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So, with some urging from a friend, I picked up the new trilogy core set. I'm heading to a gaming get together tonight and the other people have expressed interest in seeing how the game works. I don't have infinite money, but I'd also like to ensure that all four people present can participate if necessary. Would getting another single X-Wing (2 X-Wings vs 2 TIES) be reasonably balanced or should I do something else?
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Jan 15, 2016 22:11
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I'd like some thread opinions on some lists I've been working on. My Rebel ship collection is two T-70s, an A-Wing and a B-Wing; I'm going to proxy all the upgrades, but I'm not buying anymore ships for a while.pre:Dual X-Wings (99) Jake Farrell — A-Wing 24 Wired 1 Chardaan Refit -2 Push the Limit 3 A-Wing Test Pilot 0 Ship Total: 26 "Red Ace" — T-70 X-Wing 29 R2-D2 4 Comm Relay 3 Integrated Astromech 0 Ship Total: 36 Poe Dameron — T-70 X-Wing 31 Push the Limit 3 R5-P9 3 Integrated Astromech 0 Ship Total: 37 pre:ABX-Wing (100) Jake Farrell — A-Wing 24 Veteran Instincts 1 Chardaan Refit -2 Push the Limit 3 Autothrusters 2 A-Wing Test Pilot 0 Ship Total: 28 Keyan Farlander — B-Wing 29 Stay On Target 2 Advanced Sensors 3 Intelligence Agent 1 B-Wing/E2 1 Ship Total: 36 "Red Ace" — T-70 X-Wing 29 R2-D2 4 Comm Relay 3 Integrated Astromech 0 Ship Total: 36
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Jan 23, 2016 07:59
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guts and bolts posted:If you want to run PTL on Poe Dameron, you'll also want to swap from R5-P9 to BB-8, in my opinion, which gives you an increased flexibility in where Poe will end up if you're going to limit yourself to green maneuvers anyway. Barrel Roll+Boost is a good way to get a lot of early discretionary movement, or Barrel Roll+Focus if you want to Boost at the end of your maneuver, or whatever - this also makes you more versatile in when you want to just drop the combo and do a T-Roll or a white 2-speed turn and open up on a guy. Either swap the Astromechs, or give Poe Adaptability/Veteran Instincts for his Elite and move last/shoot first. If you drop PTL from Poe and go to Adaptability, you free up exactly enough points to upgrade both of your aces to Autothrusters, which is great. And if you're going to A-Wing for sure anyway, Jake Farrell with PTL is the way to go, I feel, barring some stress-driven theatrics from Tycho. So something like this? pre:Dual X-Wings (100) Jake Farrell — A-Wing 24 Wired 1 Chardaan Refit -2 Push the Limit 3 Autothrusters 2 A-Wing Test Pilot 0 Ship Total: 28 Poe Dameron — T-70 X-Wing 31 Push the Limit 3 BB-8 2 Integrated Astromech 0 Ship Total: 36 "Red Ace" — T-70 X-Wing 29 R2-D2 4 Comm Relay 3 Integrated Astromech 0 Ship Total: 36
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Jan 23, 2016 21:19
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Otisburg posted:"Saber Flight, This is Saber One. I'm picking up three contact at point seven. Rolling in to engage. Tally Ho! Saber Two, cover my wing." "YUB YUB BARON FEL!"
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Jan 25, 2016 08:15
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Yeah, I tried to introduce a friend (and myself) to the game without actions and it's really dull and boring. I'm introducing another friend this week and I'm going to try one X-Wing vs two TIEs with actions and see if that works better.
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Jan 25, 2016 18:13
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Wait, so can Bren basically use Crack Shot every single turn?
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Jan 26, 2016 21:09
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Can you do a Brobots list with just stuff from IG-2000? Edit: Somehow I forgot to refresh before posting.
