| Star Wars Miniatures | The Star Wars Miniatures collection offers a great board game that doesn't require too much time or space to play. The miniatures are also exactly the right size for use with the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, which I would highly recommend. The old roleplaying system was made by West End Games, which I haven't tried.
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| Rebel Storm (Star Wars Miniatures) |  | Authors: Wizards Of The Coast, Wizards Team
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast,US
Category: Book
Buy Used: $19.75
Used (2) Collectible (1) from $19.75
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 330274
Format: Import
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Toy
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 2.5
ISBN: 078693476X
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9780786934768
ASIN: 078693476X
Publication Date: September 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Unused toy store overstock, glue on top panels has dried so box is open but contents still mint / unused, figures and cards still sealed in plastic, all rules and maps still here. Includes two exclusive Vader and Luke figures, along with 8 other random figures. Box shows some shelf wear and has been slightly crushed during shipping, interior contents mint / like new!
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 Great game! Lots of fun and lots of possibilities! April 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Star Wars "Rebel Storm" is the very first set for the Star Wars miniatures game. There are 60 different pre-painted figures in the set, and each Starter Set gets you off to a good start with eight random figures, plus two EXCLUSIVE rare figures (Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader). Starter set also includes the instruction booklet, a battle map (Death Star), 8 terrain tiles, damage counters, a D20, and full color stats cards for the 10 figures that come in your starter set (basically everything two people need to play a basic game, but if you'll like the game, you'll probably want to get a few boosters, too). The best thing about this set is that it the figures are based almost exclusively on the original trilogy. Thus, you will have seen all but a couple of them in those movies.
The game itself very fun (definitely one of my favorites). It is similar to the D&D minis game in many ways, so if you like that game, you are sure to like this game as well. But there are also enough differences to the two games to keep it interesting. Further, there are enough different figures in this set (each with its own special abilities, commander effects, and/or force points) that you will never have to play the same game twice (unless you want to). Several expansion sets have also been released to add even more variety to the game. Finally, the minis can also be used with the Star Wars RPG (though Unlike the D&D minis game, the stats cards for the Star Wars minis game do not include info for the RPG version of the game -- but many of these stats are available elsewhere).
In sum, I love this game, and if you love Star Wars and/or gaming, I think it's definitely worth a try. Hope this helps!
 But hey, it's Star Wars April 28, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Star Wars is a great setting for a miniatures game, and this new game system from Wizards of the works pretty well to exploit that opportunity. Now you can fight out some of those skirmishes from the movies and catch all that action with Luke, Leia, Han, Vader with some decently sculpted and painted plastic miniatures. (I, for one, find it great to not have to paint the minis before playing.)
This is miniatures gaming for the masses, so those looking for a lot of detail will be disappointed. On the other hand, it's pretty easy to get playing quickly, with only the line of sight and cover rules taking a bit to get used to, but there aren't a lot of fiddly rules to remember during game play. You can certainly get some of the feel of the cinematic battle without much effort. Combat can pretty much be intuited just from looking at the stat cards. A fair number of the figures have special abilities; these are pretty important in adding some flavor and tactics to the game, and do a nice job of making the main characters seem something like their movie counterparts. And Force powers make Obi-wan, Luke and especially Vader, powerful characters indeed.
This is a starter in name only - it is necessary to play the game, since it contains the rules, map, terrain tiles, 20-sided die and accessories you will need, but hardly sufficient to do any more than get a feel for how it plays. A couple of extra boosters sets of figures are almost mandatory to provide for some interesting battles or to allow you to create 100 point squads for both sides. The rulebook lists only the basic 100 pt squad match up setup and the more imaginative "Rescue the Princess" scenario drawn from the A New Hope film. Of course, you'd need to have the necessary figures to make that work. More scenarios would have been nice, especially ones that were playable with only a starter and a booster. The single map, depicting a section of the Deathstar interior, is well done, but will get old after a while, even with the terrain tiles.. The recently released Rebel Storm Ultimate Missions book helps out a lot by providing many more scenarios, a double-sided map and some special rules, but it of course, is "sold separately".
My biggest complaint about the game (which cost it a star in my rating) is that it is sold in a collectible format. That is, some of the figures are rare, some common and some uncommon, and you buy boxes of figures without knowing what you'll be getting. This is a poor fit for a miniatures game, and quite frankly, seems to me to just be a way to shake the maximum amount of coinage out of a gamer's pocket. It's certainly no help that all of the unique, named characters from the movies, the figures you would most want to play with, are all rare or very rare, and thus acquired rather arduously one per booster (with the exceptions of the Luke and Darth Vader figures that come fixed in this starter). And really, who wants to play out Star Wars battles without Han Solo, Leia or Chewy? Trying to get the figures you want can be wasteful and expensive.
But if you really like Star Wars...
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