With the reveal of some of the upcomign Rogue One toys we learned that there is already some Rogue One content coming to Imperial Assault in the form of the Jetpack Stormtroopers.

I for one would love to see a big box with a campaign based around the new movie. Death Troopers, new tank and a bunch of new characters/allies! It would also allow me to play Obi-Wan and Greedo in the campaign without having to close my eyes to continuity.

While Death Troopers are totes continuity. I shouldn't be so upset by it. I should expect that they'll introduce new things to sell toys. I was hoping for a revival of the scariness that was supposed to be the stormtroopers, but instead they lazily painted them black and added "death" which to me is the height dumb. I could deal with them in later iterations, like scout troopers, but not in a prequel.

Actually. A minimum of 4 heroes would sadly be required.

My idea had been a box that let you use any of the expansions without having to buy the Core. So, if you bought the box and Bespin Gambit you would have a total of four heroes as each would come with two.

Actually. A minimum of 4 heroes would sadly be required.

My idea had been a box that let you use any of the expansions without having to buy the Core. So, if you bought the box and Bespin Gambit you would have a total of four heroes as each would come with two.

Hahaha! I was arguing as to why this idea was not a good one! By the time you put all of the requisites in a box, you'd be paying nearly as much as the Core.

Hahaha! I was arguing as to why this idea was not a good one! By the time you put all of the requisites in a box, you'd be paying nearly as much as the Core.

Lol fair enough. But it would be interesting if it was another option to have different starting stuff than the core box and still allow someone to get into the game.

What if they released just a map tiles and tokens/doors option? Say it was $20-30. Then you can build up your own army from scratch. If you want to play empire the core set is the way to go. If you want to play the other two factions you could probably do fine building your own army. Probably have to release a Gideon ally pack.

Meh I don't personally care much either way. I'd love to see more people get into skirmish. I think it's great and a great deal. I also know too many people that play too many games and most of them play xwing already. Even though I like IA more for various reasons.

Sorry for the thread necromancy. My 2 cents - the Rogue One set will be expanding the IA system to a full scale table top miniatures game. The cancelling of their 40K license is paving the way.

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Hahaha! I was arguing as to why this idea was not a good one! By the time you put all of the requisites in a box, you'd be paying nearly as much as the Core.

Lol fair enough. But it would be interesting if it was another option to have different starting stuff than the core box and still allow someone to get into the game.

What if they released just a map tiles and tokens/doors option? Say it was $20-30. Then you can build up your own army from scratch. If you want to play empire the core set is the way to go. If you want to play the other two factions you could probably do fine building your own army. Probably have to release a Gideon ally pack.

Meh I don't personally care much either way. I'd love to see more people get into skirmish. I think it's great and a great deal. I also know too many people that play too many games and most of them play xwing already. Even though I like IA more for various reasons.

They're unlikely to ever release a product that only caters entirely to one faction of players. (Rebel, Imperial, Scum, Campaign)

All ally and villain packs usually cater for at least 2 of those 4 groups (<insert> faction & campaign players), or in some cases all groups (big box & small box expansions).

The most I will see them ever release is a campaign only adventure book, but even that doesn't seem to be on the cards at the moment.

Also, don't forget that Scum gets one of their best units (Nexu) from the core.

FFG are very unlikely to encourage the second hand market in this way by selling bare bones product, only to have secondhanders sell a piece by piece core set for more money than FFG makes off it.

Also, a Gideon ally pack is highly unlikely as all the existing player base almost 100% has one, and therefore would be less likely to buy another...

From old Lore, the Darktroopers were a breacher unit. Their outfits were designed for the vacuum of space and other hostile environments. Their weapon was a shotgun like thing. with a jump pack they were included in the original Star Wars Battlefront game.

The new Jetpack units seem to be inspired by the new Battlefront (or vice versa), but I do miss the bulky Darktroopers.

As for campaign expansions, I would LOVE to see a plasticless pack with more tiles, a few more skirmish options and a 'DIY' Campaign setting. It could have, for example, 12 cards that are selected to form a 4 to 6 part campaign with the usual (mis)adventures between. maybe a few more personalised missions for existing heroes to choose from.

Whatever happens, I'm sure I'll buy it!

I don't think we will see a Rogue One box till after they are done with original trilogy otherwise they would've done something with force awakens like X wing did. We still have Endor to get which would see a fix for Bader and possibly get the Emperor.

We generally see one small and big box per year now correct? So we could expect Endor in the spring and then another big box next fall/winter, possibly TFA to build up towards episode VIII or Rogue One to play catch up... or Rebels? Or the Christmas Special????

So many options and so much time, the future is bright for this game that is for sure.

Skirmish is the way to get started. I know the louder, vocal minority on this forum will disagree, but FFG ( out of ignorance ) made this game backwards, they developed a Descent style campaign game and accidently lucked into a skirmish game.

You could print a map or two on the back of the instructions, include some tokens and 2 good guys and 4-5 bad guys and some dice and you could have a skirmish starter set for $40. Skirmish is the gateway drug.

