Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Wednesday night, while the rest of Blighty watched Footy, several of us gathered at Leighton Buzzzard Wargamers for a game. David had been challenged my daughter Imi to a game of Legion, and his Imperials faced off against Jen Urso and co. I only own a few bits of 28mm terrain that is suitable, but they got something on table. Yes, that is an AT-ST, Imperial Guard and Vader coming down the middle at Imi's troopers, Imi was worried, hence hiding in as much terrain as she could find! It became quickly apparent that Imi had the upper hand early here, she reduced David's squads to tatters! Here she is showing him how to play... Mark and I set up next door, a solid line of Romano-British backed up by cavalry facing Simon's Dacians that I am painting up for him and using using weekend (their bases are finished now, honest!). Initial moves are simple enough (but what do you expect with tribal, anything off a straight line is a yellow and REALLY expensive). Tactics, what tactics! ...

 After much painting, Imi and I got our first game of Legion today. Close ups of the painting here!   Imi was Rebels, I was Imperial, using the starter scenario and rules, so no special powers apart from Luke and Vader being combat monsters. Two squads each and a special weapon, Imi with an AT-RT, and me with two Speeder Bikes. Everyone moves forwards, as does Imi's walker. Heroes move to the centre to confront each other. Speeder bikes move across to threaten Imi's troopers, while the Stormtroopers lurk behind barricades.  Imi's walker fails to hit. Speeders lay in the hurt on one squad, killing two squad members, but take a wound in response. The speeder bikes did not last much longer as she coordinated fire against them with two squads. My second squad moves up to the centre barricade, to be met by Luke Skywalker. On the way they get shot at by the walker, which misses again! Luke cuts loose, and slices and dices two of the troopers down to pieces and blew away another...