Hello there! (To my fellow nerds who didn’t respond with “General Kenobi” I am disappointed in you)
For weeks, EPIC Ipswich has been the battle ground for many a Star Wars Legion game. This Table Top War Game seemingly came at us from nowhere and held us in a force choke until we surrendered the plans to the – apologies, til we surrendered and stocked Star Wars Legion.
It begs the question, what is Star Wars Legion, why the fuss and why do I trigger people by mentioning ‘medichlorians’? I will endeavour to answer all but that last question in this blog.
What is Star Wars Legion and how do you play?
Star Wars Legion is an army building skirmish game where players choose a faction: Rebel Alliance, Galactic Empire, Galactic Republic or the Separatist Alliance. Each faction has certain characters and armies (eg. General Grevious or Luke Skywalker) which characters command and move movement markers. Certain troops can make ranged attacks and distance is measured using range rulers.
The attacks are determined by specially marked dice, each is rolled dependant on the weapons your troop use.
Cards also come into play as depending on your faction you get a different commander (Obi-Wan for the Galactic Republic, Darth Vader for the Galactic Empire, Luke Skywalker for the Rebel Alliance, General Grevious for the Separatist Alliance). Ontop of this players contrust a seven card deck of command cards that also affect gameplay.
What’s the appeal?
In my honest opinion, it differs enough from the other war games in high demand at the moment. The stratergies are on-par but the command card element adds an element of diversity needed to make it stand out.
Each faction comes with kits of troops that you can change their equipment and paint to your hearts content.
IT’S STAR WARS! I mean if you aren’t sold on that alone then it’s going to be something you’ll have to witness in person at EPIC on Thursday Nights.
In the now famous word’s of Master Yoda “Do or do not, there is no try?”
Your Friend and Ally,
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