Star Wars: May the month of Star Wars be with you

 I am a self confessed lover of Star Wars, ever since I sat in the Oden Cinema in Ramsgate in the summer of 1977. George Lucas gave the world his vision of Galaxy filled with aliens, starships, the force, and the battle between the Light and Dark side.

Since then as my mum and dad would agree on my thoughts at times live in a galaxy far far away. 

With May the 4th the unofficial Star Wars day rapidly approaching I am going to dedicate the month of May to Star Wars in terms of painting, modelling, reading and watching.

So the painting desk is cleared, my last audio book finished, my watch list is book marked with Stars Wars related programs and films. My next set of novels has been ordered from Amazon.

Join me in celebrating Star Wars and share your posts

Star Wars Legion: Ashoka Tano

 Todays post sees my look at the upcoming release for Ahsoka Tano aka the 'Fulcrum' . Ahsoka has long been a fan favourite and Legion players have been calling for her to be in the game for a long time now. I think most expected Ahsoka to come in her younger 'Snips' days and add a much needed Operative choice to the Galactic Republic list. But AMG have given us the older and wiser 'Fulcrum' Ahsoka who acts the mentor to the young rebel cell and working with Senator Bail Organa

Ahsoka comes in at 165 points and as she was trained by the Jedi comes with two training slots and two force slots. As you will have noticed most of Ashoka's keywords are defensive and combined with Jump and Charge, will allow her to safely reach her desired target. 

Jar'Kai Mastery is a new keyword and will allow Ashoka to spend as many dodge as she would like to spend on improving her attack dice roll. With her lightsabers being two red, two black and two white Ashoka will cause a fair bit of damage when she arrives in combat. 

But that is not all that is coming with this release, Ashoka will also bring four new command cards.

I think my favourite is Family Reunion, if when taking a list with Sabrine Wren you get teamwork which when Ashoka activates Wren gets a Speed 2 move and when Wren activates Ashoka gets a Speed 2  move. It will be interesting to get these both on the table and see if they will use this ability to work together to achieve their goal or spread over the table to widened out their damage out put. The other cards are a 1 pip I am no Jedi gives Ashoka extra white dice for each dodge token she has so giving a little more of an edge to finish off that unit or opponent. The second two pip card is Swift Protection which gives Ashoka Guardian 2 and a unit in range 1 a dodge token. The final card is the three pip A New Beginning at the start of Ashoka activation she is allowed to recover, and when she orders a small base unit they will gain either an aim or dodge token. Ashoka also gains Inspire 2.

So a real nice balance of Command cards for Ashoka to bring to the table.  

In terms of list building I am still fairly new to Legion and I am still mulling over how to get the best out of her. But I popped over to Fifth Trooper to see what they had on offer. So I stole this list below and will be giving this ago.

So that concludes my look at Ashoka Tano, I have her on pre-order with my local store and just eagerly awaiting the release date. That will give me time to get the rest of the list 

D&D MacGregor Buckfast Dwarven Fighter

 

This week I completed my character for a friends D&D campaign. 

Welcome to MacGregor Buckfast Artisan Brewer and Fighter.

Star Wars Legion: Clone Captain Rex

 Clone Captain Rex

With Clone Captain Rex complete its time to look in the box

What in the Box?

Clone Captain Rex is a Commander Expansion for you Galactic Republic lists, allowing you a differing

option from the usual Jedi lead force. Captain Rex comes with 3 varieties of heads, Clone Series 1,

Clone Series 2 and bare head. I went with a Clone Series 2 helmeted option, as I have some plans

with the bare heads that I will show in a future project.

Captain Rex comes in at 90 points without upgrades and Rex has the following Keywords:

Gunslinger: After you perform a ranged attack option you may perform an additional ranged

attached against a different unit.

Scout 1: This allows Rex once he has been deployed to perform a standard move up to speed 1.

Scouting Party 2: Once Rex has used his Scout Keyword, he can choose up to 2 friendly trooper units

with range 1-2 to move equal of Scout 1.

Sharpshooter 1: When Rex is determining the enemy over, he can subtract one from the defender’s

cover.

Tactical 1: This keyword allows Rex to gain an aim token each time he performs a standard move as

part of an action or free action.

