Star Wars: Rebellion (board game)
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| author | Corey Konieczka |
| publishing company |
Fantasy Flight Games , Heidelberger Spieleverlag (German) |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| Art | Board game |
| Teammates | 2-4 |
| Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Age | 14 years and older |
Star Wars: Rebellion [ rɪˈbeliən ] is an asymmetrical strategy game from the US game designer Corey Konieczka. The board game is thematically based on the characters, weapons and scenarios of the first three Star Wars feature films (episodes 4–6) and the computer game of the same name by LucasArts from 1998. Two to four players in the author's game control either the Galactic Empire, the Find and destroy the rebel base, or the rebel alliance that is sabotaging the attempt. The card and dice game has been distributed by Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) since July 2016, the German version comes from the Heidelberger Spieleverlag .
overview
| Game material |
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| 1 foldable, two-part game board |
| 1 game manual, 1 reference manual |
| 10 six-sided dice (5 black, 5 red) |
| 2 faction sheets |
| 25 leaders with plastic base (12 empires, 13 rebels) |
| 7 status rings |
| 153 plastic figures (89 empire, 64 rebels) |
| cards |
| 68 mission cards (39 empires, 29 rebels) |
| 34 action cards (16 empires, 18 rebels) |
| 30 tactic cards (15 for space battles, 15 for ground battles) |
| 15 objective cards (rebels only) |
| 31 search droid cards |
| marker |
| 32 damage tokens (24 single, 8 double) |
| 39 loyalty tokens (27 empires, 12 rebels) |
| 10 sabotage markers |
| 3 markers for destroyed systems |
| 1 sympathy marker |
| 1 time marker |
Star Wars: Rebellion lets players re-enact the epic battle between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire. Players take control of iconic characters from the Star Wars saga and send them on secret missions and lead troops in battle across the galaxy.
Both factions have different strategies, means and victory conditions. The rebel alliance is militarily inferior and can hardly withstand direct military confrontation, instead it must remain hidden, evade and rely on guerrilla tactics and diplomacy to undermine the dominance of the empire. The rebels win the game by receiving enough support to start a full galactic revolt and overthrow the empire.
The Galactic Empire is a tyrannical regime that dominates many systems in the galaxy. The empire can produce many weapons of war. Though outnumbered, the only chance to destroy the spark of rebellion is to spread across the galaxy, quell insurrections and search for the hidden rebel base. The empire wins the game if its units discover and conquer the rebel planet.
Game mechanics
description
A total of 32 planets are distributed on the almost one meter long, two-part game board , which are divided into eight regions of four planets each. Up to two ground and / or space forces can be produced on 24 planets; for this purpose, these (except for Coruscant) must be conquered or controlled. Each planet has two to eight neighboring planets from which it can be attacked at the same time. Two to four players take turns trying to get systems under their control.
Game phases
The game is divided into three main phases: the assignment phase, the command phase and the refresher phase. During the allocation phase, each player, starting with the rebel player, can assign one mission to each of his leaders. In the following command phase, each player takes turns performing missions or activating systems to move units there. In the refresh phase, each player brings all of his leaders back into his leader pool and draws two mission cards. The Imperial player takes two probe cards, the rebel player one target card. Then the time marker advances one space and newly produced combat units are placed on controlled planets.
Battles between opposing space and ground forces are rolled with up to ten special dice (D6) just like between leaders. For the success of the battles, in addition to the size and combat strength of an armed force, the luck of the dice is decisive. The six-sided dice are marked on four sides. Each combat unit has individual combat and endurance values.
Victory conditions
The game ends when either the imperial player conquers the rebel base with ground troops or the sympathy and time markers land on the same space after 16 rounds at the latest.
Extensions
In 2017 the first expansion, Rise of the Empire , was released. The expansion includes additional characters and missions from the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , and the combat system has been revised under the name Cinematic Combat .
Star Wars: Rebellion is, after Star Wars: X-Wing (2012), Imperial Assault (2015) and Armada (2015), the fourth board game in the Star Wars universe by FFG.
Reviews
In 2016 the game won the UK Games Expo Award in the Best Board Games with Miniatures category . It was also nominated for the Golden Geek Board Game of the Year in 2016 and won the Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game .
"The complexity of a Star Wars Armada or X-Wing is just as difficult for natural battles as the ground battles of an Imperial Assault , but Star Wars - Rebellion is also a complete gaming experience that should be understood more in the sense of a 4X game ."
“If games are able to open up a real world and a real story, to create a suction in which you lose yourself for two to three hours without noticing the time, then that is a great achievement. And Star Wars: Rebellion does it . "
"However , you should have a pronounced affinity to the Star Wars cosmos in order to really enjoy the game, because otherwise many game mechanisms that are basically intuitive are not explained nearly as well."
Web links
- Star Wars: Rebellion manufacturer website on Fantasy Flight Games
- How to play . In: spiele.asmodee.de . July 27, 2016 (PDF; 11 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nate Anderson: Star Wars: Rebellion review: A fully operational 4-hour board game. In: Ars Technica . March 3, 2016, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Charlie Hall: Star Wars: Rebellion is a great board game nearly crippled by an awful manual. In: polygon . January 25, 2016, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Oliver Haake: Star Wars: Rebellion - rebirth as a board game by Fantasy Flight Games. In: Buffed . November 5, 2015, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Wulf Bengsch: Review: Star Wars Rebellion. In: media journal. February 18, 2017, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Charlie Theel: Rise of the Empire expands Star Wars: Rebellion in all the right ways. In: Ars Technica . August 12, 2017, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Luke Plunkett: Star Wars Rebellion: Rise Of The Empire: The Kotaku Review. In: Kotaku. October 19, 2017, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ^ Rise of the Empire. In: Fantasy Flight Games . May 5, 2017, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Dirk Rabenschlag: Star Wars: Imperial Assault. In: Spielkult. 2015, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ UKGE AWARDS: Winners 2017. In: UK Games Expo. Accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ BoardGameGeek Golden Geek. In: BoardGameGeek Golden Geek. April 3, 2018, accessed July 25, 2018 .
- ↑ André Volkmann: Asynchronous strategy highlight in a galaxy far, far away. In: Spielpunkt.net. January 13, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Christoph Schlewinski: Review. In: H @ LL9000. December 2, 2016, accessed July 25, 2018 .