Hi, I currently have the core game, twin shadows, and return to Hoth. I wanted to know if you can present it as one long narrative, using the side missions from RTH interchangeably with the core game. Is there a rule specifying this, or is it more of a house rules kind of thing? Also, can you use things from TS and RTH in the core campaign, assuming they can exist there (i.e., no snow troopers on yavin)? Anything you can point me towards would be great.

There's no official rule for a long campaign. They're meant to be played individually, each time starting with new characters at 0 xp (or 3xp for the mini campaigns)

However all components get shuffled together. When choosing side missions at the start of any campaign you can select from the entire collection. The same goes for items. And you can use any non-unique deployment card provided they don't have a habitat restriction. And unique if you have earned them. There is no restriction to using snow troopers on Yavin unless you decide there is because of theme. Tusken Raiders and Wampas have habitat restrictions.

There are house rules floating around for playing the game as a long campaign, but not sure how well those work without affecting the balance.

Cool, that helps, thanks!

Except for the story missions of the full-length campaigns, all side missions and agenda sets can be selected for any full-length campaign by the campaign creation rules.

If you make a longer campaign, or add side missions to the minicampaigns, you have to adjust the rewards accordingly, so that at the finale the XP gained is somewhere in the 11-14XP ballpark, and the credits are proportionate too. If you were to add missions to a full-length campaign, I would think it weird if some missions don't give rewards. So you would probably end up giving fractional XP rewards.

For me the full-length campaign is a couple of missions too long, and the minicampaign a little short to get to know both the rebels and the imperial class deck, so I have played a couple of extended minicampaigns with good results. You need to be selecting which side missions to insert for best results and adjust the flavor text to tie them in.

I'm only 1/3rd of the way into it, but I've had good success so far with an extended campaign for the Core Game, Twin Shadows, and Return to Hoth. For my group, the trick for making it work as a narrative with a minimum of adjustments to game rules and rewards is 1) to get the Rebels to accept that this is a 30+ game ride, and that at certain points the ride is going to get rough, and that's okay, and 2) basically to come down in a rather heavy-handed way as the Imperial and force the Rebels to lose a few very specific missions. Ideally, that would only happen once.

We're close to finishing a Core Box campaign now, and I plan on making sure the Rebels lose Desperate Hour. The Rebels lose all credits, and those 4 figures will be unable to be played during Twin Shadows, which I'll be adding some narrative elements into to have it also focus on trying to free the Core campaign Rebels. I may also throw in a few missions from the Core Box they didn't play, like Fly Solo and Sorry About the Mess, to pad out TS. XP and rewards will be adjusted accordingly, but the easiest thing to do is to add those kind of missions at the beginning as a "prologue" and have them earn the 3 XP they would have gotten if they'd started TS normally anyway. If they win TS, the TS heroes get to play Last Stand to get their revenge on Weiss and they can reclaim the 4 Core campaign heroes for play during RtH, but they have to start over in XP and credits since they have "lost their skills due to their time in prison". If they lose TS, the Core Box heroes are gone forever (unless I decide to show mercy and let them escape by having them play Captured) and the TS heroes lose all XP and credits b/c they got their butts handed to them. Either way, they'd have 7 heroes to choose from when they start RtH.

Not sure what I'm going to do if I want to incorporate BG or JR, but my group meets twice a month, so I've got about a year before I have to worry about that.

Again, thanks!