CSI notified pre order customers that the starfield tiles have been canceled.
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1152832/cancelled
Quite dissapointed if this is true. Can anyone else confirm?
Starfield Game Tile Kit Canceled?
I've searched my feelings, and I can confirm this to be true.
To be honest, tiles aren't a particularly good solution for a game like Xwing - if you bump one (which I suspect would happen fairly often), you push all of them out of alignment, and mess up the spacial relationships between the ships, particularly if ships are straddling two tiles. It's the one Xwing product I had absolutely no interest in. Far more practical to have a mat or full size board.
Think about it, FFG could either divide their efforts and make the tiles as well as new expansions, tiles that are not nearly as good as some of the custom mats I've seen online, or FFG could just forget about them and put all their time and money into getting us some new ships faster (faster as in not delayed AGAIN)
Yeah, those tiles looked pretty bland compared to the gf9 mats.
Think about it, FFG could either divide their efforts and make the tiles as well as new expansions, tiles that are not nearly as good as some of the custom mats I've seen online, or FFG could just forget about them and put all their time and money into getting us some new ships faster (faster as in not delayed AGAIN)
Somehow I doubt the production facilities for cardboard tiles and plastic, hand-painted ships have much overlap.
Still, it was an ill-conceived product from the very beginning. I feel like FFG has finally started to take note of X-wing's position in its pantheon, and it's getting a lot more attention than it was for the first year or 18 months of its life. I think there's a good chance we'll see something from FFG soon, perhaps a neoprene mat (they did make these for Wings of War), but for now this one is better off dead.
To be honest, tiles aren't a particularly good solution for a game like Xwing - if you bump one (which I suspect would happen fairly often), you push all of them out of alignment, and mess up the spacial relationships between the ships, particularly if ships are straddling two tiles. It's the one Xwing product I had absolutely no interest in. Far more practical to have a mat or full size board.
I assumed they would click together somehow, not just be layed down along side of one another.
Good, they were a ripoff. FFG seems to be putting quality before filling their bank accounts.
From the latest FAQ page 3:
I on T okens
Some card abilities may cause a ship to receive an ion token. A large ship is unaffected by a single ion token; the ion token simply remains assigned to the ship. When a large ship has two or more ion tokens assigned to it, it suffers the ion token effect as normal, then player removes all ion tokens from the ship at the end of the Activation phase.
From the latest FAQ page 3:
I on T okens
Some card abilities may cause a ship to receive an ion token. A large ship is unaffected by a single ion token; the ion token simply remains assigned to the ship. When a large ship has two or more ion tokens assigned to it, it suffers the ion token effect as normal, then player removes all ion tokens from the ship at the end of the Activation phase.
That's great information! I wonder what it has to do with Starfield tiles?
From the latest FAQ page 3:
I on T okens
Some card abilities may cause a ship to receive an ion token. A large ship is unaffected by a single ion token; the ion token simply remains assigned to the ship. When a large ship has two or more ion tokens assigned to it, it suffers the ion token effect as normal, then player removes all ion tokens from the ship at the end of the Activation phase.
lolwut
I'm guessing you posted in the wrong thread?
To be honest, tiles aren't a particularly good solution for a game like Xwing - if you bump one (which I suspect would happen fairly often), you push all of them out of alignment, and mess up the spacial relationships between the ships, particularly if ships are straddling two tiles. It's the one Xwing product I had absolutely no interest in. Far more practical to have a mat or full size board.
I assumed they would click together somehow, not just be layed down along side of one another.
Same here. In fact: I'd kind of love an expandable solution like this that could be 9 tiles for a 3x3, and 16 for a 4x4- depending on the scale of play I'm working on. I'm thinking something like the boards for the (otherwise terrible) Castle Ravenloft game.
I've searched my feelings, and I can confirm this to be true.
Just curious: what was your Use the Force check result?
I guess I'll look into the Gale Force 9 mats. Especially since they are far cheaper than the alternative:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1238621915/space-station-terrain-project-thats-no-moon