Legions Imperialis! Big Scale War with Very Tiny Minis! Blood Angels, Death Guard, Solar Auxilia

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  • Legions Imperialis shows the scale of the civil war during the Horus Heresy. This wargame is so big it took 2-days to play! Mostly because it was learning a new system for us but also because there are so many miniatures to film! It's just so satisfying to roll with dozens of tanks and hundreds of infantry!
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Комментарии • 294

  • @jam14732
    @jam14732 Год назад +125

    “Did you destroy the playground..?
    No.. he gingerly walked through…” lol

  • @Bukkarooo
    @Bukkarooo Год назад +81

    I...think I might want to get into Legions Imperialis over 40k after watching this. There's a sleekness to the rules without losing strategy, and the scale is just so cool. The brutality of melee combat and the amount of armor you run just really feeds into everything I love too.

  • @carless5239
    @carless5239 Год назад +307

    Would love to see some regular sized heresy too! But this is great!

    • @aceofhearts9928
      @aceofhearts9928 Год назад +16

      I agree, it's a real shame that they've done only one. Heresy feels rife with the narrative focused gaming they tend to do!

    • @nakata123
      @nakata123 Год назад +8

      Nah this is fine, regular sized would cost a fortune.

    • @aceofhearts9928
      @aceofhearts9928 Год назад +7

      @@nakata123 they already have a heresy army

    • @brycemcewen6146
      @brycemcewen6146 11 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@aceofhearts9928if it's the box set that's less than half of one

    • @sturm9087
      @sturm9087 11 месяцев назад +11

      @@nakata123 yeah but the heresy ruleset is so much better than the 40k one

  • @RileyGein
    @RileyGein Год назад +218

    If only mainstream 40k would adopt alternate activation. Having both players actively reacting to combat results makes for a more exciting game to play and to watch battle reports of

    • @LordCrate-du8zm
      @LordCrate-du8zm Год назад +4

      To each their own. I like main 40k’s current turn system.

    • @dnawolf8789
      @dnawolf8789 Год назад +2

      i would like if 40k at least let players move 1 unit then the other just like shooting and charging/melee then some armies wouldnt table you in turn 1 /2

    • @RileyGein
      @RileyGein Год назад +24

      @@dnawolf8789 exactly this. Seen way too many cases of players getting demolished first turn just because they didn’t win the initiative roll.

    • @christopherfreitas6510
      @christopherfreitas6510 Год назад +17

      I agree, 40k (which I play) seems weird in the fact that it's like, oh you move you army, shoot me, than chop me up, then I will do the same to you .. real war is fluid and fast paced, I feel it should have more of an alternating flow to it as well.

    • @desgoyomama3274
      @desgoyomama3274 Год назад +9

      @@christopherfreitas6510 A nice middle ground I've seen thrown around by people between the system as-is and alternate activations is instead of 1 turn being one player going through all of the phases, a turn is both players playing through each phase, so for example:
      Turn 1, during the movement phase of the turn, player 1 does all his movement, then player 2 gets to move, then during the shooting phase, player 1 shoots first, then player 2, etc. To keep some fairness/variety in turn order, on turn 2, player 2 gets to move first instead of player 1 and so on.
      Never played this way before, but it seems like it could be pretty good!

  • @CannibalKubi
    @CannibalKubi Год назад +79

    If I hadn't already completely escalated into this game, I would after this video at the latest! As usual, great quality, great terrain, great models. The action and dynamics of the game are conveyed superbly. More please!

  • @bradleysmith6599
    @bradleysmith6599 Год назад +37

    My university gaming group was super into Epic Space Marine back in the mid 90s, so it's nice to see Legion Imperialis!

  • @morganw.4711
    @morganw.4711 Год назад +115

    Chaos Nick has finally happened! I mean, pre-chaos, but still!

  • @kirksabio2382
    @kirksabio2382 Год назад +25

    It's wild seeing tanks and an ungodly amount of infantry go down in 1 turn. That melee in the center was wild. Deathguard killing auxillia, then titan killing deathguard, then tank killing titan.

  • @ShameyBaby
    @ShameyBaby Год назад +62

    Gotta credit JT there, trying to pronounce all those crazy unit names at the start. 👏

    • @jtmcdowell2331
      @jtmcdowell2331 Год назад +9

      It definitely made my head spin doing it lol!

