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What other "small or medium class" ships people would people want in the game?

Personally I would like to see the following medium class ships in the game at some point.

Assault gunboats
Skipray blastboat.
Delta-class stormtrooper transport for escort/capture missions.
Assault transport.
YT series most of them.

Smaller class ships

Z-95 headhunter
Cloakshape fighter.
Starchaser.
Pocket patrol boat.

Most of these are featured after the RoTJ.

this is what im working on.




cw

Dang.

AreYouAWizard.jpeg

Seriously, details?

contact me at swadyko2000ATyahooDOTcom or PM me if you guys want to know about this project.
Scotty

This may sound like a strange request but I'm trying to kitbash an EU fighter that likely will never be made (never has as well in the past) and needed a measurement as my FLGS still hasn't gotten word of their Xwing shipment yet (and the owner is excited about it as well). Basically, I was wondering if someone could measure the diameter in millimeters of the standard Tie Fighter eyeball hull. Any help would be appreciated.

Unboxing of x-wing mine kindly turned up yesterday from miniature market. Abit picture heavy tho, hope the mods don't mind.

The box !



Rules, quick start rules and card bits and bobs



Dice!



Pliot cards



X-wing





Tie Fighter





X-Wing and Tie Fight side by side for size comparsion.

Cool pics.

I got my order from CCG but have been waiting for the other order to come in to take pics.

Since you have your TIE/In out, why not measure the diameter of the cockpit ball for warboss?

I was just about to ask that! Thanks for the ninja, lol. If you could take a pic of the tie fighter next to a metric ruler or just measure the diameter of the central ball hull, it would be much appreciated! I'll be heading to the FLGS tomorrow with my fingers crossed (they're only open on the weekend so can't find out if they have it until later tonight)

Opp sorry Warboss here's the best picture I would say just over 10mm maybe 13mm sadly the camera angle wasn't the best sorry

Thanks for the quick response and appreciate the pic! I just wanted to get a estimate within a mm or two of how big to make the central hull and that most definitely helps.

Dude what are you making?

It's a poorly kept secret! Check your inbox!

I was able to get the game this weekend at the FLGS (just the basic box as the owner couldn't get the expansions) and had a question for the fellow players here... do you guys use both stems for each fighter? I put both one and two on a TIE fighter and the single stem looked better frankly and was more stable. Is this purely a cosmetic choice? I couldn't find anything in the rules about the height of the model affecting anything mechanically but figured I'd doublecheck.

We at The Black Ocean, a Sci Fi war gaming site will be covering this from the unboxing to advance play. We already have some unboxing photos on our Facebook. Come on over to our site and take a look. While you are there give us a like on Facebook. We just linked up Fantasy Flight's tutorial there. If you want to know more about this game that is a great place to start.

See you in the cockpit.

Cool site name -- and apparently a cool site. Thanks for dropping us a line, I will definitely tune in.

Hey guys I found a good battle mat for under 9 bucks. I was planning getting a plain black felt fabric then I saw just a few spaces away was a black one with glitter on it.
There you go a starfield and didnt have to do anything.
So a 6X6 felt mat for under 9 bucks at any fabric store.

Played a game to myself (sad sack ) to get a grip of the rules today and I was impressed by just about everything! I really like how it flows and I get the feeling that they are dogfighting

The coolest thing by far though was Wedge dishing it out when he could. Because I couldn't judge any of the templates right () he only got to attack twice, but of those two attacks he caused a total of six damage, 3 of it to Vader!

Anyone else have a favourite pilot yet? I guess it doesn't have to be a sharpshooter like Wedge either.

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
Played a game to myself (sad sack ) to get a grip of the rules today and I was impressed by just about everything! I really like how it flows and I get the feeling that they are dogfighting

The coolest thing by far though was Wedge dishing it out when he could. Because I couldn't judge any of the templates right () he only got to attack twice, but of those two attacks he caused a total of six damage, 3 of it to Vader!

Anyone else have a favourite pilot yet? I guess it doesn't have to be a sharpshooter like Wedge either.

Wedge and Vader would be my two with Vader edging forward to the top spot. The utility of having a focus (which can be offense or defense) plus one more of your choice sounds great in theory. Now I just have to get both blister packs to try out those particular pilots.

How did you plan the maneuvers in a 1 person game? Obviously there is no way to not know that the other side is doing. I might try this myself next week and try picking two to three appropriate manuevers and rolling off randomly to see which one gets chosen.

