Star Wars Legion: At first glance

SW Legion by Fantasy Flight Games

I love the smell of a new game. When you remove the shrink wrap and open a box for the very first time you get that lovely smell of "new". They should bottle that!

First you see the quick reference rulebook and sheet of markers which I put aside imediately to see the models. This is what this game is all about, it's a Star Wars miniature wargaming experience.

First off I'm surprised to find the models in bags not sprues like normally. The figures also seem slightly bigger than your normal 28mm. These are 32mm head to toe. The figures itself are beautiful and full of detail. You get 33 unpainted miniatures, some barricades and range measure tools. For the price the core set is going now (€70,-/$80,-) that is pretty decent. You get everything what you need for your first game. A bunch of special cards to keep track of your unit's stats and upgrades instead of going back and forth to the rulebook to look them up. The game also uses it's own kind of dice which are included although there aren't really enough of them in there so you'll want to buy some more. And then there is a cardboard sheet full of usefull tokens. they look fine but I think that over time if you play the game a lot these will get damaged so you'll want to replace them with acrylic tokens over time.

The ruleset is pretty basic. I've read through them once and got a pretty good understanding of the game. The ruleset included in the box howeever is not the full ruleset but you can get that for free from the Fantasy Flight Games site. Great service! if you want your copy look to the top right corner of this page for the link.

I'm very happy with this box. great models, clear rules and all you need to get a game is in the box.

Pro's:

• It's Star Wars so ofcourse it's great. I feel like a kid again holding these miniatures.
• The models look nice and crisp and will be fun to paint
• All I need to play is in the box
• The rules are clear and I can get all the rules for free in a nice looking PDF
• Looking forward to the expansions, no need to pick them all up.
• ...and it's Star Wars!

Con's:

• Models can only be assembled in one way. No extra bits. every unit looks the same.
• More models for the painting pile
• Expansions will be tempting to buy so more money needs to be invested
• I don't know a lot of people in my local area that play the game so I have to set that up
• I have a lot of terrain but not specific SW so I now have to make/buy that

All things considered I think this game has WIN all over it so I'm looking forward re-energising my hobby exploits with Star Wars goodness!

Star Wars Legion Cards and Tokens

Star Wars Legion: A New Hope

A long time ago in a galaxy very nearby.... I started in the miniature hobby about ten years ago. I have played mainly Warhammer 40K, Fantasy, Bolt Action and some modern wargaming like Spectre. Over the years the piles of unpainted miniatures grew larger and larger. Interest in games came and went. My Hobby time had been reduced to about 3 games a year and about one evening a month painting miniatures. I miss the hobby. And then, last year at the end of 2017 Fantasy Flight Games anounced that they would release Star Wars Legion. I was imedeately interested but my personal life was so bussy that I didn't pre-order straight away.

This gave me the opportunity to see if the game would live up to it's expectations. Now that the game is about 9 months out I can see that many players across the globe are playing and loving this game and now that I seem to have a little bit more time for myself that I can finally jump on the bandwagon.

I was on holiday when I walked into a game store that was selling SW Legion and I could no longer resist the Force. I  only bought the core set and an extra expansion set of rebel troopers to start slowly.
I also discovered that there is already are pretty large and helpful community online that is willing to help out beginners. On social media you can find a lot of information and like minded people. On youtube you can find a couple of really good painting tutorials and battle reports. In the first week I was either assembling the models which was pretty straight forward or I was reading up on the rules or watching batrep's to get a feel of the game.

I think it is still early enough to jump on because there aren't a lot of different units out yet. You can learn the game pretty fast and only have to adapt when FFG release another wave of models with new command cards and upgrade cards.

So far I have been enjoying this game a lot. I also started this blog as a personal journal for my Legion related hobby articles. I plan on doing painting and modelling, Battle reports and Strategic and general articles.

Come back soon to see what I'm up to.