Star Wars Legion - Breaching Enemy Lines

Game 4 of my ongoing Star Wars Legion campaign play test. This time I ran the Imperials, and used Crabbok’s solo AI card deck to run the Rebels. An Imperial Officer led some Stormtroopers and Scout bikers, accompanied by the notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett. Han Solo and Chewbacca led several Rebel squads and a light walker. The Rebels outnumbered the Imps by 20% in points, to make up for their card-driven tactics.





FORCES:

Imperials:
Imperial Officer (50 + 0 = 50)

Boba Fett (140 + 12 = 152)
- Hunter (6), Endurance (6)

Stormtroopers (44 + 41 = 85)
- RT-97C Stormtrooper (26), Stormtrooper Specialist (15)

Stormtroopers (44 + 24 = 68)
- DLT-19 Stormtrooper (24)

Stormtroopers (44 + 24 = 68)
- DLT-19 Stormtrooper (24)

74-Z Speeder Bikes (75 + 0 = 75)

Commands:
Ambush (1), Whipcord Launcher (1), Pinned Down (2), ZX Flame Projector (2), Z-6 Jetpack Rocket (3), Coordinated Fire (3), Standing Orders (4)

Total = 498 points


Rebels (Run by AI card deck):
Han Solo (120 + 7 = 127)
- Duck and Cover (4), Environmental Gear (3)

Chewbacca (95 + 8 = 103)
- Duck and Cover (4), Tenacity (4)

Rebel Troopers (40 + 30 = 70)
- Z-6 Trooper (22), R5 Astromech Droid (8)

Fleet Troopers (44 + 23 = 67)
- Scatter Gun Trooper (23)

Rebel Troopers (40 + 22 = 62)
- Z-6 Trooper (22)

Rebel Pathfinders (68 + 28 = 96)
- Pao (22), Duck and Cover (4), Recon Intel (2), A-300 Short Range Config (0)

AT-RT (55 + 20 = 75)
- AT-RT Laser Cannon (20)

Total = 600 points

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Each side set up within 6” of their respective table edges. The goal for each side was to get their unit leaders into the enemy deployment zones. As an added bonus, Boba Fett was trying to obtain a bounty on Chewie, garnering an extra VP if he defeated the Wookiee.

The table was a Scarif-like beach setting. I counted the 13 squares that were covered in water as bad going. This would not hinder the bikes (which hovered), Chewie (he is immune to such effects), and Han (who was equipped with suitable environmental gear).





The game quickly devolved into a series of close-range firefights, as both sides tried to get past each other. The turning point was mid-game, when the biggest Stormtrooper squad split its fire and in one turn managed to gun down the remnants of 2 Rebel units. Their Stormtrooper armour even allowed a couple of them to survive!
































I kept a Stormtrooper squad within its own setup zone, to draw Rebel fire. This worked, but they ended up fleeing off the table.

















By the game’s end , no surviving Imperial unit had more than a couple of members/wounds left, but they managed to get one more unit leader into an enemy deployment zone than the Rebels, squeaking out the win. Boba Fett was denied a bounty, as Chewbacca survived all the shots fired his way.

Losing all their forces but the walker, Han and Chewie will be hard pressed to accomplish any further sabotage against Imperial facilities...

Star Wars: Legion - Family Feud

Game 3 in my ongoing solo play testing of Star Wars: Legion, in anticipation of future games with  The Fawcett Avenue Conscripts. Again, I used version 1.1 of Crabbok's AI rules [ http://www.crabbok.com/custom-content/legion-ai-system/ ] to run the Imperial side.

Leia, recovered from the first game, led newly-minted Jedi Knight Luke and some Fleet and Rebel Troopers in facing off against an Imperial Officer, leading Darth Vader and several Stormtroopers. The Imperials were given an extra unit, the speeder bikes, plus a few upgrades, to compensate for being run by the AI card deck,

Both sides were trying to recover key intelligence from a downed command AT-AT Walker. There were three objectives on the table that a unit's leader had to be in contact with at the end of the game to score. The AT-AT and starfighter models are 3D prints from Legion Terrain.




FORCES:

Imperials (Run by AI card deck):
Imperial Officer (50 + 12 = 62)
- Emergency Stims (12)

Darth Vader (Operative) (170 + 19 = 189)
- Force Choke (5), Force Reflexes (10), Tenacity (4)

Stormtroopers (44 + 43 = 87)
- DLT-19 Stormtrooper (24), FX-9 Medical Droid (19)

Stormtroopers (44 + 49 = 93)
- RT-97C Stormtrooper (26), Stormtrooper Specialist (15), Electrobinoculars (8)

Stormtroopers (44 + 50 = 94)
- T-21 Stormtrooper (27), Stormtrooper Captain (15), Electrobinoculars (8)

74-Z Speeder Bikes (75 + 0 = 75)

Total: 600 points


Rebels:
Leia Organa (90 + 0 = 90)

Luke Skywalker (Operative) (200 + 29 = 229)
- Force Push (10), Force Reflexes (10), Jedi Mind Trick (5), Offensive Push (4)

Rebel Troopers (40 + 22 = 62)
- Z-6 Trooper (22)

Rebel Troopers (40 + 22 = 62)
- Z-6 Trooper (22)

Fleet Troopers (44 + 11 = 55)
- Fleet Trooper (11)

Total: 498 points

Commands: Son of Skywalker (1), Coordinated Bombardment (1), No Time for Sorrows (2), Full of Surprises (2), I am a Jedi (3), Somebody Has to Save Our Skins (3), Standing Orders (4)


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Both sides set up in large, L-shaped deployment zones centered on opposite table corners. Luke and most of the Rebels moved towards their own left flank, while Leia and a squad held the middle. Vader and the bikes moved to the center, and the three Stormtrooper squads moved kinda towards the three objectives.










The Imperials were wrong footed when they lost a Stormtrooper squad and the scout bikers early on.













Vader confronted Luke and the Fleet Troopers, and almost succeeded in carrying that flank all by himself. He couldn’t quite stand up to both massed blaster fire and Luke's repeated lightsaber assaults. Luke's abilities to Disengage allowed him to leap in and out of hand to hand, and his use of  Jedi Mind Trick causing an extra 2 Suppression per activation helped shut down Vader's action efficiency. Meanwhile, Leia supported the troops with Dodge counters and sniped Stormtroopers.

At one point Vader had 9(!) Suppression counters on him, and Leia was holding off a Stormtrooper squad all by herself!



















Overwhelmed, the Imperials only managed to seize one objective, to the Rebels’ two.




When the smoke finally cleared, Leia and Luke could not find any trace of their Sith patriarch...




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I have prepared army lists and plans for the next, fourth game in this narrative campaign play-test. This will involve Boba Fett as an Operative for the Imperial side, hunting for Han and Chewie on a Scarif-like beach table.