![]() Like, c’mon, this game is so nearly great! Let it be great! Then along comes this expansion which could have added that little extra drama and colour that this game needed… but instead we get a slightly tepid remix of the original game? It’s kind of maddening! One of my biggest complaints in my video on Rebellion was that rather than a tale of heroes, it felt like an unambitious remix of the Star Wars films (containing about 12 deleted scenes where Princess Leia holds press conferences and the Imperials move their Star Destroyers around). “R2D2-O’s”, or “Hoth Crunch”.Īnd while Rise of the Empire does add some of the toppings that I felt were missing – posted bounties, daring heists, the Sarlacc pit, a spooky Interdictor ship that prevents the Rebels from retreating – it adds far more of the dull, wooly cards that I didn’t like in the base set, and to play with this expansion you have to remove a few of the best cards from the original game. Instead, progressing from scene to scene felt like you were chomping through dry cereal. ![]() The game’s hoard of components should have felt as rich and delicious as a mound of cheesy hero-nachos. ![]() What if Admiral Ackbar was captured instead of Leia and cracked under interrogation like a steamed crab? What if the climax of the first film was a Rebel raid on the shipyards of Coruscant? But one of my biggest disappointments around the original game were the many cards that were either uninteresting or impersonal. So much of the appeal of Star Wars: Rebellion is getting to play out an alternate timeline of the original movies. Something to laugh about, or talk about, or… look, let me explain, I haven’t developed chillybear madness I promise Though actually, that troubling brain of yours has hit upon the first thing I found unusual about this expansion (once we’d performed the tedious act of incorporating it into the original game- ignore these old rules, learn these new ones, shuffle these into this deck, remove these cards…). Basically I would have loved to have met a chillybear, or otherwise enjoyed some new colour in this galaxy. Quinns: That last one’s not true, you cad. In Real-World Terms™ it’s an expansion that adds quite a bunch of stuff: new leader characters, new cards, a whole new combat system, more unit types and plastic figures, and a brand new planet: EWOK-HOTH, HOME OF THE CHILLYBEARS. Matt: I just did a big vomit out of a window. ![]() What does the expansion add? Well, let me just quote the press materials: “Rise of the Empire isn’t just inspired by Rogue One it follows the movie’s example, adding new depth and story to the Rebellion game experience just as seamlessly as Rogue One provided new insight into the Galactic Civil War presented in the original Star Wars trilogy.” The review did have a really nice hologram effect, though. I reviewed it and said it was fun, but I couldn’t quite recommend it. Quinns: Matt, are you ready to review the Rise of the Empire expansion for Star Wars™: Rebellion? To bring everyone up to speed, Rebellion is a grand 2-4 player game set in the Star Wars universe. Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Rebellion: Rise of the Empire, Heavy Games, Games for Two, War Games, Miniatures Games ![]()
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