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As a Christmas present (that I may have gotten for myself, heh heh heh) I got the Original and Force Awakens Core set. I have more than enough dice and maneuver templates, and I plan on using the damage deck from the Force Awakens set as I hear that it is more up-to-date. My question is simple: what should I, as a new player, purchase next?

My first instinct is to get the expansion packs for the ships that are in the Core Sets, as that will give me more ships to field and allow me to get comfortable with them. After that, I was thinking the Rebel Aces and Imperial Aces packs, as I hear they contain some great ships and cards.

Are they any other things that you would recommend to a new player just starting out?

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I'd recommend getting the Following:

1x T-65 X-wing
2x T-70 X-wing
1x TIE Fighter
1x TIE F/O

All come with new pilots for the ships from your core sets. Reason that I say get 2 T-70's is that they come with Integrated Astromech, which is almost essential on your T-65's. This leaves you with plenty to experiment with. I'd say that your next step is to play the game a bit, and get a feel for what you like. From here, it depends on whether you'd rather go more ships, or more options on the same ships. If you just want more options on the same ships, the smaller Epic ships for either faction both come with some very useful upgrades for your existing ships (New TIE pilots on the Gozanti, New X-wing pilots and two of the best Astromechs on the GR-75). If you want more variety of ships, I'd suggest:

1x Imperial Aces
1x TIE Interceptor
1x Rebel Aces
1x Firespray
2x Starviper

Imperial Aces is solid, and the Interceptor Pack comes with a couple great pilots. Rebel Aces comes with good cards, but needs some cards from the Firespray in order for you to run the ships as anything other than their stripped-down versions. Firespray has Vet instincts (Which a lot of Aces love) as well as the Heavy Laser Cannon for a long-ranged gunship B-wing. It also has stealth Device, which is good on your interceptors and TIE's. I recomend the Starvipers simply because they come with Autothrusters, which are amazing. That said, if you are okay proxying cards I'd always recommend that first.

From here I'd suggest playing a game, seeing what others play, and buying ships you want.

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I'm going to have to disagree a bit with the previous advice. Don't get multiple copies of a ship just to get a card from it, buy a diverse selection of ships and proxy cards if you have to. You don't really need official copies of everything unless you're playing in tournaments, and you'll learn a lot more and have a lot more fun if you buy a bunch of interesting stuff instead of limiting yourself just to get the cards.

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Thanks for the advice!

Believe me, I intend to proxy plenty of cards (especially Integrated Astromech, as I hear it makes X-Wings a lot better). I won't be playing in tournaments anytime soon, so for now I'll just concentrate on expanding my collection and playing with what that gives me.

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buy what you think looks cool. I love me some tie defenders and Darth Vader, and even if the list I make that combines the two ends up sucking, who cares, it's Darth Vader and a tie defender.

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I too got X wing from the fat man, I was thinking of getting rebel aces and the falcon.

As a complete newb to the game, what is a good source of cards?

 
   
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Interceptor, bomber, a wing and y wing seem like good options just to get a little more variety on tue table. Gives each side a lighter dogfighter and a heavier fighter/bomber.

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 General Kroll wrote:
I too got X wing from the fat man, I was thinking of getting rebel aces and the falcon.

As a complete newb to the game, what is a good source of cards?


Either the X-wing Wikia or the squadron builder at http://xwing-builder.co.uk/build have details of all the cards.

 
   
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 Paradigm wrote:
 General Kroll wrote:
I too got X wing from the fat man, I was thinking of getting rebel aces and the falcon.

As a complete newb to the game, what is a good source of cards?


Either the X-wing Wikia or the squadron builder at http://xwing-builder.co.uk/build have details of all the cards.


Thanks

 
   
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 Paradigm wrote:
 General Kroll wrote:
I too got X wing from the fat man, I was thinking of getting rebel aces and the falcon.

As a complete newb to the game, what is a good source of cards?


Either the X-wing Wikia or the squadron builder at http://xwing-builder.co.uk/build have details of all the cards.


https://geordanr.github.io/xwing/

Does also. I find I actually like that builder better than the pretty one for some reason.
   
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Another X-mass X-Wing newb here; I have a Milenium Falcon and a starter and am willing to proxy cards. Would a Lambda, Firespray, or Decimator be closest in balancing things out? Alternatively which is the most forgiving of mistakes / actualy will work without support?

Also if I got the Scum box with the two Headhunters and a Y-wing and a Firespray would the Rebs need another 2 ships or could I run Falcon/X-wing/Headhunter Vs. Firespray/Y-wing/Headhunter?
   
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If you are proxying, then the decimator balances with the falcon.

"Search your feelings... you know it to be true." Adding a T-65, T-70, TIE and TIE/FO are great ways to get more out of your core set. I also recommend getting a two T-70 and up to 3 of the regular TIE expansions. They are definitely worth it, and you get the experience of flying squadrons.
The Aces boxes are less useful without the single ship expansions, but are also good values.

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For the Americans, I'd suggest going with an X-wing expansion and a Rebel Aces pack- largely because the X-wing pack is 9 bucks on amazon, and the Aces pack is 15.

For the Empire, the Punisher is 11, and probably a second FA Starter, or Imperial Aces. Aces is 20, and the Starter is 23. Empire does do a little more redundancy... but that's the Imperial way.




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So I have the force awakens starter kit, is it worth me picking up another one of those, or one of the original ones for a bit of variety?

 
   
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 General Kroll wrote:
So I have the force awakens starter kit, is it worth me picking up another one of those, or one of the original ones for a bit of variety?


Back in the old days, it was common wisdom to buy two of the starter. There is just that much less of a need... TIE/FO aren't run in as large of numbers as the old TIE. I'd definitely pick up one of each of the expansions... maybe two of the TIE/FO. From there, you can't go wrong with the old starter and what ever else you are interested in running. There aren't really bad ships (except for the Tie Advanced and Scyk).

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 Anpu-adom wrote:
 General Kroll wrote:
So I have the force awakens starter kit, is it worth me picking up another one of those, or one of the original ones for a bit of variety?


Back in the old days, it was common wisdom to buy two of the starter. There is just that much less of a need... TIE/FO aren't run in as large of numbers as the old TIE. I'd definitely pick up one of each of the expansions... maybe two of the TIE/FO. From there, you can't go wrong with the old starter and what ever else you are interested in running. There aren't really bad ships (except for the Tie Advanced and Scyk).


Thanks

 
   
 
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