Clone Wars Battles — Star Wars Black Series Scene Display Guide

The Clone Wars Battles display is one of the largest and most varied in the Black Series — a conflict that spans seven seasons of animation, hundreds of planets, and a cast of clone troopers, Jedi generals, and Separatist forces that the prequel films only gestured at. The Clone Wars series did more to rehabilitate the prequel era in the eyes of fans than any other piece of Star Wars media, and the Black Series has responded with a collection that reflects that cultural importance.

The Scene in Star Wars

The Clone Wars run from the Battle of Geonosis in Attack of the Clones to Order 66 in Revenge of the Sith — roughly three years of galactic conflict in which the Republic’s clone army fights the Separatist droid forces across hundreds of engagements. The Clone Wars animated series, which ran from 2008 to 2020 across seven seasons, fills in that conflict in extraordinary detail.

What the series does that the films couldn’t is give the clone troopers individual identities. In Attack of the Clones they’re an army — interchangeable, purposeful, a solution to a problem. The series makes them people. Rex, Fives, Echo, Jesse, Cody, Wolffe — each with a name, a personality, a relationship to the Jedi they serve and the war they’re fighting. The series’ final arc, the Siege of Mandalore, is among the best storytelling Star Wars has produced in any medium: Ahsoka Tano leading Rex and the 332nd Company in taking Mandalore from Maul’s forces while Order 66 begins elsewhere, the horror of the clones’ programming activating against the person they’ve been fighting alongside.

The Clone Wars also deepened the Jedi Order significantly. Ahsoka Tano’s arc from Padawan to disillusioned former Jedi to reluctant participant in the Mandalore siege is the series’ central character journey, and the Black Series has covered her Clone Wars configurations — Padawan and the Walmart Ahsoka — alongside her later appearances in Ahsoka.

The Clone Trooper Army

The Clone Wars Battles display is the primary army-building display in the Black Series. The line has produced clone troopers across multiple battalion configurations — the standard Kamino trooper, the 212th Attack Battalion in orange, the 187th Legion in purple, the 332nd Company in Ahsoka’s markings, Phase I and Phase II armour variants, ARC troopers, Clone Commanders. Each configuration represents a specific unit within the Clone Wars’ military structure and each has its own display context.

For army building, the Phase II Clone Trooper mainline release and the Clone Trooper (Kamino) provide the neutral white baseline. The battalion-specific variants — 212th, 187th, 332nd — are exclusives that add visual variety and unit specificity. The Clones of the Republic two-packs pair Jedi generals with their specific clone commanders: Mace Windu with his 187th trooper, Yoda with Commander Gree, Obi-Wan with his 212th clone, Anakin with Rex. These pairings are the most display-coherent releases in the Clone Wars sub-line — the general and their trooper as a matched set.

The Jedi Generals

The Clone Wars transformed how collectors think about several Jedi characters. Anakin Skywalker in his Clone Wars configuration — the scar, the darker undertone, the general’s authority — is a different figure to the Prequel Trilogy Anakin. Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Clone Wars general carries a weight the films didn’t have time to develop. Ahsoka Tano exists almost entirely because of this series.

The 50th Anniversary wave contributes Clone Wars-specific versions of Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka that represent an earlier production era than the Galaxy Collection releases. For collectors who want the animated aesthetic rather than the live-action Photo Real approach, these figures have a specific visual character worth considering.

The Separatist Side

The Clone Wars display’s Separatist contingent reflects the series’ range of antagonists. MagnaGuards — General Grievous’s IG-100 series bodyguards — are the display’s most recognisable droid opponents outside the standard battle droids. The Commando Droid represents the series’ elite droid infantry, more capable and more dangerous than the standard B1s. Both are figures that work as standalone display pieces and as army-building targets.

Darth Maul (Cybernetic Legs) is the Clone Wars-specific Maul — the version rebuilt by Mother Talzin after his bisection in The Phantom Menace, restored to sanity, building a criminal empire and settling scores. His Cybernetic Legs configuration is specific to the Clone Wars series and distinct from both his TPM appearance and his Solo cameo. Savage Opress, his brother, is the Nightbrother warrior who serves as Maul’s muscle and whose story is one of the series’ most affecting — a man transformed against his will into something he didn’t choose to be.

The Siege of Mandalore

The Clone Wars Battles display’s most significant subset is the Siege of Mandalore arc. The 332nd Clone Trooper with Ahsoka’s orange facial markings, Clone Commander Jesse, and the Clone Wars Ahsoka cover the Republic side of that final arc. Pre Vizsla and the Mandalorian Loyalist and Super Commando figures represent the Mandalorian political factions the siege is fought over.

The Siege of Mandalore releases are among the most sought-after figures in the Clone Wars sub-line precisely because of that arc’s status as some of the best Star Wars storytelling produced. Getting the 332nd trooper and Ahsoka on a shelf together tells that story visually without needing context.

All Figures for This Display

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