Archon Studios Opens StarCraft Miniatures Preorders March 10, Reveals 2026 Wave Schedule

Archon Studios is opening preorders for the StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game on March 10, 2026, following a two-hour live AMA that laid out a complete wave schedule running through August and gave the clearest picture yet of what early buyers will receive in the Founders Edition starter boxes.

Wave 1 preorders go live tomorrow and cover the Goliath, Hydralisks, and Stalker unit kits alongside those Founders Edition starter boxes. Shipping for Wave 1 is expected around April to May 2026, with orders placed through the Archon webstore shipping first; other retailers are expected to receive stock approximately three months later. The Founders Edition bundle reportedly contains 1,500 points of models per faction before upgrades, scaling to 2,000-point armies once upgrades are applied, and apparently includes enough terrain to fill a standard gaming table and enough models for three players to field full armies simultaneously.

Wave 2 follows in June and introduces the Siege Tank, Ravager, Immortal, and the Standard Zeratul hero model. Wave 3 arrives in August and is the largest drop yet, adding High Templars, Tassadar, Defiler, Zagara, Raven, and Nova in a single release focused on support casters and heroes.

During the AMA, Archon also addressed the game's design foundation. Minisforwar's detailed reporting from the October 2025 AMA session had already documented key mechanics including the Supply/Reserve system, APM mechanics, Surge combat, and a 3-Layer Army Building structure. At its core, the game is a tactical, D6-based wargame designed to replicate the feeling of the final engagement in a StarCraft match. The sub-faction design philosophy is equally ambitious: players build a core faction, then slot in a small number of models to shift into a different sub-faction with a distinct playstyle, rather than collecting entirely separate armies.

That structure gives Archon an enormous content pipeline to draw from. The Terran base faction alone has 19 potential units, with Raynor's Raiders adding 12 more and Nova's forces contributing additional unique variants. Zerg expands through sub-factions like Kerrigan's Brood and Dehaka's Pack; Protoss opens up with Alarak and Fenix forces. Using only a handful of those sub-factions, developers estimate the game could generate over 40 potential entries per race. At a release cadence of one unit every three months, the developers believe that pipeline could sustain roughly 10 years of content before touching deeper lore or additional characters.

Archon Studios CEO Jarek Ewertowski announced the official partnership with Blizzard Entertainment on March 26, 2025. "As huge fans of StarCraft, we've spent countless hours playing this game," Ewertowski said at the time. "In fact, the history of Archon Studio is closely linked to StarCraft. It's an honor to bring this universe to the tabletop as a miniatures game." That announcement confirmed the miniatures game would launch in 2026, followed by StarCraft board games in 2027.

Preorders open through the Archon Studio webstore. Whether a public version of the rules will accompany the March 10 launch remains unconfirmed; earlier planning had targeted a public rules release alongside preorders, but that detail has not been explicitly addressed in the most recent communications from Archon ahead of tomorrow's opening.