I'd like to see something following Endor that has nothing to do with the movies. The first order is pretty much identical to the Empire, so there is no need of going to TFA. Maybe some post Death Star 2 missions to do clean up on the Empire. To think they just crawled into a hole because the DS was destroyed would be silly.

Skirmish is the way to get started. I know the louder, vocal minority on this forum will disagree, but FFG ( out of ignorance ) made this game backwards, they developed a Descent style campaign game and accidently lucked into a skirmish game.

You could print a map or two on the back of the instructions, include some tokens and 2 good guys and 4-5 bad guys and some dice and you could have a skirmish starter set for $40. Skirmish is the gateway drug.

Skirmish is fine, but don't hold it up like some holy grail of gaming. Every game doesn't need a skirmish component.

Skirmish is the way to get started. I know the louder, vocal minority on this forum will disagree, but FFG ( out of ignorance ) made this game backwards, they developed a Descent style campaign game and accidently lucked into a skirmish game.

You could print a map or two on the back of the instructions, include some tokens and 2 good guys and 4-5 bad guys and some dice and you could have a skirmish starter set for $40. Skirmish is the gateway drug.

Skirmish is fine, but don't hold it up like some holy grail of gaming. Every game doesn't need a skirmish component.

I'm not, i'm just saying - there are two options at this moment

I can teach to you to play in 10 min and we can play a game in an hour

I can teach you to play in 10 min, and we can play a game in 90 min, but we need 3-4 other guys to play, but now you have to come back and play for 90 min every week for the next 12 weeks. Oh, by the way if you don't like your character, sorry your stuck with that one and you have to play with the same 4 other guys and we need to schedule an appt every week to get this campaign finished.

Skirmish is way easier to get into - and easier to play on the fly, with people you may not know. If you play skirmish, then your campaign experience will probably happen at some point as well. I'm just saying that instead of FFG trying to get 4-5 people together to play and buy into their game, it's way easier to get 2 people to sit down and play a game and get another person into the fold. Gearing stuff towards skirmish is a better way to get people into their product.

One reason X wing is so popular is that it is starwars, and you buy 3 ships and you're playing, there's not this big imposing box that scares you away. You approach 1 person and play, not get in a game calendar to schedule with 4 other people to fit in a gaming session.

I can teach you to play in 10 min, and we can play a game in 90 min, but we need 3-4 other guys to play, but now you have to come back and play for 90 min every week for the next 12 weeks. Oh, by the way if you don't like your character, sorry your stuck with that one and you have to play with the same 4 other guys and we need to schedule an appt every week to get this campaign finished.

Or, because obviously I already know the game inside out to be able to teach you in 10 minutes,

I can teach you the basics of Imperial Assault in 5 minutes, and we can play the first mission as an introduction to game mechanisms in 90 minutes. If you like it, we can continue with the campaign. If there are more people than the 2 of us, you don't need to handle 3 or 4 hero characters by yourself. If you want to play a few times a year, we can set up missions in various points of the campaign instead of playing the campaign from the beginning to the end. Or we can then try the skirmish mode, because most of the mechanisms are the same that I just taught you, but now I need to teach you more about building a command card deck. But it is very manageable.

(Yes, X-Wing with just the core box is a very simple game.)

Skirmish is the way to get started. I know the louder, vocal minority on this forum will disagree, but FFG ( out of ignorance ) made this game backwards, they developed a Descent style campaign game and accidently lucked into a skirmish game.

You could print a map or two on the back of the instructions, include some tokens and 2 good guys and 4-5 bad guys and some dice and you could have a skirmish starter set for $40. Skirmish is the gateway drug.

Skirmish is fine, but don't hold it up like some holy grail of gaming. Every game doesn't need a skirmish component.

I'm not, i'm just saying - there are two options at this moment

I can teach to you to play in 10 min and we can play a game in an hour

I can teach you to play in 10 min, and we can play a game in 90 min, but we need 3-4 other guys to play, but now you have to come back and play for 90 min every week for the next 12 weeks. Oh, by the way if you don't like your character, sorry your stuck with that one and you have to play with the same 4 other guys and we need to schedule an appt every week to get this campaign finished.

Skirmish is way easier to get into - and easier to play on the fly, with people you may not know. If you play skirmish, then your campaign experience will probably happen at some point as well. I'm just saying that instead of FFG trying to get 4-5 people together to play and buy into their game, it's way easier to get 2 people to sit down and play a game and get another person into the fold. Gearing stuff towards skirmish is a better way to get people into their product.

One reason X wing is so popular is that it is starwars, and you buy 3 ships and you're playing, there's not this big imposing box that scares you away. You approach 1 person and play, not get in a game calendar to schedule with 4 other people to fit in a gaming session.

IA's skirmish is mediocre at best. You can have a better, faster and cheaper skirmish experience with Battlelore, countless tabletop games, countless other games, even X-Wing. However it is only one of a relative handful 'Heroquest' type games and probably the best, even including Kingdom Death. You have to go to a computer game to get a better experience.