Archon Studio's StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game lands on UK hobby shop shelves this month, kicking off the broader retail rollout after the Founders Edition direct window closed on 17 April. The game itself launched on 31 March, StarCraft's 28th anniversary, and Wave 1 is now hitting distributors. Archon, the Polish studio behind the recent officially licensed D&D Underdark terrain set, inked the Blizzard licence in March 2025.
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See how it worksThe launch lineup is two starter boxes. The 2-player Founders Edition pits Terrans against Zerg with Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan as named heroes, terrain, tokens, dice, and playmats for £159 (around $199). The Protoss Founders Edition runs solo at roughly £88 (around $109) and brings Artanis to the table. Archon CEO Jarek Ewertowski reckons the contents would run closer to $450 if bought piecemeal. Models are 32mm scale, supplied unpainted but ready to play out of the box, with a standard game running over five rounds and 2,000 minerals worth of units per side.
This is a direct-to-retail launch with no Kickstarter, which is the right call for a licensed property where Blizzard's brand approval is the real bottleneck. The 2026 roadmap is dense, with heavy support units in June, psionic units in August, flying units in October, and Brood War-era units in December.
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Start organising for freeIf you played StarCraft in a damp uni computer lab and have been waiting two decades to push Marines around a real table, the moment has arrived. The price-to-content sits closer to Star Wars: Legion than to a GW skirmish kit, and the licensed plastic should hold its own at any UK gaming club.
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Sources: Wargamer | ICv2 | Archon Studio
