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Posted at 2014-04-24 00:57:49+00:00

What no more than 12 ships of a single small type?! No 25 ship Academy Squadron?! Bastards!!

Why cannot I field edge to edge Tie fighters, waves upon waves, like the ocean ,on the Rebel scum?!

Objection!!!

300 pts for 25 Academies; or 15 Avengers.... Leaves a person sad.....lol j/k

Posted at 2014-04-24 00:58:37+00:00

Anyone up for a 600 point game?

Posted at 2014-04-24 01:10:26+00:00

10 Defenders still works, haha

Posted at 2014-04-24 01:27:39+00:00

As do 12 Phantoms (providing 25pts a piece)

Posted at 2014-04-24 01:30:42+00:00

God can you imagine 12 Phantoms? Cloaking in and out of existence? It would feel genuinely confusing. 1 Transport with 5 X-wing escorts get jumped by by 10 Phantoms? I can already hear the panicked Rebel comm chatter.

Posted at 2014-04-24 01:38:49+00:00

REBUTTAL!

1 Turn of moving 25 Ties is longer than the three hour time limit.

Posted at 2014-04-24 01:41:59+00:00

But if you can do so without bumping, you are truely the master in movement...

Posted at 2014-04-24 05:29:15+00:00

Meanwhile, aboard the Phantoms:

"Look for my coming on the first light of the fifth day; at dawn, look to the East. I won't be there."

Posted at 2014-04-24 05:53:31+00:00

They seek them here, they seek them there. I am a dedicated follower of Phantoms.

And if someone wants to field endless waves of TIEs, I'd be more than happy to plow straight into them with my Armadillo's.

One should be able to take care of about 25 TIEs by itself before blowing up (and why does a destroyed huge ship not deal at least one crit to everything in range 1?).

Posted at 2014-04-24 06:28:56+00:00

OBSERVATION!

Hahaha

Posted at 2014-04-24 06:50:17+00:00

You have a full squadron, three flight groups, of TIE Fighters with a 12 craft cap. I think that's fair.

Posted at 2014-04-24 11:11:23+00:00

Do what you want, I wont tell anyone

I want to play a 1500 point game sometime. Just for fun.

Edited April 24, 2014 by MajorTomK

Posted at 2014-04-24 11:33:56+00:00

If the goal was to speed up gameplay by limiting the number of ships, I'm not sure how much practical good the 12 per type limit really does. Imperials can still field 20 mixed ships (12 TIE, 8 Interceptor) compared to the 25 TIE swarm. (Yes I am ignoring the possible 21 ship build of 12 TIE plus 9 nearly naked Bombers because it doesn't pass my "makes sense" test.) The game's opening couple turns should go an expected 20% faster due to a reduced number of ships, but in the long run I don't believe this will make much difference in the number of turns played in 3 hours. After initial contact with the enemy, I would expect a swarm of 25 TIEs to take significant losses which will speed up later turns anyway.

I guess you could say FFG has done you a favor in the financial department. Now you know that there is no reason to ever buy more than 12 of any ship type (along with stricter limits to the bigger boys) to have every possible epic fleet build available.

Posted at 2014-04-24 11:38:29+00:00

I think that would be called a career.

Posted at 2014-04-24 12:41:50+00:00

Because of how long it would take you to activate them all.

Posted at 2014-04-24 12:45:33+00:00

Dude, I really want to go with you on this one, but after watching my buddy move his 200 point TIE "hive" around the board in casual games, I can tell you that I personally do not possess the patience required to do that at a competitive level, lol.

Posted at 2014-04-24 13:12:12+00:00

Anyone want to offer me the job?

Imagine being payed to play X-Wing...sweet!

Posted at 2014-04-24 13:27:13+00:00

Exactly. You can't have 13 Alpha Squadron Pilots (for example) because there are only 12 of them.

Edited April 24, 2014 by Magnus Grendel

Posted at 2014-04-24 13:37:57+00:00

It's probably to encourage builds that are actually interesting rather than the "find a ship build you like, jam as many as possible into a squad" that makes up at least 20% of lists I've seen.

Posted at 2014-04-24 13:52:10+00:00

I just want to run All my empire ships against 1 transport with all of Rogue Squad and see what happens.

Edited April 24, 2014 by Cubanboy

Posted at 2014-04-24 16:59:25+00:00

Were you there at the battle of Random Game Store? When EmpireErik's 25 TIE fleet was crushed on the third turn by 3 A-wings with Assault Missiles?!

I was there. I saw the fear in the eyes of the Empire that day. I saw Darth Vader shed a single tear.

Posted at 2014-04-24 17:49:44+00:00

Epic play doesn't interest me. I'd rather have "doubles" 2v2.

Posted at 2014-04-24 17:52:29+00:00

Impossible, no one could fit 25 ties within range one of each other.

It would take at least 6 A-wings .

Posted at 2014-04-24 20:47:12+00:00

Soo funny.

Posted at 2014-04-24 21:12:19+00:00

In a perfect 5x5 square, you get 25 TIEs all within range 1 of the center ship.

My formal protest on the Epic rules!