There was also a version produced for their Black Series line for $50 but you get actual miniatures of the Falcon, Executor, Death Star, and the Stormtroopers. The board itself is a bi-fold instead of a quad-fold and the cardboard is alot thicker than the normal one for both the fleet pieces (which are pre-cut) and the tokens. The cards have a slightly raised design for their pictures as well as the sectors on the board. Plus everything is rather neatly placed in the box and effort went into it where the peices fit into sturdy foam stock and has compartments to place the cards and pieces. I own this version and I enjoy it immensely even to the point I've bought some Micromachines of the Falcon, Executor, and mirco-figures of Luke and Vader to replace the tokens. I've also used a few house rules that emulate Queen's Gambit where the winner of the duel on the Death Star joins the fight in space and incorporate a "trench run" to blow up the Death Star but that can't happen until the duel is finished. All the variants I use can be found here: geekdo.com/thread/1564698/risk-star-wars-variants
+Webshooters1 Very interesting, the Black Series might be worth buying. Any chance you have photos of your setup w/ the micromachines? Send em our way on twitter, @twobatsgaming. We'd love to see them. Also, saw the trench run variant on BGG, probably gonna try a run of it out tonight. Thanks for the headsup on the other variants, you rock.
+TwoBats Gaming I do not but I do know the names of the sets I got them from. "Fall Of The Empire" and "Space Escape". Both are pretty cheap to acquire right now on Amazon.
There was also a version produced for their Black Series line for $50 but you get actual miniatures of the Falcon, Executor, Death Star, and the Stormtroopers. The board itself is a bi-fold instead of a quad-fold and the cardboard is alot thicker than the normal one for both the fleet pieces (which are pre-cut) and the tokens. The cards have a slightly raised design for their pictures as well as the sectors on the board.
Plus everything is rather neatly placed in the box and effort went into it where the peices fit into sturdy foam stock and has compartments to place the cards and pieces.
I own this version and I enjoy it immensely even to the point I've bought some Micromachines of the Falcon, Executor, and mirco-figures of Luke and Vader to replace the tokens.
I've also used a few house rules that emulate Queen's Gambit where the winner of the duel on the Death Star joins the fight in space and incorporate a "trench run" to blow up the Death Star but that can't happen until the duel is finished.
All the variants I use can be found here: geekdo.com/thread/1564698/risk-star-wars-variants
+Webshooters1 Very interesting, the Black Series might be worth buying. Any chance you have photos of your setup w/ the micromachines? Send em our way on twitter, @twobatsgaming. We'd love to see them.
Also, saw the trench run variant on BGG, probably gonna try a run of it out tonight. Thanks for the headsup on the other variants, you rock.
+TwoBats Gaming I do not but I do know the names of the sets I got them from. "Fall Of The Empire" and "Space Escape". Both are pretty cheap to acquire right now on Amazon.
Not my kind of game, but really well-done review.
Thanks for the encouragement, means a ton.