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Looks basically like a Star Wars flavored Descent style game which is probably a good thing.

Considering how they plan to release these character packs.

They could easily go the Dust Tactics route and release a secondary rules set using the same stats and figures to use as a full miniature wargame.

I'm trying to figure out what this has to do with Mantic's Dungeon Saga, other than the fact that there are minis on tiles. Pay for one soon, pay for the other later.

I like that it's probably based on Descent. Will we get to loot Imperial corpses though?

Just give me a Sith All Star team and I'll plunk down the cash for this- Revan, Malak, Krayt, Talon, Plagueis... fun times!

Armada was already pushing my budget, then Imperial Assault comes along. Star Wars beats Mantica for my coin.

Funny, I love Star Wars; have done for decades. I've spent far more than is remotely sane on it over the years.

No interest in Starheroquestwars at all! Very odd. My Dungeon Saga pledge still stands.

Have to admit, that AT-ST looks really good, though!

The skirmish side of IS appeals to me more than the "dungeon crawl" aspect, but both are cool.

 Alex C wrote:
Armada was already pushing my budget, then Imperial Assault comes along. Star Wars beats Mantica for my coin.

Exactly!

Gaming budgets!

So...

Budget + Star Wars + Typical Mantic Concerns = Dungeon Saga pledge Azazelx'd!

It's interesting, but as it's Star Wars: Descent, it's going to have 8 billion expansions. The amount of tiles presented in that preview look pretty meagre. Everything looks so cramped.

 insaniak wrote:
Looks very cool. The minis look great from those pics, although I'm thinking they're renders...

If they're in scale with the WotC minis, I'll be all over it like a thing that's all over another thing.

They are not renders. I have some crappy pics I can't post. But I'm at Gencon and these things are high quality good stuff.

Mr.Church13 wrote:

They are not renders. I have some crappy pics I can't post. But I'm at Gencon and these things are high quality good stuff.

Excellent.

How big are they?

Even better!

If they are similar size as dust tactics, then i am intrigued!

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the Nokia Ngage did not die out....

And people said, "oh the big things the FFG CEO was talking about coming in 2014 aren't Star Wars related. FFG isn't slowly invading GWs market with its Star Wars license. X-Wing isn't really a miniatures game. FFG is putting out SO MUCH Warhammer stuff..."

Yea, whatcha sayin' now? I hate to say I told you so but...no, I don't hate that at all. I friggin told you so. This and Armada was what the FFG CEO was referring to. Not a new Disckwars product.

That thing is way cooler than an N Gage.

 insaniak wrote:

Mr.Church13 wrote:

They are not renders. I have some crappy pics I can't post. But I'm at Gencon and these things are high quality good stuff.

Excellent.

How big are they?

I will ask tomorrow.

weeble1000 wrote:
And people said, "oh the big things the FFG CEO was talking about coming in 2014 aren't Star Wars related. FFG isn't slowly invading GWs market with its Star Wars license. X-Wing isn't really a miniatures game. FFG is putting out SO MUCH Warhammer stuff..."

Yea, whatcha sayin' now? I hate to say I told you so but...no, I don't hate that at all. I friggin told you so. This and Armada was what the FFG CEO was referring to. Not a new Disckwars product.

Er...who are you talking to?

Eh whatever. You can blame GW for failing to do its job as a gaming company and, you know, put out games?

None of what FFG has been doing would have been difficult for GW to do. It's time to let blame fall where it should go. FFG is making games, GW failed to do so and tried to pawn it off on someone else that ended up finding a better deal.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
It's interesting, but as it's Star Wars: Descent, it's going to have 8 billion expansions. The amount of tiles presented in that preview look pretty meagre. Everything looks so cramped.

Ah... yep, that's what's bugging me. I think that I'm having a hard time reconciling the look of the films, the Dark Forces/Force Unleashed/SWTOR/Empire at War spaces that you move around in with a cramped dungeon crawler feel.

I mean I like the tiles as they are presented, and they say that there are 50 of them (although a good chunk of that will likely be the 1x2 "end space" tiles), and as their FFG tiles they're likely to work with other tiles they've made (like the fantastic DOOM tiles)... but still, it seems to be so few.

Sorry, I know this seems padantic, but tiles and maps are kinda my "thing". I own almost every Paizo flip-mat and GF9 D&D map, along with multiple sets of DOOM, Space Hulk (every edition), Warhammer Quest, Tyranid Attack, double sets of tiles for every Zombicide box, two sets of Sedition War tiles, double sets of Rivet War tiles, two or sometimes three of every BattleTech map sheet ever made, went into the Alien vs Predator Kickstarter and just bought the tiles, got all the Super Dungeon Explore tiles, almost every Armoured Cartographer/Maps of Mastery/Christopher West map he's ever designed (including the 8 maps that he just Kickstarted) all the current D&D paper maps, and sometimes up to four of most of the D&D tile sets. Hell I even have the Starship Trooper RPG floor tiles! I like maps, and I like having options. These tiles don't appear to give very many. And yes, tiles are important enough to me that I will buy games even if the game itself doesn't interest me (I've never played a game of DOOM in my life, yet I have two sets).

Tiles don't do a lot for me but I love the idea of a combo dungeon bash / skirmish ruleset. I'm hoping battle systems terrain will go nicely with it (I keep saying that it seems...):


FFG getting lots of my monies with 3 good games I want now, not to mention the RPGs. I have to say that this puts a lot of pressure on my Mantic Dungeon Saga pledge. I'm happy to get both, but DS will need to be better than it currently is.

Looks good to me, worth to get it probably just for the minis!

 warboss wrote:
Looks basically like a Star Wars flavored Descent style game which is probably a good thing.

That's exactly how it was described at the IN-Flight report at GenCon.

Star Wars Imperial Assault
* Sneaky new product they revealed at the presentation. Kits are now at the GenCon booth, but by the time I write this, you probably all know about it.
* It is a miniatures Board Game for Star Wars and is based on their hugely popular Descent Game Engine.
* At release, 30 minis using 13 different sculpts.
* This is 2 games in 1 box! You can either play the board game as is OR you can create customizable lists for head-to-head tournament play.
* 1Q2015 release date and demos started on 8/15/2014 at their GenCon play area.

Miniature Market has it up for pre-order:

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/catalog/product/view/id/41822/s/ffgswi01/


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Description says 34 minis in the box. Better than I expected!

are the models to scale with each other? the stormtrooper looks smaller than the other miniatures

twitter digging



expect bigger announcements for this when the game is released.

Any real idea of how much yet?

Look 3 posts up, I posted a link to a pre-order.

MSRP $100, discounted to $70.

34 minis, 59 tiles, lots of cards and tokens.

I still wish someone would make a full-on SW wargame with plastic kits as opposed to this boardgame hybrid.

I don't know. This is a BARELY re-skinned Descent Version 2.0, and from the sound of "Skirmish" game, I am assuming they mean Heroclix level of "mini-war-gaming" at best.

The models seem nice, but this was not the infantry-model based game Star Wars deserves IMO.