Legions Imperials: The Start

 It’s taken over a year.

 

Legions Imperials came out in October 2023 and I, like so many others, was super excited. Epic 40,000 and Epic Armageddon were two of my favourite games. I also love Aeronautica Imperialis and Adeptitus Titanicus. So, having all these models in one game themed around the Horus Hersey … what wasn’t there to like?

 

Well … I was pretty shocked, when I wrote my first 3,000pt army, with the amount of stuff you could put onto the battlefield. Compared to Epic Armageddon, I’d need close to three times the amount of infantry. With the board size shrunk, I was getting worried that the game play would lose any aspect of strategic movement it once had. Add to this early supply issues and, the first online battle reports not all being overly positive, I decided to complete a few other painting projects along the way.

 

It has therefore taken over a year to get my army into a position where I can field it and play a game. Note I say ‘army into a position’; it’s not all painted yet. This Christmas I set myself, and completed, a project to base all my painted Legions Infantry which had been on sprues for months. Because I paint infantry on the sprue, I can’t use it in a game until painted hence, why it’s taken so long. So, I only have planes and drop pods left which have been built and sprayed so, can be used.

 

Below is my first attempt at a 3,000pt Word Bearer legions army list (I need to get rid of 4pts). As I have 10,000 points of Titans and knights, I am determined to make sure that these are included in my force … hence why my Legion infantry have bases which match my titans and knights. I also feel that my marine army should be hard hitting and lighting quick, hence why lots of flyers

 

Legion Garrison force (546pts)
Infantry command (25pts)
Rapier battery - Quad launcher (40pts)
tarantula battery - 2 lascannon / 2 air defence (36pts)
Tactical detachment (35pts)
Dreadnought talon (70pts)
Deredo Dreadnought (85pts)
3x Xiphon intercept (255pts)

Legion Aerial assault (770pts)
Infantry command (25pts)
Missile launcher - Storm eagle (140pts)
Tactical detachment - Storm eagle (135pts)
Outrider squad (30pts)
Legion Assault (30pts)
Plasma gun support (35pts)
Thunder hawk (150pts)
3x Xiphon intercept (255pts)

Legion Demi company (612pts)
Infantry command - Rhino (35pts)
Tactical detachment - Rhino (45pts)
Tactical detachment - Rhino (45pts)
Terminator detachment (50pts)
2x Raptors (200pts)
Leviathan Dreadnought - 2 drop pods + palisade (121pts)
Talon Dreadnoughts - 2 drop pods+ palisade (116pts)

Legion Skyhunter (226pts)
Scimitar jet bikes (35pts)
Scimitar jet bikes (35pts)
Outrider squad (30pts)
Javelin squad - 2x extra (66pts)
Landspeeders squad - 2x extra (60pts)

Warlord titan (600pts)

Acastus knight (250pts)

Total 3004pts

 

So next up are the planes and drop pods. After this, I have two boxes of land raiders to paint. The idea then is to have a break from painting legions, and paint up my ‘Old World’ Chaos Dwarfs whilst playing lots of legions. I reckon it’ll take me so long to paint up my Chaos Dwarfs that, I would have had lots of games of legions. Those games will allow me to work out exactly what I would want to paint up next for this game within ‘tranche 2’.

 

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