This is my first battle report on this blog and sadly I can’t present you with a heroic rebel victory, but an imperial victory with rebels fleeing home to lick their wounds and learn from their mistake.

I haven’t played legion since earlier this summer due to work and the 2 places I do most of my playing is closed during the summer. It was fun to finally get a game in and it was against one of my old oppoents who I have the bad habit losing against.

I decided to give my double officer vehicle list a try.
797 points Rebel Alliance

Commander
Rebel officer – esteemed leader 55p
Rebel officer – esteemed leader 55p
Corp
Rebel troopers – z-6 trooper, astromech 70p
Rebel troopers – z-6 trooper, astromech 70p
Rebel troopers – z-6 trooper, comms specialist, comms relay 76p
Rebel troopers – z-6 trooper 62p
Support
At-rt – rotary blaster 85p
At-rt – rotary blaster 85p
At-rt – rotary blaster 85p
Heavy
X-34 Landspeeder – Ryad azadi, m-40 ion blaster, rps-6 rocket gunner 154p

I faced a Veers led imperial force

800p Empire

Commander
General Veers
Corps
Stormtrooper squad – dlt19 trooper
Stormtrooper squad – dlt19 trooper
Stormtrooper squad – dlt19 trooper
Special forces
Death troopers – dlt-19d trooper, weapon config
Death troopers – dlt-19d trooper, weapon config
Royal gurad – electrostaff guard, recon intel
Heavy
Occupier tank – dlt19 rifle pint, first sergeant arbmad

We played at my friends house so we used his terrain, including some plant pots. I at least contributed with my newly painted barricades. I choose to be blue player and we ended up with Clear conditions, intercept the transmition and battle lines. I deployed my 3 at-rts in a line spread out and focused 2 groups of corps and officers on either flank while my speeder ended upp far right facing his occupier. He focused heavy on the right flank leaving only 2 stormtroopers on the left.

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My initial plan was to save my speeder for my last activation and try to focus on the left and centre transmitions while still threaten the right on forcing him to focus his attention there.

Round 1
Command cards
Assault vs Maximum firepower

I gave out order to my 2 at-rt’s to the right and to my landspeeder, while my opponent gave it to Veers. His first activation was a random drawn special forces and he choosed a death trooper squad who walk forward and took a long shot at my astromech squad deployed right and did a full barrage of 7 hits and after cover I rolled 5 blanks, losing everyone except my duros leader pictured in the left bottom courner. So right of the bat, I had an uphill battle. The occupier and some dlt’s just managed to drop my right at-rt, really wished I hadn’t lost my astromech :(. My landspeeder did a nice 3 dmg at long range on the occupier and ionised it so I was still hopeful.

On the left flank things looked better, his troopers advanced on the objective, but I managed to drop 2 of them and taking no wounds in return.

End of round I had lost 5 troopers in my right astromech squad and 1 at-rt. His maximum firepower did only managed to put 1 wound on my speeder. Sadly my counterfire only managed to drop a single death trooper, but at least his tank took a beating of 3 dmg and had 1 ion token. My brave second officer bravely fled the right flank and went towards the centre.

Round 2
Command cards
Covering fire vs Imperial dicipline

My plan was at first to ambush my speeder since I didn’t think my opponent was going to burn his second 1 pip card on turn 2. After the dmg I took last turn I felt that I needed some defence in order to save my remaining troops and try to contest some objectives. Thanks to comms jammer I could give order to my speeder and I got first activation after the die roll.

Expecting to go second I saw and took an opportunity to spread some dodge tokens and activated my lone squad leader before he got taken out, going dodge then attack to give out a dodge token. My opponent didn’t have range to order his tank and gave orders to his death troopers to rearm/swap his weapon configs. Since he had 5 orders in his stack I felt it unlikely for him to activate his tank before my speeder.

Sadly he took a gamble and drew the top token in his stack and of course it’s heavy. This stopped my double tap ion to shut down his entire activation, but at least I stopped his move+ aim action and again my speeder only took 1 dmg from the tanks attack.

Meanwhile in the centre I moved up my officer towards the middle objective followed by my mobile cover at-rt and astromech squad. Sadly his grenade config bypassed my cover and delivered 3 wounds on my officer despite guardian. My astromech squad moved into objective range and avenged my officer by dropping 2 death troopers and give my officer a dodge token thanks to my command card.

His second stormtrooper squad went into the forest to contest the cenre objective and a long range death trooper squad managed just to get trough 1 wound on my offices after cover, dodge and guardian. Very close, but not enough :(. On the left my at-rt and officer attacked his stormtrooper squad who sat behind cover with a dodge token. My leftmost trooper squad tried to finish the squad off and then moved into the middle. Here is one of my big mistakes, I should have taken the safe route and stayed with my trooper squad left to secure that transmition instead of going centre. My eye mesurement was off and I just missed reaching the centre objective with my leader and I got greedy instead of taking safe objective points. Meanwhile his last 2 royal guards who had gotten some stray fire and a rotary blast managed to rally and double moved to charge my astromech squad behind the at-rt.

