Fantasy Flight Games taking you to a Galaxy Far, Far Away
August 2, 2011 by brennon
A massive announcement from Fantasy Flight Games today has seen them releasing information on a new line of games in the Star Wars universe.
This could possibly span a whole range of different genres from board games to roleplaying games but for now we have two nuggets of information on a Living Card Game and a Ship-to-Ship Combat game based in the galaxy Far, Far Away!
The first of the two games is the miniature game X-Wing. Pitting rebel X-Wings against imperial TIE Fighters you will play through a whole host of scenarios trying to win the upper hand. A huge bonus is that its also going to come with some amazingly painted miniatures!
The second is Star Wars: The Card Game. The Lord of the Rings game that arrived this year was massively successful and so Fantasy Flight Games have taken that format and woven it into the Star Wars setting.
Being a solo or co-op adventure players take on the role of the rebel alliance trying to foil any imperial plans that might come their way and ultimately preserve the history of the Star Wars universe.
Both games are heralded to be expandable with X-Wing allowing for more ships from different time periods in future releases and Star Wars: The Card Game expanding through their well known add-on packs (Known in this case as Force Packs).
It all sounds pretty awesome and with the promise of more to come in terms of other genres we could see a whole host of great Star Wars games coming out of Fantasy Flight.
So what do you guys think of this development? Will you buy these games and what would you like to see them do for future projects?
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I wonder if they could adapt the Dark Heresy/Space Marine/Inqusitor games to Star Wars?
I imagine a similar method of producing the roleplays will be done – be interesting if they choose a completely new system, maybe even utterly different like WFRP was.
I think out of all the companies who could have secured the Star Wars licence after WotC decided not to renew it, FFG was absolutely my first choice.. not just for the RPG (I guess my 1500 or so Saga Edition books are about to be outdated!) but also because of their success with LCGs and regular board games based on licensed properties.
It will be interesting to see if the ships will be the same scale as the Starship Battles miniatures.. ad if they plan to do anything with the SWM line..
Er, and by 1500 I of course mean 15!
‘I guess my 1500 or so Saga Edition books are about to be outdated!’
I felt the same when WOTC took over the licence from WEG , although I still play them as there fantastic.
True.. the D6 system was rather charming, and far more elegant than the more cumbersome D20 based ‘replacement’. Who knows, FFG might even go back to it? I could easily be wrong but I’m not aware of FFG having any D20-based products so it’s unlikely they would start now, and I’d definitely prefer a revival of the WEG system than a Star Wars RPG with the WFRP / Dark Heresy rules!
I imagine Fantasy Flight will do something similar to the WFRP/40k Roleplays they have been doing and release a core book with supplements adding onto the existing universe.
…then wait a year or so and bring out Star Wars: Sith Edition lol to play as the dark side of the force.
loving the use of elegant there 😉 very SW
star wars miniatures was my first ever wargame, really hoping this comes up with the same sort of standard. (which in my opinion is high, very high)
FFG do some great skirmish based mini wargames with plenty of components so I bet/hope you wont be disappointed.
I actually started to hyperventilate and felt dizzy when I saw this. I can’t wait!
I think they need to finally add Spaceballs into the Starwars universe.
why can I only give +1 to this post?? it deserves +1000!
I feel the love nun the less.
Wings of “Star” Wars, excellent. I’ll have some of that.
There’s a lot of promise with this license. I for one will be waiting for the first releases.
I am very enthusiastic about this news. Especially with the concept that it could be roleplaying games.
I dont like the d20 system, and so far wizards has had the contract for a star wars roleplaying game. Now that FFG has it, i hope that they get to do some roleplaying books. Knowing how well they do it with the 40k roleplay, i doubt they will disappoint me. If they came up with their own system or used the same system from the 40krp i will be fine.
i cant wait.
going by this news post – http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=2526
you are going to be able to customize your ships with more than just pretty colors.
wonder how long it will take darrel to find some cheese for it?
I’m really looking forward to X-wing. The fighter combat was always my favorite part of Star Wars as a kid. I’m less enthusiastic about the LCG though. A co-op Star Wars card game doesn’t really interest me. Where’s the fun if you can’t play the Dark Side? ;P
Does anyone know how close to Wings of War the X Wing game is? I’m very excited….