I will try to present my argument without whinging.

I bought the hired guns pack, and I guess I should've read the information more clearly, but was disappointed to only see 2 miniatures. This makes for some weird price scaling in my opinion. Thus far, there are no "deluxe" alternatives, rather, someone who wants all the minis needs to buy a basegame/expansion with the villain packs in question. This means that in order to deploy 4 hired guns (2 regs, 2 elites) you need to villain packs. The strange thing is that while you do this, you will get duplicates of all other components.

I would understand if FFG sold "large and small" villain packs, or even allowed us to buy boxed expansions with enough miniatures for a higher price. But forcing us to buy wasteful components, while a good business move, just leaves an empty feeling as a collector/enthusiast.

If this sounds like whinging, maybe it's because it is whinging. In either case, the agenda deck for this pack seems like great fun, and I think the general idea of mini-expansions is good.

If you are a collector, why would you need 4 hired guns? I think you are conflating competitive / meta play with mere collecting no?

X-Wing players have the same problem if they want to play to the meta. Sometimes it stings but overall, FFG is much more fair in terms of value to game play and not raking us all over the coals in my opinion.

I will try to present my argument without whinging.

I bought the hired guns pack, and I guess I should've read the information more clearly, but was disappointed to only see 2 miniatures. This makes for some weird price scaling in my opinion. Thus far, there are no "deluxe" alternatives, rather, someone who wants all the minis needs to buy a basegame/expansion with the villain packs in question. This means that in order to deploy 4 hired guns (2 regs, 2 elites) you need to villain packs. The strange thing is that while you do this, you will get duplicates of all other components.

I would understand if FFG sold "large and small" villain packs, or even allowed us to buy boxed expansions with enough miniatures for a higher price. But forcing us to buy wasteful components, while a good business move, just leaves an empty feeling as a collector/enthusiast.

If this sounds like whinging, maybe it's because it is whinging. In either case, the agenda deck for this pack seems like great fun, and I think the general idea of mini-expansions is good.

If you but any blister expansion for the game, you will get a single group of figures, and one of each variant of deployment card, assuming there is more than one. But yes, look on the package or on the website. You can easily find how many figures are included, but like I said, it will only ever be a single deployment card worth of figures, even if there are multiple deployment cards in the pack.

Blisters are priced for this game as follows, at least in America:

Single figure: $9.99

Two figure group: $12.99

Three figure group: $14.99

Massive figure: $19.99

You can find them cheaper online, but those are the sticker prices. You will, inevitably, buy additional packs with unnecessary additional components if you'd like to compete.

I've bought 8 R2 and 3PO packs so I can do repaints. If you really want something you'll get it despite getting duplicates. Besides FFG does it with both X-wing and Armada, so I wouldn't expect any different here.

Must say I definitely prefer this model over the random cards model of other companies.

The miniatures are also friggin' GORGEOUS.

what is "whinging"???? I thought "to whing" is a movement of great speed or a high note sound at great speed???

but may be I am just flyting too much...

http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/03/on-whinge-and-whine.html

"Whinge" is a synonym for "whine." I usually type it when I'm in a rush and get hung up on "-ng" combos for a few words before. it wasn't until a few years ago that I started seeing it pretty commonly online.

what is "whinging"???? I thought "to whing" is a movement of great speed or a high note sound at great speed???

but may be I am just flyting too much...

you'll usually hear the word "Whinging" in the UK.

Hearing somebody "Having a whinge" about something would be litstening to someone complain about something