  • @shanesomerville6115
    @shanesomerville6115 Год назад +34

    Amazing, so glad to see you playing this and i cant wait for more. One quick rules bit, there is no roll for void shield saves. Hits are just allocated to the shields and you reduce by one.

  • @griffynstainbrook2420
    @griffynstainbrook2420 Год назад +48

    I hope this gets the love it deserves!!! I wish Standard 40k games were as big as this felt!
    I live for those massive games, and to have it be fully realized in Legion Imperialis is cool!

    • @tylerromero1
      @tylerromero1 Год назад

      Searching for second hand 40k models I stumbled across this game mode and thought hard about picking up at least one army. I just haven't found a group to play with locally

    • @mattyno964
      @mattyno964 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@tylerromero1 make the group, man. All groups started with 1 person going "I want to play this game."

  • @ScorpionP2C
    @ScorpionP2C Год назад +17

    Ive really been hoping this channel would cover this. The scale of the conflicts is wild!

  • @jamesrobinson46
    @jamesrobinson46 Год назад +7

    Thank you for playing this, wish it would come back in stock... Best batrep channel going, you guys make these games so much more digestible than the 2 hour slogs on other channels.

  • @khulric3479
    @khulric3479 Год назад +3

    Please make more of these! I'm going to try and get some people playing in my area, and these can really help drum up motivation for new players.

  • @The_Nerfley
    @The_Nerfley Год назад +4

    This is exactly what I was hoping to see! Absolutely amazing, thank you all and I hope to see more in the future!

  • @christopherburton7883
    @christopherburton7883 Год назад +23

    Excellent to see some LI. Fun and engaging report. A few rules issues but still a great report.
    Secondaries, you roll 2 and pick 1.
    No saves against void shield hits.
    Hits are allocated by the defender, so they decide what weapons go into voids and what need armour saves.
    Terminators added to a tactical detachment are part of that detachment, so can't deep strike.
    You cant charge on the turn you arrive from deepstrike.

    • @daviddonachie5333
      @daviddonachie5333 Год назад

      Terminators added to a detachment *can* Deep Strike (I believe), but they have to deep strike into coherency with the tactical detachment they were added too. That makes for limited usefulness, but I guess it can protect them until they get where they need to go.

    • @christopherburton7883
      @christopherburton7883 Год назад +2

      @@daviddonachie5333 check the deep strike rules on page 88. If ALL models within a detachment have the deep strike rule. The tacticals don't have it. So the rule can't be used.

    • @daviddonachie5333
      @daviddonachie5333 Год назад +1

      @@christopherburton7883 Once again I forget that the Terminators don't have Independent, despite being the clear poster child for it

    • @LordCrate-du8zm
      @LordCrate-du8zm Год назад +2

      Also: they didn’t use a single one of the Astartes legion special rules. DG would have easily turned the tide of battle had Nick bothered to not skim the rulebook and applied the Hazardous Terrain.

    • @TheKingElfstone
      @TheKingElfstone 10 месяцев назад +1

      They also dont seem to have attached the HQs to other Infantry.

  • @patrickdavis8271
    @patrickdavis8271 Год назад +5

    WoW! Love to see this a bi-weekly video. Well played! This was fun and entertaining to watch!

  • @davidc8903
    @davidc8903 Год назад +17

    I love this game, easily the best system GW has right now. Hopefully we will get to see more on the channel!

    • @mattyno964
      @mattyno964 Год назад +5

      Low key one of the best rule sets they've come out with

  • @jam14732
    @jam14732 Год назад +4

    I like how the turns alter back and forth more quickly

  • @sethmerlin
    @sethmerlin Год назад +2

    You guys have nailed how to capture this game. Great work on being able to show the orders and movement phase and still keep it compact.

    • @benwaardenburg
      @benwaardenburg 11 месяцев назад +1

      Much appreciated it, it took a whole day to add those markers throughout the video, a ton of work but I’m glad to see the that they helped with readability.

  • @rowby1081
    @rowby1081 2 месяца назад

    Your camera guy and your editor are top notch. Ive seen normal scale warhammer matches fall short of that cinematography. But your guys cleary rise to the challenge

  • @maxdavid7647
    @maxdavid7647 Год назад +2

    That was very fast paced and I enjoy the back and forth a lot

  • @DrGrizzley
    @DrGrizzley Год назад +4

    Very cool you do other games ocassionally. Please keep it up, it helps the whole hobby.

  • @reschke5
    @reschke5 3 месяца назад

    We need more imperialis games on the channel!

