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Starcraft: The Board Game Zergging This October
Fantasy Flight Games is no stranger to creating board games out of video games with their hugely popular World of Warcraft and Doom board games. While it's not quite the Starcraft 2 it's probably the next best thing as Fantasy Flight has announced Starcraft: The Board Game.
Following the success and popularity of the Warcraft and World of Warcraft board games, we are very pleased to announce the release of an epic board game based on Blizzard Entertainment’s classic Starcraft computer game. This will be one of our big box games, in the tradition of Twilight Imperium, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, and World of Warcraft: the Board Game. It features a large central game board depicting the Starcraft galaxy, as well as nine separate smaller boards that each represent a specific planet in the Starcraft universe. Players will control the familiar Terran, Protoss, or Zerg space and ground units in a bid for domination of these nine worlds. The combat system is fast and diceless, featuring an innovative mechanic that utilizes transparent plastic game cards. The game will feature dozens of beautifully sculpted plastic figures, dozens of cards, lots of high-quality cardboard tokens and markers, a large game board and several mini-boards, and all of the other great components that pack our epic-size games. Starcraft: The Board Game is scheduled for release in October.In addition, Fantasy Flight has announced two expansions to the World of Warcraft: The Board Game. The first, "Shattered Kingdom", is due in July and features hundreds of new cards, both expanding the original game and introducing a few new concepts. A new item deck rewards characters with exciting trinkets and artifacts. A new quest deck puts a bounty on independent creatures, rewarding characters who defeat them. Each class deck also receives 10 new powers and 10 new talents, further developing each character's arsenal of unique abilities and customizability. Each Overlord also receives special cards that are shuffled into the event deck, and these cards make them even more dangerous throughout the game.
While in November, World of Warcraft: The Board Game gets its first full-sized expansion, with new Overlords, new characters, events, and quests -- including dungeon quests which characters must battle through several cards to complete.
Considering that the WOW board game retails for $79.95 you better start saving your money now for the new Starcraft board game!
Cool, I love board games and I love Starcraft. I have to get this :D
Posted by Serinen at March 14, 2006 09:53 AMDude, sweet. :D Best. Board game. Ever.
Posted by Timbo at March 14, 2006 11:48 AMIts great to see the Starcraft IP used, but I would love to see a Video Game come from it.
Posted by Jake at March 14, 2006 12:53 PMSweeeet another excuse to stay inside on a nice day "but moooom we're playing a board gaaaaame" This should be cool, but jeeze thats expensive, better start saving my pennies.
Posted by Liam at March 14, 2006 01:43 PMDo not pass Terra...do not collect 200 crystals.
Need more Vespene Gas!!!
Posted by NeuroMan42 at March 14, 2006 09:17 PMThis will probably even beat Starcraft:Ghost to the stores. Good to know Blizzard hasn't completely forgotten about their Starcraft fans in their furry of Warcraft games... oh wait.
Posted by SirNuke at March 14, 2006 10:07 PMthe real question is: will they include UMS maps
Posted by shinynew at March 14, 2006 10:27 PMNot really... The real question is: when will "Spore: The Boardgame" be released?
Posted by Megagun at March 15, 2006 06:13 AMStarcraft was the first game that was too hard for me to finish on my own. That was a long time ago but i still love it! Glad to hear that theres a board game out. I'm looking out for it.
Posted by allister at March 15, 2006 09:16 AMyea i have been playing star craft ever since the game came out.. one of the few games that dont require much bandwidth. Now I can get a game that requires no bandwidth but the speed of my car.!! But i better start saving:P Thats seems like a lot but its probably well worth it!!!
§†å®©®åf† 4 £îf€ slippy
Posted by slippyboy at March 15, 2006 02:37 PMKik ass im gonna get tht one,but not ghost kinda seems done first person thts dumb they killed the hole purpose of startcraft
Posted by Anime Master at March 16, 2006 01:56 PMthis is how blizzard is spending their time?? y not make ... just putting it out there... STARCRAFT 2
WTF.. its a dumb board game. Blizzard and their dumb self.. Ghost has been 'under construction' for like 3-4yrs. Its all outdated by now graphically hahaha.
