What ships/expansions are you okay with not buying?

By Chief Hugh, in X-Wing

I realize there are some of you who collect all expansions and mulitples of those expansions. Besides those players, who is okay with not getting all of the expansions and which ones?

My list is as follows.

Quadjumper

Ghost and attack shuttle

Sabines TIE fighter

TIE/SF

Kihraxz

What's your list?

I'm OK with not buying the YV-666 as I just don't like big ships. I haven't bought it and I haven't really missed it once. Oh, I know there are lots of supporters for the ship and that it's viable, but I just don't care for it. I'm happy that I don't have to try to find storage for it.

I also am happy with everyone not buying a Tie Phantom. We hates them, we do....filthy hobbits.

Ships that I wish I hadn't bought? Well, I like the Engine Upgrade in the original Falcon kit, but I've still never flown it. I've used the YT-2400 three times and could've gone without it. I wish I'd tried out that 5 Alpha Tie Interceptors list as I rarely use 1 these days, let alone 5. I have never flown 2 Starvipers in one list. Oh, I like the one, but never used two. I've never really flown the E-wing much. Having one isn't really worth it for Epic.

Anything from the scum or rebel scum factions are off the list. Except the Star Viper because autothrusters and accuracy corrector. And still it keeps me awake at night knowing I bought the thing. Knew I should have eBayed those cards.

Well... It WAS the Scyk.

I realize there are some of you who collect all expansions and mulitples of those expansions. Besides those players, who is okay with not getting all of the expansions and which ones?

My list is as follows.

Quadjumper - Not getting

Ghost and attack shuttle - Already have

Sabines TIE fighter - I may get because I like the show. I doubt I'll include any of in the game. Especially the conditions

TIE/SF - Already have

Kihraxz - Already have

What's your list?

I'm OK with not buying the YV-666 as I just don't like big ships. I haven't bought it and I haven't really missed it once. Oh, I know there are lots of supporters for the ship and that it's viable, but I just don't care for it. I'm happy that I don't have to try to find storage for it.

I purchased the ships for the bounty hunters in the Empire Strikes Back. With the exception of the Lambda I have a maximum of only one of each large ship. Of course I'll two falcons shortly but I'll only play one in a game.

I also am happy with everyone not buying a Tie Phantom. We hates them, we do....filthy hobbits. I like them. Use them in missions. If you don't like phantoms wait until there is a rebellion TIE/ln you can't attack until the end of the game.

Actually I'm not getting anything from Wave 10. But like I said Sabine's TIE I may get for looks.

Edited by Ken at Sunrise

OP, you should reconsider not buying Sabine's TIE unless you have tons of TIEs. It lets you double dip into factions a la Most Wanted. You can buy Sabine's TIE just for the ship and dial to bolster your Imperial TIEs who come with tons of extra pilot cards and bases already.

Scyks, Kihraxz, HWK, T65 Xwing and the Gozanti can be skipped.

I only play casually (no tournaments) so I don`t need any upgrade cards and I only play Imperial ships.

TIE Phantom: It narrows down what the people I play with can field without getting destroyed, so I announced that I won't bring it anymore.

TIE/SF: Doesn't really seem that much fun to play.

TIE Punisher: My group does not much powergaming, but this thing is not cool at all. Bombers are fine and fun with Imperial Vets, you won't miss the Punisher.

Maybe the TIE Advanced. I played Vader quite a bit and he`s a must have for fluff reasons. But in terms of interesting game mechanics, the pilots in the raider expansion are much more interesting.

The Starship Enterprise

Battlestar Galactica

Buck Rogers' Ship

E-wing and K-wing.

They are to Star Wars visual aesthetic, Like Rob Liefeld is to comic book art.

Ridiculous proportions and too many tacked on random bits.

Didnt get the Ghost. Most likely wont get Sabines Tie either. Sort of wish i didnt get the Tie/SF

Gotta have 'em all!

Scyks, Kihraxz, HWK, T65 Xwing and the Gozanti can be skipped.

Even as a hard tournament player, you don't like the Tie Fighter pilots in the Gozanti? Or Biggs for the Rebels?

With the new FAQ, Heavy Scyks with Mindlink will be a tough nut to crack.

Better summary for me.

This is kind of reverse answering. I bought everything through Wave IX. I will most likely not get anything in Wave X.

Mostly scum ships I avoid... Don't have most of them, but have picked up a few that looked interesting... (Shadowcaster!)

I'll probably never buy these two either. Don't like the looks of'em and not my style of flying. Already trading for cards in those packs so I don't need the ships themselves.

Decimator

YT-2400

I play exclusively Rebel and Scum, and while I used to buy every ship to get the upgrades, that changed back in wave 6 (I bought 2 defenders for predator and then the Khiraxz came with it). Now I just wait for the upgrades I want to get released in a Rebel or Scum ship (although it's getting rough not having Juke as an option). I even sold off my imperial ships just because I never use them. Although that being said I've been tempted to pick up an Inquisitor, interceptor and imperial aces just to run a triple ace build for the heck of it.

Also not entirely sold on Sabine's TIE and the Quadjumper, but the ept with the quad may convince me to give it a try. Heck, I wasn't sure about the shadow caster, and bought it just a week later.

The only old ships I don't have are the outrider and raider.

I don't really play epic and I'm not a fan of pwts so I probably won't ever get them unless as gifts.

The only one I might never get is HOTR. I don't really play the falcon I have so a 2nd is silly. Plus I have two t70 xwings that I only play on occasion. A third would be overkill.

My list:

Everything not Imperial.

I'm serious. If I need cards from the other factions there is a second hand market for them.

Most of Scum. Most of Rebel. Empire all the way.

Though, honestly, I have started dipping into all three factions lately. At this point, I think I will eventually own at least two of almost every ship, aside from the large base PWTs, which I only plan on buying one of each. Just gonna take some time to be able to afford them all. (And for the FLGS to get the stock in. As well as I get along with the owner there, he takes forever when it comes to getting new X-Wing stuff)

Ghost

Sebines tie

Arc

U-wing isn't doing much for me

Tie fo

Tie sf

Lancer

Fang

Quadrupled.

I do not buy scum ships.

I don't have a 2400 or a Ghost... don't really feel the need.

Nothing, must own everything.

I’ve skipped everything Scum and everything related to Force Awakens/Rebels show.

Scum is simply not appealing and although I liked Force Awakens, I’m holding off on everything 7-9 until I’ve seen the end of the new trilogy to let it sink in. Rebels is meh lol.

Not sure how to approach Rogue One products just yet. Maybe.

I also skipped the HWK because it’s visually unappealing and I’ve never played the games.

I still need to get my hands on those chimps though, but other than that, I’ve mainly shifted focus to Imperial Assault.

Edited by Armandhammer

The Syck.

Even with the new FAQ for it's title, it's still not worth a buy for me. Ships like the Scyk need to be flown in groups, and I'm a "buy one of each expansion" kind of guy. I don't buy multiples of ships because I don't play competitively enough to warrant it. A single Scyk isn't very useful to me when I need at least 3 or 4 of them to make real good use of them. All other scum ships I can make work as a one-of. And there are no upgrade cards it has that I can't get from a different expansion (minus the title of course).

If they had come in some sort of expansion that included two of them (like the TIE Fighter in the core set), I'd have probably bought a Scyk by now since I'd have enough of them to justify buying the extra expansion for it's pilots and cards.