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Special Edition Hoth Army Boxes Coming To Star Wars: Legion!
February 4, 2026 by brennon
Atomic Mass Games are now taking pre-orders for two Special Edition Army Boxes for Star Wars: Legion with a Hoth theme. This comes alongside some regular releases to really get you into the Hoth mindset. Will you go with Echo Base Defenders or Blizzard Force?
Echo Base Defenders Army Box // Star Wars: Legion
This Echo Base Defenders Special Edition Starter Set comes with a 600-point Recon-level army to get you started in your games of Star Wars: Legion. It also comes with a special edition, alternative sculpt for the awesome General Leia Organa.
Echo Base Defenders Army Box - Contents // Star Wars: Legion
The set also comes with miniatures for C-3P0, R2-D2, twenty Rebel Veterans, two Tauntaun Riders and two Mark II Medium Blaster Troopers to give you some added covering fire on the tabletop. You also get all of the dice, templates, tools and tokens you need to start playing your first games of Star Wars: Legion.
Power of the Dark Side!
If you'd prefer to destroy the Rebel base on Hoth, then you can also go with Blizzard Force.
Blizzard Force Army Box // Star Wars: Legion
This comes with another 600-point Recon-level force for you to use in Star Wars: Legion and get started with the game. Paired up with the Echo Base Defenders and you could have the makings of some fun scenarios to play with a friend. This also comes with another special edition miniature for Darth Vader himself.
Blizzard Force Army Box - Contents // Star Wars: Legion
This set also comes with eleven Stormtroopers, twenty-two Snowtroopers and two Imperial Probe Droids. Again, a good basis for a force that gives you everything you'd need to run the Empire on the tabletop in Star Wars: Legion. The pose for Vader is also more combat-focused than the previous one, so that might be what swings it for people!
As with the Echo Base Defenders, this also comes with all of your tokens, templates, dice and more for you to start playing the Star Wars: Legion.
Commanders & Tauntauns!
To support these two new sets, you can also get some regular Hoth-themed releases for use with Star Wars: Legion. Captain Solo & Commander Skywalker on Tauntuns lead the way.
Captain Solo & Commander Skywalker // Star Wars: Legion
This set comes with the shiny new plastic versions of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo from the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back. Skywalker is a Commander option, whilst Solo becomes a new Operative for use with the Rebel Alliance and Echo Base Defenders Battle Forces. You will also get their new Command Cards to run them in your games.
More cavalry and recon support comes with an additional pack of Tauntaun Riders!
Tauntaun Riders // Star Wars: Legion
This set contains another two Tauntaun Riders to your Rebel Alliance army, ready to see where the Empire has deployed and report positions to the rest of the army. A Rebel force can include up to three units of Tauntaun Riders as Support choices for their army. That means there's room for more!
All of these miniatures are going to be coming to your tabletops in April. Make sure to check with your Friendly Local Gaming Store to see if you can get one of those special edition army boxes!
What do you make of these new reveals?
"Will you go with Echo Base Defenders or Blizzard Force?"
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Nice revamps of the battlesets though I really have enough minis currently. I’m still contemplating if I need/want the new starter sets (because of new game materials needed) but with these. I’ll have to break out the calculator and see what’s the most bang for my buck. Oh my. I almost could make use of a spreadsheet at this point XD
Did a quick math thing. Some prices I had to guess as they are either not available at all or just the USD prices. I roughly converted them to what my FLGS charges compared to already published stuff. Blizzard Force is roughly a 50€ saving compared to buying stuff individually. Echo Base about 75€ savings. The rebel box feels like the better deal because all the units are “fresh” and not yet released as individual boxes. Blizzard force on the other hand has Stormtroopers (again) and some more different troopers. They do not contain the cards or essential bits like ruler, dice and tokens. And just to make the starter set really a selling point: they go for 85,99€ saving 145€ (empire) and 135€ (rebels) compared to single boxes. It’s a lot of plastic for that amount of money XD
Storm troopers again seems odd, not sure on the imperial one but given I probably need an extra box of snow troopers and want the probe droids it might get brought.
Rebels are more tempting, but I am not sure I am ever running big squads of the veterans
I was thinking the same thing! Why have regular stormtroopers in the mix if you’re going to the trouble of making a Hoth battle box? An AT-AT crew would have been awesome though, I really liked that armor.
I agree that Stormtroopers seem an odd choice in a Hoth themed army (why didn’t they get the protective gear?) I was hoping they would release a plastic E-Web to go alongside the new Snowtroopers, which would have fitted perfectly.
Yeah I would have liked some E-Web as well but I think since they are aiming for 600 skirmish a tank buster weapon is “wrong”?
E-Web is just as useful against infantry though. Remember you have the Barrage Generator.
Lovely looking sets… is this the only game, only one I know when you buy it, it does not have a rulebook…that`s insane. walk into a shop buy and the shopkeeper says “now you just need the rules, go home and print them out”. Anybody used one page rules for starwars ?
Not quite correct there. It has a living rulebook that you need to download. Also there are many games that “technically” don’t have a rulebook because they don’t to starter/faction boxes. Like Frostgrave. Or Freebooters Fate. Or games that are available as PDF only.
“Living rulebook” guessing 40K is that, about to get 11th edition and still cannot create a working ruleset. But we know its about the greed. Now update army lists like K47 just wonderful
I think a lot of us have been conditioned to expect a rulebook and an army book (Codex), as that is what we have been used to. But lots of games have moved to digital rulebooks and army lists. They have the duel benefit of being free and updateable!
available until the servers shut down or they move the files to a different url without telling you.
Anyone who has been on the internet will have their share of dead url’s in their list of favourites …
I wouldn’t trust them to keep these things available for my lifetime.
Physical assets can be preserved with minimal effort.
And best of all : they aren’t updated unless you want to.
As long as you have download the PDF you have it for your lifetime.
and then I have to print it … which is a lot of work for something I want to play.
reading digital just never really works for me.
luke warm … just like the insides of his tauntaun 😉
Time for OTT to break out the old Hoth battle scenery created heaven knows how many years ago. That was a lovely time.