Made a bulk freighter from some skins online, overlapped on a shape I made..
Then used Colonial Chromes photos for new ATR and assault transports...
Made to scale...
http://www.colonialchrome.co.uk/Pages/Root_1_A_Starships.html
I plan to use them for scenario games at my local store..
Printed the photos, overlayed on foam paper. Then wrapped in tape. That's why it's shiny looking and a few bubbles. Looks better in person.
ATR proposed stats
10 hull , 10 shields (142ru, 200sbd)
4 attack (side firing arcs only)
1 Agility
Delta transport..
6 hull 6 shield (80ru, 125sbd)
2 attack
1 agility
Bulk freighter..
10 hull, 10 shield (144ru, 200sbd)
0 attack, 0 agility
This is based on wookiepedia stats...and current units to find their equivalent
13.2ru = 1 hull
66ru = 5 hull
100sbd = 5 shield
20sbd = 1 shield
These look really good!
I really wish that FFG releases some of these ships or cardboard templates so people can start organizing intricate and meaningful mission, scenarios and campaigns. Fighting in the same old asteroid field is hilarious considering the depth and complexity of the source material (star wars universe and previous games).
Thnx. And yeah they add so many possibilities to scenario games.
Missions to capture bulk freighters ...
Missions to destroy them before they move to opposite the side of play area..
Missions to eliminate pirate outposts like from Tie Fighter, facing Z95s, YWings, DX-9 transports, freighter, containers, etc..
Missions replicating those in the PC games, Steele vs Zaarin and Harkov..
I posted some DX9 stats you might want to consider a few days ago.
Link? I can't find the post/thread.
Thanks-
I understand it has a lot of lasers but never seemed to use them that successful vs small craft. I feel if it was given 4 attack dice it would just joust with defenders and other ships.. And win.
Maybe a "4" attack on epic size ships and the 2 or 3 attack vs all other ships?
This would make them effective vs the ships they were normally used against, while still retaining decent power vs smaller ships.
Seems like a lot of hull/shields there when you compare those ships to, say the Decimator, GR-75 and CR-90. And bearing in mind that the current top level Shields for ANY X-Wing ship is 5.
Epic ships have different hull ratings and shield ratings than non epic ships. They don't scale the same.
For non epic ships, the VT-49 appears in line with what the numbers should be on it
The shuttle, yt1300, firespray, etc, are all proper to canon also.
ATR and DX may seem beefy, but that's because they are.
If you take the canon values of RU and SBD and translate it into XWing Minis, everything is actually accurately represented. Again this does exclude how they came up with the CR-90 and Epic Transport values
VT-49
Shielding 130 SBD = 4 Shields Tokens
Hull 90 RU = 12 Hull Tokens
ATR-6
10 hull , 10 shields (142ru, 200sbd = 10 Proposed (but seeing what VT49 got, it should only be 5-6)
Hull 142 RU = 10 Proposed ( but it should actually be more, as they gave the VT49 more hull points per RU than they should)
I understand it has a lot of lasers but never seemed to use them that successful vs small craft. I feel if it was given 4 attack dice it would just joust with defenders and other ships.. And win.
Maybe a "4" attack on epic size ships and the 2 or 3 attack vs all other ships?
This would make them effective vs the ships they were normally used against, while still retaining decent power vs smaller ships.
3 with cannon then?
HLC or cannon as in canon?
I understand it has a lot of lasers but never seemed to use them that successful vs small craft. I feel if it was given 4 attack dice it would just joust with defenders and other ships.. And win.
Maybe a "4" attack on epic size ships and the 2 or 3 attack vs all other ships?
This would make them effective vs the ships they were normally used against, while still retaining decent power vs smaller ships.
3 with cannon then?
HLC? Or
HLC or cannon as in canon?
I understand it has a lot of lasers but never seemed to use them that successful vs small craft. I feel if it was given 4 attack dice it would just joust with defenders and other ships.. And win.
Maybe a "4" attack on epic size ships and the 2 or 3 attack vs all other ships?
This would make them effective vs the ships they were normally used against, while still retaining decent power vs smaller ships.
3 with cannon then?
HLC? Or
Depends how you choose to outfit it. HLC will represent it's forward firepower, ion will allow it to ion.
Remember, shuttles have cannons too. Now - ask yourself if in the games the brought their guns to bare effectively?
If you answered "yes" turn in your joystick. The Shu and TRN had a general lack of agility which means they only got to shoot in a joust or against something slower than them.
So really... maybe 4 with cannon isn't unreasonable.
As an aside: bulk freighter and possible the ATR should get the reinforce action.
Remember, shuttles have cannons too. Now - ask yourself if in the games the brought their guns to bare effectively?
If you answered "yes" turn in your joystick. The Shu and TRN had a general lack of agility which means they only got to shoot in a joust or against something slower than them.
So really... maybe 4 with cannon isn't unreasonable.
Or what about cannon and ion cannon only? No standard attack at range 0-1.
Or would that be nerfing it too much.. Just trying to see how to reflect it's poor ability to engage fighters , that are close... Due to it's incredibly poor agility and movement
Remember, shuttles have cannons too. Now - ask yourself if in the games the brought their guns to bare effectively?
If you answered "yes" turn in your joystick. The Shu and TRN had a general lack of agility which means they only got to shoot in a joust or against something slower than them.
So really... maybe 4 with cannon isn't unreasonable.
Or what about cannon and ion cannon only? No standard attack at range 0-1.
Or would that be nerfing it too much.. Just trying to see how to reflect it's poor ability to engage fighters , that are close... Due to it's incredibly poor agility and movement
If it's got firepower 9001 it won't matter if it can't get a bead on a second target. Just give it a poor dial - which it should have anyway.