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I've played half a dozen games of XWing but could never really get into it. About a year or so ago I said, I might be more interested if there was a bounty hunter faction and I didn't have to play Imperial or Rebel.

Lo, and behold they've released a mercenary faction. I'm interested now. Can I build a whole army with Merc ships? Can you intersperse Rebel and Imperial allies in your bounty hunter cadre? Which ships are cool and play well? The Starviper looks cool, can I play Boba Fett and IG - 88? Anything else you can tell me, for those of you that play the bounty hunters?

They haven't been released yet so no one is playing them (other than by proxying), but yes, you will be able to run both Boba Fett and IG-88. The Scum and Villainy faction is a stand alone one, so you cannot intersperse Rebels and Imperials into it, but most of the upgrades will work for any factions, the ones that don't say Rebel Only, Imperial Only, Scum Only.

Also, all Astromech units are functionally "Rebel Only" while Salvaged astromechs are both "Scum Only" and "Y-wing only", just because of who has what upgrade slots.

 derek wrote:
They haven't been released yet so no one is playing them (other than by proxying), but yes, you will be able to run both Boba Fett and IG-88. The Scum and Villainy faction is a stand alone one, so you can cannot intersperse Rebels and Imperials into it, but most of the upgrades will work for any factions, the ones that don't say Rebel Only, Imperial Only, Scum Only.

Looking at the surrounding sentences, I am sure that's what you meant to say but mis-clicked.

Fixed for clarity.

Steelmage99 wrote:

Looking at the surrounding sentences, I am sure that's what you meant to say but mis-clicked.

Fixed for clarity.

Thanks, fixed the original post too.

So I was a bit early. I assumed they were available already I had seen so much stuff online for them. Thanks for the info.