Star Wars!

[Campfire_Burning]

Yup, been sitting on this for a while after a little bird - well, egg - told me about it, but Fantasy Flight have acquired the Star Wars license. Their first two games are an X-Wing miniature-based space combat game and - gasp! - a Star Wars Living Card Game.

http://fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=2528

[xibxang]

I love Fantasy Flight but man, the instructions for both of the games I own are very poorly written and arranged. Sign me up for the X-Wing games though.

[michael]

Oh, they are going to make SO MUCH money out of this. Here's hoping they sort out a reprint of Queen's Gambit, hey?

[Campfire_Burning]

The Star Wars LCG sounds similar to the Lord of the Rings one, but the 'time limit' factor's an interesting one.

That's what, five LCGs now? That's an awful lot of money per month, both for Fantasy Flight and for anyone hoping to keep on top of all the expansions.

[Rev]

If the X-Wing game is good I'll be interested, but it'll have to be very, very good as I'm sure it'll cost an absolute fortune in total.

[Andy_Why]

So, has anyone picked up the X-Wing miniatures game as yet? I'm massively tempted even though I do think it's a bit on the expensive side. I've heard good things about how it plays though and I like the fact that you can knock a game out in 20 mins.

[michael]

I have it. I love it. I'll be putting a review up later today.

[strider]

It's good, I just wish it had a few more miniatures in the box. You only get 3. It does play really well though and really captures the atmosphere of the films.

[Andy_Why]

Good to know guys. I think I'll grab it today and maybe a Y-Wing too. Looking forward to the review Michael!

[michael]

Here you go:

http://littlemetaldog.com/2012/10/01/battle-of-the-heroes-star-wars-x-wing-miniatures-game-review/

Strider's right - it'd be even better if it came with more minis, but 3 is perfectly enough to begin with. You'll want more about ten minutes after your first game. Roll on Wave 2 and the Falcon.

[Andy_Why]

Great review. Definitely sold on it now. And you answered a lot of my concerns about the cost. Thanks man!

[RFT]

Yeah, I picked it up (along with a Y-wing) yesterday - love it. toying with making some Lambda shuttles and Stormtrooper transports from lego for board and capture missions.

[Nathan Wind]

How does it play (Han) solo?

I'm in the market for a quick to set up and play solo-able miniatures game. I had hoped Memoir '44 would fit the bill but it's a bit of a faff to set up.

[michael]

I don't think it'd work at all as a solo as the whole movement aspect is meant to be secret and you're not supposed to know what your opponent is doing until they reveal. In the case of a solo game all that is removed so it just won't function at all.

[Nathan Wind]

Thanks! I've got a few games that work solo, but they all involve too much setting up for me to be arsed with, unfortunately. I'd dig a quick and dirty small squad level skirmish type miniatures game that can be set up in a couple of minutes and played alone. D&D mini's looks interesting with the solo mission that WotC released for it. It reads a little bit like the way they do the monster AI in the board games.

[RFT]

Some people on BGG are working on Solo rules.

I've seen a couple of versions, but the one I like is:

Planning:

1: For each TIE, choose a move at random (spin the dial face down)

Activation

Ignore Stress effects.

2: then when moving each ship, if the randomly chosen move takes the TIE off the board, reverse the direction of the turn if it's a turn.

3: if a TIE has a rebel ship in fire arc when it finishes moving, it uses the "focus" action. if not, it uses "evade"

Combat

4: TIEs always fire based on the following priority

1st priority: rebel fighters able to shoot it this turn.

2nd priority: closest range.

this should give unpredictable TIEs that still fight relatively sensibly in terms of shooting, usable for a simple furball scenario. making a solo-rules set that can cope with actual mission objectives would be much harder, though.

[Nathan Wind]

That's interesting. I'm not too fussed about mission objectives and such. Like I said, I just want quick and dirty skirmishes to satisfy my urges to move miniatures around while making shooty and/or swordy noises. I'll keep a beady eye on that, ta!

[smac]

Picked it up recently from an indie shop - talking to the lady there, she was saying that their distributors are limiting the numbers they can order in. So yeah, may be in short supply by XMas.

[Yewone]

That's exactly the reason I picked up a copy yesterday too.. Got a tie-advance at the same time (really don't agree with the price of the extra mini's but figured what the hell)

It's been put aside for Santa now though

[smac]

Yup, just looked the prices for the 'expansion packs' up on Amazon. WTF!

But, on the other hand, Star Wars! Dinky X-Wings! Eeeeeeyyyyyooooooooooooowwwwwww! Pchoo! Pchoo! 'Red five, standing by!'

I just know I'll be caving in and buying more of those suckers. Wait 'til the character ships make it out there - who isn't going to be getting the Millennium Falcon?

[xibxang]

Is this the same Star Wars game that FFG scrapped last year to rebuild from the ground up? If so, wasn't it supposed to be a living card game?

[SimonC]

Different game xibxang, and the card game went back to the drawing board rather than being totally scrapped. It's due for release fairly soon I think and has been designed by Eric Lang who also designed Warhammer Invasion so fingers crossed he's done as good a job with this as he did with that card game.

[xibxang]

Awesome. Cheers, dude.

[Nathan Wind]

The wife picked me up a copy of this for Chrimbly today, bless her! I'll be keeping a close eye on the development of those solo rules, but she did promise to play it with me. The figures are really nice quality.

[Argh]

OMG, have you seen the Falcon miniature for this game? Must resist. The cost. The cooooost!

Looking on eBay, you can see sales of "various punch-out cards" or packs of pilot cards, for this game....and posibly the odd cheap, ship, too. Is it possible to pickup everything you need to play the game in this manner (bit by bit from eBay), over time, rather than investing in the whole game in one go?

Why do people have the odd set of "varoious punch-out cards" to sell, as opposed to the whole game?

Edit: Oh, and if anyone's selling second hand....c'mon, offload it to me, I mean, come on, it looks rubbish, you should really sell it on. I don't care if you've only had it a week....

[Andy_Why]

Shit, is it out? Nooooo!!! I've not even used my Y-Wing yet....

[Argh]

I don't actually know, the only site I've looked at says Feb 2013, but they also say that for restocks of the base game, too.

[LyonJacques]

This cheapish model looks a close enough match:

http://www.modelzone.co.uk/millenium-falcon-651.html

looking it up the game model is 1:270 and that one is 1:241, and wiki says the falcon was 26.7m, so 9.89cm v 11.08cm

[strider]

Should have the ccg next week. Cant wait.

[filecore]

FFG have announced that Star Wars "Edge of the Empire" RPG beginner box has been released.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3810

I'm a bit of a sucker for these beginner boxes and have asked my LGS to get me one as soon as. I like the custom dice similar to Warhammer FRP, but it'll be good to do away with the mass of cards.