Blizzard, stop bs'ing, and make SC: 2 !!!
Posted by PartyMan at March 21, 2006 12:57 AMim getting it all right, but an actual computer game would be nicer
Posted by Awedhawk at March 21, 2006 09:32 PMQuote "this is how blizzard is spending their time?? y not make ... just putting it out there... STARCRAFT 2" - psy_guy
Your an idiot man, this isn't blizzard doing the board game. Heres some instructions.
1. go to school.
2. learn to write and read.
3. come back and read the article.
Quote "WTF.. its a dumb board game. Blizzard and their dumb self.. Ghost has been 'under construction' for like 3-4yrs. Its all outdated by now graphically hahaha.
Blizzard, stop bs'ing, and make SC: 2 !!!" - Partyman
You should also learn to write and read.
The reason why they haven't finished ghost is because it is obviously on hold, why would they care about it if they are making millions, possibly billions of dollars off of world of warcraft.
World of warcraft has many, many bugs in it, and they can't seem to fix the simplest errors, so they probably have 90% of the blizzard force on WoW and the other 10% in the john, or trying to fix the Massive amounts of lag on the servers.
I agree with Pacolaco. I've played a bunch of Blizzards games and I think its great they're even willing to expand outside of just computer games. It does seem expensive but i'll bet $100.00 (and I easily have it too) that the game will be a popular hit, and so will StarCraft: Ghost when it comes out.
Posted by RegiusXL[NFR] at April 24, 2006 02:53 AM"Your an idiot man, this isn't blizzard doing the board game. Heres some instructions.
1. go to school.
2. learn to write and read.
3. come back and read the article."
oh the irony
Posted by Matt at May 2, 2006 12:30 PMok for every1 who sed sumthin about makin SC2...BLIZZARD ISNT MAKING THIS U DUMBWAD!!!!its FFG i think...and i think this is a good idea and it could tie my friend over til SC2...also i didnt see as many complaints about stupidity in this "thing" as another one...
Posted by Chris at May 11, 2006 09:47 PM"The reason why they haven't finished ghost is because it is obviously on hold, why would they care about it if they are making millions, possibly billions of dollars off of world of warcraft."
-Pacolaco
While you made good points considering the other posters, it should come to your attention that ghost has been cancelled for severel months. Just sayin'.
Posted by The giant In The Playground at June 14, 2006 05:28 PMi have lose the code to get in the games
Posted by david at July 18, 2006 10:57 PM"ok for every1 who sed sumthin about makin SC2...BLIZZARD ISNT MAKING THIS U DUMBWAD!!!!its FFG i think...and i think this is a good idea and it could tie my friend over til SC2...also i didnt see as many complaints about stupidity in this "thing" as another one..."
well then why is there pics ALL OVER THE WEB!!!
Duh!
and i herd the bg is allredy out? is it true?
cuz i got 700 bucks redy
(i know i need to go to shcool bla bla bla!!! but im home shcoold so dont be dissin me!)
ohh hell yeah i have to got the STARCRAFT BOARDGAME ! Best game ever! Damn Noobs!
Posted by syba smock at October 25, 2006 10:23 AM... but can I zerg rush?
Posted by mouser55 at April 21, 2007 11:52 PMLolz... The bpard game and the STARCRAFT 2 IS COMING TOO!!!
Go CHECK DA SCRENSHOT ON DA NET!! ITS AWESOME!!!
looks amazing and i cant wait to get it even though it'll cost a small fortune... hopefully its a good game... guess it doesn't really matter i just want the little zerglings and zealots to sit on my shelf lmao wonder if theres carriers with little interceptors... >.>
i do wonder if it comes with a little box programmed to shout "Your Forces have engaged the enemy" and "Spawn More Overlords" when you arnt paying attention...
as for ghost... its been canned... and SC2... coming out soon! cant wait...
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