Star Wars Legion at Nottingham Board and Wargames Club

We’d played a few learning games at the club in jan-feb 2020, but 14th March was time for my first Legion tournament. At nearby Sanctuary, I wrapped up warm and took Dooku and his boys for a proper test. As the player with a fully painted army I took a default best painted commendation, and everyone liked the look of the droids and approved of the clear bases for competitive use.

First game against operative Darth Vader, snow troopers and imperial royal guard. A tense finish to hold the terrain objectives as Vader was down to his last wound and Dooku was already dead. We tied for objective points, but my opponent had the upper hand on points killed due to the status of the commanders. I had to choose between taking down vader, or killing someone holding an objective, so i played the mission. So a losing draw there.

Second game against Rex, 3 squads of clones and the Sabre tank! It’s huge and rolls a lot of dice with fire support. I decided to ignore the tank, and put lots of suppression on Rex so he never got a shot off and then fled the table. Dooku waded into the clones with light stick and lightning before getting punched one too many times. This left the droids to finish off the last clone troopers and hold the centre for the WIN! Yey!!

Game 3 was a big challenge from the start. Some challenging snowy cliff terrain meant awkward deployment, and a big advantage for the flying Boba Fett. Meanwhile a fairly static AT-ST kept pumping out heavy fire. I again decided to ignore the big vehicle, and go after the tiny fighting men since they only numbered 7 models. Dooku killed half of them in turn 3, but then Boba got the last wound with his pistol and claimed his bounty, and the droidekas could only hide from the withering AT-ST fire. A solid loss here, but a tense tactical game.

A fascinating day of learning about the varied enemy forces and tactics. I cleared up a few rule understandings too, and had to keep remembering to use my AI rules correctly. I’d played a friend with Solo and Chewie on the Monday of that week, so had a good taste of all the factions now. Loving this game, it’s really got me hooked. Finished 3rd of 4 players on the day, and now all the clubs are shut it was my last hit of gaming for a while. I’ll be painting more droids to be ready for 800pt games in the summer.