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I'm pretty sure I read that at least one of the ship expansions had a new mission in it.

 spyguyyoda wrote:
I'm pretty sure I read that at least one of the ship expansions had a new mission in it.

slave 1

I wonder though, with the two named ship expansions, the Falcon and the Slave 1, how many extra pilots will be provided?

 BrookM wrote:
I wonder though, with the two named ship expansions, the Falcon and the Slave 1, how many extra pilots will be provided?

Both come with 4 pilot cards. The Falcon name calls Han, Chewie, and Lando in the description, but people are speculating that Chewie may be a "co-pilot" upgrade card(there's really nothing to base that on, though). Slave-1's blurb actually refers to it as the Firespray-31 and talks about "pirates and bounty hunters such as Boba Fett", so I'd look towards generic Firespray pilot cards(which suggests that there's also probably a generic YT-1300 pilot card).

Heh, you'd think when you get the Falcon or Slave you'd only field it as such, not as some generic thingy.

 BrookM wrote:
Heh, you'd think when you get the Falcon or Slave you'd only field it as such, not as some generic thingy.

Personally, I think if they'd named the packs the generic ship names, the more casual fans would wonder why they didn't name them the famous versions.

I'm fine with the way they did it, especially as, if they only made Slave-1(in the Firespray example), there'd only really be one pilot card that would make sense(we've only ever seen two pilots of Slave-1 and one was kind of headless by 0 BBY when the game seems to take place), where as we do have examples of other people piloting the Falcon(Leia, Chewie, and Lando throughout the 3 movies).

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm all for choice, just with those famous ships, why pick anyone else, in particular the Slave. The Falcon I'd jet around with Landoooooo~!

yeah,
The cards are hard to read... but I think I can make out a few things.

Cost appears to be 46 points for the top YT-1300 card and 35point for the top Firespray card
Also amongst the large cards there is what looks like mission cards - 1 in the falcon set and 2 in the slave set.


There are also 3 canister tokens in the falcon set which I guess are mission related?
They also look like they move as there are movment guides on two edges.

In the slave 1 set there is an upgrade card marked gunner, so co pilot type cards seem likely and what looks like a seismic charge token


Panic...

Those top two Falcon Cards are Han and Lando(count the letters if it's too blurr). Top Slave-1 is definitely Fett.

The others are too well positioned to get full names off of, especially the Firespray pilots.

I find it funny that Slave-1 comes with the Gunner card with Chewie's picture on it but that card isn't in the Falcon set.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
I wonder though, with the two named ship expansions, the Falcon and the Slave 1, how many extra pilots will be provided?

Both come with 4 pilot cards. The Falcon name calls Han, Chewie, and Lando in the description, but people are speculating that Chewie may be a "co-pilot" upgrade card(there's really nothing to base that on, though). Slave-1's blurb actually refers to it as the Firespray-31 and talks about "pirates and bounty hunters such as Boba Fett", so I'd look towards generic Firespray pilot cards(which suggests that there's also probably a generic YT-1300 pilot card).

I recall a mention of Nein Numb as well. For the Slave 1 they could go with quite a lot of alternate pilots if they look up the Wookiepedia article.

I think that gunner card is a generic alien race of sorts. Also, them cannister tokens, maybe used for a scenario involving an Imperial Star Destroyer?

 scipio.au wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
I wonder though, with the two named ship expansions, the Falcon and the Slave 1, how many extra pilots will be provided?

Both come with 4 pilot cards. The Falcon name calls Han, Chewie, and Lando in the description, but people are speculating that Chewie may be a "co-pilot" upgrade card(there's really nothing to base that on, though). Slave-1's blurb actually refers to it as the Firespray-31 and talks about "pirates and bounty hunters such as Boba Fett", so I'd look towards generic Firespray pilot cards(which suggests that there's also probably a generic YT-1300 pilot card).

I recall a mention of Nein Numb as well. For the Slave 1 they could go with quite a lot of alternate pilots if they look up the Wookiepedia article.

They could... IF we were into EU or prequel stuff yet.

 scipio.au wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
I wonder though, with the two named ship expansions, the Falcon and the Slave 1, how many extra pilots will be provided?

Both come with 4 pilot cards. The Falcon name calls Han, Chewie, and Lando in the description, but people are speculating that Chewie may be a "co-pilot" upgrade card(there's really nothing to base that on, though). Slave-1's blurb actually refers to it as the Firespray-31 and talks about "pirates and bounty hunters such as Boba Fett", so I'd look towards generic Firespray pilot cards(which suggests that there's also probably a generic YT-1300 pilot card).

I recall a mention of Nein Numb as well. For the Slave 1 they could go with quite a lot of alternate pilots if they look up the Wookiepedia article.

He's a co-pilot though IIRC.

 Platuan4th wrote:

They could... IF we were into EU or prequel stuff yet.

Someone was saying that they're already doing that with the X-Wing and TIE Interceptor boosters?

 Hellfury wrote:

That, and it could use a few more scenarios.

