A long time ago at a Hobby Weekend far far away…

Having completed my hobby plans for the weekend I had Sunday to kick back and enjoy some games. After catching up with the other visitors I found out that the youngest member of our crew (Robbie), was yet to play a game of Legion. He’d been working hard since I arrived and now had the Emperor and a few squads completed. As my army was also Empire I took the opportunity to try out the opposition and borrowed Luke, along with a couple of units of Rebel Troopers and an AT-RT, from the OTT collection. Robbie fielded his freshly painted Emperor, two squads of Stormtroopers and a pair of Speeder Bikes. Unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures but it’s fair to say the game was as brief as it was decisive. The Emperor char grilling Luke with a sustained force lightning attack on turn three!

Licking my wounds I moved on to the Skellig Michael board, which myself and Hazyboy had been eying up for a game all weekend. As the set up had a large body of water running through the middle, we came up with a scenario that set the two crossing points as objectives. I chose deployment and took the side closest to the crossings. Although this gave me the advantage of having both objectives close to my deployment, my force was going to have to deploy on a narrow cliff edge and split into two elements. I did however have two Speeder bike units that we reasoned would be able to skim across the surface of the water, giving me a little more room to manoeuvre.

I set my Shoretroopers, along with General Veers, on the cliff top. Their Job was to seize the cliff edge crossing point and rain down fire on any approaching Rebels. On the lower edge of the board I deployed my Hoth Troopers with the E-Web in support to hold the bridge.

My opponent was forced to deploy further from the objectives but had the benefit of solid land (& solid cover), for his troopers.

Despite having Veers and Boba Fett on my side and my opponent fielding no named heroes, just the rebel Officer, the game ended in a draw! My Hoth Troopers, supported by Boba Fett, ran in to heavy resistance on the foot bridge and ultimately gave way to the rebels. The shoretroopers on the other hand, lived up to their name and held the cliff tops against two AT-RT’s and a pair of Tauntons.

I really enjoyed this game, having the opportunity to play on such a beautiful table really brought the game to life. A fitting end to our Hobby weekend.