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Back on topic, the game's figures presumably will all be in good scale with each other if not with 40K or whatever specific other game you might pick.

Therefore a couple of boxes will give you a substantial officially licensed Star Wars infantry skirmish setup to use with whatever rules and terrain you like, as well as the stuff in the box.

All that is needed is a Rebel vehicle of some kind to oppose the AT-ST. It would be surprising if wargamers' ingenuity could not find a reasonable model to sub in.

I really hope this influences WizKids to make a chintzy Star Trek skirmish/board game. (And not that Heroclix crap.)

The only thing that interests me about this game is the possibility of buying booster packs of stormtroopers or characters, so long as the price is right.

I like the models, but if they are not 28mm i will have to pass...

I do like the AT-ST, but the rest has to be the right size and be better than the Star Wars (like) 40k army models i made myself a long time ago.

Why are this and Star Wars Amanda coming out so close together? I need more money.

Why oh why do I have a pesky wedding to save up for instead of more toys?

You need to sit down and have a serious talk with your intended about priorities.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Back on topic, the game's figures presumably will all be in good scale with each other if not with 40K or whatever specific other game you might pick.

Therefore a couple of boxes will give you a substantial officially licensed Star Wars infantry skirmish setup to use with whatever rules and terrain you like, as well as the stuff in the box.

All that is needed is a Rebel vehicle of some kind to oppose the AT-ST. It would be surprising if wargamers' ingenuity could not find a reasonable model to sub in.

Agreed. Even if the rules are overly complicated, it would be far from impossible to mod Deadzone/Infinity maybe for smaller battles and 40k for larger ones.

I've stayed out of X-wing as the models just aren't worth the price for me, being so tiny and pre-painted, but assuming these are 28mm and hopefully more reasonably priced (And by that I really mean anywhere between Mantic and GW pricing. I'd pay up to £20 easily for a decent box of Stormtroopers ect) I'll be buying some just for using with other game systems even if I pass on the boardgame (I'm not a fan of games on tiles)

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
I'd personally be interested in it to use for my RPG gaming adventures. If there is a nice selection on NPC models, $2-3 a model wouldn't be outrageous.

Hmm...

I hadn't considered the "companion" side of this, where the models pull double duty for the SW RPG's. Now that is interesting.

The whole license intercombines perfectly, in exactly the way GW's specialist games and RPGs did, before they somehow got the idea that product diversity was a bad thing. There's something for every tabletop gaming, Star Wars fan, regardless of your favourite genre of gameplay.
And each game has big hooks to encourage purchasing another. Superb. My wallet is crying.

The only thing ostensibly missing is a mass land battle game, but I'd bet my left testicle that there's an AT-AT vs Snowspeeder box set in development somewhere at FFG.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I really hope this influences WizKids to make a chintzy Star Trek skirmish/board game. (And not that Heroclix crap.).

I doubt Wizkids' license would cover anything other than collectible miniatures.



On this game, though... Looking at the gameplay vids, the minis look about the size I was hoping for. So colour me excited

Yeah, using my completely untrained eye they seem to be in the realm of 28mm, and no worse than 32mm. There's a shot of the stormtroopers next to some dice, and if those are "standard" size cards then my guess would be that they're 16mm dice, and the stormtrooper (with a wide stance and lowered torso) seems like he'd be a bit shorter than two of those dice on top of each other. Hard to judge for certain using assumptions and wonky angles, but it's close enough for my liking.

This and Armada is going to drain my early year budget badly, but I suppose there's worse problems in this world too.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Uriels_Flame wrote:
Who knows, Disney could even buy GW. Niche for them - but leverage for the future.

This assumes Disney even know GW exists.

That was cold, but funny.

Wayland's got the UK pre-orders up

http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/fantasy-flight-games/star-wars-imperial-assault/star-wars-imperial-assault/prod_29210.html

and interestingly the box contents list

The Luke Skywalker Ally Pack & The Darth Vader Villain Pack

which strongly suggests that you'll be able to pick up all (most of?) the minis without the rest of the box game (otherwise it would just say X plastic minis)

And as a few have pointed out - you don't have to play their rules necessarily. If the tiles aren't your thing, there's plenty of "other" terrain you can use and give it a go.

