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Here's everything star wars legion I've painted over the past 3 weeks!
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Jan 1, 2022 19:22
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Nice! And yeah naked b2s are usually bad value but in skirmish they're kinda interesting. I personally hate them since I like rebel heroes that reliably do like 1-2 hits with pierce and b2s are basically immune to that.
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Jan 1, 2022 19:33
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Can you run B2s as your only As an aside, one of the things I don't like about Legion is how many of each faction's most boring units have to be taken. smug jeebus fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Jan 1, 2022 |
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Jan 1, 2022 19:52
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B2s are very very good but they generally either like to have orders or a T-series which makes them quite expensive. You also lose out on some order chaining if that has implications for the rest of your list, and they're obviously quite a bit more expensive than b1s
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Jan 1, 2022 20:28
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So I’ve only played skirmish for what feels like an eternity, and I’m itching to get back to full-size games. I’ve also never had a chance to break out my droids (only had Dooku as a command option, and just never did it as he’s half the drat list  ), so I’ve got a list built that’s nothing but mechanical bodies marching forward towards their deaths. Something like 50+ droids? A T-series, a super tactical droid, then as many B1’s, B2’s, commandos, and droidekas as I can pack in. Will it die horribly? Oh god yes. Will it also look imposing as gently caress from across the table before the bodies start falling down? Also yes  Why yes I played imperial guard in 40k at one point, why do you ask 
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Jan 2, 2022 07:19
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Icon Of Sin posted:So I’ve only played skirmish for what feels like an eternity, and I’m itching to get back to full-size games. I just had a refresher game today where my buddy ran like 5 or 6 B1 units with an E5, two AAT tanks and Kalani. It was a mad dash to try and slap the armor off the table before I lost too many bodies.
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Jan 3, 2022 07:33
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Verisimilidude posted:Here's everything star wars legion I've painted over the past 3 weeks! Beautiful work. Hope my Imperial cannon fodder looks half as good when they're done.
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Jan 5, 2022 19:37
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Not sure why that rebel prisoner is still armed though, that's a heck of a flex.
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Jan 5, 2022 23:45
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 I'm pretty proud of these Mandalorians, though I'm not proud of the excessive greenstuff I had to use to get the flight stands in correctly
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Jan 8, 2022 02:41
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Flight stands are always such a pain in the rear end, regardless of game Nice mandos though
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Jan 8, 2022 02:53
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StashAugustine posted:
What dark magic did you do for Sabine’s hair? I decided I wasn’t even going to bother with it and just gave her the helmet instead 
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Jan 8, 2022 03:05
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Icon Of Sin posted:What dark magic did you do for Sabine’s hair? I decided I wasn’t even going to bother with it and just gave her the helmet instead Thanks, the hair was just purple base coat with cold white drybrushed on top. I remember when I was first watching the show a few months back I saw the hair and immediately thought "drybrush"
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Jan 8, 2022 03:14
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Nice! I did my Sabine like this:  And another mandalorian:  They were fun to paint. The scheme for Sabine felt about right, given the crazy colors Sabine liked to use in the show I almost want just the model with the rifle so I can do it up as Boba Fett, since I don’t really like the pose he came with initially.
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Jan 8, 2022 14:10
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So my GF has been dying to get into a tabletop game and despite having a ton of X-Wing and Infinity minis collecting dust on my shelf I got us both starter armies of Legion so she could enjoy the process of building and painting her own army. We have the following. 3x Clone Wars Starter sets (I ordered one but through a strange confluence of missing packages and replacements wound up with three for the price of one on Amazon's dime) 1x B2 Battle Droids 1x Battle Droid Upgrade 1x BX Battle Droids 1x Arc Trippers 1x Clone Trooper Upgrade 1x Phase 2 Clones We've been spending one to two days a week assembling and will be moving on to painting this weekend. Hopefully we'll be playing our first Skirmish game next week. My questions are 1. I've been reading the rules and can't quite figure out the difference between orders given by a command card and simply activating the unit. Do orders from cards go first? 2. Do you have any suggestions for videos I can show her that go over the basic rules in a simple and concise way. (She's ESL so simpler the better.) 3. Do you have any suggestions for Skirmish lists for the models we have. (She chose Clones which is probably good because if she had to build dozens of B1s she likely would have gotten fed up with the hobby pretty quickly.) I'll be sure to post photos once we get stuff painted.
