Assaulting Imperial Assault

We have had a bit of renewed interest in Imperial Assault of late with our nextdoor neighbour proving to be something of a gaming convert and a massive Star Wars fan.  We got around two thirds of the way through a campaign, which had been played entirely with painted minitures, only to get to a mission that had a stipulation “no scum and villainy units”.  I found that it was a struggle to fill out the deployment cards allowance with meaningful options so I decided to rush through a few more Imperial troop units from the last couple of boxed expansions.  As it turns out, these are the last of the Imperial troops that I have, there are a few characters still to paint (Admiral Thrawn and the Emperor for instance) and a vehicle (the AT-DP walker) but beyond that, I have very little left.

As easy as these were to paint, being honest, I was a little underwhelmed by the performance of the Death Troopers in the game.  They were a simple black undercoat,washed with a mix of blue and black ink and then given a drybrush of a very dark grey.  After they were finished and varnished I then picked out the armour plates with a gloss varnish – fairly standard for all of the Storm Troopers

These look remarkably familiar, very similar to the Dark Troopers in the Mandalorian in fact.  I went with another very simple colour scheme – leadbelcher undercoat with a black wash, drybrushed with Ironbreaker and then given a purple glaze to finish.  The weapon was given a coat of Black Templar to give it a nice, dark gunmetal look.  Then I picked out all of the lights by painting them white and using a slightly thinned red contrast paint.

Lastly is the riot control troops.  To make them a little more interesting I followed a similar approach to that taken with the jet troopers – I use squad markings using the Shock Troopers as an inspiration for this.  Beyond that they’re the same as the original storm troopers, a white undercoat, a heavy black wash and then pick the plates out with white.  Easy peasy.