Skirmish expansions?

By Gallows, in Star Wars: Imperial Assault

I hope they release some skirmish expansions, because even the skirmish maps feel more like dungeon crawl single scenarios than a tactical skirmish.



I'd like


  • Bigger maps with a layout, with different lanes of movement.
  • A more open environment
  • Missions with objectives like CTF, Domination etc.
  • Reinforcement rules for skirmish
  • Terrain, structures, buildings tokens for playing in an open outdoors environment.

Agreed. I'd love to see more skirmish options. Even adding extras of things already in the box (like another stormtrooper squad) would allow for a lot of variation.

It'd be nice if the expansions had extra board pieces, but possibly unworkable since the current crop don't - so make a slightly larger set.

A nicer option might be 'warzone' boxes with some extra minions more like the big Descent expansions - Hoth Echo Base jumps out as one you could do quite easily; ice tunnels/caves, tundra, glacier, and possibly boarding an AT-AT. Add in a Snowtrooper squad and a Wampa and you're pretty much good to go...

That gives you a seperate mini campaign for when you finish the existing one, and adds some more skirmish maps.

Drawing reinforcements in skirmish might be interesting, but only for multi-model units (i.e. generic grunts). I'd like to see sufficiently open-ended rules that you could throw together some tiles into A.N.Other map, put down some objective markers and have a pickup game...