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
Anyone else have a favourite pilot yet? I guess it doesn't have to be a sharpshooter like Wedge either.

Academy Pilot. You know, the guy who's line was "Look out!"

 warboss wrote:

How did you plan the maneuvers in a 1 person game? Obviously there is no way to not know that the other side is doing. I might try this myself next week and try picking two to three appropriate manuevers and rolling off randomly to see which one gets chosen.

Make a spinner!

warboss wrote:

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
Played a game to myself (sad sack ) to get a grip of the rules today and I was impressed by just about everything! I really like how it flows and I get the feeling that they are dogfighting

The coolest thing by far though was Wedge dishing it out when he could. Because I couldn't judge any of the templates right () he only got to attack twice, but of those two attacks he caused a total of six damage, 3 of it to Vader!

Anyone else have a favourite pilot yet? I guess it doesn't have to be a sharpshooter like Wedge either.

Wedge and Vader would be my two with Vader edging forward to the top spot. The utility of having a focus (which can be offense or defense) plus one more of your choice sounds great in theory. Now I just have to get both blister packs to try out those particular pilots.

How did you plan the maneuvers in a 1 person game? Obviously there is no way to not know that the other side is doing. I might try this myself next week and try picking two to three appropriate manuevers and rolling off randomly to see which one gets chosen.

Vader is pretty amazing. He can target lock and focus at the same time, as well as give him swarm tactics as a passive power and conc missiles hr becomes extremely good at shooting, support and defence! Sure it mean he costs a bomb but you can still fit a few 'elite' TIE pilots in there and an upgrade or too!

Wedges passive ability is a winner combined with protons. Send him off on his own or slap Biggs next to him to take the heat.

Concerning the game, I kinda tried to think about the order of what would be going and how I would be thinking where things may go in advance, don't know if that makes sense Say if I thought wedge would pursue say Vader as it was the best logical option I would say well the TIE would be placed there as in most circumstances you would see it coming.

robertsjf wrote:

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
Anyone else have a favourite pilot yet? I guess it doesn't have to be a sharpshooter like Wedge either.

Academy Pilot. You know, the guy who's line was "Look out!"

Favorite pilots
Empire: night beast, cheap mini Darrh Vader
Rebel: Luke, put r2d2 on him and good luck killing him!

 Manchu wrote:
Dude what are you making?

He's making "Uglies".

I'm intrigued to see how that will look, personally.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
Dude what are you making?

He's making "Uglies".

I'm intrigued to see how that will look, personally.

Lol, I was thinking of doing the same thing when I picked up the Y-wing earlier today. I want to field some Die-wings.



I mean TIE-wings.

Ahem..

Are you building that? You're either going to fail miserably at surfing or that is a star destroyer in the making!

yeah,
Impressive most Impressive!

Panic...

Panic, you can come and take part and play out a large final battle on that in November

yeah,
yup I saw this on your face book.


Checking the details and checking with work to see if I can make it!

Looks awesome.

Panic...

I was pretty inspired by the FFG table so I'm working on some terrain tiles in 3d that I plan on having printed. I'm running into a few scaling issues and thought I'd see if you guys have any thoughts.

Basic idea was to do each part as a 3 inch x3 inch tile so when arranged in a 4 x4 configuration it'd make a 1 ft square tile. By doing each tile seperate it'd allow me to add variety to the table.

One of the main cocnerns is that the various buildings would anywhere from 1-3 inches and laser towers would be about 4-5 inches tall. I'm thinking this could lead to some difficulty using it as a gaming surface. The raised details and buildings could make placing the ships difficult.

Would it be preferable to flatten things so the surface is flat or go with the full height buildings?






Here's a render of a more flattened out version which wouldn't be more than 1/4 inch in height




vs original model at same angle

yeah,
Ships would have trouble on the big 3d versions but the flattened versions look a lot more usable for the x-wing game.

Panic...


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yeah,
Ships would have trouble on the big 3d versions but the flattened versions look a lot more usable for the x-wing game.

how much you looking at per 3"x3" tile?
we will need 144 for a 3'x3' table and 256 for a 4'x4' table

@ $2 per tile;
a 3'x3' table will cost $288
and a 4'x4 table will cost $512

@ $3 per tile
a 3'x3' table will cost $432
and a 4'x4 table will cost $768

Panic...

rich1231 wrote:
Ahem..

Mother of God...