A large-scale Star Wars ground combat minis wargame coming soon? Some text got leaked already, but nothing official yet:

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Star Wars: Legion
Epic warfare is an inescapable part of the Star Wars™ universe, and you can lead your troops to victory with Star Wars: Legion™, a two-player miniatures game of thrilling infantry battles in the Star Wars universe! As a miniatures game, Star Wars: Legion invites you to enter the ground battles of the Galactic Civil War as the commander of a unique army filled with troopers, powerful vehicles, and iconic characters. While innovative mechanics for command and control simulate the fog of war and the chaos of battle, the game’s unpainted, easily assembled figures give you a canvas to create any Star Wars army you can imagine.Star Wars: Legion
Epic warfare is an inescapable part of the Star Wars™ universe, and you can lead your troops to victory with Star Wars: Legion™, a two-player miniatures game of thrilling infantry battles in the Star Wars universe! As a miniatures game, Star Wars: Legion invites you to enter the ground battles of the Galactic Civil War as the commander of a unique army filled with troopers, powerful vehicles, and iconic characters. While innovative mechanics for command and control simulate the fog of war and the chaos of battle, the game’s unpainted, easily assembled figures give you a canvas to create any Star Wars army you can imagine.

If this is true, OUCH my wallet.

Edit: the source is an email from Alliance, the Asmodee/FFG distributor in the US. I've seen it and can verify personally.
FFG SWL01 Star Wars: Legion - Core Set $89.95 is the only new info. The quote is the full description.

Whaaaaaat?!?!

I have so little money...why dont they want me to keep it?

Sheesh. Even more anticipation for this week then if that's the truth.

What's the source?

1 minute ago, Madaghmire said:

I have so little money...why dont they want me to keep it?

@Worthington FFG III would be quick to remind you that a nerd and his money are soon parted.

2 minutes ago, Truthiness said:

What's the source?

Per the owner of my FLGS, it was in a preorder email from Alliance, the Asmodee(FFG) distributor in America. Base game for $90 MSRP, as he recalls.

I am going to call it Runewars 40K.

So a Star wars 40K? **** YEAH! Also, do you guys think there will be no armada/X-wing/IA at gencon and they are going to announce this? Cos I'd be super excited and sad at the same time

4 minutes ago, Visovics said:

So a Star wars 40K? **** YEAH! Also, do you guys think there will be no armada/X-wing/IA at gencon and they are going to announce this? Cos I'd be super excited and sad at the same time

No I think they'll announce something for armada. Wave six has been out over a month, presumably they have something for Q4 to release, and Gencon is the right place, right time.

4 minutes ago, Madaghmire said:

No I think they'll announce something for armada. Wave six has been out over a month, presumably they have something for Q4 to release, and Gencon is the right place, right time.

No reason they couldn't announce it all at GENCON.

12 minutes ago, Truthiness said:

No reason they couldn't announce it all at GENCON.

Yeah thats my point.

They announced a ton of stuff at their briefing last year IIRC.

I guess it would make sense. Armada is big X-Wing. Legion would be big IA.

I'd love to play this game.

Unpainted makes my heart hurt but I Can deal.

1 hour ago, Madaghmire said:

Yeah thats my point.

Oh sorry, didn't fully read what you had quoted. Yeah, I expect this to be announced tomorrow alongside everything else.

15 minutes ago, Truthiness said:

Oh sorry, didn't fully read what you had quoted. Yeah, I expect this to be announced tomorrow alongside everything else.

Not Friday?

14 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

Not Friday?

**** it, yes Friday. My bad.

The game hasn't even been confirmed yet and I've already got people asking if I'll paint it... >.>

Just now, Drasnighta said:

The game hasn't even been confirmed yet and I've already got people asking if I'll paint it... >.>

I dropped you a mention on Facebook! I keep an eye out for you, man .

I saw that one and appreciated it! Now I'm just hoping I can actually get good looks at it to plan reasonable costs!

RIP Runewars, you had a good run, I guess.

Yeah this was exactly my thought. Have been thinking about getting back into Rune Wars now that the elves are coming out and there maybe be more of a community. But if this game plays anything like Rune Wars I'm 100% sold

19 minutes ago, KingCHUD said:

Yeah this was exactly my thought. Have been thinking about getting back into Rune Wars now that the elves are coming out and there maybe be more of a community. But if this game plays anything like Rune Wars I'm 100% sold

SW ground combat sounds dull as doornails to me, so it'll just pull from what I want to play and I'll play more Armada.

So, this means rebellion will be a campaign system to wage battles with Legion and Armada, right?

Glorious....