What future Empire units?

[Cavkov 92]

What future Empire expansions would you like to see?

I have a few here but I would love to see most of Rogue One stuff and many more Expanded universe stuff too.

[jauntyharrison 28]

To my taste at least, Imperials feel like they're in a fairly satisfying position with the currently announced line-up. I'd like to see Deathtroopers as a shootier alternative to Royal Guards, and I'd like to have an Operative who's a real imperial, maybe Iden.

I like the Occupier Tank from rogue 1, but what role would it serve that the At-st doesn't already do? Mudtroopers are cool, but what should they be, other than cheaper stormtroopers?

It's on the rebel side where I look at the options and wish there were a different choice in nearly every category. The T-47, the immobile 1.4FD Laser Cannon, The rebel AT-RT all struggle to be desirable in a list. I also wish there were better heavy weapon carriers in most rebel units.

Edited September 22, 2018 by jauntyharrison

[devin.pike.1989 1,546]

Probe droids are a definite must have.

[TauntaunScout 4,276]

Probots, I guess. I mean we don't see them fight much... but I've had them in all my other SW minis games so why not?!

The AT-PT has a real spot in my heart being an old WEG gamer. I'd really like to get those.

 

[devin.pike.1989 1,546]

Some Army Troopers (mudtroopers even) and Navy Troopers would be cool too.

[Audio Weasel 3,659]

Krennic and Thrawn as commanders,Rukh as an operative, and Deathtroopers as special forces.

[buckero0 1,956]

Probe Droid, occupy tank, death troopers and then some cool HQ units

[wintermoonwolf 145]

...what was that arty piece (on the ATST walker legs) in Solo?....  might be fun to have ...

[jauntyharrison 28]

3 minutes ago, wintermoonwolf said:

...what was that arty piece (on the ATST walker legs) in Solo?....  might be fun to have ...

That's an ATDT. All of its weapons are at range 4+? Instead of the AtSt's weakspot being its rear arc, the ATDT's weak spot is everywhere outside its forward arc?

I'd kind of like to see the patrol transport or Imperial troop transport from rebels. They're not pretty to look at, but it would be cool to introduce the function of transports to legion.

[mithril2098 674]

i doubt you'll see EU Dark Troopers, but you might get Imperial Sentry Droids.

 

[Lemmiwinks86 934]

16 hours ago, jauntyharrison said:

I like the Occupier Tank from rogue 1, but what role would it serve that the At-st doesn't already do?

I'd really like to see that tank too, it could be a moving fortress as we already know by the RRG that if it comes out it will give heavy cover to troopers. Maybe have less hardpoints and firepower than the AT-ST, but lower cost, similar HP and no weak spot.
The only problem I see is that I don't know if it can fit well in the huge base or if it will exceed it.

[TauntaunScout 4,276]

On 9/22/2018 at 6:17 PM, jauntyharrison said:

I like the Occupier Tank from rogue 1, but what role would it serve that the At-st doesn't already do? Mudtroopers are cool, but what should they be, other than cheaper stormtroopers?

Irrelevant. It's a miniatures game. New sculpts are their own justification.

[DelGriffen 167]

Shore troopers! Mud troopers! 

[buckero0 1,956]

On 9/22/2018 at 5:17 PM, jauntyharrison said:

 

I like the Occupier Tank from rogue 1, but what role would it serve that the At-st doesn't already do? 

Be worth it's points enough that it can't be ignored.

[TauntaunScout 4,276]

12 hours ago, buckero0 said:

Be worth it's points enough that it can't be ignored.

If that's the player mentality they wanted to cater to with a release, they'd just come up with a pilot or something that "fixes" the AT-ST. I'm not convinced that it's not worth its points though. Regardless, the "competitive" approach will always make many or most units out to be not worth taking. In that mindset there will always be something better that you should take another one of, instead of taking [whatever].  That being said, I DO have trouble fitting it into 800 point lists unless I take next to no upgrades on it. This is because my corps troops are so expensive. But some people like collecting vehicles and there should be a market for them.

A squad of 3 corps troops tauntaun riders could be impressively underpowered compared to Fleet Troopers or something, and I'd still buy six boxes. Sales have as much to do with collecting as they do stats.

Edited September 24, 2018 by TauntaunScout

[buckero0 1,956]

The inability to properly balance a new game the first time out is a pretty common problem throughout all games. If the AtSt was 150pts maybe 155pts base my tune would be different. Then you could r u n it naked and not feel you were skimping on troops which are obligatory. I think the cheaper characters help like generic officer and Veers. While Palpatine is cool, his huge investment in points is almost prohibitive

[TauntaunScout 4,276]

5 minutes ago, buckero0 said:

 I think the cheaper characters help like generic officer and Veers.

Yep. They are what the game very much needs. Cheaper obligatory things so you can do whatever.

[Geressen 824]

Cool things I would like to see someday:

downed pilot ( operative?)

mud troopers/imperial army

imperial navy troopers

 

 

 

Edited September 24, 2018 by Geressen

[C3POFETT 833]

My wishlist still includes Pilots for both factions. (All "wings") Imperial Navy Troopers. Rogue One Shore Troopers. Original Trilogy Droids. Last but not least a set of the ESB Bounty Hunters to run as a single squad.

[TauntaunScout 4,276]

I'd use Navy Troopers and I'd use a squad of old army toopers, ie, not the ones from Solo. Most people think of them as AT-ST pilots. But they're also imperial army troops.

[ScummyRebel 5,346]

There are plenty of ideas to come. I’m sure we will see almost all of the above from other posts.

Honestly, aside from buying the scouts/Boba and the specialists we know are coming, I will probably wait and see what the clone wars offering looks like. I think I might want a 2nd army to get more games in (luring people in with a game they don’t need to bring materials to), but I’m not overly interested in the rebels and I don’t have the funds right this moment anyway (I even traded off my core set Rebels since I was going Empire only).

Thinking Empire + CIS, assuming I have the funds to venture into 2. 

[Geressen 824]

33 minutes ago, TauntaunScout said:

I'd use Navy Troopers and I'd use a squad of old army toopers, ie, not the ones from Solo. Most people think of them as AT-ST pilots. But they're also imperial army troops.

they look similar enough that I'd say mut troopers are just a variant of imp army.

[WillKill 14]

The game needs vehicles badly. Right now almost nothing has much board presence outside of the AT-ST. You can walk right by a table and not even realize it's a Star Wars game. Having huge vehicles is certainly eye catching. Personally I would like to see the TX-130T fighter tank

[devin.pike.1989 1,546]

3 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

I'd use Navy Troopers and I'd use a squad of old army toopers, ie, not the ones from Solo. Most people think of them as AT-ST pilots. But they're also imperial army troops.

I think mudtroopers are just army troopers with some additional trench warfare gear.

[arnoldrew 1,713]

1 hour ago, WillKill said:

The game needs vehicles badly. Right now almost nothing has much board presence outside of the AT-ST. You can walk right by a table and not even realize it's a Star Wars game. Having huge vehicles is certainly eye catching. Personally I would like to see the TX-130T fighter tank

Stormtroopers are more "Star Wars" than any vehicle. If they can't tell you're playing a Star Wars game something is seriously amiss, and no fightr tank is going to fix that.