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canyoneer posted:I want the new Stars Wars movie ships to move like the Battlestar Galactica Vipers do complete with sick drifts, thank you very much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLNvUsTBGyE
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Chill la Chill posted:Thanks! I'm still gonna paint the giant hole in the middle of the TIE as the engine, since it doesn't feel right otherwise. That thing is fast and needs a giant engine. At least with the older TIE/LN you can see the two spots opposite of each other on the sides of the middle reactor (which you're painting as the big gently caress off engine) and can put little dots of red or whatever to indicate the exhaust. It's less clear where those tiny twin ion engines are located at the back of the TIE/FO.
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Turbonerdchat: the two little red lights are the engines. Twin Ion Engines. Get it? That's why they named it that! And not because it looks like a bow-tie. Please see page 155-159 (out of 2,300) of the Wookiepedia article on TIE-fighters the exhaustive history of the etymology of the name and how of course Lucas had that in his head the entire time while writing, because he is a modern day Tolkien and none of the people he surrounded himself with disagreed with that analogy!
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Is there a place that has nice printable versions of the upgrade/pilot cards, or is that considered 
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a place that has nice printable versions of the upgrade/pilot cards, or is that considered You might have to resize them a bit but theres usually good quality pics of stuff here http://xwing-miniatures.wikia.com/wiki/X-Wing_Miniatures_Wiki
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Geisladisk posted:You can't use the pilot cards for the old X-Wing and old TIE Fighter with the new X-Wing and new TIE-Fighter. They're separate ships. I was planning on getting the X-Wing at least separately, and it doesn't come with Luke. Or R2-D2. (Also that only applies if you're playing by the rules, pretending that it's a classic tie fighter is well within things that happen on kitchen tables)
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I bought a Tie Punisher and immediately broke the stand off inside it  I filed down the broken parts and glued it, I hope I don't have to green stuff it on there. EDIT: Has anyone been to Target to get the new core set? Do they carry anything besides the core set? They have that $10 off of $50 deal but I don't want to get just a regular toy to make the $50. If I could get a core set and another ship that'd be perfect. Admiral Joeslop fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Sep 4, 2015 22:52
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I bought a Tie Punisher and immediately broke the stand off inside it I haven't been there but afaik they only have core sets
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Mine only had the core set.
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I believe Target only ever offered the core set. If you can wait 10 days, MiniatureMarket has it preordered for 27$ and shipping on the 16th.
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Thanks to Target's mass exodus, as a Canadian on an Island that rarely gets anything on release day from FFG I'm prepared to wait a month or two before I can buy and then never actually play with the new core fighters.
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I dont know if anyone has taken or posted a picture of this yet, but this should answer questions on if First Order and The Not Really Rebel Alliance will be full fledged factions. 
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I was looking closely at the new ships' silhouette icons and noticed the tiniest indication of an antenna on the starboard side of the TIE/FO's cockpit. It was then immediately visible in all of the upper-third illustrations, but I guess it was too fragile to end up on the models.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a place that has nice printable versions of the upgrade/pilot cards, or is that considered http://www.afewmaneuvers.com/topic/573-full-card-list-by-expansion/
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a place that has nice printable versions of the upgrade/pilot cards, or is that considered I'll put up a link when I'm on my desktop, but there is a file for each card type that provided you have photoshop you can make your own high quality cards. Most wikis and such are 72dpi and look like garbage when printed. All the links above are 72dpi, so the text on the upgrade cards is really hard to read.
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I have to say after getting the new core set and looking at Po has got me interested in trying Rebels. This might be a problem considering I literally do not own any Rebel ships outside of the core sets  .
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Admiral Joeslop posted:EDIT: Has anyone been to Target to get the new core set? Do they carry anything besides the core set? They have that $10 off of $50 deal but I don't want to get just a regular toy to make the $50. If I could get a core set and another ship that'd be perfect.
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Irom posted:Guri (30) Flew this list again, pulled out another win. Went up against a Mux, black sun soldier, and 2x Hired Gun Y's with TLTs and unhinged astromechs. My opponent didn't really know what to shoot at first. He aimed at Boba first with his Ys but he takes a minute to wear down with TLTs. After reducing him to 3 hull he decided to switch to Serrisu which I learned is VERY susceptible to TLTs. He went down in 1 round. Hard. Going to have to give that some thought. But by that time I had cleared his BSP and his Mux so it was a full health Guri w/stealth device and a 3 hull Boba vs 2 limping Ys. And since Guri loves range 1 (the TLT blindspot) and has the higher PS, it was over. Was thinking about making the following changes: Irom posted:Guri (30) The tactical jammer didn't really come in to play and I think glitterstim might be clutch considering how easy it is to block Boba. And since I never project him living more than 3-4 rounds of firing, the single use aspect fits right in. As for Serissu and the TLTs....I dunno. I don't know if there's a solution for that one. Just keep him out of the fight and take an evade action every round.
