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Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Gau posted:

My only real lamentation about this game is that the expansion ships are so expensive.

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/165103

$9.99 a Piece! (except the new medium size ships, $19.49)

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Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Does your FLGS have a website? Try there. Or just walk in, and ask the dude behind the counter if anyone plays.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


What's the over/under on a 3rd wave before regionals?

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Don't forget the purposeful naming of the Falcon and Slave 1 as "medium" ships to allow growth into god knows what as "large."

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


alg posted:

I got to play 2 games yesterday finally :unsmith:

I didn't really think, not having played, that I would have trouble with collisions. But here we are.



I also didn't really know how badly a swarm of TIE fighters would destroy my precious starfighters



I really want to get some more practice games in this week. I want to play Rebels for the tournament I'm going to but I have no idea how to put a list together for them, 100 points seems so restrictive.

Do you play regularly at AE? I drive up there for Netrunner. I may know you :ohdear:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Pfft. I drive 2.5 hours to play there. :v:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Shockeh posted:

Most important thing: The Lambda wings fold appropriately.

Literally the most important thing. :swoon:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


I'm both happy and sad that they didn't go with scale for the big ships. Happy, because they will actually make the fuckers, and sad, because there is something hilarious about a "miniature" the size of your kitchen table.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Interviews!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJW-7IvdilI

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Fox of Stone posted:

Also, anyone know if you can paint these models?

Sure, why not? As long as they were originally FFG products, you could have Hello Kitty TIE Fighters and a Barney Slave-1 if you wanted to.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


thunderchief posted:

Right on. Wouldn't it be cooler if they were on the same scale though?

I'm sure you would TOTALLY buy a coffee table sized "miniature".

Edit: ok, so technically the Tantive IV would only be 55 centimeters (22 inches) long, but seeing as the not-quite-to-scale one is $90 bucks, who in the world would buy it? It would cost at least double that, if not more.

Editx2: Spaceship Earth (the sphere at Epcot Center) is only 180ft tall, or about 12% of the 1456 ft required to have the proper 1:270 scale of the 120km Death Star.

Carteret fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Oct 8, 2013

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Can I get a link to that sweet list builder? It would probably go great in the OP...

Also, what is a good starting point for a Rebel List? Looking to get in to this more in depth after the holiday season. 2 Cores is dumb for Rebels, or is it a decent value for ships/cards/dice still?

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Swagger Dagger posted:

Worlds finals were an 8-TIE swarm vs a 2 B-Wing/2 X-Wing list.

The Rebels won, with one B-Wing surviving.

The match was pretty crazy to watch. Archive should be the last part of the last video on https://www.twitch.tv/ffglive.

Lists were:

REBEL (100)
Biggs
Rookie Pilot
2x Dagger Squadron + Advanced Sensors

IMPERIAL (98)
5x Academy Pilot
Dark Curse
Howlrunner + Determination + Stealth Device

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Order processing at CSI:

1x Core Set (2nd Set)
2x B-Wing
1x X-Wing
1x TIE Fighter
1x HCD Space Battlemat (3x3 Playmat with awesome space art!)

...as well as a cheap rear end 3rd *Netrunner* core set for 13 bucks!

Alg, I'm in for the long haul. Now... to proxy cards...

Carteret fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Dec 27, 2013

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


I picked up this from CSI when I made my post xmas XWing binge purchase. It's thicker than your normal playmat, and it comes in a cardboard tube :v:

It looks pretty too.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


alg posted:

So some preview of the Rebel Transport came out.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/em791c9h6re5ey4/GTM%20Large%20Ships_0001.pdf


Kinda sad that I am gonna end up buying this :(

How the hell does that range ruler work?

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


I got This mat from CoolStuffInc. It not that expensive, and it's made of that thick mousepad material that card game playmats are made of.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Swagger Dagger posted:

2 ships I've heard of, 2 I haven't.

What are TIE Phantoms and E-Wings?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Phantom

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/E-wing_escort_starfighter

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


It's funny... I just did some digging and the announcement was April 2013. They were showing up in the "Upcoming" page for a long, long time. It isn't there anymore, and is flagged as not available on the product page. I doubt they'll actually announce anything about why they shitcanned it, but it wasn't a very good idea in the first place. CSI still has them up for preorder :lol:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


zVxTeflon posted:

Does anyone know FFs policy on if the Imp Aces ships are allowed for this tournament? Its supposed to be out around the 14th and my stores tourney date is the end of March.