  • @peterbrown5203
    @peterbrown5203 Год назад +4

    I used to play Tyranids against my Dad's Eldar back in the day playing Epic Space Marine. So this was a lot of fun to watch. Hopefully games workshop will introduce an Epic system again in the future so we can see Bio Titans again.

  • @jonathanprovost7779
    @jonathanprovost7779 Год назад +4

    Wow. You gents have made this look like so much fun!! 🎉

  • @davidintrabartolo5887
    @davidintrabartolo5887 Год назад +1

    The baroque, detail-intensive aesthetic of 30k is just delightful. In terms of tech and production, this was the Imperium at its absolute height. Things don't just murder your face into next Tuesday, they look damn sexy while doing it.

  • @sleezypeezy
    @sleezypeezy 6 месяцев назад

    this was a really fun watch! I'd be happy to see more of Legions Imperialis!

  • @stevebarnett-f5o
    @stevebarnett-f5o Год назад +3

    been hoping you guys would try this out, great as always

  • @majorearl12
    @majorearl12 Год назад

    I wish to play Legions, but so glad you all are covering it, hope to see more of it as GW brings out more of it!
    Also would love to see Horus Heresy battle reports! Its a different game but would be so much fun to watch!

  • @williamculverwell7738
    @williamculverwell7738 Год назад

    Amazing video! So glad to see you guys playing this, it’s by far my new favorite format

  • @Mr_Waffle.
    @Mr_Waffle. 11 месяцев назад +1

    Loved this, hope we see more LI on the channel!!

  • @404annonymouscontent3
    @404annonymouscontent3 Год назад +2

    I always love nicks energy.
    Great game!

  • @kookieslayer
    @kookieslayer Год назад +8

    So hyped for this one!

  • @KnudAutlermann
    @KnudAutlermann Год назад +1

    Love seing this large scale Legions Imperialis!!! Please give us more!!!!

  • @farbol2348
    @farbol2348 Год назад +2

    Plz bring more legions imperialis to the channel! You make the game incredible!

  • @jorgecortes3593
    @jorgecortes3593 11 месяцев назад +1

    Men!, I love this animated battle report of legions imperialis. When can expect another battle report?… sorry but I need moooooreeee!!!

  • @minipaintingforyou
    @minipaintingforyou Год назад

    That sea of miniatures looks amazing! Thank you for sharing!

  • @donaldburkett9307
    @donaldburkett9307 Год назад +1

    Just played my 1st game on Monday. Won with a last turn cleansing of the center objective. Brings back memories of epic. Tyranid hoards were the best

  • @Havok448
    @Havok448 Год назад

    Really loved the treatment on this battle report, hope to see more of these for Legions imperialis

  • @LordCrate-du8zm
    @LordCrate-du8zm Год назад +1

    I can’t wait to see other installments in this series. Maybe one where Knights and bigger Titans are involved.

  • @xGamermonkeyx
    @xGamermonkeyx Год назад +1

    This is so exciting, I love huge scale combat and I love epic scale stuff! With LI finally getting a showing on Play On, I'm still holding out to see Battletech: Alpha Strike on the table some day.

  • @tiberiumnp8030
    @tiberiumnp8030 Год назад +1

    Been waiting for your take on this!

  • @thomasparsons8598
    @thomasparsons8598 Год назад +1

    man, I wish I understood anything that was happening, but those models look absolutely beautiful!

  • @apexFMUKGaming
    @apexFMUKGaming Год назад

    Great video to watch. Best I've seen. Thx for the battle report.

  • @NeoIsrafil
    @NeoIsrafil Год назад +1

    I'd personally love to see a game played with enough points to field full armies like this, but in the 40k setting instead of 32k. Imagine big size titans, massive swarms, full size groups of soldiers and astartes and knights stomping around 😊

  • @flaviomonteiro1414
    @flaviomonteiro1414 Год назад +2

    Love it, but I'd also see the regular sized Heresy too!

  • @Backstabmacro
    @Backstabmacro Год назад

    Picked up a ton of secondhand Titanicus stuff to eventually be able to play LI! Looking forward to more videos!

  • @johnlock2368
    @johnlock2368 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hi playon, Will you be doing more battle reports of imperialis? Because this was amazing and I would love to see more!!