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Jan 28, 2016 00:04
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Devlan Mud posted:My second copy of Imperial Aces arrived today, so I can finally have the vignette of a Lambda shuttle flanked by a pair of Royal Guard TIE Interceptors in my curio cabinet. Also, I can try out the awful list of Jendon, ST-321, Palpatine; Carnor Jax, PtL, RGT, Stealth, Thrusters; Kir Kanos, RGT, Stealth, Thrusters. I'm sure Angelo would only give me 3/5 points since ST-321 is actually Vader's shuttle... Did you buy 5 A-Wings or something?
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Jan 30, 2016 23:38
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If you have R2-D6 and Integrated Astromech and you discard the Astromech to negate a hit, do you lose the Elite talent?
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Feb 1, 2016 00:46
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Foolster41 posted:I came up with a silly gimick list, though I couldn't fit it in 100 points so I made it 150 points: That's fantastic. I'm going to see if I can make a Star Wolf list now.
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Feb 2, 2016 01:07
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Foolster41 posted:I came up with a silly gimick list, though I couldn't fit it in 100 points so I made it 150 points: Star Wolf (150 Points) Carnor Jax (PtL, Autothrusters, Stealth Device) - 34 points "Can't let you do that Skywalker!": Enemy ships at Range 1 cannot perform focus or evade actions and cannot spend focus or evade tokens. Soontir Fel (PtL, Autothrusters, Stealth Device) - 35 points "Annoying Rebels, I am the Great Baron Fel!": When you receive a stress token, you may assign 1 focus token to your ship. Turr Phennir (VI, Autothrusters, Stealth Device) - 31 points "The Emperor's enemy is my enemy!": After you perform an attack, you may perform a free boost or barrel roll action. Tetran Cowall (VI, Autothrusters, Stealth Device) - 30 points "You can't beat me, I've got a better ship!": When you reveal a K-Turn maneuver, you may treat the speed of that maneuver as "1," "3," or "5".
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Feb 2, 2016 06:54
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I really hope FFG releases pilot cards for Wraith Squadron.
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Feb 3, 2016 01:12
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Sure, but Kell, Runt, Face and Phanan don't. Nor does Lt Kettch.
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Feb 3, 2016 01:54
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Otisburg posted:What about Horse Head Guy? Whatever his name was. Bo Shekk Horseman? That was Runt. Technically, Hohass Ekwesh, but no one called him that.
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Feb 3, 2016 02:30
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Ringo Star Get posted:There was a bit in the Xwing Rogue Squadron book where they used an Ewok as a pilot or something. That's also from Wraith Squadron. Wedge pilots a TIE with a toy Ewok strapped to his flight suit.
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Feb 3, 2016 03:26
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Chill la Chill posted:It surprises me that the official acrylic tokens are still worth so much, but I won't complain. The number of bags of shield tokens I was able to earn got me somewhere around $500 because people were paying upwards of $15/token. It's crazy!  WHY?!
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Feb 4, 2016 03:51
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thespaceinvader posted:Brobots: IG88s in Aggressors, two of them, with Heavy Laser Cannons and... other stuff. They share each other's pilot abilities, and are shockingly agile for big ships. Zeta Ace uses the 2 template for its barrel rolls, Epsilon Ace is the PS12.
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Feb 7, 2016 00:23
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bunnyofdoom posted:Theoretically, I believe so then. I actually came up with that on my own, because free barrel rolls and shedding target locks sounded awesome. Edit: Besides Squad Leader, the only other EPT with an Action that looks good for an A-Wing would be Daredevil; Expert Handling costs a point less and the free barrel roll sounds more useful than a free 1 hard turn. Some Numbers fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 21:24
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Gerdalti posted:Does TIE Shuttle let you slot Palpatine? "You cannot equip a Crew Upgrade card that costs more than 4 squad points". Accurate, but missing the joke.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:13
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Gerdalti posted:I'm probably too new to get jokes, apologies. Don't worry, it's not a particularly good one.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:18
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That's what it looks like to me, but maybe we're missing something?
