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Anyone ever played the starcraft board game? How hard is it to get hold of? Also what are the miniatures like to paint.

It's a lot of fun my group loves it. The factions are pretty well balanced and their unique victory conditions makes every game different. It can get bogged down in mechanics especially if you are new to the rules but it's not bad really.
I didn't paint the minis. They are very good quality for board game use (as fantasy flight minis usually are), but they aren't on the same level as wargame minis. There are pictures of painted ones on board game geek though.

Overall I give it 8.5/10

Thanks fella. I may try to aquire a copy.

I've made the joke that it would be easier to get two computers, two copies of Starcraft, and LAN them up together. It is fairly complex, but the models and materials are gorgeous. In other words, it's pretty much par for the course with FFG, which is a good thing. I'd love to play it again.

I painted the entire set of Starcraft miniatures for a commission. They are surprisingly detailed for their scale considering they are in soft plastic. I never played the game, but the models paint up really well!



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May be worth it just for the model. They look good mate.

[quote=[So]Rice]I painted the entire set of Starcraft miniatures for a commission. They are surprisingly detailed for their scale considering they are in soft plastic. I never played the game, but the models paint up really well!



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Here you go, found one next to a Rhino:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=116988&d=1314570091

It's a shame the figures aren't in scale with anything but their game sprites, which were also out of scale. I would have loved to paint up a 15mm scale army of them.

As I've been discovering, you can do almost anything in SC2 using GW products