Here we go, kind of my second report but my first full one. This past weekend I went to my first ever table top war game event. I went in a bit blind having only played the taster game which is around 500 points. I have been watching a few videos so knew roughly what to do. The proceedings for the games was 3 x 2 hour games. I am sorry if I can't remember the types of games but you will get me as I explain them.
My army:
Since the game was released I decided to go Rebels, a lot of people where going imperial that I know so why not. I have 4 x core troops with Z-6, 2 x RT-RT's with Rotatory Blaster, 1 x fleet troopers with Scatter gun targeting scopes and concision grenades, Luke with force reflexes and force push, Leia with Commanding Presence, enviro gear and Esteemed Leader
Round 1
So here we go first ever game, no idea what I was doing however my opponent was understanding. The objective was 5 tokens around the board with 2 we places each and one in the middle placed by the card, clear conditions and rapid reinforcements, finally the starting zones where opposite corners. Well this was different, if I am honest, I didn't do too bad. I completely underestimated the power of the At-St and that people play it too. I managed to hold my own for a fair few rounds with a couple objective tokens and then my opponent then dived in and beat me 3-1 for the tokens. I learnt a lot about the game and my cards and lets be fair going into the tournament I was expecting it to be a white wash.
Round 2
Against another imperial opponent and with an At-St. This time we where on the opposite ends of the table the shorted sides. The objectives was 3 tokens in the middle of the board where only troops can take these. The conditions was where you had to be touching cover to remove suppression. The game started with us both having an objective token turn 1 because we were both so close to them. Then the fight was on for the middle token. I lost a few troops here and there but I was more aggressive this round. I managed to sneak Luke up the side while flanking with other troops and he jumped in and took out both troops that where holding the other objective, I had a command card active which allowed me another move with Luke, bye bye troops
The next move it was all or nothing because I had no troops to take the other objective so I pulled the command card for Leia that gives you 3 shots at range 4, I had kept her at the back of the board for this reason, I got damage on the remaining units as well as a nice heap of suppression. He took a move to try and kill my troops which he got unlucky rolls and I got very good rolls the back to Luke to move up the board and force push his troops back off the objective. This resulting in a draw because I missed 1 flame trooper on an objective so we had one each. Great match.
Round 3
Rebel vs Rebel, this was going to be an interesting battle because I had been drawn against my mate. We had the card again where had 5 objectives, the layout was the L same in the corners and clear conditions, game on! This was very interesting because we had both learnt a lot from battling other people and both pretty aggressive. We both made a move to an objective but I used the standby feature which caught him out which didn't help me much against an AT-RT but the whole game was us chasing each others AT-RT's however mine had the edge due to my mate rocking the flame thrower so I just kept my distance. I managed to kill his Luke and take a few other tokens from him by sneaking around corners to him. The game ended and I was up 3-1 on tokens. I win my first ever match
Wrap Up
In wrap up and had an awesome time and my local store did an outstanding job in organising the first Legion tournament and would you believe it? I can 3rd over all the table top gods where on my side, so I walked away with a few pro mo cards, a coin and store credit, bonus. My mate won best painted unit too which was awesome. Not bad for a pair of noobs. A few things I learnt was to be more aggressive when playing but more than that know your cards and what you are playing, it saves a lot of time moving around the table all the time but also means you wont miss something. I just need to know how to take out an AT-ST should I come up against them again.