• Registered: 2005-03-28
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Topic: real SW minis -- ever gonna happen again?

I bought the DL of Defiance.  Trying now to decide on an army to build for the game -- and I was excited for all of 90 seconds when I saw a ton of the Star Wars "Unleashed" packs.

Four clone troopers with a few weapons and poses, already to go....except they're 2" tall.  Which equates to what scale?  Half again as large as anything the game was designed for.   That, and the lack of vehicles was the only thing keeping me away, because with their commander figure in a seperate pack, I saw heavy rifles (repeaters), carbines and pistols.  Add grenades and you have a solid range of weapons there (though nothing IF).

I'm not buying the random minis boxes either. 

jeesh.....

  • Registered: 2005-03-28
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Re: real SW minis -- ever gonna happen again?

Wellllll, you can buy the "collectible" stuff of EBay etc as known parts, troopers, etc. Often basic guys go for $2 a piece or less. Could actualy be a cheap, fast way to field an army, if you don't mind the floppy rubber guys with random paintjobs.....

  • Registered: 2005-03-28
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Re: real SW minis -- ever gonna happen again?

The guy behind this site as fold-up cardstock counters for a lot of it: Stormtroopers with carbines and repeaters, Dewback riders, speeder bikes, clone troopers with a couple of different weapons, AT-RTs, battle droids, supers, destroyer droids, Staps and spider droids.  Officers and special characters. 

It ain't the same, but it could do for now I guess.




http://www.momirfarooq.com/index.htm

  • Registered: 2005-03-28
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Re: real SW minis -- ever gonna happen again?

themattcurtis wrote:

they're 2" tall.  Which equates to what scale?

That would be about 1/32, or I scale. Possibly "heroic 1/35" wink

Half again as large as anything the game was designed for. That, and the lack of vehicles was the only thing keeping me away

The larger size of the minis is a very small problem IMHO, you can easily use the regular 28-30mm scale measurement (inches, that is) with them. I can tell because I've played 28mm minis with 15mm measurements (small table) and have not suffered lasting damage. Of course if you play with someone who has 28mm scale minis, you'd have to classify them (EDIT: the big SW minis that is, not the other players :oops:) as SZ=3, but that's another story.

As to the vehicles, aren't some of the First Trilogy (Jar-jar Menace, Attack of the Clowns and Revenge of the S**t) plastic ground vehicle kits nominally 1/35? I have the Trade Federation Tank from Ep1 stored somewhere, and have been of a mind to get me the rather kewl Droid Tank from Ep3, but haven't commited their scale to heart.