As someone just getting into Legion I appreciate how you explain the rules and keywords and often times offer realistic scenarios certain things can be used in. I know you've probably repeated yourself countless times by doing so, but the extra bit of effort is really appreciated. Some other channels might be like "yea we just went over the new mercenary rules last week so I won't cover them again in this video." I personally like the constant reminder of how things work, and also how they've since been updated/revised. Lol i've been binging your videos for like a week now. Thanks man!
The armor (absent the helmet) looks the same as the Phase I clones. Couldn't you put a Phase II bucket on one of the kama having models from the Phase I Upgrade pack to make a sweet, sweet sergeant?
Any thoughts on using the paints from fantasy flights vs GW for painting these minis, thinking of getting into mini gaming through Legion. Also which core set would you recommend?
I got into legion because its superior to Warhammer's rules sets and attention to balance using points rather than changing how the game fundamentally works each update.
Armada and Xwing shelves are almost bare at my local game store in TX, and it's a huge store with tons of other products. Other FFG games like Outer Rim are also scarce. Is FFG doing OK?
That is the million dollar question. They laid off the RPG staff and it looks like they made cuts to other staffers recently, too. But besides this, the coronavirus will seriously impact their supply chain as most everything comes out of China.
Would you advise building/gluing these together before painting? The extra bits assembling these seems like it would making painting individual pieces a real pain.
as a miniature collector/gamer for decades there are advantages to painting on-sprue and for painting once assembled. The way I will probably do it (for what this is worth) is to assemble the bodies, but paint the other parts on-sprue, then assemble, and then touch up where necessary. For my B1s I based them on-sprue and assembled then drybrush finish, but the clones are meatier so I am not as concerned with losing parts with them
Hey nice unboxing! I habe a question absolut the fire support. So.. when a clone unit has a open order token but has like 4 suppression tokens, is it able to pull of the fire support?
I'm not sure how I feel about the sprues. On one hand the soft plastic is very quick to put together and get into a game, on the other hand hard plastic allows for higher detail and have more potential for posing.
Some Phase IIs seem to have made it to the UK - no sign of the B2s this week or next week. Most of Europe is also still waiting for their Armada Starhawks, which were supposed to be out in January. FFG seems to be having a problem with Europe at the moment.
@crabbok do you think Armada Clone Wars era ships is less certain, despite the official announcement, given all the recent changes at FFG? (First time subscriber and commenter)
If you first assemble the bits that fit flush (front and back bodies, for example) on the sprue (meaning, take the small piece off and plastic glue it to the larger piece while it is still attached) you should be good. The spray will make the parts a teeny bit larger due to the medium itself, which makes those flush connections sometimes look bad. But other than that, knock yourself out.
Hard plastic has a couple advantages over soft plastic. 1. You can get better sculpts that can handle temperature extremes without warping as bad (no more hot bath cold bath to straighten out lightsaber blades). 2. The costs are better, but only if you have to crank out a tonne of them, hard plastic has a more expensive up-front cost for the machine tooling and such but the material for injection molding is cheaper. 3. faster turnaround from digital sculpts to negatives to make your molds. I think this is the way the industry is heading, moving away from soft plastic and resin minis, even in companies that are not your Games Workshop miniatures focused hobby, purely based on what I saw over the last couple years at GenCon. And I think its mostly due to reason #3 above.
@@ExileTwilight I guess I am a lowly board gamer so it looked fine for playing purposes for me and I was hoping for legion in the same style as x-wing and armada (pre-painted) but to each there own.
@@thecaryou I get you - originally, I was not a fan of the original Legion material, but the simplicity of assembly really did grow on me, especially the later kits where they went with the round-peg-and-hole allowing some posing. Still, as hard plastic kits go on sprues, it does look like FFG is doing a good job of keeping assembly steps relatively low.
I wish they just did P1 and P2 troopers in one box and P1 P2 arcs in one box. I wanted P1 Arcs and I’d have to buy two boxes to do it when I don’t even play the game :/
@@Crabbok I'm so confused... just recently started checking out legion. Do stores only allow you to play units for which you have that proof of purchase? Or can you only enter tournaments with that thing? I play a lot of Warhammer 40K and I know a lot of GW stores don't let you play with models that aren't made by GW. Is this similar?
Thanks a bunch for this video, but I honestly don't understand why you're fawning over the couple of build options so much. Especially after the Phase I, B1 and B2 all being almost as multi-pose as humanly can be, I am severely deflated that they've gone back to mono-pose with these.
