JcDent

They better show some Legions minis AND MAYBE ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH DAY.

I got so desperate, I messaged the store I buy minis from whether they know anything.

They didn't, but the support person google'd a Spikey Bits speculation article on the topic. Top of the line customer support!

Also, the theory is that the rulebook went out to the influencers with major errors and had to be returned to be fixed and reprinted.

The game was meant to come out in August. It's October and there's no release date.

Some personal theories on what was so bad about the rulebook:

Every instance of letter "n" was replaced with the n-word.
Instead of the rules for running, they printed the entirely of the John Galt speech.
One page was printed on asbestos.

And it just hammers home how much damage multiverses entering the public consciousness has done for our entertainment, especially when creators seem confident enough to mash them with time-travel, a concept they can barely handle on the best of days

lol there's a bit on ahsoka that feels like it's a response to a reddit post about why the jedi don't get out and block cannon fire during spaceship combat

real "why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box" energy

it's funny how little effort they put into supporting the idea that thrawn is a hypercompetent strategic and/or tactical genius

it does make sense insofar as the general bar for imperial competence is just impossibly low, which ::gestures at america:: sometimes empires are like that, yeah

What doesn't help is that most writers - notably for sci-fi, a field that often includes military shit - know about war about as much as their audience. Mainly, that they watched Saving Private Ryan once and still resent having had to learn history in school.

Everything works out fine in the end since, as previously noted, major audiences' understanding of war is not unlike that of a brick of tofu.

There's also another thing playing in the show writers' favor: fans of multimillion dollar media franchises have some of the lowest standards on Earth. While you're pondering whether the show does a good job of depicting a military genius, they're flooding Twitter with posts about how Ashoka swinging her lightsabers at some zombies like a geriatric is the most sublime fight choreography since Michael cast down Satan.