B2 Super Battle Droid Model Kit Review (AMG)

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This review will cover the new iteration of the B2 Super Battle Droid miniatures for Star Wars Legion by Atomic Mass Games.

B2 droids are available as a standalone box or as part of the excellent Separatist Alliance starter set. Mine came from the starter set, but the miniatures are exactly the same as those in the standalone boxed set.

Look and feel (5 / 5)

These big metal bruisers look absolutely amazing. They have that lovely chunky upper body and skinnier looking limbs that give B2's their iconic silhouette. Their proportions and out of the box poses are fantastic, with their sleek, sharper Cylon-esque armour plates marking them as a clear upgrade on the standard B1 Droids while maintaining some of their visual cues in foot shape and circular joints.  

These miniatures translate every part of the B2 Droids from the screen to the gaming table, not compromising on the design in any way. If you like the prequel movies and Clone Wars aesthetic, look no further than these heavy hitters!

Functionality, Cost & Quality (5 /5)

These miniatures are super high quality, with very clean lines and crisp details. In terms of cost, I feel that they are a little overpriced, but if  you are picking them up as part of the Separatist starter set, then they work out a lot more reasonable. Having said that, with the currently high oil prices pushing up the cost of plastics and logistics for all products, Star Wars Legion still remains a lot more accessible in terms of cost than other game systems such as Warhammer.

In term of functionality, these guys also hit the mark quite nicely, with the standing figure fitting their base footprint almost perfectly to avoid those annoying storage bumps and knocks. Interspersing this with kneeling figures helps to give the unit some height variation in the unit, again helping with storage and fitting miniatures in close proximity on the battlefield.

My only concern with these miniatures was their top heavy design and comparatively small foot connection to their bases. Happily, these concerns apply a lot less to these guys than it does to the B1 Droids as they a comparatively more flat footed in their poses giving great base contact for glue.

All in all, this is a polished, excellent product which is available at a respectable price point.

Construction (5 / 5)

This kit was an absolute breeze to assemble. Much like the glow up on the B1 Droids, the plastic quality and sprue layout made these exceptionally easy and very enjoyable to put together. They require minimal cleanup although you will want to keep an eye out for some mould lines running down the centre of some armour plates. Anyone who has assembled plastic miniatures will be anticipating this and I'm happy to say it's less of an issue than with some other miniature ranges.

With all of the Droid kits, I found that it was best to fully assemble the miniatures, tacking them to their bases with a tiny spot of super glue, prime them en-mass then remove and texture the bases separately. With most miniatures it isn't an issue, but with such small feet, I didn't want to risk burying their little trotters with texture. This actually made the basing process very quick as I textured, painted and added tufts to around 80 bases in a couple of days! The fact that the B2 Droids are mostly silver made painting them from a silver basecoat spray super easy! The 56 B1s on the other hand... **shudder**

Kit posing and options (4 / 5)

I won't labour over this point, as I covered it in the B1 review - the options in this kit are good, but with a couple of extra weapons to give your unit variety in the game, but again AMG didn't include standard versions for all Droid in the box. I know this is probably me a me problem, but with the cost of the kit and the unit upgrade limitations, I still feel this was a bit of a blunder that could have been avoided with a couple of extra arms on the sprue.

As mentioned above, the out of the box posing of the Droids is excellent and given that they are mass produced units which benefit from a unified look, re-using poses isn't much of an issue here, especially if you the swap arms and bodies from a second box if you don't want exact duplicates.

Final Score & Comments (5 / 5)

Overall I think this kit is worth of a five out of five. It does exactly what it set out to do, avoiding almost all pitfalls of a miniature kit at this price point. My only grumbles weren't enough to drag the score down to a 4 as for the most part I loved building painting and just looking at these miniatures. Of all the Separatist units, I'd happily paint more of these guys in a heartbeat and I cannot recommend them highly enough for anyone starting a Separatist army!