Up till now, I've kept up with all three factions, sans the epic ships. With the Gozanti and Wave 8, I'm wondering if it's time to pick one faction to focus on. Or maybe drop one faction from my collection.

But man, oh man. I don't wanna choose between my precious-es!

ALL the factions.

No, because it's still cheaper than most other mini games.

For me, it has always been and will always be all factions. I bet I would even buy Vong stuff if they made it and I honestly hate the whole Vong thing.

Lots of people seem to focus on one faction. Just start collecting one and not the other two if you like.

Personally I have 100 points at least of EVERY ship.

When the game finally comes to an end in a few years I will have a great collection my children and friends can play till I get old and have to go to the retirement home. Then I will give it to my son.

To many good upgrades are scattered across all three factions, I fear, even in the coming waves. Don't buy any rebel ships, for example, and you wont get Twin Laser Turret, only buy Scum and you miss out on extra munitions... And that only gets worse if you include previous waves too - important, useful cards like Tactician, Engine Upgrade etc. are still not available in each faction... sure, Ebay is an option for cards, but that might get pretty expensive in and of itself, and you don't get the option of going crazy one time and trying a completely different list with a completely different faction.

Just buy everything. After all, who really needs food and stuff anyway?

To many good upgrades are scattered across all three factions, I fear, even in the coming waves. Don't buy any rebel ships, for example, and you wont get Twin Laser Turret, only buy Scum and you miss out on extra munitions... And that only gets worse if you include previous waves too - important, useful cards like Tactician, Engine Upgrade etc. are still not available in each faction... sure, Ebay is an option for cards, but that might get pretty expensive in and of itself, and you don't get the option of going crazy one time and trying a completely different list with a completely different faction.

Just buy everything. After all, who really needs food and stuff anyway?

It comes in useful for luring new suckers, errr, I mean players, into the game too. After I hype the game up to near God-like levels to people when I describe it to them I think it's important to offer them the experience they want out the game, so having the full choice of ships (if not nessicailly builds, I only have two b wing for example) for them to chose what to play with immensely helps them enjoy the experience, which means they'll usually come back for another game and before long they'll be making purchases of there own with a sound knowledge of the ships they're buying from being able to play test them first.

Every new person in my local area who gets into xwing improves my overall experience of the game by introducing more blood into the gene pool. This even though I don't use my rebels or scum directly, they bring a lot more value to my overall x-wing experience than just a few upgrade cards would suggest, so I don't begrudge buying them one little bit.

I focus on playing the Empire.

I do so mostly for moral reasons. It's just too much to stomach to portray the rebels and criminal syndicates that endanger galactic stability, whereas by playing the Empire, it just feels like I'm doing my part for the greater good.

I still have some rebel and other scum ships for the occasional upgrade, but I really don't fly them at all.

Yeah. I can't collect this much. Don't even care. Don't know most of these ships.

But I just printed a crap dang of upgrades as proxies. HEHEHE.

Nah keep and play all three, just keep in mind you don't have to own every ship if something does not interest you its okay to skip it.

Up until the killer sale at my FLGS this week I was determined not to collect Scum and Villainy. I only had the Starviper (for Autothrusters, obviously). But then I wanted the IG-2000, for Accuracy Correctors, Proximity Mines (my 3rd copy to load onto my 3rd TIE bomber), and Mangler Cannon. I ended up walking out with Most Wanted because I realized that this game is too cool not to play all the awesome ships they've come out with. The bounty hunters especially have iconic ships that my brother and I adored as children.

Not get them all?? I don't, no can't, comprehend this thought process.

How can you have all the cool new toys if you don't have them.....

Can't follow...can't.....my brain hurts now

Honestly after GW prices I've got no issues buying for three factions I spend less on x-wing than I did on 40k and feel like I get much better value from it.

Up till now, I've kept up with all three factions, sans the epic ships. With the Gozanti and Wave 8, I'm wondering if it's time to pick one faction to focus on. Or maybe drop one faction from my collection.

But man, oh man. I don't wanna choose between my precious-es!

It's a two player game, it makes sense to focus on two factions -- or maybe one if you never play at home.

Up to you as the buyer and the player to decide that. You know how much you can afford and what you prefer to play better than anyone.

Me? I've always had more Rebel ships than Imperial, and Scum has quickly overtaken the Imperials as well. I'm notparticularly interested in the Punisher or Inquisitor's TIE either.

I'm still going to pickup a Gozanti, though. At least one. And if/when FFG releases the XG-1 Assault Gunboat...

I have to try and keep up with all three... if for no other reason than I know it's a matter of time until I start dicking around with a squad builder and go "Hey, I bet this card would work really well with Lando... or, OH! DUAL HOUND'S TEETH GENERICS!"

And that's how you end up finally looking to buy the Falcon or pre-ordering two YV-666s.

Then a wild Valen Rudor appears, and as a Rebels fan you're too amused not to be curious.

As someone that's played since the beginning, I can see quite easily why this could be getting to be an intimidating game to get into now. I've had the luxury of spreading out my purchases over the past several years, and was able to budget accordingly - mostly due to the very long (sometimes a tad too long) lead times that FFG gives us. It can be frustrating at times waiting for the product, but each extra paycheck gives me that little bit more time.

So yeah... buying all three factions, all the time? Hell yeah. Wave 7 is looking like only two each of the small ships and one Hound, and Wave 8 would probably be one each of the large, and two each of the small. For starters.

However, YMMV and pace yourself. While it's nice to have ALL TEH SHIPZ at once, FFG has been doing a far better job at keeping up their supply overall (some exceptions I know), so it's not like the earlier waves where if one didn't buy multiple of each ship on release, you'd never see them again for months and months.

I have to supply ships for everyone I play with for the most part, so I've been deliberately diversifying. Throw in the need for cards from cross-faction sets and I'll be picking up ships for all three factions indefinitely.

However, I do prefer Imperials myself, and tend to prioritize them a little bit more than the other factions, all other things being equal.

After a starter set, 8 waves plus Most Wanted, two Aces packs and three Huge ships, it's fair to say that the range is hge. A newcomer might well take a look at the game and think "where the hell do I start?".

Eh, the Core Set n00b. Obviously.

But as a player that's been around since Wave 2, I'm not feelingoverly inimitdated. I've picked up most of the stuff as it's been released, with an additional purchase here or there on the spur of the moment or after a particularly pludicrous brainwave after tinkering with voidstate's quadron builder, but I still think I've spent less on everything combined than I have on a single GW army in the past.

(which is probably fortunate as sales of GW material has heavily funded my X-Wing addiction).

But yeah. When you think of 100 points as the standard sized game and releases usually twice, maybethree times a year, it's not amazingly difficult to keep up with.

I do have at least one of everything, except the Tie Phantom and the Rebel Transport (but I have the upgrades for it). I just have a lot more of the Empire than the others. Oh, I never got the Imperial Aces as I already have enough Interceptors. I focus more on one faction, but you still need the various upgrade cards in other ones.