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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 385: Star Wars: Rebellion Board Game

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rob, Sean Sands, and Jonathan Bolding get together to talk about Star Wars: Rebellion. No, not that one, the board game one. Fantasy Flight's take on the Star Wars universe offers an asymmetrical experience in which the powerful Empire attempts to search for the scrappy Rebels across the galaxy.

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0:00.0

Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

0:03.0

Join to me today, we welcome back our friend, the Game King himself, Sean Elysium Sands.

0:08.4

Hello.

0:09.8

And we also welcome back freelance writer John Bolding.

0:13.7

Hello, hello.

0:15.1

So today we're going to be talking about Star Wars Rebellion, which is a game we've, which is an exact title we have talked about on the show before, but this is a totally different game.

0:27.4

The last Star Wars Rebellion we talked about was a 90s PC strategy game with some very quirky and unique elements that actually sort of anticipate the

0:41.1

coming paradox line of strategy games, I would argue. This is a game that borrows a lot of the

0:48.5

same theme. It's a grand strategic view of the war in Star Wars, as you remember it from the real Star Wars movies and

0:59.2

not the prequels, about the battle between the rebellion and the Galactic Empire.

1:04.8

But it's taking a very, very different approach. So this is a game that is made by fantasy flight games.

1:14.8

And let's start with that because I think I went into this.

1:20.3

I think I went into this.

1:22.5

I was visiting Sean last weekend.

1:26.6

Yep.

1:27.5

And we were in the mood for a board game.

1:30.5

And we kind of went like, hey, let's play a fantasy flight grand strategy game about

1:36.1

Star Wars.

1:37.7

And we got exactly what that sounds like.

1:40.9

Yes.

1:42.5

So John, does what it says on the 10, right? Yeah, pretty much. It's slightly. like. Yes. So,

1:44.5

John,

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