Why is FFG mixing two periods of Star Wars???

Two totally different time periods. And they should not be able to mix them, JMHO.

star wars the force awakens was a bad movie, and the prequels are more deserving to be added to the game!!

Come again for big fudge!!? Whatever your smoking, please share!

I know its hard...but the EU is dead. Get over it. I certainly have. Nothing changes, those are still fantastic stories and I love to read them, but it's over. Disney wanted a clean slate without years of stories that they'd have to write into their vision for Star Wars' future. They can take inspiration from the series, see Thrawn in Rebels season 3, but they are not tied to it like an overly clingy partner who constantly demands attention.

Yeah, I miss some of the EU (we all know some of the stories weren't actually good at all), but it's totally understandable that Disney wanted to start over. Would I have preferred if they had selectively included some of better EU books in the new canon and altered TFA to fit with them? Yeah, I would have. But it's their IP, not mine.

It's a shame Disney's books have not actually been better than the EU books people bash.

Oh, the new-canon books have been every bit as much of a mixed bag as the old EU, but let's not pretend that everything in Legends was on the level of the Thrawn trilogy and the X-Wing series. Legends had more good novels, but it had more bad ones too. And while I haven't gotten around to reading Aftermath: Life Debt yet, I don't think the new canon has anything on the same level of badness as The Crystal Star, Darksaber, and Planet of Twilight.

I'm glad they added tfa ships because it makes it harder to omit prequel ships because of era differences.

Resistence a d First Order fit with the existing rebel and imperial factions far easier and nicer than prequel factions do

That's the truth. No only is there Dark Side and Light Side religions but politics with Unification and Independence. Republic would be like Light Unification alignment while First Order would just be Dark Neutral since they are attacking the current government of the Galaxy. So far this is the best chart I got.

Although I didn't like putting the Rebels Alliance next to the CIS so for a wheel I put Scum & Villainy between them as a buffer and for Era fluff swapped Rebel Alliance and Resistance so Rebels were closer to the Republic.

But for those that want scum to be more of a Mercenary faction instead of a Buffer here is a set up that puts S&V in its proper place in the middle of everyone.

Actually it's not possible to use a grid, because despite all the biases, the Imps are simply Neutral Lawful and rebels Chaotic Neutral. Because Jedi aren't good actually, simply preserving the order of the Republic (that's rotten to the core already) and Empire isn't evil, it's just self-preserving against violent attempts to blow things up.

Slavery and genocide are not bad, simply self-preservation tactics. Good to know.

Oh, the new-canon books have been every bit as much of a mixed bag as the old EU, but let's not pretend that everything in Legends was on the level of the Thrawn trilogy and the X-Wing series. Legends had more good novels, but it had more bad ones too. And while I haven't gotten around to reading Aftermath: Life Debt yet, I don't think the new canon has anything on the same level of badness as The Crystal Star, Darksaber, and Planet of Twilight.

Darksaber, was horsepoop (I'd say worse but it probably would get censored)! Spacemonkeys, a lightsaber shaped Deathstar, and the all mighty most incompetent Imperial in the galaxy- Daala, I go one step further and sy basically anything with her character in it is possibly the worst that the EU ever had.

Gilliad Pelleaon couldnt even save Darksaber, and the Force knows that parts of that book were attempted to be saved by his character adding some competence to the Imperial side.

The only other good part was that the spacemonkeys were so inept that the weapon failed and died in the Hoth asteroid field, proving two things- most things that go into the Hoth field don't survive unless they are named Executor or the Millenium Falcon, and that Hutt built super weapons cant be 3720 to 1 odds.

This one time at band camp I took my WWII British Paratroopers to a Peninsular War skirmish game because my opponent once had the audacity to use the 91st Regiment of Foot at a Battle of Waterloo skirmish.

That showed him that getting things historically correct was the mostest important thing when playing with toys.

It was Quatre Bras they fought at, now let's see how your cavalry fair againt my Bren Gun teams!!!

He never spoke to me for a while.

Cheers

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Newp

Nope.

X-Wing doesn't have a campaign, so it's not locked into a specific time period like Imperial Assault is.

Unfortunately, now with Imperial Assault, you can use Greedo on Hoth if you feel like it.