying Shoretroopers. The squad leader is the most badass sculpt in the game. poo poo, good point. Added to the list.
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You may as well buy the core game too while you're at it, just to do some Rebel Commando types.
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Fyrbrand posted:
Pao and Bistan come in the Pathfinders box hth
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If it helps your wallet, death troopers have okay poses but the most deadly boring color scheme in an already monochromatic faction
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Just getting into this game. Picked up an assortment of minis my store had in stock, including palpatine, snow troopers and the e-web, some kind of lieutenant with droids, and the red close combat guys. Not sure where else to go from here. Kinda want to do a snow list, so I ordered more snow troopers and death Vader and veers. This is exciting! It’s surprisingly cheap to get into, and the models seem easy to paint.
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You'll definitely need a core set for the basic supplies, plus an alternate Vader and the rest of his cards. Snows are generally a one-off assault unit but you can do some gimmicks with them massed along with Vader. And yeah I've really been enjoying the painting/assembly though I havent done a lot of other games to compare
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Some friends got me the Clone Wars starter box for an early Xmas present, so I guess I'm all in?
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x-post from the min-painting thread!Verisimilidude posted:
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Verisimilidude posted:x-post from the min-painting thread! Nice job! Wait til you get to storms lol, at least snows have some cloth and kit plus cooler poses. You can also try some offwhite/khaki for the cloth as well. I just did one unit of snows as mudtroopers 
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I did my snows with greys and tans, after priming them white. Weirdly, they’re slightly faster on the field than normal stormies, and get their free attack after moving (2 speed-1 moves is a touch further than 1 speed-2 move). You’ll still need Veers feeding them aim tokens, though  Veers with electrobinos (or whatever upgrade gives him spotter 1) to bring him up to spotter 3 can make stormies fairly dangerous. Snowies too, but stormies get to reroll +1 dice with an aim token natively, so they’re rerolling up to 3 every time.
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Yeah the big problem with snows is their heavies are very niche and not really good enough to make up for it. Flamer is decent but range 1 means you can't really mass it; the ion has to have recover actions mixed in- you can do some fun combos with Compel to move/shoot then recover- but even then it's a weak weapon. Putting Gideon in one as a complement to shoretroopers isn't an awful idea as long as youre getting mileage out of the coordinate
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I want to try putting snows on the space huey to get the flamethrower mixed in and loving up my opponents dude clusters from the jump.
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hm this is just goofing around on a list builder:quote:Untitled got some range 4 storms and an officer for a base of fire, iden passes orders to the LAAT and inferno repairs it, cheapo scout troopers for tac strike
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Owlbear Camus posted:I want to try putting snows on the space huey to get the flamethrower mixed in and loving up my opponents dude clusters from the jump.
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hoiyes posted:Full scouts with frags my dude Oh yeah those are good not just as strike teams now. an excuse to dip into some cook dynamically posed ones I been meaning to print off.
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Would someone mind helping me write a list that uses the models I currently own? I don't really know anything about the game and I purchased stuff that looks cool and was available. Currently I own Palpatine Darth Vader General Veers Imperial Officer + comms guy + medical droid + other droid 1x snowtroopers unit 1x e-web heavy blaster team 2x stormtroopers unit 1x royal guards unit 1x speeder bikes unit 1x at-st
