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Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered User regular
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So Fantasy Flight made a new game. You may remember them from the X-Wing Miniature and Star Wars Armada games. This one is all ground combat.
It looks a bit like this.
However unlike X-Wing and Armada these models come unpainted.
It just came out so is very new.
Link to FFG Legion page
So far there is the Core Set which comes with:
Darth Vader, Two Stormtrooper Squads, and 1 Speeder Bike Squad
Luke Skywalker, Two Rebel Trooper Squads, and 1 AT-RT.
Expansions right now are:
Stormtrooper squad
Rebel Trooper Squad
AT-RT
Speeder Bikes
T-47 Snowspeeder
AT-ST Walker
Extra Dice and Rulers
Some more Barricades
Cool Star Warsy boxes and moister evaporators that actually come with new cards.
Future announced expansions are:
General Veers
Snowtrooper squad
Princess Leia
Rebel Fleet Troopers
Han Solo
Rebel Commando squad
Please discuss it here? I don't know it has been forever since I made a thread in this sub forum.
It looks a bit like this.
However unlike X-Wing and Armada these models come unpainted.
It just came out so is very new.
Link to FFG Legion page
So far there is the Core Set which comes with:
Darth Vader, Two Stormtrooper Squads, and 1 Speeder Bike Squad
Luke Skywalker, Two Rebel Trooper Squads, and 1 AT-RT.
Expansions right now are:
Stormtrooper squad
Rebel Trooper Squad
AT-RT
Speeder Bikes
T-47 Snowspeeder
AT-ST Walker
Extra Dice and Rulers
Some more Barricades
Cool Star Warsy boxes and moister evaporators that actually come with new cards.
Future announced expansions are:
General Veers
Snowtrooper squad
Princess Leia
Rebel Fleet Troopers
Han Solo
Rebel Commando squad
Please discuss it here? I don't know it has been forever since I made a thread in this sub forum.
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*Edit* Immediately after posting this the box arrived. Creepy.
I'm really looking forward to painting them once I get everything assembled.
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My models have very little required clean-up. I'm impressed.
Also a second set of dice is almost a required purchase. Like all FFG games they short change you on dice.
I am currently on the way home with a core set, AT-ST, and a Snowspeeder in tow!
Tell me how the AT-ST is! I want to magnetize the mortar.
I plan to get paint supplies tomorrow.
I am at a friend's finishing our Descent campaign, but will absolutely give you my thoughts. I will open it now
Edit: This thing is gorgeous. I can't find a single mold line on any of it. It's also going to be very big. The head alone is half the size of a soda can
Nice! I saw a picture where someone had popped the back of the head off by running a hobby knife around the seam to access the interior to magnatize the mortar.
I told my friends that I wouldn't absolutely be opening everything while we played Descent, but I didn't wanna be super rude and get too involved.
All of the sculpts/casts are amazing and surprisingly clean throughout
like Fenn Signis and the alliance rangers make a good squad of rebels. Kayn Somos makesa good squad leader for the Imperials too.
Or a squad entirely out of some of the characters. Bossk plus the Trandoshans in the core IA set make a great alien squad of rebels. Just bring some diversity to the rebels.
Nothing to stop me using them like that anyway I suppose.
Apparently it is fairly painless to report this to FFG and get the correct parts. However I, being a veteran of the Imperial Guard, will simply slice the pegs off and glue the arms on, thus having a unique figure!
Other than that I have been extremely impressed by the lack of mold lines on my models. Mostly it has just been a little clean up on the top of the stormtrooper helmets.
Half the reason I got into x-wing and armada was that I didn't have to paint.
I refuse to play with @Nax 's set unless it's painted though. Chop chop :biggrin:
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I am so impressed with the quality of these models, the cleanliness of the pre-cut components, and the ease of assembly. FFG are doing things some other large gaming company hasn't figured out over the past 30
Anyone played a few games yet and have some impressions to share?
I'm really enjoying painting the minis. I think I've found a decent balance of quality and speed. Their huge size and softer details due to both the source material and the casting material is refreshingly low-stress after painting a lot of Infinity minis.
And here's a shitty photo of my first finished speeder bike:
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I should be getting a few games in next weekend with @crimsoncoyote so I will definitely post about them
Test Stormtrooper. Have not painted this much white in a long time.
I already see some cleanup to do on the left leg.
Both of these guys look real good from a foot away more more so I am very happy with them. Rex is almost all custom colors though so the rest will probably change a bit.
Still crappy but a little better photo of both speeders done:
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Yeah especially since the vehicle bases kinda need those arc lines visible.
I'm a little worried by how much Fantasy Flight seems to be carpet-bombing the market at launch; I wonder if they are not confident that the Star Wars license will have legs, given how badly sales have dropped on other merchandise.
I wonder if basing them with sand, but not putting glue (and so no sand) on the arc lines would make them visible and not look like ass
In other news I've been playing around with army building. I had been reluctant to pick this up at first due to not wanting to paint lots of models to complete an army. I did 40k for 26 years and now I'm much more interested in stuff like Infinity where I only need to paint a few things. At 800pts, I came up with an army consisting of like 20 models. That is well within acceptable parameters especially since these minis feel incredibly low-pressure and paint up quickly.
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Also I've begun reestablishing my old miniature painting desk from my 40k days. Going to need some more paints.
I've got enough Imperial Assault figures to make up 2 more squads of stormtroopers and 4-5 of rebels if I need them.
I can use the AT-ST and AT-DP from the game as Legion ones if I need to aswell
Oh and I ordered an Imperial Guard Sentinel to use as a proxy AT-RT and another squad of Guardsmen to paint up as a more combat ready version of Fleet Troopers (which will make me have 20 of them or 4 squads)
Will probably only ever play myself so i don't mind mixing game systems, as Legion and IA are different sized.
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Painting the ruler red. You're painting the ruler red. You dare not stop. Or waste a drop. So let the paint be spread.
Same with mine.
Nearly finished one Scout Trooper and base coated all the Stormtroopers and Vader is about midway. Also the AT-RT itself is done. I need a bunch more paint colors to do the Rebels right though.
Lightsabers are hilariously strong. Vader wiped out a full strength Rebel squad in one swing. Luke was one wound short of killing both speeder bikes in one swing.
I feel like the only counter to the AT-RT for the Imps is getting Vader into close combat with it, which is not great, but it was a very fun time and I really enjoy the system!
Don't stormtroopers have a missile dude, that seems like a good counter to AT-RTs, assuming there's no t-47s flying around
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Painting is hard and kinda frustrating to get the little small details right on but at the same time it's kinda fun.
Hopefully I get to actually play at some point.