They have a couple of home brew missions floating around on Board Game Geek.

Death Star trench run
[url=http://geckoth.com/dump/bgg/Mission-Flytrap-v1-0.pdf]
100 point mission called flytrap.[/url]

Thread on BGG

 scipio.au wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

They could... IF we were into EU or prequel stuff yet.

Someone was saying that they're already doing that with the X-Wing and TIE Interceptor boosters?

Tycho Celchu in the A-Wing booster is seen in RotJ, but only named in X-Wing: Rogue Squadron (to the best of my knowledge).

Wasn't he also the last surviving Y Wing pilot in A New Hope?

I don't believe so - I'm rereading Rogue Squadron at the moment, which mentions that he fought at Hoth, but that Wedge is the only pilot to survive two Death Star runs. Somewhere in the X-Wing series it mentions that he was talking to his parents on Alderaan over the HoloNet when the planet blew up - and he initially thought it was just a communication glitch. He joined the Rebellion somewhere after that but before Hoth.

Black Squadron, Obsidian Squadron, Mauler Mithel, and Night Beast were creations of the glorious SW:CCG- although they use movie shots, I'm fairly certain that puts them into the EU realm of canon.

Loving this game! Put together a basic Army Builder file for the starter set.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/95015247/XWMG1.0.ab

Whats this game like??? Any good?

I'm sorry for asking a noobish question, but is it possible to split the core set between myself and a friend, and that we both get enough stuff to split between us evenly?

Yes you can, but I would highly recommend buying expansion packs. My Empire army has 1 tie advanced and 4 ties. So all told its a perfect 100 point army but 2 ties vs 1 xwing is fairly even fight.


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Side note, gold plated I win button? 8 15 point ties.

cool game, but its a complete copy of wings of war!

 BunkerBob wrote:
Yes you can, but I would highly recommend buying expansion packs. My Empire army has 1 tie advanced and 4 ties. So all told its a perfect 100 point army but 2 ties vs 1 xwing is fairly even fight.

That's good because I was planning on splitting the starter set with a friend and I wanted to buy more ships too. Just curious, but do the Rebels and Imperials play differently at all? I'm leaning towards Imperials due to my love for them since I was a child but I'm not sure if I'd enjoy playing as them.

 Red Comet wrote:

 BunkerBob wrote:
Yes you can, but I would highly recommend buying expansion packs. My Empire army has 1 tie advanced and 4 ties. So all told its a perfect 100 point army but 2 ties vs 1 xwing is fairly even fight.

That's good because I was planning on splitting the starter set with a friend and I wanted to buy more ships too. Just curious, but do the Rebels and Imperials play differently at all? I'm leaning towards Imperials due to my love for them since I was a child but I'm not sure if I'd enjoy playing as them.

Well, on the TIE Fighter vs X-Wing front, TIEs are more agile (so roll more dice in defence) and quicker (so have a different set of manoeuvre options), but not as heavily armed (so roll less dice to attack) while the X-Wing s the opposite. X-Wings also have shields, which buys them more survivability.

Just tried this game out. It is rather fun. I recommend it!

 Dysartes wrote:

 Red Comet wrote:

 BunkerBob wrote:
Yes you can, but I would highly recommend buying expansion packs. My Empire army has 1 tie advanced and 4 ties. So all told its a perfect 100 point army but 2 ties vs 1 xwing is fairly even fight.

That's good because I was planning on splitting the starter set with a friend and I wanted to buy more ships too. Just curious, but do the Rebels and Imperials play differently at all? I'm leaning towards Imperials due to my love for them since I was a child but I'm not sure if I'd enjoy playing as them.

Well, on the TIE Fighter vs X-Wing front, TIEs are more agile (so roll more dice in defence) and quicker (so have a different set of manoeuvre options), but not as heavily armed (so roll less dice to attack) while the X-Wing s the opposite. X-Wings also have shields, which buys them more survivability.

That's awesome! Not sure which of the two factions I'll lead towards then. Imperials and Rebels both sound pretty awesome.

 BunkerBob wrote:
Yes you can, but I would highly recommend buying expansion packs. My Empire army has 1 tie advanced and 4 ties. So all told its a perfect 100 point army but 2 ties vs 1 xwing is fairly even fight.


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Side note, gold plated I win button? 8 15 point ties.

In a 100pt game/tournament you would have to take Academy pilots and they are 12 points which comes to be 96pts leaving room for one to be upgraded to one of the 16pt TIE Pilots. 8 TIEs is pretty nasty. Swarming the enemy is a pretty good idea.

 Dysartes wrote:


Well, on the TIE Fighter vs X-Wing front, TIEs are more agile (so roll more dice in defence) and quicker (so have a different set of manoeuvre options), but not as heavily armed (so roll less dice to attack) while the X-Wing s the opposite. X-Wings also have shields, which buys them more survivability.

Yeah, the maneuver wheels really differentiate the ships well. After a few games, it really felt like the old TIE fighter game, blasting through space in an unshielded death trap.