  • @jonathancrider533
    @jonathancrider533 Год назад

    I like that you guys are using stuff that is only available to most of us. I.E. stuff from the starter box and initial release. I've seen a lot of battle reports with flyers in them that haven't been available since Aeronautica Imperialis was around.
    Hopefully GW can get stuff back in stock and release more units so we can see more variety. I missed out on the Kratos tanks in the initial release and those seem to be super strong.
    Great job with the speed of the battle report. I'm sure it takes a lot of editing, but it's cool.

    • @benwaardenburg
      @benwaardenburg Год назад +1

      Editing this report was a beast. Definitely one of the hardest games I have had to edit since working here. Appreciate it!

  • @AzazelBlau
    @AzazelBlau Год назад

    A gloriously close game. Well done!

  • @nochillarickroller
    @nochillarickroller Год назад

    Been waiting for an imperialis batrep! This is gonna be sick!

  • @odharrison23
    @odharrison23 Год назад

    Keep it up!!! I would like to see some big heresy too!! I know you guys do a lot though. Thanks gents!!!

  • @colonelturmeric558
    @colonelturmeric558 11 месяцев назад +1

    Okay, hear me out. We all love 40k, but like nick said it can feel like a tiny section of the battlefield. 40k is also super expensive to reach ~1500-2000 pts. Do what me and my three mates have been doing, use armageddon rules and build your legions imperialis units as heroic-scale units (ie five-man tac squads, individual Contemptor, rhino, sicaran units). Then you can have huge 40k games on a shoestring. Oh, and you can field multiple titans without needing to sell every last organ in your body :) so freqking fun, and can be played on a small table with small scenery, honestly the best thing ever to come out of our yorkshire tea-addled brains

  • @გიორგიმოსაშვილი-ო3დ

    They need to make this in 40k, how awesome would it be to have legions of titand and supertanks facing mega-gargants, tyranid biotitans, eldar constructs or necron monstruosities! How cool would that be? What kind of crazy xenos abominations can come in Legions Imperialis size!

  • @Dustinwkihn
    @Dustinwkihn 11 месяцев назад

    This is fantastic. Didn't know this was a thing.

  • @tobiaspieringer1653
    @tobiaspieringer1653 Год назад

    You can really see that they are having a fantastic time. I now know why this took quite a while to be published, the editing is an immense task.

  • @Badmanpuntbaxter
    @Badmanpuntbaxter Год назад +1

    MOOORRREEEEE!!! This was so cool!!!!!

  • @TetsugakuSan
    @TetsugakuSan Год назад

    Was a great report, first time I watched yours, maybe a bit more rules details, but it was fast and fun and thats key

  • @Treyehart
    @Treyehart 11 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome bat rep would love to see more titans and knights

  • @3rdCharcoal
    @3rdCharcoal 11 месяцев назад

    This is awesome! Hope to see more.

  • @Dirt1061
    @Dirt1061 Год назад

    One of my favorit things about this scale is the terrain. It seems easier to tell an interesting story and have fun inclusions that we don't see in larger scales.

  • @Blackfire-cp5qg
    @Blackfire-cp5qg 11 месяцев назад

    Great game and a great report. Love your work.

  • @marauder7209
    @marauder7209 Год назад

    This was... a lot "bloodier" than I expected it to be.
    Can't wait to try it out myself

  • @Elderahn
    @Elderahn Год назад

    Can't wait to see multiple warlords on the table.

  • @caitlynwarrington8690
    @caitlynwarrington8690 Год назад +1

    Looking forward to more Legions content

  • @WeOnlyEatSoup
    @WeOnlyEatSoup 11 месяцев назад +2

    How many boxes of the terrain did it take to make this setup??

  • @TheHunch8ack
    @TheHunch8ack 10 месяцев назад

    Nice report - especially the graphics and spirt of play! But where, we wonder, did you get those rather lovely explosions from? Presumably they're stls somewhere?

  • @sergiolp6058
    @sergiolp6058 Год назад

    This is so cool!! Looking forward for another game

  • @miller_de
    @miller_de Год назад

    Alternating activation is the way to go! I really hope that we'll see this with 40k in the future as well!

  • @Impachex75
    @Impachex75 Год назад

    This game is so much fun and the more the merrier!!!

  • @pongwong5463
    @pongwong5463 Год назад

    That was actually really cool, I’d love to see more. Perhaps with a bigger Titan? ;)

  • @LaBambaMan
    @LaBambaMan 5 месяцев назад

    Would love to see you guys take on something like Battletech. With your production values and paint schemes you could probably do something really epic in an amazing game (especially if you like big robots and tanks).

