siteicon-TFT

The Fifth Trooper Blog

Blog
Davis "TowerNumberNine" Kingsley

Star Wars Unlimited Draft and Sealed Play

Welcome back to our series of articles on Fantasy Flight Games’s upcoming Star Wars Unlimited TCG! This is likely the last SWU article you’ll see here at The Fifth Trooper before the game is on store shelves — get hyped! (For those who may not have seen our previous articles

Read More »
Blog
Kyle Dornbos

Making a Good Table and Terrain for Legion

Today, we’re going to look at making a good table for Star Wars: Legion. I’m not going to get into how to actually make the terrain pieces themselves (I’m hardly an expert on that), but which types of pieces you should have and how to arrange them. For this article

Read More »
Star Wars: Shatterpoint
Matt Bronson

Winning the Midgame: Timing the End of a Struggle

In the past, I’ve gone deep on the first few turns of both Shifting Priorities and Sabotage Showdown. Starting a struggle is very important, but that also means ending a struggle can be critical too. Ideally, you want to end a struggle such that you’re in a strong position to

Read More »

Shatterpoint Dice Simulator

Welcome to the Shatterpoint dice simulator! Remember to select a stance after changing characters. If the results read N/A then this is likely the issue. To read individual probabilities on the graphs, use the blue bars and left axis. For cumulative probabilities, use the orange line and right axis. ​Performs

Read More »
Blog
Timbo

Geonosians Unit Guide

The new kids on the block! The Geonosians have landed in Star Wars Legion and today we will look at their strengths, weakness, and the general wackiness they can bring to the table. Geonosian Warriors Let’s first look at the overall Strengths and Weaknesses. Strengths Weaknesses 45 points: At a

Read More »
remnant
Blog
ajst

Imperial Remnant Guide

“You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you are in possession of, but you do not. In a few moments, it will be mine.” Moff Gideon was obviously talking about knowledge of how to use his units rather than Grogu. In this article

Read More »
Star Wars Legion
Austin Miller

Star Wars Legion: A Worlds Meta Checklist

The Legion World Championship draws nearer every day. With each sunset, we take one step closer to the momentous event that is Adepticon. This is not just some hodgepodge of a tabletop gaming convention set up in the lobby of a Holiday Inn, this is THE. PREMIERE. TABLETOP GAMING CONVENTION

Read More »
Blog
Kyle Dornbos

Las Vegas Open – Top 8

This article will cover the final cut (top 8) results from the Star Wars: Legion tournament at Las Vegas Open 2024. The format was six rounds of swiss, a top 8 cut, and then two rounds of single elimination, with a 136 players, making it the largest Legion tournament in

Read More »
Blog
Davis "TowerNumberNine" Kingsley

Who’s the Beatdown: Star Wars Unlimited Edition

I want to direct your attention to the concepts from a classic Magic: the Gathering strategy article that is relevant in many card games — Michael Flores’s “Who’s the Beatdown”, written all the way back in 1999 (perhaps before some readers were even born!) but still extremely useful! Michael truly did a service to the TCG community with this writing.

However, his article was written using Magic: the Gathering examples, and old Magic: the Gathering examples at that — so I’m setting forth to write my own version that should hopefully be more clear to Star Wars: Unlimited players. Credit for the original articulation of the core concepts here should rest with Michael!

Read More »

Login