Star Wars Legion: All Factions Summarized

This is a short and sweet little video for newcomers to Star Wars Legion, hopefully, this helps you understand the pros and cons of each faction!

0:00 Star Wars Legion: Faction Summary
1:18 Star Wars Legion: Terminology
2:25 Faction Summary Empire
3:20 Faction Summary: Rebels
4:16 Faction Summary: Separatist
5:40 Faction Summary: Republic
6:35 Faction Summary: Shadow Collective

[AnyoneCanBeNerdy]

Amazing video. Worth noting a couple things:


Most Imperial units do move at speed 2, or at minimal have ways around this with keywords. Off the top of my head it's Palpatine, Commander Vader, Snowtroopers, the GAV tank, Eweb, Shore mortar, and dewback, and the Dark Troopers that move at speed 1. But many of these units either have Keywords to be able to increase move size, can move twice and still attack, or have just huge bases so it doesn't matter as much. Also it feels like you missed a big pro in being able to run basically every bounty hunter in the game, which is really huge.

Rebels you got pretty good I think, but it's worth noting every faction can be run gimmicky, that's just how many of the keywords and abilities work.

I can't really comment on other factions too much as I don't play the other 3, but playing against every faction is scary in its own way. Whether you're being swarmed by b1s, rebels having dodge tokens like a kid with candy on Halloween, empire and the marching wall of suppression, GAR and the units that just never seem to die, and Shadow Collective... well I only played them once so jury is still out. 😅

[SheevPalpatine]

In my unbiased opinion, the Empire is easily the best faction. I will admit, however, that it can be fun to control both the Republic and the Separatist simultaneously.

[dashbolts]

Just got into legion, ordered my first core set and a few additional boxes. It seems a lot of people are getting into the game this month which is truly amazing. I joined the SW Legion subreddit and many posts were about newcomers excited to discover the game, and just as I got to my local games workshop store to grab my first ever paints, I heard 2 guys talking about getting into the game too !

[bradleyscott]

Glad I stumbled on this! I’m a long time legion player and I love that people are finding it!
Not sure if you are accepting input at this time but here it goes: I think you got rebels and CIS pretty well. I feel like the Empire’s play style revolves around having a lot of units with solid stats for their cost, but there aren’t very many synergistic won I combos, or any surprises you can pull. In general, the empire puts down a good army with both opponents knowing the coming play pattern. For the republic, I think one big piece of them you missed is that when list building with them you can hear your army into any specific purpose you want, and the whole army can have synergies towards that purpose.
Last thing I’ll bring up: I think shadow collective actually does very very well with diverse units in their army, it can just be hard to pilot for a newer player or if you don’t have a plan for the diverse units you are bringing.
I know by quantity most of the worst I just typed at you might have felt like criticism and maybe I should keep my thoughts to myself, but oh well… anyways I really liked the video!

[ButchersNailsEnjoyer]

Much like warhammer 40k, if you’re new, just pick the faction that looks coolest or you like best from the movies because chances are it’ll fit your play style especially if you’re familiar with the movies. If you like the CIS because of their sheer amount of numbers then you’ll like them in legion. If you like the rebels because of how nimble they are and their guerrilla tactics, you’ll like them in legion. The game translates how each faction is in the movies to the tabletop pretty well imo

[madcapmiguel]

I've been thinking about getting into legion to play with nephew, you're absolutely right about the accessibility and commercial appeal. Great start to the channel looking forward to more content!

[herowesley]

hey Auspex has a great format and videos in general, using his as a inspiration is awesome, this was a really informative vid, as someone really interested in Legion.

[robertroy]

I just got the Clone Wars core box, looking forward to following! Subscribed :)

[jasonr]

Good video. Would just add-
Empire pro- The suppressive faction that dishes out the most suppression if you build them that way
SC con- The least ordered faction, so bad activation control, which is how they get so many tokens

[KjcKiesh]

An easy to digest format for Star Wars Legion content just as I am getting into it?

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

We will watch your career with great interest

[themilkbaron]

This is a great video but apostrophes are used for possessive nouns, not for plurals. So it would be “Mando’s gun, ” or “Multiple Mandos.”

I would love to see more content like this!

[TheRedDuke.]

Love the content mate. Looking at getting into legion and YT is surprisingly light on guides for the factions. As a CIS fan I'm looking forward to a more in depth federation break down. Keep it up 👍🏼

[SCTimbal]

Thank you for this! I'm a new Legion player (I literally got my Core sets two days ago!) so any and all info is SUPER helpful. I went with the Clone Wars era!

[hiddengameseekerlp]

Hey, I really enjoyed this video. I am really into Star Wars Armada which is also super exciting. I know about Legion of course but never really considered getting into it.

[ZodiusXx]

Auspex tattics didn't invent the powerpoint presentation so you do you my man

[rodneip]

Thank u for being the most honest until now. The mechanics is unique and awesome and the price never hiked so much. Rebels sucks unfortunately, Waited for over 2 years for an improvement that never comes for the faction.

[MunitionsDudTester]

I need to get all my Roger rogers painted

[ilferrodisupo]

Good analysis, I started with rebel/empire set is most balanced

[sirderik]

its like ausepx yes its called youtube power point presentation style...its been used since before video sharing was common, its a very very old way because its simple yet functional.

[irishconan]

Honestly dude there's nothing wrong with being the auspexts of legion. You would be providing a service that this community is severely lacking