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Pandemic Star Wars The Clone Wars Board Game

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  • The Grand Army of the Republic is in continuous conflict with the unending waves of Count Dooku's droid battalions. In Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Pandemic System Game, stand together as legendary Jedi against the Sith Lord and his Separatist forces.
  • Utilize each character's unique abilities to cut down swarms of droids, complete missions across the galaxy, and use the power of the Force to battle iconic villains across four exciting scenarios.
  • Take on the roles of heroic Jedi, each with powerful and unique abilities, to battle the Separatist forces. Play through 4 different scenarios, each featuring its own main villain.
  • Immerse yourself into the game with a large-sized board, illustrated cards, and striking miniatures that include legendary Jedi, iconic villains, and swarms of battle druids and blockade ships.
  • This fun family board game can be played with 1 to 5 players and is suitable for ages 14 and older. The average playtime is 60 minutes.

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    • This game has a rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews on Amazon
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Amazon has Pandemic Star Wars The Clone Wars Board Game on sale for $30. Shipping is free.
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Target also has Pandemic Star Wars The Clone Wars Board Game on sale for $30. Select store pickup where available, otherwise shipping is free with RedCard or on orders of $35+.

Thanks to community member greenladdy for sharing this deal.

About this game:
  • The Grand Army of the Republic is in continuous conflict with the unending waves of Count Dooku's droid battalions. In Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Pandemic System Game, stand together as legendary Jedi against the Sith Lord and his Separatist forces.
  • Utilize each character's unique abilities to cut down swarms of droids, complete missions across the galaxy, and use the power of the Force to battle iconic villains across four exciting scenarios.
  • Take on the roles of heroic Jedi, each with powerful and unique abilities, to battle the Separatist forces. Play through 4 different scenarios, each featuring its own main villain.
  • Immerse yourself into the game with a large-sized board, illustrated cards, and striking miniatures that include legendary Jedi, iconic villains, and swarms of battle druids and blockade ships.
  • This fun family board game can be played with 1 to 5 players and is suitable for ages 14 and older. The average playtime is 60 minutes.

Editor's Notes

Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $29.99 lower (50% savings) than the listed retail price.
    • Refer to the forum thread for discussion of this deal.
  • About this product:
    • This game has a rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews on Amazon
  • About this store:
    • Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
    • If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
    • Sign-up for Target RedCard to save an additional 5%, receive free shipping, and attain an extended return period.
    • You can view the Target Return Policy here.

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I'll give you my subjective interpretation of and notes on BGG ratings.

6.5 is my personal rule of thumb cut off for whether a game is worth my attention. I'll make exceptions if there is some aspect of it I find particularly enticing. But pretty much anything below 6.5 has a fly in the ointment. There are plenty of good times to be had with games below this rating, but at the opportunity cost of not having played an even better game that's just as easy to find and get to the table.

7.0 This is a solid game. Whatever flaws it may have, the experience is worth it. I consider it the pass / fail line for "good" game vs "bad" game if it's the only metric I have and I can only categorize a game that crudely.

After 7.0 things don't move linearly. As can be seen, the 8.7 average for the very best game shows you the kind of curve you're working on.

7.5 This game has the goods. It still might not be your cup of tea, but if it's in front of the right audience it is a blast.

8.0 "I can't believe you've never played X!"

A lot has been said about heavier games having a bias for higher scores. So one also has to consider how heavy the game is. The two theories on where this bias comes from is that more people find simple games just worse for their simplicity, and people who are willing to learn and play a heavy game are more likely to know what they're getting in to and therefore like it more than people who have self-selected not to play it because of its weight and so haven't contributed to the rating.

There's also the Kickstarter factor. Anything on Kickstarter gets a bunch of 10 ratings from people who have preordered it. There is also speculation that people who bought into the hype for a game or more likely to give a rating that closer matches their expectation to how much they were going to like it from the hype. I give crowd funded games a -0.3 correction in my head when I interpret their ratings.
For those not familiar with BGG ratings, 7.8 is decent. The highest rated game (Gloomhaven) is 8.7.

7-Good
8-Very Good
9-Excellent
10-Outstanding

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardga...clone-wars

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JodouKast
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Wonder how this compares to the WoW game from last year, because the difficulty spike at higher player counts was pretty bad. If this one scales better, I'd give it a shot.
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Dougmeister
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7.8 on Board Game Geek [boardgamegeek.com]

1–5 Players
60 Min Playing Time
Age: 14+
Weight: 2.12 / 5

Great price. Lowest ever from Amazon according to CCC.
Last edited by Dougmeister December 21, 2022 at 05:53 AM.
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank sgreasby

For those not familiar with BGG ratings, 7.8 is decent. The highest rated game (Gloomhaven) is 8.7.

