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David Zelenka

Learning Control: Orders in Star Wars: Legion

Star Wars: Legion has a great way of representing armies that are well coordinated and armies that are not. A commander cannot be everywhere at once, and some troopers have more discipline than others. Every round, a commander issues orders to a few units, their tokens are placed face-up near

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Kyle Dornbos

Hobby Showcase: Radek’s Imperial Army

Project Showcase: Radek’s Complete Imperial Army About the author: Radek “radeczex” Kurkowski is a miniatures painting veteran, who is constantly looking for new painting techniques and ways to improve his craft and enrich his workshop. Apart from being a Star Wars universe enthusiast, he is also a passionate amateur cook,

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Star Wars Legion
Kyle Dornbos

Star Wars: Legion RRG Update Summary

FFG dropped a brand new Rules Reference Guide (RRG) update today, clearing up some grey areas and adding entries for the various new keywords present in the ARC Trooper/BX droid release, which is pending next week.  If you were hoping for some kind of sweeping balance changes or points updates,

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Dashz

Star Wars Legion Unit Power Rankings – August 2020

Power Rankings It’s August – new units are on the horizon in the form of Imperial Special Forces, Mandalorians, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Maul, and Clone/Rebel Specialists. All of these units are sure to shake up the game, but we’ve got a few months before they hit the table. Today we’re

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Evan Bulriss

Taverns of Tiefenthal – Why You Should Play

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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Star Wars Legion
Kyle Dornbos

GenCon Online Top 8

Let’s recap the lists from last weekends GenCon Online Legion tournament. Unless you have just recently returned from being lost at sea for the last year, you know that in person cons aren’t really a thing right now.  There was no in person GenCon.  However, they did manage an online

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Dashz

The Notorious Scoundrels Go To War

Hey all you Fifth Trooper fans out there! I wanted to introduce you to a new live stream I’ll be doing – starting this Friday at 2pm Eastern on twitch.tv/DashzTV I’ll be doing a play through of XCOM2: War of the Chosen! What does this have to do with the

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Star Wars Legion
Kyle Dornbos

GenCon Legion Preview Recap

This weekend at GenCon, FFG previewed several hot new expansions for Star Wars: Legion.  Specifically, in order of coolness, Darth Maul, Separatist Specialists, Anakin, and Clone Specialists.  Totally not biased. FFG also did a follow up stream where they discussed some more detailed nuggets of each of these expansions and

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Dashz

The Road to Worlds – Part VIII – Icarus

The Road to Worlds – Part VIII – Icarus Welcome back to the Road to Worlds! In my last article we went over my list for Invader league Single Eliminations – the ARCstar. Today we’re going to talk about how Single Eliminations went (Spoilers: It went well) and break down

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