All clone battlepacks from worst to first

Battlepacks!

I've always loved battlepacks, but some are of course better than others. For me, as a MOC builder and occasional stop motion animator who also loves lore accuracy, the primary traits of a good battlepack are these:

- figures it would make sense to see a whole bunch of on the same mission.

- lore accurate vehicles

Sounds quite simple, right? Now let's see how well the 9 different clone battlepacks we've gotten so far (not counting the 501st pack, the 2014 battle on saleucami, or the 2022 minifig pack) meet these standards!

#9

75089 Geonosis Troopers from 2015

I actually kinda like these figures (not the walker tho, that thing is ugly), but they're a non-canon design, so while they look like they could fit into canon pretty well, it technically wouldn't make sense to see any of them on any mission, so that's why they must be placed last

#8

75206 Jedi and Clone Troopers Battle Pack from 2018

I would've given this last place if it hadn't been for those geonosis troops being non-canon (I'm sure DP'll be fuming at me for saying that lol).

On the one hand, you do get these great phase 1 clones, which are about as army-buildable figures you could ever ask for, but then you also get

Named.    Jedi.    Characters.

Even a lot of their individual pieces are rather specific to their characters, so they're not even that fit for making customs!

This, in addition to the non-canon, non-sensical and honestly just ugly vehicle almost gives this set last place, but at least it's got canon figures so that saves it from being completely last

#7

9488 Elite Clone Trooper & Commando Droid Battle Pack from 2012

I imagine this one's gonna be more controversial than the last one but hear me out

First off, I think the whole vs idea for battlepacks was kinda silly and am glad they didn't keep it up for too long

Secondly, the actual figures. Since this comes with droids as well as clones Imma be judging both.

Aaaaaaand both are kinda silly, Arc troopers, Arf troopers and Commando droids are all "elite" figures you rarely see more than 3 or 4 of on the same mission

The mini AV-7 cannon is just fine, not a canon cannon (at that size anyway) but not too far away from canon cannon designs either

#6

75000 Clone Troopers vs. Droidekas from 2013

Moving up from the bottom third to the middle third, this battlepack's pretty meh all around, a vehicle that's based on a canon one but not to scale, one very very armybuilble figure (the normal clone) and three not very armybuildable ones, for me it's not terrible enough to hate, and not good enough to gush about, so let's just move on

#5

7913 Clone Trooper Battle Pack from 2011

Ngl I think this battlepack is way overrated. It does have the most accurate rendition of the BARC to date, so that's certainly a big plus, but the minifigure selection I find quite strange, especially giving you 2 bomb squad troopers! What the heck do you need an army of bomb defs for??? The ARF trooper is also, as already mentioned, not a great armybuilding figure, so the only decent figure imo in this set would be the standard trooper from Eeth Koth's battalion.

#4

7655 Clone Troopers Battle Pack from 2007

Ah yes, the one that started it all.

The figures here are overall a big plus, though while it feels like heresy to criticise this set, I don't consider the shock troopers to be super army-buildable figures, as law enforcement don't tend to operate in army formations. The speeder is also not exactly super accurate to the BARC, while the turret I'm not going to rate, because I don't think it'd be fair. Overall quite good, but with room for improvement.

#3

8014 Clone Walker Battle Pack from 2009

Another classic, this one beats out the previous by virtue of having three completely standard clone troopers, the highest of any of these battlepacks. It's also the only battlepack to give us the classic DC-17s, the only lego piece specifically designed to look like a clone weapon, and one of the only two to give us clone customisation options (and in a more universally applicable colour than the other one).

So why is it not first? First off, the gunner is a figure typically only seen alone in a heavy piece of equipment, and is certainly not a figure you need one of for every three grunts, and secondly the vehicle, while far from the worst we've gotten, is non-canon.

#2

75036 Utapau Troopers from 2014

Finally we come to the first battlepack with only armybuildable clones!

In theory you should be able to have 660 of these before you have more clones than the whole of the 212th attack battalion, but really I'd think Kenobi's entire corps uses that colour scheme because I really hope that out of the 40 odd thousand clones under his command, it's not just the same 600 man formation he uses for literally everything lmao

Anyway, the octuptarra droid is also among the few properly good side-builds we've gotten, the only major flaws are that it's somewhat oversized, and of course that its lasers have been replaced by flickfire missiles, but these are relatively easily fixable.

Overall great pack, only drawbacks are a slightly flawed vehicle, and of course it was among the first sets to start the long trend of stud shooters being the only armament in battlepacks, a stupid thing I'm glad we're past

#1

75035 Kashyyyk Troopers from 2014

The ones on here who know my clone collection well probably gasped in shock when they saw that my beloved 212th battlepack was NOT first!

Thing is, back in 2014, it WAS, but it was then overtaken when the "Kashyyyk trooper" became an actual canon design thanks to battlefront II, because you see, this battlepack now also has equally army-buildable figures to the 212th one (if you choose to believe the Kashyyyk trooper design was not just limited to 40 men out of a 40000 man formation), and it also has just a slightly better vehicle in my opinion, because while this one also has silly guns, it IS completely size accurate!

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Anyway, that's all of the battlepacks ranked, let me know what you thought if you actually got all the way through lol