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Played this twice now with my Dad - it's a great two-player game. Not like Risk at all. It's based on the old "Star Wars: Queen's Gambit" board game, but the theme is the attack on Death Star 2 from ROTJ. The designers also designed the Buffy the Vampire Slayer boardgame (another great game), and like that game this is a very fun and fast (30 minute play time) game with a great theme.

First game was much like the movie. Shield Generator came down, Death Star took out a few capital ships, Luke turned Vader, but the snub fighters (Y-Wings) destroyed the Death Star in the end. Rebels win.

Second game was different - Luke was killed by Vader, Falcon blew up, and the Executor engaged the Rebel fleet head on. Rebels were delayed taking out the Shield Generator with simply terrible die-rolling, but finally did it -- just as the last Rebel Capital ship was destroyed. Still a mass of X-Wings and B-Wings still had a chance to take out the Death Star, but were annihilated before they could initiate the final attack run. Close, but Imperials win.

Its about $25 and sold at the big-box stores and Amazon too.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1441680/riskstar-wars-time-new-gambit

Components could be better (thin hardcard and cards). There is a "Black" edition coming out that upgrades some of the components from cardboard to models. It appears that the Rebels are favored balance-wise, but a run of bad die-rolls for the Rebels can balance things out quickly. A few simple rule modifications can also help balance things out.

Mez

Thanks for the rundown. I've seen it in stores but never bothered even looking at the back since previous versions of RISK tie-ins were just clones with different figs and names on the map seemingly. I'll have to check the Halo one and see if it is different as well.