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Legion Quick Guide last updated: 08.12.2024. Core Rulebook Version 2.6.0

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Actions

Actions are how units of miniatures move and fight their way across the battlefield. A unit will typically perform two actions during its activation. The following actions are available to every unit.

Aim: The unit gains an aim token, which allows it to reroll up to two dice when attacking.
Attack: The unit attacks with its weapons.
Dodge: The unit gains a dodge token, which allows it to cancel incoming results when defending.
Card Action : The unit performs an action listed on its Unit Card or one of its Upgrade Cards. Card actions have this symbol . A unit may perform more than one card action, as long as they are different. A card action with requires two actions to perform.
Free Card Action : The unit performs an action listed on its Unit Card, one of its Upgrade Cards, a Command Card, or a Battle Card. Free card actions do not cost the unit any actions to perform. Free card actions have this symbol . A unit may perform more than one free card action, as long as they are different. A unit may only perform free actions during its Perform Actions step and may only perform each instance of a free action once per activation. Free actions do not allow a unit to perform a non-move action more than once during its activation.
Move: The unit moves.
Standby: The unit gains a standby token, which allows it to perform certain actions after an enemy unit performs an action.
Recover: The unit removes any number of suppression tokens and readies any exhausted Upgrade Cards.

Activating Units

PARTS OF A UNIT'S ACTIVATION

Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at Start of Unit Activation
Rallying
Perform Actions
Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at End of Unit Activation
Assign Order Token

Unit Cohesion

When a unit leader miniature changes position in any way, all other miniatures in the unit must be put into cohesion. For a miniature to be in cohesion, all of the following must be true:

Each miniature must be at of its unit leader. When measuring cohesion, the range tool may not overlap impassable terrain.
Each miniature must have LOS to its unit leader.
Each miniature must be within a vertical distance equal to the height of the unit leader’s silhouette of its unit leader.

If a miniature cannot be put into cohesion, place it as close as possible to its unit leader instead.

Rallying

Each time a unit activates, it has a chance to rally and remove suppression tokens. To rally a unit, its controlling player rolls one white defense die for each suppression token the unit has. Then its controlling player removes one suppression token for each or result rolled.

After rallying, if a unit begins its Perform Actions step while suppressed, it performs one fewer action during its Perform Actions step.

If a unit begins its Perform Actions step while panicked, it cannot perform any actions or free actions. Then, if a unit did not perform any actions or free actions due to panic, at the end of the unit’s activation, it removes suppression tokens equal to its courage value.

EXAMPLE: SUPPRESSED AND PANICKED

On Ryan’s turn, he chooses to activate a Rebel Trooper unit with 2 suppression tokens. After resolving any effects at the start of the Rebel Trooper unit’s activation, he performs the unit’s Rally step and rolls 2 white defense dice, 1 for each suppression token. Unfortunately, he rolls 2 blanks and does not remove any suppression tokens from the unit. Because the Rebel Troopers have a courage value of 1 and have a number of suppression tokens equal to or greater than their courage value, they are still suppressed and must perform 1 fewer action during the Perform Actions step of their activation.

Additionally, because the Rebel Troopers have suppression equal to or greater than double their courage value, they are still panicked as well as suppressed. erefore, they perform no actions or free actions, and at the end of their activation, they remove suppression tokens equal to their courage value.

COMMANDERS AND CHECKING FOR PANIC

When a unit checks to see if it is panicked, instead of using its own courage value, it may use the courage value of a friendly unit at . For example, a unit with 3 suppression tokens and courage value 1 would not be panicked if it chooses to use the courage value of a friendly at that has a courage value of 2 or greater.

NULL COURAGE VALUE

Some units have a null courage value, or “-.” These units can never gain or be assigned suppression tokens and cannot be suppressed or panicked. If a unit gains a null courage value through a special rule, it loses any suppression tokens it has, if any.

If a unit has a null courage value, then friendly units at may choose to use that unit's courage value and, therefore, never panic, regardless of the number of suppression tokens they might have.

Perform Actions

During the Perform Actions step, a unit may perform up to 2 of the actions below. A unit may only perform each action once per activation, except for the move action.

Aim: A unit that performs an aim action gains an aim token which it can use to reroll dice during attacks.
Attack: The unit makes an attack with its weapons.
Card Action : The unit performs an action listed on its Unit Card one of its Upgrade Cards, a Command Card, or a Battle Card. A unit may perform more than one card action, as long as they are different. A card action with requires two actions to perform.
Dodge: A unit that performs a dodge action gains a dodge token. Units may spend dodge tokens to cancel results during attacks.
Free Card Action : The unit performs an action listed on its Unit Card, one of its Upgrade Cards, a Command Card, or a Battle Card. Free card actions do not cost the unit any actions to perform. Free card actions have this symbol .A unit may perform more than one free card action, as long as they are different. A unit may only perform free actions during its Perform Actions step and may only perform each instance of a free action once per activation. Free actions do not allow a unit to perform a non-move action more than once during its activation.
Move: When a unit performs a move action, it performs a standard move or climb.
Recover: A unit that performs a recover action removes any number of suppression tokens from the unit and readies any number of the unit’s exhausted Upgrade Cards.
Standby: The unit gains a standby token, which it can use to perform actions in response to enemy actions. Only trooper units and ground vehicles can perform the standby action.

Deploying Units

When an undeployed unit performs a move, it deploys. When a unit deploys in this way, measure the start of the move with both prongs of one end of the movement tool touching the portion of the edge of the battlefield within friendly territory. When a unit deploys, the unit leader measures the vertical distance changed during that move starting from the portion of the edge of the battlefield the movement tool is touching. When an undeployed unit activates, it must deploy and may not perform any action that is not a move until it deploys. Only undeployed units can deploy.

Place Order Token

Once the active player has resolved any end of unit activation effects, if the unit has a faceup order token, flip it facedown or assign it the drawn order token facedown. The unit’s activation and active player’s turn have ended, and the other player becomes the active player. They take their turn, repeating steps 2–3 of the Activation Phase.

Activation Phase

During the Activation Phase, players activate their units and may perform actions with them.

Starting with the player who has priority, players take turns activating their units one at a time.

Parts of the Activation Phase

Resolve Abilities or Effects at Start of Activation Phase
Choose a Unit to Activate or Pass
Activate Unit
1. Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at Start of Unit Activation
2. Rallying
3. Perform Actions
4. Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at End of Unit Activation
Place Order Token
Resolve Abilities or Effects at End of Activation Phase

Choose a Unit to Activate or Pass

The active player chooses to either activate a friendly unit with a faceup order token or to draw an order token randomly from the order pool and activate a unit matching that order token’s rank that does not have an order token. Alternatively, a player may be able to pass. When a player passes, they do not activate a unit and their turn ends.

If a player draws an order token with a rank that does not have any corresponding friendly units on the battleeld that do not have an order token, remove that token from the game. en that player may pass. If they do not pass and still have units to activate, they must choose to either activate a friendly unit with a faceup order token or to draw another order token randomly from the order pool.

If a player did not pass on their previous turn this round, they may spend an advantage token in their pass pool. If they do, they pass.

If a player does not have any units they can activate, they pass.

Activating a Unit

When a unit is chosen to activate, it first attempts to rally, and then the unit may perform actions. After the unit has completed its actions, flip the unit’s faceup order token facedown or assign it the drawn order token facedown.

See Activating Units

Resolve End of Activation Phase Effects

When all units on the battlefield have been activated, both players’ order pools are empty, and neither player has order tokens on Command Cards, resolve any effects that occur at the end of the Activation Phase.

Once any end of Activation Phase effects have been resolved, the Activation Phase is over and players proceed to the End Phase.

Advanced Targeting: Unit Type X Advantage Token Advantage Cards Affiliations Agile X AI: Action Aid: Affiliation Aim Allies of Convenience Area Terrain Area Weapon Arm X: Charge Token Armor X Associate: Unit Name Asset Token Arsenal X Ataru Mastery At (Range) Attack

Attack

Attacks are usually made by units as part of an attack action but can be made as part of another rule. A unit may make multiple attacks a turn but can only perform one attack action per turn, regardless of whether the attack action is a free action.

Attack Timing

Declare Defender
Form Attack Pool
1. Determine Eligible Miniatures
2. Choose Weapons and Gather Dice
Declare Additional Defender
Roll Attack Dice
1. Roll Dice
2. Reroll Dice
3. Convert Attack Surges
Apply Dodge and Cover
1. Determine Number of Obscured Miniatures
2. Determine Cover
3. Roll Cover Pool
4. Apply Cover
5. Apply Dodge
Modify Attack Dice
Roll Defense Dice
1. Roll Dice
2. Reroll Dice
3. Convert Defense Surges
Modify Defense Dice
Compare Results
Assign Suppression Token to Defender
Choose Additional Attack Pool

Line of Sight

Line of sight (LOS) is used to see if one miniature can “see” another miniature. A player determines LOS from the perspective of their miniatures. This is done by creating a cylinder rising from the miniature’s base called a silhouette. A miniature’s silhouette includes the miniature’s base and the area above it up to the height of the silhouette. When determining LOS between two miniatures, if an unobstructed straight imaginary line can be drawn from any part of one miniature’s silhouette to any part of the other miniature’s silhouette, those miniatures have LOS to each other.

See Line of Sight

Weapons

Each unit is equipped with weapons that miniatures may contribute to attack pools.

See Weapons

Declare Defender

The first stage in the attack sequence is choosing an enemy unit to attack. The attacking player declares they are performing an attack action with their unit against an enemy unit, which becomes the defending unit. Then, measuring from the attacking unit’s unit leader, the attacking player checks to see that the defending unit is at range of at least one of the attacking unit’s weapons and has at least one miniature in LOS to the attacking unit leader. If either of these conditions cannot be met, the attack or attack action cannot be made.

Example: Declare Defender

Sarah has declared an attack action with her unit of Battle Droids. The first step of the attack sequence is to declare a defender. Measuring from the Battle Droids’ unit leader, Sarah chooses an enemy unit that is in range of at least one of the Battle Droid’s weapons and that has at least one miniature in LOS. In this case, since the Battle Droids’ weapons are range –, Sarah must choose an enemy unit at range of the Battle Droids’ unit leader that is also in LOS. Since the Battle Droid unit leader has LOS to both Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Clone Troopers, and both are in range of at least one of the Battle Droids’ weapons, Sarah can choose either as the defending unit.

Form Attack Pool

The attack pool consists of all the attack dice the attacking unit rolls against the defending unit. To form the attack pool, the attacking player performs the following steps:

Determine Eligible Miniatures: A miniature in the attacking unit is eligible to add dice to the attack pool if that miniature has LOS to any miniature in the defending unit.
Choose Weapons and Gather Dice: For each eligible miniature, the attacking player may choose up to one weapon available to the miniature to add to the attack pool, along with any weapon keywords that weapon may have.

A miniature must meet any requirements to choose a weapon.
A miniature may only add a weapon to an attack pool once throughout the entire attack sequence.
Weapons provided by a , , or upgrade or Command Card can only be used by the miniature indicated on the card.
A weapon cannot be chosen if the defending unit is at a range less than the weapon’s minimum range or greater than the weapon’s maximum range, as measured from the attacking unit leader to the closest miniature in the defending unit.
A ranged weapon cannot be chosen if the defending unit is in melee with the attacking unit.
An attack pool cannot contain both melee and ranged weapons.
An attack pool can consist of different weapons.
All weapons with an identical name must go in the same attack pool and cannot be split among multiple attack pools.
An attack pool must consist of at least one weapon.

After the attacking player is done forming the attack pool, they gather all the dice for that attack pool and place them on the battlefield next to the defending unit.

Example: Forming Attack Pools

Summer has declared an attack with her unit of Battle Droids and ensured that the defending unit of Clone Troopers are in range and LOS. Next, Summer determines eligible miniatures by checking LOS from each individual Battle Droid in the unit. A miniature is eligible to contribute dice to an attack pool if it has LOS to any miniature in the defending unit. Summer determines that all but one of Battle Droids are eligible miniatures. Then, for each eligible miniature, Summer chooses one of the weapons available to the unit for that miniature to contribute to the attack pool. A miniature must meet all requirements, if any, to choose a particular weapon. Finally, Summer cannot choose any weapons if the Clone Troopers would be closer than the weapon’s minimum range or beyond the weapon’s maximum range.

