How come there's no tabletop star wars game?

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**Riquende**

Eldarain wrote:
Musashi363 wrote:
If FFG made a capital ship star wars game I'll go broke.

I'd steer clear of News and Rumors in that case...

Riquende wrote:IIf they found a decent movement system and had ships to proper scales then it'd be the game I've waited for for decades.

So close...

**Paradigm**

insaniak wrote:
Hard to tell from the pictures, but those don't actually look that bad. And the prices are good.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Better pic:

So reasonably detailed. They would paint up ok.

Curious to see how they scale against the WotC minis.

Hmm, a couple of boxes of those and making a Star Wars Dead zone mod would be easy enough. I might try and grab some of these when they're out.

**Musashi363**

Star wars armada...yup, I'm going to be broke.

**Platuan4th**

Paradigm wrote:

Hmm, a couple of boxes of those and making a Star Wars Dead zone mod would be easy enough. I might try and grab some of these when they're out.

They're out in America(see my appended earlier post for in store pics). Though I know Hasbro UK tends to get things out later than Hasbro US, I'd still suggest checking your local toy stores to double check.

If not, I'd totally trade you some packs for the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters deluxe Twinstrike and Windrazor that we didn't get here in America...

**Paradigm**

Platuan4th wrote:
Paradigm wrote:

Hmm, a couple of boxes of those and making a Star Wars Dead zone mod would be easy enough. I might try and grab some of these when they're out.

They're out in America(see my appended earlier post for in store pics). Though I know Hasbro UK tends to get things out later than Hasbro US, I'd still suggest checking your local toy stores to double check.

I'll be sure to take a look then... Not that I need an excuse to check out Star Wars toys

**Dullspork**

Ketara wrote:
DrRansom wrote:
What is the possibility of Fantasy Flight releasing a Star Wars miniatures game? They've proven themselves via the X-Wing game and a miniatures game will let Fantasy Flight move into a higher level of business.

(IMHO: this, not 3D printing, is the major near term threat to GW.)

I heard down the grapevine that when FFG got hold of the SW license, there was actually a plan for this. There were models sculpted, rules, etc. But then Games Workshop said that if FFG produced a 28mm Star Wars game, they'd immediately withdraw all licenses for anything Games Workshop related. As that's where a large bulk of FFG's finances come from, they had to back down, and opted to release a game that was no direct competition to 40K instead (namely, X-Wing).

That's an interesting and highly plausible rumor.

The only thing that doesn't ring particularly true is "that's where a large bulk of FFG's finances come from". FFG is really diversified in terms of where their money appears to come from. They may not have wanted to lose the licenses but I doubt their loss would have been financially destructive.

**Grot 6**

We'll see more when we start hearing more about the mysterious new rumor about Orange Harvest.

Basicly its the name for the new Disney Theme park for Star Wars.

As we get the gears ramped up for the next batch of movies, the new cartoon show, and the ongoing discussion on the live action show, we're going to see more games before we see less.