I'm getting more and more interested. I'll have to see if I can anyone in my area who would be interested.

I'm not sure what it takes to get a game in Vassal, but based on what folks are seeing is this the sort of game which might be adaptable to that program? I have one person I can play with, but I'd like to find others as well since the game looks strong.

tried it last GC.

IT sucked

I really don't think they changed anything at all. I hope they do have a better person running the demo this year.

I loved collecting SWM, just like I collected Bionicles when I was a pre-teen, but after a while it's just no longer fun to collect things like this because it becomes a money vacuum; the companies just keep releasing new set upon new set to make more money (they'll keep making them as long as people keep buying them) and it's too hard to keep up with it. This is something I probably won't get into.


$100 is pretty steep for getting started into any game (you could potentially buy about 5 boosters with that amount). For as interesting as it may look, I have other things to worry about before I drop $100 on a completely new game created by a company that I've never heard of. Besides, minis just won't be the same without that good 'ol d20. On a related note, I think it will be interesting to see if the community tries to incorporate the Wizards SSB into this new game. I doubt they'll be compatible at all, but it would be cool to see any ideas people come up with.

LoL.

SWM gamers are oddly unaware of the rest of the tabletop and boardgaming world, it seems.


The buy in price is $26, not $100 (if bought online, $35 if bought from FLGS). An entirely playable game for $26 is pretty cheap these days, especially since that would have bought you two (non-Huge) boosters back in the day, in which you'd be lucky to get one or two playable pieces out of, for sure.

Also, Fantasy Flight is pretty much the king of boardgames when it comes to Ameritrash. Eurogames are dominated by a few other companies, but nobody makes components like FF.

For anyone having trouble finding people to play boardgames with, I recommend checking out your local hobby and comic shops and asking if they have game nights or game groups. Also, forums like BoardGameGeek are good places to find local groups and players.

All that being said, game play doesn't look like anything terribly special or different enough from Wings of War, and I really didn't enjoy Wings of War. Granted, this looks a lot faster and more streamlined, but the dog fight genre doesn't really translate well to the tabletop, methinks.

My problem is that there aren't any places like that near where I live; the nearest store that does a weekly league sort of thing is like 25 or 30 miles away, so the only minis action I get is on VASSAL, and that's seldom.


LOL.

Haha, I guess so. Well, even if someone must buy the game and the four expansions (Advanced TIE, TIE, X-Wing, and Y-Wing) that comes to $65 online (which is still very reasonable by current standards for a complete boardgame with high quality components and seven highly-detailed prepainted minis), so I guess I'm still not seeing the $100.

But honestly, since this is like Wings of War (WoW), it's the kind of game where the fewer the ships on the table, the better the game will be. If every player controls two ships each, WoW already becomes nigh unplayable with a ton of downtime between turns.

If anyone tries to use this game to recreate the battle of Yavin with like twenty starships, I hope they've got an entire long weekend to burn.

Got to do one of the PT sessions and then I caved on Sat. However by then the Vader and Y-wing expansions had sold out. By 2pm on Sunday FF had completely sold out of everything, it was a major hit from the talk about.

I've found this game to be very tactical, with abilities and synergies very similar to SWM. The dogfighting aspect is so much better than SSB, but then again, most things are. I gave it a shot, and I actually enjoy this game.There are a lot of SWM players that have gotten into this game, and I think so far most of us like it.

The game is only in its infancy right now, like when Rebel Storm came out. It has a lot of growth potential, and so far it looks to me like FFG is doing a good job in developing a good game.

And it is on vassal, fyi.