Legion League: Week One

I signed up to play in a Star Wars Legion league at Great Escape Games and played my first game with my own minis.  I hastily assembled my force a few hours before my game, and wanted to try out my new Occupier tank.  I really like using vehicles in my Imperial lists, but they're hard to use and a heavy investment in points.  The tank is also really difficult to steer around terrain.  I'm not really a fan of the measuring tools in Legion, maybe I'm just used to using a tape measure for so long.

The game was a Long March with all troops needing to get across the board, and my opponent's list was Krennic, Stormtroopers and Death Troopers, backed by Snipers.  I brought Vader, Fett, the tank, and some Stormtroopers.  It seems like this game heavily favors troop spam, as the scoring in many missions depends on number of units.  Not digging that so much.

Kublacon 2019 - Legion By the Bay

This year there was no Flames of War tournament at Kubacon for the first time in over a decade.  I think this sums up the attitude towards FoW in the NorCal area these days, as no one wanted to run an event, and only a few players seemed interested in playing in one.  I think the over all impression of Kublacon hasn't helped either, as it has become nearly impossible to get a room at the hotel, there isn't any on-site parking for con' attendees, and the price of admission and food offerings has grown as well.
But wait! Some great guys decided to host a Star Wars: Legion tournament to try and entice FFG into officially sponsoring an event in the future, and they needed a few more players to max their attendance.  Not only did they offer discounted admission, but also gave me a box of troops to help me begin my collection!  I had only played a few games and was able to convince my friend Reno to get me up to speed and ride along with me as well, while Dave offered to loan me an army.  I asked my good friend Eric, who just qualified for Worlds at Adoption, to help me throw together a simple list and he came up with this:

In the first round I played a really nice guy named Bret who helped me out quite a bit since I'm still a total noob at this game.  He had an Imperial list with Krennic, Veers, and a whole bunch of mixed troopers.  We played Breakthrough, Major Offensive, Rapid Reinforcements.

My opponent kept his troops all clustered together and mass fire from them put wound son my AT-ST and Vader early.  Several of my Stormtrooper units were able to get around the walled courtyard and take out his Sniper Scouts, and Vader would close and take out a unit of Stormtroopers.

Stormtroopers move to put fire onto some Deathtroopers.

This was a loss for me, as expected, as my opponent was able to get more units across the board, and he was able to take out Vader and the walker.

Round two had me up against Nick and another Imperial list, this time with Veers, two Occupier Assault Tanks, and a bunch of Stormtroopers.  We played Key Positions, Long March, Rapid Reinforcements.

My AT-ST moved to engage one of the tanks, but both of them got into range and overwhelmed it.

Both Occupier tanks close on my Stormtroopers.

I was able to win the trooper war, with Vader and his legion of Stormtroopers wiping all but two enemy Stormtrooper squads and the two tanks from the board, but the amount of firepower that the tanks put forth proved too much for my own troopers, and my opponent claimed two objectives to my one.

The third round was Brett and a Rebel force with a generic commander, two landspeeders, and a bunch of troopers.  We played Key Positions, Battle Lines, and Clear Conditions.

I sent a squad of Stormtroopers through the turbolaser control room to harass some snipers and in the process kept two squads of Rebel troops occupied as well.

Lord Vader held down one of the objectives and was able to take out one of the land speeders as well, while threatening some more Rebel scum.

I sent my AT-ST to support several Stormtrooper squads and it was able to shoot down the second land speeder, while the troopers fought back a squad of Wookies and claimed two objectives.

My first win!  I claimed all three objectives and felt like I had control of the board pretty early on.  The Stormtroopers on the fortress kept a significant portion of the Rebels occupied while I made a push on the other side of the board where the objectives were.

Thanks to the guys who put this great event on, the tables were all fantastic and so were my opponents.  I took some pics of a few of the great tables there.  3D printing is a total game changer as far as terrain goes, by the way!

Legion Game at Great Escape

I played a warm-up game of Legion with Mason at Great Escape Games here in Sacramento to prepare for my first tournament at Kublacon.  I picked an Imperial list with some basic stuff in it, while Mason had Rebels.  We didn't play with any scenario card since we wouldn't hav veto for a full six turns.

We deployed across from each other and both had about 800 points.

Mason made an attack run at my AT-ST with his T-47, but a solid volley of fire from the walker had disabled its main guns, reducing him to strafing with his rear gunner for the rest of the game.

Scout Bikers make for the gap between buildings, looking to harass any Rebels they find along the way.

Stormtroopers move forward behind the cover of some rocks.

Mason's T-47 strafes Lord Vader, but he parries several shots back at it.

The Scout Troopers make it through the gap, but not before Rebel Commandos drop several grenades on them as they fly past.

Luke Skywalker charged a squad of Stormtroopers that had just reached an important Astromech objective, and were all killed by the Jedi's weapon.

My AT-ST fired on its predecessor, a Rebel AT-RT, doing slight damage.

Stormtroopers charge into combat with some Rebel soldiers, and we are forced to call the game due to time.

I had a fun game and Vader continues to be mean when he gets in close, Mason's terrain looked great, too!