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Fox of Stone posted:Welp, looks like I dove in anyway. It's star wars. Just wondering, but how long do you think it would take to recreate the entire Death Star (I) run with this game? Just in case my friends would like to join in too. How much recreation are we talking here? Full squadron of X-Wings and Y-Wings against something like 36 TIEs? I've heard that a 4v4 match takes upwards of an hour, so a 24v36 match would take AGES.
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jivjov posted:How much recreation are we talking here? Full squadron of X-Wings and Y-Wings against something like 36 TIEs? I've heard that a 4v4 match takes upwards of an hour, so a 24v36 match would take AGES. Do we have a card for Jek Porkins?
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Sep 25, 2012 23:52
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Colonial Air Force posted:Do we have a card for Jek Porkins? On that note, I really want to be able to assemble the Starfighters of Adumar team: Wedge Antilles, Wes Janson, Tycho Celchu, and Hobbie Kilvian.
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Sep 26, 2012 00:22
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Colonial Air Force posted:Do we have a card for Jek Porkins? Not yet, unfortunately. Here is a fanmade version from BGG if you'd like to try it out. P.S. The real pro team is Wraith Squadron. Calling it now: Lieutenant Kettch card in 2013.
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Sep 26, 2012 00:55
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Bionic posted:P.S. The real pro team is Wraith Squadron. Calling it now: Lieutenant Kettch card in 2013. Dream Wraith Team - Face, Runt, Piggy, and Kettch (Shouldn't he be a Hawkbat? "Kettch" never actually "flew" with the Wraiths)
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Sep 26, 2012 01:31
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Kettch should be a tie-fighter pilot, yeah. (I kinda hate that I know this) (alternatively there's already a Wedge Antilles card)
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Sep 26, 2012 02:01
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I picked up the starter set for this, and it looks pretty fun. Not a huge time investment, no painting necessary, and the prices aren't GW-level exorbitant.
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Sep 26, 2012 02:44
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Having only played 1 game, and thought about it for quite a bit.. Is Wedge the 'best' X-wing pilot at the moment? His ability to flat out decrease the agility of the one he is firing upon seems really good, not to mention his skill level.
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Sep 26, 2012 04:43
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Weissritter posted:Having only played 1 game, and thought about it for quite a bit.. Is Wedge the 'best' X-wing pilot at the moment? It'd make sense, I think he was the 'best' X-wing pilot in the books as well.
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Sep 26, 2012 05:05
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CrotchPheasant posted:It'd make sense, I think he was the 'best' X-wing pilot in the books as well. There's a delightful little exchange in one of the Wraith Squadron books where the pilots are debating who is the best pilot ever, and they come down to the conclusion that Luke Skywalker is a consummate badass, but since he "retired" from combat pilot duty and became a Jedi, he doesn't count. That leaves Wedge, the only pilot in the Rebellion/New Republic to have gone up against both Death Stars and survived.
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Sep 26, 2012 05:10
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jivjov posted:That leaves Wedge, the only pilot in the Rebellion/New Republic to have gone up against both Death Stars and survived. He's one of two, as I remember. His XO for Wraith Squadron also had two Death Star patches, if I remember right.
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Sep 26, 2012 05:13
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lighttigersoul posted:He's one of two, as I remember. His XO for Wraith Squadron also had two Death Star patches, if I remember right. IIRC, his XO is either Wes or Tycho. Tycho didn't start flying with the rebels until post-Battle of Yavin. Wes was sick during the Battle of Yavin and Porkins was flying his X-Wing.
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Sep 26, 2012 05:26
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lighttigersoul posted:He's one of two, as I remember. His XO for Wraith Squadron also had two Death Star patches, if I remember right. Nah, Wes wasn't in the first Death Star run, He was at Hoth though, he was Wedge's gunner. Ans then he was at Endor.
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I'm going to have to find the books at some point, because I remember a character that was mentioned to be both not wedge, and wear two Death Star patches. It was definitely the X-Wing series, I just can't remember which one.
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lighttigersoul posted:I'm going to have to find the books at some point, because I remember a character that was mentioned to be both not wedge, and wear two Death Star patches. It was definitely the X-Wing series, I just can't remember which one. I think I vaguely remember something about this. Was it someone that fought on the Empire side during one of the battles? I've gone through everyone that I can think of that's ever been involved, and while there are some that have a Death Star and Hoth, I can't think of anyone else that has two Death Stars.
