Star Wars: Imperial Assault

BGG Rank: 78

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 5+, Best: 5+

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.30 / 5

Mechanisms: Dice Rolling, Die Icon Resolution, Grid Movement, Line of Sight, Modular Board, Role Playing, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Solo / Solitaire Game, Square Grid, Team-Based Game, Variable Player Powers

Category: Adventure, Exploration, Fighting, Miniatures, Movies / TV / Radio theme, Science Fiction, Wargame

Family: Category: Dungeon Crawler, Components: Dice with Icons, Components: Miniatures, Creatures: Aliens / Extraterrestrials, Game: Star Wars Imperial Assault, Mechanism: Campaign Games, Movies: Star Wars, Players: Games with Solitaire Rules, Players: One versus Many

Designer: Justin Kemppainen, Corey Konieczka, Jonathan Ying

Artist: Arden Beckwith, Christopher Burdett, Rovina Cai, Lucas Durham, Joel Hustak, Michal Ivan, David Kegg, Henning Ludvigsen, Brynn Metheney, Vlad Racean, Ryan Valle, Ben Zweifel

Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games, Asterion Press, Edge Entertainment, Galakta, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Hobby World

Categories: Campaign/Legacy, Dungeon-Crawler Tag: Star Wars

Star Wars: Imperial Assault is a strategy board game of tactical combat and missions for two to five players, offering two distinct games of battle and adventure in the Star Wars universe! Imperial Assault puts you in the midst of the Galactic Civil War between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire after the destruction of the Death Star over Yavin 4. In this game, you and your friends can participate in two separate games. The campaign game pits the limitless troops and resources of the Galactic Empire against a crack team of elite Rebel operatives as they strive to break the Empire’s hold on the galaxy, while the skirmish game invites you and a friend to muster strike teams and battle head-to-head over conflicting objectives. In the campaign game, Imperial Assault invites you to play through a cinematic tale set in the Star Wars universe. One player commands the seemingly limitless armies of the Galactic Empire, threatening to extinguish the flame of the Rebellion forever. Up to four other players become heroes of the Rebel Alliance, engaging in covert operations to undermine the Empire’s schemes. Over the course of the campaign, both the Imperial player and the Rebel heroes gain new experience and skills, allowing characters to evolve as the story unfolds. Imperial Assault offers a different game experience in the skirmish game. In skirmish missions, you and a friend compete in head-to-head, tactical combat. You’ll gather your own strike force of Imperials, Rebels, and Mercenaries and build a deck of command cards to gain an unexpected advantage in the heat of battle. Whether you recover lost holocrons or battle to defeat a raiding party, you’ll find danger and tactical choices in every skirmish. As an additional benefit, the Luke Skywalker Ally Pack and the Darth Vader Villain Pack are included within the Imperial Assault Core Set. These figure packs offer sculpted plastic figures alongside additional campaign and skirmish missions that highlight both Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader within Imperial Assault. With these Imperial Assault and other Figure Packs, you'll find even more missions that allow your heroes to fight alongside iconic characters from the Star Wars saga. Boxed expansions add more heroes, imperial and mercenary groups, and totally new campaigns (see IA Community Wiki for a list), and the free Star Wars: Imperial Assault â€“ Legends of the Alliance app provides you with additional content to play in solo or co-op mode.

Average Playing Time	2-4 hours
Best Player Count	2 Best, 5 Best
Collection	Hannes
Difficulty	Standard
Played	Played
Recommended Player Count	2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Special Mechanisms	1vAll, App Assist

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.00 / 5

Bring the power of the dark side to life with Imperial Assault Villain Packs! The General Weiss Villain Pack contains a sculpted plastic figure that can be constructed as either a standard AT-ST, or General Weiss’s heavily modified assault walker. What’s more, you’ll find new missions for both the Imperial Assault campaign game and the skirmish game, inviting you to investigate an Imperial research lab or lead the Rebels into a deadly forest ambush. With new missions, a plastic figure, and key Command cards, this Villain Pack expands your sinister machinations in any game of Imperial Assault.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.67 / 5

Fight for the Rebel Alliance with Imperial Assault Ally Packs! The Chewbacca Ally Pack features a detailed figure of Chewbacca, allowing you to replace the ally token found in the Core Set, and bring new life to this fearless Wookiee smuggler. You’ll also discover new missions for both the campaign game and the skirmish game, allowing you to prevent the Empire from enslaving Wookiees on Kashyyyk, or infiltrate an Imperial labor camp. With new missions, a plastic figure, and key Command cards, this Ally Pack offers plenty of options for any game of Imperial Assault.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 5+, Best: 5

