StarCraft: Brood War expansion details

For those who don't venture into BGG:

From Tabletop Gaming News:

Starcraft Brood War $59.95
With the shattered Zerg hive torn apart by fierce infighting, the Protoss seek to reunite with their Dark Templar brethren and begin rebuilding their devastated homeworld, Aiur. Terran Emperor Mengsk I, having achieved his goal of total domination over the human colonies, must now face two formidable threats. On one side is the rising power of the woman he betrayed – Kerrigan, now the infamous Zerg Queen of Blades – and on the other, a malevolent conspiracy deep within his own ranks. This expansion to the award-winning StarCraft: The Board Game provides a wide range of new units, planets, orders, technologies, and more.

Included within are brand new rules for:

Leadership Cards: Faction customizations providing devastating powers and advanced strategies for each of the six factions.
Heroes: Powerful units whose unique abilities can turn the tide of battle.
Scenario Play: Story-based missions that offer a brand new way to play the game. Fight to save the Dark Templar homeworld from Zerg infestation or attempt to destroy the Zerg Overmind to free the galaxy from its tyranny!

I love the idea of scenarios and heroes. I wasn't that big into Battlenet but I loved playing through the campaigns.

Scenario play sounds really odd to me in this system. Heroes sound good though.

I don't think I'll buy this, but mainly because I have only gotten Starcraft on the table once, not because of any quality problems.

God, my friend Erick (Pseudointellectual's little brother) is going to flip over this...he can quote the entire game script.

It sounds like the heroes may add a little more sense of "on the ground" involvement, which is cool.

Scenarios sound like a good idea too...set, overall objectives may actually be a better way to play than the standard victory conditions.

Excited? Yep.

I'm excited about this expansion but I was hoping for a small $20 expansion. I only paid $50 for the base game so $60 for an expansion? What the fuck. Probably the best purchases I've made over the last year have been expansions (Ti3SE, Dunwich, Kingsport, War of the Ring).

KingPut wrote:

I'm excited about this expansion but I was hoping for a small $20 expansion.

I think expectations for the scope of this expansion were high, considering how much content Brood War added to StarCraft (7 new unit types, new map templates, 30 new campaign missions, new cinematics). Most people would probably be disappointed if it was just a small card expansion.

Hmm.. an FFg expansion that is not a patch? I am worried. I do not know that SC needs anything more than it has. Are we going to take a nice quick multi player game and start tacking on time until it becomes a Juggernaut?


I probably buy the damn thing anyway.

-M

Starcraft expansion... auto buy.

I hope there's a solo mode scenario.

I'm interested in seeing the campaign mission thingies. It would be way cool to have other ways to play besides the normal VP/special victory win. Maybe stuff like CTF, assassinate the opponents' leader or conquer their homeworld or something like that. Better order tokens that don't wear so easily would be great, too.

Has anyone tried Brood War Expansion?????

I got it but haven't popped the shrink.

Next week.