Since the Clone Troopers are at range and Summer has four eligible Battle Droids, she decides to add four range – blaster rifles to the attack pool. She gathers the dice for these weapons and places them together on the battlefield next to the defending unit.

Attacking in Melee

Miniatures that are not in base contact with an enemy miniature can still contribute dice to an attack pool with a melee weapon if they belong to a unit in melee. A melee weapon cannot be in the same attack pool as a non-melee weapon.

Declare Additional Defender

If there are any remaining weapons available to a unit that have not been added to an attack pool, and there are eligible miniatures that have not yet added a weapon to an attack pool, the attacking player may repeat steps 1-2 of the attack sequence, forming a new attack pool targeting a different defending enemy unit than any other attack pool. Weapons cannot be added to an attack pool if a weapon with the same name has already been added to a different attack pool.

Example: Declare Additional Defender

In the previous example, Sarah put all the Clone Troopers’ weapons into the same attack pool. If she wishes, she may leave the heavy weapon out of the attack pool and instead form a pool with only the four blaster rifles, leaving an eligible miniature that has not contributed a weapon to an attack pool. After she has formed the first attack pool, she may then choose to declare a new defender and repeat steps 1–2 of the attack sequence, forming a new attack pool with the heavy weapon against a different defending unit.

Roll Attack dice

Roll Dice: The attacking player rolls the dice in the attack pool.
Reroll Dice: The attacking player can resolve any abilities or spend any aim tokens that allow the attacking unit to reroll attack dice. A unit may spend any number of aim tokens while it is attacking to reroll up to two different attack dice for each aim token spent. If a unit has multiple aim tokens, that unit can choose to spend each aim token after determining the results of any previous rerolls granted by aim tokens. A unit may reroll the same die multiple times by spending multiple aim tokens, but each die may only be rerolled once per aim token.
Convert Attack Surges: The attacking player changes any results to the result indicated on the Unit Card. Additonally, the attacking player may spend any number of surge tokens on the attacking unit to convert one result to a result for every surge token spent. If no result is indicated, turn the die to a blank result.

Example: Roll Attack Dice

Simone has an attacking unit of Snowtroopers with an attack pool that consists of five white dice. She rolls the dice and gets one , one , one , and two blank results. Having rolled the dice, Simone then resolves any abilities that let her reroll dice. The Snowtroopers do not have any reroll abilities, but they do have an aim token. Simone chooses to use the aim token to reroll up to two dice of her choice. Both dice must be rerolled at the same time; she cannot reroll one and then reroll it again with the same aim token. Simone chooses to reroll both blank dice, getting one and one blank result, bringing the final dice results to one , one , two , and one blank result. Next, she converts attack surges. Since the Snowtroopers have : on the surge chart on their Unit Card, Simone changes the two results to results. If the Snowtroopers did not have :, she would have turned the results to blank results instead. The final dice results for the attack are therefore one , three , and one blank result.

Canceling Results

When a result in an attack pool is canceled, remove that result from the pool.

Apply Dodge and Cover

Determine Number of Obscured Miniatures: If the attack is not a ranged attack, skip to the Apply Dodge step below. If the attack is a ranged attack, the attacking player checks LOS from the attacking unit leader to each miniature in the defending unit. If LOS to a miniature is completely blocked, the miniature is obscured. If LOS from any part of the attacking unit leader’s silhouette to any part of the defending miniature’s silhouette is blocked by terrain that the attacking unit leader is not in base contact with and that terrain is at of the defending miniature, the defending miniature is obscured. Repeat this process for every miniature in the defending unit.
Determine Cover: If at least half of the miniatures in the defending unit are obscured, the defending unit has cover. The type of cover is determined by whatever is obscuring the defending unit, providing either heavy or light cover based on the players’ discussion of terrain before the game. If a unit has cover and at least one of the miniatures in the defending unit is obscured by terrain that provides heavy cover, the unit has heavy cover. If the defending unit has cover but does not have heavy cover, it has light cover.

While a unit is suppressed, it improves its cover by one: a unit with no cover gains light cover, and a unit in light cover gains heavy cover.
Roll Cover Pool:If the defending unit has cover, the defending player rolls one white defense die for every result in the attack pool.
Apply Cover: If the defending unit has light cover, it cancels one result in the attack pool for each result in the cover pool. If the defending unit has heavy cover, it cancels one result in the attack pool for each and each result in the cover pool instead.
Apply Dodge: If the defending unit has one or more dodge tokens, the defending player may spend any number of them. For each dodge token spent, cancel one result in the attack pool. Units may spend dodge tokens even if there are no results in the attack pool.

Example: Applying Cover

Summer’s Clone Troopers are attacking Brian’s unit of 7 Battle Droids with a ranged attack; she has rolled 1 and 3 results. Summer then checks LOS from the Clone Troopers’ unit leader to each miniature in the Battle Droid unit. Summer has LOS to every miniature in the Battle Droid unit, but part of the silhouette of 5 Battle Droids is blocked by terrain. Brian then measures the distance between those Battle Droids and the obscuring terrain. Since 4 of them are at of the obscuring terrain, those 4 miniatures are obscured.

Because at least half of the Battle Droids are obscured, the Battle Droids have cover. Before the game, Brian and Summer determined that the building provides heavy cover and the crates provide light cover. Because at least 1 of the Battle Droids is obscured by the building, the Battle Droids have heavy cover.

Brian then rolls 3 white defense dice in the cover pool, 1 for each result. Brian rolls 1 blank result and 2 results.

Because the Battle Droids have heavy cover, 2 results are canceled in the attack roll, 1 for each and result in the cover pool. That leaves 1 and 1 result in the attack pool.

Brian’s Battle Droids do not have any dodge tokens, so the Apply Dodge and Cover step of the attack is over.

Modify Attack Dice

The attacking player may resolve any effects that modify the attacking unit’s attack dice. Then the defending player may resolve any effects that modify the attacking unit’s attack dice.

Roll Defense Dice

The defending player rolls defense dice by following the below steps.

Roll Defense Dice: For every remaining and result remaining in the attack pool, the defender rolls one defense die, using the die pictured on the defending Unit Card.
Reroll Defense Dice: The defending player can resolve any effects that allow the defending unit to reroll defense dice.
Convert Defense Surges: The defending player changes any results to the result indicated on the Unit Card. If no result is indicated, turn the die to a blank result. The defending player may spend any number of surge tokens on the defending unit to convert one result to a result for every surge token spent.

Example: Rolling Defense Dice

Summer has attacked Brian’s Battle Droids and has a dice pool of one and one result after applying dodge and cover. Since Battle Droids have white defense dice, Brian rolls two white defense dice, one for each and result remaining. He rolls one and one result.

After rolling defense dice, Brian may use any abilities that allow him to reroll defense dice. The Battle Droids do not have such an ability, so he proceeds to convert defense surges. Since Battle Droids do not have : on their Unit Card, he changes the he rolled to a blank, resulting in a final roll of one and one blank result.

Modify Defense Dice

The defending player may resolve any effects that modify the defending unit’s defense dice. Then the attacking player may resolve any effects that modify the defending unit’s defense dice.

Compare Results

The attacking player counts the number of and results. Then the defending player counts the number of results and subtracts the total number of results from the total number of and results. The defending unit suffers a number of wounds equal to the difference.

Example: Comparing Results

Summer has rolled one and one result after applying cover in her attack against Brian’s Battle Droids, and he has rolled one and one blank result in defense. Summer counts her and results for a total of two. Brian counts his results for a total of one. The players subtract Brian’s total from Summer’s total for 2-1=1. Since the defending unit suffers a number of wounds equal to the difference in the attacking and defending results, Brian’s Battle Droids suffer one wound.

Suffering Wounds and Defeating Miniatures

When a player’s unit suffers wounds, that player chooses a miniature from that unit and assigns wound tokens to it until either all wounds have been suffered or the miniature is defeated.

A miniature is defeated when it has a number of wound tokens assigned to it equal to its wound threshold. If there are unassigned wounds remaining after a miniature has been defeated, the player chooses another miniature from the same unit and repeats the process until either all wounds have been assigned or all miniatures in the unit have been defeated. When a unit suffers wounds from a ranged attack, if the attacker has LOS to only some of the miniatures in the defending unit, the defending unit cannot suffer wounds greater than the total wound threshold of miniatures that are in LOS.

A unit leader cannot be assigned wounds unless it is the only miniature in the unit.

A miniature or unit with at least one wound token is wounded. When assigning wound tokens, the wounded miniature with the most wound tokens must be chosen before any others when assigning wounds and must be assigned wounds until it is defeated. If more than one miniature has the same number of wound tokens assigned, choose one of those miniatures to assign wounds to.

When a miniature is defeated, remove it from the battlefield. If a unit leader is defeated and there are still undefeated miniatures in the unit, the unit’s controlling player must immediately choose another miniature in that unit to become the unit leader, replacing that miniature with the unit leader miniature.

When all of the miniatures in a unit are defeated, the unit is defeated. Remove all order tokens for that unit from the battlefield.

Removing Miniatures in Melee

When miniatures in melee are defeated, space may be created for the attacking miniatures to advance. After the attack is resolved, the attacking player performs the following steps to place their miniatures back into melee:

That player places each friendly unit leader miniature that is no longer in base contact with an enemy miniatures into base contact with an enemy unit their unit was in melee with before the attack was resolved.
That player places each friendly miniature that is not in cohesion or no longer in base contact with an enemy miniature into cohesion and into base contact with an enemy unit their unit was in melee with before the attack was resolved.

Then the defending player performs the steps above. If any miniature cannot be placed into base contact with an enemy miniature during this process, they must still be placed into cohesion.

If, for any reason, miniatures cannot be placed back into base contact with an enemy miniature and none of the miniatures belonging to that unit are in base contact with an enemy miniature, those miniatures do not move and that unit is no longer in melee.

Effects that Deal or Assign Wounds

Some effects deal or assign wounds without going through the attack sequence. These effects are not attacks, so no defense dice are rolled, nor are any suppression tokens assigned. The player that controls the unit suffering wounds assigns the wounds as normal.

Some effects explicitly state that a certain miniature in a unit suffers wounds. In this case, the player who controls the effect may assign any wounds suffered in this way, ignoring the normal rules for assigning wounds.

Example: Assigning Wounds and Defeating Miniatures

After comparing results, Dallas’ unit of five Clone Troopers has suffered three wounds from an attack. He then assigns one of the wounds to a miniature in the unit. Since all the miniatures in the Clone Trooper unit have a wound threshold of 1, the miniature that Dallas assigned a wound to is defeated. Since there are two unassigned wounds remaining, Dallas chooses another miniature from the same unit and repeats the process until either all wounds have been suffered or all miniatures in the unit have been defeated. Since each Clone Trooper only has a wound threshold of 1 and the unit suffered three wounds, this means that three Clone Troopers are defeated, leaving two Clone Troopers remaining.

After comparing results, Chris’ unit of three unwounded Wookiees has suffered four wounds. He then assigns one of the wounds to a miniature in the unit. Because Wookiees have a wound threshold of 3, the Wookiee is not defeated when it is assigned the wound, and Chris has three more wounds left to assign. However, because the Wookiee has at least one wound token assigned to it, it is wounded, and Chris MUST choose to assign it any additional wound tokens since it has more wound tokens assigned to it than any other miniature in the unit. Chris is forced to assign the next two wounds to the Wookiee until it reaches its wound threshold of 3 and is defeated, leaving one wound left to be assigned. Chris must choose a non-unit leader Wookiee to assign the wound to. In the future, because the wounded Wookiee has more wound tokens than the other, Chris must assign wounds to it first, and must continue to do so until it is defeated.

Assign Suppression Token to Defender

After resolving steps 1–9 of the attack sequence, if there were any or results in the attack pool during the Roll Attack Dice step of the attack sequence and the attack was a ranged attack, the defending unit gains one suppression token.

