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FFG’s Royal Guard Protect Your Star Wars: Legion VIPs
November 26, 2018 by brennon
Fantasy Flight Games has been showing off another preview for the world of Star Wars: Legion. Here we have a peek at the Royal Guard who are ready to actually get stuck in rather than just stand in the background of a film!
As you might imagine, the Royal Guard are there to protect your characters whilst also getting stuck into combat themselves. They are able to bring two black dice into combat with them for their blasters and then throw a red dice into the mix when it comes to close combat...ouch!
Here's a better look at the stat cards for them so you can get a peek at how they might work in your force.
Guardian and Disciplined are good keywords for the unit to have and really feed into that role of them being protectors. Charge also allows them to really get stuck in and start carving apart the enemy before they really get a chance to react.
What do you think?
"As you might imagine, the Royal Guard are there to protect your characters whilst also getting stuck into combat themselves..."
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I have these on the way. Hopefully they’ll show up later this week.
So many possibilities for how to use them in senarios.
Got mine. You will need green stuff to fill the gaps and hot water treatment to fix bendy weapons.
I use Vallejo plastic putty. It’s much easier to apply and it’s water diluteable. So you just brush it on. https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/producto/hobby/auxiliaries-model/plastic-putty-70401/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn2xnefo4I
Got mine since… a few days… aaaaaaand I’m missing a part *sigh*
Darn 🙁 At least you now have a use for the ‘proof of purchase’ token 🙂
Didn’t needed that… took a picture of “pre assembled” models and the two parts that don’t fit. Now the waiting game begins.
that’s what you get for joining the Dark side 😉
You filthy rebel scum! 😉
Nice never played the game.
Guys, I’m a little wary of this game for a couple of reasons:
1. Fantasy Flight and their inherent inability to support consistent release schedules and inventory
2. Some of the units they’re releasing don’t really seem to be ones you’d actually see frequently on the battlefield. (Looking at you, Emperor). I know this is subjective but it just feels a little weird. They have to work within the confines of their license, but still…
What are your experiences in playing it and how do you see the above being handled? For my group, x-wing sort of organically devolved into who bought the best equipment cards (and didn’t use the mini it came with) and Armada started heading that way before it more or less disappeared from our FLGS.
I’m not ragging on the game, just trying to gauge if it’s worth getting into.
FFG suffer from their own success. They can’t keep stock in every shop because they don’t control their own manufacturing. There are many companies that don’t control their own manufacturing in house so that’s not a biggy for me.
With regards to units on the battlefield, its star wars, of course the named characters would be obvious choices to include, . If we think about it everyone expects Darth Vader to be on the battlefield kicking arse and taking names but we never actually saw him do any of that until Rogue One, and even then, he only killed 8 or so shit scared naval security personnel. Not exactly the best of troops. Previous to that all he did was walk around trying to be an asthmatic badass, beat up a pensioner and failed to deal with an annoying child.
My exp with FFG and their products hasn’t been bad, yeah I had to wait for one wave of X-Wing but only a few weeks. I did however stop playing x-wing because it became less about flying around and more about being a dick which just didn’t float my boat. Armada is a game I would love to like thematically, but I don’t like the movement and the fact it takes four years to play one game with only 7 models in it is just ridiculous.
my experience with Legion so far has been enjoyable, there is a lack of core infantry atm which is making the game somewhat stagnant for me, only 2 types per side isn’t really enough choice. All the cool units appear to be sitting in the ‘special forces’ selection meaning I can only bring 3 and can’t easily do a themed army (I value themes over cheese any day). Gameplay however is enjoyable and less clunky than previous token heavy games from FFG (although FFG still love tokens way too much).