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Star Wars Imperial Assault

Im Schatten der Zwillingssonnen

The Empire attacks! The Rebels fight back! One player controls the forces of the Empire, all others work as a team and each one leads a hero of the Rebels. You travel across the galaxy, in this expansion to Tatooine, and deal with high-risk missions which always include tactical ground combat between Rebels and Empire. Missions are enacted on modular boards, you can play campaigns or with two players as a skirmish. Each round of a mission comprises the phases of Activation - with two actions for one of the rebels and activating of all miniatures on a deployment card for the Empire - and Status with clean-up steps.

In the Twin Shadows / Im Schatten der Zwillingssonnen expansion Rebel agents are searching for Han Solo missing on mission or fight their way across various locations on Tatooine in six new campaign missions and two new skirmish missions. The campaign missions can  can be integrated as sideline missions into big campaigns or be played as a connected consecutive mini campaign. Habitat is a new key word for Deployment cards. New are also Device Tokens for powerful abilities, granted and handed out by hero Saska Teft, each character can collect any number of them to the maximum of eight in the game. Some missions allow any rebel character to perform attribute tests, not only heroes.

Hot! Not only because of the twin suns and the desert planet, this expansion is pure Star Wars, even more than the core game, we get R2-D2 and C-3pO, after all, plus Boba Fett on the other side and his a fat, strong and nearly undefeatable opponent. If you own the core game, you should set out for Tatooine!

Players: 2-5

Age: 14+

Time: 120+

Designer: Paul Winchester, Justin Kemppainen

Artist: Michael Silsby, Tyler Walpole, Team, Fiona Carey

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2016

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: SciFi, conflict, missions

Users: For experts

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr it pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Sensational expansion

Even better than the core game

Needs core game to play

Wonderful components with 10 new miniatures

Compares to:

Star Wars Imperial Assault

Other editions:

FFG (e), Edge Entertainment (en, fr), Asterion Press (it), Galakta (pl)

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