This is a 15mm army, which uses the small 20mm Hasbro Micro-Machine soldiers. It came about by accident, because I ordered far too many Imperial troops off e-Bay. Having two Imperial armies the same would be silly (one is really enough). Luckily I had some Tie-fighters lurking in my spares box and so the navy list was born. This army looks crisply uniform, and quite fascist, with the black uniforms and grey Tie-fighters. The Star Destroyer was added for laughs (or groans) depending on your point of view!
Stronghold: Death Star
| Magician General (Emperor Palpatine or Darth Vader plus guard and officer) @ 4AP | 1 |
| Shooters (Naval Soldiers) @ 2AP | 1-4 |
| Hordes (Imperial Pilots) @ 1AP | 2 |
| Blades (Stormtrooper boarding party) @ 2AP | 1 |
| Flyer (Tie Fighter, Tie Advanced, or Interceptor) @ 2AP | 2-4 |
| Airboat (Tie Bomber) @ 3AP | 1 |
| Dragon (Victory II Star Destroyer) @ 4AP | 1 |
Here's my spurious justification for the types. The Naval Soldiers are shooters because er… well the models all have blaster-rifles and are in shooting poses. The troops themselves were guards on Star Destroyers, Death Stars and the Endor Generator and we mostly see them shoot! The pilots are hordes because these poor vac-heads have been pressed into a ground role, they are armed with laser pistols (as they really should be flying star-fighters.) Flyers? Now Tie Fighters can operate from ground bases so we can assume they can fly in an atmosphere like X and Y wings. Airboat - Hmmm, the Tie Bomber is a bigger model than the fighter and it can also be used to bomb ground targets, so any excuse to use a nifty model. The starfighter models I use are the 1/300 scale Micromachines which are a bit underscale compared to the 1/76 scale figures. For accuracy I could have used the die-cast models or X Ray see-through line.
The stormtroopers were included as an option because we see them right at the beginning of 'Star Wars' in a boarding action, they are blades, why??? Because in the films they can't hit a flipping thing with a blaster, but they are stubborn, well disciplined and trained for close assault.
The Dragon, now you can laugh … a Star Destoyer, a Victory II the older, smaller version of the Imperial class. (It can enter the planetary atmosphere but not land and so was used for ground bombardment and pursuit, allegedly). Getting the right size model is difficult. I went for the Micro Machines converting playset it's smaller than the ERTL model kit but still dragon-sized. If not the Micro-Machines die-cast toy is a possibility.