New Species Name Revealed! The Force Awakens Invades the Star Wars: Commander Mobile Game.
Disney’s new expansion for their mobile strategy game, Star Wars: Commander, now has two new mercenary units and one new location inspired by The Force Awakens.
While Star Wars: Battlefront has gamers fighting for Jakku, Star Wars: Commander takes players to yet another location from The Force Awakens – the lawless world of Takodana – a pivotal location in the upcoming film and home to the pirate Maz Kanata played by Lupita Nyong’o.
In addition to the new battleground, players can also earn and upgrade two new types of units inspired by The Force Awakens: Dowutin Hunters and Luggabeast Munitioneers. The Dowutin species looks to be the same as the big guy in the Vanity Fair photo (below). It was previously revealed in the Lucasfilm publishing panel at NYCC that the big guy’s name is “Grumgarr”, and we will be getting a short story about him by Alan Dean Foster in the December issue of Star Wars Insider.
We’ve also seen Luggabeasts hanging out on Jakku, and now it seems we get to see them in action as well. Check out the full descriptions of these additions below.
Luggabeast Munitioneer
Players can hire the armored Luggabeast Munitioneer, based on the cybernetic-enhanced beast of burden in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, to support their massive armies as they apply a damage buff to nearby friendly units.
Dowutin Hunter
Inspired by a new species unveiled in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Dowutin Hunters are lumbering infantry hired to dispatch enemy defending units with shock and awe, troops and vehicles alike. They carry a grip of thermal detonators and a modified starfighter blaster to ensure that the job gets done.
Planet Takodana
Featuring Maz’s Castle, the planet Takodana is the home to many unaligned scoundrels and provides the perfect setting for new Conflicts in Star Wars: Commander.
Disney has also announced that, available now, everyone who logs into Commander will receive five free consumable units of each new mercenary. Check out the trailer for the new expansion below.
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addicted to this game… new stuff is quite fun.
not much of an insight to Ep 7 though!!
I got tired of a bunch of stuff in this game. I’ll check out the new content, though. I have a max 8 base just sitting around getting attacked every 12 hours, lol.
Your ads in these articles are seriously out of control. 9 ads to wade through to get to the comments on mobile. Im all for generating revenue but can you tone it down abit.
Did you read the article? It was an ad in and of itself. ;P
the mobile version of the site is such a disaster on my iPhone haha i feel you
Obviously you are using the old mobile site. The new mobile site doesn’t have that issue with ads. And yes, iphones are always tricky and buggy.
I don’t play mobile games, but new characters & creatures are always welcome to the Star Wars universe. = )
Reminds me a bit (in a good way) of the Super-Mutants from fallout 4 with their Gatling lasers.
They also finally released the new level 10 as well. Two weeks it will take to upgrade the HQ. At least I was maxing out my last level 9 turret when the newest update arrived, so I can start the level 10 process. It really is a great game, despite the developers adding in some questionable changes here and there. For anyone who loves games like Clash of Clans or Call of Duty Heroes, (and especially loves Star Wars), it’s a no brainer to try out. I have also played for free from day one and was on the top 50 leaderboard a few times, just too say that you can play the game for free and still progress pretty far. I finally paid $10 into the game this past month too add a fifth builder (droid); just to support it and say thanks.
Glad for the Force Awakens additions. The game really takes place between Episodes 4 & 5, but you can reason that this planet would still be there and these general units and species would too, so we aren’t yet at the Force Awakens timeline. If my post-ANH Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie heroes show up on the new planet, It makes me wonder: are any of these new Force Awakens planets known to the classic characters before they go there in the new movie, or in the time frame of the OT? In Episode 2, very few people knew about Kamino, and even Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the Jedi Librarian didn’t know. It was in the database originally, and the Syfo Dyas pretender knew, so there’s that. It’s a big Universe. Will be curious to see.
Either way, Star Wars Commander is an awesome game. They’ve added a lot of new gameplay additions in the past six months (multiple planets and conflicts, planetary objectives, etc). If they can just get squad wars going and add a few of the daily rewards, etc and bell’s and whistles that CoC and CoDH have, it will be almost perfect…
Kind of looks like a mutated version of Micheal Chiklis before losing the weight.
The resemblance is uncanny.
My Brother once confused Nein Nunb with Ernie from Sesame Street too.
Beard horns… nice.
In the picture the dowutin fight Against stormtroopers. In the trailer alongside troopers. Which side Are They On?
I’m going to guess that that info isn’t even canon within the game, so I wouldn’t put too much thought into it.