In 2020, a few months before the the global “corona” pandemic started, I purchased a copy of the famous Pandemic game that was just published in a Hebrew version in Israel. Me and my wife were pretty new to the hobby and explored this amazing world, and this game was our second cooperative game in our humble collection. We really enjoyed this game, it was a tense and thrilling experience of saving the humanity from the evolving viruses that spread all over the world, exploring each character’s unique specialty and ability. The base game didn’t offer a lot of variety except some difficulty levels, and after a few plays we eventually sold the game.
2 years later, Z-men announced the new variation for a game based on the Pandemic system - Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which caught my attention immediately as I saw it. A few weeks after it appeared on Amazon, I grabbed a copy to try, mostly because I love the Star Wars theme and because I was curious to find out how the publisher implemented the theme into the Pandemic system.
I was really surprised to find out that the system, although mostly left the same, felt fresh and interesting with a lot of improvements over the original game it was based on.
The main goal of the game is to beat one of the selected main villain. In general, the game offers 4 different villains: Darth maul, Count Dooku, Ahsoka Tano and General Grievous and 7 iconic Jedi characters (Anakin, Obi-wan and etc.)
All of the characters are represented by a nicely detailed, very good quality miniatures. Additionally, there is a set of small miniatures that represent the droids that are used to spread across the planets and increase the threat.
The same concepts and mechanisms of the Pandemic games are still exists, instead of spreading disease you are spreading the droids, outbreak is now became a threat.
But the main card play mechanism became more interesting for us. All of the cards you pick represent a tableau that can be activated to increase various actions, clone troopers cards are used to increase a fight and complete certain required objectives and are discarded only when you choose to.
These changes created a perfect variety which lacked for us in the original game.
Each round, depends on the main enemy, you should complete certain number of goals depending on the chosen difficulty. The goals require you to pick some symbols and reach a certain number when attempting to fulfill the mission.
After competing all the missions, you move to complete the main objective which is defeating the main boss.
All of this is done in turn orders between the players. Each player has 4 actions: move, fight, pick a card and attempting a mission (which I mentioned before).
Additionally, every character has his own special ability which he can use freely during his turn.
After completing up to 4 action, the main enemy flips a card which is being executed.
Next, invasion cards are being executed by adding droids to a different planets.
We really enjoyed this variant of the game, especially thank’s to the great implementation of the theme with the system.
The game felt familiar, yet different enough to feel new and interesting. Each main enemy is different, and players should find a different approach to beat each one of them.
I highly recommend this game to people who co-op games, Pandemic fans who want to קand especially Star Wars who liked the series and the episodes 1 to 3 movies.
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