But that's not a price you pay to get into the higher levels of competition for any other FFG game. You can be competitive with a core set and optional expansions in X-Wing, Armada, and the various LCG's. While there may be advantages to 'keeping up with the Jones' in those games, you aren't forced to do so.

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All games have their dark sides. I came from X-Wing. I have all rebel and empire ships. I hate scum. Too many (all) EU ships with little movie background. They put important cards like autothrusters exclusively into their expansions I could live with that. But now you need to buy new core set (I already have 2 original ones) just because of updated damage deck = no tournament without it. But I really have no intention to buy another reskinned/slightly modified TIE fighters nor X Wings. The movie was huge disappointment and this made it even greater.

You can choose which damage deck you want to use at X-Wing tournaments.

Yeah they changed that before any OP tournaments actually happened and you no longer need the updated damage deck.

This makes me hopeful that one day they will change the way the tournament maps work and/or allow/supply printed maps of the rotation.

They've facilitated the X-Wing tournament crowd, it is our turn!

Yeah they changed that before any OP tournaments actually happened and you no longer need the updated damage deck.

Thanks for info. I was not aware of that as I stopped reading news about X-Wing tournaments after the new damage deck announcment.

Major bump! I just watched Crabboks unboxing of Bespin Gambit. They finally did it! They included extra regular cards for Wing Guards and Ugnaughts!

They listened!

There's three Ugnaughts, that's why there's three cards. For the Wing Guards I guess they wanted to make it 2+1 to mimic Stormtroopers in the base box. There's probably a mission that uses two regular groups. Not much to do with the whining going on here I guess.

There's three Ugnaughts, that's why there's three cards. For the Wing Guards I guess they wanted to make it 2+1 to mimic Stormtroopers in the base box. There's probably a mission that uses two regular groups. Not much to do with the whining going on here I guess.

Ah, my bad about the Ugnaughts. However, 2+1 of those guys is enough, if you buy 2 Bespin boxes. You'll then have 4+2 which is the maximum you can bring to skirmish anyways. I think they thought about that.

I mean, the Stormtroopers, Droids, Officers etc. i.e. the 3 groups were never the issue. 2 copies got you everything you needed. The crux of the issue are the 2 groups with only 1 regular card creating the need for 4 copies and the headache of owning more figures than usable deployment cards. The issue has been fixed in this expansion.

Props to FFG for fixing this.

But now if I buy enough bespins to get all my wing guard's I'll be overrun by ugnaughts.

Having only read the first few posts so not sure if this has been stated previously but I don't understand why they do not create expansions for the HKs, Heavies etc... They do for stormtroopers so there is a precedent for an expansion to be created for a figure included in the core/expansion. This eliminates separating those who would spend the $$$ for extra expansions from those who can't afford to.

Having only read the first few posts so not sure if this has been stated previously but I don't understand why they do not create expansions for the HKs, Heavies etc... They do for stormtroopers so there is a precedent for an expansion to be created for a figure included in the core/expansion. This eliminates separating those who would spend the $$$ for extra expansions from those who can't afford to.

In campaign you are allowed to use 1x of each expansion, adding a HK pack would allow an additional regular / elite card to be used. Which may break the balance.

In campaign you are allowed to use 1x of each expansion, adding a HK pack would allow an additional regular / elite card to be used. Which may break the balance.

Each expansion defines how it is to be integrated. The Stormtrooper Villain pack already specifies that it does not increase the number and type of Stormtrooper deployment cards available in the campaign, and Hired Guns say that you can use both deployment cards (two packs worts of figures).

So, a pack could be released with the same instructions as the Stormtrooper Villain pack, but then it would also limit the customer base.

There are a lot of unexplored territory as far as future figures are concerned, and each pack requires a lot of playtesting, so I would rather get new figures than reruns of existing ones.

Having only read the first few posts so not sure if this has been stated previously but I don't understand why they do not create expansions for the HKs, Heavies etc... They do for stormtroopers so there is a precedent for an expansion to be created for a figure included in the core/expansion. This eliminates separating those who would spend the $$$ for extra expansions from those who can't afford to.

Because producing packs requires a certain volume of units to be manufactured and takes time and money that need to be recouped by enough people buying them. Releasing a repack of an existing part of the game, that is of minimal (if any) use in campaign (and campaign players constitute about 2/3 of the player base, there was a poll a few weeks back) is deliberately limiting your customer base. FFG would waste a lot of time and money just to get a lot of packs to sit in a warehouse to collect dust and waste them even more money the longer they stay there. It'd be the definition of shooting yourself in the foot.