Fantasy Flight Games | Star Wars Outer Rim: Unfinished Business Expansion | Board Game | Ages 13+ | 1-4 Players | 120-180 Minutes Playing Time

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If I had to complain about something, it would be the amount of table space this game requires. I have a long IKEA table and it took a good chunk of space on it. My recommendation is to play this on a round table. It will work far better. This is my only complaint and honestly, it’s probably my fault for not having a variety of tables for the house. Encounter Step – The active player resolves a single encounter, usually by drawing an encounter card corresponding to their space. An example of an ambition sheet. If the player completes all four objectives on this sheet, they win the game! Planning Step – During this step, the active player may gain credits, move across the galaxy, or recover all of their damage. Encounter Step – If you don’t encounter anyone willingly, such as trying to secure a bounty, or you haven’t run into an organization along the space road that would fight your ship, then you must do another encounter via a Navpoints card. This card proposes a situation, and you must conquer said situation or pay the price. You will never end this three-step process without an encounter, so don’t try to weasel your way out.

But before you begin your journey, you have to step into the shoes of one of eight iconic Star Wars characters, each with their own personal goal and ability. Han Solo may want to find the fastest ship in the galaxy, while Boba Fett is looking to bring in bounties dead or alive. If you have an empty shelf on your Kallax, have no fear. Foundations of Rome will fill it up. Surprisingly worthy of its box size, Foundations of Rome comes fully loaded with dual-layered boards, chunky pieces, and impressively detailed ancient Roman building miniatures. If that’s not enough, you can upgrade to get metal coins, a first player statue, a playmat, and more. All of this comes with an organizer that makes set-up a breeze. The table presence of this game will wow anyone walking by and playing it feels just as good as it looks. Looking for less? There’s a rumor of a re-theme with all cardboard pieces coming at the end of 2023. The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is Fantasy Flight Games’ longest-running LCG by a wide margin. This game has been around for ten years now, and the size of its loyal fanbase is a testament to how great of a game it is. To that end, we want to introduce this fantastic card game to even more people, and so we designed the Revised Core Set. Today we are excited to announce the winners of our 2022 Board Game Awards. As usual, the voting was difficult, and some categories were extremely tight. But our editorial staff (along with input from our readers) have made their selections. So, without further ado, here are the winners of our 10th Annual Board Game Quest Awards. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees. 2022 Board Game Award Winners Best Cooperative GameFirst and foremost, one of the most important aspects of this expansion is the addition of new playable characters. Yet since its release in 2019, gamers have been clamoring for an expansion. Finally, 3 years later their wish was granted in the form of Star Wars: Outer Rim – Unfinished Business. Was this expansion worth the wait? Let’s find out! Expansion Overview: The other optional addition to the game is ambitions. If the player completes all four objectives on this sheet, they win the game!

The expansion of the game, Unfinished Business, allows for players to add larger goals to their galactic adventure, such as becoming a Crime Lord. With that addition, the player must achieve goals that will lead them to one final reputation. Each reputation card in the expansion has a different set of goals that must be accomplished to retain the moniker the player was shooting for in the game. This addition is wild, and it adds a bit more content to the final experience. This was one of the cooler more personal parts of the Unfinished Business expansion.Completing a character’s personal goal not only gives you more fame, it allows you to flip your character card over and receive an even more powerful ability! Finally, there are the favor tokens. These were fine, but we didn’t use them that much. They do encourage a little bit more player interaction, but they are really only useful in a 3-4 player game. If you are playing with two players, I can’t fathom why I’d ever help out my only opponent. But since they are modular, you can take them or leave them as you see fit. Final Thoughts: Turns continue until one player reaches ten fame, at which point they become a living legend and win the game! When you’re not fighting a ground war with your character, you’re fighting a space battle with your ship. The ship battle can be for cargo, bounties, jobs, mods, or simply for survival against a particular organization that you might run into during your space journey. The latter of the bunch involves the four main organizations mentioned previously (Hutts, Empire, Rebels, and the Syndicate), who are always patrolling space looking for those who oppose them. They are represented by tokens, which follow players around their path. If you run into one of the tokens on the board, then you’re in a space battle that correlates to a specific numbered card and a reward that is generally significant. That shouldn’t mean you’re looking for trouble, as those organizations certainly bring the pain at times. Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Unfinished Business, the long-awaited expansion for Star Wars™: Outer Rim!

Here is an example of a new databank card for Boba Fett, one of the playable characters from the base game, now in crew form. With the 25 th anniversary for Twilight Imperium around the corner, we have a lot of amazing things in store for fans of the franchise next year. The first of theseare two graphic novel series developed by our friends at CMON. The base game for Star Wars: Outer Rim already had a plethora of iconic characters in its playable roster, and Unfinished Business rounds them out even further. Where characters like Chewbacca Dengar Hera Syndulla Cad Bane Six new ships are added to the game including the Jumpmaster 5000 which can be upgraded to Dengar’s Punishing One, a Rogue class Porax-38 starfighter which can upgrade to Cad Bane’s Xanadu Blood, and a VCX-100 light freighter which upgrades to the Ghost from Star Wars: Rebels. Several of these ships go along with the new playable characters. The eight new character standees and cards. Who will you play as? Image by Michael Knight. First and foremost is a spread of new ships, such as the scrappy Rogue -Class Porax-38 Starfighter and the rebellious VCX-100 Light FreighterAlso, you’re no longer confined to the titular Outer Rim, you can now head off to the core worlds held by the Empire. The core worlds are basically 2 new map pieces that sit at either end of the board. They give you 2 new places to have encounters, but they also allow you to zip across to the other side of the board in less than 5 parsecs. This can be quite useful as the patrol ships can’t follow you, so you can use it as a chance to escape their grasp. But as the core worlds are under Imperial control you may be in for a rough time if you’ve got a negative reputation with them. A skill test sees you rolling two dice—identical to the dice featured in X-Wing and fully compatible with that game—to determine if your job or encounter is successful. Your odds depend on your character and crew: Lando Calrissian may excel at rigging a game of sabacc, but IG-88 is more likely blast a hole in an organic! Perhaps one of the most significant features added in Unfinished Business is the addition of the Core Worlds to the game board.