7-Good
8-Very Good
9-Excellent
10-Outstanding

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardga...clone-wars
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Waethrman
Dec 21, 2022
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Quote from sgreasby :
For those not familiar with BGG ratings, 7.8 is decent. The highest rated game (Gloomhaven) is 8.7.

7-Good
8-Very Good
9-Excellent
10-Outstanding

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardga...clone-wars
I'm a little confused, didn't you just say that the excellent and outstanding category basically doesn't exist since the best rating on the whole site is an 8.7? Kinda seems like we should be grading on a curve lol
Dec 21, 2022
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Bobby123179
Dec 21, 2022
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Quote from Waethrman :
I'm a little confused, didn't you just say that the excellent and outstanding category basically doesn't exist since the best rating on the whole site is an 8.7? Kinda seems like we should be grading on a curve lol
8.7 is the average. You can still rate a game a 10/10 which gets added to the average score.

7.8 is fairly high for an average. I was interested in this game myself. May pick it up.
Dec 21, 2022
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jenius00
Dec 21, 2022
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I'll give you my subjective interpretation of and notes on BGG ratings.

6.5 is my personal rule of thumb cut off for whether a game is worth my attention. I'll make exceptions if there is some aspect of it I find particularly enticing. But pretty much anything below 6.5 has a fly in the ointment. There are plenty of good times to be had with games below this rating, but at the opportunity cost of not having played an even better game that's just as easy to find and get to the table.

7.0 This is a solid game. Whatever flaws it may have, the experience is worth it. I consider it the pass / fail line for "good" game vs "bad" game if it's the only metric I have and I can only categorize a game that crudely.

After 7.0 things don't move linearly. As can be seen, the 8.7 average for the very best game shows you the kind of curve you're working on.

7.5 This game has the goods. It still might not be your cup of tea, but if it's in front of the right audience it is a blast.

8.0 "I can't believe you've never played X!"

A lot has been said about heavier games having a bias for higher scores. So one also has to consider how heavy the game is. The two theories on where this bias comes from is that more people find simple games just worse for their simplicity, and people who are willing to learn and play a heavy game are more likely to know what they're getting in to and therefore like it more than people who have self-selected not to play it because of its weight and so haven't contributed to the rating.

There's also the Kickstarter factor. Anything on Kickstarter gets a bunch of 10 ratings from people who have preordered it. There is also speculation that people who bought into the hype for a game or more likely to give a rating that closer matches their expectation to how much they were going to like it from the hype. I give crowd funded games a -0.3 correction in my head when I interpret their ratings.
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Target has them in stock for the same price if you want to pick it up immediately... https://www.target.com/p/pandemic...A-85158909

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amm888
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Quote from sgreasby :
For those not familiar with BGG ratings, 7.8 is decent. The highest rated game (Gloomhaven) is 8.7.

7-Good
8-Very Good
9-Excellent
10-Outstanding

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardga...clone-wars
BGG ratings tend to be skewed especially high for popular IPs, IMHO. So anything Marvel, Star Wars ...etc, tend to get higher ratings (in general).

Seeing as I don't really care about Start Wars, I'm taking this high BGG rating with a grain of salt.
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Gallua
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Thanks for this, I got a price match from target as I picked this up as a gift recently. Saved $30!
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BraveMagic733
Dec 21, 2022
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I bought this game online in November for $60 from Target. I used their online chat support to price match it to this since they will refund you the difference if any items you buy from October 6th to December 24th go on sale. It only took a couple minutes and now I get $30 back. Thanks for posting this deal!
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Quote from Waethrman :
I'm a little confused, didn't you just say that the excellent and outstanding category basically doesn't exist since the best rating on the whole site is an 8.7? Kinda seems like we should be grading on a curve lol
There will never be a game over 9.0 on BGG because the Ameritrash and Eurotrash camps are too divided.
Dec 21, 2022
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TheAOE
Dec 21, 2022
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The family loves the game Pandemic, and I had no idea this variant existed. Thanks OP, grabbed one.
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morbie
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To any adult that plays board games: can you play a 'brick and mortar' board game (for lack of a better term) with people online? I don't really know anyone that plays board games but I'd like to play...
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gonna wait till it goes a bit lower, promising with the quick price cut

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Quote from JodouKast :
Wonder how this compares to the WoW game from last year, because the difficulty spike at higher player counts was pretty bad. If this one scales better, I'd give it a shot.
I think that this game is a major improvement on the WoW game. All Pandemic games are going to have a big spike when player count increases though, just due to the fact that every player has less turns and there are more bad things that can happen between each turn. That said, my gaming group just did a 5 player game at normal difficulty the other week and it hit the "sweet spot" where we were going to either win or lose with a few turns of the game ending. For a 5 player experience, this is by far my favorite from the Pandemic series.

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