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4x trick shot contracted scouts just won Vegas in the finals vs Palp Aces. Ate the shuttle in ~2 turns and got all shields off QD before losing a Scout. The last 3 cleaned up bumping like crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc_vccUamvY
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ConfusedUs posted:Eh I don't feel like 4x scouts is nerf-worthy at all. Agreed. If you take an average skilled player, they're going to win a lot more games with 4x wookies than they would with 4x scouts.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:23
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Wasn't there a guy a few months ago who won a big tournament with 4 wookies who had only started playing the game 2 or 3 weeks earlier?
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Mar 20, 2018 02:25
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ConfusedUs posted:At this point the "fix" for power creep is to bring the old ships up to the new level in the expanded design space, rather than the other way around. That or release an X-Wing 2.0. I expect that's what most people really want. I don't care that new things are really good, I care that older stuff is mostly worthless (with a few exceptions). The not-Biggs T-65 has been benched from competitive play for 80% of this game's lifespan. I can see why people pine for the good old days, because some of the new mechanics suuuuuuck (autodamage, infinite bombs, hyper accurate turrets and ordnance) 
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Mar 20, 2018 17:13
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A guy won a regional in Sweden 6 months ago with 5x Alpha Squadron TIE Interceptors with Autothrusters. That's trading a target lock action and 2 shields for +1 hull, +1 attack and barrel roll at a 2 point premium. Not like interceptors are very well costed these days anyway, but 2 dice attacks are just trash these days.
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Mar 22, 2018 22:43
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bunnyofdoom posted:I thought if you rolled a critical on a bomblet it counted as a regular damage You're thinking of Cluster Mines. Bomblet reads "rolls 2 attack dice and suffers all hit and critical damage rolled" and Cluster Mines read "rolls 2 attack dice and suffers 1 damage for each hit and crit rolled"
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Mar 23, 2018 22:01
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12 times, that is ridiculous. A T-70 with as much effective health as a Ghost.
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Mar 25, 2018 06:52
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4 wookiees is such un-fun trash and a garbage list and it's totally OK to say that you don't want to play against it in a casual setting. As a chill list with aces/swarms, this is the first thing that came to mind with your collection. The Inquisitor (25) Push the Limit (3) Autothrusters (2) TIE/v1 (1) "Pure Sabacc" (22) Veteran Instincts (1) Lightweight Frame (2) Adaptive Ailerons (0) Academy Pilot (12) Academy Pilot (12) "Howlrunner" (18) Crack Shot (1) Total: 99 View in Yet Another Squad Builder
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Apr 2, 2018 20:44
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Is that thing real? Palpatine is misspelled, and they don't capitalize U-Wing and TIE Reaper consistently through the article. We all know FFG doesn't ever make mistakes in their articles
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Apr 4, 2018 22:13
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Hey look it's all the pillars of X-Wing plus bombs and regen
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Apr 6, 2018 18:43
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Devlan Mud posted:It's gonna be all Legion products and Destiny spoilers and maybe a new card spoiled for the TIE Reaper or something. Probably this. That or a reprint of the games lost with the Games Workshop license. Fury of Darth Vader Forbidden Star Wars Chaos in the Old Republic
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Apr 13, 2018 18:03
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Genghis Cohen posted:Hello X Wing thread, I have played this game casually with a couple mates a few times - that was more than a year ago. The bug has bitten again, and I had a couple questions for things I was considering getting: Plano 5231 is a frequent recommendation. I fit all my small ships, dials, and ship tokens in two of those easily and have a bigger plano with huge spaces for big ships. I fit the big ships in the 5231 until I got my 5th big ship, then they got too cozy and I bought the bigger Plano. For pilot and upgrade cards I use card pages and a 3 ring binder. Ultra Pro and BCW both make 16 pocket pages that are the perfect size for X-Wing upgrade cards, and the standard 9 pocket top loader pages that people use for Magic or other CCGs work great for pilot cards. For your second question, the Scurrg is a really great and versatile ship. Nym is used in both Scum and Rebel lists like crazy. The Kimogilia is also fun to use, it's essentially a Scum B-Wing that is better at missiles and has the cool bullseye mechanic. You'll probably be very satisfied with one of each of those ships.