  • @TheMapleMerchant
    @TheMapleMerchant Год назад

    I can't buy in to these all marine all the time games, but this was still a great video ! Would totally watch more from ya'lls.

  • @thatninja33
    @thatninja33 Год назад

    Loved the video, hope to see a lot more of epic 30k!

  • @isaacellison5
    @isaacellison5 Год назад +3

    I would love it if games workshop made another version of Legions Imperialis but in the 41st millennium. So you could play all the factions in this style of game.

  • @philipvasileris7419
    @philipvasileris7419 Год назад

    I am currently building a baneblade and seeing them be so small is extremely odd yet right for the scale of the game. good video btw

  • @GeorgeOBrien-jn6uf
    @GeorgeOBrien-jn6uf Год назад

    this game feels very strategic, it's super cool.

  • @Cadian117
    @Cadian117 Год назад

    Would love to see more of this game!

  • @chrisgalletti62
    @chrisgalletti62 10 месяцев назад +2

    Awesome. Hope you do more LI bat reps

    • @PlayOnTabletop
      @PlayOnTabletop  10 месяцев назад +1

      This took us almost two whole months to produce so we can't do them frequently. Hopefully this video does well and we can do more in the future

  • @HyperK7
    @HyperK7 Год назад

    I’d love to see another one! If possible, could you have it so destroyed vehicles stay on table with smoke/flame markers and exploded ones get replaced with a crater? It’s more 7th ed but I always found it just adds to the atmosphere of the entire game.

  • @thijsv948
    @thijsv948 11 месяцев назад

    Quite interesting, only a bit difficult to get a feel for how well people are doing in the board as its a bit difficult to track where units are for me as the viewer (color schemes and even just seeing where anything is on the board), but perhaps that gets better when ive seen more games of this. Id be interested in that at least :)

  • @paulstaker8861
    @paulstaker8861 Год назад

    This approaches the appropriate scale for a proper 40k conflict.

  • @Secretgeek2012
    @Secretgeek2012 11 месяцев назад +1

    Loved it! 😃

  • @BrandonIvey-s8n
    @BrandonIvey-s8n Год назад +1

    Need more of this!

  • @TetsugakuSan
    @TetsugakuSan 11 месяцев назад

    Most fun LI report I have seen thanks

  • @StevanEC
    @StevanEC Год назад

    Amazing battle report. The scenery is gorgeus. Where did you get the mat from?

  • @nicopwg
    @nicopwg 11 месяцев назад

    How long did the game take?
    You guys did an awesome editing job, format is great for LI, just have taken so long, kuddos to the editors.

  • @MrReaper1171
    @MrReaper1171 Год назад

    Oh yes! Let's goooo! Play on imperialis!!

  • @marastarbreaker6327
    @marastarbreaker6327 11 месяцев назад

    Great battle report. What paint scheme did you use on the buidling? They are amazing.

  • @991username
    @991username 6 месяцев назад +1

    Love both armies. I don't know who to root for.

  • @Wolfineer_
    @Wolfineer_ Год назад

    BA vs DG? Both best boys on table, I'm so ready for this!

  • @Amdor
    @Amdor Год назад

    I gave a like just cause you said Die instead of Dice when talking about single one.
    Oh and rest of video is good too so far xD

  • @duckman12569
    @duckman12569 22 дня назад

    "Did you destroy the playground??"
    It was like that when I got here

    • @PlayOnTabletop
      @PlayOnTabletop  22 дня назад

      Those dang Traitors just ruining everyones fun

  • @TerminallyNerdy
    @TerminallyNerdy Год назад

    This game is fascinating! The minis are soooo small though and I already have a hard enough time with my AoS stuff LOL

  • @benscott9750
    @benscott9750 Год назад +1

    It would be cool to see the same game but with normal 40k units on a giant map.

  • @juancovini6481
    @juancovini6481 Год назад

    Dude this is awesome, it's like Steel Division + Warhammer, awesome. Hope so they realized this to 40 K

  • @Sol_th
    @Sol_th Год назад +1

    This is gonna be GOOD!!

  • @andymansgamingchannel3356
    @andymansgamingchannel3356 11 месяцев назад

    Great battle report guys!! Any plans for another?

  • @frattaglia100
    @frattaglia100 Год назад

    Great game i would love to see other imperialis content!maybe with an emperor titan!!!!