Battle record - Star Wars Legion - 21/12/25

Afternoon and we're back at Otty's shed to finish off playing Star Wars Legion, Rebels V's Imperial and we're finishing off the last game. Usually we meet on a Thursday night, but we all had commitments so we switched to Sunday instead.

Lets just say that resetting the game and changing partners helped Liam immensely while poor Otty was not as lucky. Not that I was a jinx, I had both awesome and shocking dice rolls. But I was decidedly less concerned about the outcome while the constant reduction in Rebel units while only managing to kill 12 Stormtroopers was a source of misery for our genial host.

What made it worse, was that Ben and Liam kept on asking use to choose their unit counters the circular stack on the bunker] and in one particular situation there was a one in eight chance of choosing Moff Gideon in combat with Chewie and inevitably I chose Moff Gideon

That was the absolute highlight of the evening for me, I was in hysterics.

We had a late surge to score some points, I think we scored 7, but Ben and Liam racked up 17 by the end of the game.

It's a tough one, but we had been saying up until this point the game was stacked in the Rebels favour. At least we finally got to buck that trend.

We may get a game in between Christmas and New Year but it's been a special full year of fun for the hobby shed. 

Battle record - Star Wars Legion - 11/12/25

Afternoon and we're back at Otty's shed to finish off playing Star Wars Legion, Rebels V's Imperial and I have no recollection of how this game ended, but that's the point of these records - not the result but the experience.

I think the Dark Troopers did a 'valiant' effort to rout the rebels in the venga bus base so they could blow it up but couldn't quite do it.

I think the Imperials lost in the end.

So we started again! Making some changes to the forces, swapping Han Solo for Leia and swapping sides and missions. Again, I can't remember what happened but I know we had a lot of fun and will finish it off after the festive period.

Battle record - Star Wars Legion - 4/12/25

Afternoon and we're back at Otty's shed to finish off playing Star Wars Legion, Rebels V's Imperial [what else would it be?]. Otty and Ben had chosen just Liam's Imperial figures this time and Ben could be there for the game so we got to finish it off together. If you recall we were certain whoever won the right to go first would potentially destroy either the Air Speeder or the AT-ST. Well you both put down order cards and whoever puts the lowest value order down wins priority. We both went with 2 orders. So then it's a roll-off. Whoever rolls a shield on a red D6 gets to go first. I rolled and failed! But the AT-ST survived a round of shooting with 1 wound left!

The Dark Troopers are an odd unit that gets the chance to be activated twice in a turn, making them a nightmare. Throw in our order card that allows armoured units to activate an additional time these OP robots got 3 goes this turn doing a heck of damage. Moff Gideon managed to kill Luke Skywalker, even without the Dark Sabre and the AT-ST took out the Boar Wolf. 

So things looked really good for us, but again Otty and Ben started to score points on mission objectives and although we got our bomb close to the Venga bus, we then realised we had to secure it, not just context it and there were rebels occupying the base. I had a run of bad dice roles and every tactical decision I made failed because of the dice. So things looked bad for us.

Luckily Liam made some good decisions and put us in a good position to finish off next week.

Battle record - Star Wars Legion - 27/11/25

Afternoon and we're back at Otty's shed playing Star Wars Legion, Rebels V's Imperial [what else would it be]. Otty and Ben had finished off the previous game with Otty managing to claw back some self-respect but not quite win.

This time we were using Liam's Imperial army, plus a few Pike Syndicate. Moff Gideon was in charge with some Shore Troopers and his AT-ST

Otty had Rebels, with a few Wookies and a converted Boar Wolf. This was a creature from the Caravan of Courage, Ewok Adventure and is a proxy for a Rebel Land Speeder

We managed to get one turn in by 11:30pm, we did start about 8:30 so 3 hours. But it was a fun game, no ridiculously OP units yet. Some were good on both sides and some didn't quite perform as expected so balanced all round. Turn 2 looks to be pivotal who gets to go first though. Both the Snow/Air Speeder and AT-ST are on their last wound or two. Whoever gets the drop on the other is likely to tip the game in their favour. We shall have to see what next week brings.

Battle record - Star Wars Legion - 13/11/25

Afternoon and we're back at Otty's shed to finish off playing Star Wars Legion, Rebels V's Imperial [what else would it be], but rebels were Ewoks, Wookies, Pyke Syndicate and Mandolorians. 

Things did not get better for the Empire. Despite a really good turn where the AT-ST wiped out the unit of Ewoks on the central objective, to deny them 2VPs we were destroying squads, not making them panicked, which was scoring the rebels lots of secondaries.

And we would still lose units, while Ben was able to work with what he had left.

We discovered we'd been playing the armour rules wrong, which we think then meant even the 'primitive' Ewok slingers had a chance to damage the AT-ST through rate of fire. Given they're rolling black dice [white dice are worse, black dice are better, red dice are best] to hit and the AT-ST's armour just ignores the first 5 hits there's a chance other shots get through. The slingers are just wrong and cost a third of what a unit of Stormtroopers does and they're hitting on white dice. Yes I know that tracks with how bad a shot they are in the film but there are no strength Vs toughness roles here. A hit and a save is what you get. Stormtrooper saves are better than Rebels, but even so it feels all wrong.

