37 minutes ago, Lord Cedric said:

First buys after the starter boxes will vary from person to person. You'll have a competitive crowd who will get what their local meta needs. You'll have the ones that will buy everything released no matter what because they love Star Wars and have that need for a grand collection and list building availability. Then there are those who will only buy one faction and stick with it. You'll have mix of these and you'll have some that don't even fall into any listed. But we all have something in common: the love of Star Wars and the models we like.

FFG gave us a list structure from which we have limits, min and max, for the different unit types. I'd start there. Take a look at your collection and see what you are missing from that structure. Take a look at the models available and see what you like. Ask yourself what are you playing for... fun? Competitive? Casual? Mix? Collector? There are plenty of resources available to know what the unit cards stats and abilities along with the upgrades are and what they can do. If you're not sure on what to get next, build some lists that look fun to you and then try them out via proxy.

You can ask 50 different people what to buy next but only one person can truly answer that - you.

- Cedric

Amazing post, everybody loves Star Wars. Love your take on the subject thanks.???

16 hours ago, LordBubba said:

3 Core sets what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????

16 hours ago, Geressen said:

short answer: some people have money.

long answer:The French revolution,the end of feudalism and switch to capitalism has failed to achieve the goals of equality, freedom, and brotherhood.

Yes I have 3 core sets. My FLGS sells everything at 24% off upon release and their loyalty program offers an additional discount. I have children who attend a school for children with special needs grades K-12. I volunteer there. Last year as part of their Family Fun Days, which they do twice a month, I introduced Imperial Assault (with modified rules) to the older kids and it was a hit and became a regular thing. This year I introduced Legion (again with modified rules).

Contrary to what you state, Geressen, with your clever post and video, I am not rich. I was just doing something for the kids to bring them together. I thank Dave at Imperial Terrain for his support.

37 minutes ago, C3POFETT said:

Contrary to what you state, Geressen, with your clever post and video, I am not rich. I was just doing something for the kids to bring them together. I thank Dave at Imperial Terrain for his support.

Sorry if you felt like I was attacking or critisizing you as a person or making claims about your place within the system. that wasn't my intent. I merely wanted to joke around... and spread socialism.

3 hours ago, C3POFETT said:

Yes I have 3 core sets. My FLGS sells everything at 24% off upon release and their loyalty program offers an additional discount. I have children who attend a school for children with special needs grades K-12. I volunteer there. Last year as part of their Family Fun Days, which they do twice a month, I introduced Imperial Assault (with modified rules) to the older kids and it was a hit and became a regular thing. This year I introduced Legion (again with modified rules).

Contrary to what you state, Geressen, with your clever post and video, I am not rich. I was just doing something for the kids to bring them together. I thank Dave at Imperial Terrain for his support.

Thank you for your post, I hope they enjoy legion.?

2 hours ago, Geressen said:

Sorry if you felt like I was attacking or critisizing you as a person or making claims about your place within the system. that wasn't my intent. I merely wanted to joke around... and spread socialism.

We hear you man.?

On 10/16/2018 at 5:50 PM, LordBubba said:

Does anyone have any other ideas, about what to buy first.?

i also bought three set but sold storm troopers and Vader in my last set and will be making Luke into a rodian jedi. I found i wanted more dice and atrts and speeders and also converted one rebel unit into Hoth troopers and another in to a mix alien race squads with several converts. But the thing i would buy next after 2 core is veers Leia then commandos/scouts, just so you can have variety and commando set give you to units.

On 10/17/2018 at 9:50 AM, C3POFETT said:

Yes I have 3 core sets. My FLGS sells everything at 24% off upon release and their loyalty program offers an additional discount....

Contrary to what you state, Geressen, with your clever post and video, I am not rich.

Yes this. Getting two, painted, 800 point armies plus a couple spare units for tinkering is not cost prohibitive. Legion's cheap among miniature wargames, and wargaming is cheap among grown-up hobbies.

