You can seize your chance to get your boots on the ground and lead your troops to victory with Star Wars: Legion, a miniatures game of thrilling infantry battles in the Star Wars universe! Warfare is an inescapable part of the Star Wars universe, from the Rebel Alliance’s defeat in the Battle of Hoth to a few elite Rebel strike teams taking on a legion of stormtroopers on the Forest Moon of Endor. I am a fanboy, with all the enthusiasm and critical nitpicking that entails. I say this to acknowledge that I come to this game as the farthest thing from a blank slate. To have expectations no collection of cardboard and plastic could ever meet. At the same time, it makes me worry I will set the bar too high. It tempts me to be too generous – just putting a lightsaber in someone’s hand provokes the ghost of a chill. That makes Star Wars: Legion, the new miniatures game from Fantasy Flight, hard to review. Perched on a ledge, I sat for the next six hours and watched the entire trilogy, lost in a galaxy far, far away. The exhibit had just started, and as I walked up, two droids were surveying the blasted landscape of Tatooine. Back in a corner, away from the admittedly-modest crowds, was a little display for a “flat screen” television, cutting edge technology of that long, long time ago. It was an open house at a local technical school. I first felt the tingle of that power when I was seven years old.
Eric: Star Wars has always had a strange magic for me, a modern mythological mojo which transcends its contrived plots and sometimes stilted dialog.