XG-1 "Star Wing" Assault Gunboat Thread

By FTS Gecko, in X-Wing

I just got one from Mel's. Even unpainted, it's SOOO pretty...............

Those are incredible.

Cheers! They got quite a lot of positive comments on the day as well, there's a hell of a lot of X-Wing PC series fans out there, not just on the forums

I get compliments for my stack rebels shirt, even though I know most people I run into don't know what that means.

There are a lot of gamers from pre-disney. Most of them are pissed at Lucas Arts/Disney for not continuing a lot of the good potential lost when Lucas dropped the ball on video games.

Even currently with that mess TOR, 72,000 people already signed a petition for a Old Republic show.

Finished my first match in the Custom Card League Tournament.

My first match in Vassal and my first "competitive" match ever - and I won!

Gunboats are OP! Nerf, FFG, nerf!

Hope you took some screenshots Odanan, match report required!

Hope you took some screenshots Odanan, match report required!

I saved the game but forgot the screenshots.

Awww. Damnit.

What are you using to make the custom cards?

Awww. Damnit.

What are you using to make the custom cards?

I use a Photoshop template, but the easiest way is Strange Eons (with X-Wing plugin).

It's okay, I'm just testing the waters before releasing a 'Where's the Gunboat FFG?' T-shirt for people to buy before Nationals. A 200+ page thread might not sway the devs, but poly-cotton blends cannot be ignored.

Been there, done that. Yavin Open:

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Please send PM specifying how I order these :P

Need at least 2 ... no, probably 3 ... hmmm ... how many Gunboats will I be able to field at once in a 100 pt squad? I will need at least n+1 shirts.

I have the monies ready.

It's okay, I'm just testing the waters before releasing a 'Where's the Gunboat FFG?' T-shirt for people to buy before Nationals. A 200+ page thread might not sway the devs, but poly-cotton blends cannot be ignored.

Been there, done that. Yavin Open:

Yavin_zpseaikszuo.jpg

Please send PM specifying how I order these :P

Need at least 2 ... no, probably 3 ... hmmm ... how many Gunboats will I be able to field at once in a 100 pt squad? I will need at least n+1 shirts.

I have the monies ready.

Rho Squadron with 5 Manglers looks very promising in the CCL Tounament...

Hmm, was it poly-cotton blend? If that hasn't worked, we might have to go 100% cotton.

Hmm, was it poly-cotton blend? If that hasn't worked, we might have to go 100% cotton.

They can't repel quality of that magnitude!

Contemplating doing some shirts for Regionals.

If SWX58 turns out to be the Gunboat, and they keep it a perfect secret until release, any Gunboat fans want to get checked in on in case of heart attack?

If SWX58 turns out to be the Gunboat, and they keep it a perfect secret until release, any Gunboat fans want to get checked in on in case of heart attack?

And send a cleaning crew, as I anticipate many spewed drinks.

I'm keeping the dream alive that SWX58 is a dual TIE Avenger/Gunboat box with Maarek Stele pilot cards for every other Civil War TIE craft.

The box will be called "Please leave us alone now."

I'm keeping the dream alive that SWX58 is a dual TIE Avenger/Gunboat box with Maarek Stele pilot cards for every other Civil War TIE craft.

The box will be called "Please leave us alone now."

Stele in a TAP and a Striker? And a Punisher? And a Phantom? Oh baby!

Hey, where's the missile boat!

Missile Boat should be a single epic point craft.

Hoo, man can you imagine what would happen if they put the MB in Armada? Yeah you'd need to have like 20 TIE Advanced to drive off the inevitable attempt to kill it, but it'd have to be like 3-4 black dice for AS vs. 1 blue for AF. There'd be some salty Rebels after that release.

Hoo, man can you imagine what would happen if they put the MB in Armada? Yeah you'd need to have like 20 TIE Advanced to drive off the inevitable attempt to kill it, but it'd have to be like 3-4 black dice for AS vs. 1 blue for AF. There'd be some salty Rebels after that release.

They should be, Rebels never got near the advancement of Defenders and Missile Boats until shortly before the Vong War.

I have no doubt they'll release the Assault Gunboat eventually. They have to. After all, they wouldn't want us all to leave flaming bags of poodoo on their doorstep, would they? ;)

Seriously though, this ship was integral to the original game. The stakes really got raised in X-wing when the Gunboat showed up, and you always knew that was when things would get REALLY hairy. So I hope that ship gets its due as a miniature soon.

Edited by Millennium Falsehood

I'm keeping the dream alive that SWX58 is a dual TIE Avenger/Gunboat box with Maarek Stele pilot cards for every other Civil War TIE craft.

The box will be called "Please leave us alone now."

Can you imagine if FFG released the Gunboat as a special, limited run game anniversary model...

...and the only way you could buy one was by redeeming an X-Wing Challenge Coin?

I'm keeping the dream alive that SWX58 is a dual TIE Avenger/Gunboat box with Maarek Stele pilot cards for every other Civil War TIE craft.

The box will be called "Please leave us alone now."

Can you imagine if FFG released the Gunboat as a special, limited run game anniversary model...

...and the only way you could buy one was by redeeming an X-Wing Challenge Coin?

The horror!

I'm keeping the dream alive that SWX58 is a dual TIE Avenger/Gunboat box with Maarek Stele pilot cards for every other Civil War TIE craft.

The box will be called "Please leave us alone now."

Can you imagine if FFG released the Gunboat as a special, limited run game anniversary model...

...and the only way you could buy one was by redeeming an X-Wing Challenge Coin?

Do you want to get impaled, because that's how you get impaled.

Well we are fast approaching Halloween; if there's a time totell scary stories, it's now...

Well we are fast approaching Halloween; if there's a time totell scary stories, it's now...

The scary story will be that the Gunboat never gets released.

Or FFG posts a picture of a model for the Gunboat saying "We'd like to show off all the miniature products that didn't quite make the cut!"