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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Can You Feel the Hand...of the Empire?


It's finally time!

Star Wars has arrived, and with it has come all sorts of awesomeness.  This season, we present a nested campaign for the Galactic Civil War.  Star Wars Roleplaying Game D20 Revised forms the RPG basis for our campaign, but with X-Wing and our own new miniature battle game system thrown in there's going to be plenty of interplanetary mayhem to keep us occupied!  We've been looking forward to this for a while...and now that we've had the season opener, let me tell you - the club is jazzed up and having a blast already.

We're going to be developing the Wargate Battle Game (presently untitled) to do a lot of different things.  There is a basic ruleset that covers both skirmish and company level battles within an easy rules system.  We're going to run this through it's paces with what we're tentatively calling "realms" - and the first one to go full bore is Star Wars Uprising!  More on this to come, and we'll happily provide the text for our fans to use in their own games as it's developed.

Two new campaign sections have been added, one for the RPG and one for the nested battles.  We're planning on a lot of these type campaigns in the near future, and we're settling into the galaxy far, far away pretty hard.  I can already tell we're going to spend a lot of time on the hyperlanes, whisking to the Core Worlds to the Outer Rim and back again.

Just watch out.  Maybe there's no one named Solo or Skywalker around to help our heroes...but someone named Fett has been helping the Imperials hunt down the rogues near Roon.  On Game Day, we'll be eager to see what happens to this rather dashing looking fellow...

1 comment:

  1. Josh SwearingenFriday, May 29, 2015

    Star Wars has been great fun all season. The multilayer campaign has been a Russian nesting doll of awesome. X-Wing is easy to learn and a great companion to the Uprising skirmish game and the RPG. Its great because it a very inclusive sci-fi property. Even the most serious historical gamer has a basic knowledge of Star Wars. Everyone knows what a lightsaber, droid and wookie are. No one need be left in the dust, of course a more detailed understanding of the universe only serves to enhance the game for everyone. I see these games on the Wargate seasonal menu for quite some time, and I couldn't be more jazzed about it. May the force be with you, always.

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