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Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

My Raider is waiting for me to pick it up at the store :ohdear:

# ¿ Aug 11, 2015 23:56

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 17:42

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

EnjoiThePureTrip posted:

Hey, I'm about to buy into both X-Wing and Armada. Are multiple core sets necessary in either game? I've heard people say more dice are useful, but is there a reason to buy an extra core set instead of just buying an extra set of dice?

Two cores for X-Wing is probably ideal, but not necessary, and two cores for Armada is completely unnecessary I would think.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 02:59

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Yeah, there's no way this stuff isn't in stores on the 4th of September. Episode 7 marketing blitz go go go.

Conveniently, I need a new 3-bank template!

# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 21:42

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Chill la Chill posted:

Can someone update the OP to warn new players that they will need to buy the new core set in order to gain access to the new damage cards ? Thanks. I think there will be enough of the old core sets and pilots around that wedge et al. won't be scalped.

I was gonna kinda bitch about this, but I've bought a total of 10 core sets for 4 LCGs and 2 Wangs core sets already, so whatever. Not like I wasn't going to buy it anyways, those dials. :catstare:

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 05:12

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Strobe posted:

Holy gently caress.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 05:38

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

My local store moves a ton of FFG product, and they've pretty much straight up said on Facebook that they are going to have the core sets in in Friday. I'm not convinced there's any sort of exclusivity at all, as opposed to only certain game stores got the opportunity to order product, with most of it being allocated to big box stores to fill their quotas.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 04:51

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Got my core set at target. It's me, the consumerist whore. I'll get my second through the local store at least.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2015 15:14

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Chill la Chill posted:

Also, if anyone has the new rulebook, see if there's any mention in there about not being able to fit obstacles in the play area. According to some people the new asteroid is even bigger than the old one so I could see cases where you literally can't fit a 6th (or maybe even 5th!) obstacle.

Nothing in the two new rulebooks about this situation occuring.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2015 19:23

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

My storage solution is a curio cabinet :v:

Still need to find a smaller box to actually transport my lists in, though.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2015 04:14

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

You can only have one copy of Extra Munitions per ship. It's limited.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 14:42

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

AndyElusive posted:

Hrmmmmmm. Trying to decide if it's worth paying $72.00 for the TIE/A contents of the Imperial Raider box sans the Raider and its respective upgrades.

I mean, I'm never going to field a Raider and I don't even own any of the equivalent Rebel ships but I really want those pilots.

It looks really good on a shelf?

(I love my new (to me) cabinet)

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 18:58

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

waah posted:

So the text on the Tie/FO Omega Ace states:

Am I reading this right that if I attack at range 1 with Omega Ace, I can spend a target lock and a focus token to guarantee 3 critical hits? Because if so that's really amazing.

Before evade dice are rolled, yeah.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2015 18:24

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Floppychop posted:

My end goal is 2 more Scum Y-wings, so I was hoping to essentially get the Y-wing model itself, the two dials, pilot cards, and astromechs. Then I'd get a rebel Y-wing expansion and be set.

I'm thinking someone out there may have created a bugzapper list with the Z-95's and not needed the Y-wing parts of the expansion.

While that may have been the case before wave 7, I think at this point more are being bought for the Ys than the Zs.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2015 22:37

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Redline, FCS, and Cluster missiles. Great idea, or hilarious waste of points? I'll find out tonight at league I guess!

# ¿ Sep 18, 2015 17:02

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

The Gate posted:

Redline needs a buddy to keep things from just focusing him down. The Redline/Deathrain list I was running was pretty effective, Deathrain can Conner Net people for Redline to then wreck (since they can't get evade/focus).

REDLINE/DECIMATOR
Lots of three dice attacks out of two ships.

100 points

PILOTS

�Redline� (41)
TIE Punisher (27), Fire-Control System (2), Extra Munitions (2), Cluster Missiles (4), Cluster Missiles (4), Autothrusters (2)

Commander Kenkirk (59)
VT-49 Decimator (44), Ruthlessness (3), Ysanne Isard (4), Rebel Captive (3), Gunner (5)

Hoping this hilarity will work out to my advantage. If not, no big loss.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2015 21:28

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Tacopocalypse posted:

I'd like to know how that list works out. I'll be playing tomorrow night at a friend's and might borrow his Punisher to try it out.

I played one match last night, against (IIRC) Chiraneau w/ Expose, Rebel Captive, Darth Vader; Rexler Brath w/ Predator, Stealth Device (he was at 100pts, if that's less than 100 I'm forgetting something).

Early game Redline got a 5-6 damage cluster missile shot into Chiranaeu while taking focus fire from both Chiraneau and Brath, while Kenkirk was able to put two damage on Brath through Ruthlessness. I don't think my opponent took that card into account at all while maneuvering. Redline only got the one shot off before biting it via a Vader choke which left Chiraneau at 1 health. Kenkirk finished him off, then managed a range 1 four damage shot on Brath which my opponent rolled no evades four with his stealth device, and that was game.

