Fight Over A Downed AT-ST In Star Wars: Legion
February 12, 2019 by brennon
Fantasy Flight Games has been working away on a new terrain piece and objective for use in Star Wars: Legion. Here we have the new Downed AT-ST coming soon.
As it stands the terrain piece is fine and a very nice addition into the mix but the kit also comes with a set of rules for you to play different games around it too. Inside you'll find six new battle cards which help you play out a two-act set of scenarios around the downed vehicle with additional objectives, deployment types and conditions that come into effect.
The scenario begins with the AT-ST on a recon mission before being shot down. The Empire is rushing in to try and secure the intel from the downed vehicle whilst the Rebels are looking to stop this from happening, taking control of the intel for themselves.
The interesting twist is that each unique unit and the upgrades equipped to a defeated unit during your first game becomes unavailable to you in the second. This creates a nice running narrative in the game and has you looking to decide where best to drop your resources.
Will you be picking up this kit?
"The Empire is rushing in to try and secure the intel from the downed vehicle whilst the Rebels are looking to stop this from happening..."
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Said it once, I’ll say it again: 50USD is to much. Since USD always translates 1:1 to Euros in Germany with FFG we can assume it’ll be 50€. That in mind we take a look to Revell (who now sell Bandai Star Wars kits!) and their AT-ST model for 30€. So FFG is charging 20€ for 6 battle cards (with a cool idea nonetheless) and that really is too much. Heck, take 50€ and go to GW and even their terrain is cheaper. :S This really upsets me.
My jaw dropped when I saw the price. I expected half that.
Even 30 – 40 would be “ok’ish” but 50 just… I don’t see the value…
Plus if you get the Revel kit you have so much more flexibility; if you want two or three wreaks on the table then with the FF one you’ll have two or three which were destroyed in the exact same way and have the exact same damage while picking up the Revel kit you can customise them to have them destroyed in different ways, like one having had a leg blown off, and another that was blown up when a rebel lobbed a grenade in through the viewport and a third that stepped on an Ewok log trap and did… Read more »
I just checked with the online store that I always order/pre-order from and they are taking pre-orders for this kit at $39.97.
No one I know ever pays MSRP for any game item or box set.
Actually, I have to ask what the price has to do with whether or not a piece of a game is good or bad? Surely that is subjective to being a condition of “if you will collect it” and not to whether it is a good item or a bad item.
Well I buy my SW:L stuff from my FLGS and he charges MSRP (but has a point system so that you effectively have 10% off)
And I didn’t say it’s bad. Just too expensive.
my opinion on this is ‘ow much?’
looks great, comes with some cool story cards etc but still $50 (or probably £50) is way too much for me to even consider buying this bit of terrain.
I have the ability to print my own from files on thingiverse but even if I didn’t, this is still more than I want to invest in just once bit of scenery.
I am happy to spend loads on my army but I want my tables to look awesome and be cheap. more than £100 per table and it becomes too much for me
Easy enough to make yourself, a fact they well know, hence the “rules” for playing around it. I’m sure you could come up with your own rules.
that sort of applies to any terrain kit … even GW’s sets can be done from scratch with bits from your bitbox.
Fact is that people will pay money if it saves them time.
Yes, any ‘skilled’ hobbyist can make a wreck out of a cheap model kit.
The lesser mortals won’t have a clue how to do that.
And they might not be into that part of the hobby.
Also keep in mind that this isn’t GW.
It’s FFG and I think they’re marketing Legion as a boardgame instead of a wargame.
As much as it it, it will still sell quite abit since star wars legion does not put out that much as compared to GW. You only need 1 so i think it will sell pretty good. I don’t like that the price is so high but i remember when GW sold marines, 30 plastics for 30$, 3 Rhino’s for 25$ or Land Raiders, 2 for 20$….those were the days.
A nice center piece for a SW battle save the wooky ?
It would seem in the comments section, for the price, the wookie is on their own! Hahahaha
Yep, like others have said, way too expensive.
This is cool, but reading @sundancer ‘s response makes me think about the price.
Sooo… it doesn’t include Ewoks??
Star Wars Legion has undoubtedly underperformed (no gaslighting whiners please), but along with early distribution issues a significant reason for this is the price. Their wargaming prices sunk Runewars right out of the gate, Star Wars has a stronger IP and is a sci-fi level squad based game which helps a lot, but the price has still turned off too many consumers. I look forward to picking this and the new vehicles up in Black Friday sales again this year though, along with perhaps getting into Runewars since it’ll be 70-80% off all around. But FFG should really rethink how… Read more »
Holy Crap! $50!?!?!?!?!
I would have guessed $20 and no way I’d pay more. FFG is insane. It’s a single hunk of plastic that just sits there. No excuse for that price.
Over all good looking terrain piece but over priced for what it is.
It’s nice enough and makes for a good objective, but as most have said the price is pushing it a bit. Particularly in Europe where $ pretty much become £ or €. The cost of the Legion infantry sets is pretty okay, but on vehicles it just isn’t there in terms of value or quality. The cost of the IP – although no doubt hefty – isn’t a reason along for these prices.