Choose Additional Attack Pool

After resolving steps 1–10 of the attack sequence, if the attacking unit still has attack pools to resolve, the attacking player chooses another attack pool to resolve against a defending unit, performing an attack against it by repeating steps 4–11 of the attack sequence.

Once all of an attacking unit’s attack pools have been resolved, the attack action ends.

Full Attack Sequence Example

Simone has declared an attack action with her unit of Snowtroopers. The First step of the attack sequence is to declare a defender. Measuring from the Snowtroopers’ unit leader, Simone chooses an enemy unit that is in range of at least 1 of the Snowtrooper’s weapons and that has at least 1 miniature in LOS. In this case, since the maximum range on the Snowtrooper’s weapons is 3, Simone must choose an enemy unit at of the Snowtrooper unit leader that is also in LOS. The Snowtroopers cannot see Luke Skywalker because they do not have LOS to him.

Instead, Simone declares the Rebel Troopers as the defending unit, as they are at of the Snowtroopers unit leader and are in LOS.

Next, Simone determines eligible miniatures by checking LOS from each individual Snowtrooper in the attacking unit. A miniature is eligible to contribute dice to an attack pool if it has LOS to any miniature in the defending unit. Simone determines that all but 1 of the Snowtroopers are eligible miniatures. Then, for each eligible miniature, Simone chooses 1 of the weapons available to the unit for that miniature to contribute to the attack pool. A miniature must meet all requirements, if any, to choose a particular weapon. Finally, Simone cannot choose any weapons if the Rebel Troopers would be closer than the weapon’s minimum range or beyond the weapon’s maximum range.

Since the Rebel Troopers are at and Simone has 5 eligible Snowtroopers, Simone decides to add 5 – blaster rifles to the attack pool. Simone gathers the dice for these weapons and places them together on the battlefield next to the defending unit.

The attack pool consists of 5 white dice. Simone rolls the attack dice and gets 1 , 1 , 1 , and 2 blank results. Having rolled the dice, Simone then resolves any abilities that let her reroll dice. The Snowtroopers do not have any reroll abilities, but they do have an aim token. Simone chooses to use the aim token to reroll up to 2 dice of her choice. Both dice must be rerolled at the same time, she cannot reroll 1 and then reroll it again with the same aim token. Simone chooses to reroll both blank dice, getting 2 results, bringing the final dice results to 1 , 1 , and 3 results. Next, she converts attack surges. Since the Snowtroopers have : on their Unit Card, Simone changes the 3 results to results. If the Snowtroopers did not have :, she would have turned the results to blank results instead. The final dice results for the attack are therefore 1 and 4 results.

The next step of the attack is to apply dodge and cover. To do so, Simone checks LOS from the Snowtrooper’s unit leader to each miniature in the Rebel Trooper unit. If LOS to any part of a Rebel Trooper’s silhouette is blocked by terrain that the Snowtroopers’ unit leader is not in base contact with, and that terrain is at of that Rebel Trooper, it is obscured. Simone checks LOS and determines that 5 Rebel Troopers are obscured.

Because at least half of the Rebel Troopers are obscured, the Rebel Troopers have cover. Before the game, Will and Simone determined that the crates provide light cover. Because over half of the Rebel Troopers are obscured by the crates, the Rebel Troopers count as having light cover.

Will then rolls 4 white defense dice in the cover pool, 1 for each result. Will rolls 2 blank results, 1 result, and 1 result.

Because the Rebel Troopers have light cover, 1 result is canceled for each result in the cover pool. Will only rolled 1 result, so he cancels 1 result in Simone’s dice roll, leaving the attack pool at 1 and 3 results.

Will’s Rebel Troopers do not have any dodge tokens, so the attack moves to the next step.

Since Rebel Troopers have white defense dice, Will rolls 4 white defense dice, one for each and result remaining. He rolls 1 , 1 , and 2 blank results.

After rolling defense dice, Will may use any abilities that allow him to reroll defense dice. The Rebel Troopers do not have such an ability, so he proceeds to convert defense surges. Since Rebel Troopers have : on their Unit Card, he changes the he rolled to a block, resulting in a final roll of 2 and 2 blank results.

Simone has rolled 1 and 3 results after applying cover in her attack against Will’s Rebel Troopers, and he has rolled 2 and 2 blank results in defense. Simone counts her and results, for a total of 4. Will counts his results for a total of 2. The players subtract Will’s total from Simone’s total for 4-2=2. Since the defending unit suffers a number of wounds equal to the difference in the attacking and defending results, Will’s Rebel Troopers suffer 2 wounds.

Will must now assign the wounds to miniatures in the Rebel Trooper unit. Since all the miniatures in the Rebel Trooper unit have a wound threshold of 1, each miniature that Will assigns a wound to is defeated. Will chooses a Rebel Trooper to assign the wound to, and that miniature is defeated. There is still 1 unassigned wound remaining, so Will chooses another miniature from the same unit and repeats the process until either all wounds have been suffered or all miniatures in the unit have been defeated. Since each Rebel Trooper only has a wound threshold of 1 and the unit suffered 2 wounds, 2 Rebel Troopers are defeated, leaving 3 Rebel Troopers left.

Because there were or results in the attack pool during the Roll Attack Dice step of the attack sequence, and the attack was a ranged attack, the Rebel Trooper unit gains 1 suppression token.

Attack Pool

The attack pool consists of all the attack dice the attacking unit rolls against the defending unit. To form the attack pool, the attacking player performs the following steps:

Determine Eligible Miniatures: A miniature in the attacking unit is eligible to add dice to the attack pool if that miniature has LOS to any miniature in the defending unit.
Choose Weapons and Gather Dice: For each eligible miniature, the attacking player may choose up to one weapon available to the miniature to add to the attack pool, along with any weapon keywords that weapon may have.

A miniature must meet any requirements to choose a weapon.
A miniature may only add a weapon to an attack pool once throughout the entire attack sequence.
Weapons provided by a , , or upgrade or Command Card can only be used by the miniature indicated on the card.
A weapon cannot be chosen if the defending unit is at a range less than the weapon’s minimum range or greater than the weapon’s maximum range, as measured from the attacking unit leader to the closest miniature in the defending unit.
A ranged weapon cannot be chosen if the defending unit is in melee with the attacking unit.
An attack pool cannot contain both melee and ranged weapons.
An attack pool can consist of different weapons.
All weapons with an identical name must go in the same attack pool and cannot be split among multiple attack pools.
An attack pool must consist of at least one weapon.

After the attacking player is done forming the attack pool, they gather all the dice for that attack pool and place them on the battlefield next to the defending unit.

Example: Forming Attack Pools

Attack Run Authoritative

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Backup Bane Tokens

Bane Tokens

Cad Bane has a set of three unique Bane tokens that he can place on the battlefield. Bane tokens are double-sided, with a uniform back and three different images on the front, each linked to a unique effect.

Bane tokens must be placed facedown on the battlefield and cannot overlap objective or condition tokens. Bane tokens are enemy effects. Each player may only have one copy of each different Bane token on the battlefield at the same time.

When an enemy miniature moves, deploys, or is placed at of an enemy Bane token, if that miniature has LOS to the token, it is revealed. Miniatures can move through but not overlap Bane tokens. When a Bane token is revealed, it has one of the following effects:

Here I Am: If Cad Bane is not on the battlefield and is not defeated, his Here I Am token is replaced by his miniature. Then, Cad Bane issues himself an order.

If Cad Bane is on the battlefield, his Here I Am token is replaced by his miniature. Any tokens assigned to Cad Bane remain assigned to him.
If Cad Bane is defeated, the token is removed.
At the start of each round, starting with the blue player, a player may reveal a friendly Here I Am token and resolve it.

Smoke and Mirrors: The token is removed.

Kablamo!: The token detonates using the weapon profile on Cad Bane’s I Make the Rules Now Command Card, then the token is removed.

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Base Contact

Many rules in Star Wars: Legionuse the term “base contact,” which means that the miniature's base must be touching whatever the rule is referencing. This includes another miniature’s base, a piece of terrain, or a token.

Miniatures cannot move into base contact with miniatures from enemy units unless the unit leader has a melee weapon . If the unit leader does, the unit leader can perform a move into base contact with an enemy miniature to start a melee. For more information on melee combat, see Melee.

Because a miniature’s base can be placed on top of uneven terrain, there are situations in which another miniature cannot be placed into physical base contact with the first miniature because of a difference in elevation between the two bases. In these situations, if the following two conditions are met, those miniatures are treated as if they are in base contact: when viewed from above, there is no space between the two miniature’s bases, such that if they were not on differing elevations or were both flat on the battlefield, their bases would be touching, and the vertical distance between the two bases is no greater than the height of the lower miniature’s silhouette. For more information on silhouettes, see Line of Sight.

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Building a Mission

Now that the blue player is determined, it is time to build the mission. Place the game dashboard with the mission side face up near the table. Then each player separates their Battle Deck by type—Advantage, Objective, and Secondary Objective— and shuffes each of their three decks, placing them near the Mission Dashboard.

Place a token on the Mission Dashboard to indicate which player is the blue player. The blue player then chooses to reveal the top card of either their Objective Deck or Secondary Objective Deck, placing the revealed card in the designated space on the Mission Dashboard. Their opponent reveals the top card of either their Objective Deck or Secondary Objective Deck, whichever was not already placed, and places it on the designated space on the Mission Dashboard. Then each player reveals the top card of their Advantage Deck and places it on the designated space on their side of the dashboard.

Then, starting with the blue player, players alternate modifying the mission. A player can modify the mission in the following ways:

Reveal the top card of your Objective Deck, discard the current card on the objective space of the Mission Dashboard, and replace it with the newly revealed Objective Card.
Reveal the top card of your Secondary Objective Deck, discard the current card on the secondary objective space of the Mission Dashboard, and replace it with the newly revealed Secondary Objective Card.
Reveal the top card of your Advantage Deck, discard the current card on your advantage space on the Mission Dashboard, and replace it with the newly revealed Advantage Card.
Your opponent reveals the top card of their Advantage Deck, discards the current card on their advantage space on the Mission Dashboard, and replaces it with the newly revealed Advantage Card.
Move the token indicating the blue player to your side of the Dashboard. You are now the blue player.
Pass. There is no effect.

After each player has modified the mission twice, the mission is built. Before the first round, the players set up the mission in the following order:

The blue player chooses one of the long edges of the battlefield as their side. The red player gets the opposite side. The player territory that shares an edge with a player’s side is that player’s friendly territory and the other player's territory is enemy territory.
Follow any setup instructions on the Objective Card.
Follow any setup instructions on the Secondary Objective Card.
Starting with the blue player, each player follows any setup instructions on their Advantage Card.

Empty decks

When a player would reveal a card from a deck that no longer contains any cards, shuffle all of that player’s previously discarded cards of that type, including the card just discarded, to form a new deck. Then reveal the top card of that deck.

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Cache Calculate Odds Card Actions Charge Charge Tokens Claim Climb

Climb

Miniatures can make standard moves onto or through obstacle terrain that is shorter than the height of the moving unit’s silhouette. When placing the movement tool, it may not overlap an obstacle terrain feature that is taller than the moving miniature’s silhouette. When a unit is overlapping an obstacle terrain feature, it may perform a standard move if the vertical distance changed is not greater than the height of the moving unit’s silhouette. If they wish to move onto, off of, or through obstacle terrain greater than the height of their silhouette, they must instead perform a climb. Miniatures on notched bases may not climb.

Sometimes units maneuver onto or through tall pieces of obstacle terrain. This is accomplished by performing a climb. Miniatures on notched bases may not climb.

To perform a climb, a unit performs a move as normal, except that it must use the speed-1 tool. A miniature may move a vertical distance up to height 1 when making a climb and may place the movement tool overlapping obstacle terrain that is up to height 1 taller than the height of the moving unit’s silhouette and any terrain the unit may be on.