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Yeah, in the EU he is probably the best pilot around. There was a joke that he could not fail even when he tried.
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Weissritter posted:Yeah, in the EU he is probably the best pilot around. Ahahaha, I had forgotten about that scene. For context (spoiler'd for anyone who cares about New Jedi Order spoilers) He was tasked with engaging a Yuuzhan Vong fleet and then "heroically get driven back" to where a trap had been laid. However due to several circumstances, including (IIRC) and internal schism with the Vong leadership, he ended up routing the Vong with minimal losses.
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Oh boy! Got my core set today all set up an ready to go. As soon as my wife gets off the toilet we are gonna play the quick start game! This is her introduction into tabletop gaming :3 Edit: she didnt like it. Thought it was to slow. omnibobb fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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Sep 27, 2012 16:55
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CrotchPheasant posted:I think I vaguely remember something about this. Was it someone that fought on the Empire side during one of the battles? I've gone through everyone that I can think of that's ever been involved, and while there are some that have a Death Star and Hoth, I can't think of anyone else that has two Death Stars. Was it the guy from the X-wing game? Kevin Farlander or something? I know he was supposed to be in the Y-wing that survived at the end of ANH.
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CrotchPheasant posted:I think I vaguely remember something about this. Was it someone that fought on the Empire side during one of the battles? I've gone through everyone that I can think of that's ever been involved, and while there are some that have a Death Star and Hoth, I can't think of anyone else that has two Death Stars. ...Keyan Farlander? According the stuff that accompanied X-Wing (the game), Farlander was in the sole surviving Y-Wing in DS1, and a B-Wing at DS2. I have no idea if he appeared outside the game manuals/guides though. He was always on the rebel side, but had his dark side moments.
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Tsed posted:...Keyan Farlander? Farlander gets name-dropped in one of the NJO books I believe, but that's the extent of his other EU appearances.
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CrotchPheasant posted:I think I vaguely remember something about this. Was it someone that fought on the Empire side during one of the battles? I've gone through everyone that I can think of that's ever been involved, and while there are some that have a Death Star and Hoth, I can't think of anyone else that has two Death Stars. I'm no great expert on the EU, but I always remembered Wedge being the only guy to have survived both Death Star runs. Maybe there's some newer character that I haven't heard of, though. Fake edit: Star Wars Wikia says Wedge was the only one, too. And if you can't trust an exhaustive 85,000-word biography of Wedge Antilles, what can you trust? On the topic of the game, I'm curious how the quality of the minis stacks up against, say, the old WotC-produced starship minis. I've still got a bunch of those lying around somewhere and I'm wondering if that would be a cheaper way to add more ships to the game. (Of the same kind, that is--obviously you'd still need to buy at least one expansion set of the new ships, but could I buy one Y-Wing expansion and then use the extra pilot cards with the old minis?)
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I got my starter kits today. These are some really great models for pre-paints. I've seen so many terrible ones (D&D minis, I'm looking at you), I'm honestly very impressed.
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Colonial Air Force posted:I got my starter kits today. Mine came too and Im very impressed. Downside is that I managed to snap a set of pegs, but it was easily fixed with pinning with a bit of brass rod. Also i got sent a Tie Fighter expansion instead of a TIE advanced. Hoping they let me keep the TIE and send me a Advanced, but thats probably wishful thinking.
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Ordered a second core set and all the expansions just now at the comic shop. Groovy times to be had.
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Core set arrived today, ran the simple-rules X-wing vs 2 TIEs game with a buddy of mine....immidiatley after the battle was done, we walked up to the comic shop and bought another X-Wing, a TIE, and a Y-Wing. This game is stupid amounts of fun, I love how simple it all is, but not at the expense of tactics.
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omnibobb posted:Ordered a second core set and all the expansions just now at the comic shop. jivjov posted:Core set arrived today, ran the simple-rules X-wing vs 2 TIEs game with a buddy of mine....immidiatley after the battle was done, we walked up to the comic shop and bought another X-Wing, a TIE, and a Y-Wing. This game is stupid amounts of fun, I love how simple it all is, but not at the expense of tactics. Told you so.