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Verisimilidude posted:Would someone mind helping me write a list that uses the models I currently own? I don't really know anything about the game and I purchased stuff that looks cool and was available. That's not a bad spread of stuff for Empire. The only thing that trips up list building with that spread is that it's a little difficult to get to 9 activations, and not really possible to do 10 reasonably which is ultimately a meta thing not worth worrying about too much. You've got three big centerpieces with Vader, Palpatine and the AT-ST. I've always been a big fan of Veers plus another big point sink like Vader or Palp for an opening turn of a good Maximum Firepower, then Veers just hanging out with the backline troops while the force user takes center stage from thereon. The generic officer is totally valid in place of veers for saving some points though. That said though, I'd probably wind up taking it one of two ways: 799/800 9 Activations Darth Vader (Dark Lord of the Sith) 190 + 25 = 215 --Saber Throw (5), Force Reflexes (5), Force Push (10), Vigilance (5) Imperial Officer 45 Stormtroopers 44 Stormtroopers 44 + 20 = 64 --DLT-19 Stormtrooper (20) Snowtroopers 44 + 20 = 64 --Flametrooper (20) Imperial Royal Guards 69 74-Z Speeder Bikes 70 + 5 = 75 --Long-Range Comlink (5) E-Web Heavy Blaster Team 55 + 3 = 58 --Barrage Generator (3) AT-ST 155 + 10 = 165 --88 Twin Light Blaster Cannon (10) This one is 9 activations with a couple really lean choices, specifically the one unit of naked Stormtroopers which would be more for holding a backfield objective, as well as the naked Royal Guard, which are still a really solid physical stat line/melee beatstick and bodyguard unit for Vader and he marches upfield even without the extra model or and upgrades. The AT-ST would also like to have another gun and the Hammer pilot that gives it surge to hit. It's not a huge deal though as it's still a big scary moving gun that you can't ignore however you load it out. Overall it's a list that bears down with a couple intimidating pieces pretty quickly. Other way to go would be 8 activations with stuff more kitted out: 800/800 8 Activations Darth Vader (Dark Lord of the Sith) 190 + 25 = 215 --Saber Throw (5), Force Reflexes (5), Force Push (10), Vigilance (5) Stormtroopers 44 + 16 = 60 --HH-12 Stormtrooper (16) Stormtroopers 44 + 20 = 64 --DLT-19 Stormtrooper (20) Snowtroopers 44 + 20 = 64 --Flametrooper (20) Imperial Royal Guards 69 + 25 = 94 --Electrostaff Guard (21), Tenacity (4) 74-Z Speeder Bikes 70 + 5 = 75 --Long-Range Comlink (5) E-Web Heavy Blaster Team 55 + 3 = 58 --Barrage Generator (3) AT-ST 155 + 15 = 170 --88 Twin Light Blaster Cannon (10), AT-ST Mortar Launcher (5) Either way, Palpatine swaps out point wise fairly cleanly with Vader however you spin it. Similarly Veers can be swapped for either the Royal Guards or the Speeders most likely if you feel like you want his Maximum Firepower card and a backup lightweight gunslinger commander for when Vader/Palp inevitably bite it late game. If you go in on anything else a box of Shoretroopers goes an incredibly long way in tightening up the core of Empire lists, as does a box of scouts primarily for the two model sniper strike team due to its cheap cost versus effectiveness and ability to hold a back objective while also contributing meaningful shots. Your current pool of stuff is a solid spread, but a couple of cheap options to get things both well fleshed out and either at 9 or 10 activations would be huge in opening up some more choice for you. Vigilance should be the only upgrade card that technically didn't come with your stuff but anybody who doesn't let you proxy upgrade cards probably isn't worth playing against to begin with.
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I'd also look into skirmish lists, might be easier to hit a reasonable activation count there. Scouts are definitely a good option though- even full scouts are a fun gimmick right now
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Whoa, thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for, I really appreciate it!!
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I've only played a few (less than five) games of Legion and really like it, so naturally I taught my friend how to play, probably slightly incorrectly, the other night. We ran skirmish. I've got this Krennic Death Trooper list because Death Troopers and Shore Troopers rule, he rolls up with a seven activation droid list with three B2 squads, two sets of droidekas, and Grievous plus a Bx strike team. Most things were naked but in skirmish that just brings the pain. I wish Death Troopers were just a bit more survivable.
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My skirmish games have always been utter bloodbaths, with barely a handful of survivors between both sides limping away. Not even whole units, just like a squad leader here, a heavy weapon there, leadership is dead, those that replaced the leadership are dead, if i brought a vehicle it’s like a hit or two away from crashing/burning, etc. Those close games are always the most fun though 
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Same with a teaching game over Christmas, especially because I got aggressive with Cassian turn 1 and was punished for my hubris. Skirmish objectives tend to come down to a bloodbath in the center a lot of the time.
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Yeah, we ended up on Control and my options were either wait for Greivous to come eat my alive or try to take the one point with four full shield Droidekas and a B2 firing line sitting on it. B2's are feel very strong in Skirmish (says the guy who hasn't played a bunch)
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