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Feb 9, 2016 02:16
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canyoneer posted:Wasn't someone making a Star Fox list? That's really nice. Can FFG license Star Fox just long enough to release a set of Arwings and whatever Star Wolf flew?
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Feb 10, 2016 00:42
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That still pushes it up to 9 green dice, right? Base 2, +2 for cloak, +1 for Stealth Device, +2 for Range 3, +1 for Zuckuss, +1 for obstruction.
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Feb 10, 2016 01:23
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With three Interceptors, three FOs and not a lot of upgrades, there's only so much you can do, but I kind of like this: Soontir Fel (27) Push the Limit (3) "Omega Leader" (21) Juke (2) Comm Relay (3) "Zeta Leader" (20) Wired (1) "Omega Ace" (20) Push the Limit (3) Total: 100 View in Yet Another Squad Builder
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Feb 10, 2016 07:04
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Boba Fett crew seems insane, Dengar crew is realgood, the ship has a goddamn white S-Loop what the gently caress.
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Feb 10, 2016 18:57
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Poopy Palpy posted:Correct me if I'm missing something but, PTL can only perform actions in your action bar, and even if it could do an action on an upgrade card it doesn't get around the limit of only performing an action once per round. That does sound correct. Experimental Interface would work.
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Feb 10, 2016 20:22
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Tekopo posted:No hull upgrade if you take EI overdesigned posted:EI would lose you the hull upgrade and you can still only do an individual action once per round. True enough. I guess PtL to get the shield first and do something else is good enough.
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Feb 10, 2016 20:28
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Phantom is awesome, Defender is awesome, stop arguing.
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Feb 11, 2016 23:20
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guts and bolts posted:If you think Soontir Fel is a better option at this point than Omega Leader is, yep, we just don't agree. I don't even think Soontir Fel is one of the five most attractive options for an Empire list at this point. The stuff that beats Fel crushes him. Pray tell, what are the five most attractive options?
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Feb 12, 2016 22:12
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Admiral Joeslop posted:FFG please release full repaints and pilot cards of all Rogue Squadron members during the Bacta War, thanks. I'd love to get the custom Bacta War X-Wing paint jobs.
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Feb 13, 2016 00:29
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lazerus06 posted:My friend gave me a Howl Runner and Backstabber Tie pilot cards but I do not have the cardboard bases. Is there somewhere I can print of the card board bases? I wouldn't use them in any tournaments obviously but just for fun with friends. If you're just playing for fun, any TIE base should work. The stats will all be the same except for PS and you can reference the card.
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Feb 13, 2016 20:20
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guts and bolts posted:Interested to see the list you ran, and interested as to why you think VI Vader is more expensive than Whisper. My thinking with Whisper is to always go 40+ points or bust, but that's also largely a product of having the room for it in POW. What's your take? I think the expense spaceinvader is talking about is in dollars, not squad points.
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Feb 13, 2016 21:10
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I flew kind of poorly and didn't focus fire the right X-Wing I think. Probably. I don't know, I'm still pretty bad at this game.
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Feb 15, 2016 08:05
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I still chose to go after Ello instead of Regen Poe.
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Feb 15, 2016 08:10
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I'd drop Autothrusters for Integrated Astromech on one of the T-70s to get under 100.
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Feb 16, 2016 20:36
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Agent Kallus reads "at the start of the first round," so shouldn't that mean that you select the ship at the start of the game and only then?
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Feb 17, 2016 21:36
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I guess I was misinterpreting your mnemonic mantra to be the things you have to remember for every round.
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Feb 17, 2016 21:47
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That was great, Poe owns, Ackbar owns. Poe getting those last two TIEs was fantastic.
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Feb 18, 2016 21:25
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My Bespin playmat is shipping!
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Feb 23, 2016 01:25
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I think I'll start experimenting with making actual noises for my fighters. My new set of acrylic movement templates is set to arrive tonight, along with range 1 and 2 range rulers. My Bespin playmat and my new shipment of ships should be arriving on Monday. I am very excited.
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Feb 24, 2016 21:49
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