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The Porg Pals [Star Wars] Thread

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    The rules are too simple for skirmish, with a name like Legion it should be a mass combat game.
    I am watching this video showing guys playing and man does it look complicated. Or the FFG guy explaining it is not being very clear.

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    Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    I'm gonna have to take a second job to keep affording fantasy flight stuff

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Bloods End wrote: »
    I'm gonna have to take a second job to keep affording fantasy flight stuff

    Still far cheaper than 40k.

    If nothing else I'll be getting Legion to paint the models.

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    EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    The fanfiction nature of Star Wars Battlefront 2 is the best thing about it I've seen

    More stuff like Darth Maul and Rey fighting, please

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    InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    The rules are too simple for skirmish, with a name like Legion it should be a mass combat game.
    I am watching this video showing guys playing and man does it look complicated. Or the FFG guy explaining it is not being very clear.

    Oh, the video I saw made it look dead easy. Far far simpler than 40k, insanely simple conpared to something like Infinity.

    Alternate unit activations, get two actions, if in range roll attack dice equal to what your card says, roll defense equal to the number of hits, inflict wounds.

    That's really it.

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    shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Ick
    I really don't like how Battlefront keeps using characters in battle that are dead or should not be there

    Darth Maul was alive in the Clone Wars though...

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited August 2017
    Bloods End wrote: »
    I'm gonna have to take a second job to keep affording fantasy flight stuff

    I'm very resentful of them right now

    Shorty on
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    BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    The rules are too simple for skirmish, with a name like Legion it should be a mass combat game.
    I am watching this video showing guys playing and man does it look complicated. Or the FFG guy explaining it is not being very clear.

    Oh, the video I saw made it look dead easy. Far far simpler than 40k, insanely simple conpared to something like Infinity.

    Alternate unit activations, get two actions, if in range roll attack dice equal to what your card says, roll defense equal to the number of hits, inflict wounds.

    That's really it.

    But there are other details I would like to know since inmy experience wargamming is not very cut and dry when it comes to rules

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    AlexandierAlexandier Registered User regular
    here's a list of products that may or may not be put out for sale on Force Friday:

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    Probe Droid AND Darth Vader

    Hold on.... Have we really come so far that for a deluxe figure set Probe Droid gets top billing?

    Oh sweet a probe Droid!!! Eh it comes with a Darth Vader too I guess.

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    Are those 5" once going to be the super crappy figures that do not have any articulation besides "arm goes up, arm goes down?"

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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    They can probably goose step too.

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    They can probably goose step too.

    The fucking worst. Just going backwards in quality. They had this sweet spot of small figures with super good articulation and then threw it away for crap junk.

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    TomantaTomanta Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    They can probably goose step too.

    The fucking worst. Just going backwards in quality. They had this sweet spot of small figures with super good articulation and then threw it away for crap junk.

    They had both the crappy articulation and good ones at the same time. I have some of the good ones (slightly more expensive), but really don't know why they all aren't good. GI Joe had good articulation since the 80s. It actually detracts me from buying.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    I played Legion yesterday

    It's alright

    Standard FFG level rules, that is to say fine but not great and lacking in depth beyond a certain point. Command system was surprisingly interesting mind.

    That was my initial reaction anyway

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    SaraLunaSaraLuna Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    They can probably goose step too.

    The fucking worst. Just going backwards in quality. They had this sweet spot of small figures with super good articulation and then threw it away for crap junk.

    the $20 ones are trash for what they charge for them too. The faces almost never look like the character/actor, and most of the time look like they're recovering from a bunch of bee stings.

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    Doctor DetroitDoctor Detroit Registered User regular
    Was in a Walmart yesterday and noticed that they kinda broke street date for the new toys. So if anyone's interested, that might be happening in other stores as well.

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    Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Deadline wrote:
    Michael Kenneth Williams, an Emmy nominee for his supporting role in HBO’s The Night Of, will not be in the new Star Wars stand-alone Han Solo movie after all. His part has been cut amid the reshoots now underway with new director Ron Howard. Williams said the revamped production schedule conflicted with his commitment to spy drama The Red Sea Diving Resort, his new movie now shooting in South Africa with Ben Kingsley and Chris Evans.

    “I felt great about what I created with the directors that I worked with,” said Williams, who was cast in the Han Solo origin story by original helming duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who exited in June. “It is what it is.”

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    CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    Turns out maybe a solo Solo movie was a bad idea.

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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    Damn, he's one of my favourite actors too. Oh well, another reason not to see it.

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    yeah I was pretty lukewarm on that movie to begin with, I think my odds of seeing it in the theater are probably 50/50 right now

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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    If it gets outstanding reviews I'll go and see it

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    EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    I'll see it, because I feel like I'd have to

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    GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    I really don't see a scenario in which a) the Solo film turns out to be so abysmal that it's completely unwatchable or b) it's so bad that I won't see it first weekend like every other film in the series.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I can!

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I am fairly sure it will be a perfectly fine film that is a bog standard fun sci-fi adventure

    And I will always resent it because I won't get to see what it could have been

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I probably won't go and see it because it doesn't sound very interesting and the pure concept isn't that great anyway

    Unless loads of people say "it fucking rules!" and then I probably will. I might hate it, of course, but without recommendations I won't give it a go.

    The days of me seeing any movie in a particular franchise are very far gone

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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    I'm gonna wait for reviews, which is a strange statement to say in the context of Star Wars

    Losing Michael K Williams sucks. Dude puts out quality work

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Do we know who he was cast as?

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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    No plot details, but he was playing some kind of alien

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    First Order vehicles got revealed including a REAL BIG ONE
    https://youtu.be/vTNJNRXfSIg

    New giant walker!!!

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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    First Order vehicles got revealed including a REAL BIG ONE
    https://youtu.be/vTNJNRXfSIg

    New giant walker!!!
    That Dreadnaught looks hilarious.

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    DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    That's really silly and a bit disappointing

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    jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    Well those designs definitely aren't helping my waning enthusiasm for TLJ.

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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    I don't know, I kind of like the utilitarian look of the dreadnought. It's a big solid looking slab of "fuck you, I got guns for days".
    I think the size they slapped on it is ridiculous, but this is Star Wars, and the bad guys have always had overcompensation issues.

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I love my big dumb gorilla walker and y'all suck

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    DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    It continues a stupid trend from TFA

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I like how the back of that walker is just a normal AT-AT that then gets crazy going forward.

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Of reusing old designs?

    That's like

    The First Order's whole thing though

    They are the hyper radicalized remnants of the Empire who think it was the greatest thing in the galaxy and want to bring back that glory

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    It continues a stupid trend from TFA

    Is that stupid trend "...... but Biggerer!"

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    GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    The All-Terrain Megacaliber Six

    Come on

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