Before the armies. Before the starter sets. Before the first full wave of StarCraft: Tabletop Miniatures Game, there was one model: Zeratul. And on the earliest known packaging, one tiny detail was wrong.
In March 2025, Archon Studio announced its official partnership with Blizzard Entertainment to bring StarCraft into tabletop miniatures gaming. Seven months later, at SPIEL Essen 2025 in Germany, Archon put the first physical StarCraft TMG product into collectors’ hands: an exclusive Zeratul promotional miniature.
Archon Studio and Blizzard Entertainment reveal an official StarCraft tabletop miniatures project, with a broader 2026 launch planned.
At SPIEL Essen, the Zeratul promo goes on sale at Archon’s booth and online for the event window. Archon later describes it as its very first StarCraft TMG model.
The miniature uses a 40mm base. Some early boxes, however, identify the base as 50mm on the packaging.
Later examples show the corrected 40mm designation, leaving the 50mm box as an identifiable early packaging variant.
The model itself was not oversized. The difference is on the box: an early package says 50mm, while the actual and officially documented base size is 40mm.
The 50mm error makes the earliest packaging especially interesting, but the underlying Zeratul promo already has an unusually strong collector story. It is not simply an early miniature. It is the first product released for StarCraft: Tabletop Miniatures Game, built around one of StarCraft’s most recognizable characters, issued as a pre-release promotional sculpt before the game’s full launch.
Zeratul was the first miniature released for the StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game, featuring a unique promo sculpt and both standard and translucent “cloaked” versions. The sculpt remains fully playable alongside the later Wave 2 release, giving the original promo lasting appeal beyond its early-release status.
Early boxes incorrectly list a 50mm base instead of the actual 40mm base. The error was later corrected, making unopened 50mm boxes an identifiable early packaging variant of StarCraft TMG’s first miniature.
The potential of the game itself adds another layer of collector interest. Warhammer 40,000 has shown how durable a tabletop miniature game can become, building a massive collecting and gaming community across nearly four decades. StarCraft enters the same hobby with an established global fanbase, decades of history, and characters already familiar to millions of players. If the tabletop game develops a lasting community of its own, Zeratul has the distinction of being where the miniature line started.