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I do expect to see bounty hunters and their ships... I also wanna use the firespray on the alliance side.

 Manchu wrote:
That's a great idea. I'd be cool to see a "fringer" faction. You could have new cards printed for the YT-1300 and Firespray.

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In conclusion, I support a Fringe/Pirate faction.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
That's a great idea. I'd be cool to see a "fringer" faction. You could have new cards printed for the YT-1300 and Firespray.

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In conclusion, I support a Fringe/Pirate faction.

A kit that has all the fighter broken down to their different parts that can then be put together to make the uglies. Don't see it happening but would be cool. I remember playing the xwing and tie fighter games and the number of Z95 kills I racked up was staggering but they would be great for a nice messy outer rim battls between the imperials and independent systems, mercs and pirates.

We'd just need 4 or so of the more common variants(TYE-wing, Y-TIE, X-TIE, X-ceptor, maybe the Chir'daki/Deathseed).

Yeah,
I'm never going to buy uglies. Fact.

Panic...

Same here.

For those as wants 'em, there's always a hobby saw and glue.

I really want to see some more civilain small transports and freighters. Maybe even a container or two along with physical comstats and probes.

More fringer type ships would be useful for the RPG, too.

 Manchu wrote:
Same here.

For those as wants 'em, there's always a hobby saw and glue.

And shapeways. They've got practically every EU ship there. I even made my own "sculpt" of the TIE Predator from the EU because I didn't find it there but never made one due to the quality of another test mini I got from them. I won't be buying uglies either but I have zero problem with people using them as stand-ins for other ships in a game.

yeah,
I did a quick review of the litko space base in my blog. Figured I'd copy it here too.

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I bought a Litko large space flight base for my Lambda.
For £5.50 you get the large base, a short pole and three fitting,
Annoyingly litko has branded the base... although this isn't a problem if you use a YT1300 or FireSpray card insert


The base is the same length as the official base but 2 mm short on the width.

The plastic insert was very tight fitting into the YT1300 card insert. the official base has ridges along the sides that the Litko base does not.

I only glued the Plastic fitting onto the bottom of the Lambda, the rest of the assembly was tight fitting and didn't require glue.
The biggest problem is that the pole is too short and the Lambdas wings almost touch the board.


Summary.
The base as pretty good.
It's a shame the base is branded and the pole too short.
A extra inch would have ment the Lamdba's cockpit would have been the same height as the YT1300s and FireSprays, and the Lambdas wings would be up off the board.

Panic Rating - 8/10
-1 for branding the base… not needed.
-1 for the short pole… a selection of lengths would have been ideal or one long pole that could be cut to length.

I think I might use the outter rim smuggler profile for the lambda along side a YT1300

The weaker profile makes sense!

Panic...

Great review and pics. Strange that the width would be smaller ...

The shuttle craft looks great with the other ships and on the death star board.

Does anyone know of any sites that have details on all the pilots/upgrade cards that the various ships come with, as well as their possible manoeuvers?

I think there are some BoardGameGeeks threads to that effect, or at least there used to be.

Yeah, BGG has all that stuff if you go to the individual ship expansion you're interested in under the images section.

 Manchu wrote:
I think there are some BoardGameGeeks threads to that effect, or at least there used to be.

Thanks, found most of what I wanted in their photo galleries. I'm just one of those people that can't buy stuff without knowing broadly how it will work.

http://x-wing.voidstate.com/build

This is a squadron builder, but it also has the ability to view all pilots, modifications etc..

Pics of every pilot and upgrade card, organized by the ship they come with:

www.afewmaneuvers.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=799

I would like to see Mynocks and Space Worms in the second wave.

I could see the new ships being prequel movie ships rather than EU ships (wouldn't be happy, but wouldn't be surprised). Heck they've already delved slightly into prequel territory with Slave I's seismic charges.

In either case, we likely won't have to actually worry about it until almost the Christmas shopping season if the current pace of releases is any indication.

 warboss wrote:
In either case, we likely won't have to actually worry about it until almost the Christmas shopping season if the current pace of releases is any indication.

Actually we'll get a preview of Wave 3 at the FFG Star Wars Weekend celebration....

Even a Jedi as powerful as Yoda can have trouble interpreting visions of the future, but soon, you’ll have a chance to see it clearly. Attend the Star Wars™ Game Experience, May 3rd–5th at the Fantasy Flight Games Event Center in Roseville, MN, and you’ll be among the first to learn of four upcoming ships for the X-Wing™ Miniatures Game!

Along with our full weekend of exciting events and engaging competitions, we’ll announce the next four starship miniatures for X-Wing! Be there when we draw back the curtain and unveil, for the first time ever, four ships that are sure to shake up the X-Wing metagame when they arrive in stores later this year.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=4087

Thanks but I know... I referring to/joking about when we'd get a theoretically wave 4 in hand with the 6-7 months inbetween previewing wave 2 at gencon and getting it to the public (besides the limited tourney).

 MythicalMothman wrote:
I could see the new ships being prequel movie ships rather than EU ships (wouldn't be happy, but wouldn't be surprised). Heck they've already delved slightly into prequel territory with Slave I's seismic charges.

I really, really hope not, because they wouldn't scale well with the rebellion era ships. What I mean by that is, the fighters and most (super customized ships like Slave I and the Falcon excepted) other ships are generally obsolete. Advances in starfighter design in the generation between Ep. III and Ep. IV (let alone between Ep. I and Ep. VI) have left all of the prequel and clone wars fighters outmoded. The Y-Wing is the only ship I can think of from the Clone War era that is still in use during IV-VI, and even then what's in use by the rebels are the most recent Y-Wings, and regarded as mostly second line fighters and, when needed, bombers.

With that in mind, how do you represent obsolete fighters? Are they going to have firepower in the 1-2 range, max? Restricted to range 1-2? SEVERELY restricted movement dials? 2 Hull? 1 Shield, at best? Anything else just feels wrong, to me. If these long passed over and outdated fighters can hang with the cream of the current generation, it just doesn't ring at all true. And if they are given appropriately low stats, they have to be dirt cheap to compensate for it.

It's relatively much easier for them to go to EU ships that are MORE capable than the IV-IV ships by upstatting them and increasing cost. Same with the forthcoming VII+ ships. But when you set the bar without a huge amount of room to go below it, it's not so easy to make believable ships from a previous era.

I'm hoping we get EU stuff from Shadows of the Empire and Star Wars Galaxies, especially as the latter already has a nice nod. Plus SWG had fantastic ship designs for a third Mercenary/Pirate/Bounty Hunter faction.

Just a quick reminder that this weekend is the little convention that FFG is throwing for their star wars products at their HQ. May the 4th be with you or somesuch. I'll be running an X-wing game that day at the local store and think it'd be cool if others did so as well to raise a bit more public awareness about the game in the hobby. The added benefit of doing it this Saturday is that we'll likely have fan postings of what the next wave will be as its supposed to be revealed during the event.

Hi,

After much searching and little success I decided to create my own x-wing friendly asteroids!

They come in packs of 6 (like the core set) and the bases have been modeled on the "official" 2D templates we get with the box set.

Please feel free to have a look if you like:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181134067416?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

I hope that they can brighten up peoples dog fighting scenarios/campaigns.

Thanks again

Alll the best

Wave 3 ships have been announced:

Tie Bomber
B-Wing
Lambda Class Shuttle
The Moldy Crow (from the Dark Forces game series)

I would never have guessed that.

I think the first three were expected. The fourth is surprising.