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Feb 5, 2022 04:29
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Orders and activations are a little confusing in Clone Wars since both factions interact with them in unique ways (fire support, coordinate, AI.) In general, the idea is that during the activation phase you take turns activating units. The type of unit you can activate is limited by pulling a random token from a bag and assigning it to a matching unit that hasn't yet activated, placing the face down token by the unit to show that it's done. During the command phase, you also get to issue orders to units, primarily by using command cards. A unit issued an order takes a matching token and puts it face up by the unit. When its your turn to activate, you can- instead of pulling a random token- activate any unit that has been issued an order (again, flipping the token once done.) Every unit will always activate every turn (excepting special rules or getting wiped out), and issuing orders only refers to giving out tokens during the command phase, not randomly pulling from a bag. (Mentioned exceptions: fire support requires a face up token from an order to use, and causes the unit to skip its turn; coordinate lets you issue additional orders and also in practice means droids will have orders on most of their troops; AI is a penalty for not having a token from an order.)
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Feb 5, 2022 04:43
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code:code:This looks pretty basic for two matched skirmish lists. I'm personally not a huge fan of saber users for new players since they're pieces that either get murdered and you lost half your army or you play them correctly and they slaughter everything; but they're what you've got and also lightsaber go vroom. Droidekas with Linked Targeting Array is a pretty straight swap for the B2s if so inclined. Getting 3x cores is actually pretty nice since 6x B1 is pretty common in CIS lists and 3x Barcs isnt unheard of.
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Feb 5, 2022 04:55
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That's super helpful thank you. That's a much better explanation on orders than I've seen anywhere else. I'll give this two lists a shot since we have all that assembled already save the heroes.
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Feb 6, 2022 02:51
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This is the stupidest list I've made but god damnit I'm going to try. only 8 activations -Darth Vader -Iden Versio (treated as non commander) -shoretrooper -Stormtrooper x2 -DF-90 mortar -Imperial special forces -SF inferno squad Rolling with a starting command card of Darkness Descends. Basically Just mass forming vader, Iden, SF unit and Inferno squad with infiltrate, while the stormtroopers/shore and mortar troop do their thing. Is it going to fail in epic fashion? yes. But I can only hope that for maybe 1-2 rounds those who I play against poo poo their pants if I can capitalize on objectives
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Feb 19, 2022 00:40
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Nice and hot piss posted:This is the stupidest list I've made but god damnit I'm going to try. gently caress an objective, there’s a Vader drop and infiltrating Iden/Inferno Squadron to deal with. I mean, you’ll probably still fail…but it’ll be in such a way that there were no winners in that game (only terrified survivors).
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Feb 19, 2022 03:44
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Verisimilidude posted:Here's everything star wars legion I've painted over the past 3 weeks! Looks great mate. What's your recipe for the Stormtroopers and the ATST?
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Feb 22, 2022 02:43
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Wooo baby that red on the guards!
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Feb 22, 2022 03:31
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Just finished off my Yoda! Didn’t have a separate green for his saber, so that’ll have to wait. But otherwise done/satisfied!
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Feb 22, 2022 03:34
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Somebody tell me that I don't need 4 units of fleet troopers even if I have paint schemes for them
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Mar 2, 2022 07:14
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StashAugustine posted:Somebody tell me that I don't need 4 units of fleet troopers even if I have paint schemes for them You don't need them but they'd be rad.
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Mar 2, 2022 09:56
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How do people feel about the new wookiee box? I like melee wookiees to just run in and rip things up so I’m excited about the shield. Anyone have any good luck with the carbine variant?
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Mar 31, 2022 02:38
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The sculpts are pretty cool but a huge pain to assemble. Honestly when ive run wookiees I've mostly just stuck with melee bowcasters but I know some people do like carbines with bowcasters, offensive push, and targeting scopes, especially with a tactician bus or other aim support
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Mar 31, 2022 03:04
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Just put together a shield Wookiee. Not enjoyable
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Mar 31, 2022 03:21
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On the bright side I really enjoyed painting them, especially if you fudge the metal parts a little
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Mar 31, 2022 03:37
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I've gotten a bit burned out on 40k as of late. So, last year I bought a starter set of Legion. Here are some not so great photos of my first units painted.  
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Apr 5, 2022 22:00
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Nice, I especially like Cassian there, and the Wookiee fur turned out well
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Apr 5, 2022 22:12
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StashAugustine posted:Nice, I especially like Cassian there, and the Wookiee fur turned out well Thank you. The wookies were painted with GW contrast paints.
