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Caddrel posted:It depends what kind of games you want to play. You and a friend can totally have fun playing with the core set and two extra ships at low points values. That's what I did when I started: core set plus A-Wing and Tie Advanced.
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Carracks are still loving cruisers. I'm praying for a Lancer.
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signalnoise posted:Thanks for this! How do things like the Tantive IV play into everything? It looks like there's like 3 sizes of ship, which is fighter, fist sized, and then some kind of monster thing whatever the Tantive is, which I refuse to believe is small due to costing like 50 dollars. The Tantive/Transport are for "epic" and scenario play, and should really be your last purchases unless you're just in love with them.
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Right on, then I never plan to buy them. That money can go towards Armada. Just bought my set!
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I wonder when the Empire will get the Gamma assault shuttle.
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Swagger Dagger posted:It took me a minute to realize the wave 4 ships are on a higher shelf and not in a totally different scale to the older ships. I didn't realise that until you posted, in my defence it is like 6:30am but yea, I thought they were giant 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I wonder when the Empire will get the Gamma assault shuttle. Never 
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If it's an Imperial huge ship, I hope it's not just a CR90 with a paintjob. There's a couple of decent options for Imp corvettes: the Vigil-class has that Star Destroyer look going for it, but is ~100m longer than the CR90. Alternatively, there's the Imperial Customs light corvette which looks awesome but isn't Imperial Navy, and the two prong design might be tricky to do in plastic.
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Corellian Gunship corvette? Though I guess it's technically more identifiable as Rebel, it could easily be used for both.
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I heard its going to be a Gozanti with a tie advance at the price point of the rebel transport with the new tie advanced cards to fix some of its problems.
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Looks good. Obviously there was no way to make everything to scale.
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Aug 14, 2014 15:21
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They appear to be soft-launching product at GenCon. My FLGS rep has 3x of each wave 5 and rebel aces for the store. Gonna try and dibs one of each today.
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Aug 14, 2014 15:26
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I love they kept Howlrunner mostly the same.
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My 2400 and Decimator are purchased  Can't wait to play them next weekedit: YT2400 dial 
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alg posted:My 2400 and Decimator are purchased Wait what? Wave 5 ships are out? Where did you get that?
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They are being sold at GenCon
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alg posted:My 2400 and Decimator are purchased
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Aug 14, 2014 17:26
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Ooh, all 12 turns, and none of them red.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:31
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As soon as I get an Outrider I'm trying that autoblaster setup I've been dreaming of. With that dial, it should work.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:33
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Howlrunner is a lady pilot? Good job FFG, I love how diverse and non-cheesecake their character selection/artwork is.
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jivjov posted:Howlrunner is a lady pilot? Good job FFG, I love how diverse and non-cheesecake their character selection/artwork is. So is Ibtisam 
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alg posted:So is Ibtisam Well she's from the X-Wing comics, so that was already a given.
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jivjov posted:Howlrunner is a lady pilot? Good job FFG, I love how diverse and non-cheesecake their character selection/artwork is. The best part is that you just KNOW there's a couple dudes out there who are never going to use Howlrunner again because she's a girl. FFG TRICKED ME! 
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Howlrunner is pretty cool!
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Just by chance I was watching the 2012 GenCon demo video from TeamCovenant yesterday (I was using it to try and lure another friend of mine into the game...). In that demo, they are using Howlrunner, and the FFG rep actually said "her" once while talking about her. So she was "outed" two years ago!
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ADudeWhoAbides posted:The best part is that you just KNOW there's a couple dudes out there who are never going to use Howlrunner again because she's a girl. I know  FuSchnick posted:Just by chance I was watching the 2012 GenCon demo video from TeamCovenant yesterday (I was using it to try and lure another friend of mine into the game...). In that demo, they are using Howlrunner, and the FFG rep actually said "her" once while talking about her. So she was "outed" two years ago! Nice! I'm glad to see it wasn't a reactionary change.
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FuSchnick posted:Just by chance I was watching the 2012 GenCon demo video from TeamCovenant yesterday (I was using it to try and lure another friend of mine into the game...). In that demo, they are using Howlrunner, and the FFG rep actually said "her" once while talking about her. So she was "outed" two years ago! She's been a chick since the 90s 
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Yeah, Howlrunner has been "she" at my table since the game came out (and about a decade before that).
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alg posted:She's been a chick since the 90s Man, you're totally right, Howlrunner is actually Civé Rashon from Star Wars Galaxies. Man, I lost some nerdcred there. EDIT: Kinda makes me wonder though, why they didn't just put that name on the card and went with the callsign instead. I mean, Luke's X-Wing card isn't "Red 5".
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jivjov posted:Man, you're totally right, Howlrunner is actually Civé Rashon from Star Wars Galaxies. Man, I lost some nerdcred there. Seems like the Imps get more callsigns than Rebels? Or maybe it was just early on in the game, for less recognizable characters? Are there any ships from wave 3 on that use nicknames, or is it only the Fighters and Interceptors?
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The Gate posted:Seems like the Imps get more callsigns than Rebels? Or maybe it was just early on in the game, for less recognizable characters? Are there any ships from wave 3 on that use nicknames, or is it only the Fighters and Interceptors? Bomber and Defender pilots all have names. The Phantom named pilots are "Echo" and "Whisper"
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jivjov posted:Man, you're totally right, Howlrunner is actually Civé Rashon from Star Wars Galaxies. Man, I lost some nerdcred there. Howlrunner is her call sign, Red 5 is Luke's squadron identity. Squadron identity is used when in engagement / maneuvers so that listeners outside the squadron know who is talking and in what reference. Her squadron identity is Obsidian 1 for reference. LumberingTroll fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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jivjov posted:Man, you're totally right, Howlrunner is actually Civé Rashon from Star Wars Galaxies. Man, I lost some nerdcred there. I thought it was common knowledge in the Star Wars community that howl runner was a woman. I remember playing her card back in the CCG: 
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jivjov posted:Bomber and Defender pilots all have names. The Phantom named pilots are "Echo" and "Whisper" Oh right, the Phantoms, duh.
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jivjov posted:Man, you're totally right, Howlrunner is actually Civé Rashon from Star Wars Galaxies. Man, I lost some nerdcred there. Red 5 is the specific X-Wing with 5 red bars on the s-foils and candy cane stripes on two of its laser cannons. It would be a Title card, if there was anything notable about it besides the paint job. Luke only used Red Five as a callsign because that's the ship he climbed into.
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Howlrunner's position during the pursuit of the falcon through the asteroid fields and Bespin also makes it very flavorful when she's chasing the falcon in-game. I also really hope they use the close-up view they used in the CCG for her alternate art promo if they ever give her one. Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Poopy Palpy posted:Red 5 is the specific X-Wing with 5 red bars on the s-foils and candy cane stripes on two of its laser cannons. It would be a Title card, if there was anything notable about it besides the paint job. Luke only used Red Five as a callsign because that's the ship he climbed into. I never, ever, ever noticed that their numbers matched up to the numbers of bars on their fighters. 
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MY MONEY  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrxO1t9wY10
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Poopy Palpy posted:Red 5 is the specific X-Wing with 5 red bars on the s-foils and candy cane stripes on two of its laser cannons. It would be a Title card, if there was anything notable about it besides the paint job. Luke only used Red Five as a callsign because that's the ship he climbed into. The difference is that Red 5 is the callsign for pilot #5 in Red Squadron who is piloting the Red 5 X-wing. For contrast, Civé Rashon's equivalent callsign would be Obisidan Leader (because she's the leader of Obsidian Squadron), but she's also nicknamed "Howlrunner."
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