I think I'd modify the list by dropping the Gunner and Ruthlessness for Predator and a Recon Specialist. Predator is kinda like a budget Gunner, and the Recon Specialist makes the Decimator slightly more tanky once its lost its shields and Yssard and Kenkirk's abilities come into play. I'd need to play the list a few more times to see if its worth dropping one of the two sets of Cluster Missiles on Redline for say, Engine Upgrade on Kenkirk. I'd need a larger sample size of how many shots Redline gets off in a game before making that decision, though.

And for the record I lost like a chump in Armada afterwards.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2015 13:02

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Irom posted:

you can decloak to the side, but I think he's saying even after decloaking, once you reveal a maneuver you're always moving forwardish

But that's true of almost every ship in the game, so.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2015 20:41

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

ZenMastaT posted:

It's pretty cool! It was made by the guy over at https://www.imagereplicas.com

He attached a little 3D turret, replaced the front guns with little brass tubes and added a tiny pilot in the cockpit which is pretty cute.

Good detail work too, he also made the engine exhaust ports look a little more like they do in the movie.

Definitely a silly way to spend money but the results are pretty sweet!

I'm finding it hard to believe that's 1/270. Sheesh.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2015 16:44

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

At the rate Disney is likely to be producing content, and the willingness Lucasfilm seems to have to work with the design team (Imperial Raider), I reckon it is going to be quite hard for FFG to run out of tiny plastic spaceship designs.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2015 03:53

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Kai Tave posted:

Once they run out of Star Wars ships they'll just move on to Battlefleet Gothic 2.0 and make endless tiny variations on "cathedral-boat in space" for the rest of time.

Depends on how GW treats gothic spaceship miniatures with regards to FFG's 40k license. Likely not gonna happen.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2015 22:52

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Epsilon Ace, hoo boy.

Strobe posted:

Holy poo poo can you put Opportunist on Zeta Leader to get two extra dice (and two stress)?

No, since you have to choose one ability to resolve before the other, which then results in a stress token and the inability to use the second.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2015 22:44

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Gumdrop Larry posted:

One issue/general rule question about this to whomever, C-3P0 doesn't work with the Ghost because it has zero agility and he requires you to be rolling at least one dice, right?

C-3P0 can modify Lando rolls, which are independent of evade rolls which take Agility into account.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2015 00:33

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

To be fair I don't think it's a particularly good way to use C-3P0, and I think that combo on the Ghost is a waste of its two crew slots; but it is a valid combination.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2015 01:30

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

I certainly feel a lot better about owning two Defenders now, considering I only bought the second one for another copy of Predator for store championships before the Khiraxz came out.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2015 00:17

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Ojetor posted:

I played Decimator + Redline vs. Carnor Jax + Soontir + Palpshuttle. Rebel Captive and Darth Vader poo poo on Interceptors so hard I kinda felt bad for the other guy.

This is my current list:
Rear Admiral Chiraneau (46)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Ysanne Isard (4)
Rebel Captive (3)
Darth Vader (3)
Engine Upgrade (4)

"Redline" (27)
Fire-Control System (2)
Extra Munitions (2)
Plasma Torpedoes (3)
Cluster Missiles (4)
Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)

Total: 100

Thoughts? I'm playing in a tournament tomorrow and I'm still unsure if this list is actually good. I'm not convinced the Punisher is better than Whisper at anything except maybe not dying if blocked.

I liked the Decimator/Redline combo when I played it, but wasn't using the same setup. Only got one or two games in with it though, so I can't comment much other than hope you do well, since it's a fun pair of ships to fly. I can't wait to try it again but with Long Range Sensors on Redline, since I don't think the current suite of modifications have a particularly good match on the Punisher.

# ¿ Dec 26, 2015 17:01

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

I suppose now that I read Long Range Scanners a bit more closely, seems its clause would prevent the FCS from acquiring target locks inside range two, which does indeed diminish its value quite significantly...

# ¿ Dec 26, 2015 20:37

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Admittedly I haven't yet played Poe, but if I was gonna run him with BB-8 it'd always be with VI to get the most out of maneuvering last (hopefully). The extra actions without stress with PtL is nice and all, but I don't think it plays to Poe's strengths enough.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 21:46

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Chill la Chill posted:

Apparently this was concept art of TFA:

Imagine if that was a cool new model and if they had actually used that in the movie. They could have firmly established Rey's competence and a bunch of complaints, mine included, would've never been uttered.

I wanna hear more about R2-SodaCan.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 16:22

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

TKIY posted:

Sorry for all the noob questions but I'm going to throw in some cash on the imperial faction now.

Must have expansions after the starters? I was going to grab the aces, TIE expansion for Howlrunner and the Decimator but I'm not sure what else to grab.

