Month / April 2019

by Lumberjack Nick

Peña Launches the Legion Tournament Circuit

LJ Peña posted on Discord earlier today:

“Hello there! I am excited to formally announce the Legion Tournament Circuit (https://legiontournamentcircuit.com/) The goal of the Legion Tournament Circuit is to create a standardized approach to running Star Wars: Legion tournaments to ensure a professional standard of Organized Play events. Players can use our free resources to enhance your Legion tournaments. The LTC provides best practices, terrain guides, and other useful tools to run Star Wars: Legion tournaments and events. You will eventually be able to submit their local communities as well, so players struggling to find a LGS or just looking for somewhere to play on a business trip can connect. Thanks in advance to anyone that is able to use our resources, and I look forward to what comes next with this awesome community we have!

-LTC Admin Crew” Continue reading →

by Lumberjack Nick

The Fifth Trooper Presents: The Northeast Open Legion Tournament

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Salt City Comic-Con 2019, Central New York’s premiere pop culture event, will again partner with the all-new Embassy Suites Hotel and Destiny USA, New York’.

Learn More about Salt City Comic Con 

Learn More About Destiny USA

This comic convention, focusing on pop culture from comics, movies, TV, books, graphic novels and cosplay, is once again scheduled for “July 4th of July Weekend”, specifically July 6th and 7th .

Major Guest announcements will begin shortly and fans are encouraged to keep up with the news and order their weekend badges early. Once again, Syracuse’s Salt City Comic-Con will collaborate to provide events inside and outside the Embassy convention center as well as at the canyon at DestinyUSA. Fans and families embraced the convention’s sprawling new “floorplan” last year, and we’ll only be improving upon this innovative layout!

Once again, this show will not just simply be a convention, but a pop culture festival! Indoors at the event will feature your traditional Con fare packed with vendors, guests and exhibitors galore offering comics, toys, artwork and much more. Outside will have a host of attractions such as live music, food trucks, dunk tanks, family zone with bounce houses, face painting and vendors as well. Take the bridge to the Canyon at Destiny USA for cosplay and trivia contests, special guests and more!

Check out the Salt City Comic-Con event and community pages on Facebook for the latest vendor and guest information.
See you soon – and get your Con on!

Get your tickets after the jump: https://thefifthtrooper.com/north-east-open/?fbclid=IwAR2C71ihBIcS6UwSiTGfvw2q2NdIoQfPBIZ51-RYYbNtJRI–oRbNJQrkQY

by Lumberjack Nick

Yavin Base Blog: Ground Sliding, Part 1

The X-34 Landspeeder: Iconic, regconizeable, expensive. Luke’s ride from A New Hope makes its appearance in Legion as a space jeep with guns bolted on. 

When the Landspeeder was released, I was highly skeptical. As I mentioned in the first article I wrote about the X-34, Rebel players as a whole had been burned by the inefficient and ineffective T-47 in the Heavy role. I vowed to remain a skeptic until I had seen it in action on the table. I can happily say that, after playing five or so games with the X-34, I have warmed to it quickly and find it to be the most fun unit the Rebel faction can currently field. This multi-part series, “Ground Sliding,” is meant as a tutorial and an encouragement to try out this very fun and unique unit in your Rebel lists. In this first part, we’ll discuss why you might include a Landspeeder in your army, and how functional the craft is at its spiciest feature: transporting! Continue reading →

by Lumberjack Nick

Imperial Tank & Rebel Landspeeder Now Available

TX-225 GAVw Occupier Combat Assault Tank Unit Expansion

For the Galactic Empire, conquering a planet is only the beginning of the battle. Massive vehicles like AT-STs and elite shock troops like Imperial Death Troopers may be effective at sweeping across battlefields and capturing new territory, but they rarely stick around to hold this ground. A TX-225 GAVw Occupier Combat Assault Tank, however, is more than enough to quell any resistance to Imperial occupation.

Continue reading →

by Lumberjack Nick

NTMtO Blog: Sabotaging the Meta – Daniel Lupo

 

This week we welcome guest writer Daniel Lupo, who won an invite to worlds by going 3-1 at High Command with a list featuring three saboteur strike teams (no snipers!).  Lupo made waves with his skillful and surprising saboteur play.

Sabotaging the Meta

Sabine Wren: “You know what I do in hopeless situations?”

Zeb Orrelios: [laughs] “Yeah, blow stuff up!”

I have been almost exclusively running lists featuring Saboteurs since roughly August 2018, in local tournaments as well as at LVO and Adepticon. These lists have all been focused on squeezing maximum efficiency out of the triple strike team Saboteurs.  I have experimented with full Saboteur squads, but I realized I was almost never shooting their guns I was paying a premium for, and you can make a strike team nearly as survivable with medics, stims, and corner peeking.