Example: Performing a Climb

Sarah wishes to move her Clone Trooper unit on top of the building. She measures the height of the building and determines that it is taller than the Clone Trooper's silhouette, meaning that the Clone Troopers cannot reach the top by performing a standard move. Instead, Sarah performs a climb with the Clone Troopers.

The Clone Troopers move as normal, except they must use the speed-1 movement tool when climbing, and they may move up to a vertical distance of height 1 when making a climb.

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Command Phase

During the Command Phase, players select a Command Card from their command hand, reveal and resolve their Command Cards, determine priority, issue orders, and create the order pool.

Parts of the Command Phase

Select and Play Command Cards
1. Resolve Command Cards
Determine Priority
Nominate Commanders and Issue Orders
Create the Order Pool
Create the Pass Pool

Select and Play Command Cards

Each player secretly chooses a Command Card to play from their hand and places it facedown on the battlefield. If a player does not have at least one undefeated or unit on the battlefield, they may not play any Command Cards this round.

Some units have several unique Command Cards, which may only be played if that unit is included in a player’s army and is not defeated. Those Command Cards belong to that unit. When that unit's name is included in the effects section of that Command Card without specifying friendly or enemy, it refers to only friendly units with that name.

Resolving Command Card Effects

Command Card effects that occur when the Command Card is revealed, starting with the Blue Player
Command Card effects that do not have a specific timing, starting with the Blue Player
Command Card effects that occur when a unit issues orders, starting with the player with priority.
Command Card effects that occur at the start of the Activation Phase, starting with the player with priority.
Command Card effects that occur during the Activation Phase, starting with the player with priority.

Resolve Command Card Effects

After both players have played a Command Card facedown, they then reveal their Command Cards by flipping them faceup and proceed to resolve the effects of the Command Cards. Fully resolve the effect of each Command Card before moving to the next Command Card. If both players have an effect that occurs at the same time, the blue player resolves their Command Card effect first.

Determine Priority

Once players have resolved all relevant Command Card effects, compare the number of pips on the Command Cards that were played this round. The player whose card has the least number of pips has priority for the round.

If both players reveal Command Cards with the same number of pips, one player rolls a red defense die. If the result is a , that player has priority. On any other result, the other player has priority.

If one player was unable to play a Command Card due to not having a or unit, the other player automatically has priority. If neither player played a Command Card, one player rolls a red defense die to determine priority.

Example: Playing a Command Card and Determining Priority

Michael and Kevin are choosing their Command Cards for the turn. They each secretly choose a card from their hands to play, then they reveal their cards at the same time. Michael has played a 3-pip card, Assault, and Kevin has played a 1-pip card, Ambush. Because Kevin played the card with the fewest number of pips, he gains priority for the round.

Sarah and Michael are choosing Command Cards for the turn. Both of them play the 4-pip card Standing Orders. Because they revealed cards with the same number of pips, 1 of them rolls a red defense die. Michael rolls the die and rolls a blank. Because he did not roll a , Sarah has priority for the round.

Nominate Commanders and Issue Orders

After determining priority, players nominate commanders and issue orders to their units.

If the played Command Card corresponds to a specific unit, that unit must be nominated as the commander. Otherwise, players may nominate any one unit to be their commander.

Once all players have nominated a commander, they issue orders to their units, starting with the player who has priority. The number of orders and the units they can be issued to is listed on each Command Card. For a commander to issue an order to a unit, the following must be true:

The unit cannot have already received an order during the current Command Phase.
The unit must match the type (if any) listed on the Command Card.

When a unit is issued an order, take an order token that corresponds to the unit’s rank and place it faceup on the battlefield next to the unit. A commander must issue all the orders allowed by the Command Card, if able. If a commander cannot issue all the orders allowed by the Command Card, any excess orders are lost. Once both players have issued orders, they then proceed to create the order pool.

Other Ways to Issue Orders

Some rules or abilities allow units to be issued orders from sources other than the nominated commander. These units do not have to follow the above criteria when they are issued orders in this way, instead following the rules of the effect granting that order. A unit cannot be issued more than one order each round.

Create the Order Pool

After issuing orders, each player creates their order pool by taking one order token that matches the rank of each undefeated unit that was not issued an order and shuffling those order tokens together.

Create the Pass Pool

After creating the order pool, each player counts the number of undefeated units they control. The player with fewer undefeated units adds a number of advantage tokens to their pass pool equal to 1 fewer than the difference in those counts. Once players have created their pass pools, if any, the Command Phase is over, and the Activation Phase begins.

Example: Create the Pass Pool

Nick has 8 undefeated units and Ben has 12. The difference between the counts is 4. 1 fewer than that is 3, so Nick adds 3 advantage tokens to his pass pool.

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Counterpart: Unit Name (Counterpart Keyword)

Some units are faithful companions or subservient minions and are almost never seen apart from another unit. A unit like this has the Counterpart keyword and the miniature that represents this unit is always added to another unit. That miniature has a Counterpart Card and their miniature is a counterpart miniature. The combined unit has the rank, unit type, defense die, courage value, surge conversion chart, and speed as shown on the Unit Card.

Sometimes, a Counterpart Card has a different unit type only for the purposes of equipping Upgrade Cards.
A unit leader in a combined unit can be assigned wounds when it is the only non-counterpart miniature in the unit.
When a wound token would be assigned to a non- counterpart miniature in a combined unit, that unit’s controlling player may assign that wound token to an undefeated counterpart miniature in that unit instead. That wound token must be assigned to a counterpart miniature if it would cause the last non-counterpart miniature in the unit to be defeated.
Upgrade Cards without weapons equipped to a counterpart miniature are usable by the rest of the unit, unless the counterpart miniature is defeated.
Upgrade Cards with weapons are usable only by the miniature which has them equipped.
The non-counterpart miniatures in the unit use the wound threshold on the Unit Card, the counterpart miniature uses the wound threshold on the Counterpart Card.
The combined unit has the keywords on both the Unit Card and the Counterpart Card.
Miniatures in a combined unit may only use weapons that are on their respective cards. If a combined unit gains a weapon from a Command Card, only the non-counterpart miniature may use it.
If the counterpart miniature is defeated, the unit loses any keywords, abilities, or effects on the Counterpart Card.

Courage Cover

Cover

Cover helps miniatures defend themselves from attacks. Cover is divided into three categories: light, heavy, and no cover, and is determined during the attack sequence. Some rules refer to cover having a numerical value that is improved or reduced— light cover has a value of 1, heavy cover has a value of 2, and no cover has a value of 0. The numerical value of cover cannot be increased above 2 for any reason. Resolve effects that improve cover before effects that reduce cover.

Apply Dodge and Cover

Determine Number of Obscured Miniatures: If the attack is not a ranged attack, skip to the Apply Dodge step below. If the attack is a ranged attack, the attacking player checks LOS from the attacking unit leader to each miniature in the defending unit. If LOS to a miniature is completely blocked, the miniature is obscured. If LOS from any part of the attacking unit leader’s silhouette to any part of the defending miniature’s silhouette is blocked by terrain that the attacking unit leader is not in base contact with and that terrain is at of the defending miniature, the defending miniature is obscured. Repeat this process for every miniature in the defending unit.
Determine Cover: If at least half of the miniatures in the defending unit are obscured, the defending unit has cover. The type of cover is determined by whatever is obscuring the defending unit, providing either heavy or light cover based on the players’ discussion of terrain before the game. If a unit has cover and at least one of the miniatures in the defending unit is obscured by terrain that provides heavy cover, the unit has heavy cover. If the defending unit has cover but does not have heavy cover, it has light cover.

While a unit is suppressed, it improves its cover by one: a unit with no cover gains light cover, and a unit in light cover gains heavy cover.
Roll Cover Pool:If the defending unit has cover, the defending player rolls one white defense die for every result in the attack pool.
Apply Cover: If the defending unit has light cover, it cancels one result in the attack pool for each result in the cover pool. If the defending unit has heavy cover, it cancels one result in the attack pool for each and each result in the cover pool instead.
Apply Dodge: If the defending unit has one or more dodge tokens, the defending player may spend any number of them. For each dodge token spent, cancel one result in the attack pool. Units may spend dodge tokens even if there are no results in the attack pool.

Example: Applying Cover

Brian then rolls 3 white defense dice in the cover pool, 1 for each result. Brian rolls 1 blank result and 2 results.

Because the Battle Droids have heavy cover, 2 results are canceled in the attack roll, 1 for each and result in the cover pool. That leaves 1 and 1 result in the attack pool.

Brian’s Battle Droids do not have any dodge tokens, so the Apply Dodge and Cover step of the attack is over.

Terrain Providing Cover

The main purpose of terrain is to block line of sight between miniatures and provide them with cover. Terrain provides either light, heavy, or no cover. What kind of cover, if any, a piece of terrain provides is ultimately for players to decide. Before the game begins, players should agree on what kind of cover each piece of terrain on the battlefield provides.

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Damaged Danger Sense X Dauntless Death From Above Defeated

Defeated

When a player’s unit suffers wounds, that player chooses a miniature from that unit and assigns wound tokens to it until either all wounds have been suffered or the miniature is defeated.

A unit leader cannot be assigned wounds unless it is the only miniature in the unit.

When all of the miniatures in a unit are defeated, the unit is defeated. Remove all order tokens for that unit from the battlefield.

Removing Miniatures in Melee

That player places each friendly unit leader miniature that is no longer in base contact with an enemy miniatures into base contact with an enemy unit their unit was in melee with before the attack was resolved.
That player places each friendly miniature that is not in cohesion or no longer in base contact with an enemy miniature into cohesion and into base contact with an enemy unit their unit was in melee with before the attack was resolved.

Then the defending player performs the steps above. If any miniature cannot be placed into base contact with an enemy miniature during this process, they must still be placed into cohesion.

Example: Assigning Wounds and Defeating Miniatures

DEFEATING UPGRADE CARD MINIATURES AND DISCARDING UPGRADE CARDS

When a miniature added by an Upgrade Card is defeated, the unit it was added to can no longer use or benefit from any rules on the Upgrade Card, with the exception of additional upgrade icons granted to the unit.

If an Upgrade Card that adds a miniature to a unit is discarded, but the miniature is not defeated, the miniature is not removed, but the unit can no longer use or benefit from any rules on the discarded Upgrade Card.

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Dice

Star Wars: Legion uses dice rolls to determine the results of the actions the players’ armies perform on the battlefield—most commonly attacking and defending. Star Wars: Legion uses five different kinds of dice: three for attacking and two for defending. For attacking, players roll red, black, or white attack dice; while defending, they roll red or white defense dice.

Attack dice have the following symbols: Hit (), Attack Surge (), Critical ().

Defense dice have the following symbols: Block (), Defense Surge ().

Die faces that are blank are blank results.

The faces of each die are as follows:

: Hit
: Crit
: Attack Surge
: Defense Surge
: Block
Blank

There are three colors of attack dice: red, white, and black.

Each attack die is represented on cards by the following icons

Red attack die
White attack die
Black attack die

There are two colors of defense dice: red and white. Each defense die is represented on a unit's card by the following icons:

Red defense die:
White Defense Die

The dice used by a unit to attack and defend are listed on its Unit Card, or occasionally an Upgrade or Command Card.

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Emplacement Trooper End Phase

End Phase

During the End Phase, players prepare for the next round by scoring VPs, discarding Command Cards, removing certain types of tokens, updating the order pool, resolving any effects, and advancing the round counter.

Parts of the End Phase

Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at the Start of the End Phase
Score VPs
Discard Command Cards
Remove Tokens
Update Order Pool and Promote
Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at End of End Phase
Advance Round Counter

Score Victory Points

Players score VPs as described on the Objective Card. Then players score VPs as described on the Secondary Objective Card.

Discard Command Cards

Each player discards their revealed Command Cards from this round into their discard pile. These cards cannot be used again this game.

Remove Tokens

Players remove all aim, dodge, surge, and standby tokens from their units. Then, they remove one suppression token from each of their units, if able. Finally, each player removes all advantage tokens from their pass pool.

