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Fantasy Flight has been doing a lot of partnering with LucasArts lately and they've come up with some interesting stuff. Star Wars: Rebellion has been a very fascinating one for me. It's a very asymmetric game. The playing board is 30 or so systems representing the galaxy. There are a number of uninhabited systems (about 7) and the populated systems have loyalty, and resource production. The Empire is trying to find the Rebel Base and destroy it with a ground battle, or possibly blow it up with the Death Star. The Rebellion is trying to hold on to turn 14, although the Rebel Alliance can shorten the game by completing missions that increase popular support (the game ends if the popular support marker and turn marker are ever on the same space).This is a thread to talk about different board games. Favorites, ones you like, looking for suggestions on new ones, gifts, and so on. I'm mostly thinking of games along the lines of Carcassonne, Agricola, and Space Hulk, but I guess if you really, really wanted to talk about Monopoly, go ahead.
Both sides have very different objectives, the Empire is playing grand strategy, who owns what, how many ships and troops do I have, in order to explore every system and find the Rebel base, the rebels are just hiding and surviving and using their missions to delay, delay delay or fulfill objectives. The pieces are pretty sturdy plastic and well sculpted. The gameplay itself is pretty straightforward, the only two complaints I have are that 1) there's a pretty major learning curve for what the missions can do (The Empire can convert a captured character to the dark side, stealing an action from the rebellion for instance) and that can make the game initially frustrating, until you get a sense for what missions can do. 2) There's no draw acceleration for the mission deck, but there are some pretty important cards for both sides, that drastically change the game if you don't get (Rescuing prisoners for the Rebellion, for instance). On the whole I've had fun with this, but it's expensive. So far my game friends and I are 1-5 with the Rebels, the Empire seems much more straight forward and frankly easy, but I'm still enjoying myself with this.