Do we really need another Star Warswargame? Yes, and this is it

Enlarge / A fully painted stormtrooper battalion at last year's Essen game show. (credit: Owen Duffy)

If you're a Star Wars fan, you may have felt a recent disturbance in the Force. Don't be alarmed, though-it's just the upcoming (March 22) release of a new tabletop game from Fantasy Flight Games, and it's set against the backdrop of the titanic struggle between the heroic Jedi and the villainous Sith Lords.

This is not the publisher's first foray into the Star Wars franchise, of course. In fact, FFG already offers a dizzying array of games set in a galaxy far, far away. Are you looking for intense, adrenaline-pumping dogfights between squadrons of elite fighter pilots? Then you'll want to try the X-Wing Miniatures Game. Prefer a grand-scale strategic clash between fleets of colossal ships? Star Wars: Armada has you covered. In the market for a mission-based game that plays like a sci-fi dungeon-crawler? That'll be Star Wars: Imperial Assault. Then there's the collectible dice game, the four-hour galaxy-spanning epic, and the three separate tabletop RPGs.

It's enough to make you wonder whether there's any aspect of the Galactic Civil War that hasn't already been exhaustively explored on the tabletop. But, as it happens, there is.

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