How To Play: Star Wars Legion - The Definitive Guide

A guide on how to play the tabletop game Star Wars Legion.

0:00 Intro
2:09 Unit Cards & Upgrades
5:15 Building A Unit For An Army
5:54 Command Cards
8:36 Dice
9:33 Determine Mission
10:38 Game Setup
11:05 Turn Sequence
11:37 Starting The Game
11:58 Issuing Orders
13:03 Activating Units & Actions
13:57 Move Actions
15:49 Climbing/Clambering
16:48 Dodge Actions
17:22 Attack Actions
19:04 Cover & Obscured Units
20:32 Suppression
21:42 Panicked Units
22:45 Recover Actions
23:28 Free Actions, Force Powers & Exhausting Cards
25:30 Jumping, Charging & Melee Combat
27:28 Disengaging
27:53 Vehicles: Compulsory Moves
30:02 Vehicles: Damage
30:33 Vehicles: Displacing Trooper Units
31:21 Vehicles: Firing Arcs
32:01 Aim Actions
34:22 Standby Actions
35:33 End Step

[dailyprofitcenter]

I'm a visual learner and as such trying to read the book to learn to play is like reading a language I don't know. This was extremely helpful.

[davidmartyn]

I think quite often peoples problem with rule books are that they are not really interested in the subject. They buy the starter box, look at the minis, and glance at the rule book, and blame them for being poorly written. This is a great refresher video. Clear information, well spoken, and at the right length.

[mathewburch]

🎉 this guy is the best my sons and I (between 2 6 year olds and a 8 year old) have been starting into TCG's and then moved onto board games then we were introduced to marvel united by accident at a hobby store when my youngest 4 year old spotted it when we were browsing TCG cards and basically all the boys and I loved having the miniatures in a game totally changed our game nights. So being that we loved those we started researching into other miniature games and have settled on star wars legion since we all know and love starwars anyways. You could imagine our shock when we opened both of the core sets and all the pieces and the rule book while it was detailed made no sense to us as we are very new to this style of play but you sir have saved this game from a life on the shelf and kept the boys entertained enough to watch almost the whole video with me!

[trustworthydan]

Never hears of you, or this game, but i think im gonna check it out now.

[payton]

Possibly the best tutorial I have seen yet

[fatboy]

Literally the best tutorial I’ve seen on YouTube. I can’t wait to play this game.

[nathanelacey]

I got a TON of legion sets for xmas. Super excited to bust em out.

This is a great tutorial. I will probably watch it multiple times to make it all sink in.

[Mr.Mosquito]

For those of us watching this later : It's worth noting some of these rules and systems have changed fundamentally; notably, the Panic system was reworked (the same year this video came out, even, lol) and now units that are Panicked DO actually lose all their actions, then try to dump Suppression tokens equal to its Courage (functionally trying to all its actions to rally) rather than the fleeing mechanic.

This was changed for... obvious reasons.

[Chris-dcqz]

This is by far the best guide i have seen. Love it, please keep uploading!

[eros]

This should be given as a qr code for ever legion starter box

[thomasblunt]

i muddled through a very basic first game with the help of this video and i think i am getting a grasp on how it plays

[WARDEN]

This tutorial is excellent! I'd love to see one for CIS, I don't quite understand the "AI" rules but this visual way of going through each thing is beyond helpful

[plasmastudios]

As a I'm a native french speaker, french tutorials are so bad and sometimes wrong and not serious at all. that's why I rarely watch 'em. This one's so accurate from A to Z. I've watched this vid a few times and it's really helped me to learn the rules beside the book. Many thanks!

[thomassunderlin]

This was such a helpful video! It was so well put together, with a lot of information and humor. The chapters in the video are also very helpful!

[brunozeigerts]

Yes... I found the activation rules a bit vague. I actually thought it mean that if the command card said move two units, it meant move two at a time. Glad to have it cleared up.

[gamooky]

Very helpful guide I’m about to buy this game and it’s my first tabletop war game so I wanted to get a good understanding of it

[ryankyle]

4:56- I’m sorry, I know what you meant by that because I’ve been playing for a few years. But with how you said “keep the ones you like the looks of” it sounded like you were saying “pick the ones with your favorite pictures on it” lmao it was funny and I probably would have said it differently!

[TabletopWarRoom]

Ive been looking at playing legion on the side as a different game to 40k...
I have to say mate, this is the best basic legion tutorial Ive seen.
If there are advance mechanics, please do another tutorial 🙂
Love the painting guides also 😁

[jrod]

Awesome tutorial👍. My kids got me the clone war set for Father's Day and boy did those B1's Roger Rogers take 4 ever to assemble.

[gemyniraptor]

this was an excellent learning vid. I just bought my first box set and i immediately felt I had a basic understanding of everything in the kit and how it plays.