It’s actually happening; Atomic Mass Games is going the open beta route testing for the new Star Wars: Legion Special Operations game mode!
We’ve wanted to see open beta testing for a long time, as the community generally knows what is going on with the game. No company has enough playtesters to get enough games in to test everything fully. So, it’s really cool to see AMG take this route for their new game mode.
You can take part right now in the open testing and give your feedback on how the games go! So, if you want to be part of making the game great, this is your time!
AMG Doing Open Beta Testing For New Star Wars: Legion Special Operations!
All the info comes from AMG’s Transmission.
All the documents you can download for the game are right here!
In Special Operations, players choose from a preset list of Special Operations squads. Each squad is composed of various troopers from Star Wars: Legion. While the game uses much of the standard Legion rules (and exclusively standard Legion miniatures), players have a command hand, assign orders, perform activations and actions just like normal games of Legion, the rules have been adjusted to shift the experience from unit vs unit combat to trooper vs trooper combat. Additionally, Special Operations unique missions and upgrade system add new strategic and tactical challenges for players to overcome as they race to achieve their mission objectives.
It’s always cool to get new game modes to play (especially when you play with the minis you already have)! The game mode sounds fun, but maybe the most interesting thing about this is that you can participate in the playtesting right now!
While we already had the game design and initial development for Special Operations done, normally the next step would be several months of playtesting, followed by potentially more testing as we put the game through its paces using our dedicated groups of global playtesters as we worked to fully develop and polish Special Operations before sending it off to be made into an actual thing by our incredible Graphic Design team. If we followed all the normal steps we might have Special Operations ready for you all to print and play by the end of the year.
You can actually download all the rules here and get playing games. However, if you play the game, just be sure to fill out the testing form!
As we said, this is really awesome to see a company going the open beta route, and the first round of feedback will be looked into at the end of February. Then, the second round of testing will start in April.
You can find the feedback form here.
We are thrilled to say that over the next several months we will be running a Public Beta on Legion Special Operations. Starting today, you can download the Special Operations Beta Rules, play testing games with your local Legion community, and provide valuable feedback that will help us speed the delivery of this new Legion Game Mode to be available this Summer as a free print and play packet.
Participate in this open beta in two rounds of playtesting. We will take feedback during the month of February, close feedback to review during March, and re-open the beta in April for a second round of feedback.
This is a really cool move from the company, so let’s all get out there and play some games. That way, they might keep this going in the future to get really balanced games!
Click Here to Get the Rules & Feedback Forms!
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