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 Ruckdog wrote:
It's not so much that I want to play them, rather I want to have them to play Federation ships against . That's why I'm intrigued by the large cube; I'd love to use it for Wolf-359 style games, maybe with some "Hollywood" rules to make it match up with the show.

Actually you don't really need any "Hollywood" rules. If you play the mission that comes with the big cube, you can turn it into a bit of a monster. In the Wolf 359 mission you have 250 points to put into the Cube and it has unlimited Borg upgrade slots. You can do some fun things with the cube, it just doesn't fit into the narrow confines of OPs, but in casual play it's a blast. DS9 is pretty cool too.


As for the prize ships, none of them are "must haves" but they can be a lot of fun. If you are ok with proxies there are a lot of fun things to be found in (https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1384770/star-trek-attack-wing/variants)

I made some of those in the early months of STAW, but these days it isn't really necessary. All of the OP ship classes have been released in some retail variant except the Raven but that is coming later this year. For instance if you want the Sutherland and can't find one, buy the Phoenix and then print out the Sutherland cards. For the Ch'Tang pick up a Ning'Tao. For Rav Larest get a Gor Portas. At least this way you get the dials and all the tokens.