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What do you all think of these lists? Got a tourney coming up. Imperials: Vader+swarm+cluster 29+2+4=35 Winged Gundark 15 Academy Pilot 12 Backstabber 16 Howrunner+mark 18+3 Rebels: Biggs+R2-D2 25+4=29 Dutch +Ion+Prot+r5-k6 23+5+4+2=34 Wedge+r2-f2+prot 29+3+4=36
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This sounds pretty cool, I saw the starter set at my FLGS, but I wasn't sure about it. Maybe I'll give it a shot. That said, I wonder if they'll include the best Imperial Multi-Role fighter: Cygnus Starwing, beating the X-wing at it's own game. 
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Assuming that I'm providing rebel and imperial ships for each game (most of my friends are interested in playing but not buying their own sets), how many duplicate ships do I need to invest in to run 80-100 point games effectively? I currently have a core set, and one of each of the X, Y, and TIE expansions (total of 3 TIES, 2 Xs, 1Y). I'm planning on buying a second core set for the extra movement templates and dice, plus at least one more Y-wing and a TIE Advanced (that would bring me to a total of 5 TIEs, 3 Xs, 2 Ys, and 1 TIEadv). I'm thinking that'll be enough to hold me over until the 2nd wave of expansions comes out, since my biggest concern is unit variety; Xs vs TIEs will get a bit old after a while. Is there anything in the TIE Advanced expansion that's unique and worth having a duplicate of? Should I get more X/Y wings?
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Galaga Galaxian posted:This sounds pretty cool, I saw the starter set at my FLGS, but I wasn't sure about it. Maybe I'll give it a shot. That said, I wonder if they'll include the best Imperial Multi-Role fighter: So many good ships we need, and I'd expect many of them will be seen. TIE Defenders, Missile Boats, Gunboats, Skipray Blastboats, B-Wings, maybe even some cheap Z-95s.... EDIT: Maybe if there's a capital ship expansion of some kind (not full-blown capships, just assaults on them) we can even get TIE Bombers.
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Colonial Air Force posted:So many good ships we need, and I'd expect many of them will be seen. TIE Defenders, Missile Boats, Gunboats, Skipray Blastboats, B-Wings, maybe even some cheap Z-95s.... I wouldn't be surprised if wave 3 is B-Wing, TIE bomber as regular sized, Lambda shuttle and, I dunno, the Outrider as midsize.
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Plus some fighters that aren't really "Rebel" or Imperial either. R-41 Starchaser Cloakshape Fighter StarViper (Black Sun Fighter) Corporate Sector IRD(-A) T-Wing A few more I'm sure. We're far more likely to see Prequel/Clone Wars stuff first though. But thats fine, some Naboo Fighters would be nice.
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I'd hope they make Headhunters at some point. It sounds like this game is successful so I imagine we'll eventually see a ton of stuff.
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Ran that Imp list today against my buddy playing Rebels. He brought: Luke+Prot+R2-D2 Horton+Generic R2+Ion+Prot Rookie+Generic R5 Concentrating all fire knocked Luke out of the box, costing me Howlrunner in the process. A couple of quick shots to the Ricky the Rookie blew him to space dust, and despite keeping Vader down with Ion Cannons, Horton heard his Who: my blasters. I've noticed that it's real easy to buy up bits and bobs for the Rebel ships and make it DEVASTATING to lose even one of them.
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I've organized an X-wing night at the local game store in Dover DE 9 Oct at 6 if anyone will be in the area.
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jivjov posted:Is there anything in the TIE Advanced expansion that's unique and worth having a duplicate of? Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your question, but you can't use duplicates of uniques.
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jivjov posted:I wouldn't be surprised if wave 3 is B-Wing, TIE bomber as regular sized, Lambda shuttle and, I dunno, the Outrider as midsize. lambda would be a good scenario piece too for escort missions and at least in the EU are pretty non-faction specific. Hopefully they'll come out with things like squad builder packs with boxes of 3 ships to help on costs. I hope all of rogue squadron eventually gets represented. Uglies would be great to represent pirate factions.
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Bionic posted:Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your question, but you can't use duplicates of uniques. I meant things like equipment cards and whatnot. I know pilots you can only use one of, but as I mentioned, I'm the only one in my friends group that actually wants to buy stuff for the game, so are there any equipment cards that both rebel and imp players may want?
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jivjov posted:I meant things like equipment cards and whatnot. I know pilots you can only use one of, but as I mentioned, I'm the only one in my friends group that actually wants to buy stuff for the game, so are there any equipment cards that both rebel and imp players may want? Possibly, possibly Swarm Tactics or Marksmanship, but past that, not really.
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