So finally got my wave 4 ships.

Between the cutting out the ship of the clamshell plastic, sleeving cards, figuring out how to store my new ships, and making player aides for the dials (I basically trim the Jcard and fold it in half to show the possible moves).

How long does it take you even get the ships to the table?

I'm finding it is taking me about 15 to 20 mins per ship and I can see it taking 2 to 2.5 hours for 2 of each of the new wave.

Anyone else have similar experiences?

Adding a new wave meant reorganizing my stuff so it took a while. When I just add a new copy of something I've already got it goes pretty quickly. Of course, when adding a new copy it speeds things up that I only punch out the dial and ship bases. The rest of the cardboard sheet with the tokens gets saved elsewhere.

Here's how I do it;

Ever since Wave 2 came out, I started essentially buying up the whole release in one shot, after I determined the quantities I was going to want.

When I get it all home, I just sit down and start plowing through all the packaging and tokens. I pile up the ships in their insert, pile up all the punchboards, then pile up all the cards.

Next, I grab the cards and start sleeving all at once, setting aside the extra uniques, which I won't be using. Sleeved cards go in my Ultra Pro Binders, then I grab my Planos and start punching all the tokens, sorting into piles, then putting in the Planos. Lastly, I put the dials together, and put those in their own Plano, put the ship plastics in the card box with the rest of my fleet, then it's all done.

Probably about an hour, tops per Wave. Aces, for instance, went a lot quicker, but not by much, since I still have to get out all the Planos, etc for storage. So sleeving an extra 30 cards isn't that much of a time sink, it's the organizing that does it.

To long!

Blisterpack is clearly an evil invented

by rebel scums!

Two days...

I use Plano boxes for storage so a little rearranging was needed for Wave 4. I don't worry about Shields, Crits, Ion, etc... has I already have plenty. TL's I'm good, Ids for some reason my OCD kicks in and I need to make sure I have a set of each. I arrange the Ship Tokens in Ship/PS order then... I coat the movement dials in acrylic spray; usually two coats then leave it to dry then another the next day. So two days.

For me, its overnight. I punch out all the cardboard pieces and place them on a board I use for painting. I gloss coat all the pieces and let them sit a few hours. Then I flip them over and coat the other side and let them dry overnight.

After that, I use a wide-tipped Sharpie to blacken the edges of all the tokens (the shields are a pain!). Once that's all done, then I can assemble the dials and put everything away.

Two winks of a coal miner's eye.

way to long.. makes me wonder about that guy here who buys 12 of every ship... i only bought like 2 of each and that was rough. I mean I had fun doing it but you know.. ha

I opened up 8 Z-95s, 2 E-Wings, 2, Defenders, and 4 Phantoms in less than an hour. Since I had an E-Wing and a Defender from the AoIA pre-release events I went to I didn't need anything but the ships, dials, base inserts, generic pilot cards, and upgrade cards. As for the Phantoms and Z-95s after getting the number tokens from one of each I again only needed the fore mentioned items from each except the cloak tokens.

I already have a tray that stays with 25 Focus, 25 Evade, 25 Stress, 25 Crit, 25 Ion, 65 Shield, full set of ID tokens, full set of Target Locks, and Bomb tokens. I put all the extras in storage.

I opened up 8 Z-95s, 2 E-Wings, 2, Defenders, and 4 Phantoms in less than an hour. Since I had an E-Wing and a Defender from the AoIA pre-release events I went to I didn't need anything but the ships, dials, base inserts, generic pilot cards, and upgrade cards. As for the Phantoms and Z-95s after getting the number tokens from one of each I again only needed the fore mentioned items from each except the cloak tokens.

I already have a tray that stays with 25 Focus, 25 Evade, 25 Stress, 25 Crit, 25 Ion, 65 Shield, full set of ID tokens, full set of Target Locks, and Bomb tokens. I put all the extras in storage.

so ships + math = 16 and that was about an hour. so the guy who got 12 of each would take about 4 hours give or take.

on a side note, i really like your idea of setting aside all the extras and just bringing a set of each with you... i need to do that. I've been bringing everything and it's just too much.

It takes me a while, but I kind of enjoy it somehow and like to take it kind of slow. Unbox the ships and take a minute or two to look at them if I haven't seen the sculpt up close in person yet. I also trace and cut out clear contact paper protectors for both halves of the dials which adds a fair amount of time with how many ships I order each time (not too crazy like some people but I do tend to buy almost enough ships to field 100 points of a single type). With Wave 4 I picked up 3 of each plus 4 Z-95s, and happened to win a defender in the imdaar alpha tournament so I technically have 4 of those.

I also decided to heavily reorganize my storage, alphabetize my upgrades, sort my pilot cards by wave, and move a lot of excess tokens and such to their own unused storage box so I made an afternoon out of the whole thing, probably spent 4 hours or more on it. I hadn't really sorted my new ship ID number tokens since like wave 2 besides just chucking them all together in a few baggies, so that was an undertaking in its own right

I opened up 8 Z-95s, 2 E-Wings, 2, Defenders, and 4 Phantoms in less than an hour. Since I had an E-Wing and a Defender from the AoIA pre-release events I went to I didn't need anything but the ships, dials, base inserts, generic pilot cards, and upgrade cards. As for the Phantoms and Z-95s after getting the number tokens from one of each I again only needed the fore mentioned items from each except the cloak tokens.

I already have a tray that stays with 25 Focus, 25 Evade, 25 Stress, 25 Crit, 25 Ion, 65 Shield, full set of ID tokens, full set of Target Locks, and Bomb tokens. I put all the extras in storage.

so ships + math = 16 and that was about an hour. so the guy who got 12 of each would take about 4 hours give or take.

on a side note, i really like your idea of setting aside all the extras and just bringing a set of each with you... i need to do that. I've been bringing everything and it's just too much.

