Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
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Umass Amherst Baby!
 | | 11/04/2008 6:56 AM |
| I picked up a starter and four boosters yesterday. I was impressed by the sculpts and the paintjobs in the boosters. Not so much with the minis from the starter. Dooku looked fine, but Obi-One had flash on his armor and lightsaber. The set also has some great new Clone troopers and new Battledroids, why did they end up using inferior sculpts from the first Clone Wars set.
It was particularly neat to recognize minis from the Cartoon Network animated series. A couple of the commons/ uncommons I recognize from the Arena fight with Ventress.
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Duke of Spoils
greyhaze
Warlord
7737 Posts
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11114 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 11/04/2008 3:12 PM |
| There should be. I'll ask my FLGS the next time I stop in.
Posted By greyhaze on 11/04/2008 10:01 AM
Is there a set poster somewhere?
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Duke of Spoils
greyhaze
Warlord
7737 Posts
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Duke of Spoils
greyhaze
Warlord
7737 Posts
| | 11/07/2008 10:06 AM |
| | Got the poster in hand, some nice pieces. Some names don't really match the pieces tho, imo. | |
Greyhaze's DDM Spoilers
Champion of a Medium Dog & then a Darkenbeast , Raistlin Majere, Nightmare WDQ25/60, Warduke WD60/60,
Anti-Champion of Guns, "Knight of Bugbears", and Joke Champion of Venger.
Called Shots: Frost Giant in Dangerous Delves. | |
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Bert the Troll
Commander
3964 Posts
Adelaide
| | 11/09/2008 3:49 PM |
| | It was nice nearly completing a set with just one case though. | |
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer." Bert the Troll - The Hobbit
Semi-Secret sig business: "In the age of the internet attaching a famous name to your personal opinion to give more weight to it is a very valid strategy." - Benjamin Franklin
Champion of Epic Lolth, Orcus, & Demogorgon and bring us Asmodeus! | |
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Whatisinaname
Sneak
60 Posts
| | 11/09/2008 4:58 PM |
| | I thought the set quality seemed about the same as usual. some very nice looking pieces and some that didnt look quite right. definitely nice almost getting a full set with one case. alot easier to collect and play. | | | |
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Bail Ohmar
Sneak
84 Posts
Black Country, UK
| | 11/10/2008 1:03 AM |
| Quality is pretty good in this set, with the exception of possibly Anakin of Nelvaan. Mine (and I have two), and I've seen others, have poorly glued on arms.
Aayla, Durge, Grievous & Holo Sidious are excellent. | |
"No disintegrations? Yeah right!" - Bail Ohmar, Warriors of Gar
Sithspawn's Lair - www.ugavine.com | |
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Whatisinaname
Sneak
60 Posts
| | 11/10/2008 8:57 AM |
| | I guess I was lucky with my Anakin. It looks very good. | | | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11114 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 11/10/2008 11:12 AM |
| My Anakin looks fine too.
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11114 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 11/13/2008 5:41 PM |
| I just updated my H/W list for this set and came to a startling conclusion. There isn't really all that much I want from this set. This is the first of the 40 figure sets so there was pretty much just Old Republic, Separatists and Fringe. No Rebellion, Empire or Sith can be found in this set.
For a brand new player / collector to the game the set is pretty perfect. It's very self contained and would work well with a Booster draft type of play. For a long time collector / player quite a bit of the set is redundant with figures I already have. Sure I didn't have a Sidious Hologram or Clone trooper on a Bug.
However quite a few of the figures like the Battledroids and Superbattle droids are redundant. I've got piles of these suckers from the past three sets they've been in, why couldn't we have gotten more living Seperatist troops? I would have prefered they keep the Battledroids out and just throw in some more generic clone troopers. The ones from Attack of the Clones set were god awfull in their sculpt and paint quality. I love the cleaner crisper look of the new Clone Troopers.
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Duke of Spoils
greyhaze
Warlord
7737 Posts
| | 11/15/2008 1:38 PM |
| Got my order in hand now.
Interesting new look on the card, I really like it. Nice job. :)
I'll start with the negative:
Poncho Clone Trooper - why?
