New Missions For Star Wars: Shatterpoint & “Specialist Game” Move?
February 25, 2026 by brennon
Atomic Mass Games starts off 2026 with a new Mission Pack for Star Wars: Shatterpoint, their 40mm Sci-Fi skirmish game, and a bit of an announcement regarding the future of the game.
Strategic Positions Mission Pack // Star Wars: Shatterpoint
Strategic Positions adds a new mission set of nine cards, which offer new objective layouts for your games, challenging your strike teams to undertake new scenarios on the tabletop. You'll need to, as the name would suggest, consider your positioning more and play with the new Tactical Advantages rules that allow you to unlock bonus abilities for different units based on your active mission card.
Strategic Positions Mission Pack - Contents // Star Wars: Shatterpoint
This set comes with everything that you need to play these objectives, including an additional token sheet for ease. I really like the objective-based nature of Star Wars: Shatterpoint and the options that it unlocks for dynamic and interesting gameplay. The struggle back and forth between the players and the ever-changing objectives means that you've always got a chance to get back into the running to win the game.
Star Wars: Shatterpoint - A Specialist Game?
As well as this, we also got an announcement from Atomic Mass Games this week that Star Wars: Shatterpoint is going to become a specialist game within their ecosystem.
Announcement // Atomic Mass Games
As part of their announcement (see above), the team at Atomic Mass Games has mentioned that Star Wars: Shatterpoint will still be supported and available but with a streamlined release schedule for the game. Whilst a lot of people have already considered that the game is now "dead", I'm going to instead be a bit more positive. From the previews we saw towards the end of last year, there are already four packs that we know are coming out for the game.
Announcement // Atomic Mass Games
I think that means we're just going to be seeing the rate of releases slow down for Star Wars: Shatterpoint. What's nice about Shatterpoint is that you really don't need that much to play it and as someone who has the Core Set and quite a few Squad Packs, I'm not going to be wanting for options to bring to the table anytime soon. Would I like Droideka to show up at some point, though? Yes.
This also comes alongside a focus for Atomic Mass Games on Star Wars: Legion. I am intrigued by what Special Operations and Full Scale War bring to the tabletop but for me, Shatterpoint is my Star Wars game and I have enough to get stuck into. I'm not sad. Yet.
What do you make of the Star Wars: Shatterpoint news?
"...Star Wars: Shatterpoint is going to become a specialist game within their ecosystem"
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Is that just me or does the box art for “Strategic Positions Mission Pack” look like a sport video game from back in the day? This really looks more like football than anything to me XD
Originally the cover art for “Blood Bowl: Shatterpoint” lol.
I thought at one point fans were freaking out that Shatterpoint was the new hotness & destined to replace Legion and Legion was the one that was being killed. Now it appears the reverse has happened.
I despise this kind of corporate newspeak.
“specialist core game line” …
What the heck does that even mean ?
AMG is ‘dedicated to miniatures games’ … but not this one ?
Why can’t they say :
We are announcing end of life for shatterpoint.
Everything will only be available while the stocks last.
We could not stop production on the recently announced items, but so we will only do this single production run.
I bet the new duo has helped create the new Legion product line, which is why it is getting the focus at the expense of Shatterpoint. Because that is the kind of stuff that tends to happen when new managers are appointed (‘not my idea,so it must be sh!te and needs to be cancelled’).
I wonder if we’ll get more clarity in the AMG livestream this evening
Possible. Here is hoping
These statements are always aimed at management and investor types.
I doubt we as regular consumers will get to hear anything, but we can always hope for the best (and prepare for the worst).
Did we miss it? 9:00 AM PST should have been 2 hours ago or not? oO
the lifestream was the new manager announcing his new game: a heroes vs minions+boss type boardgame featuring minis that are compatible with MCP.
More details expected at the Adepticon announcements.
I’d even say that it clarified that Shatterpoint is dead and won’t be getting new releases next year.
The best we can hope for is the release of products announced last year, which is the squad boxes for the Baylan Skoll show and the sequel-trilogy.
Shatterpoint never appealed to me, I had a large Legion collection that I sold, although I might get more. SP dying? Not the worst idea.
