When exactly did the Rebellion start anyways?

 Someone is always fighting authority somewhere right? 

Is vehicular manslaughter a thing in Legion?

Hot of the heels of the arrival of my 2nd hand CIS horde from my last post, I got in another game of Star Wars Legion. My opponent was RJ whom I hadn't met in person up until he arrived for our game. Much to my surprise, he came in bearing a box of rebels for me. Screw the Darkside and their cookies! 

My new Rebel recruits are the unpainted minis in back: Luke Skywalker, (2) squads of Rebel troopers as well as a neither pictured nor assembled Rebel AT-RT. 

He had had them knocking around for awhile and said they needed a home and so they were mine. I found out later of that he was looking to get into Battletech, however didn't know where to start. Thus, I'll be passing some of my spare mechs off to him next time I see him. 

We played a 500 point skirmish/teaching game as this was only my 2nd game and I last played in November. Clones vs. Rebels (or perhaps just insurgent/dissidents at this point?). I had an officer, a mandalorian (but not the Madalorian), a 10-strong squad of rebels with a Z-6 gunner, another squad of 5 troopers, and a landspeeder with medium blaster and rocket launcher. 

RJ had Anakin Skywalker (who I simply referred to as 'the blender'), a single squad of Clone troopers and I think 4, 5-strong squads of ARC troopers. The primary mission was Bunker Assault I think, I have no idea what the secondaries were. 

The battlefield with my first squad of Rebels deployed behind a building. 

RJ deploying his first squad of ARCs. 

The rest of my army waiting in the wings. 

My landspeeder moves forward quickly, rounding a wrecked AT-AT and killing 2 ARC troopers

They took offense to that and inflicted 2 wounds to my speeder. 

And then the Blender did just that, destroying the speeder. 

The Mandalorian moves up taking long ranged potshots with his pistol. This guy has so many rules and upgrades that I forgot to use several during the game. 

A lone ARC disengages the Ewoks which speared most of his squad, leaving them open to the Clone troopers who did not believe in plot armor and shot them more or less to pieces.

The Mandalorian drops the retreating ARC trooper, making that the only enemy unit that I wiped out. 

Despite heavy casualties, my large blob of rebels had ground another squad of ARCs down to just the leader. Then Anakin arrived and that was that. 

On the other side of the board, the ARCs and my smaller squad of Troopers slugged it out for most of the game, with my troopers eventually getting wiped out. 

Way out on the flank, Anakin and the ARC Sgt. decide to BS for the rest of the game as there was no way to move in close enough to have anymore positive effect. 

The last Ewok makes a glorious (and futile) suicide charge!

Lt. Spike & the remaining ARCs that took out my small squad of troopers, would end the game locked in combat. 

My only other survivor, the Mandalorian would likewise end the game sniping back & forth with another ARC unit. 

In the end I think the final score was 13-5, resulting in a solid loss for me. That said I had more fun than the last time as I had a better understanding of what was actually going on. While Anakin was unharmed, I took out about half of RJ's clones, putting a good dent in his force. So was not a bad 2nd showing. 

Lookis like I need to get to painting on some more Rebels as my almost fully painted army is now a good distance from that point once again. 

The Roger Rogers are back

o/

Base rim colors denote the squad for now. 

Sure is a good thing that I bought more minis for a game that I've only ever played once, right? Right. Consider it a bit of seller's remorse, though that said my previous color scheme had some issues. Firstly, these frail little B1s don't do well when being drybrushed, secondly it took two layers of the pink flock to cover the base decently. Lastly, if I want to easily add some bulk B1 infantry to my army, bone colored B1s are a dime a dozen on eBay, rusty looking ones? Not so much. Droids are a horde army, I don't really have time or rather the will build a horde of these, so off to eBay's bargain auctions I went looking. 

The minis above were a couple of second hand lots bought for more or less 1/2 retail price. No cards which doesn't matter as that is all about to change, and with the advent of  just being able to print off a list with all upgrade on Tabletop Admiral, I don't see much use for those anyways. Eighty cards along the tableside & tokens galore following each unit around the table is a legacy of Fantasy Flight Games that should go away in my opinion.

A handful are unpainted such as this Super Tactical Droid who is the default Commander of this meager 360ish point force. I also have a box of CIS Specialists coming as well. 

These B1s look as though they were primed black, drybrushed in a bone color and then slathered or maybe just splattered with a sepia wash, depending on the individual mini (a few almost have a literal stripe of wash across the body). I am just drybrushing over again for a cleaner look (yes really), cleaning up the details and then will be calling it a day (20-30 minutes a model total including basing). With 36 B1s constituting just the core of the army, there's no realy need to get too detailed with them. Honestly I could probably leave 'em as is if I wanted to, but I have to tweak 'em at least a little bit.

Finished model is on the right, both of the blue squad.

Once I am good with the model, I'll rebase it with some purple sand (I have tons of the stuff) and then add tufts in the color of the unfinished models' rims. In the end the tuft colors will be used to tell the squads apart. I have them in blue, red, green & purple so that they will blend with the rim painted minis in the interim. The plan is to hopefully have all of these cleaned up by the time the new Legion 2.0 Starter forces arrive in stores.