If you have two core sets (I don't recommend buying anything before a 2nd core set normally) and want cheap variety, add commanders. Their command cards can make the same army play differently for under $20 and you only have 1 person to paint to get full use out of it.

Squads are more fun to paint, in my opinion, and are way cheaper per mini and sometimes cheaper per point.

If you are playing for fun, T-47 speeders are cheap for the points and look cool. AT-ST's aren't that cheap per point but they paint up VERY easily to a basic standard. Which is another consideration. I don't really like having lots of big vehicles though, for reasons of storage and transportation.

But don't buy stuff faster than you can paint it, or it'll never get painted. I am bad at sticking to this rule for other games, for various reasons, but for Legion I find sticking to that rule is easy. How are you doing painting up your core sets?

On 10/18/2018 at 7:36 PM, TauntaunScout said:

But don't buy stuff faster than you can paint it, or it'll never get painted. I am bad at sticking to this rule for other games, for various reasons, but for Legion I find sticking to that rule is easy. How are you doing painting up your core sets?

This is key i always paint everything be fore by more with exception to the unit that i am modding. so still need to finish painting my scout trooper this week then some big guns

buy everything lol

For proper armies, you’ll need corps- I grabbed Stormtroopers and Fleet Troopers to bring my Core set up to 3 corps per side.

Then, I added more commander options- Veers and Han.

Finally filled with more support and heavies- AT-RT, AT-ST, T-47 and Boba Fett to run as an Imperial operative.

On top, waiting on a 3D printed Starkiller (Force Unleashed) who I wrote up stats for to add as a Rebel operative.

On 10/21/2018 at 1:11 PM, Rebel dude said:

buy everything lol

I love that idea.?

I think the best order for purchase is:

- Core Sets (2-3) (I got 3 and don’t regret it)

- Fleets/Snowtroopers (1-2) (you can get more, but 1-2 is more than a good start)

- Leia/Veers

- Heavies/Commandoes/Scouts (this is personal preference, but after you include everything else you generally don’t have the points for Scouts/Commandos to be in the same list as an AT-ST or T-47, so whichever you feel more like running or is in your play style).

Anything beyond here is useful and good and perhaps even game changing, but to get everything you need and be able to make several different types of lists, the above will get you pretty far and is more than enough to start with and can do well competitively.

On 10/16/2018 at 10:28 PM, Gengis Jon said:

After your two core sets, I’d buy in this order, and ideally in these groupings to maintain balance (if you’re trying to build a complete Army for each side):

This is more or less what I did too. Bought a core set, played learning game a few times, bought second core set, played a few full full size games but with restricted point totals to give rebels a fighting chance Then Leia/Veers and the scout/commandos to pad the points and add some variety, yet to play with those, building/priming today

I play casually with my nephew so I'm not all that concerned about how competitive a list is, which is why I've also bought the AT-ST and T-47 to put away for Christmas. They bring that extra sw feel and fun factor regardless of how competitive they are

I think for casual play, two core sets, Leia/Veers and Scout/Commandos (or fleet/snowtroopers) is a good start. I believe you can both hit 800 points then?

After that it's a case of mix and match additional items for variety as/when you can. I've not bought extra bikes or AT-RTs though, I might eventually, but for now I'd rather put money into the differing units that come out for more variety and tbh I'd probably buy a third core set to get the extra speeder/AT-RT which would give even more troopers/rebels to paint in a different scheme

On 10/21/2018 at 10:12 PM, MarekMandalore said:

For proper armies, you’ll need corps- I grabbed Stormtroopers and Fleet Troopers to bring my Core set up to 3 corps per side.

Then, I added more commander options- Veers and Han.

Finally filled with more support and heavies- AT-RT, AT-ST, T-47 and Boba Fett to run as an Imperial operative.

On top, waiting on a 3D printed Starkiller (Force Unleashed) who I wrote up stats for to add as a Rebel operative.

This is pretty much my route as well.

You should write up stats for Starkiller on both Imperials and Rebels.