2 starters and a couple of add on packs for about $200 seems pretty worth while to me.

The price seems reasonable enough, especially as with £79 including 36 minis and a ton of cards/counters, the minis themselves will be pretty cheap if available separately.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Wayland's got the UK pre-orders up

http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/fantasy-flight-games/star-wars-imperial-assault/star-wars-imperial-assault/prod_29210.html

and interestingly the box contents list

The Luke Skywalker Ally Pack & The Darth Vader Villain Pack

which strongly suggests that you'll be able to pick up all (most of?) the minis without the rest of the box game (otherwise it would just say X plastic minis)

Didn't someone mention that the Luke and Vader packs were added extras, rather than part of the core game?

Oh look, Wayland say it's 'bulky'. I wonder if it's bulkier than £72 worth of metal minis in blisters?

Mind you, that's probably not that many blisters these days!

It says right on FFG's website description that Luke and Vader come in the core game.

There were only a few models in the display case. Here is what I got pictures of. I was in a hurry to another event. They're about 28mm, so useful for the board game itself or RPGs or whatever.

I wonder how articulated the AT-ST is. Probably not at all I imagine ; (

 Yonan wrote:
I wonder how articulated the AT-ST is. Probably not at all I imagine ; (

You can twist the head. They were doing that in the Team Covenant demo game.

Oooh that's something at least. Ball joints I take it, where the legs connect to the head it looks like.

I'm sure it will come prebuilt or mostly prebuilt like the dust tactics mechs were.. hopefully you'll be able to pop the legs off, I like to paint big stuff in pieces.. I hate when my brush can't reach teeny corners even though no one is gonna see it.

I'd bet they're done by the same factory who does DUST, and we'd be looking at $14.99 ish for a 6-pack of models. (Maybe 19.99 to cover licensing costs)

Seems fair, if the minis are decent and you don't need so many.

Are they the same sculpts as the old WotC game or are they new sculpts?

 Alex C wrote:
It says right on FFG's website description that Luke and Vader come in the core game.

It also says that they are the first expansions. Which is why they are listed separately in the contents.

FFG wrote:As an added bonus, Imperial Assault includes the Darth Vader Villain Pack and the Luke Skywalker Ally Pack. These figure packs mark the first expansions for Imperial Assault, adding sculpted plastic figures with new campaign and skirmish missions.

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12thRonin wrote:
Are they the same sculpts as the old WotC game or are they new sculpts?

They're new sculpts.

Direct quote from FFG's product description:

"As an added bonus, the Luke Skywalker Ally Pack and the Darth Vader Villain Pack are both included within the Imperial Assault Core Set"

Seems clear to me that they are in the core set...

They are expansions, so you can buy them outside of the core set if you wish, but they will both be included in the core set.

Like if you wanted to maybe get your own dudes and you already had a friend with the full box and tiles and such. But they gave them in the full box 'cause luke and vader.

Call me excited! I require that AT-ST and Darth Vader on my desk.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
I'd personally be interested in it to use for my RPG gaming adventures. If there is a nice selection on NPC models, $2-3 a model wouldn't be outrageous.

Hmm...

I hadn't considered the "companion" side of this, where the models pull double duty for the SW RPG's. Now that is interesting.

Get back in the box, WRITE that beautiful Jawa footage!!!

Return of the Jawa, For a Few Jawa's more, Donny Jawa, Jawa's of the Caribbean, Fistfull of Jawa's....

The possibilities are endless....

http://www.starwars.com/databank/jawa


Jawa Modual, where they fight for scrap in the desert and take reveng against the sandpeople, and the stormtroopers.... The scrap just got serious.

It's interesting they list both a Descent-style Campaign mode and a points based Skirmish mode.

I'd much rather they do a mix of the two and give us a campaign skirmish game that can finally replace Necromunda like SoBS replaces Warhammer Quest.