u/idrownedmyfish77

I saw a post on r/topcharactertropes recently about the characters that are the unlikely sole survivors of their particular team that got me thinking. I will freely admit that I probably put more time into this than the writers did, just because I know someone is going to say that in the comments, but I grew up playing Republic Commando and honestly I am satisfied with Scorch’s portrayal. I’m just happy that any of the characters I grew up with get any level of relevance in the current era of Star Wars.

In any event, Delta Squad is basically the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. You have the leader, Boss and Leonardo, the brains, Fixer and Donatello, the wrath, Sev and Raphael, and then the baby brother who serves as the comic relief, Scorch and Michelangelo. In the TMNT comic “The Last Ronin”, all but Mikey are killed and he goes on a brutal rampage of revenge that otherwise would be wildly out of character for him.

My interpretation of Scorch up until this point has been that he was hardened by the loss of Sev on Kashyyyk in the game, and he parted ways with Boss and Fixer over it (the novel version of events even has Boss resort to threatening him to get him to leave and he tells the other commandos that he’d never forgive them for leaving their brother behind).

However the comparison to The Last Ronin made me consider another layer to this theory: what if the rest of Delta was killed during Order 66? Not only did he lose Sev but Boss and Fixer too. This would explain his attitude towards Hemlock’s “test subjects” and why he’s okay holding literal children at gunpoint. He lost his brothers to those force wielding maniacs, and he holds nothing but a burning anger towards them for it.

Don’t worry, she also got me Hera and Chopper, Hera will be here tomorrow and Chopper will be here Wednesday

Last night I head swapped an airborne trooper and a regular 212th trooper to make a clone heavy trooper and an airborne trooper grunt, decided to take it a step further. I put the regular trooper’s head back, and instead put waxer’s head and arms and legs on the airborne trooper body to give him the bandolier and Kama, and the airborne grunt the airborne accessories on his arms

So I realized that Waxer is a Lieutenant in The Clone Wars, meaning that he kinda correlates to my favorite skin from Battlefront 2, the 212th Clone Officer. I figured the easiest way to give him the bandolier would be to just give him one of the airborne troopers satchels.

Then because I have two airborne troopers and I want one to represent Sergeant Barlex from the RC novels, I simply swapped a Phase 2 helmet onto one of them to kinda make a clone heavy, also from BF2. I lowkey really like the look of the Airborne trooper helmet on a regular 212th trooper’s body. It feels super sleek and gives grunt vibes when standing next to the other airborne troopers

Picked up my first Inquisitor today. I wanted Marrok but I found the Grand Inquisitor today when we went out of town. Anyone else hoping to see purge troopers in Maul season 2? It was kind of odd not seeing them in season 1, and their exclusion from animation is starting to get a little jarring. Even if they’d just reused the elite squad model again like in tales of the Empire

Got Waxer and the boys as a birthday present to myself

I already have one that I got for like $27, but at $14.50, I’d be stupid not to get another one. I can always use another airborne trooper, and a second Obi wan will make great custom fodder

It’s been awhile since I played Elite Squadron but I’ve been thinking about these two lately. If I remember correctly, the game starts with them training troopers on Tattooine, but then they take part in the Battle of Coruscant and then the Siege of Cato Nemoidia, alongside a detachment of the 501st (the unfinished BFIII cutscenes depict most ordinary clones as 501st, I don’t know if that’s just reused assets from BF2 or if they’re meant to be 501st, I really don’t remember how they looked in ES). Were they officers in the 501st? Were they part of the Special Operations Brigade?

As a sidenote, I always thought their story was a bit weird to start with, being cloned from Jedi stock and all. I can 100% see the Aiwha bait taking DNA from an injured Jedi for research purposes like that, but to then create clones based on him and send them along to the Republic along with the Jango clones just feels… weird. I’d think they’d keep them on Kamino for study, or even try to get them to overtly train with a Jedi to see if they could unlock their abilities.

It feels weird that apparently she’s close enough with all of them that a whole company decided to paint their helmets in her honor after she came back. The only time I could imagine she’d have interacted with someone other than Rex would be in “Duel of the Droids” or “Cargo of Doom” where maybe she interacted with Denal. But I haven’t watched either episode in so long that I honestly couldn’t say.

She’s conspicuously absent in the episodes that show character development and growth among individual clones, like The Deserter or the Umbara Arc, so we never see her interact with Jesse, Hardcase, Kix, Dogma, or Tup. She’s MIA during the invasion of Kamino, meaning we don’t see her interact with Fives or Echo, and even in the Citadel Arc where she fights side by side with the Domino boys, there isn’t any direct interactions between them and her.

But then Season 7 comes out and suddenly she’s friends with all of them, she goes out of her way to rescue a clone pilot who is crashing, she’s saddened at Vaughn’s death, and she rescues Jesse from Maul. Then we get Tales which shows she knew Jesse since the immediate aftermath of the movie.

I recently picked up the Obi-Wan and Airborne Trooper 2 pack on sale and since I don’t currently have very many clone troopers, it’s made me want to focus on the 212th. I plan on picking up Anakin’s and Cody when that one goes on sale, and I’d like to pick up the 212th 4 pack at some point as well. I got the Umbra Operative ARC to go with because of his orange markings, I think he’d make a good officer for a 212th Shadow Trooper unit

Since I apparently collect the wrong scale action figures. So far only Hunter and Crosshair have official 3.75” action figures, while the whole squad exists in 6” and some of them even have multiple different figures

For my first custom figure, I made a redesigned take of Echo after he joined the Bad Batch, but if he opted to use standard Katarn class armor instead of a modified version of his Phase II ARC Trooper armor, inspired by artwork created by u/leadius.

My version retains some of his unique visual style however, using the Tsukumo helmet as it gave a more “cyborg” vibe in my opinion, not dissimilar to his modified phase 2 helmet seen in the show.

Every clone commando is competently trained in demolitions, marksmanship, battlefield medicine, and hacking, with each member of a squad specializing in one of the above tasks. Given the nature of his cybernetic implants, Echo shares the role of squad hacker with CT-9902 “Tech”, which is reflected in canon by them having the same style of backpack with added communication antennas. For my version, I opted to give Echo a backpack more similar to that worn by RC-1140, “Fixer” from Delta Squad. While Tech is eccentric and somewhat goofy like the rest of the Batch, like Fixer, Echo is gruff and grumpy, and overall disinterested in his squad’s shenanigans.

Also like Fixer, Echo appears to be the unofficial second in command of his particular squad, taking over when Hunter is captured by Crosshair in the penultimate episode of season 1. Thus, Echo receives two dots on the left side of his chest plate, similar to Fixer.

One last note about my custom version, I opted to give him shoulder plates inspired by the comic book “Star Wars Tales #22, Honor Bound,” for no other reason than because I think they look cool. The shoulders, helmet and backpack all came from Wilson Works 3D on Etsy, and the scomp link arm is from Coruscant Customs on Etsy. All 3D pieces were painted by my wonderful fiancee.

I think I’ve finally figured out exactly what how I want to finish off my army. In the Special Forces squad, I want to add two white scout troopers, one with a sniper rifle and the other with a baton (Rick the Door Technician).

I used a Rocket Trooper with an E-11 for the infantry squad’s commander, because there were a couple stormtrooper commanders in the first season of Rebels with red pauldrons (picture included). I’m going to finish that section with a stormtrooper heavy from Fallen Order, Luke Skywalker in Stormtrooper disguise (one of the stormtroopers already here is secretly Han Solo 🤫) and two more Jumptroopers

At the moment we’re only missing the scomp link hand, and when that’s here and painted, I’ll assemble the full figure