Fantasy Flight Games will shortly be announcing a pre-order promotion for StarCraft: The Board Game end users.  The promotion involves brick and mortar retailers, but will be Web-based -- consumers will provide FFG with their pre-order information (where they have pre-ordered the game) or will be provided by FFG with a list of participating retailers in their vicinity.  

Fantasy Flight will inform retailers of the consumers who have either already pre-ordered the game or wish to pre-order it (allowing the retailer to contact the consumer directly).  On receiving confirmation of the number of consumers who have qualified for the pre-order promotion from retailers, FFG will then send the retailers the correct number of promotional items.  Retailers will order the number of StarCraft games that they need from their favorite game distributor (though the promotional items will come directly from FFG to retailers).

Based on the real-time strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment (see 'Fantasy Flight Expands Blizzard Line') and designed by Corey Konieczka, StarCraft: The Board Game (MSRP $79.95) is a deluxe boxed game offering that includes over 180 plastic figures, an innovative modular game board and a card-driven combat system.