What is this?

Imperial Commander is an unofficial companion app for Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars: Imperial Assault. The app eliminates the need for an Imperial player by taking on the role of a "narrator" who controls the Imperial side.

Inspired by Fantasy Flight Games' official Legends of the Alliance app, Imperial Commander allows players to experience the official, printed missions in a way very close to the official app. The app takes over the role of a "game master", providing interactive maps, handles events, narration, and the behavior of Imperial groups.

Imperial Commander can be used to play all boxed campaigns, any side mission, and even custom missions. It supports all expansions, Ally and Villain packs.

Additionally, Imperial Commander features a fully fleshed-out mission editor for you to create your very own Imperial Assault missions to play in the app and share with others.

Requirements

To use Imperial Commander, you need a physical copy of the core game as well as any expansions you wish to use. Otherwise, you won't be able to use this app.

Rules

Imperial Commander contains many rules changes, mainly to harmonize the coop experience with the official app rules. If you come across a situation where the rules are not clear, don‘t fret over what to do. Just make a decision based on your best judgment. Unless otherwise stated, normal Imperial Assault rules apply.

Game Modes

Campaign

"Campaign" Mode uses a campaign manager to guide you through a full campaign using the expansion of your choice (or a fully custom campaign). It sets up the proper mission list, and allows mission customization where allowed, including adding and removing Forced missions. Campaign mode acts as a "virtual campaign log" that allows you to keep track of XP, credits and rewards, your heroes, their skills and items, general items you've purchased, earned villains, and allies. All of these can be added and removed from the campaign as you see fit. The campaign is auto-saved.

Mission

"Mission" is meant to be used to play one-off missions, or for groups who want to play campaigns with the printed campaign log.

The Imperial Commander Editor

The Imperial Commander Editor (ICE) was also introduced with Imperial Commander 2. It is a tool that allows creators to create their own custom missions, campaigns, heroes, allies, villains, and enemies. It is an easy-to-use, but powerful tool that aims to give players all the freedoms they need to create their own epic STAR WARS adventures.

Downloads & Links

• Imperial Commander (Click on Assets and download the file - Windows, Android, MacOS, Linux)
• Imperial Commander Editor (Click on Assets and download the file - Windows only.)
• Editor Documentation
• Saga Translator (helper app to translate missions) (Click on Assets and download the file - Windows only.)
• YouTube Explanation Videos

MacOS / Linux NOTES: see the NOTE.txt included inside the zip file. iOS: Imperial Commander is not available on iOS, but can be streamed using SteamLink or Kino Console.

Custom Downloads

The official missions are directly implemented in the app. Beyond this, Imperial Commander 2 supports the following custom game elements:

Custom missions: Fan-made missions created with the Imperial Commander Editor. Custom campaigns: Fan-made campaigns consisting of multiple fan-made missions packaged together in a ZIP file and imported into the campaign manager. Custom characters: Fan-made heroes, villains, allies, or enemies that can be used just like regular groups.

Custom elements can be downloaded from Google Drive:

Imperial Commander 2 Google Drive

You can learn how to implement custom elements under Getting Started and Basic Settings

Acknowledgements

Kudos to RedJak for creating and designing the original RedJak’s Automated Imperial Variant that inspired the creation of this app, to frenchie746 for expanding it before me, and to ilujito for feedback and help on my expansion.

Full credit goes also to Fantasy Flight Games for Imperial Assault and the Legends of the Alliance app, especially to Tony Fanchi, Todd Michlitsch, Brandon Perdue, Jason Walden, Adam Baker and Molly Glover for designing, developing, producing and editing the Legends of the Alliance app and its rulebook on which this variant is based. Special thanks also to fellow BoardGameGeek Ian Solo , who went to all the trouble to collect and process all the instructions and bonus effects from the Legends of the Alliance app.

Thank you for everything, people – you are awesome, and I am merely exploiting your work.

Star Wars, the Star Wars logo, and all other logos, characters, artwork, stories, information, names, and other elements associated with it are the sole and exclusive property of Lucasfilm Limited. Star Wars: Imperial Assault and its expansions are © Fantasy Flight Publishing.

Imperial Commander is a non-profit project, available free of charge. It is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Lucasfilm Limited, Disney, Fantasy Flight Games or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates.

Original concept by Noldorion. Realization, implementation, coding and design by GlowPuff.

Translations

Imperial Commander is available in multiple languages. If you want to help translate it, just open an issue in the repository or contact Noldorion on BGG to let us know.

Is something unclear? Maybe you can find the answer in the FAQ or the Tips and Tricks!