Personally my money is on a Dust: Tactics like squad based miniatures game set in the original trilogy timeline. It may even be called Star Wars: Tactics.

This would mean highly detailed quality prepainted plastic sculpts, with varied molds for each model. The base set may consist of Storm Troopers and Rebel Troops. We may even get some small AT-ST's and/or power armored Storm Troopers. First round of expansions will probably be secondary characters, and "hero" sculpts of important/famous characters (Luke, Han, Chewie, etc.). Like Dust, they may even include a terrain "board", though I'm unsure just how strict the license is regarding the fact that they can't make "board games". The current license holders, Hasbro, tend to interpret this as "make the worst board games you can and slap the Star Wars logo on it". The Dust Tactics style approach would allow them to get around this in a way while still producing a board game like experience.

This would scratch everyone's "want more Star Wars stuff" itch, plus they'd be tapping into both the wargamer and rpg markets since some would purchase the game just to use the minis in their pen and paper campaigns.

What do y'all think?

I certainly wouldn't mind miniatures. So long as we don't get the WotC idea of miniatures (random "boosters" that are only out for a short time). Storm Troopers, Rebels, small vehicles (speeders), droids, aliens, etc… like the old Ral Partha line, but maybe in plastic or other light, resilient material. I hated that something so common, an R2 unit, was so hard to get because they CALLED it R2-D2…

Another Star Wars mini game, for ground-combat would be ideal as the next game release.  I'd freaking LOVE to have it.  Especially if it was non-random- setting up scenarios from the movies/books is a lot easier when you can just go easily buy what you need.

+1 for a Dust-style (either version) star wars game!

… just no Ewok army please!

-wuhsawbe- said:

Man, no Ewok army is a deal-breaker for me.  They should be in the core set, even.  Ewoks vs Jawas, please :).

Asmoridin said:

Ok, I admit it, THAT would be pretty funny! =p

 This has been painfully needed since… Forever? I remember there was an actual tactical mini squad bass game, like 15+ years ago. I'm not sure it even got a real release. I have a bunch of the Wizards stuff, but the truth is it just wasn't what I wanted out of a mini game. Prepainted, unprinted, whatever. Just give me a real squad based game. I vote for some vehicles. An army level game where I can field multiple AT-ATs would be sweet too. Battles of Westerosish if the board game license is up for grabs.

Spike1382 said:

Star Wars Miniatures battles from West End Games?  That had a release, an expansion, and tons and tons of miniatures available (pewter and unpainted).  It basically played like a slightly simplified version of their d6-based RPG. 

Spike1382 said:

I vote for this.

or a 15mm miniature game. With a lot of vehicles!