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Irom posted:The tactical jammer didn't really come in to play and I think glitterstim might be clutch considering how easy it is to block Boba. And since I never project him living more than 3-4 rounds of firing, the single use aspect fits right in. As for Serissu and the TLTs....I dunno. I don't know if there's a solution for that one. Just keep him out of the fight and take an evade action every round. Glitterstim on Scum Boba Fett is pretty swanky, but instead of a Recon Specialist consider a K4 Security Droid instead. It allows you to take a free Target Lock whenever you pull off a green maneuver, which then in turn allows you to, for example, Evade as your action and bump your Firespray's survivability up a notch while still maintaining offensive capability (or TL + Focus if that's your bag).
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Kai Tave posted:Glitterstim on Scum Boba Fett is pretty swanky, but instead of a Recon Specialist consider a K4 Security Droid instead. It allows you to take a free Target Lock whenever you pull off a green maneuver, which then in turn allows you to, for example, Evade as your action and bump your Firespray's survivability up a notch while still maintaining offensive capability (or TL + Focus if that's your bag). Need the recon spec so I can have a spare focus to activate Guri's decoy+bodyguard
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Irom posted:Need the recon spec so I can have a spare focus to activate Guri's decoy+bodyguard Ah that's right, I forgot how Bodyguard works. Well that makes sense, but Glitterstim is definitely a good choice.
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In other news a Facebook message from my FLGS owner says that he'll have his own Episode 7 core sets in on the 17th, so I suppose I can wait a couple weeks. Also I'm already beginning to see people decry the new ships as too overpowered for their cost and suggesting that tournaments should borrow a page from Warhammer and houserule things like point costs or disallowing The Force Awakens ships from crossing over with "classic era" ships. Gonna be fun times.
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Kai Tave posted:In other news a Facebook message from my FLGS owner says that he'll have his own Episode 7 core sets in on the 17th, so I suppose I can wait a couple weeks. Also I'm already beginning to see people decry the new ships as too overpowered for their cost and suggesting that tournaments should borrow a page from Warhammer and houserule things like point costs or disallowing The Force Awakens ships from crossing over with "classic era" ships. Gonna be fun times. tl;dr Wargamers are loving awful, in all their forms.
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Got two games of XWangs in tonight with two thread-suggested fat tentpole + wingman combinations, both games were against a friend testing the K-Wing w/stuff (I think G1 was KWing and XWing, G2 was KXZ). Game 1 I went Bossk(Calculation, Mangler Cannon, Engine Upgrade, Gunner, K4 Security Droid, Outlaw Tech, 'Hounds Tooth") + Xizor(VI, Autothrusters, 'Virago', Accuracy Corrector, Glitterstim). Bossk threw damage everywhere as he ate a lot of fire, Xizor kinda got misdirected at the start because I am bad at xwangs but managed to fix his poo poo and swooped in from behind, popped his Space Meth, and blew up the K-wing right before it was going to kill Bossk (Who had just thrown on the space e-brake to ruin the X and K-wings plans to be outside his primary arc). Game 2 was Fat Chiraneau(Expose, Engine Upgrade, Merc Copilot, Rebel Captive, Ysanne Isard, "Dauntless") and Vader(Lone Wolf, Stealth Device, TIE/x1, Advanced Targeting Computer). Original plan was to have the crew be Agent Kallus + Moff Jerjerrod, but my friend didn't want to start getting into unreleased cards, so I swapped to "Range 3 crits to complement my range 1-2 crits" + protection. Chiraneau moved+boosted turn 1, turns 2+3 he bumbled up and Expose+4-5 dice+crits and nuked people off the board while Vader harassed a side and was impossible to hit. Archenteron fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Sep 5, 2015 |
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Shockeh posted:tl;dr Wargamers are loving awful, in all their forms. Let me sum that up for you "Paper fine, rock overpowered. Yours, scissors"
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I have a rules question regarding the Inquisitor TIE + PTL + Title Is it legal to take a TL, get the free evade from the title, then use PTL to grab a free focus/barrel roll/boost? Or does the stress from PTL prevent the free evade granted by the title from taking a TL?
