Imperial Assault - Star Wars 28mm tactical miniatures game from FFG!

[Cherno]

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=4994

Just came upon this quite amazing piece of news on TMP.



Fantasy Flight Games is developing a Star Wars game with similar mechanics to Descent and Doom: The Board Game. One player controls the Imperial Forces and up to four others play totgether as the Rebels with distinct characters. The game features the usual FFG mix of highly detailed 28mm-ish miniatures of Stormtroopers, Krayt Dragons, Wookie Warriors, and even huge 3x2 AT-STs! The game is set immediately after the second Death Star's destruction and the board game tiles depict the forests of Endor as well as base interiors.

There is a story-driven campaign mode where both Rebels and Imperials can enhance their forces, and also a skirmish mode where two players field combat teams in seperate scenarios. The main game has two extra packs including which contains miniatures and rules for Luke skywalker and Darth Vader (however he is still alive, I have no idea ) and also new scenarios.

Phew! I'm not that big of a SW fans but I'm still rather excited and I wonder how much the Force will feature. I assume that the game will be a smash hit and many expansions will follow. Go FFG!

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You just beat me to it! Looks really cool. Some nice looking minis in there. The ATST looks great. I'll probably get this for my son who is fully into Star Wars.

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There's already an active thread on this here 

cheers

James

[Cherno]

Yup somehow I missed it

I'll flag this thread to be closed.