Quash that fear like you squash rebel scum, because we’ve created a list of our favourite Star Wars: Legion expansions to kickstart your miniature-hoarding career, and have you well on your way to dominating the icescape of Hoth or storming the jungles of Yavin 4.
And, in any case, you’ll need to grab a fair few expansions to fill out a standard 800-point army.īut, with so many tantalising options lovingly depicting your favourite Star Wars characters in all their miniaturised glory, it can be difficult to know where to begin.
Unit expansions provide additional squads of increasingly deadly troops to fill out your ranks, while heroic -or nefarious – commanders leverage powerful abilities that can turn the tide of battle. While Legion’s core set introduces the game’s mechanics and operations of play, the real meat of the game comes from fielding a variable army of customisable units and their attendant accoutrements. Not content with the casual Stormtrooper, nor the achingly vanilla rebel infantry, you want to field an army capable of swiftly dispatching any plastic miniatures that might muscle up to your side of the tabletop.Įnter: the expansion packs. So, you’ve bought the Star Wars: Legion Core Set, assembled its miniatures, given them a loving lick of paint, and pitted the Rebel and Imperial infantry against one another in a tense sci-fi skirmish or two.