Ultimately we lost but decided to start again...

Pretty much the same board, different mission and deployment.

But in the first turn I think the Ewoks were at it again. For something we'd found to be so much fun the previous week this was quite the rude response.

We've a week off as some of the guys are on night shift and hopefully we'll come back refreshed and keen to play on. But at this point it seems there's a definite imbalance...

Battle record - Star Wars Legion - 06/11/25

Afternoon we've had a couple of weeks where we weren't all able to meet at Otty's shed but we finally managed it. Back playing Star Wars Legion, rebels V's Imperial [what else would it be], but rebels were Ewoks, Wookies, Pyke Syndicate and Mandolorians. 

Got to roll out some of the terrain I recently painted. Now, this was a very interesting night of gaming after our 3 week effort to play 40. We only managed 2 turns, so the speed of the game was comparable.

We discovered new rules for the units and just how ridiculously OP Ewoks are - their slings totally wrecking two speeder bikes. Again, these things were similar to our 40k experiences.

The dice rolls were fickle both ridiculously good and bad, well that happens in every dice game.

But despite sharing many of the issues we had with 40k this game was not just fun but often hilarious. I don't know what it is about the game or why this light-hearted atmosphere was created.

Is it the IP, based on childhood memories versus 40k that has always been steeped in the grimdark?

We can't work it out, but we're all in agreement that we love the game. 

I mean even if the Imperials were being utterly savaged by these local teddy bears there was a lot to enjoy. Can't wait to try and finish it off next week.

Terrain is everything - Crisis Protocol (and Star Wars Legion) Cosmic Terrain - TO DONE! ⚪

Afternoon, you may recall I had been volunteered to paint the Crisis Protocol Cosmic terrain pack. But in the style of my Star Wars Legion Rebel Barricades. I am really happy with the results, although 'finished not perfect'.

There are some areas I could have spent more time on, but I was looking at the diminishing returns and wanted to get them done in time for our next shed session.

Then it turned out it was delayed a week as Ben and Otty were attending a midweek MESBG at Warhammer World.

Still, by accepting they were good enough I can now move onto other projects. And this building is worth 10 hobby points. It's a bit of a stretch, but it's not worth 5 and not 20pts either.

Getting to focus on my Adeptus Titanicus stuff now will really help get my head in the game for my #DreadTober Warlord Titan.

But yeah, I still wish the door was green, to reflect the shed. 

But I know it works better in red and is a nice additional accent colour across the set.

The neon green signs came out OK.

But my gloss varnish did not give the flat surface I was hoping for. There are far too many brush strokes and surface textures which make it a bit dissapointing.

I also think the shutters could have done with 'more'. But they're so hard to see what would be the point. I'd also like to have done a graphic logo in the space below the counter. Too late with all the grime on it but it would have taken far too much time as well. 

The power cells/converters are much better now with the weathering and additional glows on the black strips. Worth 10 hobby points [2 x 5pts]

I just used gun-metal drybrushes to highlight the black as a cheat. I feel guilty as it was a shortcut but I'm not sure anyone is going to criticise.

Similarly the tubing, with just contrast. Liam and Ben are totally into contrast paints so I doubt they're going to see it as lazy. It's not what I'm used to doing but I do conceded it looks like greasy rubber.

The broken wires look OK though. The yellow and black wire seemed slightly more 40k than Star Wars, but I think the addition of the blue, red and white wires helped to keep the Star Wars palette.

The barricades are cool. I did a few weathering highlights on the bone colour. Worth 8 hobby points [4 x 2pts].

I was lazy and didn't highlight the orange weathered areas. I should have done for my own obsession, but no one will be noticing it amongst all the other details.

The holo-adverts, giving strong Necron vibes. Worth 4 hobby points [2 x 2pts]

I'm not sure if the black is too dark and more green would have helped sell the look I was after, but the green glowing letters are cool, if a bit messy. 

Again, the gloss varnish let me down. At least I have chance to get some more to try and fix them before they go to the shed.

And the floor lights/force field emitters.

I didn't bother with any highlights on the weathering.

It just seemed unnecessary. I just love the Aethermatic Blue though.

It's not like these will have any in-game effect, just decorative scatter terrain. They're worth 4 hobby points though.

But they look really cool and will add ambience and narrative to our games. 

And the first of this season's Great Big Chrome Stamps of Approval. FYI, according to my spreadsheet this set is worth 41 hobby points [plus the 5 point terrain bonus]. That's a pretty good haul, when my non-binding goal is 100 points! So I'm off to a great start this season, especially as these weren't a project I'd started in the Season of Wood and capitalising by finishing them early in The Season of Chrome. In actual fact I'd have liked 41 points at the end of that season to break the 500 point milestone. Still, it's not a competition, just a record of achievement.