How many languages is X-wing published in?

By heychadwick, in X-Wing

I'm just curious. I'm wondering if maybe some people in a non-English speaking country want to trade spare cards for some of the named guys in a different language. That would be pretty cool to have a Dutch "Dutch" pilot card. Or a Swedish "Dark Curse", or .....etc. etc.

Well at least in germany not all pilot names are translated for whatever reasons, so Dark Curse and Backstabber are not translated but Howlrunner and Night Beast have been translated of course Luke Skywalker is still Luke Skywalker.

Most of the ship names are translated but X-Wings were X-Wings (and all other wings ships were whatever wing ship) and TIE-Fighters were TIE-Fighters however due to Disney those are also translated.

Its actually an issue with Lucasfilm who want localization to be consistent. A howlrunner is an animal in the Star Wars universe and its name has been translated to Kreischläufer since forever, thats why the distributor has little power over such things. What gets me is that Whisper is called Geflüster when there was no such need for that. Making the X-Wing an X-Flügler also is an abomination.

German translation also has some notable mistakes that still haven't been fixed via FAQ, Crackshot stricktly speaking has to happen immediatly after the green dice are rolled with how the German card is worded. Most tournaments in Germany use the English FAQ because of that, which is a shame since it reintroduces the language barrier a localization is supposed to remove.

Some translations are very good, but some simply annoying e.g. Twin Ion Mk 2 Engine became "Bliźniaczy" instead of much better "podwójny" or less popular but cool "zdwojony".

My Polish is a bit rusty, but here you mean translating it literally as "twin" as opposed to "dual"?

From perspective of Russian language (one language family) "Bliźniaczy" using for twins as brothers/sisters, "podwójny" - dual, "zdwojony" - twin-linked.

Edited by bernh

Brazilian Portuguese also :D

I had a Luke from nationals last year that was in polish. I have seen German and a guy I was talking with here in a trade said he had some in Japanese. I'm not sure how many different languages they are printed in though.

X-Wing is NOT available in Japan don't you mean a card in Chinese?

Well considering I stated that someone I was conversing with here "said" he had the cards I'm pretty sure I typed precisely what I meant. It's hard for me to know what someone else has in their collection that's the reason I stated the Polish version I OWNED and a German version I had SEEN in person and then referenced a card that I was TOLD about.