| Bucco Bruce | 22 May 2010 9:10 a.m. PST |
On April 1st, Battlefront listed 10 things on their website; 5 were true, 5 April fools. One was that they had the licence for a 15mm SW game – since then nothing. *Tumblweed blows across the screen* Any one out there know anything more about this? |
| Grizwald | 22 May 2010 9:34 a.m. PST |
Shouldn't be too difficult to convert FoW for SW. |
| Bucco Bruce | 22 May 2010 9:38 a.m. PST |
I was more interested in the figures TBH; Im sure the rules would work pretty well as is. |
| Landorl | 22 May 2010 10:18 a.m. PST |
I wish that there would be a 15mm Star Wars. That would be a dream come true! I think that that was one of the April Fools items though. Since WOTC has the miniatures line already, I can't see another line being launched. |
| Tom Reed | 22 May 2010 10:25 a.m. PST |
But i thought that WOC was cancelling their miniatures line? i'm sure I saw somewhere that they were not going to continue supporting both the Star Wars RPG and minis line. |
| Mad Dog | 22 May 2010 10:45 a.m. PST |
WotC's last minis release in he line was Masters of the Force. Their license expires by GenCon, and they are not renewing. |
| Moonbeast | 22 May 2010 11:12 a.m. PST |
"I wish that there would be a 15mm Star Wars. That would be a dream come true!" Completely agree. Don't think it would ever happen but one could always hope. |
| Nick Weitnauer | 22 May 2010 11:37 a.m. PST |
I would certainly buy heavily into 15mm Star Wars, if it was the Rebellion Era stuff. I have very little interest in doing Clones or Droids… |
| Stealth1000 | 22 May 2010 12:07 p.m. PST |
Some of the toys work in 15mm. Some in 28mm |
| cloudcaptain | 22 May 2010 1:12 p.m. PST |
There are 20mm micro machine figures out there. |
| Mark Plant | 22 May 2010 3:34 p.m. PST |
Any one out there know anything more about this? Yes. It was one of the things that was untrue. It wouldn't fly anyway. Star Wars is about heroes. Individuals. Any game that tries to make it about units is pretty much bound to fail. Sure a few gamers might like it, but it would just be another Sci-Fi game, not Star Wars. The take up would never make it worth the cost of the licence. |
| Top Gun Ace | 22 May 2010 4:42 p.m. PST |
You can use a variety of troops in lieu of Star Wars figures, for 15mm, e.g. GZG's selections are probably the best (NI, or UNSC troops), but those from other manufacturers would work too. The NI's even have speeder bikes. |
| MiniatureReview | 22 May 2010 4:46 p.m. PST |
Not sure about that. Empire Strikes Back had a pretty good battle scene. Also if you read the books, there is plenty in there to create all sorts of figures/armies. |
| Mark Plant | 22 May 2010 6:43 p.m. PST |
I'm not suggesting you can't game Star Wars in big battle form. I'm suggesting that what makes Star Wars different is light sabres and one-on-one combat. Make it big battle and all you have is sci-fi in the 40K Epic vein (i.e. more -fi than sci-). The popularity of 40K over Epic shows individual combat is what the punters prefer, on the whole. |
| jhonpog | 22 May 2010 10:31 p.m. PST |
micro machines are the closet you can get to 15mm in any decent number and still look like sw minis. Yep 15mm SW would be awesome! |
| Bucco Bruce | 22 May 2010 11:34 p.m. PST |
@ Mark Plant;
FoW has characters though; so its not a huge leap to change "Rommel" to "Jedi Knight" with additional game effects is it? |
| Nick Bowler | 23 May 2010 9:11 p.m. PST |
If I remember, the statement (possibly true or an April Fool) was that they had the Star Wars licence. It didnt mention 15mm. |
sends a sci-fi platoon to Ukraine for painting.