As someone just getting into Legion I appreciate how you explain the rules and keywords and often times offer realistic scenarios certain things can be used in. I know you've probably repeated yourself countless times by doing so, but the extra bit of effort is really appreciated. Some other channels might be like "yea we just went over the new mercenary rules last week so I won't cover them again in this video." I personally like the constant reminder of how things work, and also how they've since been updated/revised. Lol i've been binging your videos for like a week now. Thanks man!
My secret is that those reminders also help ME remember! :)
The armor (absent the helmet) looks the same as the Phase I clones. Couldn't you put a Phase II bucket on one of the kama having models from the Phase I Upgrade pack to make a sweet, sweet sergeant?
I'm stoked for these, although I might need to green stuff a kama for the leader mini.
So glad theyre on sprues now. No more missing pieces
These minis look great, can't wait to get my hand on them!
What kind of glue did you use?
It'd be great to have two versions of the phase 1 and 2 Clone Trooper. One painted as regular white shines, and one painted as your favorite legion.
Awesome detail on these new hard plastic models
4 phase II squads wreck face man. A couple phase 1s for fire support just icing on the cake
I'm really digging my Phase 2 Replicants.
Crabbok, do you really like the Z-6 over DC-15? I prefer the red dice, range 4 and critical of DC-15s.
Getting a surge token every turn must be great! Especially when your army can share those, let us see how they play!
Dad jokes game on point between this and last videos!
I picked these up yesterday along with the tank. Can’t wait to get them on the table they look amazing.
Any thoughts on using the paints from fantasy flights vs GW for painting these minis, thinking of getting into mini gaming through Legion. Also which core set would you recommend?
Very nice vid! May I ask why clone troopers come with the whole sprue? When I first bought SW Legion, the components were inside small plastic bags...
Way cool man... I so wanna get into this.. played warhammer 40k for ages.
love these models. thinking of making a phase 2 army
Looks great. I got into legion because they weren't on sprues.
I got into legion because its superior to Warhammer's rules sets and attention to balance using points rather than changing how the game fundamentally works each update.
I got into legion bc it’s Star Wars.
Phase 2 looks so good🥰
Looks really great! Closing in on GW and that’s a great thing. Do you know where they are manufactured?
Glad to have some suppressive options for my clones. Will certainly help me deal with the shore trooper heavy Empire lists in my area.
Great video. I did my unboxing already but still felt the need to watch yours.
BrokenLegionOfGamers nice video as well dude!
@@JohnnyLeyenda thank you.
These look great, excited to see Republic getting even more options.
Most of my mates are running phase 1s at the moment. These boys are really gonna shake up our meta
They seem pretty sweet. I like all the options available with the sprue system
Armada and Xwing shelves are almost bare at my local game store in TX, and it's a huge store with tons of other products. Other FFG games like Outer Rim are also scarce. Is FFG doing OK?
That is the million dollar question. They laid off the RPG staff and it looks like they made cuts to other staffers recently, too. But besides this, the coronavirus will seriously impact their supply chain as most everything comes out of China.
Why did they stop giving out Proof Of Purchases? We need more!
Would you advise building/gluing these together before painting? The extra bits assembling these seems like it would making painting individual pieces a real pain.
as a miniature collector/gamer for decades there are advantages to painting on-sprue and for painting once assembled. The way I will probably do it (for what this is worth) is to assemble the bodies, but paint the other parts on-sprue, then assemble, and then touch up where necessary. For my B1s I based them on-sprue and assembled then drybrush finish, but the clones are meatier so I am not as concerned with losing parts with them
These are super rad with top quality moulding. Just wish ffg would produce some more realistically sized packaging.
Hey nice unboxing! I habe a question absolut the fire support. So.. when a clone unit has a open order token but has like 4 suppression tokens, is it able to pull of the fire support?
Da hat wohl Autokorrektur zugeschlagen 😁
I'm not sure how I feel about the sprues. On one hand the soft plastic is very quick to put together and get into a game, on the other hand hard plastic allows for higher detail and have more potential for posing.
In the case of most of the minis in this expansion they are pretty much monopose.
They're still super quick to put together
Looks good. I am curious to try those new plastic assembling. Also not sure why they cost more than the Battledroids
You think that they will re-release some of the older lines in the new plastic?
I should be getting into this, this looks super cool
Uhg, Hard to decide - do I just buy both separatists and clones?!
there’s so much empty space in the B2 & Phase II boxes. All the new releases have been delayed in Europe it seems
So what do you think maybe next week?