Yeah the 12 of each is a bit much. I like epic just not that much. I just get the max of a single ship that will fill 100 points. And yeah I learned that take a set amount and keep the rest back as replacements.

I spend time modifying the plastic to fit in my planos or cutting custom foam.

First ritual is to open blister, get the ship free, fly it around my eyeballs and the table making swoosh pew pew sounds, you all know I'm not the only one, then out it back in the plastic, flip through the cards, add what is new or that I need more of to my card stacks, get the pilots to a card page in the big book of pilots.

Place duplicate uniques, and additional ordinance like proton torps and assault missiles into long term back up storage, with whatever tokens also count as spares. Assemble the dial and then open the next and move it's bits to the destination piles.

Depending on the number of ships and how much I need to tweak my storage this can take a few hours, but it is fun.

Also breaks to swoosh, pew pew pew, to keep my imagination happily on overdrive.

I have 14 ships in front of me and I'm dreading this... I'm staring at my 6 Headhunters in their official FFG shipping box. UGH!

I've done my unboxing in less than twelve parsecs.

Ah, the meta of epic unboxing. I feel so hip now. LOL.

I just open the packaging and disseminate the contents to my organized storage.

way to long.. makes me wonder about that guy here who buys 12 of every ship... i only bought like 2 of each and that was rough. I mean I had fun doing it but you know.. ha

I opened up 8 Z-95s, 2 E-Wings, 2, Defenders, and 4 Phantoms in less than an hour. Since I had an E-Wing and a Defender from the AoIA pre-release events I went to I didn't need anything but the ships, dials, base inserts, generic pilot cards, and upgrade cards. As for the Phantoms and Z-95s after getting the number tokens from one of each I again only needed the fore mentioned items from each except the cloak tokens.

I already have a tray that stays with 25 Focus, 25 Evade, 25 Stress, 25 Crit, 25 Ion, 65 Shield, full set of ID tokens, full set of Target Locks, and Bomb tokens. I put all the extras in storage.

so ships + math = 16 and that was about an hour. so the guy who got 12 of each would take about 4 hours give or take.

on a side note, i really like your idea of setting aside all the extras and just bringing a set of each with you... i need to do that. I've been bringing everything and it's just too much.

I opened up 8 Z-95s, 2 E-Wings, 2, Defenders, and 4 Phantoms in less than an hour. Since I had an E-Wing and a Defender from the AoIA pre-release events I went to I didn't need anything but the ships, dials, base inserts, generic pilot cards, and upgrade cards. As for the Phantoms and Z-95s after getting the number tokens from one of each I again only needed the fore mentioned items from each except the cloak tokens.

I already have a tray that stays with 25 Focus, 25 Evade, 25 Stress, 25 Crit, 25 Ion, 65 Shield, full set of ID tokens, full set of Target Locks, and Bomb tokens. I put all the extras in storage.

so ships + math = 16 and that was about an hour. so the guy who got 12 of each would take about 4 hours give or take.

on a side note, i really like your idea of setting aside all the extras and just bringing a set of each with you... i need to do that. I've been bringing everything and it's just too much.

Yeah the 12 of each is a bit much. I like epic just not that much. I just get the max of a single ship that will fill 100 points. And yeah I learned that take a set amount and keep the rest back as replacements.

Since I did not get all of my shipment in at the same time, I can't give an accurate description as to how long it took. In addition, I did split up the 40 I unboxed at the same time over a full 24 hour span. Luckily as far as card sorting went, I had the upgrades and pilot card spots reserved in the binders beforehand.

I've done my unboxing in less than twelve parsecs.

A Parsec is a measurement of space, not time

A Parsec is a measurement of space, not time

Seriously? He is clearly performing his unboxing neat the maw, where the shorter distance reflects the speed at which the unboxing has to obtain to avoid the gravity.

/sooper serious hat off.

I opened up 8 Z-95s, 2 E-Wings, 2, Defenders, and 4 Phantoms in less than an hour. Since I had an E-Wing and a Defender from the AoIA pre-release events I went to I didn't need anything but the ships, dials, base inserts, generic pilot cards, and upgrade cards. As for the Phantoms and Z-95s after getting the number tokens from one of each I again only needed the fore mentioned items from each except the cloak tokens.

I already have a tray that stays with 25 Focus, 25 Evade, 25 Stress, 25 Crit, 25 Ion, 65 Shield, full set of ID tokens, full set of Target Locks, and Bomb tokens. I put all the extras in storage.

So have you had to make another tray of "cloak" tokens? Or did you have to move some storage around to make room?

I hack and slash my way through everything, save the plastic tray the ship comes in for my Plano tackle box, punch out the tokens and toss them them into the spots for the individual types. A couple of minutes tops.

'Bout three seconds.

1/2 hour to put 3 Z-95's, 1 defender, 1 E-wing away in my 5 pack plano case.

Don't ask me how long it took to put my whole collection into a 5 pack plano. That took over 3 hours at least, with my wife's OCD going crazy...

My ships arrived today!!! So far one hour and 45 minutes with breaks to go swoosh and to tickle my kids. Tokens are away, dials are built and filed. Still need to find out which cells in which storage bits will hold what and to cut some foam for the pride of my collection, a new Y-wing. Also have to fun card storage and make more swooshes. Man the defenders look good. Empire definately has the best lookers in this set.

I don't know yet. I got my wave 4 ships but haven't opened them as all my other X-Wing stuff (and card sleeves and plano containers) is in temp storage. I also don't even have scissors or a box cutter in this hotel.

Patience, I must learn patience.

Just unpacked 2 of each wave 4 (8 total) in just under an hour.