It's back fellow Legion fans. It seems that all the new articles have covered the boards with new exciting topics about army building, future expansions, and rule speculation. This month, lets set our sites on some of the rules we know; more specifically, the Objective cards contained in the core set. Of the 4 objectives, 3 involve objective tokens. Each of those cards have the players placing between 3 and 5 tokens throughout the board using varied rules. But this is a wargame! This is Star Wars! We don't want to capture bright colored cardboard tokens on the table. So lets see what we can come up with to replace those tokens with some more narrative Star Warsy things.

Weapon crates? Storage containers? Computer terminals? A droid that carries the technical readouts to a space station larger than a moon that could destroy an entire planet?! You decide.

The Challenge: Get some small objective themed terrain pieces made up. Again, nobody is here to break the bank. Be creative. Keep those costs under $10.

The Reward: More terrain! Because lets face it, 6x3 feet is a big area to cover in terrain. And you need more.

Happy terraining everyone!

Any clue to what size the objective markers are?

1 hour ago, Omegaclone said:

Any clue to what size the objective markers are?

If im not mistaken, the only tokens that have been shown are the unit activation tokens. These seem to be pretty good size. Larger than a shield token from X-Wing. My guess, which is only speculation, is they'll be a similar size. Maybe the size of a small asteroid from X-Wing.

Got it. I’ve got some of those floating around.

Any inspiration? I haven't made any terrain before... would love something to pick away at this month though. Would also love some ideas from others as to where I might start.

•weapon crates or cargo crates

•Captives: Soldiers/Senators/Operatives/Droids

•Energy Cores

•Ship Parts: Engines/Hyper Drives

•Data terminals

3 hours ago, Copes said:

Any inspiration? I haven't made any terrain before... would love something to pick away at this month though. Would also love some ideas from others as to where I might start.

I went to the hardware store and looked at a bunch of bits to find things to use. Online there are lots of model kits and misc bits to use for objectives.

On 2017年11月4日 at 8:48 AM, Copes said:

Any inspiration? I haven't made any terrain before... would love something to pick away at this month though. Would also love some ideas from others as to where I might start.

Honestly you can find inspiration from all sorts of places. I have found items at the local Home Depot and Lowes, Toys R Us, Pet Stores, Michaels and Hobby Lobby.

I find inspiration in items that would normally be considered trash. Empty food and drink containers. It becomes a part of what you do. Nothing goes into the garbage can without first seeing how it might fit on to your gaming table.

If you look at October's challenge I constructed a power generator from an empty produce container and some soda fountain drink lids.

If you mean inspiration for what an objective can look like, how about you take a stroll down my reference thread .

Lots of cool boxes, crates, barrels, munitions and other doo-dads.

And here's a pic of a thingy I made while trying to sort out how to make moisture vaporators that can be the McGuffin for one of the games. Maybe it's a beacon. Maybe it's a time-bomb. Maybe it's a power converter!

It still needs painting, but I still have all of November.

9 minutes ago, Force Majeure said:

If you mean inspiration for what an objective can look like, how about you take a stroll down my reference thread .

Lots of cool boxes, crates, barrels, munitions and other doo-dads.

And here's a pic of a thingy I made while trying to sort out how to make moisture vaporators that can be the McGuffin for one of the games. Maybe it's a beacon. Maybe it's a time-bomb. Maybe it's a power converter!

It still needs painting, but I still have all of November.

This thingy is awesome lol. Definitely a star wars thingy of sorts.

That is pretty solid and definitely looks Star Wars-esque

So I think I'm going to try and build some really basic desert Tatooine scenery. Maybe a quarry or something. Not sure how much I will get done in November, since I haven't bought paint and things like that, but I'm at least going to use the opportunity to get started.

Basically, I'm looking at a video like this for hills and things (this is part 1, but seems pretty easy):

And then maybe make some rocks:

Seems simple enough for a first attempt. Obviously if I do the rocks I'll do a different paint job than the rocks above. Very helpful videos though.

Not gonna clog up the thread, since I know the theme for November is "objective terrain" and that's not at all what I've done (at this point)...

But the talk of terrain got me to start building my "frame" for eventual play. I decided to go for a Tatooine type theme, and I wanted to start with something easy. I spent some time last night playing with material and trying to figure out how to do what was described above. I don't own paint or anything like that yet... so for now I'm just modeling.

So I built this "corner". I'm going to build a few more to get comfortable. And then, hopefully before the end of November, I'll try to build a pallet of supply crates or something to use as an objective.

But for anyone who is reading this thread and interested in getting started... it really isn't that hard.

Here is my contribution to the objective piece terrain challenge! Basically I was going for a crate of lightsaber crystals. I'll eventually pain the box to make it look more Star Warsy, but I wanted to share this because I thought it was looking awesome already. I built it with some of the point marker gems from the deck building game Ascension and a few beads I bought from a craft store. The light up cube I attached those to came in a cocktail I bought one time.

I hope you like it!

4 hours ago, Omnustechni said:

Here is my contribution to the objective piece terrain challenge! Basically I was going for a crate of lightsaber crystals. I'll eventually pain the box to make it look more Star Warsy, but I wanted to share this because I thought it was looking awesome already. I built it with some of the point marker gems from the deck building game Ascension and a few beads I bought from a craft store. The light up cube I attached those to came in a cocktail I bought one time.

I hope you like it!

Very cool. This reminded me that I had one of those grow your own crystal science kits years ago. I grew it, but think it got bumped in the process. It didn't turn out great, but i still have some medium sized crystals in a cubbord somewhere. I think i may buy another kit and try growing some more....

Thanks for the inspiration!

Objective Terrain #1: Sniper rifle gun rack. Made out of kabob skewers and some old GW Necron bits.

Objective Terrain #2: E-Web Heavy Repeating Blaster (shipping crate). Made out of foam and a cut up Imperial Assault E-Web Engineer.

Objective Terrain #3: Crate of Kyber crystals. Made out of foam and a crystal growing kit.

Nice stuff man. All look great!

I know it is a little late but here is my submission.

I have crates which were originally created for Imperial Assault but will fit nicely. 1.99 for the wood blocks and labels created on the computer and applied to the blocks.

The barrels were 1.99 and painted black and then gone over with a high gloss grey. (Red stipes and white stripes to be applied to the barrels to signify Empire and Rebellion.

The last picture is a fuel tower or energy station that is made from the pieces of trash so the cost was free.

I used a lid from a Nestea drink mix container, a cap from a McArthur 16 ounce milk jug and a 12 small water bottle. all 3 pieces are hot glued together and form a control point or sabotage point for the game.

I look forward to Decembers Challenge.