Promote

If all of a player’s units are defeated, and they do not control a unit with the Field Commander keyword with a commander token, starting with the player with priority, players must promote a trooper unit to change its rank and become a unit. The unit’s original order token is discarded and is replaced by a order token. The unit counts as a unit for all trooper unit. If a player has no trooper units to promote and does not control a unit with the Field Commander keyword with a commander token, then they no longer have a unit and cannot play Command Cards.

Example: Promote

Earlier in the round, the last unit in Josh’s army was defeated. At the Update Order Pool and Promote step of the End Phase, he must choose a unit leader from one of his trooper units to become a . The unit’s original order token is discarded, and he replaces it with a order token. The promoted unit counts as a for all rules purposes. If Josh doesn’t have any trooper units with unit leaders left to promote, then he no longer has a and cannot play Command Cards for the rest of the game.

Advance Round Counter

Set the round counter to the next highest number. The current round is over, and a new round begins. After the fith game round, the game ends.

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Exhaust and Expend

Most Upgrade Cards provide a static game effect, but some cards must be exhausted or expended after being used. A card that must be exhausted or expended after use has the exhaust or expend icon on the card. Cards that exhaust or expend start the game readied, and only readied cards may be exhausted or expended.

When a card is exhausted, turn the card 90° to the right so that it is sideways. Exhausted cards may not be used for an efect that would exhaust them until they are readied.

When a card is expended, turn the card 180° so that it is upside down. Once a card is expended, it cannot be used for the rest of the game. Expended cards cannot be unexpended or readied.

After a miniature adds a weapon on an exhaust or expend Upgrade Card to an attack pool, exhaust or expend the Upgrade Card. If the weapon is an upgrade that exhausts or expends, then any number of miniatures in the unit may add the weapon to the attack pool.

The and icons indicate that an Upgrade Card is exhausted after that action or free action is resolved.

When a unit recovers, it readies all of its exhausted cards. When a card is readied, turn it 90° to the left so it is in its original orientation. The card is no longer exhausted.

Example: Exhaust

The Fleet Trooper unit adds the MPL-57 Barrage Trooper’s weapon to an attack pool, exhausting the card once the dice are added. It cannot be added to another attack pool until it is readied.

Luke Skywalker expends Burst of Speed to increase his speed. e card is expended and cannot be used for the rest of the game.

Expend Expert Climber

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Guardian X (Unit Keyword)

While a friendly trooper unit at and in LOS of a unit that has the Guardian X keyword is defending against a ranged attack, it may cancel up to X hit results during the Modify Attack Dice step of the attack sequence. For each hit result canceled in this way, the unit with the Guardian X keyword rolls a defense die matching the one on its Unit Card. After converting any defense surge results according to its surge chart or by using surge tokens, the unit with the Guardian X keyword suffers one wound for each blank result. A defending unit that has the Guardian X keyword used on it gains a suppression token as normal.

A unit cannot use Guardian X if the defending unit also has the Guardian X keyword. If multiple friendly units can use the Guardian X keyword during an attack, the player who controls those units declares which unit is using the Guardian X keyword and resolves their ability before choosing whether to declare that another unit is using the Guardian X keyword.

A unit cannot use Guardian X if it has a number of suppression tokens equal to or greater than its courage.

The Pierce X keyword can be used to cancel block results on defense dice rolled by a unit using Guardian X; treat canceled block results as blank results. After using Pierce X in this way, any unused Pierce X value can still be used to cancel block results rolled by the defending unit.

Additionally, a unit with the Guardian X keyword cannot benefit from backup and ignores the rank requirement to provide backup.

Guidance Gunslinger

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Heavy Weapon Team Height

Terrain Height

Each piece of terrain has a height characteristic. To measure this, take the range tool and put one end on the battlefield, orienting the range tool vertically. Then add segments until the end of the range tool is taller than the piece of terrain. The segment of the range tool that the top of the terrain is inside is equal to that object’s height.

Some terrain might have various pieces at multiple heights. When determining the height of the terrain for the purposes of performing a movement or a climb, measure the height of the part of the terrain the miniatures are moving or climbing to, subtracting the height of any terrain the miniatures may be on.

Example: Measuring Height

Sarah wants to measure the height of this building to determine how it will impede the movement of her Clone Troopers. To do so, she takes the range tool and places one end on the battlefield, holding the range tool upright. Because the roof of the building is entirely inside the first segment of the range tool, the building is considered height 1.

Later in the game, Sarah measures the height of another building. Because this building has multiple levels, it consists of different heights. One roof is completely inside the first segment of the range tool, so that part of the building is height 1. However, the second roof of the building is inside the second segment of the range tool, so that part of the building is height 2.

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Jar'kai Mastery Jedi Hunter Jump X Juyo Mastery

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Latent Power Leader Leaving the Battlefield Lethal X Line of Sight

Line of Sight

To determine the height of a miniature’s silhouette, use the following rules:

Trooper units and all their subtypes use a standardized silhouette template to determine LOS. Place the side with the white mark touching the miniature’s base, moving the template around if needed. The notched base trooper silhouette template is not as wide as a notched base, so it will need to be moved around to measure LOS to various parts of the silhouette. Miniatures in trooper units with small bases use the small base trooper silhouette template, and miniatures in trooper units with notched bases use the notched base trooper silhouette template.
Unlike trooper units, vehicles do not use silhouette templates when determining LOS. To determine a vehicles silhouette, create a cylinder rising from the vehicle miniature’s base all the way to the top of the vehicle’s hull— do not include things like antennas, weapons, or crew members when creating this cylinder. Players should discuss vehicle silhouettes before the game begins.

Blocking LOS

Regardless of which silhouettes are used to determine LOS, several things may block LOS by preventing an imaginary straight line from being drawn between the silhouettes of the two miniatures:

The silhouettes of miniatures in vehicle units block LOS.
Terrain that the players have determined blocks LOS.
The silhouettes of miniatures in trooper units and all their subtypes do not block LOS.

Terrain Blocking LOS

Terrain can block LOS between miniatures by preventing an unobstructed imaginary straight line from being drawn between their silhouettes. This usually is due to the terrain’s size or shape creating a barrier between the two silhouettes. Additionally, some terrain also blocks LOS due to its nature of being concealing or obscuring—an example of this would be a billowing smokestack, a foggy marsh, or a burning ruin. Terrain like this should be identified by the players before the game begins.

Example: Drawing Line of Sight and Blocking LOS

The Battle Droids can draw LOS to the Clone Troopers because they can draw an imaginary straight line from their unit leader’s silhouette to at least one of the Clone Trooper’s silhouettes.

The Battle Droids can draw LOS to Clone Commander Cody because the silhouette of the Clone Troopers does not block LOS.

The Battle Droids do not have LOS to Obi-Wan Kenobi, because the building blocks an unobstructed straight imaginary line from their unit leader’s silhouette to any part of his silhouette.

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Map Cards Makashi Mastery Marksman Master of the Force X Master Storyteller Measurement

Measurement

Star Wars: Legion uses two kinds of measuring tools: movement tools and range tools. Any distance can be measured at any time, but players may use only one movement tool and one range tool at a time.

There are three movement tools, from shortest to longest: the speed-1 tool, the speed-2 tool, and the speed-3 tool.

A range tool can be made up of any number of connected 6-inch segments as well as up to one 3-inch half-range tool.

: Melee
: Half Range
: Range 1
: Range 2
: Range 3
: Range 4
: Range 5
: Beyond range 5

Area Range

Range icons that are yellow indicate area weapons. For the full rules on area weapons, see Area Weapons

Sometimes, more than one number is shown—in this case, the first number represents the minimum range, and the second number represents the maximum range. If only a single number is shown, then that is the maximum range for that effect.

Range is always measured as the shortest distance possible between two objects. To measure range between two objects, take the range tool and place it flat on the battlefield so that one end is touching the object being measured from. Then add segments until the total length of the range tool is longer than the distance between the two objects. The segment of the range tool that object is inside is equal to the range between the two objects. When measuring to or from miniatures, always measure from the miniature’s base, ignoring the miniature itself.

Melee range is not measured with the range tool; instead, two miniatures are in melee range with one another if they are in base contact.

Measuring Range

When measuring range between two objects, only take the horizontal distance into account—never the vertical distance. A measurement tool should always be flat on the battlefield; if this isn’t possible (due to terrain, for example), hold the measuring tool above the battlefield and check positions based on the measurement tool.

At, Within, and Beyond

Some abilities require two objects to be at, within, or beyond a certain distance from each other.

An object is at a range of another object if any portion of it is inside that range as measured by the range tool. For a unit to be at a specified range, only one miniature in the unit must be at the given range. An object is always at any range of itself.

An object is within a range of another object if it is entirely inside that range as measured by the range tool. For a unit to be within a range, all miniatures in the unit must be within the given range. A unit that is within a certain range is also at that range.

An object is beyond a range of another object if it is entirely outside that range as measured by the range tool. For a unit to be beyond a range, all miniatures in the unit must be beyond the given range.

Undeployed Units

If a unit is not on the battlefield because it has not yet deployed this game, it is undeployed. An undeployed unit is within any distance and in LOS of each friendly undeployed unit and is beyond any distance and not in LOS of each enemy unit and each unit on the battlefield.

Example: At, Within, and Beyond

The Clone Trooper unit is at range 1 of Obi-Wan Kenobi because it has at least one miniature whose base is at least partially inside the first segment of the range tool. The AT-RT is within range 1 of Obi-Wan Kenobi because its base is entirely inside the first segment of the range tool. The B1 Battle Droids are beyond range 1 of Obi-Wan Kenobi because all of their miniatures' bases are entirely outside the first segment of the range tool.

Terrain Height

Example: Measuring Height

Melee

Melee is close ranged, hand-to-hand combat between two or more units. When two miniatures controlled by opposing players are in base contact, those units are in melee.

Moving Into Melee

The only way a unit can move or be placed into base contact with an enemy miniature is to move into melee. While a unit that has at least one weapon with a melee range is moving or being placed, it can move into melee by moving or placing that unit’s unit leader into base contact with an enemy miniature. When a unit moves into melee, the following steps must be performed:

After the unit leader of the unit moving into melee is placed, place the other miniatures in that unit into base contact with enemy miniatures in the unit that their unit leader is now in melee with.
If the opponent’s unit leader is not in base contact with an enemy miniature, that miniature’s controlling player places it into base contact with a miniature in the unit that moved into melee.
The opposing player places the other miniatures in their unit that are not currently in base contact with an enemy miniature or are not in cohesion into base contact with miniatures from the enemy unit that moved into melee.

If any miniatures cannot be placed into base contact with enemy miniatures during this process, they must still be placed in cohesion. Miniatures may never move or be placed in such a way that they would be in base contact with multiple enemy units, though it is possible for a unit to be in melee with multiple enemy units if another unit joins the melee later.

Example: Moving into Melee

Will decides that he wants to move his Clone Trooper unit into melee with Tony’s Battle Droids. Because they have a melee weapon, the Clone Troopers may move into base contact with the Battle Droids. To do this, Will performs a move with the Clone Troopers’ unit leader that ends with the Clone Troopers’ unit leader in base contact with one of the Battle Droids. Then, ensuring that all of the Clone Troopers remain in cohesion, Will places the rest of the Clone Troopers so that they are also in base contact with the Battle Droids. Because the Battle Droids have a melee weapon, Tony places the Battle Droids that are not in base contact into base contact with Will’s Clone Troopers while maintaining cohesion. The Clone Troopers and Battle Droids are engaged and in melee.

Engaged

When two or more trooper units are in melee with one another, those units are engaged. Only trooper units can be engaged. An engaged unit cannot perform moves, form attack pools containing ranged weapons, and cannot be targeted by attack pools containing ranged weapons.

Withdraw

An engaged unit may withdraw during its activation to leave melee. To withdraw, a unit must make a move action. Reduce the units speed to 1 during this move action. A unit with a maximum speed of 0 cannot withdraw. A unit cannot move into melee during an activation that it withdraws. A unit cannot perform a standby action or an attack and withdraw during the same activation.

