Or, to be in line with the official language, Starcraft: The Board Game. Yes, it’s real and it’s a Fantasy Flight Games production that you can actually play without a computer. Or a mouse. With your hands and the help of 180 miniatures, quite a few board game pieces and a lot of cards. Really. It’s a proper impressive board game from the leaders in this field. You can actually grab it by following the previous link. Or this one. Apparently it’s been around for quite some time too and I simply cannot understand how I missed such an event. After all, I had been following news on its development pretty closely. Can’t believe I missed the launch… Oh, dear. I’m in shock. Have been even before I watched this pretty amazing (and quite explanatory) video/trailer of the game.

Ok. Better catch my breath here.

Ahh, yes, that’s better. Now, having just ordered the thing, I quite obviously don’t know how it plays, though I’m pretty sure it can’t be anything less than brilliant and ridiculously time consuming. Probably rules-heavy too, as it seems like an attempt at a full blown tabletop, turn-based, emulation of Blizzard’s original Starcraft. All three races have been included, as have a variety of popular tactics (Zergling rush anyone?), 50 or so pages of rules and quite a few victory conditions. Obviously 2-6 players multiplayer is a standard feature too. Joy!

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by konstantinos