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Apr 16, 2018 00:59
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Huxley posted:I'm pretty new, but are there that many glaring issues the long-timers are wanting a 2.0 to fix? Yeah. Off the top of my head: Turrets vs. mobile arcs. 360 degree turrets got released right away and are really powerful. Pretty much since Wave 2, a "fat turret" has been a staple build and the counterplay to it is not very fun or interesting (examples, old Fat Han, Dash, every Jumpmaster build, Miranda/Nym with TLT, old Kanan/Biggs and new Ghost/Fenn). If I were king of X-Wing, TLT would go away and all large based ships with turrets would be converted to the mobile arc system like on the Shadowcaster. Ordnance spent a long time in this game being a total waste of points. Why bother spending 4 points on Proton Torpedoes to change your expected value of hits from 1.2 to 1.6 for a single attack? Then guidance chips and the introduction of new missiles and new ways to get target locks made spending 4 points on harpoon missiles a great deal. Keep the target lock, use a reroll if needed, and guidance chips a blank to a hit or crit, and have a good chance of dealing bonus damage with the condition! The underlying issue is that attack accuracy and damage are linked in this game. A harpoon missile with chips and a target lock has a 50% chance of even hitting a TIE Defender with a focus and evade. It's likely to only deal one damage. Fire the same thing at a low agility ship and it's going to do a TON of damage. There's not really a good way in the system now to model high damage but low accuracy or low damage but high accuracy. Maybe they use a different set of dice for ordnance? Maybe a defending ship rolls the same number of naked dice regardless of that ship's native stats (0? 1? 2?)? Regen, token stacking, reinforce and damage mitigation are all elements of the game losing its bias for offense. There was a final a few weeks ago where the winner's Poe regenned a total of 12 shields in the final game.
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Apr 24, 2018 21:30
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If those PS1 X-Wings are 20 points base, 4 of them with the refit and title gives you 28 points to play with. That buys you Luke with Lone Wolf, Chopper, Renegade refit, title, Guidance Chips and Integrated Astromech 
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Apr 24, 2018 22:07
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enigmahfc posted:So I guess with the Refit and S-Foils, you can equip autothrusters and they only kick in when the s-foils are closed? Nope.  Because of timing on dual upgrade cards, the cruise side does not grant the boost until the Place Forces step, which means it is not legal to add autothrusters in list building. This is the same reason why Snap Wexley with Adaptability +1 cannot use the Black One title. edit: beaten. reading my mind today
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Apr 24, 2018 22:47
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Some Numbers posted:Oh fair, I forgot about that part of Pivot Wing. Same trigger and window for Kullbee's ability (after performing action), which means you do them in any order. So if you start on cruise mode, you can do a boost, flip the card, and PTL a barrel roll.
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Apr 25, 2018 03:07
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Raged posted:I really like that T-65s are getting a fix. but does anyone else think maybe that these are going to be OP as hell? I dunno. You can already sorta approximate a T-65 swarm with 5 Kihraxz fighters, 5 TIE Strikers with targeting computer or LWF, or 5x Alpha Squad interceptors with Autothrusters. Truth is that 2 dice ships simply cannot pull their weight these days, so the old days of TIE swarms are gone. Crack Shot kept them alive for a moment longer, but 3 x7 Defenders is a better swarm than a TIE swarm. 4x Contracted Scouts is a better TIE swarm than a TIE swarm! Rebels now have a good generic filler ship that is pointswise between an A-Wing (15) and B-Wing (21), and the aces are now costed to a point where they will actually show up in games. Except for that flash in the pan PS10 rebel alpha list with Wedge, I've literally not seen a not-Biggs X-Wing in a top 8 finish in the last year. Wedge and Wes are the most expensive X-Wings at 29 points. Norra is 29 points, and PS8 Poe is 31 points. X-Wings essentially get access to T-rolls, native barrel roll or boost (probably barrel roll almost all the time), and a 2 point discount on generics or a 3 point discount on aces. Doesn't seem ridiculous to me.
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Apr 25, 2018 23:13
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I get that you want them all at PS10, but since it's free, Crack Shot on Wedge looks pretty great. I don't think those 2 points on Rex are well spent, because if he is doing his job suppressing ships, he needs actions for an evade or focus to survive and can't spend actions on slicer tools.
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Apr 26, 2018 00:09
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That is super rude that they only include one copy of FAA in the expansion.
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Apr 26, 2018 18:44
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Huxley posted:As someone who is never going to play a game away from his kitchen table, I'm intrigued to learn there's a secondary market for upgrades. Yeah. Any upgrade you'd want more of that is only available in ships you wouldn't want more than one of. Also happens when it's a cross faction upgrade only available with one factions ship, because there are people who only buy ships in a single faction. Autothrusters was an old classic, because who wanted even one starviper? Still the case with Scavenger Crane, TIE mk II, or Harpoon Missiles
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Some Numbers posted:A free double tap every turn with Accuracy Corrector does seem a little strong for 18 points. Hah, an 8 TIE swarm with zero offensive variance and reusable crackshot. NO PROBLEM HERE
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Apr 27, 2018 18:46
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enigmahfc posted:35 points for Vermeil with Hotshit Copilot and Krennic, 30 for the generic with Palp, so 35 left for an ace. Yeah, I like that. Vermeil with hotcop isn't really a great synergy, because the defender still has a focus token when Vermeil is modding attack dice.
