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D6G Pip 168: Star Wars Shatterpoint Initial Thoughts

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Other Games, Games & Hobbies

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Pip Craig takes us on a quick tour through the most innovative aspects of the newest game to catch his eye: Star Wars Shatterpoint, by Atomic Mass Games. Craig looks at the game mechanics that make Shatterpoint special and digs a bit into how they interact for an experience that pulls him into that galaxy far, far away.     Links for the show notes:  Hello, There! A Star Wars Shatterpoint Podcast:      Rogue Support: A Star Wars Shatterpoint Podcast:

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0:00.0

This is the D6 generation. Dice are our vice.

0:18.0

Creating not too horrible content since 2008.

0:22.6

Are you crazy?

0:23.6

That's like 400 hours of gamer nonsense.

0:26.6

Oh, I think we're well past that. D6G. Hot take.

1:06.6

Hey, it's been a while, and I thought I should probably reach out.

1:12.4

And this is not going to be a hot take either.

1:17.5

It's been a take that's been brewing for just about two months now.

1:18.8

June.

1:21.4

No, all of June, all of July.

1:22.4

Yeah, about two months.

1:48.6

So if you have followed me on any of my social media, and by that I mean Twitter, because I still can't figure out Facebook, you know that most of my hobbying, once I finished the Confederate forces that took me forever, has been Star Wars Shatterpoint by Atomic Mass Games. That's what I've been listening to podcasts about.

1:53.8

That's what I've been painting. That's what I've been learning. That's what I've been playing when I get a chance.

2:05.2

And I wanted to share with you a little bit about Star Wars Shatterpoint, why it's been fascinating to me. And it's been a while.

2:11.5

So I thought, yeah, I'm going to reach out. So what is Star Wars Shatterpoint if you have no idea at all? It is a tabletop skirmish war game in the Star Wars era, obviously, and it sort of focuses on the Clone Wars time

2:20.7

period in Star Wars between episode two, Attack of the Clones, and Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith.

2:27.6

So it's actually that cartoon, the Clone Wars cartoon, and the artwork for it, not really the models, although the models to a lesser

2:37.4

degree, but the artwork for the game very much takes all of its inspiration from the Clone Wars

2:43.9

era cartoon. So it's a skirmish game, meaning, you know, it's, it has a small physical footprint

2:49.7

on a three-by-three table.

2:52.5

A low model count, usually between six to eight models per side.

2:58.6

And usually once you get the rules down a relatively short playing time,

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