Star Wars: Legion Arrives March 22 With Plenty of Launch Activities

<p>Over a year ago&comma; Fantasy Flight Games ended its partnership with Games Workshop&period; The two had worked together on a number of great card games and board games based on the Games Workshop properties&comma; especially their <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;warhammer-comes-current-gen-next-year-space-hulk-deathwing&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em>Warhammer 40k<&sol;em><&sol;a> series&period; Recently it was announced that Games Workshop had signed a deal with WizKids to make some new board games and card games&comma; but what was part of the reason for the ending of the relationship between Fantasy Flight Games and Games Workshop&quest; Well&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Star Wars&colon; Legion<&sol;em> of course&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s hitting stores in a matter of weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;136169" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-136169" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-136169" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;27141556&sol;Star-wars-Legion-2-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-136169" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Star Wars&colon; Legion&comma; Fantasy Flight Games<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Last year Fantasy Flight Games showed off <em>Star Wars&colon; Legion<&sol;em>&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s newest miniatures game based on the <em>Star Wars<&sol;em> franchise&period; Fantasy Flight has a number of <em>Star Wars<&sol;em> minis&comma; and <em>X-Wing<&sol;em> is easily one of the most popular tabletop miniature games in the world&period; They do have one game&comma; <em>Imperial Assault<&sol;em>&comma; that has miniature figures that you control&comma; but the game is more of a dungeon crawler than a full-on tabletop war game&period; <em>Legion<&sol;em> is the war game that <em>Star Wars<&sol;em> players have been hoping for&comma; and so far it looks great&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game releases on March 22&comma; with a core set that contains enough Imperials and Rebels to start building your armies and playing some smaller skirmish style games&period; There will be a number of other figures released alongside&comma; so you can bulk up your army of choice with more troops&comma; or things like a T-47 Snowspeeder or even a massive AT-ST&period; Fantasy Flight has announced as well a number of launch weekend activities that you should check out your local games store for&period; The activities range from cracking open your box and assembling figures to trying out smaller scale games to get a feel for the rules&period; All those that participate will receive commemorative prizes&comma; and winners of battles will even walk away with art prints&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;re a <em>Star Wars<&sol;em> fan&comma; or a tabletop gamer and want to check out a great new game&comma; <em>Star Wars&colon; Legion<&sol;em> should be on your radar&period; The figures look great&comma; the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;images-cdn&period;fantasyflightgames&period;com&sol;filer&lowbar;public&sol;86&sol;db&sol;86dbf9d4-fb20-4f6a-bf5a-5297a62f60aa&sol;swl&lowbar;rules&lowbar;reference&lowbar;11&lowbar;eng&period;pdf" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">rules<&sol;a> that were recently released are clean and concise&comma; and it looks like FFG has another winner on their hands&period; See you on the battlefield&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon;<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fantasyflightgames&period;com&sol;en&sol;news&sol;2018&sol;2&sol;26&sol;swl-rally-the-troops&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Fantasy Flight Games<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;