However many I have left

Five per ship. Always.

Can this please turn into a thread where people post pictures of small base ships with increasingly many pegs? Stat with 2, next person posts an image with 3, then 4, etc... To see who wins via having the most pegs. If final ship is Rebel or Imperial, that faction wins!

Please?!

Five per ship. Always.

You too?

In all seriousness, I think 3 is really quite elegant looking, but I also am of the camp that shows rank by height.

In my swarm of Howlrunner, 3x Obsidians, and 3x Academies, the Academies get 1 peg, the Obsidians get 2, and Howlrunner gets 3.

Can this please turn into a thread where people post pictures of small base ships with increasingly many pegs? Stat with 2, next person posts an image with 3, then 4, etc... To see who wins via having the most pegs. If final ship is Rebel or Imperial, that faction wins!

Please?!

Okay, I'll start: http://imgur.com/R3Qqvm9

I started with two, and then went to one to give them a better center of gravity. However I have found myself using two pegs again to raise them off the table some more, especially since I have gotten better at not knocking ships.

I started with two, and then went to one to give them a better center of gravity. However I have found myself using two pegs again to raise them off the table some more, especially since I have gotten better at not knocking ships.

I did the same. I started with the normal two...and realized I didn't need to have two, so I switched to one. However, recently I've switched back to two after I installed weights in my bases. I prefer to have two now because it's easier to access the bases to move ships around without bumping and the center of gravity thing isn't an issue.

I try to mix it up and use 1-3 pegs. I find it looks a lot better on the table top if my squad are flying at several different altitudes.

And of course the falcon and decimator need to be at a higher altitude to avoid the models bumping other models as much as possible, putting them on huge base pegs works really well.

I was playing a few games with my friend, he was using falcons and I had a b wing bump, he couldn't low ride the falcon because I was low riding a few ships. So I stacked two more pegs on my b, every kill it got that day I stacked another peg, I ended the day with 6 or 7 pegs IIRC.

Anyone else fly ships occasionally with no pegs at all?

2pegs for all small ships, 1 peg for Falcons and Outriders and Decimators due to their models being larger than the base.

3 pegs or 1 peg if opponent is flying the same type of ships

Anyone else fly ships occasionally with no pegs at all?

Round my parts we call that lowriding and we do it frequently.

Anyone else fly ships occasionally with no pegs at all?

Round my parts we call that lowriding and we do it frequently.

TIE swarms look good with the ships all at different heights. Check out:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbr2wqN4_Cw

Fantastic looking Shuttle and mini-swarm!

Most ships can fit on one peg. However the B-wing will need at least 2 as well as the Lambda Class Shuttle if you want to put the wings down (I know many players play with the wings up but I don't like it. Unless I do the 0 Stop I want the wings down as it is flying.)

Now i dare you all to put as many pegs as are statically possible under a small ship so that it still can (barely) stand on its own! Then take a picture and make this thread degenerate into a "who has the longest peg"-contest. That would just be awesome!

Edit: Like that we can also find out which ship is the most stable one with the best inherent balance! I think have a tip: It's not gonna be the B-Wing!

Normally two pegs as out the box.

Some things look better on one peg. Support ships like my HWK i put of three so it looks like they are standing off and doing 'comand and control' a little more

It might have been interesting to have an advance rule to allow number of pegs to show an abstract measure of 'height' in relation to other ships but it would be a pig to keep changing pegs and isnt *that* relevant in open space. In a ground attack varient telescopic bases for height would be excellent

(we did this at a fighter combat demo game at games day with GW once called 'air waagh' all the ork and imperial fighers were on heavy lead bases and mounted on car antennas/ariels so you could make them 6, 12 or 18" above ground)

I usually only use 1 peg per ship (except B-wings), as I prefer the stability and aesthetics. Why, oh, why did they feel the need to make the Tantiv so **** tall? It fits in with nothing and was completely unnecessary?

I have found that the small-base ship pegs, when using more than 3 pegs, can be rather fiddly and tends to bend or break.

My wife prefers to play with the larger ships specifically because of their large, fat pegs, can be quite long and hold up even under heavy use.

OMG! Where have I taken this thread...?

I never realised the pegs 'slotted together' for ages and thought the second was a spare as i started playing with expansions packs while a friend owned the core.

it was only after i bought a lambda and realised you cant fold the wings down properly unless its on two that i discovered they could stack up!

Doh!

Two per ship as anything else would be in direct violation against laws of the Galactic Empire!

Two pegs. Reduce to one, or increase to three if the models touch during a match.

^^^^ ah a purist i see!

I sometimes like to vary the heights of a 'flight' of the same model... like three xwings on 1, 2, and 3 pegs respectively looks like they are flying in a classic fighter formation where you can watch the sky above your wing men, or as if they are in the middle or rolling and diving on a target.

looks rubbish once you break formation but cool in the opening moves

Likewise my six or eight 'tie swarms' have the front rank on one peg and the rear rank on two, looks very cinematic

Named pilots one peg generics two so you can see the number tag on the base easily.