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Guys, scale may not be perfect, but allowing for slight scale tweaks allows for more ship options. They aren't making transports twice the size of X-Wings or anything, they're close to scale. Lets let it ride, if it's that much of an issue, new thread in the xwing sub-forum for it? I want my fill of juicy rumors and pictures, not scale-complaints.
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MajorStoffer wrote: Ok, that's totally awesome. What will they do with the Empire, however? They don't really have any iconic small warships, there's some stuff in the expanded universe, lancers, carracks, modular taskforce cruisers and so on, but FFG seems to want to stick with more well known stuff. I can't see even a Victory class Star Destroyer fitting in this scale comfortably.
Corellian Corvettes weren't simply used by the Alliance.
Did the Alliance use them in a more complex manner?
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MajorStoffer wrote: Ok, that's totally awesome. What will they do with the Empire, however? They don't really have any iconic small warships, there's some stuff in the expanded universe, lancers, carracks, modular taskforce cruisers and so on, but FFG seems to want to stick with more well known stuff. I can't see even a Victory class Star Destroyer fitting in this scale comfortably.
Corellian Corvettes weren't simply used by the Alliance.
Did the Alliance use them in a more complex manner?
One doesn't simply use a Corellian Corvette!
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Does it even make a difference that they are "smaller"?
What's next? You guys will be complaining that 40K is not to scale? Or how about the "action figures" or "dolls" are not to scale either?
No wonder we are called geeks and nerds, and being made fun of. Complaining about "scale" sheesh.
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Auticus wrote: Or in summation: its ok to exploit shoddy points because those are rules and gamers exist to find rules loopholes (they are still "legal"), but if the same force can be composed without structure, it emotionally feels "wrong".
There are other words for people who try to squash opinions or values that differ from theirs as if they are somehow entitled to pass judgement on the rest of the world.
Scale is important to some, not to others. FFG kinda made a big deal about the scale being accurate previously (and some pretty doggedly believed them though I say scale has been slightly off all along).
MajorStoffer wrote: Ok, that's totally awesome. What will they do with the Empire, however? They don't really have any iconic small warships, there's some stuff in the expanded universe, lancers, carracks, modular taskforce cruisers and so on, but FFG seems to want to stick with more well known stuff. I can't see even a Victory class Star Destroyer fitting in this scale comfortably.
Corellian Corvettes weren't simply used by the Alliance.
Did the Alliance use them in a more complex manner?
Actually?
Yeah, they did. There is a mention in one of the later Rogue Squadron novels about how the Alliance would utilize them as 'pocket carriers' with hypercapable fighters or reconfigure them to serve as mine layers, etc.
As system patrols and defense mostly. Some would carry complements of TIEs as fighter defense.
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Primarily as escorts or couriers during the Galactic Civil War, but apparently post-GCW they started using them as minelayers and pocket carriers as well.
Personally I think adding the Corvette and the transport is a stroke of genius. They're both essentially 'neutral' craft that would have been found any and everywhere during the GCW and after the GCW as well.
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Judging by the slide, it's intended for Rebel use, but I can imagine them including a few different "pilots" (or shall we call them crews at this point?) for Imperial and Rebel use, though I'm not sure whether or not that'll actually happen. I don't have a Lambda, but did it include options for rebel use? Otherwise there isn't a precedent for that sort of thing game-wise.
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I'll post my thought on the verboten subject over in the other forum but pay close attention to when the hand goes by. The detail though on both is just as top notch as on the smaller fighters and blows the toy corvette out of the water.
Looks like just a cockpit in the schem drawing, could be wrong, and the scale of that part could be slightly off, but it looks like it did in the movie.
This stuff looks fantastic, but has anyone got their 3rd wave stuff yet and would care to comment?
warboss wrote: Getting an xwing with the transport (even if i dont actually need one) does make the $60 price more palatable.
Assuming that FFG will be recruiting a fair number of GW players with X-Wing, I dare say they could have put the price tag closer to $100 and it would have still sold well.
Unlike GW, FFG cannot count on price insensivity -- especially with a franchise with the wide pull of X-Wing. You have to remember in making comments like that, you're a war gamer. I regularly read/hear laypeople whinge about how expensive X-Wing is. I'm like
Manchu wrote: Unlike GW, FFG cannot count on price insensivity -- especially with a franchise with the wide pull of X-Wing. You have to remember in making comments like that, you're a war gamer. I regularly read/hear laypeople whinge about how expensive X-Wing is. I'm like
THIS!
Im stoked about the announcement of bigger ships! This will pull alot of my friends in that were crying about the absence of larger things. Well done FFG!
FFG could price these to a ridiculous amount, such that only the most devout Star Wars collector would buy them, but what would be the point?-It's a game company that wants to accessible, as opposed to GW that wants to be exclusive. It's a pub vs night club mentality. It's a reason more and more I appreciate FFG.
I'm excited for these new ships! They open up a realm of possibilities. I'm only surprised they're doing both in one wave and that there isn't anything Imperial in that wave... Here's to hoping we haven't seen it all.
I'm trying to remember but I always thought the pod at the top of the transport was its shield generator, I hate the idea of it being a cockpit that's dumb!
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