The Clone Wars Legacy Squad is a lore-based role-play roster for Star Wars: Zero Company. You build it yourself with offscreen Clone Wars characters; it is not an official squad type or named in-game system.
Star Wars: Zero Company arrives on August 27, 2026 as a single-player, turn-based tactics game where you lead Hawks and an outfit of professionals for hire through the twilight of the Clone Wars. The Clone Wars Legacy Squad gives you a story-driven alternative to an optimized, min-maxed team: assemble lesser-seen, lore-rich characters who fought in the shadows of that era. This is a roster-building approach, not a button or preset inside the game.
What the Clone Wars Legacy Squad actually is
Key The game has no system, menu, mode, or faction called the Clone Wars Legacy Squad, and it is not a premade team you unlock. It is a self-assembled roster concept that fills Zero Company with Clone Wars figures who mostly operated offscreen: independent operators, local resistance leaders, and overlooked veterans instead of the usual frontline clones.
The “legacy” is the roster’s theme. Fill your outfit with people who carry history from that period, giving every operative a personal stake in the galaxy instead of relying on interchangeable generic troops. The game lets you recruit authored story characters and create fully custom operators, so you assemble this themed build through the roster tools.
The planned roster and each member’s role
| Character | Role |
|---|---|
| Cham Syndulla | Twi’lek general and frontline leader |
| Pav-ti | Combat medic |
| Nakil | Scout and sharpshooter |
| Lux Bonteri | Political operator |
| Sugi | Mercenary and bounty hunter |
| R7-A7 | Astromech support droid |
Build the squad around six recruits, each carrying a distinct battlefield role and a connection to Clone Wars-era history. Cham Syndulla anchors the front as a Twi’lek general and the hammer of Ryloth. Pav-ti serves as the combat medic and keeper of the old ways, while Nakil opens engagements as the scout and sharpshooter. Lux Bonteri handles the political side of the operation, Sugi supplies seasoned mercenary and bounty-hunting muscle, and the astromech R7-A7 supports the team from time to time.
The lineup covers every essential job: a heavy holds the front, a healer keeps the squad fighting, a ranged specialist starts engagements, flexible operators add political leverage and mercenary muscle, and a droid plugs any remaining gaps. The result plays like a small resistance cell assembled in the field rather than a purely optimized loadout.
How the concept fits Zero Company’s squad tools
Zero Company‘s customization tools make this build work. Recruit a mix of authored operators, the game’s written characters, and custom operators you create from scratch, then tailor each operative’s combat specialization, appearance, loadout, and abilities. Specializations range from Scoundrels to Astromechs, while playable species include Human, Twi’lek, and Zabrak, giving the Clone Wars-era roster a natural place in the recruitment pool.
Run the team as a coordinated tactical unit. Each turn, manage action points, use cover, and combine squad roles instead of charging in blindly. Keep the medic positioned to sustain the front line, let the sharpshooter pick off weak points, and use the heavy to hold critical ground. In the Armory, set talents, modify weapons with attachments, and equip utility items so every operative matches the role their history suggests.
Bonds and the Den turn the roster into a cohesive campaign squad. Pair operators on missions to grow their Bonds, unlock focus points, earn stat bonuses, and build real combat synergy. Between missions, return to the Den to upgrade the squad, gear, and facilities. As the campaign advances, bring in more specialists and adjust the composition for harder, high-risk contracts across different planetary biomes.
Can’t recruit one of these figures directly? Build a custom operator with a matching species, specialization, and loadout to stand in — a Twi’lek heavy for Cham Syndulla, a sharpshooter for Nakil — and the lore squad still comes together.
Playing for story instead of raw efficiency
This is not the most efficient way to clear the game. A min-maxed roster selects operators for raw synergy; the Clone Wars Legacy Squad selects them for who they are, trading some peak effectiveness for character identity and faction flavor. Every mission becomes a chapter in a bigger story instead of a numbers puzzle, and losing one of these named operatives becomes a meaningful story beat rather than an empty slot to reroll.
Launch-build details
The launch build will determine whether these exact characters are direct recruits or must be recreated with custom operators, as well as how closely their appearances and kits can be matched. It will also establish squad size, operator limits, and the exact way permadeath handles the loss of a favorite, since pre-release details can still change.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Clone Wars Legacy Squad an official feature in Star Wars: Zero Company?
No. It is a role-play roster concept, not a labeled mode, faction, or premade team, and the game has no built-in system by that name. Zero Company is strictly single-player, with no multiplayer or seasonal battle pass, so a legacy roster exists entirely inside your solo campaign.
Is this roster likely to be the strongest way to play?
No. It is built for story rather than maximum optimization, but it does not have to be weak. Grow Bonds, fill out each operator’s Focus Tree, and generate Advantage, the shared squad resource that powers ultimate abilities, to make the themed team hit hard by the late campaign.
Can custom characters support this kind of lore role-play?
Yes. Alongside authored operators, you can create, recruit, and deploy a full squad of custom heroes, tailoring their species, appearance, loadout, and abilities. That flexibility lets you field a Clone Wars-era cast whenever a specific figure is not available as a built-in recruit.
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