Rex’s Keywords allow him to move up or make better use of the cover around him in the set-up

stage with the Scout and Scouting Party Keywords. His honed use of his duel wielded pistols makes

him a great at adding suppression tokens to key enemy units using his Gunslinger, Tactical and

Sharpshooter Keywords.

With Rex being a Commander, he also gains 3 Command Cards that can only be used with Rex in

your Army:

One Pip -Call me Captain:

Rex gains Fire Support and when he uses Fire Support , he does not flip his order token facedown.

While a friendly unit performs a melee attack, Clone Captain Rex can use Fire Support to add a

ranged weapon to the attack pool.

Two Pip- Take That Clankers!

Can give orders to 2 Troopers.

While a friendly troop unit with a faceup order token and aim token performs a ranged attack this

command card will allow you to increase the range of the weapons by 1 to a maximum of 4.

Three Pip – We’re Not Programmed

Can give orders to 4 Clone troopers.

Rex also gains Inspire 2 and 2 surge tokens. When Captain Rex activates, he recovers.

Inspire 2 allows Captain Rex to remove up to 2 total suppression tokens from other friendly units at

range 1-2.

I really like the 2 and 3 pip options, I think this gives the players some real tactical advantages and

swing a turn in their favour by careful use of these cards. Playing the Take that Clankers! Early on

will hopefully allow the Galactic player to add on those much-needed suppression tokens and make

a dent in some of the opposing players lead units. This card was updated that the units would be

required to have an Aim token. We’re Not Programmed combined with Rex’s other keywords

should make him a powerful unit in that turn either putting the final blows into an enemy unit or

piling on those suppression tokens and hopefully causing the enemy to retreat.

With Captain Rex you also get the standard card sheet of tokens that are appropriate for him and his

Keywords along with the following upgrade cards: Esteemed Leader, Emergency Stims, Recon Intel,

Smoke Grenades, and Endurance.

Heresy Thursday: Plastic Vindicator

 

In this weeks Heresy Thursday we have another tank converted from Forge World Resin into glorious plastic. 

We get the Vindicator with both variant weapon loadouts in the box. Until we get to see the sprues unsure if the weapons will be an easy swap with the use of magnets.

The kit is also supplied with a dozer blade so can see this being used across other kits. 

Really like the look of the mega laser and this was one of the most painful kits that I had the joy of building from Forge World. So looking forward to bringing this into my ever growing Sons of Horus army. 

Heresy Thursday : Despoilers

 

Well they have finally landed we have some variants for the MKVI plastic infantry

GW have shown it in a nice Blood Angel scheme, sadly its not a new plastic frame but will be available through Forge World. 

The pack contains 5 set of arms with chainsword and bolt pistol also a nice power axe and double handed chainsword. So a minimum of 2 packs are going to be needed to make a legal squad. So a pricey unit with the resin upgrades.

However there is light at the end of the article where GW says there are new plastic infantry kits in production. 

Codi Hooper's Diary

 

Evening Sweethearts,

Phew its been a long day at the belt front, me and my Orca booster sat working away at this belt churning the lasers and mining as much ore as we could for the corp.

I been a fairly new clone for nearly 3 months and I have see some sights in this wonderful universe. I don't regret for an instance stealing from the company that I had been grafting for years with little or no reward, but the draw to the stars and to become a capsular was just to strong. It was a strange feeling to leave the body I was born in and then to be reborn anew it to this clone body. 

Been in space now for just over 2 months and joined up with this corp called Mine Bro, their a good bunch and I have had fun joining up some large scale mining fleets and what they call PVP. Yet to get a kill on another capsular pilot, but I am sure that will come in time. 

Been hitting up missions for the Space Lane Corporation and now they trust me with some of the toughest missions. However my brain hurts with all the skills that are being injected into my new clone brain. 

These journal points are going to cover my journey in Eve, I wish I has started this from when my clone was born, but just was so much going on that did not have time to write much. Now I get time to chill in my Retriver mining the belts and building up my wallet. Dunno yet what I am saving for but been told a strong isk wallet is what a pilot needs to cover the losses that will come during my career.

Well thats me for now Sweethearts, hopefully someone will read this and maybe are also a pilot in Eve.

Hit me up in game.