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TWO HOUR WARGAMES STAR WARS CONVERSION MOVIE
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Instead of gaining satisfaction after a single play, the payoff doesn’t occur until the end when you’ve had a chance to watch your strategy unfold over time (or collapse in a heap). It’s a different kind of gaming experience to go through various 2-3 hour sessions executing your blueprint for victory while fending off random events and your opponent whilst trying to throw in wrenches to wreck the opposition’s schemes. 20 hour (or more) games were fairly typical products of that era as you peruse through the titles available from that time. Rather than creating a game that was playable in one sitting, what John Butterfield (UPDATE: and Howard Barasch, see comments) created was something more akin to a classic operational wargame that rewards long term strategy while remaining flexible enough to respond to an evolving board situation. It’s a product for a modern audience that generally wants to play a game in a single afternoon or evening.įreedom in the Galaxy leans much more on the conflict simulation scale of gaming.

TWO HOUR WARGAMES STAR WARS CONVERSION MOVIE

There’s a lot of action in a game that plays out the narrative from the original movie trilogy (Episodes 4 through 6) and takes about 4 hours to finish. Star Wars: Rebellion is a game with deep strategy embedded in its card play mixed in with a simple but robust military engine coupled with a character system that either leads the military forces on the map or goes on missions to fulfill objectives or projects important to their side’s cause. They are also two different kinds of beasts. For me this game came into its own with its rich backstory and cornucopia of detail that is quite an achievement considering that the game is smaller than a lot of similar wargames of its time. Considering that Fantasy Flight Games recently published Star Wars: Rebellion, we now have THE official Star Wars licensed strategy game which makes Freedom in the Galaxy obsolete right?įor some perhaps. It’s a favorite among dedicated fans whom have played it for the last 30 years so they could have the closest experience to a Star Wars like wargame.

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Much like it’s cousin by SPI, War of the Ring, the publisher that obtained a license for a game about Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books probably tried to do the same for George Lucas’s creation. This game was essentially supposed to be: “Star Wars: The Wargame”. It’s a two player space opera wargame between an evil oppressive Galactic Empire and an upstart rebellion that initially consists of just a small group of characters intent on overthrowing the tyrannical emperor. This game is very much a product of the late 70’s early 80’s gaming, a time when hex and counter strategy games had reached an apex and had branched out into science fiction and fantasy (led by Ares Magazine, a spin-off SPI game magazine created to deal specifically with those genres). This game was published by SPI in 1979 and later reprinted in a new edition by Avalon Hill in 1981. Of the four, Freedom in the Galaxy is my favorite. Today’s post is about the one in the lower right corner.

I played them all to absolute disintegration.

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These were Civilization, Source of the Nile, Statis Pro Baseball and Freedom in the Galaxy. Publishers use these marks when books are returned to them.My introduction to the boardgaming hobby (as opposed to say, just boardgames in general) came via my father’s very tiny collection of Avalon Hill titles all the way back in 1983-84.

Remainder Mark - A remainder mark is usually a small black line or dot written with a felt tip pen or Sharpie on the top, bottom, side page edges and sometimes on the UPC symbol on the back of the book.

If excessively worn, they will be marked as "tray worn."

Flat trays for SPI games are not graded, and have the usual problems.

If excessively worn, they will be marked as "card worn."

The cardboard backing of miniature packs is not graded.

In most cases, boxed games and box sets do not come with dice.

Due to the nature of loose counters, if a game is unplayable it may be returned for a refund of the purchase price.

Boardgame counters are punched, unless noted.

Major defects and/or missing components are noted separately.

Example, EX+ is an item between Excellent and Near Mint condition.

A "plus" sign indicates that an item is close to the next highest condition.

When only one condition is listed, then the box and contents are in the same condition.

TWO HOUR WARGAMES STAR WARS CONVERSION CODE

Boxed items are listed as "code/code" where the first code represents the box, and the second code describes the contents.