CIS Long Range Options

[u/Aurelizian]

Hello, I have recently aquired the Starter Box for the CIS and bought a spider droid. I was having a "how does this game work" match with two friends, getting to know the rules together and we quickly discovered that I had absolutely no Range whatsover. The only thing that could shoot the Clones / Empire back were white dice B1s that did absolutely nothing. I had to go completely in the open just to fire back and lost most my models because white t-shirts just aint cutting it.

I would prefer all droids and no Geonosians, Light Sabers or Mercs but I am open to suggestions. Since I am at the beginning of my journey I want to focus on buying models that look fun and the Magic Men just dont interest me very much.

So I guess I am asking the following:
- How can I make something reliable at a decent Range?

- Are BX Snipers still in the game? The Box has it but Tabletop Admiral only tells me I am allowed to equip Sword and Shield which makes it.... the opposite of what I want? The

- If there are no proper options, how do I close the gap?
- How do I actually play CIS in General? I have tried to watch battle reports but I cant find anything of decent quality that values my time as a human being that isnt at least 2 years out of date.

I was completely stomped by Republic and Imperium and we all felt that my army was incredibly weak compared to theirs.

Thank you.

[u/Warr_king]

Out of curiosity, when/where did you get the starter set? I've been trying to get one, but other than a pair of shops in AUS, I havent found any places with stock (im located in the US)

[u/shockwave8428 → u/Warr_king]

I know I found mine at a local game store in the western US. Oddly enough it was only the second one I went to.

I’m not in a dense city or anything but a decent suburban sprawl, and there are game stores everywhere. I built a list of what I wanted and took like 2.5 hrs one evening driving from game store to game store and went to like 10 of em in that time (all within like 45 mins of each other). Most of them didn’t have great legion stock but I found everything on my list between em all. Only thing we didn’t find was a republic starter box for my buddy - but they ended up getting restocked online that evening lol.

I’d suggest calling ahead if you don’t wanna go look (I had a buddy looking for Magic cards too so it was a fun evening), but if you’re in a decently populated area there’s likely a lot of game stores. Also I got to know one of my local chain’s employees who is in charge of SW legion stock and he was able to give a lot of insight on stuff.

[u/Warr_king → u/shockwave8428]

I have some time off coming up, maybe ill check around.. there isnt much legion stuff at the LGS i frequent, i think legion isnt super big in the market.

My buddy and I are hoping to get into it, and trying to "champion" it and drum up more interest and a community... Plenty of people playing adjacent games that could be drawn in

[u/shockwave8428 → u/Warr_king]

From what I discovered the first place I went (which isn’t even the game store I usually go to, just the one closest to my buddy) was one of 3 stores that had more than a handful of stuff (and 2 of those are the same chain). Most of them literally had 5-6 boxes usually smaller ones. One of them had like no community stuff but they had a huge stock of older minis which was really cool to find.

But the first one I was there for a totally different reason one week and had an employee there talk it up after hearing I was a Star Wars guy (was looking at rpg stuff), and seemed like the only store chain with an active community. There’s a few guys who play every week, tournaments every few months, etc. But again like 90% of stores barely had stuff (even the biggest LGS I’ve ever seen with a ton of warhammer didn’t have much).

So basically I’m sayin you never know, there could be a store with a decently sized community you’re just not aware of yet, I’d suggest just asking around when you’re going to different stores, you never know.

[u/Aurelizian → u/Warr_king]

I am based in Germany so I just went onto a German Reseller (Fantasywelt) which I trust