Starcraft: The Boardgame

[Simplicity]

So I recently picked myself up a copy of Starcraft: The Boardgame. Seems pretty cool. Lots of figures, and the place order mechanic is a very interesting way of mixing turns and reducing the normal downtime that comes with these type of wargames. I tried out a solo run (yes, I'm that lame)... Some of the special victory conditions seem a heck of a lot easier than others.

Tassadar's condition is just to occupy more territories than any of the other players. In a 2 player game, that's not all that hard to do for one round. The Queen of Blades needs to build three bases on three different planets. Well, each player gets two planets right off the bat. So, if you don't have 2 bases, you're losing. And you can build bases on planets with other players. So, you could fulfill this condition on the first game turn. Mobilize, Build Base. Mobilize, Build Base. (Of course, you have to wait for Stage 3 to win, but you get the idea. Kind of easy to do).

Some people I've seen online think the easy victory conditions are a good thing. They lead to a very quick, aggressive game that's for certain. I'm less certain, but it definitely seems like a fun way to waste a couple of hours... I'm liking it from what I've seen so far.

Anybody else have it? And/or have opinions on what they've seen?

 

[Deset Gled]

Some people I've seen online think the easy victory conditions are a good thing. They lead to a very quick, aggressive game that's for certain. I'm less certain, but it definitely seems like a fun way to waste a couple of hours... I'm liking it from what I've seen so far.

Anybody else have it? And/or have opinions on what they've seen?

I'm not familiar with the Starcraft boardgame, but here's a discussion of the "easy victory" mission cards in Risk, which are probably the same basic concept: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=201858

 

[frankthedm]

Could we get some pics of the peices with some other minis for scale comparison?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

 

[Simplicity]

Ask and ye shall receive. Boardgamegeek has a lot of pictures of the game...
I'll just post a link to their image gallery.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/game/22827

This one in particular gives you an idea of mini scale. The cards are standard sized cards.

Here's another one with a "battle board" that a fan created.

Some people took to painting some of the minis... I wish my paint skills were this good. Or I had the time. There's a good 180 minis, I think. So it'd take a while. Scroll down to see those pictures.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1199776783/15