Unfortunately I have to agree with @limburger‘s interpretation of the press release — they’re most likely stopping development on anything else for the game. “Restructured development resources” probably means reduced staff, and “streamlining the number of releases” means they have enough of a sunken cost in what’s been announced that it makes more financial sense to move forward than to cancel (their licensing agreement with Lucasfilm might play into this as well).
However, it does beg the question: does a game stop being interesting when there isn’t an ongoing stream of new releases for it?
For tournament players, the answer is probably yes, but in some ways I see this as a blessing in disguise. I am an avid fan of Shatterpoint, but I’m also an avid fan of a lot of other games, which means if I’m lucky I’ll play Shatterpoint five times in a year (in 2025 I managed 8 games, but that was through making an extra effort to play a lot). One of my struggles with the game is that I rarely play the same list more than once, so with fewer/no new releases, I stand a chance of playing more with the models I have.
Admittedly, my situation is (I imagine) fairly uncommon: I am blessed with a spouse who is also an avid gamer, so I don’t need to rely on in-store events or any kind of tournament scene in order to play the game regularly.
As long as they keep selling the core sets and all squads the game will survive.
The only real problem is that for companies ‘survival’ is not good enough, which is why they keep telling us that we need ‘moar stuff’ and we should never dare to create our own expansions.
I don’t know the Starwars universe, but to me it feels like ‘everything’ is in there already (or soon to be released).
Yoda and Palpatine himself are the only ones that haven’t been added.
IIRC the Baylan Skol show was getting two squad boxes.
So realisticly … what else does the game need other than to be ‘available’ ?
Do we really need a new squad every x weeks ?
Do we really need ‘official’ terrain when there is plenty out there (and it’s not that hard to create your own) ?
Tournament players may ‘need’ official point updates and stat tweaks, but for everyone else I doubt there is anything we couldn’t manage ourselves.
That’s pretty much what I’m thinking. With the sets they’ve already announced for this year, I can’t think of any Star Wars characters I would particularly want for the game that won’t be there. Except for maybe that giant green rabbit from the old Marvel comics, and he probably wasn’t high on AMG’s list anyway… 😉
I suspect that most Legion player’s felt as I did when Shatterpoint was first announced. I didn’t see the sense in putting resources into another SW game when they already had one, especially when Legion would have benefited from the character releases that Sharterpoint got. The fact that it was a different scale felt like a kick in the teeth as you couldn’t even benefit from the model releases to proxy into legion.
I’m neither surprised nor disappointed that they are slowing down the release schedule in favour of legion. I also hope that anyone who plays Shatterpoint has everything they need to continue their enjoyment of the game.
I agree with the sentiment that a game doesn’t die just because the releases stop (Bloodbowl has demonstrated that).
So, I have my 10-year service award from work (woop) been waiting since September 25. Planned to use it on Shatterpoint. Then AMG put out their announcement. Now I’m wavering, do I go with ShatterPoint or Legion? I am an Original Trilogy fan, so Legion appeals, but I like the Shatterpoint scale as I’m a big MCP fan. Does anyone sensible want to advise me? Cheers!
Well SW:S would be a “finite expense” since you’re not running the risk of new stuff coming out all the time. 😉 But you might not get everything that was released because collectors will be buying stuff left right and centre XD
Biased as I am I’d go with the SW:L starter boxes. Insane amount of minis and all tools you need to play for relative little money. So….. Go Legion? XD
I am 100% biased and would say go with Legion, especially as the new faction starters are a great way to get into the game (as Sundancer has already pointed out).
That aside, it really depends what you want your hobby and gaming experience to be. If you like MCU and don’t want the commitment of building a whole army, Shatterpoint is clearly the way to go.
“Trust your feelings …”
short term:
keep an eye out for Shatterpoint firesale.
The core set is good value and there’s some really cool squad boxes for the original trilogy.
I would recommend buying as much as you can, because I doubt shops will want to keep this one in stock.
Long term:
Legion might be the way to go here, because the new starter sets do look good and you will have ‘official’ support ..
For a guy that likes star wars.. i never owned any SW games….Thinking I`m still looking for a cheap and simple game, not using millions of tokens or dice with symbols on them….
So like this? https://www.beastsofwar.com/board-games/empire-or-rebellion-choose-your-side-in-star-wars-battle-of-hoth/