I haven't seen this covered elsewhere, and I was curious; what game mechanics prevent players from runng a ship from the other faction? Say to Imperial Nebulon-B's vs. a rebel Victory?

I mean in x-wing, the pilots are tied to the fighters, and that makes sence thematicly. Here, the only faction designation i've seen so far is a small symbol for it's side that would seemingly be easy to disregard. It would even fit thematicly since both sides were known to capture and use the other sides ships.

Is there something i'm unaware of?

We'll....the rules probably say only take ships from the corresponding faction. I mean, sure you can disregard it like you can in x-wing, but that's probably the only "mechanic".

Obviously you wouldn't get the named characters, but otherwise in friendly games go nuts and do what you enjoy

there are going to be faction specific characters such as the squadron commanders and it sounds like there will be fleet commanders such as Admiral Pike, But other than that if you want to fly a neb-b with your vic in a casual game or 2 go right ahead

plus we can already see the distinct differences in play style between the 2 factions

I totally plan to run some ships cross faction... having a Victory defect and try to get to a rebel base while the loyal imperial fleet attempts to hunt them down... yea... I could create a whole campaign arc based off of that :-)

At the very least you could just stick a nebulon on a gladiator base and go with the counts as rule.

At the very least you could just stick a nebulon on a gladiator base and go with the counts as rule.

Yup, that's why I started the "diff between neb and glat" thread.

I think this will depend on you and your group's casual-ness preferences.

Thematically, I think that the Empire should certainly have access to the Nebulon-B but I don't believe that FFG will allow it in the RAW. Of course, with what they did with S&V in X-Wing doesn't mean that it's entirely unthinkable. Still, I suspect that it's very unlikely.

This is why I won't be telling anyone I game with about this forum. If FFG ever did a Deathstar (unlikely but possible) I just know my opponents would field one in a rebel list.

For a friendly game of course. I could always stop being friendly.

But yeah, if you want to try it and your fellow gamers are happy I pity the fool who tries to stop you.

@ cannis0013

I want to see a bit of background story, scenarios and battle reports. I'd say at least three scenarios:

Victory leaving dock, or orbit and the Imperial ships around suddenly reacting to it.

Then

Chase across a board as the Imperials try to stop the defectors. Perhaps Rebels will turn up to help out.

Finally

The Victory leads a Rebel fleet against the dock/planet.

I'm going to stop now as my imagination is like a tub of Pringles: once it starts it won't stop until empty.