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imagination of so many people,”
ACROSS THE BOARD adds Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt,
CONTINUED... who works as a developer in
Fantasy Flight Games’ miniatures
A Miniature Marvel department. “As kids, we’d play
STAR W ARS : X-WING with action figures, and at some

MINIATURES GAME (2012)
point we’d need to resolve the
What fi rst strikes you about Fantasy Flight
Games’ Star Wars-branded debut is the debate of, ‘I shot you!’ ‘No you
sheer quality and detail of its huge array of didn’t!’ So then you have dice,
pre-painted miniatures, which scream to be or cards, or you roll marbles at
collected even if you don’t want to play with
them (the second edition’s X-wing even comes things. Those systems got more
with S-foils and more developed until it’s still
that open and the thing you loved to imagine,
close). But but now you have a game system
the game also
has fantastic, built out of it.”
quick-to-learn, Brooks believes Fantasy Flight
and intuitive Games is the ideal home for Star
gameplay,
which keeps Wars because “we’re very much

the table-based theme-first.” He cites Rebellion
dogfi ghting fast (2016), which encapsulates the
and furious.
story of the entire original trilogy
into a two-to-four hour tabletop 04
Risk Re-skinned experience. “Everything you do in
STAR W ARS RISK (2015) the game feels like something that’s
Compared favorably with The Queen’s Gambit, advancing the story,” he says. Or, as End Game
Star Wars Risk plays out Star Wars: Return Flugaur-Leavitt puts it, “Your choices Fantasy Flight Games’ attention
of the Jedi’s three-way fi nal confl ict—but to
look at it, you wouldn’t think it was Risk at in Rebellion affect how the original to detail and profound respect for
all. Appealingly structured to resemble a TIE trilogy plays out. You can create an the source material is obvious in all
fi ghter, it makes so many changes to the way entirely different trilogy of movies their titles.
Risk plays it’s almost a completely different
game. If you’re looking for a tactical but casual through each and every interaction “What they do goes far beyond
entry-point into Star Wars board games, then with your opponent in that game.” just having Obi-Wan Kenobi or
look no further. “We’ve treated Star Wars Luke Skywalker as playing pieces

with such respect,” on a board,” says
says Brooks. “And “Games are Tabletop Gaming

Lucasfilm really trusts a really great magazine’s Matt
us to do the setting way for people Jarvis. “In their
justice.” to interact with games you are able
“We’re all fans each other to actually tie those
in slightly different people together in
ways,” adds Flugaur- in a physical a way that makes
Leavitt. “I read the space, doing them feel like the
novels very heavily. something fun characters are coming
Frank has read more as a group.” alive. You have all
of the comics. And these neat thematic
The Big One we both love the BROOK S flavors where it
STAR W ARS : REBELLION (2016) movies and play the FL U G A U R- L E A V I T T could be that you’re
Designed by Corey Konieczka, this beautiful- video games.” Developer, essentially creating
looking Fantasy Flight Games’ offering Brooks and Fantasy Flight Games battles that you
compresses the events of the original Star Wars
trilogy into a single, two-player (or two-team) Flugaur-Leavitt’s passion for Star didn’t see on screen, or you’re
game. It takes a while to get your head around Wars is undeniable, whether they even making mini storylines of
the game’s are beaming with pride at the fact your own.”
asymmetric
set-up, but the that the Raider-class corvette they In the miniature-based
effort is worth invented for Fantasy Flight’s X-Wing wargame Legion (2018), for
it as the Empire game later appeared in the Star Wars example, you could re-enact the
player and rebel Battlefront video game, or talking in Battle of Endor on your kitchen
player each
have different great detail about the joys of making table. With the smaller-scale
objectives, the gun turret of a Star Wars Rebels skirmish game Imperial Assault,
tactics, and Season Two Lancer-class cruiser work you could send a small team to
routes to
success. within the X-Wing system. rescue Leia from the Death Star.

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