How To Play: Star Wars Legion - The Definitive Guide 

I'm a visual learner and as such trying to read the book to learn to play is like reading a language I don't know. This was extremely helpful.

I think quite often peoples problem with rule books are that they are not really interested in the subject. They buy the starter box, look at the minis, and glance at the rule book, and blame them for being poorly written. This is a great refresher video. Clear information, well spoken, and at the right length.

This tutorial is excellent! I'd love to see one for CIS, I don't quite understand the "AI" rules but this visual way of going through each thing is beyond helpful

🎉 this guy is the best my sons and I (between 2 6 year olds and a 8 year old) have been starting into TCG's and then moved onto board games then we were introduced to marvel united by accident at a hobby store when my youngest 4 year old spotted it when we were browsing TCG cards and basically all the boys and I loved having the miniatures in a game totally changed our game nights. So being that we loved those we started researching into other miniature games and have settled on star wars legion since we all know and love starwars anyways. You could imagine our shock when we opened both of the core sets and all the pieces and the rule book while it was detailed made no sense to us as we are very new to this style of play but you sir have saved this game from a life on the shelf and kept the boys entertained enough to watch almost the whole video with me!

Great help cheers . Looking forward to seeing the battle report

This has been a perfect tutorial for me! cheers for this!

Great tutorial - sufficiently detailed and well paced! Cheers!

Finally a really good, short and on the point tutorial! Great work and thank you. 😊

Very helpful! Thank you!

Great tutorial, very good explanation.

Really well explained. Thanks!

Great video, a very well paced and well laid out explanation for folks like myself, who while they mostly 'get' the written rules, sometimes it is just so much better so see it acted out step by step! :)

Thank you for the incredible video!

Great tutorial - needed a wee refresher on how to play and this was just the ticket - thank you!

What a fantastic intro to the game.

Mate that was an awesome tutorial,best I’ve seen 👌👌👌

Great tutorial!

Really simple and easy to follow tutorial, thank you! Gotta get these boys assembled so I can try it myself!

This is by far the best guide i have seen. Love it, please keep uploading!

Great video... I have been looking at this for a while.. haven't played Dust warfare in years... but I see a lot of similarities in the game play... thanks for posting

Fantastic video. Very helpful.

this was an excellent learning vid. I just bought my first box set and i immediately felt I had a basic understanding of everything in the kit and how it plays.

Outstanding video. Thanks.

So many rules, my god :D Well done!

Great clear instructions. Thank you!

Excellent tutorial!

Literally the best tutorial I’ve seen on RU-vid. I can’t wait to play this game.

Great video. Really well paced and explained, by far the most informative and easy-to-follow beginners guide I have seen. Got my separatist core box and a stack of expansions sat here waiting to be started, this has given me the drive to crack on with them.

i muddled through a very basic first game with the help of this video and i think i am getting a grasp on how it plays

This was such a helpful video! It was so well put together, with a lot of information and humor. The chapters in the video are also very helpful!

Possibly the best tutorial I have seen yet

Great video.

Great guide! Just started playing and did not know to remove a suppression during the end step. Thanks

Thanks help a ton.

Very helpful guide I’m about to buy this game and it’s my first tabletop war game so I wanted to get a good understanding of it

I got a TON of legion sets for xmas. Super excited to bust em out. This is a great tutorial. I will probably watch it multiple times to make it all sink in.

I like the way you painted the rebels

Exellent video, well done.

Awesome tutorial👍. My kids got me the clone war set for Father's Day and boy did those B1's Roger Rogers take 4 ever to assemble.

Best tutorial on RU-vid

That was a good video. A few things probably should have been worded differently but some need to be fixed. But still a good video for the introduction to a new player!!! I love this game and even when I lose I still have a great time playing it!

Never hears of you, or this game, but i think im gonna check it out now.

Great video

Thanks a ton for this tutorial! I'm really hoping you return to producing content, as this was prime stuff.

nice one

Yes... I found the activation rules a bit vague. I actually thought it mean that if the command card said move two units, it meant move two at a time. Glad to have it cleared up.

Really enjoyed this. I am considering playing this game although I have only bought some command figures to paint up. I like the paint job on your figures, very nice. Subbed.👍👍

Useful

For those of us watching this later : It's worth noting some of these rules and systems have changed fundamentally; notably, the Panic system was reworked (the same year this video came out, even, lol) and now units that are Panicked DO actually lose all their actions, then try to dump Suppression tokens equal to its Courage (functionally trying to all its actions to rally) rather than the fleeing mechanic. This was changed for... obvious reasons.

I máme legion too i love it

4:56- I’m sorry, I know what you meant by that because I’ve been playing for a few years. But with how you said “keep the ones you like the looks of” it sounded like you were saying “pick the ones with your favorite pictures on it” lmao it was funny and I probably would have said it differently!

Ive been looking at playing legion on the side as a different game to 40k... I have to say mate, this is the best basic legion tutorial Ive seen. If there are advance mechanics, please do another tutorial 🙂 Love the painting guides also 😁

Great! Thx a lot!

As a I'm a native french speaker, french tutorials are so bad and sometimes wrong and not serious at all. that's why I rarely watch 'em. This one's so accurate from A to Z. I've watched this vid a few times and it's really helped me to learn the rules beside the book. Many thanks!

currently painting my very first star wars legion mini - yoda! also ordered a box of phase 1 clone troopers today :D slowly building a little army, can't wait to play the game! the rules remind me a lot of the rules for warhammer warcry, just with a bit more depth, and i much prefer these rules over warhammer 40k. very well-made video, cheers :)

Complete rules are in Rules Reference - almost 100 pages of rules. When you deploy mission, condition and deployment cards, you deploy all four, not three.