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Apr 6, 2022 01:31
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Just getting into this. Ordered the Clone Wars core set yesterday. I've dabbled in pretty much all the miniature wargames before (Warhammer/40K, Blood Bowl, Warmachine, etc) and we even had Imperial Assault for a while, but struggled to motivate myself with the hobby side of it when my wife and friends weren't interested and I didn't want to leave the house to play with randos. But now my son is old enough to play with me and he's a bigger Star Wars geek than I am so I've got my own competition in-house.  We watched some Youtubes about this last night and he was excited about it so we ordered it. Can't wait!
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Apr 7, 2022 14:41
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That’s great to hear. My 9 year old daughter is obsessed with Boba Fett and Star Wars in general so she is my main competition. My friends will play occasionally but only with my armies, none have their own. It’s been really fun to put together figures and paint with her.
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Apr 7, 2022 16:36
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The Shadow Collective stuff along with the handful of new supplemental physical products have all been listed on Asmodee's store page for a couple days, though there's still not a lot of concrete info on the actual cards and stat lines. https://shop.asmodee.com/star-wars-legion-5-shadow-collective-mercenary-swl90en Seems as though a gimmick of theirs is they kind of benefit from non-directly issued orders and have a couple mechanisms to gain/retain green tokens to compensate for that lack on control. Overall I'm still a little unclear on how the whole thing works, but as best I can tell is that it's not a full fledged faction but rather a battleforce that has to be run more or less as "The Shadow Collective," and then the various units contained within also have standard miniature wargame style mercenary rules where they'll work for certain other factions.
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Apr 7, 2022 17:09
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Gumdrop Larry posted:The Shadow Collective stuff along with the handful of new supplemental physical products have all been listed on Asmodee's store page for a couple days, though there's still not a lot of concrete info on the actual cards and stat lines. I think you're mostly right, but there's also this dude: https://shop.asmodee.com/star-wars-legion-5-gar-saxon-swl93en so I don't know if there's more of a faction there or if battleforces give you some flexibility in slots to pick different commanders or whatever. edit: If the contents of this starter box are the same as the contents of the three individual unit boxes, picking up a couple copies of the starter seems to be the definite way to go, especially if you can find it at a discount long-ass nips Diane fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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Apr 7, 2022 19:54
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AMG has been incredibly bad at communicating and even if you obsessively follow it there's a lot of info that's still unclear. That said it seems to be: -New "mercenary" units that can be taken in multiple factions (ie Black Sun is CIS/Empire, Pykes are everyone) but will have some restrictions on both listbuilding and gameplay. Some existing units (the 3 bounty hunters and apparently the AA5?) are being updated to be mercenaries as well. Mercs are not going to be a unified faction, however -A new listbuilding mechanic "battle forces" meant to represent specific battles- mentioned as forthcoming are Trade Federation on Naboo, 501st on Umbara, Rebels and Imperials on Hoth. They will have limits on what units you can take, new command cards, and different list building limits. They're going to be print and play at first but will probably be physical product in the future- unclear if they will have models or just cards -Combining these two is the "Shadow Collective" battle force representing Maul and his Mandalorian army, which isn't affiliated with any faction but can take certain mercenaries as well as Maul, Mandalorian supercommandos, and apparently Gar Saxon; none of which are available to other lists
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Apr 7, 2022 20:11
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I wonder how many years we'll have to live with COVID until "because COVID" isn't a valid excuse anymore. Delays, poor communication, confusion, manufacturing issues, shipping woes, inflation, etc. I get it, but we're on year three now of this poo poo, people. If any business has just been hanging onto some old way of doing things hoping that eventually 'things will go back to normal', they need to loving let that poo poo go. This IS the 'new normal'; there is no "after...".
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Apr 7, 2022 20:50
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I'm sure Asmodee unexpectedly switching production to a much smaller company and summarily firing most of the people working on it didnt help much either
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Apr 7, 2022 21:24
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https://www.miniaturemarket.com/ffgswl76.html In case anyone doesn’t have him yet Miniature Market has Maul on sale for 9 bucks.
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Apr 11, 2022 16:34
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Finished up Bossk. Can't wait for him to get shot off the table before he makes his points back. Also, I have come to the conclusion that I suck at taking pictures of my minis. 
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