Proceedings start with you selecting your figures for the game: you select two characters, each of which gives you a points allowance to spend on a secondary character and a support unit. It’s a skirmish game, so the idea is that you can enjoy cinematic action with a small squad of troops, unlike Star Wars Legion which covers much bigger battles at less granular detail.

But if you can find a rules explanation video online you’ll discover that the core game flow isn’t that hard to get down: the complexity comes from covering all the conditions, like disarmed or strained, and edge cases that open-movement miniatures games like this can throw up. Shatterpoint comes with a meaty and foreboding rulebook which makes learning the game pretty daunting.

Keen figure painters may enjoy the fact that the box includes two printed cardboard backgrounds to photograph your painted miniatures in front of. Most of these are plain but the artwork on the character cards is bright, brash and very reminiscent of the Clone Wars show while also having its own recognisable style.

Right at the bottom of the box, buried under a layer of cardboard, are the other actual game components: a bagful of custom dice and some small decks of cards. There’s also a lot of chunky scenery to assemble too, including lofted gantries to make sure the action stretches across all three dimensions. They’re good sculpts but not outstanding ones, although the jetpack-borne Mandalorians are a nice touch. Most recognizable among them are the four main characters: Anakin and Ahsoka Tano in the blue corner, and Lord Maul and Asajj Ventress in the red. You get the parts for sixteen different figures, all of which are from the Clone Wars cartoon series. They’re also 40mm scale which makes them easier to handle: for reference, the popular Games Workshop figures are 28 or 32mm scale. The droids are an exception as their ball joints make them difficult to put together in the correct pose. They come with angular joints that only fit together in specific poses, making assembly a breeze, although you’ll have to be careful with the very flimsy lightsabers on some of the models. But it still feels a little underwhelming to lift the lid and not find all your favorite Star Wars characters staring back at you.įortunately, the majority of the figures here are really easy and quick to build, although there are no instructions for doing so in the box - you have to download them online. That’s to be expected as most modern miniatures games are built from plastic sprues that you need to assemble yourself with a craft knife and polystyrene cement. You could be forgiven for presuming that what you’d bought was some kind of Airfix model kit and not a game at all were it not for the rulebook that tops the package.

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