Wow is that a star destroyer! Ha ha. Wonder when the first person will replicate the falcon fortress with the tantive, just set them up at the right angle and you have stationary fortress that blocks firing lines.

Wow is that a star destroyer! Ha ha. Wonder when the first person will replicate the falcon fortress with the tantive, just set them up at the right angle and you have stationary fortress that blocks firing lines.

You get damage when you crash your big ship through other ships/obstacles. Can't remember if it's automatic or you roll for it, but either way, that should discourage any fortress formations with the big ships.

Both ships get a face up damage card when 1 huge ship hits another, so 2 corvettes fortressing will both accumulate 2 face up damage a turn.

I like epic alot. It feels like more strategy is involved. A few friends and I tried out the team rules and it was a ton of fun.

How it will actually be (1 turn from there, and then a huge cluster**** 3-4 turns onwards):

With the Corvette and Transport coming and ramming, there won't be a huge cluster for long.....

-''Full speed ahead! Ram those ships!''

-''But some are our friends, sir!''

-''Not all of them! Mouahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Die you little insects! Die!''

ALPHA STRIKE THOSE HUGE SHIPS MY TIE BOMBERS !!! DONT LET EM PASS !!! DONT CARE IF THEY ARE CALLED BLOKADE RUNNERS !! FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE !!!

And the two TIE Defenders and the Firespray lined up their shots with Assault Missiles and laughed, and laughed, and laughed . . .

i wonder how many people will line up academy pilots to be run over just to do damage to the capitol ships?

i think that could be a valid tactic in a pinch,

example, my academy pilot is down to 1 hull, f*** it, i fly in the path of the transport and as it rolls over my corpse (it wasnt going to survive the shooting phase anyway) this way i can cause damage with a ship that was lost anyway

i wonder how many people will line up academy pilots to be run over just to do damage to the capitol ships?

i think that could be a valid tactic in a pinch,

example, my academy pilot is down to 1 hull, f*** it, i fly in the path of the transport and as it rolls over my corpse (it wasnt going to survive the shooting phase anyway) this way i can cause damage with a ship that was lost anyway

That is not a bad plan. I will have to remember that.

The only problem with the Kamikaze Academy Pilot tactic is that it will only work once, and of course there is the recover action, the WED repair droid, and the fact that all the damage is rolled, not automatic. I'd frankly rather unload more lasers and be annoying pests than crash in -hope- that it might work.

I was fearing the Epic Play rules and the Huge ships.

Not once in my multi-decades of gaming have I ever seen any game go from 'normal' to Epic and not have the game unbalanced, wrecked beyond repair, or simply end up being a "Game for those with the biggest bank-rolls".

But Epic XMG... HOLY COW!!! I have played only 2 games of Epic so far (1x 1v1 and 1x 2v2) and have absolutely loved both games. So much so that as well as every Wednesday Night being officially WNX (Wednesday Night X-wing), every 2nd Saturday at our LGS has now been set aside for SEX (Saturday Epix X-wing).

To quote another player, before the end of our 2v2 game... "Who would want to play 100 points after doing this?!" *Big Cheesey Grin*

FFG - Bring on X-wing, in all it's forms. You have definitely won me over.

Cheers

I was fearing the Epic Play rules and the Huge ships.

Not once in my multi-decades of gaming have I ever seen any game go from 'normal' to Epic and not have the game unbalanced, wrecked beyond repair, or simply end up being a "Game for those with the biggest bank-rolls".

But Epic XMG... HOLY COW!!! I have played only 2 games of Epic so far (1x 1v1 and 1x 2v2) and have absolutely loved both games. So much so that as well as every Wednesday Night being officially WNX (Wednesday Night X-wing), every 2nd Saturday at our LGS has now been set aside for SEX (Saturday Epix X-wing).

To quote another player, before the end of our 2v2 game... "Who would want to play 100 points after doing this?!" *Big Cheesey Grin*

FFG - Bring on X-wing, in all it's forms. You have definitely won me over.

Cheers

If it ain't Epic it is RPG or just strategic practice...Lol!

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't FFG post this pics for us? If so is there an Easter egg in that picture with the blue painted X-Wing ?

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't FFG post this pics for us? If so is there an Easter egg in that picture with the blue painted X-Wing ?

Those be Z-95's!

Only wished they would leak Imperial options for epic. Don't get me wrong waves of Imps are great but ship envy is starting to set in... And they didn't squeeze any Rebel Aces into the pic was surprising.

i wonder how many people will line up academy pilots to be run over just to do damage to the capitol ships?

i think that could be a valid tactic in a pinch,

example, my academy pilot is down to 1 hull, f*** it, i fly in the path of the transport and as it rolls over my corpse (it wasnt going to survive the shooting phase anyway) this way i can cause damage with a ship that was lost anyway

Or in a situation like we're seeing in the picture, try to block with the AP's sacrificing them to try to get the huge ships to run into some of the rebel fighters.

My only pet peeve with epic play is that I have no one to epic play with

i dunno I just played a 4 person epic match with 200 pts each side...

Honestly I was not that impressed with the transport, it did help but at the cost of 1-2 ships?

Part of the problem so no offense, I really wished I had the Slicer Tools. I think that is an auto-add.

Ramming really wasn't that viable, it was slow enough that it was pretty easy to get out of its way, no barrel rolling allowed:).