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If you can spend the action taking a TL, you'll get the evade token. It's the same order of operations as Jake Farrell, where you can boost, push the limit in order to focus, and then perform a barrel roll from getting that focus.
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For that matter you can just trigger PtL off the free evade action.
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Tried out the new core set last night. Wife clobbered me in both games with Blue Ace while I used the new TIEs. That boost ability to do a 90 degree turn was putting guns on target everywhere on the map. The good news is that she now has the Plastic Spaceship Fever and wants to buy a bunch more  
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canyoneer posted:Tried out the new core set last night. Wife clobbered me in both games with Blue Ace while I used the new TIEs. That boost ability to do a 90 degree turn was putting guns on target everywhere on the map. Tried out Po last night and holy cow is he a beast and definitely got me interested in Rebels and that's saying something considering I only own Empire and S&V stuff. On that note I got a little more spending money this week and I was wondering what the veteran rebel players think would be good ships to expand my collection (I only a hwk and the core set stuff)? Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a place that has nice printable versions of the upgrade/pilot cards, or is that considered Here is the link to the page with the hi resolution photoshop files to make your own cards. http://www.afewmaneuvers.com/topic/122-hi-res-photoshop-templates/ For artwork, try http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page or just do Google image searches with "large" as your main filter. Or just recycle some of these images as they are all 300 dpi. https://immaterium.wordpress.com/x-wing-custom-cards/
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Can someone explain to me how Huge ships perform the bank maneuver? It says "fits snugly into the notch at the bottom of the template." I see a couple ways of aligning the template to the base, but none of them are what I would call "snug," and it doesn't help that the picture in the manual is not zoomed in at all. This is the "snuggest" way I can think of aligning them, but it doesn't match the picture and seems entirely wrong. 
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That's right. Remember that you'll have the plastic beneath the cardboard so there will be space to fully insert the hook. E:you'll be placing it on the top corner of the middle section, not the bottom. It won't make sense until you use the plastic bases. Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Sep 6, 2015 |
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I bought more dumb Star Wars toys. Yesterday and today ate up my wave 8 budget. Oh well, I can still use mama Han and 3 Z's. 
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Indolent Bastard posted:Or just recycle some of these images as they are all 300 dpi. https://immaterium.wordpress.com/x-wing-custom-cards/ It's not wise to upset a Wookie. 
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Chill la Chill posted:That's right. Remember that you'll have the plastic beneath the cardboard so there will be space to fully insert the hook. Well I'm dumb. This of course fits quite snuggly.  Chill la Chill posted:I bought more dumb Star Wars toys. Yesterday and today ate up my wave 8 budget. Oh well, I can still use mama Han and 3 Z's. Ditto. Picked up a new Core Set, Rebel Transport, Decimator, Lambda Shuttle, Slave 1, Millenium Falcon, Phantom, HWK, and a K-Wing. However, I'm pissed about the K-Wing. Despite this picture from Fantasy Flight's article on SLAM and Bomb explicitly showing moving, executing SLAM/dropping a bomb, they've ruled that this was a mistake and that the K-Wing cannot do this.  Fantasy Flight Games posted:When a ship executes a SLAM action, it does not count as revealing a dial, so the ship cannot drop a bomb before performing the maneuver during the SLAM action.
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Man, linking to FFG's forums is like linking to Dakka. Some dude in that thread is up in arms over "false advertising" over this. Edit; actually more than one. That whole thread is full of how Wave 7 is janky and people complaining about ion tokens needing clarification because of Conner Nets. Did I miss something? Kai Tave fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Sep 6, 2015 |
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Kai Tave posted:Man, linking to FFG's forums is like linking to Dakka. Some dude in that thread is up in arms over "false advertising" over this. As for the Conner Net/Ion Token thing, Fantasy Flight gave a ruling on the Conner Net that seems to follow a very liberal interpretation of the Ion Token reference card. Fantasy Flight Games posted:If a Conner Net is dropped overlapping a ship and immediately detonates, and that ship has not yet activated this phase, that ship executes the maneuver on its dial as normal and skips its “Perform Action” step. If a Conner Net is dropped overlapping a ship and immediately detonates, and that ship has activated this phase, that ship suffers the effects of being ionized next turn and does not skip any “Perform Action” step. If a ship is ionized, executes its 1 straight maneuver, and overlaps a Connor Net, all ion tokens are discarded at the end of the maneuver (including those received from Connor Net).
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