Squadrons are not 12 ships
I've seen people replace their stuck Corvettes with smaller ones that are three on a stand - I liked it a lot, but it isn't how the stock Corvette works.
Yes, but then CR90s are smaller than X-wings.
I saw those, and think it looks lovely when there are only ships about, but add squadrons into the mix and you are spending a colossal amount of money to make something look even more stupid.
A squadron is roughly 12 starfighters. Source: common sense.
What common sense? When according to the movie the Falcon had a real fight on its hands to take out a flight? Or are you saying that the figure of the Falcon is a squadron of Falcons, other wise there is no way (based on the moves) that the Falcon would survive fighting one squadron all by itself.
I mean if we are going with that they say "Squadron" so it has to be a Squadron as defined by the military. If we are going that way then what about the fleets?
Doing a quick search I came up with that the term Armada is a Portuguese and Spanish word for Naval Fleet. Looking mostly at US naval terms as it is easiest to look up (as there is more about it that I found). What I found from other NATO nations is more or less the same with only small differences. Going down from largest to smallest in naval group sizes. Fleet AKA Naval Fleet is either every ship in the nations navy or made up of several squadrons. Squadrons are between three and ten vessels. It also looks like it is called a Flotilla is it is smaller ships, but this is not a clear. There also Divisions that is a subdivision of a squadron or flotilla. There are also Task Forces, and this looks to be mostly ad hoc, in the US given numbers and in the UK letters for the designators. So looking at this, we are really looking at maybe a squadron or flotilla but more likely a task force is what we are fielding, not even close to an armada for either the rebels or empire.
As for aircraft looking up what the term means to the different US services. Army a squadrons is between twenty-five and thirty aircraft broken down by Troops/Companies , USMC a squadron is between five and thirty-seven aircraft broken down by detachments, USAF a squadron is between twelve and twenty-four aircraft, the USCG only has a single squadron and it has only eight aircraft, last is the US Navy were a squadron is between four and twenty-eight aircraft.
My thought is that more or less it is what you see is what you get, by that you see three fighters or one ship that is what you get. But for those who say it has to be twelve fighters looking at the above we see the the term squadron does not mean close to the same thing between services let alone within the same service. I mean we can have a squadron of between four and thirty-seven aircraft broken down to the single unit or in as many as five different subunits.
A squadron is what you want to make of it. It's a game based on a work of fiction. Whether you want it to be 12 or any other number, you are right.
My Poll:
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/178321-fighter-stands-how-many-do-they-represent/
Squadron stands for 12:
43 votes
squadron stands for 3:
11 votes
I personally treat them as something between 8-12, at least 6.
The Han Solo squadron is made up of exactly 13 Millennium Falcons, all with Special Modifications.
The Han Solo squadron is made up of exactly 13 Millennium Falcons, all with Special Modifications.
Just a case of tragic Ubertransportiritis gravidum.
My two cents:
I believe that each stand represents roughly a dozen fighters. In some cases it is a bit and in some cases it is a bit less. It probably varies most with the Rebels since they have that whole ragtag, cobbled together feel to them. In the case of aces and other personalities it also varies. Units like Wedge, Luke, Howlrunner, etc. are squadrons led by that ace figure so still roughly a dozen snubfighters. When it comes to units like the Millennium Falcon or Boba Fett I see that as being that iconic unit accompanied by a detachment of friendly fighters. Much like the Millennium Falcon with the half-dozen or so fighters that accompanied it on the strike to take out the second Death Star. Likewise I see Boba Fett under the employ of the empire with about half a dozen assorted TIEs assigned to escort him. A generic Firespray might be halff a dozen of the gunboats. A generic YT-1300 is probably a single militarized freighters with some attached snubfighters.
The Han Solo squadron is made up of exactly 13 Millennium Falcons, all with Special Modifications.
This sounds like a trippy Star Trek episode. 12 alternate timeline Han Solos as well?
The Han Solo squadron is made up of exactly 13 Millennium Falcons, all with Special Modifications.
This sounds like a trippy Star Trek episode. 12 alternate timeline Han Solos as well?
He tried to do the Kessel run in less than 9 parsecs...destroyed the dimension of time. Call Q.
The Han Solo squadron is made up of exactly 13 Millennium Falcons, all with Special Modifications.
This sounds like a trippy Star Trek episode. 12 alternate timeline Han Solos as well?
He tried to do the Kessel run in less than 9 parsecs...destroyed the dimension of time. Call Q.
You don't need Q for such a mundane problem. Just use the deflector dish to reroute power from inverting the warp crystals. Should create a substantial enough tachyon burst to disrupt the gravometric distortions and collapse the anomaly. Sheesh, this is like 3rd Grade StarFleet physics, people...