I assume these new Galaxy Tiles are to the SW RPG what the Dungeon Tiles are to the D&D game? So I assume we'll have tiles for things like cantinas, starship decks, spaceports, etc.? Presumably they are made to support both the minis game and the new revised RPG.
What type of tiles would you like to see?
From the classic trilogy I think it would be cool to have the Mos Eisley Cantina, a Star Destroyer bridge, a rebel base like Hoth, an Ewok village, an Imperial bunker, and so on.
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I sat in on the Wizards Star Wars Miniatures panel at Celebration this year. Your presumptions are all correct, though they didn't hint at exact themes of the different releases just yet. I really dig the Dungeon Tiles and these will probably blow them away.
If the Wizards spies are trolling through the boards here, let me put these out there as potentially choice locations/rooms for future installments:
the garbage compactor (with accompanying cell block 1138)
Vader's meditation chamber
bridge of the Executor
carbonite factory on Cloud City
Jabba's palace
I should think that rather than having cetain movie specific locations that would be usless if you are not playing that movie scene, it would ba a lot better to have more generic locations. How about a cantina located deep inside the underlevels of Coruscant, or an outer rim landing bay, or the bridge of a bulk liner? Perhaps the tiles necessary to lay out a smuggler's base?
But Vader's meditation chamber? How many campaigns would even use that once?
The bridge os the Executor is useful. All Imperial Bridges are the same. Imperial ships and even ground installations are modular. The bridge section of the Executor is the same as the bridge section of an ordinary Star Destroyer, and the same as a garrison-post on some outer rim world.
I would prefer a really generic set. One side has a blue-grey tile pattern that would look good in an Imperial ship floor layout. The other side should have a brown/tan tile set to represent the 'rebel' look. Then I would have some tiles that are groupings of tables/chairs clusters of barrels/wreckage. I would include some 2" x 4" tiles with some grating/or walkways on them. I don't like tiles that have permanent furniture on them. I prefer to have the furniture on 2"x2" or 4"x4" tiles so I can layout the room like I want and not have to resort to using the same "cantina" layout for every bar-fight.
Hopefully they will look like their posters, except be more modular. Hopefully they will not turn out like the caverns set, which was such a dissapointment that I gave mine away. The Cavern's set is only useful if you don't try to copy a publication's underground map.
Of course this is a Lucasfilm licenced product, so they could easily screw this up as well and I wouldn't be surprised.
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