Star Wars starship minis - would you buy it?

[johnnype]

I'm not all that interested in the existing Star Wars minis but if WotC were to develop a good starship combat miniatures game with prepainted minis I'd be all over it. How 'bout you?

 

[Crothian]

That would be very temting for me.

 

[The_Gneech]

I bought West End Games' Star Warriors, which was basically what you describe but with lil' cardboard chits instead of minis ... I still use it, 15+ years later!

So yeah, I'd be a likely customer.

-The Gneech

 

[Corsair]

As long as TIE fighters, Y-Wings, and Z-95's are common as all heck, I'll be thrilled.

 

[kenobi65]

Abso-friggin'-lutely I'd buy it.

 

[Pramas]

I'm not all that interested in the existing Star Wars minis but if WotC were to develop a good starship combat miniatures game with prepainted minis I'd be all over it. How 'bout you?

When I was working at WotC many years ago, I wrote a plan to do a Star Wars spaceship combat game. The idea was to do an intro product for the mass market that recreated the space battle at the end of Episode 1 (basically, just fighters), then do a follow up for the hobby market that'd be a true fleet battle system. In fact, when I went to Skywalker Ranch to read the script for Episode 2, it was specifically to see if there was going to be a big space combat scene we could use in the game.

Like all the plans of the original WotC minis group though, this came to naught.

 

[johnnype]

Sorry to hear it didn't work Chris. I know I would have been all over it. What is it about starship fleet games that rarely make them successful? GW has Battle Fleet Gothic but the setting is so over the top that it just doesn't appeal to me. DP9 had Lighning Strike but I just couldn't get behind building and painting all those minis.

 

[Rykion]

I would love to see a Star Wars spaceship minis game.

I would also like to see a Star Wars miniatures game with smaller scale minis, so that bigger battles could be played. Hopefully, Axis & Allies Miniatures will be successful and we might see a similar product for Star Wars.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Like all the plans of the original WotC minis group though, this came to naught.

Like I said the last time you mentioned it, I think this would have been a fantastic idea.

Are you at all allowed to discuss why this didn't happen?

 

[Welverin]

I'm a star wars whore, so yes.

When I was working at WotC many years ago, I wrote a plan to do a Star Wars spaceship combat game. The idea was to do an intro product for the mass market that recreated the space battle at the end of Episode 1 (basically, just fighters), then do a follow up for the hobby market that'd be a true fleet battle system. In fact, when I went to Skywalker Ranch to read the script for Episode 2, it was specifically to see if there was going to be a big space combat scene we could use in the game.

Like all the plans of the original WotC minis group though, this came to naught.

What this tells me is that there was a deliberate and utterly nefarious plot to get rid of all the people with cool ideas!