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You're right of course, although you wouldn't think that from some of the histrionic (almost fearful) criticism levelled at the game that's been based only on how to play vids!

Personally it has to compete against both 40k and Bolt Action (though not the second one so much since that fills the niche of historical WWII games but still has the same feeling of a platoon-level game). Personally I am not completely sold on it yet as I already have Bolt Action to fill that niche.

That said, I can imagine it does well as it is Star Wars and FFG does pretty well to make a good ruleset despite hiccups and balance issue in their games.

I want to be excited for this game, but I get the feeling that it is going to be like every FFG game in my area. Once the initial excitement for a game wears off, all of the players disappear and go back to playing Magic and 40k.

X-Wing has been pretty strong over the years. Armada - not so much. I think, as far as comparing apples and oranges and pineapples goes, Legion is more like X-Wing than Armada.

Locally, i'm getting a vibe more unto X-wing than Armada. I LOVE Armada much moreso than X-wing as a pure game (just personal preference as both are good), but I feel like many less hardcore gamers just find Armada a little too abstract to get invested fully in. They fondly remember X-wings and Han Solo... less so for Correlian Corvettes, etc...

Legion pre-orders are doing gangbusters here, and there's already quite a few folks eager to dive in. I'm very optimistic that it will find a community and that i'll have plenty of opponents.

But i'm also that fluke gamer apparently who can be a tournament going, competitive 40k gamer.... and love my casual Frostgrave group. :-p

Totally late to the party here, but I have some IA stuff and was looking at Legions and I'm disappointed.

The scale issue is really annoying.

A bit of scale creep doesn't bother me much, but that looks like a deliberate upscale-for-money-grab to me.

FFG apparently doesn't trust the fan base it's built up with IA to both use their existing units and buy more Legions stuff. That's got to be a misjudgement of their fans who have already proven themselves rather loyal and willing to buy expensive product. Further, practically every unit in Legions is going to be more figs-per-units than in IA and require buying more, so why not throw your fans a bone and make the scale the same?

I admit to a bit of jealousy that Legions will probably also steal much of the playerbase of Runewars (a game I play) but I knew from the beginning that Runewars might not last and I collected it with the intent of using the figs in other games too, so that's not a big deal. I think I've just got to content myself with IA and my other (and far less expensive) minis games like Konflikt '47, Mech Attack, Frostrgrave, Song of Blades etc...

People keep using those non-production minis for scale tests... but we know there's a 10-15% shrinkage expected by the time those are retail product.

Maybe we should... you know... wait until we have something we can actually compare?

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
People keep using those non-production minis for scale tests... but we know there's a 10-15% shrinkage expected by the time those are retail product.

Maybe we should... you know... wait until we have something we can actually compare?

I'm willing to have my mind changed if that's the case, but I've not seen anything to suggest that there will be a massive shrikage. Sounds like speculation vs actual available evidence.

Also note that FFG has pointedly NOT announced that the figures will be of compatible scale.

Bummer. I was hoping the scale thing would not be so noticable.

Just pretend the smaller ones are just a little bit further away.

Seriosly though I wonder how noticeable the difference would actually be with a slightly different Base and some paint.

Guy on the right seems a little short for a stormtrooper...