I think I'd take the Shuttle over the Decimator for a must have, since you can run an Omicron Group Pilot w/ Vader with just that expansion. The Decimator likes to have a lot of upgrade cards, which you may or may not have (I don't know!). Aces is good, but Soontir comes in the Interceptor pack, so I'd grab that as well.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2016 01:43

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Really hard to tell, but also looks like that pilot is 4-LOM.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2016 16:54

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

General Battuta posted:

Now that they're printing a pretty elegant ordnance buff, what do you think they could do to gently buff mid-PS pilots out of their sad slump in the middle of the cost-vs-effect curve?

That being, I guess, the next long-standing issue.

Crack Shot? :v:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2016 20:39

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Otisburg posted:

After a handful of demos and some casual play over the last couple years, finally got my dick wet on some semi competitive but sort of casual league action at one FLGS.

Flew this list twice:

Captain Yorr (24)
Emperor Palpatine (8)

Soontir Fel (27)
Push the Limit (3)
Autothrusters (2)
Stealth Device (3)
Royal Guard TIE (0)

Darth Vader (29)
Predator (3)
Advanced Targeting Computer (1)
TIE/x1 (0)

Total: 100

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

First game was against:

I was still learning to fly, deployed everything in a corridor on the right, he kind of swung in and was able to manage enough coverage to keep me from making much hay out of my aces. The 180 on the satan boat was really obnoxious trying to position Fel. I sort of swung him out way to far and he got swarmed by the fighters, and while Vader and the Shuttle were able to bring down the hellbrick, it ended up being a poor trade and he was able to overwhelm them.

My decision to upgrade Palpatine's driver for stress management was validated when the only time he got to take his Tactician Double Tap I was able to gobble up the stress that would have went to Vader.

You left the inertial dampners off of my Slaver. :v:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2016 15:21

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Improbable Lobster posted:

I want to use a Tie Defender.

How do I use a Tie Defender?

Proxies from Imperial Veterans? I got nothing. I only own two of them because I needed a second copy of Predator for 2015 tournament season.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 03:15

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Foolster41 posted:

Yeah, it would be neat, but I don't think nessicery considering it's a 0 pt. card.
Also in MTG it'd say something like "(tap): flip this card" or something, and I don't see how FFG wouldn't do the same.

A rules explanation card (like for almost every other upgrade with janky mechanics saying that you can choose to flip the card when you reveal your maneuver dial. Easy, and keeps the card itself tidier, since if you put that text on every dual card you wouldn't have the physical room for much actual upgrade printed there.

THREAD MOVING FAST EDIT: I hope they do this because it makes the card a lot more interesting than a free PS boost (which is what it'd be most likely on ships where you wouldn't take any other EPT).

Devlan Mud fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jan 12, 2016

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 21:05

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

grassy gnoll posted:

Can something be tractored more than once in a turn by multiple attackers? Because I'm picturing a B-wing trio pushing an ace right in front of an Enhanced Scopes Corran and getting a little excited.

Yes, but the movement only occurs the first time a ship receives a tractor beam token. You can stack the agility penalty but you cannot chain movement.

e: whatever

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 21:07

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Not sure how I feel about the Mist Hunter's dial, but having 1 turns available and two speeds of K turn is pretty nice for a smuggler boat. I have a feeling I'm gonna be getting this expansion mostly for the upgrades as opposed to flying the ship.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 21:14

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Kai Tave posted:

If it's simply on a per game basis then the card is going to be a whole lot more situational, especially considering that you have to put it on a ship with an EPT slot that you decided to otherwise ignore when building your list for some reason.

This is why I'm really hoping it's flip on maneuver dial removal, since it's an extremely limited card without it, and will not see play very much.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 21:19

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Won myself a disco Vader tonight with a solid win from Slaver +3k, so I'm pretty happy about that, and ready to start flying something else. Dunno what yet, guess I'll decide in a week.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2016 04:02

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

Chill la Chill posted:

Disco vader goes really well with dance pole Soontir. Hopefully they come out with an Omicron gogo girl alternate art someday.

I would like Fel's alt-art way better if it didn't have the silly kill-markings on the side. That's my EU hangup. You won't see me complaining about how tractor beams aren't perfectly true to the awful background at least.

Abstration? In my toy spaceships game? WHY I NEVER.

(I'm also not a huge fan of flying VSP, will likely end up running Vader + Swarm of some sort.)

# ¿ Jan 16, 2016 06:53

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 17:42

Devlan Mud: Apr 10, 2006; I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?

alg posted:

Lol I like how awful your understanding of my post was. Range 1-3 secondary weapon that can move people and reduce their agility and doesn't fit into the fluff.

Autoblaster, meanwhile, is 5 points.

Edit: even TLT have a range restriction and they are 6 pts.

I was making a dig at the guys at my store who were complaining that tractor beams shouldn't be able to push ships, and should only be able to pull them at short range, and would rather have some Warhammer-esque three paragraphs of rules to ensure that happens. It had absolutely nothing to do on the actual merits (or not) of tractor beams as written.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2016 16:20

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