FFoL BB: 6mm Clone Wars (Fistful of Lightsabers?)

[Maniac]

After a number of years looking at the minis as possible Battletech infantry, I've taken the plunge and started printing and painting 6mm Clone Wars figures and vehicles from a number of sources.

I'm planning to use Fistful of Lead:  Bigger Battles, with each base being a squad of troopers.  Then use a dice to track wounds/shots.  B1 Battledroids as D8, with 10-12 models per base.  Clones/B2s with 8-10 models per base, and so forth.  Heroes and commanders on pennies, with vehicles based as needed.

I haven't used vehicles yet in FFoL:BB, and am curious on folks experience with them.  What went well, what should I be aware of?  I'll have Hailfire droids, Droid tanks, AT-TEs, Sabre tanks, and both LAATs and Sep Droid Gunships that I will want to put on the table.

I do have STAPs and Speeders comming, but those are easily handled by mounted troops with flight.



Any thoughts on vehicles?  Ideally I'll be able to field a 4-6 player game with quite a few vehicles thrown in:
Seperatists:  ~13 squads of B1s, 7 squads of B2, 4 squads of Destroyers, 4 squads of Dwarf Spider, 2-3 squads of STAPs, 5 Droid tanks, 4 Hailfire, 3 Gunship, Dooku, Maul, Grevious, and several Droid Commanders
Republic:  ~14 squads of Clones, 5 squads of ARC troopers, 4 squads of AT-RTs, 3 squads of BARC Speeder, 4-5 TX-130 Sabre tanks, 3 AT-TEs, 3 LAATs, 3 ARC trooper heroes, Anakin, Obi-wan, Rex, and Cody.

That should give me a pretty good start.

[Mellal]

You're doird in the back are way too big 

This is a super projet, I haven't read Fistful of lead but I can't wait to see the table to host the battles !

[Inkpaduta]

They look really good. Sounds like a great project.

[fred]

Looks great!

My mate did 3d printed Star Wars in 10mm, which gave great looking units and vehicles. I think he used Mantic’s Warpath as the basis for the game. But we had to do quite a bit of fiddling of stats to get units that felt right. Unfortunately I’ve got no idea how vehicles work in FFoL BB

[HerbertTarkel]

Those look great!

I’m leaning heavily towards getting a 3D printer over the Black Friday / Cyber Monday - just sort of waiting for the best deal to present itself.

Pretty much resigned to the fact that I’m going to have to get one to do projects like this…

[Maniac]

Thanks guys.  Got most of the commanders done plus some B2:

[fred]

No General Grievous - surely the definition of a Fistful of Lightsabres?

[Maniac]

Grevious is on his wheel bike in the lower left.  The mini of him solo is way out of scale, more like a 12mm or 15mm figure

[DivisMal]

What an awesome project!!!!

I love the Clone Wars and doing them in 6mm just feels the correct way to re-live the amazing show.
While I have played FFoL a few times, I have not enough experience to know by heart how to construct the units to get that very, very specific Clone Wars feel.

Iirc both in the mediocre movies and the brilliant show the droids come in masses. So many B1s to few B2s to a single Clone trooper show be your guidance. Don’t take it too seriously, just put as many models on a base to make it look right!

But now the crucial part: jedi!

You already based them as singles and they look great! What about the masses of other troops?

Maybe two (actually three in a monty pyrhonesque Spanish Inquisition way) options : go for a bigger base OR make the base chock full of models OR combine both:

1. „normal“ base with 1 hero (jedi or else)
2. slightly bigger base with a few Clones
3. big base with a modest number of B2 or chock full of B1s.


Vehicles: treat them as singles. They are the Jedi equivalent of the baddies.

[Maniac]

Well, I'll have to figure out vehicles soon I guess:





The AT-PTs are bit big I think.  Still, treating them as Mounted Troops with heavy blasters should work fine.  Flying, Mounted, Heavy Blasters for the STAPs, and Flying/Mounted/Blasters for the BARCs.

I have played Galactic Heroes with FFoL multiple times and BB in 32mm, so stating up the troop units is easy.