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Evan Bulriss

Why You Should Play: It’s a Wonderful World!

Welcome to Why You Should Play, a series about board games and what makes them entertain, stimulate, and inspire us. This series is not focused on reviewing or teaching games. Rather, it attempts to explore what aspects of the game might make it appeal to the reader. On to the

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Kyle Dornbos

Competitive List Building For Dummies: 2020 Redux

A long time ago, on a blog far, far away, I wrote an article about the basics of competitive list building. It was nearly two years ago, which is quite a long time in the Legion meta. It’s time for an update. This article will revisit list building considerations for

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Dashz

Theorycrafting – Need For Speed

Do you have the need? The need for speed?   The Need For Speed Today we’re going to be looking at a sweet new list I’ve been messing around with after the recent errata and points adjustments. The new points changes to almost the entire rebel arsenal allows you to

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Zachary Barry

Obi-Wan List Building 2.0

“Execute Order 66…” Is that Emperor Palpatine calling for the destruction of the Jedi or is that the developers of Legion made the conscious decision to change how Clone Troopers interacted with stand by tokens? Both sort of fit the bill here. Between the rule changes, and the points changes,

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Board Games
Evan Bulriss

WYSP – Stocking stuffer edition

Well, it’s been a rough [YEAR] for all of us I think. But now that [CANDIDATE] has won the election, America is going to be just fine. The [INSERT SPECIFIC CRISIS HERE] will end in short order and [YOUR FAVORITE CELEBRITY] will continue being very alive. Plus, it’s the holiday

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Kyle Dornbos

Star Wars Legion: Points Update and Errata Hot Takes

Finally, the much anticipated points update for Star Wars: Legion! Note: The points changes are summarized at the bottom of the article in a table if you don’t want to read my takes. This is the second points update for Legion; the first was released a little over a year

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David Zelenka

Play Legion on Tabletop Simulator in Less Time

Tabletop Simulator games can go quickly! A little preparation and concentration goes a long way towards shortening the time spent gaming. A lot of folks out there complain that Tabletop Simulator “takes too long,” and in my view, there’s absolutely no reason games on Tabletop Simulator should be any longer

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Zachary Barry

Force Barrier 101

Unless you live under a Lothal rock you may have heard that the man who hates sand is coming to Star Wars Legion. Our very own Mike Barry put out his article on Monday about Anakin Skywalker, The Notorious Scoundrels podcast hit it on last Tuesday….he’s coarse, he’s fine, he’s everywhere!

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