Melee Weapon Mercenaries

Mercenaries

The Star Wars galaxy is populated with all manner of heroes, villains, rogues, organizations, and even entire forces unaligned with the galaxy’s major power structures. These characters and forces appear in Star Wars: Legion as Mercenary units.

Mercenary units are not loyal to any of the game’s factions. However, factions and some Battle Forces can hire certain Mercenary units and field them in their armies. The Unit Card of a Mercenary unit indicates each faction that can include that Mercenary unit in an army. There is no additional cost to fielding a Mercenary unit in an army.

Mercenary units do not count toward the minimum number of ranks required in an army, but they do count toward the maximum ranks allowed. An army may include only two Mercenary units of the rank and only one Mercenary unit of each other rank.

Example: Mercenaries and Rank Requirements

For example, a standard Galactic Empire army that includes one or more Black Sun Enforcers units must field at least three non- Mercenary units and cannot field a combined number of units greater than six.

A player cannot normally field an army that contains only Mercenary units, but some Battle Forces allow a player to do just that. These Battle Forces have their own unique requirements and rules. Some Mercenary units cannot be used by any faction; these units can only be used when special rules allow them to be included in armies.

A Mercenary unit is friendly to the other units in its army but is not considered part of that army’s faction. When including Mercenary units in an army, use order tokens with a back that corresponds to the faction of the army. Players fielding an army that includes only Mercenary units use the Mercenary order tokens.

Example: Mercenaries and Factions

For example, Black Sun Enforcers in a Galactic Empire army are friendly to other units in the army but are not part of the Galactic Empire faction. Black Sun Enforcers in a Galactic Empire army would use Galactic Empire order tokens.

Mercenary: Faction Movement

Movement

When a unit performs a move action, it performs a standard move or climb. Miniatures have one of two types of bases— notched or unnotched. What kind of base a miniature has determines how that unit performs moves. Creature troopers, emplacement troopers, and vehicles all have notched bases.

Leaving the Battlefield

Units may not voluntarily end a movement with any of its miniature’s bases partially or fully outside the battlefield. A miniature may leave the battlefield temporarily if it ends its movement with its base fully inside the battlefield, such as when a unit with a notched base moves along the movement tool. If this is not possible, the miniature stops its movement when it contacts the edge of the battlefield, then it loses any remaining actions and may not perform any free actions.

Standard Move

To perform a standard move, take a movement tool of lower or equal speed of the moving unit and place it flat on the battlefield so that one end wholly touches the base of the unit’s unit leader. Then, the player may adjust the joint of the movement tool as they wish. After the movement tool has been adjusted, pick up the unit leader miniature and place it on the battlefield in contact with any portion of the movement tool. A unit may choose to use a movement tool of a lower speed when performing a move unless otherwise specified.

After placing the unit leader miniature, pick up any other miniatures in the unit and place them in cohesion. If for any reason a miniature cannot be placed in cohesion at the end of a move, place it as close as possible to the unit leader.

Example: Performing a Standard Move

Marco is activating an undeployed unit of B1 Battle Droids. He declares a move action to deploy them by performing a standard move. As the Battle Droids are speed-2, he may choose either the speed-1 or speed-2 movement tool. Marco chooses the speed-2 movement tool and places it flat on the battlefield so that both prongs of one end of the movement tool touch the edge of the battlefield within friendly territory. then, he may adjust the movement tool at its joint as he wishes. After he is content with the placement and position of the movement tool, Marco picks up the Battle Droid’s unit leader and places it back down on the battlefield in contact with any portion of the movement tool. Then he picks up the rest of the miniatures in the Battle Droid unit and places them so that they are all at of their unit leader.

With their first action complete, Marco declares the second action of the B1 Battle Droids will be another move action. Because the Battle Droids are now deployed, he places the movement tool on the battlefield so that one end wholly touches the unit leader’s base. He then adjusts the movement tool and places his unit leader in contact with it. Finally, he picks up the rest of the miniatures in the Battle Droid unit and places them so that they are all at of their unit leader.

Marco declares a move action with his Battle Droid unit and chooses to perform a standard move with them. As the Battle Droids are speed-2, he may choose either the speed-1 or speed-2 movement tool. Marco chooses the speed-2 movement tool and places it flat on the battlefield so that one end touches the unit leader's base. Then, he may adjust the movement tool at its joint as he wishes. After he is content with the placement and position of the movement tool, Marco picks up the Battle Droid’s unit leader and places it back down on the battlefield so that its base wholly touches the end of the movement tool. Then, he picks up the rest of the miniatures in the Battle Droid unit and places them so that they are all at a speed-1 move away from their unit leader.

Notched Base Movement

Units on notched bases follow all the above rules for movement. Additionally, a unit on a notched base must execute the following steps to perform a standard move:

The player may rotate the unit leader’s base up to 90° to the left or right, keeping the center of the base in the same place.
The player takes a movement tool less than or equal to the unit’s speed characteristic and places it flat on the battlefield so that one end is wholly inside the front notch of the unit leader’s base.
The player may adjust the movement tool at its joint as they wish.
The player decides to perform either a full move and step 6 or a partial move and step 5. Unlike normal bases, notched bases cannot be placed anywhere along the movement tool and instead move along the tool with different requirements based on this decision.
To execute a partial move, pick up the unit leader miniature and move it along the movement tool, taking care to keep the movement tool lined up with the front and rear notches on the base. The player may choose to stop this movement anywhere along the path created by the movement tool, moving the movement tool out of the way and placing the miniature on the battlefield. The miniature must be placed in such a way so that the line of the front and back notches on its base are parallel to the section of the movement tool the miniature reached at the farthest part of its move.
To execute a full move, pick up the unit leader miniature and move it along the movement tool, taking care to keep the movement tool lined up with the front and rear notches on the base. The player places the miniature so that the other end of the movement tool is inserted in the back notch of the miniature’s base.
When a miniature performs a full or partial move, if the base of the miniature is impeded by an object while moving along the movement tool, it must stop its movement prematurely unless it can legally move through, over, or on top of the obstructing object. Move the movement tool out of the way and place the miniature on the battlefield accordingly.
After placing the unit leader miniature, pick up any other miniatures in the unit and place them in cohesion. Miniatures with notched bases must be placed in the exact same directional orientation as their unit leader’s base. If for any reason a miniature cannot be placed in cohesion at the end of a move, place it as close to the unit leader as possible.

Example: Moving with Notched Bases

Simone wants to perform a standard move with her Swoop Bike Riders. She chooses to use the speed-3 movement tool since the Swoop Bike Riders are speed-3. She places the movement tool in the front notch of the Swoop Bike Riders unit leader's base. Next, she adjusts the movement tool as she wishes, then decides if she wants to perform a full or partial move. She decides to perform a full move and picks up the miniature and moves it along the movement tool, making sure to keep the tool lined up with the front and rear notches on the miniature’s base. She then places the miniature so that the rear notch is on the opposite end of the movement tool.

If Simone wishes to perform a partial move instead, she simply stops the miniature’s movement along the movement tool at the desired point and places it on the battlefield in such a way so that the front and rear notches on its base are parallel to the section of the movement tool the miniature reached at the farthest part of its move.

If terrain impedes a full or partial movement, the miniature must stop prematurely. Because the tower is stopping the Swoop Bike Riders movement, it ends its movement even though it has not traveled the full distance of the movement tool.

Non-Standard Moves

All of the following are not standard moves: climb, pivot, reverse, and strafe. These moves each have a separate rules entry describing how they are performed.

Miniatures Physically Interfering with Movement

While moving a miniature, treat the non-base portion of all miniatures as if they do not exist. A miniature’s movement cannot be impeded by the non-base parts of itself or another miniature.

Moving Through Miniatures

Miniatures can move through and overlap other miniatures during a move, but they cannot end a move overlapping other miniatures.

ABILITIES THAT PROVIDE MOVES

Some abilities provide standard moves, often of certain speeds. A move provided by an ability is not a move action unless specifically stated.

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Moving Through Terrain

Battlefields in Star Wars: Legion are often covered with terrain that impedes troops' movements.

When a unit performs a standard move, if it begins or ends a move with any of its miniatures in difficult terrain, or the movement tool overlaps a piece of difficult terrain, the unit reduces its speed by 1 to a minimum of 1. This may force the unit to use a movement tool of a lower speed than it originally intended.

Impassable terrain completely prevents movement. Miniatures cannot move or climb onto or through impassable terrain unless they have a special rule which allows them to do so.

Example: Performing a Standard Move Through Terrain

Evan declares a move action with his Clone Trooper unit and chooses to perform a standard move with them. As the clones are speed-2, he may choose either the speed-1 or speed-2 movement tool. However, because the Clone Troopers are starting their move on difficult terrain, their speed is reduced by 1 to a minimum of 1, meaning they cannot use the speed-2 movement tool. Because their speed is reduced to a minimum of 1, moving over the barricade will not reduce their speed further.

If Obi-Wan Kenobi wishes to move into the same piece of difficult terrain as the Clone Troopers, he will reduce his speed by 1 to a minimum of 1 and must use the speed-1 movement tool because the movement template will overlap the difficult terrain.

Climbing

Sometimes units maneuver onto or through tall pieces of obstacle terrain. This is accomplished by performing a climb. Miniatures on notched bases may not climb.

Example: Performing a Climb

The Clone Troopers move as normal, except they must use the speed-1 movement tool when climbing, and they may move up to a vertical distance of height 1 when making a climb.

Moving into Melee

After the unit leader of the unit moving into melee is placed, place the other miniatures in that unit into base contact with enemy miniatures in the unit that their unit leader is now in melee with.
If the opponent’s unit leader is not in base contact with an enemy miniature, that miniature’s controlling player places it into base contact with a miniature in the unit that moved into melee.
The opposing player places the other miniatures in their unit that are not currently in base contact with an enemy miniature or are not in cohesion into base contact with miniatures from the enemy unit that moved into melee.

Example: Moving into Melee

Engaged

Withdraw

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Nimble Noncombatant Notch

Notch

Some miniatures in Star Wars: Legion have notched bases. Units on notched bases follow all of the rules detailed in this section.

Notched Base Movement

Units on notched bases follow all the above rules for movement. Additionally, a unit on a notched base must execute the following steps to perform a standard move:

The player may rotate the unit leader’s base up to 90° to the left or right, keeping the center of the base in the same place.
The player takes a movement tool less than or equal to the unit’s speed characteristic and places it flat on the battlefield so that one end is wholly inside the front notch of the unit leader’s base.
The player may adjust the movement tool at its joint as they wish.
The player decides to perform either a full move and step 6 or a partial move and step 5. Unlike normal bases, notched bases cannot be placed anywhere along the movement tool and instead move along the tool with different requirements based on this decision.
To execute a partial move, pick up the unit leader miniature and move it along the movement tool, taking care to keep the movement tool lined up with the front and rear notches on the base. The player may choose to stop this movement anywhere along the path created by the movement tool, moving the movement tool out of the way and placing the miniature on the battlefield. The miniature must be placed in such a way so that the line of the front and back notches on its base are parallel to the section of the movement tool the miniature reached at the farthest part of its move.
To execute a full move, pick up the unit leader miniature and move it along the movement tool, taking care to keep the movement tool lined up with the front and rear notches on the base. The player places the miniature so that the other end of the movement tool is inserted in the back notch of the miniature’s base.
When a miniature performs a full or partial move, if the base of the miniature is impeded by an object while moving along the movement tool, it must stop its movement prematurely unless it can legally move through, over, or on top of the obstructing object. Move the movement tool out of the way and place the miniature on the battlefield accordingly.
After placing the unit leader miniature, pick up any other miniatures in the unit and place them in cohesion. Miniatures with notched bases must be placed in the exact same directional orientation as their unit leader’s base. If for any reason a miniature cannot be placed in cohesion at the end of a move, place it as close to the unit leader as possible.

Example: Moving with Notched Bases

Miniatures with notched bases have a number of additional movement options available to them:

Pivot

Some miniatures that have notched bases can pivot. If a unit can pivot, it is noted in the rules for its unit type.