FFG's policy (on LCGs, anyway) has always been, unless otherwise noted, if the product is available for purchase, it is tournament legal.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012




:allears:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


smashthedean posted:

:drat:

Where is that from? Is there any other info? Interesting choice to have two difference ship types in the box... now I want a TIE Advanced / TIE Defender box or something.

Gama Tradeshow, seems like. No additional info has leaked so far, but I'm sure if the FFG Keynote hasn't ended yet it will soon and any info will be exploding all over facebook/twitter.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Poopy Palpy posted:

You're going to the tournament because you like to play X-Wing. Not getting to play one of the games you otherwise would seems like a kind of lovely reward.

I dunno, in the grand scheme of things getting a free win that could possibly help you play after the cut seems like a net benefit to me :shrug:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Devlan Mud posted:

I'm surprised they're that cheap, I think last year's regionals kits were over $100.

Last year had 8(!) playmats for the LCGs.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Team Covenant will be streaming a 1k Point match at 4 EST today. Link to the stream here and an explanation for wtf they are doing here.

Let's hope it's not loving terrible!

EDIT: Fixed the time, timezones are hard.

Carteret fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Apr 4, 2014

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


just from looks, I count

Rebs:
1 YT-1300
5 X-Wings
2 HWKS
2 A-Wings
3 Y-Wings
1 B-Wing.

Imps:
2x Firespray
2 Shuttles
5 TIE
3 Interceptors
2 Bombers
2 Adv

One of the 100pt Squads is just the YT and 1 Y-Wing. :laffo:

Carteret fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 4, 2014

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


BJPaskoff posted:

Oh not rolling them, just placing them. They don't have to be dice, they could be different colored beads or whatever. I hate the little cardboard tokens.

You can buy acrylic tokens! :v:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012





God I wonder how often they do this, and what kind of scale the original art is. How many cards are actually using one piece of art? :psyduck:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The non-Imperial ship is rotated between the two cards, so I suspect both craft are in the larger picture.

Yeah, I know. The point of the post was to point that out, and since you can see other blaster fire coming from off image, what else is in that one piece of art.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Poopy Palpy posted:

Reading through the actual rules, after a huge ship rams a smaller ship it also rolls an attack die for each ship destroyed and suffers the damage rolled.

Yeah, but what is two dice vs 5 Shields and 8 hull? :getin:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


As much as i wish for a Star Destroyer, even using the new epic scale 1/500, the Imperial Star Destroyer would still be almost 10.5 feet long :eyepop:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012




:eyepop::eyepop:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Shoeless posted:

Ohhh, very nice. That looks pretty good, especially for a mass-produced pre-painted model. Though I'm curious as to why they've made an unarmed, unarmored, slow and unmaneuverable bulk transport ship as a game piece. Is it supposed to be for a scenario setpiece or something?

It's for Epic Play and Cinematic Play. You won't see them in standard tournament play, but man are they pretty. If you haven't been keeping up, this is the next sweet, sweet model we are getting:


Edit: I really hope those turrets and the dish rotate :allears:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012



Actually its still at a smaller scale. The Fighters are 1/270, This and the Tantive IV are 1/500.

:goonsay:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Poopy Palpy posted:

I'm having a hard time getting worked up over one match in a tournament designed to promote new product. If there's an event near you, that means there's probably plenty of straight tournaments often enough. This one can be a little weird.

Especially considering that one match results in free product for both players, If I remember correctly. The important part of the tournament is getting to the final table. Everything after that is the reward.

^^^Edit:

alg posted:

I would be really happy to play well enough to win a free ship

Also, this.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


Edit: or you know, what he said.

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


overdesigned posted:

somebody help me

Anymore pics of your storage solution?

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


FFG doesn't have or restrict releases to street dates. The date quoted on the Upcoming page is the "If your FLGS doesn't have it on the shelves by this date, you either don't live in the US or they are behind on their bills" date. If they have it, they can sell it, and 99% of the time, it's legal for tournament play. :eng101:

Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


I want to be really mad at these guys for making it so hard to find product sometimes, but then again, I feel like these two guys alone guaranteed Wave 4 was going to get made.

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Carteret
Nov 10, 2012


So what would be a non-retarded amount of Z-95s to pick up? I've heard anywhere from 6-8.

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