Scoundrel Wookie - weird sculpt
Battle Droids - skinny legs make em difficult to get em in hand without the fold over effects, hoping someday they figure out a way to fix this.
Super/Heavy Battle Droids - thicken up their arms a bit and they won't curve horribly, please.
Arc Trooper Huncher - that is not a sniper rifle, by ANYones standards. Terrible.
IG Assassins - Cool fig, not so cool slouching.
Very cool stuff:
Trandoshan Scavenger - nice stuff!
Utapaun Warrior - very nice sculpt!
Human SoF - nice sculpt, surprising since the artwork sucks.
Techno Warrior - great, except maybe the head, seems small and too brightly coloured (what race is this anyways?)
Neimoidian Warrior - awesome sculpt and paint, really like it.
Magna Guard - Awesome!
IG Assassin - I like vs the slouching. I know kinda odd to have them on both the good/bad lists.
Bariss Offee - Nice sculpt!
Odd Stuff:
Aqualish Warrior - skin hair?
Star Corps - artwork doesn't match the sculpt, but both are good | |
Greyhaze's DDM Spoilers
Champion of a Medium Dog & then a Darkenbeast , Raistlin Majere, Nightmare WDQ25/60, Warduke WD60/60,
Anti-Champion of Guns, "Knight of Bugbears", and Joke Champion of Venger.
Called Shots: Frost Giant in Dangerous Delves. | |
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wicked cool
Underboss
2151 Posts
| | 11/26/2008 11:27 AM |
| | its to bad the super battle droids are getting skinnier arms/legs. The old super battle droids are far superior in sculpt/details. is the aqualish the only one from the arena? | |
The ROCK layeth the smacketh down. Long live Farscape
Vindicated-CHAMPION of the INTELLECT DEVOURER
i will change my avatar when martin completes dances with dragons | |
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Bail Ohmar
Sneak
84 Posts
Black Country, UK
| | 11/28/2008 12:34 AM |
| Poncho Clone Trooper - why?
C H i P s
Clone Hyperspace Patol :D | |
"No disintegrations? Yeah right!" - Bail Ohmar, Warriors of Gar
Sithspawn's Lair - www.ugavine.com | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11114 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 12/01/2008 11:57 PM |
| There's some serious size creep with the Arc Troopers..... :(
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Sean-Khan
Commander
2731 Posts
| | 12/10/2008 4:40 AM |
| Just got my first few singles from the set. Aayla is great, even if paintjob isn't perfect & there's some glossyness. Aayla & Maul were my #1 wants from clone strike, until I saw a close-up pic of the mini and saw how horrible it was - even if it costed tons due to VR status. And now we got a rare one that looks decent, goodness! Btw, I haven't examined stats, how does it play? Needs clones to work I guess.
Also got trandoshan & human soldier which are cool. I might want a few more of those, and some techno union soldiers (for future steampunk game) and neimodian soldier (for sp too, with some modifications). | |
Vindicated AtG Called shot: 2nd Huge Red Dragon
My collected trade reference links
Star Wars tactical combat -project
My modelling/terrain pages
Suomen miniatyyrikeräilijät / Miniature collectors of Finland | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11114 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 12/10/2008 10:01 AM |
| Hmm... for some reason I'm imagining Techno Union dudes in Fedoras.
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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paladin72
Sneak
155 Posts
| | 12/24/2008 5:02 PM |
| | I'm not overly impressed with what few I have seen so far. | |
“There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.” | |
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holeziwar
Skirmisher
21 Posts
salt lake city, utah
| | 01/09/2009 6:44 AM |
| | my favorite set so far has been Knights of the Old Republic. i don't know if i really like the animation version of star wars yet. so i don't know if i really like the set. i did get a starter set and i love the general obi-wan. anything that helps build up my clones i like! killed my brother with a 200pt team. he was seperatists with the new dooku and more and didn't kill a single mini of mine! he's only a couple years younger too. normally pretty even. so i guess i like it so far... | | | |
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fingersforfive
Skirmisher
8 Posts
| | 01/09/2009 4:45 PM |
| | i really like the clone wars sets. my first set i got aayla secura, and with master kota, i think i do pretty well for myself. | | | |
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