I have joined the fray of Lego Star Wars army building.
I've long collected Clone and Storm Troopers. I relate to them. I hear this is somewhat common with veterans.
For the most part, I've been getting Phase 2 clones, but mostly in twos or threes from different battalions.
Phase 2 clone troopers have their armor marked to denote their unit.
L->R 187 Btn, 212 Btn, 501 Btn, 332 Co of 501 Btn. |
To date, I've mostly gotten 501 battalion guys because I bought four of the 501st battle packs. I have 12 regs and 4 jump troops.
I have not opened three of those sets. Lego tends to appreciate.
I had a distinct lack of the Phase 1 clone troopers.
I had 4 of the old design from the first version of the AT-TE.
I got two with another set, but I can't remember which.
But Lego gave an exclusive Lego store pack with an NCO and two regs per pack, limit three per purchase.
It's taken a year to get six sets. Army builders are buying them out as fast as Lego is making them.
My original intent was to populate my AT-TE with a phase 1 crew. The current AT-TE came with the 212 Battalion Phase 2 troopers.
I need 6 regs and 3 crew for that. I figure I can make the NCO's the crew!
If I stay Phase 2, I can use the 501st guys for that.
It's nice to have choices.
:-) As a player of the "Legion" game I like those and should probably look for a few even just to have as "markers" in the game... My poor Republic forces have not been unpacked from my move, but someday I will get back to playing I hope...
ReplyDeleteI've been using minifigs for character markers in my GURPS games for a while now. Even going so far as to offer the players 10xp if they make a custom figure of their character.
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