{"id":1078,"date":"2016-12-18T20:13:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2018-01-01T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:19:43","slug":"showcase-assault-on-hoth-the-empire-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Showcase: Assault on Hoth: The Empire Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d had my eye on the old West End game, Assault on Hoth: The Empire Strikes Back<\/a>, for a long time but I’m never a fan of chits and standees. So I decided to recreate a version like quite a few other BGGers and upgrade the components.<\/p>\n

I finished this project earlier this year after working on it off and on for over a year but since Rogue One<\/a> is hitting the theaters this weekend, these bad boys have been obsessively on my mind:<\/p>\n

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Rogue One, by the way, is fantastic.\u00a0 It was like watching all my favorite minis games get a big budget action movie.\u00a0 Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars: Armada<\/a>, X-wing<\/a>, and Imperial Assault<\/a> could all be combined into an Epic Battle of Scariff as the movie combined all three theaters of war seamlessly into one epic narrative.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to Hoth: I started out with the excellent resources on the Assault on Hoth boardgamegeek page<\/a>, including BennyBroka<\/a> revised map<\/a> and revised card deck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"hoth-wide\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I had the decks printed from Artscow<\/a> and the map as a matte poster print from Printer studio<\/a>. I later laminated the poster at Office Depot.<\/p>\n

\"hoth-cards1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"hoth-cards2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After that, I started collecting minis. With Star Wars so prevalent again, the toy market is flush with new items like the resurgence of Micro Machines. I picked up the 5 AT-ATs needed from various Micro Machines sets.<\/p>\n

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\"hoth-at-3\"<\/a><\/div>\n

The tiny AT-STs came from these weird cube “playset” games called “box busters<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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The small Airspeeders are from Mel Miniatures<\/a>‘ Shapeways account. I looked all over for these but just couldn’t find anything in the right size but luckily Mel Miniatures had them in Fantasy Flight’s Armada scale.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t find any trooper options in a scale I wanted (preferably 6mm for this game like I did in OGRE<\/a>) so I went with making tokens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"hoth-wide2\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\"hoth-shield-generator\"<\/a><\/div>\n

The Shield Generator and cannons again came from the “box busters<\/a>” series.<\/p>\n

\"hoth-dice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, I was able to pick up a set of dice from BGG user Orph<\/a> and they turned out fantastic.<\/p>\n

\"hoth-storage\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Everything rolls up into a cylinder mailing tube and I’m really happy with how everything turned out.<\/p>\n

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Now that Rogue One killing it in theaters<\/a>, maybe some publisher will give us some new All Terrain combat vehicle action. Until then, I have Assault on Hoth to relive my favorite battle of the Star Wars franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d had my eye on the old West End game, Assault on Hoth: The Empire Strikes Back, for a long time but I’m never a fan of chits and standees. So I decided to recreate a version like quite a few other BGGers and upgrade the components. I finished this project earlier this year after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120,119,334,15,335,30,191,336,333,107,122,332,134,36,41],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","tag-artscow","tag-assault-on-hoth","tag-at-at","tag-boardgamegeek","tag-box-busters","tag-fantasy-flight-games","tag-imperial-assault","tag-mel-miniatures","tag-micro-machines","tag-ogre","tag-printer-studio","tag-rogue-one","tag-shapeways","tag-star-wars-armada","tag-star-wars-x-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}