How does Legionnaire differ from Eastern Front?
The biggest difference between the two games is that Legionnaire is a real-time game where Eastern Front is a turn-sequenced game. Thus, you have plenty of time to think over your moves in Eastern Front, but Legionnaire does not give you this luxury. The pace is slow enough to give you some time to plan your move, but not so slow that you can relax. In the heat of the battle, you must be able to rethink your plans very quickly; there is very little time for reflection at the moment of truth. For this reason I think that Legionnaire is a less cognitive game than Eastern Front. I also think that it is a fundamentally more exciting game that Eastern Front. It is not as meaty a game; and war gamers may feel that it doesn’t have enough strategic subtlety. The basic game system is much the same as Eastern Front. There’s the scrolling map with terrain, and you give orders to units in much the same way. Movement and combat follow a roughly similar pattern. With Legionnaire, however, the scale
