So I recently bought into Legion about two weeks ago after trying out a demo a friend set up for me. I'm not too big into making terrain out of foam and such at the moment due to living in an apartment. I've played around with Lego pretty much all my life and thought it could be easy to use and build terrain with it plus some models look close to scale with the minitures. Has anyone else thought about this before at least for casual games?

Lego is a great terrain stand in. Can even use the big flat plates to establish area terrain.

I like the thought that I can tear down and rebuild. There's an unofficial Lego shop in town I can get parts from. I could make a crashed Starfighter, plop a U-wing on the table... Lots of possibilities. I think I'll have fun doing this! :-D

Model slide on any basework is a perpetual issue.

I was thinking about using Lego X-wing and the like as terrain features, not sure if scale may be a little big or not

It will be fine until your opponent dissasembles the battlefield to make a spaceship.

I’ve found Lego is really distracting.

We’ve got a house rule with a LEGO slave I on the table...every round, roll a d6; if it’s less than or equal to the round number, he flies away. Very entertaining ?

And, more relevantly, the ship is a very good scale for legion. It works, although it obviously looks a bit out of place next to all the fancy painted minis. But that can be part of the fun.

19 hours ago, drlarge said:

I was thinking about using Lego X-wing and the like as terrain features, not sure if scale may be a little big or not

minifig is 1/48 scale, fyi

My opinion is, dont spend much on the Lego terrain. Use it if you have it, works great and saves money.

IMHO, games like this suck you in and if you spend a bit on lego terrain, it might not be long before you consider spending on 'proper' terrain if you get hooked.

I will definitely use lego. Atm i have several cupboards full of sets and a lot of boxes of spare parts. I’m also gonna be getting the U-Wing so that will work as terrain

We were thinking of interior of ships/buildings and corridors. Seems easy enough

4 hours ago, VAYASAN said:

My opinion is, dont spend much on the Lego terrain. Use it if you have it, works great and saves money.

IMHO, games like this suck you in and if you spend a bit on lego terrain, it might not be long before you consider spending on 'proper' terrain if you get hooked.

I only planned to use much of what I have already. I also like to build and collect Lego. I know about being hooked in these sort of games. I started with Armada just before wave 3/4 and got into X-wing as well. Building terrain and painting game pieces is still quite new to me. I just don't have the proper place to do that sort of stuff at the moment.

I believe Lego is more expensive than traditional terrain for what you get. However if you already have a bunch of Lego go nuts. Heck at that point just use Lego minifigs to keep the ascetic consistent. It’ll save a lot of time on painting.

48 minutes ago, LordUrban said:

I believe Lego is more expensive than traditional terrain for what you get. However if you already have a bunch of Lego go nuts. Heck at that point just use Lego minifigs to keep the ascetic consistent. It’ll save a lot of time on painting.

Agreed...but you don't find too much wargaming terrain at Thrift shops by the bag

Lego as terrain is a cool option.

I have been a Lego Star Wars collector since the beginning. I have an Ultimate Collectors Sand Crawler that I have been dying to build for a while now (Just shy of 3300 pieces) and really wanted one for a Legion table but playing EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2015 I realized how truly immense Sand Crawlers are and that it would take up ta decent part of a table as your characters could run underneath it with out ducking. I mean I knew they were big from the films but I wanted to build it and use it as a template to build out of foam core for a future Tattooine table (Jundland Wastes) since the Lego minifigs are roughly the same size as FFG minis.

Of course you could always use them as field debris and just throw a handful of bricks on a table and say it WAS an X-wing!

But honestly most tables are really for show anyway. Watching videos on demos and games being played most structures are on the fringe of the map and have little impact on game play other than set-up. I am building a modular Death Star/Star Destroyer interior for close quarter combat so vehicles will have little game time for me on that table but I want my terrain to have a role in how the game is played.

On a side note a Lego set will hold it value and a retired Lego set can fetch a nice price once you decide to part with it. I have had retired Lego sets sell on eBay for 3 to 5 times what I paid for them. So I don't worry about return on investment.

9 hours ago, Nihm said:

Agreed...but you don't find too much wargaming terrain at Thrift shops by the bag

That's because I got there first, and picked out all of the good stuff to use....

go to a hobby lobby or michaels and buy gaming mats. They are there and are cheap.

1 hour ago, boogle22 said:

go to a hobby lobby or michaels and buy gaming mats. They are there and are cheap.

I've never been there. I'll have to check it out.

yeah its called scene a rama they have tons of stuff