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Apr 30, 2018 19:32
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ConfusedUs posted:gently caress Yo Tokens Would the timing work on ISB slicer to double-jam a ship if it already had a token to discard? So, Scarif Base Pilot with ISB Slicer jams Quickdraw, who has a blue target lock token from the prior round. Jam token reference reads: Jam Tokens When a ship has both a jam token and a focus, evade, or blue target lock token, remove the jam token. Then that ship chooses and removes one of its 1 focus, evade, or blue target lock tokens. A ship is JAMMED if it has a jam token. ISB Slicer reads:  Does the target of jamming discard their first jam token before the timing window of ISB Slicer opens up? If so, you could jam action to strip the target lock, and then add a second jam token to the same ship. 
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Apr 30, 2018 19:43
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  FFG rules writing means that Krennic can drop Optimized Prototype on any ship So, a Day 0 FAQ will need to address the T-65 X-Wing referenced in the S-Foils card, and correcting Krennic's condition to be on a SHIELD VALUE of 3 or less.
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https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/x-wing-second-edition/ How many ships does each Conversion Kit convert? The number of ships supported (by maneuver dials included) in each Conversion Kit are: Rebel Alliance Conversion Kit 3 A-wing 2 ARC-170 2 Auzituck Gunship 2 B-wing 2 E-wing 2 Ghost 2 HWK-290 2 K-wing 2 Millennium Falcon 2 Phantom I 2 Phantom II 2 Sabines TIE Fighter 2 U-wing 2 X-wing 2 Y-wing 2 YT-2400 4 Z-95 Headhunter Galactic Empire Conversion Kit 2 Alpha-class Star Wing 3 Inquisitors TIE 2 Lambda-class Shuttle 2 TIE Advanced 3 TIE Aggressor 3 TIE Bomber 2 TIE Defender 4 TIE Fighter 3 TIE Interceptor 2 TIE Phantom 2 TIE Punisher 3 TIE Striker 3 VT-49 Decimator Scum and Villainy Conversion Kit 2 Hounds Tooth 2 HWK-290 2 IG-2000 3 Kihraxz Fighter 2 Kimogila Fighter 4 M3-A Interceptor 2 Mist Hunter 3 Protectorate Starfighter 2 Punishing One 3 Quadjumper 2 Scurrg H-6 Bomber 2 Shadow Caster 2 Slave I 2 StarViper 2 Y-wing 4 Z-95 Headhunter
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May 1, 2018 18:42
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quote:Do I have to use the squad builder app? Hmm.
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May 1, 2018 18:48
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That's amazing that they are introducing "charges" or force tokens or whatever for pilot abilities. Allows greater granularity for when a pilot ability can activate, rather than the current breakdown of always on/once per round/once per game. Like Iden's card has an ability that spends a lightning token for it. Also, there's now a range zero!
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May 1, 2018 18:51
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They seriously filled almost my entire wish-list. Medium bases, bullseye arcs on everything, no more PTL or VI, mobile arcs replacing turrets. Let's see how ordnance and bombs are handled and I might call it perfect.
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May 1, 2018 18:55
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FFG quietly raised all the prices on the Imperial Assault expansions by 20-30% a couple months ago. Note now that all the wave 1 small ships are $19.99 MSRP instead of $14.99 MSRP One of the local game stores here clearanced out literally all their X-Wing inventory a couple weeks ago, so they're probably feeling pretty  that they're not going to be stuck with old stuff anymore
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May 1, 2018 18:57
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Chill la Chill posted:Hey guys, remember the one thing we all agreed the game needed to be more robust? The more granular hit/evade dice? They're not doing it. And now they're even reducing the granularity of the pilot skills to 6. Turrets and missiles were the real problem there, and turrets are being addressed. No idea what's coming on missiles yet. I don't mind reducing pilot skill granularity since VI is gone and there's no replacement effect to manipulate pilot skill
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May 1, 2018 19:02
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I wonder if I can keep my templates. Another thing I noticed is that there's flavor text/titles underneath the pilot cards. Luke's is "Red Five" and Iden Versio's is "Inferno Leader". I wonder if that will be used for certain synergies, tied to upgrades or even to distinguish between different versions of the same pilot in the same ship (like MF Chewbacca/Han vs. HOTR Chewbacca/Han)
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May 1, 2018 19:06
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 Oh look, regen with R2-D2 requires spending one of 3 energy that he starts with AND taking a "disarm" token. 
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I am simultaneously SO PUMPED for 2.0 and so un-interested in playing any x-wing between now and September 13th.
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