Legion is a game of taking territory and of maximizing and balancing your activations.  Well run Saboteurs do this extremely well.

My list for Adepticon:http://tabletopadmiral.com/legion/rebel/p0bu1au2cuEMp04u09u0au2bp06u10u40uEMuEMp06u10u40uEMuEMp06u10uEMuEMuEMp0cu1fu31u25uEMp06uEMuEMuEMuEMp0eu30uEMuEMu2buEMp0eu30uEMuEMu2buEMp0eu30uEMuEMu2buEMc08c02c06c0bc0dc12c13o00o01o02o03z00z02z03z04t00t01t02t04

Luke, Leia, a maxed out fleet trooper squad with officer, two medics, one objective holding rebel trooper squad and the triple Saboteurs.

Each part of the list was built around holding ground and keeping my opponent from advancing on my half of the board.

Continue reading after the jump: https://swlegionodds.com/2019/04/25/sabotaging-the-meta-daniel-lupo/

by Lumberjack Nick

TheTerrainStudio: Bunker Build Video – Sample

This is a sample clip – to see the whole video and more build videos (including a whole lot more) consider joining TheTerrainStudio Patreon

Join here: https://www.patreon.com/TheTerrainStudio

by Lumberjack Nick

The Eclectic Gamer: Map Based Campaign With 3D Printable Tiles

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Adam Pitzer wrote on Facebook: “3d printed these for the store so we can have a fun map based campaign. We have some more casual players who are less interested in leagues and tournaments and another nearby store has that covered.

Let me know if anyone is interested in the stl files.

*Edited to indicate that I meant making the files available

Here are the files!
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3573855

Here’s a post with my initial campaign ideas:
http://www.theeclecticgamer.com/2019/04/18/star-wars-legion-map-based-campaign-with-3d-printable-tiles/“

by Lumberjack Nick

Star Wars Miniatures Battles – Third Edition

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A long time ago in a decade far, far away before Star Wars Legion took over all of our lives there was the West End Games Star Wars Miniatures Battles Game.

Curtesy of Jake’s Tabletop, we can all get a little nostalgic with Star Wars Miniatures Battles files which can be downloaded here: https://www.jakestabletop.com/post/131750148547/i-see-the-star-wars-miniatures-battles-third

Photo curtesy of Aaron Price

by Lumberjack Nick

Maximum Annihilation: Krennic vs Veers

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It’s Thursday night Legion night at my FLGS Games Cube. Fresh from lots of spacemen pew pew at ANZAC Cup, I lined up another game with my mate Damo.

I’ve just finished painting my Imperial Royal Guard, and was pretty keen to give them a spin. I dropped a few things (Snowtroopers, Comms Tech) from my ANZAC Cup list in order to fit the IRG in. Damo took a Krennic, Deathtrooper and AT-ST list which is quite different to anything I’ve faced so far. This should be fun!

Continue Reading after the jump: http://miniobsession.strikingly.com/blog/maximum-annihilation?fbclid=IwAR1HNPKokjsVmBCSc6-WV7C0YCWfJ5inBlgv0a0LbPdW1KQOZSvnv81YMWU

by Lumberjack Nick

Speculation: Future Imperial Units?

 

With the forthcoming Clone Wars core set I’m intrigued with how the current factions of the Empire, and the Rebellion will interact with the two new factions. What’s interesting is that these factions shouldn’t have answers for each other because they never actually faced each other in a star war. But in terms of the game they will need to have answers as they will frequently be going head to head with the CIS and the Republic.

Currently the Imperial faction is built to represent their presence during Galactic Civil War and their struggle with the Rebel Alliance. The advent of the Republic faction gives FFG the opportunity to dive backwards on the timeline during the Dark Times era and release units that will be more suited in fighting lightsaber wielding Jedi.

I believe it’s a safe bet that we’ll see the release of the Inquisitors and Purge Troopers as Imperial counters to the Republic faction’s Jedi. Though it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever see Imperial Clone Troopers or a pre Cyborg Darth Vader, it would be interesting if they eventually made an Order 66 scenario.

What do you think? Do you agree that we’ll likely see Dark Times/Jedi Purge units hit the streets Q4 of this year or Q1 of next year? How do you think they’ll balance the Rebellion vs the Republic? Or do you think Luke and Sabine are enough to combatant full fledge Jedi? With that being said, I’m 100% sure we won’t see Jedi swarm as they’ll most likely be too expensive. So an Obi Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka list might not be feasible.

Just some thoughts, let me know what you think in the comments.