Star Wars: Imperial Assault

tonym · 16 Aug 2014 at 09:09

Was going to post this in the Armada thread but it's a different game, so deserves a new thread. It looks like Star Wars meets Descent:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=271

Tunney · 16 Aug 2014 at 12:17

I don't whose kid at Fantasy Flight I'm putting through college but I hope they're making the most of it.

Jed Shields · 19 Aug 2014 at 22:03

Godammit! I may as well set up a direct debit with these guys :/

Divinious · 20 Aug 2014 at 12:24

Looks amazing my only worry is the price point the Star Wars licence must have cost a pretty penny & I was put off X-wing minitures because of the cost, oh damnagit who am I kidding I'll be pre-ordering this regardless.

EvilGrin · 20 Aug 2014 at 13:21

On the back of the Armada announcement, all I can say is; Ow! My wallet!

Tunney · 20 Aug 2014 at 13:37

£80 RRP is seems. :eek:

EvilGrin · 20 Aug 2014 at 13:54

Tunney said:
£80 RRP is seems.

Yeah, same as Armada, that's what Descent used to be, but came down in price.

Now that obviously they're allowed to make proper games like this I can see a Star Wars version of this coming too: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=173&esem=1

I'm excited at the prospect!!

Muz333 · 20 Aug 2014 at 14:32

Couldn't have been announced at a better time. Was ready to pull the trigger on Descent 2 with a few of the expansions. This will allow me to get in on the start of the product cycle and on a theme which will go down better.

EvilGrin · 20 Aug 2014 at 14:52

Muz333 said:
Couldn't have been announced at a better time. Was ready to pull the trigger on Descent 2 with a few of the expansions. This will allow me to get in on the start of the product cycle and on a theme which will go down better.

Same here, our gaming group have been looking to add Descent to our game list for a while. I'm the biggest star wars geek in the group, but they're all pretty happy about this none the less!

tonym · 20 Aug 2014 at 22:25

There's a couple of places taking preorders, at around £63 which isn't bad.

It's also 2 games in 1, a Descent style dungeon hack with one person playing the Imperial 'overlord' and the rest playing the rebels, and also apparently a skirmish game where I assume you build a force and fight it out.

Divinious · 21 Aug 2014 at 07:10

tonym said:
There's a couple of places taking preorders, at around £63 which isn't bad.

What places are they?

EvilGrin · 21 Aug 2014 at 13:11

Cheapest I've seen it so far is £69.99 at OGgames.

tonym · 21 Aug 2014 at 19:03

Ah sorry, it was for Armada at Firestorm and wayland

xriccix · 18 Sep 2014 at 16:28

Another game added to the wishlist!