The incredible miniatures in Star Wars Legion look even better when they’re fighting over a battlefield packed with suitably intergalactic terrain. With help from the fine folks at the r/SWLegion subreddit, we’ve rounded up the best options for Star Wars Legion terrain so you can create any battlefield you want from the galaxy far, far away…
Atomic Mass Game has produced a small range of official Star Wars Legion terrain kits. They absolutely look the part, but they’re quite expensive, and older kits like the Downed AT-ST are not in production any more. And the Star Wars Legion roadmap of new releases and reissues doesn’t mention the older terrain kits coming back into stock.
Everything in this guide has the right aesthetic, and is a cost effective way to ensure your Legion table has enough scenery to make for an exciting game.
Terrain Crate
Mantic Games’ Terrain Crate Range has several really useful sets of scatter terrain and area terrain that are perfect for making a battlefield look alien. The Alien Forest and Alien Jungle kits have a range of plant parts that can be socketed together in many different ways to create weird extra-terrestrial forests. They even come with magnet holes if you want to mix and match the parts between battles.
The Tomb World terrain is also worth a look. It’s a set of old walls, monuments, even a defense laser and a portal, inscribed with strange glyphs and overgrown with plant roots. It’s perfect scatter terrain to put around a lost Jedi temple.
Tabletop Terrain
Tabletop Terrain is a US based 3D printing studio with commercial licenses to print kits from a variety of different terrain ranges, as well as some kits of its own. Its “Desert Terrain” section is packed with kits from several different sculptors that look perfect for any planet in the Outer Rim, from Tatooine to Jedha. It offers free shipping for orders over $100 and a discount for military personnel, veterans, and first responders.
Imperial Terrain
Imperial Terrain designs and sells STLs, but also links to a variety of print partners if you don’t have your own 3D printer. Its Imperial theme is great for Imperial forward bases and fixed defenses, while its desert theme has an incredible modular Cantina, pirate skiffs, and of course lots of rounded buildings. Its Forest Moon kit is a full treetop village, complete with walkways.
Imperial Terrain’s designs are very detailed, and not all of that detail will come across on FDM printers. Some of the finer components, like antennae and railings, may also break if subjected to heavy handling.
War Scenery
Another 3D sculpting studio, War Scenery has several Star Wars-suitable ranges. The Rebel Command Base is the newest; it’s perfect for refighting the battle of Hoth, with everything from ice trenches to defensive turbo lasers, and even a colossal, ball-shaped Ion Cannon. The District 1919 range is perfect for a built up urban centre like Coruscant, while the Outer Rim range does just what it says on the tin.
Compared with Imperial Terrain, War Scenery has slightly simpler designs. That means you won’t get quite as much benefit from printing it on a resin printer as you will from Imperial Terrain – but it’s easier to get a good result on an FDM printer. The differences are marginal, though, a good print from either range will look great.
Star Wars model kits
Star Wars model kits are great for Legion scenery, whether you want to populate a hangar bay with ships ready to take off, or you want to create some crash sites. The only question is the miniature scale.
Star Wars: Legion is a 28mm scale game – a six foot tall human is represented by a 28mm tall figure – which roughly equates to 1/56 model scale. Revell has some kits that are pretty close: a 1/57 X-Wing and 1/52 Snowspeeder.
In general, going larger is better than going smaller – terrain is usually oversized compared to models. A 1/48 scale kit won’t look out of place, provided you don’t have the actual Legion version of the vehicle on the tabletop as well. AMT makes a 1/48 scale Naboo Starfighter and an AT-ST that are well worth looking into.
If the thought of filling a whole battlefield with terrain exhausts you, you should check out our guide to the best Star Wars board games instead. And you should make sure you’re following the recently revealed Star Wars: Battle of Hoth from Days of Wonder, which will take the incredible Commands & Colors rules engine from strategy board game Memoir ‘44 and transpose it to a galaxy far, far away.
If you’ve made a Star Wars Legion battlefield that you’re proud of, we absolutely want to see it. Come and join us in the official Wargamer Discord Server and share your work!
Source: Wargamer
