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Ben Edgar brings StarCraft's base-building to the miniatures table

Duncan Jones takes the Terran army and Lewis Brindley commands the Zerg in a homebrew game built around hidden opening choices.

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We made a better StarCraft miniatures game! | Battle Report: Starcraft

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0:00Ben introduces homebrew rules built around large armies, resource collection and base-building.
0:33Duncan chooses a balanced opening, while Lewis opts for economy in the hidden build-order phase.
1:56Duncan sends a Medivac carrying Marines straight to Lewis's expansion base.
7:27A hatchery falls, and Lewis's Mutalisks attack Duncan's worker line.
10:32Lewis introduces a Nydus Network as Duncan positions a Siege Tank to control the center.
19:19The result arrives, followed by a discussion of the match and units that never reached the table.

Choosing an economy-first opening sounds sensible until Marines land at your expansion base. Lewis Brindley discovers that almost immediately in Battle Report - Games Night's custom StarCraft match, when Duncan Jones decides his opponent's investment needs punishing.

Ben Edgar has designed the rules himself, aiming to bring resource gathering, base-building and large armies into a miniatures game. The upload, "We made a better StarCraft miniatures game! | Battle Report: Starcraft", has drawn roughly 37,000 views in half a day, already several times the channel's usual full-day audience.

The team says it enjoys the official tabletop game. This is a homebrew alternative, still a work in progress, with Ben explaining his objection to the scale of its models: "They're too big, and there's not enough toys on the battlefield."

His version makes the opening build order a hidden choice. Duncan goes balanced; Lewis chooses economy. Before long, their competing plans become attacks on the infrastructure that keeps each army running: a hatchery comes under fire, and flying Mutalisks tear through a line of workers. Later, a Nydus Network threatens to put Lewis's forces somewhere Duncan would very much rather they weren't.

George Hardess built the terrain and shares miniature credits with Ben. In the comments, viewers pick out the board and models, discuss the secret build phase, and request more StarCraft matches. One turns the game's familiar construction prompt into a joke about needing additional comments.

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@stalhein62See it on YouTube
I love the idea of a build order in a miniatures game. What a fun concept! Lovely board and minis!
@ZaxitarsMiniatureLegendsSee it on YouTube
Hey Guys, Thanks so much for the shoutout! Had a blast working on this and would love to work more with you in the future! The game feels straight out of an RTS, nice one Ben and the mini's look great with their paint job :) - George
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I like the secret build phase and such. That's some good book rules, bookrules ben!
@Orillion123456See it on YouTube
I am going to need more Starcraft on the channel
@rubesqubes1997See it on YouTube
This felt like a starcraft match, good stuff Ben!
@kadenwoods3242See it on YouTube
Love when Ben sinks his claws into an idea.
@NemetFoxSee it on YouTube
I *LOVE* the brood war style ultralisks
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