End of turn my right troopers had survived some shooting thanks to their dodge tokens. The speeder slow moved speed 1 with ryad and gave the tank another salvo while split firing the drivers 2 white dice towards the stormtrooper squad near the objective. Here my hope vanished, my ion blaster/rocket attack rolled 1 red, 2 black and 5 white delivering only 2 hits which he blocked :O. No damage and no ion and just to add salt to the wound, my driver rolled 2 blanks with his pistol. Well nothing more to do than recover the blaster and ryad and try again next turn.

Due to my greed and my opponents good movement the empire took the lead with 1-0 starting round 3.

Round 3
Command cards
Sabotaged communications vs Assault

I suspected my opponent to put down a 2 or 3 pip cards and I wanted to go first while negating his card which I did. Bonus points if you remember that I have neither an operative nor special forces in my army, it’s the price of going full genereic. Still I was after the first activation more than anything and I couldn’t reach my speeder with my remaning officer so sabotaged communications it is.

I started to feel the force was against me. My first activation was corps and I went aim-shoot with my comms squad trying to finish off the death troopers out in the open. However despite an aim token I only managed to get 3 hits which they all saved. (Did I mention I dislike death troopers?).

Veers gave out some aim tokens and did a potshot that didn’t do anything. I got my speeder and decided it was time to turn the tide so I went a comp move of 3 with ryad and moved into flank position. I fired my rocket into the occupiers weak side delivering 3 crits that only resulted in one dmg and the ion blaster + driver pistol managed 4 hits on the stormtroopers, yet only 1 trooper died. I think the speeder worked fine and did everything acoording to plan, but after round 1 his red dice where way to hot for me to do any real dmg. I felt that at least my build and plan worked fine, despite the poor result.

He did some long range shooting on my at-rt since I had my troopers locked into melee with his royal guard, a fight which they managed to win and the astromech could treat the at-rt.

The lack of ion gave the tank a full turn of action so move – free aim into attack on my speeder. 2 natural crits and 2 via impact followed by 4 blanks = Kaboom!

End of round, his left stormtrooper squad leader had panicked and my at-rt fired 5 hits into his death troopers who swatted it like flies after they had mowed down 4 troopers leaving me with 2 squad leaders and 1 astromech.

A last ditch effort to stop him from holding the right objective. Aim – shoot and only 2 hits that is negated by cover.

Round 4
Command cards
Ambush vs Push

I stared defeat in the eye, but I felt that maybe I can get a victory point at least. Ambush beat his push and I decided to give order to my officer and then only have support and corps in the stack.

I draw a random order and got corp and tried to take down Veers who stood in the open with 1 wound. Sadly I rolled only 2 hits and caused 1 wound. His deathtroopers started to put down my lone squad leaders and my last effeort to get a point kind of sums up the match for me. My officer rolls blank into blanks after aim.

So at the end of round 4 I conceded, I had no chance to win unless I could hold 2 points during round 6 while my opponent held 0.

End of battle thoughts
I had a good time finally playing legion again as well as playing with my friends 14 month old puppy. It’s easy to blame the dice after this match, but it was just one of the factors. I find that my plan to use my speeder against the tank was fine, yet I didn’t get the result I wanted. The dice did not work for me in that regard. I think there was 3 factors that contributed to the loss.

Rng
My attack dice failed me several times despite aim tokens and my opponets defence dice blocked much higher than average. The first attack that butchered my astromech squad was a hard blow and the 1/5 chance to pull the heavy order token my opponent did was also lucky.

List buildning
I think I had to many vehicles and while the speeder worked, I think it couldn’t get the support it needed. I find that I had to few troopers to support my vehicles and contest objectives. Having no operative nor special forces when using only generic command cards feels like a missed opportunity. The rotary blasters didn’t work that well, even with aim I got pretty average rolls. I think with 3 walkers I could use flamers as more of a threat.

Battleplan and tactics
I did a greedy move during round 2 that cost me a victory point and I think I spread out my forces to much and I should probably avoid battle lines in my list since I didn’t have much long range firepower. Also my opponent played really well and focused his units in the right positions .

So I had fun time, but faced a hard loss. I made a few misstakes and will use this to learn and adapt. My modified list uses dissaray instead of battle lines in my deployment cards and removing the landspeeder for more troopers. This list gives up the anti-tank landspeeder and goes more offensive with 2 flame walkers. 1 rotary and mark 2 medium blaster trooper can work as fire support. The rebel veterans can hunt enemy characters and royal guards while the sniper team gives me a special forces unit as well as some flexible long range dmg.

Rebel Alliance 798
Commander
Rebel officer – esteemed leader 55p
Rebel officer – esteemed leader 55p
Corp
Rebel troopers – z-6 trooper, astromech 70p
Rebel troopers – z-6 trooper, astromech 70p
Rebel troopers – z-6 trooper 62p
Rebel troopers – z-6 trooper 62p
Rebel veterans – cm-0/93 trooper, rebel veteran, hunter 97p
Mark II medium blaster trooper 38p
Special forces
Rebel commandos strike team – dh-447 sniper 44p.
Support
At-rt – flamethrower 80p
At-rt – flamethrower 80p
At-rt – rotary blaster 85p

That was my first battle report and sadly it was not a victory, but a very informative defeat. I apologize for the picture quality, I wasn’t planning on recording the match for a report. in the future I plan to use a better camera and take some more detailed pictures. If you enjoyed this battle report pls tell me in the comments and if you like my stuff pls consider supporting me on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Rebelsguide