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FFG Get You Set For A Star Wars Imperial Assault!
August 16, 2014 by brennon
Do you quite like Descent? Do you like Star Wars? How about the two were combined by Fantasy Flight Games into Star Wars Imperial Assault which pits daring Rebels against the might of Darth Vader and his Empire!
Interestingly Imperial Assault either has you playing this as an adventure game or a skirmish game where you go head to head with another player in a battle much like a miniature wargame. Essentially this means you're getting two games in one when you grab the boxed game.
Much like with Descent the real winning combination for me will be when one player takes on the Imperial forces and the others play as the various Rebel heroes in an effort to fight back against the power of the Dark Side and Darth Vader himself.
This got quite a few people excited during the in-flight report from Fantasy Flight Games and considering the amount of love Descent has got in future iterations I'm sure we'll see this being supported for a few years to come too.
Will you be picking this up?
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Looks very star wars mini-esque, shall be watching this closely
Worth buying for those minis alone, great looking sculpts.
Ooh! These are the minis you are looking for.
… I think I can already hear peoples heads exploding in the distance 😉 ha ha
going to be cool to see where they go with this, looks like another winner 🙂
Not a fan. I get FFG are mainly a board/card game company so I get it. X-Wing was a little off their normal route but hit the ball out of the park. This style of SW game is just not my Cup of tea. Totally psyched about Star Wars Armada though! 😀
OMG. I love Descent, but always thought it wouldn’t work in a SF setting, because Descent is quite melee heavy. But Star Wars (which I also love) has just enough melee elements (Lightsabres, Creatures, Wookies) to make it work. And this on top of Star Wars Armada… thats just… *soundOfAHeadExplodingInTheDistance*
:-O I’m probably more excited for this than for Armada, just think of all the possible expansions.
That’s a great news! looking forward to it.
So this knocks Warrens suggestion of last week that GW go for the Star Wars IP out of the window.
I have to say I’ve been impressed with FFG’s use of it’s IPs to date. Even their 40K RPGs have been the only things from the 40K IP that I’ve enjoyed for a good while other then the Imperial Knight (and that’s more I loved Knights in Epic) and the novels.
Looks interesting, but at a listed price of $99.95, my enthusiasm is curbed somewhat.
I think that $99.95 price tag is due to the fact that it includes the first two expansions, (Darth Vader Villain pack & Luke Skywalker Ally pack). Hopefully they release a version of the core game without those expansion packs as that would bring down the cost.
shiney must have shiney
I’d love a full mini war game set in the star wars world. A tiny skirmish game is, for me, very much a simple “MEH'”.
It’s really not even fair to call this a skirmish game. It’s Descent 2nd edition reskinned, so it’s the tabletop equivalent of a ARPG, like Diablo. The name is really misleading.
I’m sure it will be at least as good as Descent (well, it could suck like the Star Wars LCG does, but this seems like an easier formula to adapt the theme to). It’s not really what I was hoping for either, but…
…If the real minis look half as good as those renders, I’ll might pick one up just for those.
Minis looks that good as I can conclude from videos with beta from GenCon…And game is pretty exciting as well for me…Really like Descent…plus some skirmish experience…sounds good… 😉
It also includes rules for a skirmish game. I just wanted a demo on YouTube and the guy mentioned at the end that for the skirmish rules you replace your hero cards for stat cards.
Uh a Star Was Dungeon… errr Tile ! Crawler, sweet I like this idea. Guess it will be based on the Desecent 2nd Engine ?
I knew there was a reason I had kept several tubs BRIMMED full of the old WOTC Star Wars Minis range around 🙂
Check out the Team Covenant demo video on you tube guys, that game rocks.
Minis look interesting (as far as you can tell from renders), but the Team Covenant video put me off. The worst kind of FFG-token/counter/chips insanity.
They really need to get in some proper game-designers and slim down their rules/mechanics.
Not sure how you could slim it down without making it too simplified. I kind of like some complexity to some games. When I want easy I go Mantic.
All depends on my gaming mood.
Complexity? Yes.
Clutter? No.
Complexity comes from multiple meaningful interactions of the constituent parts.
Clutter is added layers of sub-systems, sub-rules, tokens, cards, etc.. for relatively minor additions that add little to the overall strategic appeal.
FFG makes good (if usually badly balanced) games, but they do tend towards clutter occasionally, and so does this one.
Record the build up of states with check boxes and dry wipe markers maybe? Personally I kind of like all the tokens, no bloody clue why though.
@hash40k – As a whole I think FFG write excellent games, the rules are not always user friendly on the first pass. But once you get into the game it flows organically and becomes second nature – they also hold a lot of re-playability and depth. Yes they are component heavy but I don’t think that is a bad thing – if after a couple of games I was struggling with what’s this and why do I use this I would agree but too me they don’t. I also like the counters – there is something to be said for… Read more »
looks good.
I hope they are standard 32mm?
I would love to have a AT-ST!!!
It’s almost like FFG as a company is doing really well selling just specialist games (Yes GW that comment is aimed at you).
FFG don’t make anywhere near as much revenue as GW.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. FFG, according to Inc.com, made 21 Million USD in revenue, presumably on razor-thin margins, paying for all those license fees for Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and of course Warhammer stuff. Not to mention that they have no in-house production worth noting and a catalog of roughly a gazillion different games. If they hit a price shock from suppliers or trouble with a key licensor (especially Star Wars/Disney) they’ll be in serious trouble. The lions’ share of FFG’s sweat goes to other people who own the properties. GW made 10 times what FFG,… Read more »
I played this today. It is just a reskinned Descent with soft plastic pre-assembled minis. They’re nice for board game minis, not for wargames minis. It’s not a skirmish game.
How soft is soft? That kind of reduces the shiny syndrome for me.
Softer than “restic” though by no means squishy.
Man, where was this when my friends and I were trying to run West End Games’ “Star Wars” the RPG back in the late 80s? I still remember all those sheets of tattered notebook paper with little “ST”s scribbled on them for “stormtrooper.” What an improvement this would have been. 🙂
I have always found the quality of FEB games to be quite high, the minis for the gears of war board game are great. I will probs pick this up just for the minis because Im not too keen on the Descent style ruleset.