New Shatterpoint Sabotage Showdown Mission Struggles Revealed

By Travis Pasch | October 18th, 2023 | Categories: Atomic Mass Games, Star Wars, Star Wars Shatterpoint, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors

Sabotage Showdown is the first stand-alone mission pack for Star Wars Shatterpoint, and more details have been revealed!

With Shatterpoint being played for a while now, it’s always nice to have new missions to change your games up. While the missions in the core game are fun, some people have said they play out somewhat similarly, so let’s hope these keep the games fresh.

We already saw the pack hit pre-order, so we’ll check that out and then jump into the new details.

Sabotage Showdown Star Wars Shatterpoint Mission Pack: $14.99

The cover of the mission pack featured crowd favorite Hondo is probably to hype up his upcoming release in the That’s Just Good Business squad pack that they revealed on the roadmap.

Here, we get to see a little bit about some of the missions, including the titularly named Sabotage Showdown. In addition to a new shape for the objective tokens to lay in, there are different abilities on each mission card that correlate with the Sabotage Showdown instructions (see the caption box right.)

Players can embark on a new Star Wars: Shatterpoint mission with this pack! Featuring the first new set of Mission cards outside of the Core Set, Sabotage Showdown adds more variety to games of Shatterpoint with new objective layouts and new mission special rules that pose new tactical challenges for strike teams to overcome.

New Details Revealed For Shatterpoint Sabotage Showdown Mission Pack

The new details come from the product listing on Fantasy Welt.

The new pictures don’t come from AMG, but they also put out a preview, which we’ll look at later. This is a different mission than AMG showed off, and while it’s hard to read the actual card wording, the layouts are much different.

You get more damage tokens as well, which is just a nice quality-of-life buff. This gives us a second mission we’ve seen, and it should change the games up a decent amount.

The tokens are neat because those objectives change, and now you can put those tokens down on the spots instead of looking back at the mission card, which makes the gameplay much faster

Other than this, we’ve also seen a preview from AMG, which we’ll check out below.

New Star Wars Shatterpoint Missions From AMG

The latest on new Star Wars Shatterpoint Sabatoge Showdown missions come from Atomic Mass Games.

Each mission pack in this original set plays off core concepts and ideas found across all three missions, ensuring players have a foundation of familiarity alongside the new tactical and strategic challenges each pack poses to their Strike Team construction and in game decisions. Additionally, this spacing allowed players time to learn and adapt to the unique gameplay of Shatterpoint, allowing us to introduce concepts in a way that didn’t overwhelm players with too much too soon, but instead, just like with the release schedule of squad packs, allowed them room to grow and explore the new experiences of Shatterpoint while still keeping the game fresh and exciting as new elements to explore are revealed with each new wave.

Sabotage Showdown throws players into a much tighter battle that is reminiscent of the battles we see fought amid a starcrusier’s reactor room, within the confines of a starship hanger, or around an enemy artillery emplacement. In addition to navigating the closer quarters and how that will impact the Units in their Strike Force, Sabotage Showdown also throws a new tactical layer on top of players Shatterpoint activations. Each Struggle card has a special Tactics ability listed beneath the Active Objective map. When a player chooses to activate a Unit with their Shatterpoint card, the chosen Unit gains the listed Tactic ability until the end of the turn.

It’s interesting to think about fighting on a starcruiser and not just out on an open battlefield. This also gives you the ability to have your objective markers all over the place and sometimes super close to one another.

New special tactics abilities on the cards also give you a little bit of randomness that you’ll have to adapt to mid-game, which should be really fun, but you might have to change up your terrain if you really want it to feel like you’re fighting on a starcruiser!

With Tactic abilities that allow characters to Dash, refresh Force, or remove damage or conditions, Sabotage Showdown dramatically amps up the possibilities and power of each player’s Shatterpoint activation.

With the release of this new mission pack, players will now have another important choice to make when creating their Strike Teams. Choosing the right mission to go with your Units is no doubt a powerful advantage, but, as with all things in the Star Wars galaxy, there is no guarantee that your chosen mission will be the one you and your opponent will fight over.

With more abilities, smaller maps, and new objective placements, these missions should be entertaining. Especially since it is only $15, you won’t have to dish out a ton of cash to change up your games!