FFG announces - Imperial Assault

The marketing push seemed pretty heavy for a Q1'15 release, so the schedule bumping up makes sense.
It'll give me some good holiday reading/watching though so that's nice.

Sagrilarus wrote: Yeah, fair enough. That's stuff that just means nothing to me, so I can see why we disagree. The tank with legs thing looks nice, but I'll bet that's not the $14.95 jobbie. The Han Solo figure looks awfully simple to me.

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The AT-ST commander will retail at $20. Individuals (Han, Chewie, IG-88) 10 each, squads between 13-15 depending on number of figures.

Also you don't need more than one each of the named characters. X-Wing encourages you to buy multiples of the same starfighter.

Someone at Essen posted some unboxing photos on BGG of the copy of IA that he bought.
Looks pretty good. And the Heroes/Villains are represented by cardboard counters, so just like the Lieutenant packs for Descent.

Columbob wrote: Also you don't need more than one each of the named characters. X-Wing encourages you to buy multiples of the same starfighter.
Or you could go this route...

The campaign mission system in this looks excellent, it has some similarities to the stellar but clunky/awkward mission system in Myth.

In IA you always play the same start mission, then you receive new mission cards depending on what happens. Some missions are forced and must be played, others may be side missions that you have the opportunity to go on (or not). The players choosing from the cards they have is neat.

Myth is a card system but Quest cards are added to the deck and then drawn randomly as you play, as opposed to choosing which specific Quest to encounter. Some quests unlock new quests (chains) which have an ongoing story - you shuffle the new quest into the deck and may run into it later on in the middle of a session.

So yeah, they have some similar ideas but FFG's version is of course much more streamlined and less fragile. Looking forward to it.

This sounding like it is Descent System v2.5.
Looking very good.

I still wish it was Descent System 3.0- full co-op with AI. Hopefully overlord play won't be ass.

I swore I would never ever buy another game with an overlord system but I will get this IF it sounds balanced. That means the overlord actually has to use some mental effort to win.

I think you should look at Galaxy Defenders if you want Descent-style with AI.

I crossed that one off my list for reasons that I can't quite remember anymore. I might revisit it if it hits clearance prices.

Maybe FFG will do something with IA like they did with D2 (tacked on co-op). I haven't really been following that so I don't know much about it.

I've been reading more about the figure packs and it sounds like they're mostly for the skirmish mode. As I understand the part that's used with the overlord mode is the mini itself, a sidequest, and a card or two. So I'm pretty ok with passing on them and hoping folks share the sidequest cards. That's a really minimal amount of stuff for the overlord game.

Since there's actually two established factions in this game, as opposed to just Good Guys and Bad Guys like in Descent, I'm wondering if somewhere down the line there couldn't be a mission or expansion where the "overlord" player plays the rebels and the team of 4 plays the empire. That'd be cool. Either way, a big part of the reason why I'm going to be grabbing this is that the idea of playing the empire appeals to me much more than playing some generic overlord.

Sevej wrote: I think you should look at Galaxy Defenders if you want Descent-style with AI.

Seconded.

Galaxy Defenders is fucking excellent.

Oh, and about IA, the closed information campaign book just kills it for me.

Stonecutter, there is actually a third faction as well - Scum. That could open up more possibilities. Going after bounties or doing merc stuff would be dope.

Closed information campaign book? As in play it once and you know everything that's going to happen?

Well, if I can still skirmish then who cares.

stormseeker75 wrote: Closed information campaign book? As in play it once and you know everything that's going to happen?

Well, if I can still skirmish then who cares.

More like player experience also depends on them being oblivious of the missions' surprises. Just like I'm enjoying Star Craft & Call of Duty for their single player campaigns, I'm ambivalent toward IA's skirmish.