Thanks for the vid, easy to follow along to and excited to step into the game! Where did you get your StormTrooper squad leader from? Absolutely stunning mini

in both starters both armies come out similar only cis and rebels Cac 40 points less (1 Basic unit without accessories)

Hey great video. Are you still planning on videos for the fellowship?

Hey I had a quick question! In this video you mention that the engaged player *may* move their other minis into base contact, but do they not have to? I imagine it would cause an issue in regards to hero units engaging someone, the player decides to not move them into base contact, then simply kills off the units in base contact first. This would lead to them not being engaged anymore and a very dead hero, or am I mistaken?

Very new to the game and really liking this video. A third into it, and it’s really easy to understand so far. Tried watching a how to play video from another creator and, the information isn’t wrong, just feels off. Too much information ha.

Thanks for the guide. I have a question as a starter of the game. What happens when no Player has an comander left? For example i play obi wan and my opponent count doku. Both commabder are dead, does i say one of my troup Leaders is now the commander or do we make it like its a draw?

just brought the clone wars starter set. does it affect how general grievous plays with the different assembly option's. i.e if I assemble with 4 lightsabres can you still use the gun in game? (+ any other models in game with multiple assembly option's) coming from 40k it's normally WYSIWYG? really useful tutorial vid

Really good tutorial! When a unit is hit, how do you decide which figure is hit; for example if my unit has one special weapon figure, how is it known when he is hit or a random soldier? Thanks.

26:30 so Luke on his first action did a movement, and on his second action also did movement? so any unit can do movement twice?

I find it funny my first game is a tournament not a practice game😅

What website shows the official point cost updates thats mentioned at 5.20?

20:30 what if that one unit is the unit leader?

Hello, is it possible to crash into enemies with speeders?

26:40 Luke rolls 7 dice to attack when you said he rolls 6. Was this an error or is he generating an extra dice from an ability or rule? Thanks for the video.

I throw the cards and dice in the bin and then use the cool minis for stargrave or one page rules 😅

very nice tutorial ;) however i think you made some little mistakes they changed deployment so all 4 cards are avaliable when choosing battle conditions so blue player can not force any cards i also think vader only had one action in your video but thats only a detail all in all one of the best base tutorials i have seen so far

Where can I find a playmat like that??

Maybe time for an updated version with the new rules?

Hi! Is it true that speeders are allowed to make the compulsory move either before or after all their actions? I thought it had to be the first thing they do every time.

What set did you use for this video?

Must you have any 4 pip or does it have to be standing orders

What happens if it is the squad leader that is the only exposed unit when fired upon and killed?

Do you know if you can have multiple commanders or is it mandatory to have just one in a game

I really want to play this game, but I can't. I'm so invested in Imperial Assault and almost completed the whole collection. I really can't start a new game. 😢

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Holy stereo microphone, batman!

Okay so you can dodge criticals, but cannot be avoided otherwise?

There’s something Vaders scared of, sand

I like to stop by war hammer live events and ask random people to please explain the rules real quick.

When my panicked unit gets to the table edge, do they remove all panic/ suppression?

Do the minis come pre painted?

I’m wearing head phones and your audio is pushed all the way to the right ear, why?

My only problem with Star Wars Legion (apart from Disney killing the IP) is the factions aren't built to be inclusive. You basically can only play clone vs Droid or empire vs rebels. If they had kept one time period and built factions from that I think it would be strong competition for warhammer.

16:44- I know this is a year old and it was before the newest rules change but I thought they got rid of gaining a wound on clambering in the rule change before this?!?

22:01- Oh, it is at max speed!?! I got that part wrong……. I guess! But you are also contradicting yourself right now! I thought you said “it doesn’t matter how many suppression a unit has, it can always do 1 of their actions”?!? That is not considered one of those!

21:19- “NEVER”?!? I keep going back to how old this video is……….. and it makes no sense because it says this video is “only” a year old! There are a few keywords and situations that will allow you to stack cover! And I think the newer rules also change the fact that you can or can’t stack off of terrain in the way ( but that part doesn’t really matter because I know that was changed after this video)! But what you said hasn’t been true for awhile now!!!

20:53- That is definitely NOT true at all! Even back then! I know the panic rule has been changed a few times but one thing has already been the same! If that unit is panicked (double the amount of suppressions or more their allowed) they lose their full action!!! So in the case of these stormtroopers they are suppressed at 1! So 2 would make them panicked!!! Now I don’t remember when it changed but before it was changed to what it is now, it used to be that if you fail your rally phase and still have double or more suppressions then allowed your whole activation is used by 1 speed 1 move to the closest edge of the board! If that unit touches or goes off the edge of the board they are dead!!! And that has been the rule since this game first came out and is literally written in the rules book! The rule for panicked units are different now but still not what you said!!! Ever since it changed all the way up until now it has been if a unit is panicked by double or more suppression and fails to rally (which means they can’t get rid of enough suppression tokens to not be panic anymore) they just lose their active! Either way, it DOES MATTER how many suppression tokens a unit has on them! In a big way!!! I don’t agree with how little certain units are only allowed, but I have no control over that!

So confusing

Nice video an Tattoo on your wrist.

Sad that the game is out of print.

Does Disney get a cut of the money?

I ended up killing myself because I soent all my savings on Star Wars Legion

Very helpful! Thank you!