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Review: Star Wars Miniature Battles- West End Games

A long time ago, in a hobby shop far, far away…..

As a young lad, I was a typical nerd kid. I liked war gaming and had gotten my start in the Warhammer worlds of Fantasy and Rogue trader. However, I also liked RPGs and played AD&D, Shadowrun, and of course West Ends Star Wars RPG. I had stumbled across the Star Wars Miniature Battles rules as well but could never find the scratch to buy it. Plus, I was not very fond of the Star Wars metal miniatures of the time. Consequently, I never picked it up.

However, today is a different age. No longer do I need to poke around dusty, dark bookshelves and avoid the store cat to find such archaic oddities! No, thanks to the wonders of the internet you can find old, no longer produced titles available from anywhere across the globe! In my wandering I ran across that which I had not tried before…. Star Wars Miniature Battles. I got a copy and decided to give it a go!



I have clearly played Star Wars themed wargames before. Upon receiving my goodies of nostalgia, I rushed home and dug out the Galoob Micro Machine Strom Troopers and Rebels that I had available and scanned through the basic rules. I was eager to see what this book held and the long held promise of Star Wars wargaming from yesteryear. With FFG’s Legion rules on the horizon, now seemed like a good time to give these a review.

May the Force be with us!

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A classic game system and one I always wanted to try along with AD&D Battlesystems. I owned both at one time but never got around to trying either before they were defunct. Thanks for the review!

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Villanous Scum







Nice review. I keep on meaning to have another go with these rules using IA figures, I remember them being not the best at the time but I was young and foolish, now I am older and foolish it will be fun to see how they go.

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Mississippi

You mentioned in your blog you were looking for the vehicles rule - they are in a boxed set, which comes with a metal snowspeeder and two scout bikes.


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Those box designs and fonts are so late 80s/early 90s...
   
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All the old Star Wars Miniatures Battles rules are also available as free open-source PDFs (with the blessing of the author).

Here's the link, if anyone's interested: http://www.d6holocron.com/downloads/wegminiatures.html
   
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Thanks for the review. The rules seem a bit old-fashioned (which makes sense...) built around a simple core, but with lots of fiddly modifiers to handle.

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West Michigan, deep in Whitebread, USA

Would probably be a neat side game to play with all my prepainted Star Wars figures, although at first glance those rules look dang fiddly.

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It is crunchy as all hell. I've been reading them lately and it's not something I'd play unless someone else knew it front-to-back and could cover every situation easily and quickly.

Not impossible to play, but just very 1991 as it should be.
   
 
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