Star Wars: Imperial Assault
Imperial Assault casts you and your friends into the climatic events following the Death Star’s destruction above Yavin 4, and offers two full game experiences within the Star Wars saga.
60m - 120m
2 - 5 Players
Ages 14+
ABrissey
Amazing game, great mechanics, gorgeous minitures and components, and good replay value. Enemies in campaign must be played by someone, don't typically like this as it tends to end up being me, but still a lot of fun.
Agnati
Same make but different model from FFG. There are some tweaks to rules from Descent 2nd Edition, but SW:IA is just as enjoyable with just as much (incredible amount) replayability and with FFG giving the community free reign to create content, it'll be fun to play for many years to come. It does take a little getting used to, though, where Descent, every attack could miss if the attacker rolled an X on the always-rolled "blue attack die". In SW:IA, there is no "miss" for an attacker. *A few* characters (both sides) roll a white defense die instead of black and the white defense die has a "pizza" (as we call it) face that means the attack on you misses completely. If I had to find something to criticize it would be the dice symbols. FFG seems to have picked arbitrary symbols for stuff like defense ("shield") or "evade" or "dodge" on the defense dice. It's important to note, though, that you're playing as the REBELS, not the JEDI as a lot of people fantasize about when wanting to play this game. There's one Jedi-trainee of sorts who uses some force-named abilities, but no lightsaber to speak of (save for one specific quest reward that you very well may never even come across).
achiinto
Updated: It is fun after spending 10+ hours to learn it. Hate the manual design which is not new player friendly. And the overwhelming content still scared off lot of people. Didn't like the dependent on the overlord and all the surprise on the campaign guide. Questionable the replay value per the mission. Any how, it is fun, which is what the value counts. Original: What a waste of money in my Opinion. I am a diehard Star Wars fans, TRPG DM & Player for years, and enjoyed both strategy and dungeon crawl games. I saw the reviews and the beautiful components, then I thought I must get this. I even paid more money to get expansion characters such as Han Solo and such. I have to say, the only think I like is the miniature scuplys. I got the game for a few years and the user manual itself scared me. It was not well written and confusing, pointing you to jump from page to page. Surprisingly, the much more Harvey TRPG rule books were much more clear and good read. Some might said that the game is very simplified. Indeed to compare to TRPG or hardcore streatgy. But I was hoping this game to be more simplified. To me, I think this is too complicated. If I have the time to play this, I might as well play TRPG. If I want good strategy, I might as well play Shogi or Eurogame, which simple yet with depth. If I want to play dungeon crawl, I would just go for D&D Advemture system anytime, which was simple enough to be customizable to make it more fun. I played my first game of this with colleagues. Just figuring out how to rebuild the tutorial map took us such a long while. It felt like I played a puzzle building along with reading boring confusing rules to desicpher complicated code. Most disappointed game for me so far, as I have had high expectation...