I started gathering ships a few months ago and have a fairly large collection now.

I am wondering can I use any pilot card with any ship? I've seen posts on here where Vader is used to pilot the Decimator and other ships.

Since I have all ok imperial ships now. Can I use any special card out of any ship I buy on another ship? For example, can I use the special ability cards from a tie advanced on a regular TIE fighter?

Or....could I use Luke Skywalker pilot with R2 droid on say a Y-wing?

Vader isn't being used as a pilot on the decimator.

He's got a crew version as well.

Similarly, Chewbacca, Lando, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Kyle Katarn, Jan Ors, Leebo, Dash Rendar, and Bossk.

There is not a crew version of, say, Biggs Darklighter.

Every pilot in the game is attached to the ship they pilot, but the Crew version can go on any ship with a crew slot (assuming the correct faction, and that the Crew upgrade exists).

Moreover, soon multiple ships will have the opportunity to fly the same pilot, and already we have pilots that fly for multiple factions with differing pilot abilities.

The important things to note here are that you can only have one unique instance in your fleet of any upgrade/pilot with the bullet-point to the left of the name, irrespective of the type of card on which that name appears, and that all of your ships must be of the same faction, regardless of whether one of the pilots has a cooler ability in another faction.

In other words, Han can't pilot the falcon AND shoot the guns simultaneously, nor can Luke shoot the guns on the falcon while being in his T-65 X-Wing. Also, Boba Fett doesn't fight nearly as well for the Empire as he does for his own people.

I started gathering ships a few months ago and have a fairly large collection now.

I am wondering can I use any pilot card with any ship? I've seen posts on here where Vader is used to pilot the Decimator and other ships.

Since I have all ok imperial ships now. Can I use any special card out of any ship I buy on another ship? For example, can I use the special ability cards from a tie advanced on a regular TIE fighter?

Or....could I use Luke Skywalker pilot with R2 droid on say a Y-wing?

The other guy already answered your question in regards to using pilots on different ships (the answer is no, but you were confused by some people putting the {crew} versions of people you have {pilot} cards for, like Darth Vader), but you seem to be asking another question here: "Can I use any special card out of any ship I buy on another ship? For example, can I use the special ability cards from a tie advanced on a regular TIE fighter?" If by "special card" and "special ability card" you mean upgrades, then the answer is yes. For instance, the TIE Advanced has a Missile slot (in the upgrade bar on the bottom of the pilot card). You can put a Missile upgrade from any expansion on it, provided you have the points to fit it and there are no other restrictions (if it said "Rebel only" or "Z-95 Headhunter only," for instance). Just read through the rules again and it will all become clear. It helps if you have the new The Force Awakens Core set since the included rulebooks have been clarified a bit. Otherwise you can just download the most current rules off of Fantasy Flight Games' website.

I started gathering ships a few months ago and have a fairly large collection now.

I am wondering can I use any pilot card with any ship? I've seen posts on here where Vader is used to pilot the Decimator and other ships.

Since I have all ok imperial ships now. Can I use any special card out of any ship I buy on another ship? For example, can I use the special ability cards from a tie advanced on a regular TIE fighter?

Or....could I use Luke Skywalker pilot with R2 droid on say a Y-wing?

The other guy already answered your question in regards to using pilots on different ships (the answer is no, but you were confused by some people putting the {crew} versions of people you have {pilot} cards for, like Darth Vader), but you seem to be asking another question here: "Can I use any special card out of any ship I buy on another ship? For example, can I use the special ability cards from a tie advanced on a regular TIE fighter?" If by "special card" and "special ability card" you mean upgrades, then the answer is yes. For instance, the TIE Advanced has a Missile slot (in the upgrade bar on the bottom of the pilot card). You can put a Missile upgrade from any expansion on it, provided you have the points to fit it and there are no other restrictions (if it said "Rebel only" or "Z-95 Headhunter only," for instance). Just read through the rules again and it will all become clear. It helps if you have the new The Force Awakens Core set since the included rulebooks have been clarified a bit. Otherwise you can just download the most current rules off of Fantasy Flight Games' website.

Except that not every learns efficiently by just reading something. Thus, the point of this sub-forum.

Except that not every learns efficiently by just reading something. Thus, the point of this sub-forum.

So that, instead of learning the answer by reading, they can learn the answer by reading.

Yeah, I read that somewhere.

By reading a rules manual.

They read it, then they have questions because the language of the manual doesn't click with them, so telling someone to re-read the same rules they just read and figure that they'll magically understand it doesn't make sense. They read it, they ask questions to help clarify. We provide alternate examples of how they may be able to interpret the rules so that they understand them.

Or we be jerks about it.

Telling somebody the answer to their question, giving an example, and then suggesting they might benefit from rereading the rules is a far cry from "lern 2 play nub".

Telling somebody the answer to their question, giving an example, and then suggesting they might benefit from rereading the rules is a far cry from "lern 2 play nub".

"Yes" (or "no")

And leaving it at that (which I see A LOT) is no more useful than "RTFM!!!" When someone asks question with a straight forward answer in the rules the best course of action is to provide the yes/no answer, explain the reasoning for it in the rules and then direct them to reread the relevant rules section with the answer in mind. That way they not only get the answer they need, but they can also learn how the rules phrase those sorts of things so that reading the rules on the next question WILL provide the answer.

That's what I always try to do (and been jumped on by slugrage on multiple occasions), and that's what arnoldrew did in this thread (and got jumped on by slugrage).