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For those who care, draft rules in the extended.

People took some pics of the upcoming Bounty Hunters set for Star Wars minis at GenCon. Here's the link:

BH set pics at The Holocron

Notes in the extended.

Wizards of the Coast has finally put up their information page for their upcoming Star Wars space minis game, which is due for release in late November.

Here's the page

For the moment, this is a standalone, collectible-format game featuring a starter pack that comes with 8 randomized spacecraft as well as Executor and a big Mon Calamari ship, and boosters that each contain 7 minis.

They've also posted the rules here. They're about as simple as the rules for the normal minis game, with the removal of the complications provided by cover and terrain in the normal game.

You can see a couple images of actual minis scattered around the site. At the moment, the Star Wars home page shows us an X-Wing, a TIE Interceptor and the Millennium Falcon. The product page features Slave I (in Jango rather than Boba colors, I'm told).

The next Star Wars minis game, Spaceship Battles, comes out at the end of November. Someone posted the setlist and some stats on the SW minis forum, so I've included both in the extended. One fun bit -- the basic TIE Fighter comes with the ability "Infinite" -- when it is destroyed, it is returned to the fighter pool and can be launched again.

Sweet.

The Star Wars Starship Battles Game went on sale this week. The starter was already sold out in both local game stores I checked in on today; the game has been much anticipated in the community.

The minis themselves look really good -- better than the normal minis. This isn't surprising, as the mass production methods used for collectible minis are more forgiving to vehicles than to people.

The stats for all the ships are already up at swshoebox, and my normal eBay source is posting the minis for sale today.

After some test plays of the new Star Wars Starship Battles game, I've decided that it's just a little too simple for my tastes. There's very little motivation to actually maneuver the capital ships, and the fighters, while fun, play out like a fairly routine chess game.

I've decided to transfer the game to a free-standing (that is, normal) minis game, with measured distances, playable on any old surface.

Modified rules and stats in the extended. Opinions welcomed from interested parties (e.g. folks on whom I'm going to inflict this).