When a unit that can pivot performs a move action, it may choose to pivot instead of performing another movement. To pivot, rotate the unit leader’s base up to 90° to the left or right, keeping the center of the base in the same place. If a unit contains multiple miniatures, each miniature in the unit must pivot so that the directional orientation of its base is the same as the unit leader’s.

Reverse

Some miniatures on notched bases can reverse. Only certain unit types may reverse.

When a unit performs a move action, it may choose to reverse instead of making another movement. When performing a reverse, follow the normal rules for moving with a notched base with the following exceptions:

When performing a partial reverse, instead of placing the movement tool wholly in the front notch of the unit leader’s base at the start of a move, place the movement tool wholly in the rear notch.
When performing a full reverse, instead of placing the movement tool in the front notch of the unit leader’s base, place it in the rear notch. Then place the front notch of the unit leader’s base on the other end of the movement tool.
While reversing, a unit reduces its speed by 1 to a minimum of 1.

Attacking with Notched Bases

Miniatures with notched bases have four different arcs represented by lines sculpted on their bases: front, two sides, and rear. These arcs are referenced by certain rules, such as the Fixed and Weak Point keywords.

See Fixed: Front/Rear and Weak Point X

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Objective Cards Objective Tokens

Objective Tokens

Units in Star Wars: Legion use objective tokens to score victory points. Objective Cards and Secondary Objective Cards specify which objective tokens are used and how to score victory points with them. Miniatures can move through objective tokens.

Types of Objective Tokens

There are two types of objective tokens:

Asset Tokens: Assets are valuable objects that can be carried around.
Point-of-Interest Tokens: Also referred to as POIs. POIs represent critical locations, vantage points, or particularly interesting areas that armies attempt to secure throughout a battle.

When determining the number of obscured miniatures and determining cover during an attack sequence, treat POIs as a piece of area terrain consisting of the volume of their silhouette that provides heavy cover. The silhouette for a POI is a cylinder as wide as the token and tall. For all other rules purposes, POIs do not block LOS.
Miniatures, advantage tokens, and other objective tokens cannot overlap or be overlapped by POIs.
POIs can be represented by a miniature on a 2-inch base instead of using a token. A POI represented by a miniature still counts as a token and does not count as a miniature for all rules purposes.

Contesting Objective Tokens

A unit is contesting an objective token if its unit leader is at of the objective token and the unit is not panicked.

Claiming Asset Objective Tokens

Battle Cards describe which units are eligible to claim asset tokens in that mission by granting them a Claim free action. An eligible unit can claim an unclaimed asset token it is contesting by performing that free action. When a unit claims an asset objective token, remove that token from the battlefield and place it on that unit’s Unit Card. That unit is now holding that asset token. When a unit drops an asset token it is holding, the opponent of that unit’s controlling player places that token on the battlefield at of that unit’s unit leader. While an asset objective token is on the battlefield, it is unclaimed.

When a unit panics, it drops all asset tokens it is holding. When a unit is defeated, it drops all asset tokens it is holding before removing its unit leader miniature from the battlefield.

Securing Objective Tokens

Some objective tokens can be secured. If an objective token can be secured, the player with the most units contesting that objective token is securing it.

Placing Objectives

Objective tokens must meet the following conditions when they are placed:

Objective tokens cannot be placed overlapping impassable terrain.
Objective tokens cannot be placed partially overlapping a non-area terrain feature.
Objective tokens cannot be placed overlapping obstacle terrain that is height 2 or greater.

During Setup, if an objective token should be placed at a position where the above conditions are not met, players must adjust terrain placement in a mutually agreeable manner so that the conditions are met. After Setup, if an objective token must be placed and there is not a position in range where the above conditions are met, that token is placed in the closest position that meets the above conditions instead.

Observation Tokens Observe X Obscured Obstacle Terrain Open Terrain Order Pool Outmaneuver Overlapping Objects Override Overrun X

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Panic Pass Permanent Pierce X Pivot Plodding POI Points Poison Tokens Poison X Precise X Premeasuring Prepared Position Priority Primitive Programmed Promote Pulling The Strings

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Quick Thinking

R

Rally

After rallying, if a unit begins its Perform Actions step while suppressed, it performs one fewer action during its Perform Actions step.

If a unit begins its Perform Actions step while panicked, it cannot perform any actions or free actions and drops any claimed objective tokens it may have. Then, if a unit did not perform any actions or free actions due to panic, at the end of the unit’s activation, it removes suppression tokens equal to its courage value.

EXAMPLE: SUPPRESSED AND PANICKED

On Ryan’s turn, he chooses to activate a Clone Trooper unit with two suppression tokens. After resolving any effects at the start of the Clone Trooper unit’s activation, he performs the unit’s Rally step and rolls two white defense dice, one for each suppression token. Unfortunately, he rolls two blanks and does not remove any suppression tokens from the unit. Because the Clone Troopers have a courage value of 1 and have a number of suppression tokens equal to or greater than their courage value, they are still suppressed and must perform one fewer action during the Perform Actions step of their activation.

Additionally, because the Clone Troopers have suppression equal to or greater than double their courage value, they are still panicked as well as suppressed. Therefore, they drop any claimed objective tokens, perform no actions or free actions, and at the end of their activation, they remove suppression tokens equal to their courage value.

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Repair X: Capacity Y (Upgrade Keyword)

When a unit uses the Repair X: Capacity Y card action, choose a friendly droid trooper or vehicle unit at and LOS and place one wound token on the card that has the Repair X: Capacity Y keyword. Remove a total of up to X wound, ion, and/or vehicle damage tokens from the chosen unit or restore up to X miniatures to that unit. This ability cannot be used if the card that has the Repair X: Capacity Y keyword has a number of wound tokens on it equal to or exceeding Y.

If a unit has multiple Repair X: Capacity Y abilities, treat each keyword as a separate ability.

Additionally, each action is considered unique, and a unit that has access to more than one can use each ability once during its activation. This applies even if the unit has access to two identical abilities from different sources.

Restore

Some abilities, such as the Treat and Repair keywords or certain card effects, allow a player to restore miniatures to friendly units. To restore a miniature to a unit, that unit must have had one or more miniatures defeated that round. Choose a miniature that was defeated during the current round and place that miniature on the battlefield in cohesion with its unit leader. Then, give that miniature a number of wound tokens equal to one less than the wound threshold indicated on its Unit Card.

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Resiliency

Vehicles do not have a courage value. Instead most, but not all, have a resilience value. A vehicle that does not have a resilience value has a “-” on their Unit Card where the resilience value should be.

When a vehicle with a resilience value has a number of wounds equal to or more than its resilience value, after the effect causing this is resolved, the vehicle gains a vehicle damage token.

When a player activates a vehicle unit with a vehicle damage token, roll a white defense die. On a blank result that vehicle performs one fewer action during its activation.

A vehicle can only have one vehicle damage token at a time and can only gain a vehicle damage token in this way once per game.

Example: Vehicle Damage

Nicholas’ AAT Tank has already suffered 3 wounds and suffers 3 more from an attack. After the attack is resolved, Nicholas’ AAT Tank gains a vehicle damage token.

Because a vehicle can only ever gain a vehicle damage token when it has damage equal to its resilience once per game, if Nicholas removes the vehicle damage token from his AAT Tank and it suffers further wounds, he does not gain another vehicle damage token.

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Scale Scatter Scatter Terrain Scout X Scouting Party X Secondary Objective Cards Secret Mission Secure Self Destruct X Self-Preservation Sentinel Setup

Setup

The process of getting ready to play a game of Star Wars: Legion is called Setup. Setup consists of the following steps:

Build an Army, Command Hand, and a Battle Deck
Establish the Battlefield and Gather Components
Declare Terrain
Place Terrain
Determine Blue Player
Build a Mission
Resolve Setup Effects
Deploy in Prepared Positions

Determine Blue Player

In Star Wars: Legion, a player is either the red player or the blue player. Each player rolls five black attack dice to determine who will start building a mission as the blue player. The blue player is the player with the most results. If there is a tie, the player with the most results is the blue player. If there is still a tie, the player with the most attack results is the blue player. If there is still a tie at this point, the players reroll the dice and follow the above rules until the tie is broken.

Building a Mission

Then, starting with the blue player, players alternate modifying the mission. A player can modify the mission in the following ways:

Reveal the top card of your Objective Deck, discard the current card on the objective space of the Mission Dashboard, and replace it with the newly revealed Objective Card.
Reveal the top card of your Secondary Objective Deck, discard the current card on the secondary objective space of the Mission Dashboard, and replace it with the newly revealed Secondary Objective Card.
Reveal the top card of your Advantage Deck, discard the current card on your advantage space on the Mission Dashboard, and replace it with the newly revealed Advantage Card.
Your opponent reveals the top card of their Advantage Deck, discards the current card on their advantage space on the Mission Dashboard, and replaces it with the newly revealed Advantage Card.
Move the token indicating the blue player to your side of the Dashboard. You are now the blue player.
Pass. There is no effect.

After each player has modified the mission twice, the mission is built. Before the first round, the players set up the mission in the following order:

The blue player chooses one of the long edges of the battlefield as their side. The red player gets the opposite side. The player territory that shares an edge with a player’s side is that player’s friendly territory and the other player's territory is enemy territory.
Follow any setup instructions on the Objective Card.
Follow any setup instructions on the Secondary Objective Card.
Starting with the blue player, each player follows any setup instructions on their Advantage Card.

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Resolve Setup Effects

Starting with the blue player, players resolve any abilities and effects that occur during Setup.

Deploy in Prepared Positions

Starting with the blue player, players alternate placing units with the Prepared Position keyword on the battlefield.

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Standard Move

Example: Performing a Standard Move

Standby

A trooper or ground vehicle unit can perform the standby action to gain a standby token. Place it on the battlefield near the unit’s unit leader. A unit cannot perform an attack action and a standby action in the same activation. A unit can only have one standby token at a time.

During the Activation Phase, after an enemy unit at and in LOS of any miniature in a friendly trooper or friendly ground vehicle unit with a standby token performs an attack, move, or action, if it is not that friendly unit’s activation and that attack, move, or action was not caused by an effect of that friendly unit’s controlling player, that friendly unit may spend a standby token to perform a free move action or a free attack action. The only unit that can be declared as a defender during a free attack action made in this way is the enemy unit that performed the attack, move, or action that triggered the standby.

If a unit performs a move, an attack, an action, or gains a suppression token, it removes any standby tokens it has.

A standby token is spent before any effects that trigger after an attack, attack action, move, or move action. A unit cannot spend a standby token until all of an attacking unit’s attack pools have been resolved.

Example: Standby

Melissa’s Battle Droid unit performs the standby action and gains a standby token. Later in the round, the enemy Clone Trooper unit activates and performs an action. Because the Clone Trooper unit is at of the Battle Droids and in LOS, after the action is complete the Battle Droids may spend their standby token to perform a free move or attack action after the Clone Trooper’s action is resolved.

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Suppression

Suppression represents the morale and combat effectiveness of a unit—the more suppression it has, the less effective it is on the battlefield. Suppression is tracked during the game with suppression tokens. Vehicles do not suffer suppression.

Trooper units have a courage value on their Unit Card. When a unit has a number of suppression tokens equal to or greater than its courage value, it is suppressed. If a unit has a number of suppression tokens that is equal to or greater than double its courage value, it is panicked. A suppressed unit performs one less action each activation, while a panicked unit suffers additional effects.

Rallying

After rallying, if a unit begins its Perform Actions step while suppressed, it performs one fewer action during its Perform Actions step.

EXAMPLE: SUPPRESSED AND PANICKED

COMMANDERS AND CHECKING FOR PANIC

NULL COURAGE VALUE

If a unit has a null courage value, then friendly units at may choose to use that unit's courage value and, therefore, never panic, regardless of the number of suppression tokens they might have.

Suppressive Surge Tokens

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Tactical X Take Cover X Teamwork: Unit Name Target X Tempted Terrain

Terrain

The scenery and features that make up the battlefield are terrain. Terrain serves more of a purpose than simply being aesthetically pleasing—the terrain over which armies fight can have as dramatic an impact on the course of battle as the abilities of the armies themselves. Players should always discuss terrain before the game starts. There are three types of terrain: scatter terrain, area terrain, and obstacle terrain.

