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+
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...
AgitatedStove
I love the Star Wars theme. This game is a 1 vs many game, where one player will play as the Imperials and the others play as the Rebels. As the Empire, you will build your faction with various tools at your disposal. The Rebels have a series of characters that will gain abilities as they advance through the non-linear story that is determined by several cards.
adamsd
This game like so many others depends on your group you are playing with, but if you get the right group is loads of fun. It offers so many modes of play now. It has 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2 skirmish it has solo play with the Pp, and has campaign mode. So much variety out of main box but when you throw in some expansions then it really gets wild - 19 heroes available for campaign play, 4 fullcampaigns and 2 mini campaigns. I am sure there will be more campaigns online before too long as well