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Star Wars Epic Duels Game
Published by Milton Bradley
Design by Craig Van Ness and Rob Daviau
2 double-sided gameboards, 378 cards, 28 wound markers, 31 character pawns, 12 characters charts, and one die; $19.95
"Did you ever wonder . . .
"What would happen if the Force was no longer divided? Jedi Knights could battle each other . . . Sith Lords could challenge one of their own . . .
"What if classic battles could be recreated and have completely different endings? Imagine the unthinkable. Anakin Skywalker versus Darth Vader. Impossible? Not anymore!
In Epic Duels, you create hundreds of never-before-seen battles or relive classic duels."
Epic Duels was a surprise for me: A fun, entertaining game with more similarities to hobby game releases than a mass-market boardgame. Shortly after the game's release, I started receiving scattered e-mails informing me that the game was like Frag. So I promptly tracked down a copy to see for myself what people were talking about. I didn't feel it was possible that Hasbro would have lifted the mechanics of a game from such a smaller publisher.
I was right.
For Those Who Worry About Such Things
The character pawns are painted plastic figures, each a little over an inch tall. Some of the paint jobs are excellent (Boba Fett) while others aren't really painted but are instead just molded in the appropriate color of plastic (stormtroopers and clone troopers are molded in white plastic). This isn't a problem at all, but . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: May 3, 2002
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