Scatter Terrain

Scatter terrain represents small terrain features such as crates, planters, or lamp posts. It is up to the players to determine the height, special rules, and the type of cover that scatter terrain provides.

Barricades are a specific type of scatter terrain found in some Star Wars: Legion Core Sets and in their own expansion pack. Barricades are open terrain for trooper units and provide non-creature trooper trooper units with heavy cover.

Barricades cannot be placed overlapping objective or advantage tokens and cannot have objective or advantage tokens placed on them. A trooper miniature can never partially overlap a barricade at any time.

Area Terrain

Some terrain features consist of an area of terrain containing multiple terrain elements inside a boundary or footprint, like a forest, craters, ruined buildings, or piles of rubble. The individual elements and their locations inside the area terrain are not relevant, only the boundary.

When determining the size of area terrain, imagine a silhouette beginning at the bottom of the area terrain and extending upwards to the tallest point of the terrain. The volume of this silhouette is all part of the area terrain. It is up to the players to determine the height, the boundaries, special rules, and the type of cover that area terrain provides.

Obstacle Terrain

Obstacle terrain represents large or tall terrain features such as buildings, cliffs, or high walls. When a trooper miniature wants to move through or onto an obstacle terrain feature, it may have to perform a climb based on the obstacle terrain’s height.

Terrain Restricting Movement

In addition to being scatter, area, or obstacle terrain, a terrain feature is also open, difficult, or impassable.

Open terrain represents parts of the battlefield that are relatively easy to traverse and free from obstacles or obstructions. Open fields, lamp posts, planters, tall grass, or sandy desert are all open terrain. Open terrain does not restrict movement.

Difficult terrain restricts but does not completely prevent movement. Craters, barricades, ruins, woods, piles of rubble, and swamps are all examples of difficult terrain. Difficult terrain reduces the maximum speed of a unit moving through or into it by 1 to a minimum of 1.

Impassable terrain completely prevents movement. Miniatures cannot move through or end a movement on impassable terrain unless they have a special rule which allows them to do so.

Some larger and more complex pieces of terrain are made up of various parts that each restrict movement differently. For example, the walls of a piece of obstacle terrain may be impassable, but a miniature may be able to move through a door or window that is open terrain. Players should discuss the parts of terrain and agree on how they are to be played before the game begins.

Example: Different Types of Terrain

The Clone Trooper unit is preparing to move. The battlefield is open terrain and does not restrict the Clone Trooper unit’s movement. The barricades are difficult terrain and will slow down the Clone Troopers should they choose to move over them. The building is impassable terrain, and the Clone Troopers may not move through it unless they have a special rule that allows them to do so.

Fitting on Terrain

When a trooper miniature’s base is overlapping a piece of obstacle terrain, it must be completely overlapping that terrain. Trooper miniatures cannot end a movement or be placed in a way that would cause their base to only partially overlap a piece of obstacle terrain and may not have any part of part of its base hanging off the terrain. Trooper miniatures cannot be deployed in a way where any part of their base is only partially overlapping a piece of obstacle terrain.

Example: Fitting on Terrain

When placing miniatures on obstacle terrain, a miniature’s base must completely overlap the terrain. Because the 2 Clone Troopers are hanging off the balcony and only partially overlapping the piece of obstacle terrain, they cannot be placed there and must be placed in such a way that their bases completely overlap the obstacle terrain like the other 2 Clone Troopers.

Terrain Providing Cover

Terrain Height

Example: Measuring Height

The Golden Rule of Terrain

Ultimately, the type of terrain and the rules used are up to the players and should be discussed before the game begins.

Timing

Some rules refer to the active player; the active player is the player whose turn it is.

Sometimes effects will occur at the same time. The player with priority always resolves their effects first. If neither player has priority, the blue player resolves their effects first. If a player has multiple effects that occur at the same time, they choose the order in which to resolve effects.

Sometimes an effect happens after something is resolved, which means that the effect happens after that thing has been totally completed.

Setup

The process of getting ready to play a game of Star Wars: Legion is called Setup. Setup consists of the following steps:

Build an Army, Command Hand, and a Battle Deck
Establish the Battlefield and Gather Components
Declare Terrain
Place Terrain
Determine Blue Player
Build a Mission
Resolve Setup Effects
Deploy in Prepared Positions

PARTS OF A ROUND

Each of the five rounds in a game of Star Wars: Legion is divided into the following phases:

The Command Phase
The Activation Phase
The End Phase

PARTS OF THE COMMAND PHASE

Select and Play Command Cards
Resolve Command Cards
Determine Priority
Nominate Commanders and Issue Orders
Create the Order Pool
Create the Pass Pool

RESOLVING COMMAND CARD EFFECTS

Command Card effects that occur when the Command Card is revealed, starting with the Blue Player
Command Card effects that do not have a specific timing, starting with the Blue Player
Command Card effects that occur when a unit issues orders, starting with the player with priority.
Command Card effects that occur at the start of the Activation Phase, starting with the player with priority.
Command Card effects that occur during the Activation Phase, starting with the player with priority.

PARTS OF THE ACTIVATION PHASE

Resolve Abilities or Effects at Start of Activation Phase
Choose a Unit to Activate or Pass
Activate Unit
- Resolve Any Abilities or Effects
- Rallying
- Perform Actions
- Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at End of Unit Activation
Place Order Token
Resolve Abilities or Effects at End of Activation Phase

PARTS OF A UNIT’S ACTIVATION

Resolve Abilities or Effects at the Start of a Unit’s Activation
Rally
Perform Actions
Resolve Any Abilities or Effects at the End of a Unit's Activation
Assign Order Token

ATTACK TIMING

Declare Defender
Form Attack Pool
1. Determine Eligible Miniatures
2. Choose Weapons and Gather Dice
Declare Additional Defender
Roll Attack Dice
1. Roll Dice
2. Reroll Dice
3. Convert Attack Surges
Apply Dodge and Apply Cover
1. Determine Number of Obscured Miniatures
2. Determine Cover
3. Roll Cover Pool
4. Apply Cover
5. Apply Dodge
Modify Attack Dice
Roll Defense Dice
1. Roll Dice
2. Reroll Dice
3. Convert Defense Surges
Modify Defense Dice
Compare Results
Assign Suppression Token to Defender
Choose Additional Attack Pool

PARTS OF THE END PHASE

Resolve any Abilities or Effects at the Start of the End Phase
Score Victory Points
Discard Command Cards
Remove Tokens
Update Order Pool and Promote
Resolve any Abilities or Effects at End of End Phase
Advance Round Counter

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Treat X: Capacity Y (Upgrade Keyword

When a unit uses the Treat X: Capacity Y card action, choose a friendly non-droid trooper unit at and LOS and place one wound token on the card that has the Treat X: Capacity Y keyword. Remove a total of up to X wound and/or poison tokens from the chosen unit or restore up to X miniatures to that unit. This ability cannot be used if the card that has the Treat X: Capacity Y keyword has a number of wound tokens on it equal to or exceeding Y.

Wound tokens on cards are not considered to be on units and do not count toward a unit’s wound threshold, nor can they be removed by abilities that remove wound tokens from units.

If a unit has multiple Treat X: Capacity Y abilities, treat each keyword as a separate ability.

Additionally, each action is considered to be unique, and a unit that has access to more than one can use each ability once during its activation. This applies even if the unit has access to two identical abilities from different sources.

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Uncanny Luck X Unconcerned Undeployed Unit Unhindered Unstoppable Unique Cards Unit Upgrade Cards

Upgrade Cards

Upgrade Cards contain additional rules that can be equipped by units during Army Building. Upgrades vary between additional miniatures, weapons, equipment, or even special training or programming.

The types of upgrades available for a unit to equip are shown on the unit’s upgrade bar.

The types of upgrades are as follows:

Heavy Weapon

Comms

Personnel

Pilot

Force

Training

Command

Generator

Hardpoint

Armament

Gear

Crew

Grenades

Ordnance

Programming

Squad Leader

For each icon on the unit’s upgrade bar, the unit may equip one Upgrade Card with a matching icon. Points listed on the Upgrade Card are counted towards an army’s points total. A unit may not equip the same Upgrade Card twice. Some Upgrade Cards have restrictions on which units may equip them. Any restrictions for an Upgrade Card are listed on the card.

Cards with the or icons add a miniature armed with the weapon shown on the upgrade card to the unit in addition to any weapons on the Unit Card. Only the miniature added to the unit by the Upgrade Card may use the weapon on the Upgrade Card.

Cards with the , , , , , , or icons add an additional weapon, as shown on the Upgrade Card. Any miniature in a unit with an , , , , or Upgrade Card equipped may use the weapon on the Upgrade Card. Only one miniature may use the weapon on a Upgrade Card per attack sequence.

DEFEATING UPGRADE CARD MINIATURES AND DISCARDING UPGRADE CARDS

Dual-Sided Upgrade Cards

Some Upgrade Cards are dual-sided. When building an army, only count the points cost on one of the sides of the card. When a unit with a dual-sided Upgrade Card equipped deploys, the unit’s controlling player decides which side is faceup. Only the rules on the faceup side of the card can be used. dual sided upgrade card example

If a unit has a Upgrade Card equipped, measure the range of any effects on the card from the unit’s unit leader.

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Vehicles Versatile Vertical Movement

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Weak Point X: Rear/Sides Weapons Weighed Down We're Not Regs Wheel Mode Winning the Game Withdraw Within (Range) Wookiee Trooper Wounds

Suffering Wounds and Defeating Miniatures

When a player’s unit suffers wounds, that player chooses a miniature from that unit and assigns wound tokens to it until either all wounds have been suffered or the miniature is defeated.

A unit leader cannot be assigned wounds unless it is the only miniature in the unit.

When all of the miniatures in a unit are defeated, the unit is defeated. Remove all order tokens for that unit from the battlefield.

Effects that Deal or Assign Wounds

Example: Assigning Wounds and Defeating Miniatures

Wound X

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Actions

Activating Units

PARTS OF A UNIT'S ACTIVATION

Unit Cohesion

Rallying

EXAMPLE: SUPPRESSED AND PANICKED

COMMANDERS AND CHECKING FOR PANIC

NULL COURAGE VALUE

Perform Actions

Deploying Units

Place Order Token

Activation Phase

Parts of the Activation Phase

Choose a Unit to Activate or Pass

Activating a Unit

Resolve End of Activation Phase Effects

Advanced Targeting: Unit Type X (Unit Keyword)

Advantage Token

Advantage Cards

Affiliations

Agile X (Unit Keyword)

AI: Action (Unit Keyword)

Aid: Affiliation (Unit Keyword)

Aim

Allies of Convenience (Unit Keyword)

Area Terrain

Area Weapon

Arm X: Charge Token (Weapon Keyword)

Armor X (Unit Keyword)

Associate: Unit Name (Unit Keyword)

Asset Token

Arsenal X (Unit Keyword)

Ataru Mastery (Unit Keyword)

At (Range)

Attack

Attack Timing

Line of Sight

Weapons

Declare Defender

Example: Declare Defender

Form Attack Pool

Example: Forming Attack Pools

Attacking in Melee

Declare Additional Defender

Example: Declare Additional Defender

Roll Attack dice

Example: Roll Attack Dice

Canceling Results

Apply Dodge and Cover

Example: Applying Cover

Modify Attack Dice

Roll Defense Dice

Example: Rolling Defense Dice

Modify Defense Dice

Compare Results

Example: Comparing Results

Suffering Wounds and Defeating Miniatures

Removing Miniatures in Melee

Effects that Deal or Assign Wounds

Example: Assigning Wounds and Defeating Miniatures

Assign Suppression Token to Defender

Choose Additional Attack Pool

Full Attack Sequence Example

Attack Pool

Example: Forming Attack Pools

Attack Run (Unit Keyword)

Authoritative (Unit Keyword)

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Backup

Bane Tokens

Barrage (Unit Keyword)

Barricades

Base

Base Contact

Battle Cards

Battle Deck

Battlefield