TheBachelor Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Not sure if this belongs here or in general Sci-fi, if it goes there please move it. Anyway, The Potato-Headed Empire will unleash their newest product from the Star Wars license a week from Friday, the tradable miniature game. One of my FLGS are taking pre-orders for the starter, and giving out a promo figure when you do so. I'm a sucker for Star Wars, so I plopped my five bucks down and received my free Sand People mini. Not bad. I had pretty low expectations for this line, because I was pretty unimpressed with the D&D TMG that they released. But the sculpt on this is much nicer then what I saw out of that set. It's not as good as the short lived pewter line they released (which I thought had some good minis but suffered from a poor selection), but compared to other preprinted plastic minis I've bought (heroclix, LOTR, Etc) it's at the top of the pile. Interestingly, it seems to be 28mm, while the D&D ones were more of a true 25mm scale. Anyway, has anyone else had a chance to check these minis out? Say maybe at Gencon? Or perhaps even gotten to try out the game play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladystorm Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 they look purdy. the paint job appears to be moderately better than the D&D minis. they had a debut event thing at GC and their HQ station was right next to our tables, so we did get to handle a few. not my thing, but to each their own... cher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkrelease Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 They weren't bad, about what I expected from prepainted plastic figures. Good for table top use because of the wide variety that previous Star Wars sets were seriously lacking. The one thing I will give them is the lightsabers look good, the colored resin really works for them, or was that just some samples to tease us at GenCon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPilot Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 So...is it possible to use the rules, multiply all the distances and ranges by three, and use the ubiquitous SW action figures? Not that I have any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erion Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Heck, the revised edition of the d20 SWRPG already has most of the conversions you'd need for that, fpilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBachelor Posted August 25, 2004 Author Share Posted August 25, 2004 So did any of y’all get a chance to kick the tires on the rules? I'm curious as to weather or not they are the same as the D&D Minis rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkrelease Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Nope, I tried near the end of the Con but they wouldn't let me sit at an empty table because I needed first to fill out a whole bunch of info for Wizards. Essentially in order to play their game they wanted all my marketing info and addy for spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexxenhammer Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 So did any of y’all get a chance to kick the tires on the rules? I'm curious as to weather or not they are the same as the D&D Minis rules. The cards have the same stuff, so I think it's the same. There aren't any vitality/wound points, it's all just hitpoints I think. I might pick up a few boxes just to get some minis for our Star Wars campaign. Here's an example of where I'd want commons (if stormtroopers are common) as long as they're not frickin' ewoks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 The D&D figs have been getting better - it's the same thing as WK. The first set(s) have the worst paint jobs and sculpts, but once the concept sells, then the companies are willing to invest more for a higher quality product. My FLGS gave me a promo figs, but they know that I am going to buy a couple starters and a half dozen boosters anyway. If the rules are bad, I'll simply use the figs for my old Star Wars Miniatures Battles game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexxenhammer Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 If you haven't played the D&D minis game, they're d20 lite. The stats are AC, hit points, movement (in squares), attack, damge, and special abilities, if any. Your save is equal to your level (hit dice). All damage and hit points are in multiples of 5. So model A goes up to model B, rolls a d20 against the AC of model B, if it hits it does whatever damage. Very simple. I think Star Wars will be the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Simple, yes, but still fun to play. I should have a copy of Star Wars in my hands next Friday, and will probably post a review that night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neyuttad Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 The mini of Princess Leia looked pretty good, she's even got eyes! I'm not so sure the real ones are that well painted though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Possibly. Again, as with WKL, the latter expansions are better painted and sculpted, even if they are other systems. IOW, since WK had experience in mass-producing flubber figures, the initial Heroclix set was better painted than the initial Mage Knight. So, since the general quality and paint jobs of the D&D figs has been improving (as opposed to remaining static), I expect the SWCMG figs to be reasonably well-painted. Not great, but certainly acceptable, for a pre-painted, mass-market, flubber fig. Besides, the Storm Troopers and Rebel Soliders should be easy enough to quickly fix, leaving some time to really neaten up the paint on the named characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Got starter and 2 boosters tonight - FLGS had a limit until the full shipment came in. Overall, fig quality is good for a pre-painted, mass-produced game, and the game looks to be quite good, play-wise. I didn't see some of the force construction restrictions that are present in D&DCMG, though I am not sure yet that is a good thing. Will know more when I have played a couple games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokin' Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Picked up my starter and a booster yesterday and really like the look of them. Got a Wampa straight off so that was good! I'm already looking forward to running some scenarios at my FLGS if they'll let me - I'm thinking of doing a 'timeline' series, starting with the 'Boarding action', then 'attack on the Jawa's' or 'Get to the Falcon!' - then we'll have 'Death Star escape'. Hopefully by that time everyone will have enough snowtroopers, and I'll have managed to find an Old Mattel AT-AT to run 'Assault on Hoth!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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