FFG Dive Into The Details For Star Wars: Legion Tauntaun Riders
July 9, 2019 by brennon
Fantasy Flight Games dived into more detail about the upcoming Tauntaun Riders expansion coming to Star Wars: Legion.
This updated peek at the unit allowed us to get a better look at the unit card for them in game. They seem like they would be a fantastic and fast addition to a Rebel force on Hoth, charging forward and keeping the enemy pinned down with blaster fire and the rending claws of the Tauntauns!
The Tauntauns themselves are very agile and can clamber over difficult terrain with ease. This makes them great at getting around the back of the enemy force and them chambering up onto what they thought was a protected objective.
Weapon-wise the DL-44 Blaster Pistol is a crack shot but the two black dice and one white dice from the Horns & Hind Claws attack is also worth considering!
Again, this is a release which is very much tied to the Battle Of Hoth and a particular subset of Rebel trooper. Whilst I'm sure that these riders are going to find their uses in armies which are taking to the battlefield in other climates, it is very much an expansion for those wanting to create a proper Hoth army.
I would like to see what people do with them when they do take them away from the snow and ice. Maybe you could paint these Tauntaun with shaggy brown coats or sandy ones for different environments?
What do you make of the Tauntaun Riders?
"Maybe you could paint these Tauntaun with shaggy brown coats or sandy ones for different environments?"
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Those are really nice.
great models I hope they don’t smell funny?
Obligatory, well not on… the… outside…
Lol.
Oh nice! Targets! SHOOT ‘EM!
OOOh, mobile sleeping bags.
Nice models! Ones that many players have been waiting for that wish to base a series of battles around a Hoth or Hoth like planet. I ordered two of these for patrols and now kinda wish that I had ordered two more. As far as the use of these on different planets, the sky is the limit. After all, this is Star Wars and pretty much anything can exist anywhere you want it to. It could be that the Tauntaun of Hoth is a genetic spur of an animal that came from some other planet and its DNA was altered… Read more »
The snowshoe hares we have here turn brown in the summer and white in the winter, updating their camouflage to safe as the seasons change.
But I think I’d paint my tauntauns with tiger stripes. 🙂 😉
I guessing I will get to use some heavy mud effects to match the rest of my army!
That running pose looks a bit odd.
I wonder if in time they will produce Hoth specific heroes (or other costume variants for that matter). It would be nice to see them round out the Hoth set that way but would also be a bit of a double up on hero releases.