I was looking forward so much to play them today but now i have to wait:(
Some Phase IIs seem to have made it to the UK - no sign of the B2s this week or next week. Most of Europe is also still waiting for their Armada Starhawks, which were supposed to be out in January. FFG seems to be having a problem with Europe at the moment.
I will be using mortars on my p2 clones
Technically R2 is the first Republic unit on sprue
These went from 23.99 for phase 1 clone troopers to 33.99 for these in the uk hell of a price rise
With ARC Troopers announced, the only Republic units (barring commanders/operatives)I need to come out are Clone Commandos
These really make me want a republic legion squad.
Look awesome too, pityits going to April before the uk actually gets any stock
question does cidtel glue work on these models?
@crabbok do you think Armada Clone Wars era ships is less certain, despite the official announcement, given all the recent changes at FFG? (First time subscriber and commenter)
great looking models.
I can't wait to finally get mine
And what about the tanks are they released today too?
I cant wait to get my self some of these bad boys
Any reason it would be a bad idea to use a spray primer on the entire sprue?
If you first assemble the bits that fit flush (front and back bodies, for example) on the sprue (meaning, take the small piece off and plastic glue it to the larger piece while it is still attached) you should be good. The spray will make the parts a teeny bit larger due to the medium itself, which makes those flush connections sometimes look bad. But other than that, knock yourself out.
@@wbalvanz Thanks Will
its so hard to settle down with only one game with all the videos will we play xwing or legion cant forget armada
Such a beautiful minis!!
Got mine today as well :)
Where can i get these they’re all sold out everywhere
I'm sure by next month we'll start seeing them again
Cool, dude bro!
Damn I wanted the skirts
Anyone have any idea how many Phase II Helmets are in this set, & whether they are interchangeable with the Phase I helmets on older sets.
I haven't been paying to close attention to ffg lately so I'm kinda confused why they moved away from the soft plastic.
Hard plastic has a couple advantages over soft plastic. 1. You can get better sculpts that can handle temperature extremes without warping as bad (no more hot bath cold bath to straighten out lightsaber blades). 2. The costs are better, but only if you have to crank out a tonne of them, hard plastic has a more expensive up-front cost for the machine tooling and such but the material for injection molding is cheaper. 3. faster turnaround from digital sculpts to negatives to make your molds.
I think this is the way the industry is heading, moving away from soft plastic and resin minis, even in companies that are not your Games Workshop miniatures focused hobby, purely based on what I saw over the last couple years at GenCon. And I think its mostly due to reason #3 above.
Was hoping for more options, seems limited
Still wish they did not go to spurs it is my favorite part about legion that is why I got into it.
low-quality plastic was why you got into legion? huh..
@@ExileTwilight I guess I am a lowly board gamer so it looked fine for playing purposes for me and I was hoping for legion in the same style as x-wing and armada (pre-painted) but to each there own.
@@thecaryou I get you - originally, I was not a fan of the original Legion material, but the simplicity of assembly really did grow on me, especially the later kits where they went with the round-peg-and-hole allowing some posing. Still, as hard plastic kits go on sprues, it does look like FFG is doing a good job of keeping assembly steps relatively low.
I want an army of these
Gotta say, loving the sprues for these!
I am 100 percent a youtube follower guess i will start following on Twitter to
I still need to buy the new core set
Looks good to play
I wish they just did P1 and P2 troopers in one box and P1 P2 arcs in one box. I wanted P1 Arcs and I’d have to buy two boxes to do it when I don’t even play the game :/
Kinda wanna play republic now
Begun, the sprue wars has...
1:57 voice crack lol xD
DEEZ BITZ lol
2:35 DEEZ SPRUEZ will now become a thing.
What's up with the proof of purchase?
It was my latest April fools day video -
@@Crabbok I'm so confused... just recently started checking out legion. Do stores only allow you to play units for which you have that proof of purchase? Or can you only enter tournaments with that thing? I play a lot of Warhammer 40K and I know a lot of GW stores don't let you play with models that aren't made by GW. Is this similar?
It's so hard to just play x wing when you keep posting legion...
Didn't know you were a ground pounder.
Thanks a bunch for this video, but I honestly don't understand why you're fawning over the couple of build options so much. Especially after the Phase I, B1 and B2 all being almost as multi-pose as humanly can be, I am severely deflated that they've gone back to mono-pose with these.
Didn't realize you were military.
Oh no not Twitter just kidding fingers crossed