May the 4th be with you

May the 4th arrives, which just so happens to be a club day! I'd arranged a game of Bolt Action with Adam, having obtained a Cromwell from a charity shop, built in a not too bad condition for £3, and a box of British infantry, commando unit and a medium mortar team from Warlord Games. I was racing to put together the infantry even at 1am on the day of the club meet! But this had me thinking. I'm not a massive Starwars fan. Sure, I've watched most of the films, played many of the games and I would consider myself to be a fan, but I'll still be hard pressed to remember some of the lesser characters names, or where certain events took place planet wise etc. But it was May the 4th, I couldn't pass the opportunity to play one of the many Starwars table top systems! so with that in mind, I contacted member Andy, and set up a demo of Legion.

We played a small game, and the rules were easy enough to pick up after a few turns of playing. It seemed to be a mix of Bolt Action's initiative, Infinite's actions system, and a few other systems. I didn't take too many photos as I tried to learn, and didn't want to miss anything Andy was teaching.

I chose to play as the Rebel Alliance, and had Luke Skywalker leading a few squads of rebel troopers and a walker. Andy was left controlling Darth Vader, some storm troopers (who were surprisingly accurate compared to the films) and two speeder bikes.

The objective was simple, for every army leader and squad leader within movement 1 of the objective at the end of turn 3, 5 and so on, would receive 2 Vps (Victory Points).

Below are the pictures I did mange to take

Rebel Alliance troopers advance

on a holocron left by spies.

On turn one, I advanced my trooper squad into the crater which counted as hard cover, before opening fire on a storm trooper squad. I was shown just how deadly shooting can be as I left the squad with 2 men, giving me a very early advantage.

Battle is met as Luke chargers Vader

the Rebel troopers hunker down behind cover

Luke is felled! as Imperial Speed Bikes charge

the squad in the crater...

Ending positions, with my squad leader within 1 movement

of the objective holocron...

The game was called around turn 5, by which I'd lost Luke and a squad, but downed Vader, Speed bikes, and all but one storm trooper squads. A very fun game it was! And a well fought victory for the Rebels! And it's easy to see, with all the various upgrade cards you can put on your squads and heroes, that it can definitely be in depth and tactical. This concerns me in terms of my interest slightly. I tried X-wing a few years ago with work friends, and found that it quickly became who could stack the best combos and remember the best cards for their ships etc, and it definitely became a more elitist community in my local area. I hope that Legion isn't the same. We will see, as I plan on attending a few events to see how games are played in a more competitive scene shortly.

As for the rest of the day, I played my Bolt Action game with Adam, and then a small skirmish of Dredd, hosted by David. I'll post both of them in a later post!

I've also found myself really busy lately, and have had very little time to do any painting unfortunately, and it looks set to get even busier as May the 22nd approaches, a time close to me and my partner as we spend the week in Manchester, and away from minis (Though I'll be heading into Warhammer there for sure!). This does mean however that I have both time to accumulate the rest of the paints needed for the Fellowship, paints needed for Bolt Action Brits, and a new determination to actually paint what I have! So that's the plan;
Bide my time, gain what I need, and try to curb the mounting lead pile of unpainted quickly before it has time to grow!

We'll see how long we stick to this plan...

As always, thanks for reading!
Until next time, dear reader.