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.90 / 5

Embark on thrilling new Imperial Assault missions with one of the galaxy’s most formidable bounty hunters: Boba Fett! With this deadly bounty hunter at your side, you can bring Boba Fett’s fearless inventiveness and vicious skills to every mission – assuming you can afford to hire him. Like other Villain Packs, the Boba Fett Villain Pack offers essential new cards and missions for both the campaign and skirmish games, alongside a detailed plastic figure required for fielding Boba Fett in Imperial Assault tournaments. For the skirmish game, this expansion offers new Command cards that open powerful new strategies and a new skirmish map with two unique missions. The Imperial player in a campaign game also gains access to a new side mission and a three-card Agenda set to hunt the heroes throughout the campaign. This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Imperial Assault Core Set is required to play. Includes missions that require the Twin Shadows expansion.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.40 / 5

Reinforce your legions of Stormtroopers with the Stormtroopers Villain Pack! The Stormtroopers were first introduced in the Imperial Assault Core Set, but the Stormtroopers Villain Pack brings deadly new tactics and abilities to these most loyal servants of the Empire, as well as three new Stormtrooper figures that feature an alternate figure sculpt. In your campaigns, this expansion offers the new Vader’s Fist Agenda set, allowing you to goad the Rebel heroes into an attempt to sabotage the training facility of the renowned 501st Legion. For your skirmish games, a brand-new skirmish upgrade represents the training of the 501st Legion, offering two potent new abilities to any Stormtrooper squad. At the same time, new Command cards reinforce figures after they die or invite your figures to engage in stealth tactics. Whether you play a campaign or a skirmish, this Villain Pack easily expands the ranks of your Stormtrooper armies.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.93 / 5

Bring the power of the dark side to life with Imperial Assault Villain Packs! The Royal Guard Champion Villain Pack contains a sculpted plastic figure to replace the token found in the Imperial Assault Core Set, depicting a fearsome champion of the Emperor’s Royal Guard. Even besides this figure, you’ll find new missions for both the Imperial Assault campaign and skirmish games, inviting you to attempt a data heist in a Kuat space station or trap the Rebels as they attempt to upload a virus to Imperial networks. With new missions, a detailed plastic figure, and key Command cards, this Villain Pack expands your sinister machinations in any game of Imperial Assault

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.86 / 5

Fight for the Rebel Alliance with Imperial Assault Ally Packs! The Rebel Saboteurs Ally Pack features two detailed figures of Rebel saboteurs, allowing you to replace the tokens found in the Core Set, and bring some of the Rebellion’s most destructive agents to the battlefields of Imperial Assault. You’ll find new missions for both the campaign game and the skirmish game, allowing you to bushwhack through the wilderness of Endor, or help the saboteurs destroy an important prototype starship. With new missions, plastic figures, and key Command cards, this Ally Pack offers plenty of options for any game of Imperial Assault.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.92 / 5

Fight for the Rebel Alliance with Imperial Assault Ally Packs! The Rebel Troopers Ally Pack features three detailed figures of Rebel troopers, allowing you to replace the tokens found in the Core Set, and bring the soldiers of the Rebellion to the battlefields of Imperial Assault. You’ll also uncover new missions for both the campaign game and the skirmish game, allowing you to battle within a Geonosis foundry, or fight to download critical data before the Rebel troopers’ position is overrun. With new missions, plastic figures, and key Command cards, this Ally Pack offers plenty of options for any game of Imperial Assault.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 90 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.00 / 5

From the earliest days of the Rebellion, and even before, two Droids have been at the heart of dramatic events across the galaxy. Their actions have even helped to shape events on a galactic scale. These Droids are R2-D2 and C-3PO, and you can introduce these iconic Droids to your games of Imperial Assault with this expansion! Like other Ally Packs, the R2-D2 and C-3PO Ally Pack offers essential new cards and missions for both the campaign and skirmish games, alongside two detailed plastic figures required for fielding R2-D2 and C-3PO in Imperial Assault tournaments. For the skirmish game, this expansion offers Command cards that open powerful new strategies and a new skirmish map with two unique missions. The Rebel heroes in a campaign game also gain a new side mission and the ability to field these two plucky Droids as allies. This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Imperial Assault Core Set is required to play. Includes missions that require the Twin Shadows expansion.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.29 / 5

Investigate a growing Imperial presence in Twin Shadows, a new expansion for Imperial Assault! New dangers lurk in every shadow and darkened alley on Tatooine, home of bounty hunters and galactic scum. To make matters worse, Han Solo has disappeared while on assignment in Mos Eisley. Now, a crack team of elite Rebel operatives launches their investigation to uncover the truth behind the Imperial plot. This expansion offers new content for both the campaign game and the skirmish game. You can play a fully formed mini-campaign that challenges your Rebel heroes to rush to Han Solo's aid or battle through a Mos Eisley cantina in the skirmish game. Two new heroes join the forces of the Rebel Alliance, but Heavy Stormtroopers and Tusken Raiders fight for the forces of the Empire. With ten sculpted plastic figures, twelve double-sided map tiles, and over sixty new cards, Twin Shadows brings new levels of danger and skulduggery to every Imperial Assault game.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 0 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.17 / 5

