Last week I went to my first Legion tournament and I hope many will follow. This tournament was at the
Tabletop Kingdom in The Hague, a good venue with great staff. The organised their third Legion tournament which gave me the oppportunity to get some games in. The tournaments at TTK are always noob friendly so I decided to give it a go.
The venue is really nice, it has a decent size play area where 4 tables were set up for the legion tournament. The tables were of good quality as you can see in these pictures. Yes, there is some 40K stuff there but it didn't bother me, there were enough Star Wars terrain pieces that gave it that Star wars feel.
My first game was on the snow table against imperials. It took a while before the game got going so I realized before my opponent did that I had to seize the objectives early to snatch the win and so I did. If the game lasted longer I could have gotten into trouble but I scored two objectives and my opponent 0. win for me!
My second game was vs rebels and this game was a good lesson for me. read the mission objectives! It costed me the game becaus eI thought we would score at the end of the game but my opponent scored at the end of rund two and I was playing catch up from then. In the end time beat me as the clock ran out when I was just about to wipe my opponent from the board. First loss for me and lessons learned.
The third game was vs rebels again. this time the dice rolls all went my way. I cleared all suppression tokens in the rally phase all the time and my opponent never got lucky. I ended up wiping his army off the board. First I focussed on his Luke and then one by one his army crumbled. I felt bad but my opponent was a great guy and took it on the chin.
For me it was a great learning experience, the setting was good and the fact that I didn't have to look up that many rules and even won two out of three was really nice. I'll put up some more pictures down below.
In the first game I seized two objectives early and never was in danger of losing them. Grab the objective and hop back behind the cover of the barricades together with Leia to keep them safe.
My opponent didn't secure his objectives but made a move towards the middle where the centre objective was placed. My focussed fire and sacrificing an AT-RT made sure he wasn't going to make it very easily.
The game ended in turn three where I was holding two objectives and my opponent hadn't secured any yet.
The Imperial army I faced was a very good looking one. Nicely painted miniatures and some minor sculpting.
In my second game I thought I had the upper hand. I won the bid and was blue player and chose the table edge (long march) with the best cover.
Because I didn't fully understand the mission objectives my opponent grabbed the lead and just when I was about to crush him time ran out. I made a nice pincer move but was unable to finish the turn and my opponent won by victory points.
Whilst my unit's were still pretty sollid his had depleted rapidly.
Third battle was against another rebel player. In this 650 points tournament he was the only player having two commanders in his list. He had Luke and Han so many of his points went in there. My list was much more basic and used more cheaper units. I had 9 activations and I used them to focus fire on his units one by one and they crumbled fast.
In the end I won two and lost one game which gave my the second place over all and a best painted price. Got my first Legion coin and alternative art cards so I will be hunting for more.
Some more pictures below:
