The Future Of Star Wars Legion - Good Or Bad?

[alanbyrne]

I think a Legion Crisis Protocol would run out of mainstream characters with its first core box and one or two expansions. They'd be into the secondary characters before long. It's much more of a soldier based media in general

[TheLordNovo]

One of the thing I’m hoping for is that they eventually move on to specific media forms like games or books. It would be so fun to have a Cal Kestis model or Starkiller as a playable model

[TimCz]

I've been giving this some thought, and maybe battled forces are there new approach to legion. It give greater leverage to create themed lists so people can focus down into what motivates them and play the way they want to. It also allows greater diversity in their selling model as you can re-release the same mins with only a amended rules to keep R&D costs down, but new sculpture in the box so even people not into the battle forces might spend their money on them. All that said, I didn't know what Amg didn't resculpt the recent battle forces unless it's a question of development time and when they wanted to get them to the market place

[voltage]

I agree AMG doesn’t seem to care as much about Legion as CP. How long has it been, and Legion still doesn’t have a dedicated website? CP is front and center on AMG’s website, while Legion is hidden behind obscure menu tabs. Legion does suffer from “tokenitus” but I understand why it was designed that way for status indicating and such. Although CP is a very token heavy game as well. Would be nice to have some way of designing the game without the use of so many tokens, it just clutters up and causes organization anxiety. I don’t mind using a few different tokens, but when you have 10 or more different ones for all the different statuses it’s too much.

[carloseduardobeserranobre]

Nice analyses. I've also that same strange feeling when I heard AMG talk about "new SW games". But in the end, the sales of products will dictate the directions. Do you have any idea of how much WS legion is selling right now, i mean, compared to other popular major IP wargames and skirmish games?

[jonathanrobinson]

Let’s just hope they don’t screw it up like X-Wing.

But, also I spent lots on IA for the models, even though I wasn’t keen on the game itself really

[majortom]

I'm in for Jedi: Crisis Protocol and 'Epic' Legion in X-Wing scale. I suspect the first is more likely though, and I don't think it would hurt Legion any more than Kill Team hurts 40K.

[Hudjunababa]

I think, if AMG is going to keep Legion, they're going to come out with a complete overhaul. Even enough so to call it a new game perhaps. Same minis, scale, options etc, but a redo on mechanics. In my opinion Legion outgrew it's mechanics awhile ago, primarily the defense dice. They piled on offensive abilities etc, but on a unit that has white defense with no surge and a below average roll. Whole unit gone to a mediocre stacked attack roll. AMG being geared towards mini games probably sees how limiting the system is. Mirror attack and add black defense and adjust the ratios and suddenly you can balance things a little better. Moving away from the cards would be beneficial as well. I do see some value in them, but it's much easier to fix mistakes or nerf that which needs nerfed when it's not on a physical media. I could go on for days, but I'm hopeful AMG doesn't boot it.

[shadowcouncil]

Something that's kept me from getting into Legion is the idea that one day they'll release a First Order vs Resistance core box.

[onemanturret]

They’re are ton of ways to expand, Asoka, generic Jedi, Gungams, other vehicles, ect

[Zcrouse]

I honestly think the "new sw games" will end up being a squad based small-scale game and a replacement for Armada. Only time will tell.

[Veheloth]

are you getting those close in shots with a worm or snake cam?

[yoshiwiseful]

aloha from Oahu! cool video i would love to see gungan army and ewok army in leigon

[guppya]

you can tell atomic mass games is not into it 100%, it took them forever to launch a website, they now have errors in cards with new units, and the building instructions are not the ready day of release.. a bad move all the way around.

[rodneip]

SWL fan base could have been way, way bigger and the game stronger IF only they had listened! For over 2 years, Fantasy Flight was told by many (myself included) that they were neglecting a humongous portion of the Star Wars fans and the game only they had listened!

[crabguy]

Yeah I like the separatist but I feel like they are no new ones just leaders no droids

[rphan]

Redo the empire and rebel minis. They are dated.

U forgot about the first order and new republic. Potentially two new factions.

Plenty more mercenaries like jabbas faction. Or put into shadow colleftive

[AndrewSmith-fdfi]

As regards the future they might lose the rights, or could be like GW and LOTR they still have them 20 years from now. With basing it on individual card mechanics is a bit to much like X-Wing imo were they backed themselves into a corner and hey presto 2nd edition so what would that do for the game?

[Sacrilege]

Legion is soo dead and dying. AMG can't even list the units available, their prices, and pictures of them on their site. Glad I didn't invest into this game.