“If I told you half the things I’ve heard about this Jabba the Hutt, you’d probably short circuit.” –C-3PO, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Imperial reprisals have swept the galaxy, targeting not just the Rebels, but their families and loved ones as well. In desperation, you and a team of other Rebel operatives have gathered as many refugees as you can in hopes of shepherding them to safety in the Outer Rim. Your escape is discovered, however, and you’ve been shot down on Tatooine. Here, the power of the Empire is not as strong as elsewhere—but that doesn’t mean you’re out of danger. This is the domain of Jabba the Hutt, and you’ll need to play by his rules if you want to survive. Jabba’s Realm is a new expansion for Imperial Assault that offers a wealth of new content for your campaigns and skirmishes. You’ll find an entirely new full-length campaign that challenges you to survive among the desert wastes and criminal underworld of Tatooine, even as new skirmish missions invite you to battle in the Nal Hutta Borderlands or around the fabled Pit of Carkoon. Eighteen new double-sided map tiles evoke the opening scenes of Return of the Jedi, giving you access for the first time to Jabba’s palace, his pleasure barge, and iconic locations like the sarlacc pit. Meanwhile, sixteen brand-new plastic figures offer new warriors and heroes for the Imperials, Rebels, and Mercenaries, even as new Command cards, Deployment cards, Agenda cards, and Class cards give you countless ways to customize your game. With characters like Jabba the Hutt, the Rancor, and Luke Skywalker as a Jedi Knight joining the game, this expansion draws you into the Star Wars saga like never before.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.88 / 5

Bring the power of the dark side to life with Imperial Assault Villain Packs! The IG-88 Villain Pack contains a sculpted plastic figure to replace the token found in the Imperial Assault Core Set, depicting the renowned Droid assassin. In addition to this detailed figure, you’ll find new missions for both the Imperial Assault campaign game and the skirmish game, inviting you to enter the shifting junkyards of Ord Mantell or raise an army of Droids to rebel against the tyranny of the biologicals. With new missions, a detailed plastic figure, and key Command cards, this Villain Pack expands your sinister machinations in any game of Imperial Assault.

Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 5, Best: 5

Playing Time: 90 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.17 / 5

Description from the publisher: "Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side." –Emperor Palpatine The Heart of the Empire expansion for Imperial Assault welcomes you to Coruscant, capital of the galaxy! This globe-spanning metropolis is the home of Emperor Palpatine and countless other beings. It is also the home of countless mysteries, including the location of an ancient artifact of incredible importance… Set forth on a new, highly replayable campaign of sixteen missions that explore every level of the world, from its glistening halls of power to its grimy underworld alleys. You'll find three new heroes ready to join the Rebellion, aided by the talented Force user Ahsoka Tano. You'll maneuver through the crowded city, pursued and confronted by Imperials at every turn. And you'll find the Emperor isn't the only major player working against you. The former Sith, Maul, has sent a Clawdite Shapeshifter to pursue the artifact, and any face in the crowd might hide the Shapeshifter's true identity. Altogether, Heart of the Empire expands your campaign and skirmish games with three heroes and thirteen other figures, including the massive AT-DP, baton-wielding Riot Troopers, and twin-gunned Sentry Droids. Coruscant comes to life with dozens of new map tiles and more than 130 cards. New energy shield and rubble tokens will throw a wrench in your opponent’s plans by modifying the battlefield, and new power tokens give you more control over your fate than ever before!

stofke rated: N/A/10

eliradius rated: N/A/10

14+

RodZ rated: N/A/10

Can't wait for this one.

Panzerknacker rated: N/A/10

A Star Wars Descent? Cool. Always loved Descent a lot, but loathed that uninspired Terrinoth setting. Anyway, FFG is going to make A LOT of money with this one. Time to consider buying eventual shares of that company.

keschnell rated: N/A/10

Painted miniatures with custom terrain from Combatzone Terrain

TheNameWasTaken rated: N/A/10

After having played a couple missions, I have to admit - it really is Star Wars in a box. I particularly dig the hidden information aspect that can really turn a game upside down, and the change in turn structure (from Descent 2E) was also a great idea. Also, the amount of stuff in the box is pretty amazing. Also own [thing=167886]Chewbacca[/thing], [thing=167889]Han Solo[/thing] and [thing=199909]Obi Wan[/thing] packs.

Phyrexian rated: N/A/10

I'd love to play this, but this might be yet another money sink for me next to my X-Wing and Heroes of Normandie collections. Seems like this one has better rules than Descent second edition! Has an app like Descent.

tollboothmusic rated: N/A/10

JUST LEMME AT IT!!!!!!

therealcause rated: N/A/10

9/29/2016: Gave it to Alex as a gift. He can enjoy it, and there's no need for both Imperial Assault and Descent in my library.

aPilgrim rated: N/A/10

[2,5]2-5

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