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Star Wars: Legion Getting Started: The Galactic Empire

What Is the Empire? The Galactic Empire is a brutal dictatorship that replaced the Galactic Republic at the end of the Clone Wars. Led by Emperor Palpatine and his right hand, Darth Vader, the Empire rules through fear and violence,...

Getting Started with Star Wars: Shatterpoint

Deciding to play any miniatures game can be a challenge. We are here to help get you over the hump and show you this game is worth your time and energy. Our previous article discussed the rules and review...

Getting Started with the X-Wing Miniatures Game

Welcome, pilots! Before you begin, note that this article is intended to introduce the X-Wing Miniatures Game to brand-new players, and provide some guidance on how to get started. It is not intended as a how-to-play or tactics article,...

Getting Started with Star Wars: Armada

Are you fond of Star Wars? Does the thought of commanding capital ships and their supporting squadrons appeal to you? Do you have an officer’s outlook and think that tromping around in the mud is beneath you? If you...

Getting Started with Star Wars: Legion

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Hello there! I’m Matt, and I’m updating the wonderful work done by Lunar Knight, who updated the work done by Ragnarok Angel before that. To carry a metaphor from...

Goonhammer’s Hub for Star Wars Content

We've been big fans of the Star Wars miniatures games - from X-Wing and Armada to Legion and Shatterpoint. You may have seen some of our coverage of these games, especially today. They're pretty great, and worth checking out. Something...

Star Wars: Legion

First published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2018, Star Wars: Legion is a skirmish-scale tabletop wargame set in the Star Wars universe. As of 2021 production of the game moved to Atomic Mass Games. In Legion players build an...

Star Wars: Armada

First published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2015, Star Wars: Armada is the much larger scale game of Space Battles set in the Star Wars universe. Where X-Wing sees players piloting small groups of fighters, bombers, and other small...

X-Wing

First published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2012, X-Wing is a tabletop game about recreating the exciting space battles and dogfights from the Star Wars universe. In X-Wing, players pilot a fleet of between three and eight spacecraft and...

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