Saturday, November 15, 2025

The Battle of Hoth

For my birthday, my wife got me the new Battle of Hoth game. This is basically a reskin of Memoir 44 and comes with miniatures.


The bulk of the miniatures are Imperial Snowtroopers, which I promptly painted up.


The snow troopers are okay figures. This was a quick prime, detail and wash. I see the bases may need some more work.


The best part about them is that they more or less match the 25mm West End Games figures I have from the 1980s. The WEG figure is slightly beefier and is on a washer but otherwise, these are a good match. It is wild how long it has taken for a Star Wars game token to match the old WEG figures!


There are also some probe droids that match the WEG ones pretty closely.


There are also a bunch of Rebel Hoth Troopers.


These are pretty nice figures that paint up well.


The rest of the minis have variable scales. The snow speeders are maybe 5-6mm sized.


The AT-ATs are very small (2mm?), the turrets are more like 10mm, and I've no sense of the ion cannon or the shield generators.


Once put on the game board, the effect is awesome and I cannot wait to play a game as well as the two campaigns the box comes with.

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