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Which wave is the A-wing, btw? I have yet to see one in-person...

Wave 2 IIRC.

 RiTides wrote:
Which wave is the A-wing, btw? I have yet to see one in-person...

Really?

Its about the only ship I can get other than Falcons/Slave1's.

But if you want one - http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/fantasy-flight-games/x-wing/x-wing-a-wing-expansion-pack/prod_18321.html

Okay thanks

Currently just an interested observer... despite the influence of MajorTom and Jin

Do I have to start trying to convert you to the dark side, tides?

So was I, then I made the mistake of walking into Wayland when they had a tournament going on. Suffice to say 30 minutes later I had 2 basic boxes and a squadron of A-Wings. I only went in for some terrain!

So I'm not biased when I say - don't be a scruffy Nerf Herder: DOOOOO EEEETT!

 BrookM wrote:
I'd wish they'd hurry up with releasing wave 3 around here.

Me too, can't wait for the B-Wing (my favourite Rebel design).

 RiTides wrote:
Which wave is the A-wing, btw? I have yet to see one in-person...

Ya need A-wings? Cause I know a guy.

 RiTides wrote:
Which wave is the A-wing, btw? I have yet to see one in-person...

Weren't you at gencon? Did they not have any of them there on the shelves or anyone playing them in the play hall? I saw massive racks of blisters/boxes from some youtube videos and assumed it was just wave 3.

Tides, I too can get my hands on A-Wings the easiest (my store has about 10). Y's are the only ships I can't get easy, instantaneous access to without paying markup. One phone call to any of 3 different locations can get me anything else.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
So how did the Imperials use them?

As system patrols and defense mostly. Some would carry complements of TIEs as fighter defense.

I see a lot of mention of Corellian Corvettes being refitted as 'pocket carriers', but this is largely false. Even the most modified of them could only carry a squadron at most, and their functionality as a fighter carrier were more for long-term missions than actual fighter support as a line ship. The specialized CR90s modified for fighter capacity either had VERY little fighter capacity (4 TIE/LNs in the case of the Constrictor style) or were modified specificially for a long range mission (FarStar could carry 12 TIEs or 5 X-wings with a few smaller Defender-class Fighters in between them).

Mostly they were used for anti-pirate action, patrols in pairs, or as personal ships for high ranking officials.

Edit: Just read that the FarStar could carry up to 8 X-wings along with 4 Defenders, but these were in no way ready for rapid launch like a ship actually designed to carry them would be capable of.

It's hard to imagine where the fighters could fit.

 Manchu wrote:
It's hard to imagine where the fighters could fit.

The front section is a hold(well, the larger part under the bridge, anyway), according to the X-Wing books.

Really?

http://swc.fs2downloads.com/reference/Another_Site/CapShip/Corellian%20Corvette/ics456_0405.jpg

You posted before I could edit: The one in X-wing was modified at creation to have a hold up front to fit 4 TIE/LN.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ession_Strike

Thanks for the, er, "encouragement" guys . Will see if I can watch a game at the FLGS soon

 RiTides wrote:
Thanks for the, er, "encouragement" guys . Will see if I can watch a game at the FLGS soon

Please watch a game after you send out my new toy, otherwise you'll become hopelessly addicted and won't send it to me, as it'll become your precious. Also, apparently I botched: they were limiting 2 of each kind of ship, not 2 total. The FFG website was unclear about it. If I knew, I would have asked you for one of each. haha

So after an absurdly long wait to get my starter set due to shipping and communication problems, I finally played my first couple games, and damn is this a fun game! Totally worth the wait, and I'm excited to pick up more ships to start playing bigger games.

 Manchu wrote:
It's hard to imagine where the fighters could fit.

Well the fighter carrying variant looks like this:

So nothing like the one FFG is releasing. Good to know. In any case, all the Rebel fighters have hyperdrive engines. I suppose the Imps should get some kind of carrier with a reserves mechanic or something?

Well the version with a hanger bay, pictured above was an Imperial variants.

IIRC, the FarStar was not a variant at all but a unique customization.

But there appears to be an x-wing docking with it?

Yes, because the ship in question -- the specific ship, not a manufactured variant -- was extensively modified by an Imperial Moff to berth fighters and then captured by the New Republic and deployed on a mission, after being rechristened the FarStar, to hunt down the same man.

 notprop wrote:
So was I, then I made the mistake of walking into Wayland when they had a tournament going on. Suffice to say 30 minutes later I had 2 basic boxes and a squadron of A-Wings. I only went in for some terrain!

So I'm not biased when I say - don't be a scruffy Nerf Herder: DOOOOO EEEETT!

I was really looking forward to A-wings before they came out, but I didn't realize they lacked Astromech droids. To me, the astromech is the defining feature of the Rebel ships, and a Rebel fighter without one is like an Imperial fighter without Barrel Roll.

but they're soooo pretty!

When you say launching TIE's out of a ship as a reserve mechanic, I have horrific flash backs to my time playing X-wing, and the ability to ruthlessly gun down wave after wave of TIE's as they launch from their carrier. They would follow a pre-determined path, no dodging, till they were far enough away from the capital ship. It let you vape entire squadrons of them without so much as a whimper.

@RogueRegault

However neither the A-wing or the B-Wing have droids according to the official specs so the game is staying true to the fluff.

I wonder how they plot hyperspace jumps.

yup, it was never that all rebel ships had astros, just y-wing and x.