StarCraft TMG – Two Player Starter Set Founders Edition

We got our hands on Archon Studio's StarCraft: Tabletop Miniatures Game, specifically the Two Player Starter Set and the Protoss Starter Set, both in their Founders Edition. This is going to be a two-part unboxing, so before we get into sprues and box contents, let's set the stage: what the Gamefound campaign actually was, what StarCraft brings to the table as an IP, how the three factions differ, and what separates the Founders Edition from the sets that'll eventually sit on store shelves.

The Two Player Starter Set pits Terran against Zerg, while the standalone Protoss Starter Set lets us bring the third faction into the mix, which is exactly why we picked up both for these unboxing reviews (thanks to Celebration Parallax for providing them). Buying both bundled together via Gamefound came out to roughly 255 EUR, cheaper than picking them up separately at 175 EUR for the Two Player Set and 95 EUR for the Protoss Set. The RRP now after release is 199 EUR and 109 EUR for these boxes respectively. We'll cover the contents of both sets, this one below, and the Protoss set in the second part of this unboxing.

The Gamefound Campaign

Unlike some other product ranges, StarCraft: TMG didn't launch through a traditional crowdfunding campaign with stretch goals and years of waiting. Archon Studio, the Polish plastic specialists behind Dungeons & Lasers and the manufacturing partner behind Squidmar's Strakh dragon model, had already partnered with Blizzard Entertainment in March 2025 and were manufacturing the game straight for retail. What ran on Gamefound was a time-limited, direct-to-consumer preorder phase: from launch through mid-April 2026, fans could lock in the Two Player Starter Set and the Protoss Starter Set at a steep discount before the game moved into normal hobby retail and distributor channels. Archon has been upfront that this Founders phase was a one-time thing meant to build an early community around the game, not a recurring model, once that preorder window closed, these specific bundles were gone for good. Nevertheless, that promise was a bit oversold, as the regular range covers boxed sets with similar savings and without the waiting time of the Gamefound campaign.

What Is StarCraft, Anyway?

For anyone who spent the late 90s and 2000s more focused on painting than PC gaming: StarCraft is Blizzard's genre-defining real-time strategy series, built around three wildly asymmetric factions that somehow still stay balanced against each other, a big part of why the game became (and still is) an esports institution. Archon Studio's tabletop adaptation translates that into 32mm-scale skirmish combat, roughly 1,000 to 2,000 point games played in 60 to 120 minutes, aiming to capture StarCraft's tactical identity without needing the reflexes of a professional RTS player.

StarCraft TMG – Protoss Starter Set Founders Edition

As there are three factions in StarCraft, and the third one, the Protoss, was still missing from our first unboxing. Similar to how the story of StarCraft itself kicked off as a conflict between Terrans and Zerg, the Protoss aren't part of the Two Player Starter Set. Instead, they get their own standalone box - The Protoss Starter Set Founders Edition.

This isn't a stand-alone game in the sense of including everything you need from scratch, it's more of an addition to the Two Player Starter Set. It covers the Protoss force (miniatures, cards, and cardboard) and the dice to play with, but no terrain or playmat, those still come from the Two Player box.

The Protoss Starter Set Founders Edition was ~95 EUR within the Gamefound campaign, and the RRP now after release is 109 EUR, the same as the regular Protoss Starter Set. We covered the Terrans and Zerg in the first unboxing, and we'll cover the Protoss in this one.