I am a huge star wars fan and can't wait for either systym or even the rpg systym. I was just wondering are they just doing star ships or are they going to do characters as well. all so I hope they do capital ships as well in the game.
is there a release date yet for either game?
I think they only timeframe they've given is next year, first or 2nd quarter.
now is the new star wars lcg going to be like dominion or like magic?
jeditimothy said:
now is the new star wars lcg going to be like dominion or like magic?
I'd say it plays like a hybrid of all of FFG's current LCGs (LoTR in particular) from what I played at GenCon. No idea if they'll change anything, game play or rule wise, before release.
If you haven't tried FFG's other LCGs than you might not get how it's played. It's different from magic and dominion.
Also, yes, they are doing characters in the LCG and they have their own roles to fill.
jeditimothy said:
now is the new star wars lcg going to be like dominion or like magic?
It plays nothing like Dominion or Magic, the distribution is different than both of them too.
Darksbane said:
jeditimothy said:
now is the new star wars lcg going to be like dominion or like magic?
It plays nothing like Dominion or Magic, the distribution is different than both of them too.
jhaelen said:
Darksbane said:
jeditimothy said:
now is the new star wars lcg going to be like dominion or like magic?
It plays nothing like Dominion or Magic, the distribution is different than both of them too.
It's definitely closer to Magic than to Dominion. It's very similar to the existing LCGs. From what is known right now, it appears to be a cross between WH:I and LotR.
There's a bit of AGoT here also, in that you're trying to score points, and your "Base" card has a sequence of play printed on it.
Cthulhu also, you can put a card facedown under your base to provide 1 resource per card when you exhaust your base.
Ah, all right, so it's really an all-star, best-of of LCG kind of game. What could possibly go wrong?
Sounds great! Looking forward to it.
Darksbane said:
Cthulhu also, you can put a card facedown under your base to provide 1 resource per card when you exhaust your base.
I also thought it was funny that three zones where red, green, and blue.
Darth Vader enters the Power Challenge zone.
it also seems to play similar as the WOTC Star Wars game. (which unlike alot of people, I enjoyed). Basicly it seems to me, it's a mix of all their LCGs and the WOTC game.
so do you think there will be expansions in this?
Seems like it will play more like the LotR LCG than GoT, which is competitive rather than cooperative.
I about fell out of my chair when I saw this! It's going to be a looooong stressful anticipation for the release.
When you say expansions jeditimothy what do you mean? There will be the adventure packs that will come out one a month adding new cards and new missions with each one. And as the game grows there will probably be new concepts put in that weren't there from the beginning.
SeerMagic said:
it also seems to play similar as the WOTC Star Wars game. (which unlike alot of people, I enjoyed). Basicly it seems to me, it's a mix of all their LCGs and the WOTC game.
I too enjoyed that game, but even so, I think it's an improvement in that the Character and Ground arenas are essentially combined. I never liked that character duels worked more or less independently of ground battles, with the exception of Pilots.
If they ever want to publish a scenario based on the Battle of Endor and want to keep the action in the Emperor's throne room separate from the battle on the forest moon's surface, such a ruling can appear on the scenario card or something. But I feel something more abstract might be preferable.
Please post the release date as soon as it is available!!! I can't wait to buy it!!!
I can't wait for this. I'm pumped that there will be a one player mechanic like LOTR.
So I went to my local game shop today (Game Daze) to talk them about FFG products and what they thought of them since I have no experience with this company. The man there said he loved FFG products and thought they were very well done and were affordable, when you consider what you get. His one gripe was that the products always seem delayed. He said it felt like they'd get an announcement from FFG that a certain product was being released, but his shop wouldn't be able to get it until a year after the release date. If this kind of release date push-back occurs with these Star Wars products, it may not even be till next summer or fall that we actually see the finished product. I only heard this opinion from one guy, so take it with a grain of salt. Let's hope they can work out the kinks of this game on schedule. If not, well, I prefer a finished product to a ???????? [cuutohampa na] early release item that has to be revised within a year.
Budgernaut said:
If not, well, I prefer a finished product to a ???????? [cuutohampa na] early release item that has to be revised within a year.
Note to self: FFG forums do not support Japanese scripting.
FFG do have a slightly sliding scale for release of their news games. This one I expect around april next year. I'd love to have it for feb but I expect April.
Can I just say that it's great that this card game appears to be set primarily during the original trilogy timeframe?
Maedhros1977 said:
Can I just say that it's great that this card game appears to be set primarily during the original trilogy timeframe?
Oh yeah!
I have to say, I've spent about two weeks so far thinking about this game and its expandability based on just the OT, and I'm really a bit lost. I mean, I love the original three films (well, who doesn't?), but for a LCG to concentrate on just, what, 24 years of Star Wars history out of a timeline that spans about 5000 years so far, it seems a bit odd to me. So odd, in fact, that I emailed FFG the other day to put this point across (haven't yet received a reply of substance, however, though I wasn't really expecting anything back like that).
I suppose I'm just concerned because, if this is just a Rebels vs Imperials game, how many times are we going to go up against the Empire before we grow tired and think this LCG format isn't really right for this game? How long will it take before we want to go as Jedi against the Separatists, or the Sith, given how the new season of Clone Wars is currently airing, and The Old Republic is (meant to be) just around the corner? I'm just a bit concerned, I suppose, that it might grow old too soon.
For expansions, thinking along the LotR model, it would be good to have the base set scenarios to go against before the first cycle of Force Packs brings a set of linked scenarios to go up against as the card pool expands, but then what? I'd like to say I'd like to see the deluxe expansions come out with some Republic vs Separatists, or whatever, but then that pretty much kills the L part of the LCG, as you immediately have a new game that all those Rebel cards can't be used in. The only other option is to create a completely new encounter deck, with Jabba minions, or whatever, and have the rebels have some sort of objective to recover a weapons cache or something, before then the next Force Pack cycle involving more Rebel vs Empire shenanigans that you need those weapons from Jabba for. Maybe.
It does strike me as very odd though, how narrow the field is for this game. But then I didn't go to the demo at Gen Con, and I'm not a game designer, so what do I know?!
Umm, anyway, yeah... The game is at least six months over the horizon, and already I'm considering the future of it for a couple of years further again. Maybe I need to get out more...!
You know, Maedhros1977, I once thought as you do. I thought they'd just rip right through the Rebellion era material really fast, but someone countered me on that and I've changed my mind. Okay, at the very least, they may do 3 Force Pack cycles relating to each of the original movies and have 6 packs for each movie. That's already over a year of expansions, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hoth was it's own cycle, and Endor was it's own cycle, etc. That will prolong it even further. And then you know they just have to throw in the Zahn trilogy stuff because it's still Rebels vs. Empire, even if the Imperials aren't exactly looking for a Rebel base anymore. But it'll be so cool to see Thrawn and Paellon and the Chimera, and Talon Karrde and Mara Jade, etc. Don't forget the X-wing series too. True, most of the novels focus on New Republic vs. Remnant, but I think it'll still work out. Maybe they'll have an expansion that changes the focus from finding the Rebel base to something else, I don't know. But by then, we'll probably be ready for a small change, as you've pointed out. I concede that keeping it to the OT era is limiting when you consider the whole of Star Wars lore, but I think it will be plenty of fun this way.