Got some info from a Facebook live stream about Legion OP. Nothing groundbreaking but a few interesting details. The presentation was for store owners.

• Ground Assault kits to be released seasonally, not Quarterly. There will be four dates that they will have the packs sent before that date, and the events can be run at any time up until the next date.
• The kits will be operations of four linked games that have some connection to the games before it
• The kits can be run either as an epic event (one day tourney), weekly league play, or freeform scheduled store play (already known)
• Each kit supports 8 players. The stores can get multiple copies of each kit, so they can for example do a single day event as well as a freeform event to accomodate different players with different schedules
• Aspirational play will have store championships, but also "Rally Point" qualifiers that are above store championships with "substantial" prize support and qualification for culminating championship (not clear how this is different from Regional type events)
• The Rally Point Qualifier will be application based, so the store will have to show off its suitability to host.

So they've basically renamed the store and regional championships by making them more campaign based and market them based on the type of player.

5 minutes ago, AintNoPoser said:

So they've basically renamed the store and regional championships by making them more campaign based and market them based on the type of player.

They aren't replacing store championships. They also didn't say that campaign would be part of 'aspirational play.' What they are doing that's new is adding regular competitive play with a campaign/linked element. Not sure if the Rallypoint qualifiers are replacing or in addition to Regional Championships (either higher or lower).

8 players seems like a very low amount for a store, will that mean effectively the top 8 get prizes? They'd have to include something ground breaking in each set for a store to get more kits imho

Just now, bageldrone said:

8 players seems like a very low amount for a store, will that mean effectively the top 8 get prizes? They'd have to include something ground breaking in each set for a store to get more kit imo

It's not a tournament per se, it's an organized play participation kit. I believe it only supports up to 8 players, but the store has the ability to purchase additional kits. I think it will probably be balanced; if a store has more than 8 players regularly playing Legion in their store they can probably spring for an additional kit.

Speculation: What if top prize was an expansion instead of art work? I know 40k used to do it.

We know what's going to be in the Recruitment Kit, but based on the name and the fact that it's the first one it might be a little lighter than future kits. Still, I think prize support will be heavier for the "Rallypoint" than the regular seasonal kits. I think the seasonal kits will be more smaller prizes (alternate art cards) based on participation.

I'm guessing seasonal is store championship-esq. Rallypoint is either regional or pre-regional just going off the name. Makes it sound like prep for something bigger which hopefully means big prize support.

12 hours ago, Big Easy said:

They aren't replacing store championships. They also didn't say that campaign would be part of 'aspirational play.' What they are doing that's new is adding regular competitive play with a campaign/linked element. Not sure if the Rallypoint qualifiers are replacing or in addition to Regional Championships (either higher or lower).

When you say campaign, is that like the campaigns in the Imperial Assault boxes? With branching scenarios and the like? I haven't done any X-Wing or Armada OP so I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

1 hour ago, HadeusHawkyns said:

When you say campaign, is that like the campaigns in the Imperial Assault boxes? With branching scenarios and the like? I haven't done any X-Wing or Armada OP so I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

I think it's much more loosely narrative than IA. Probably more like Armada's Corellian Conflict where normal games were modified from the results of previous games in some way, either mechanically or narratively. I'm thinking like a progression from scouting, taking key objectives, then laying down a final defense or something like that. But unlike IA it will likely all be a normally scored game with points for objectives and units destroyed determining the winner.

1 hour ago, HadeusHawkyns said:

When you say campaign, is that like the campaigns in the Imperial Assault boxes? With branching scenarios and the like? I haven't done any X-Wing or Armada OP so I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

X-Wing and Armada OP haven't had campaign-based stuff before, this is some new thing.

1 hour ago, svelok said:

X-Wing and Armada OP haven't had campaign-based stuff before, this is some new thing.

Armada had a Campaign OP kit for the Correlian Campaign that included expanded artwork for some squads and faction specific alt art objective cards.

19 hours ago, bageldrone said:

8 players seems like a very low amount for a store, will that mean effectively the top 8 get prizes? They'd have to include something ground breaking in each set for a store to get more kits imho

Don't forget, you need double the space for 8 SW:L players than 8 X-Wing

So the Runewars Launch and Escalation kits were both "campaign" kits in that they had linked scenarios depending on who won the previous one. They were only 3-game "campaigns" but it was good for showcasing the different deployments and objectives that came in the core set.

The quarterly kits for Runewars also come with enough "stuff" for 3 months, like the Ground Assault kits will, and there was a separate Store Championship kit. These are full/alt art Deployment and Objective cards with 1 set of unique cards (Deployment & Objective) in each of the quarterly kits, along with some acrylic tokens and full/alt art unit cards. These can be used for leagues, one-day tournaments, or something else. The scenarios in the kits are not linked that I've noticed, though.

Once we see the Launch and Recruitment kits we will probably have a better idea of how the Ground Assault kits will work.