What's your favorite ship?

1st off, thank you all for the input.

Right now it's extremely casual play. I'm teaching my 11 year old son the game and keeping it basic. No upgrades, just the ship cards. I think that way it will get him used to the basics of the game. Eventually we'll mix in upgrades, and maybe at some point go to some ga,etc kit events. I have also decided to just pick up Rebel and Imperial ships for now.

As a side note, my son flew Darth Vader and playing with no upgrades, it's really a good ship. So I don't see what the TIE Advance hate is all about.

So far I've got

1 of each starter

Heroes of the Resistance

TIE Advance

Imperial Veterans

Inquisitor TIE

Imperial Shuttle

ARC-170

Looks to me like you got a great start for casual play with your family and friends!

I was gonna suggest Rebel Aces but since you got Heroes i guess that could wait. You seem to have some good stuff for imperials and rebels/resistance so maybe ask yourself if you and your son would like the third option of the Scum and if so purchase some of their expansions.

Otherwise, maybe a huge ship each for the imps and rebs. It will allow you to play some very different but probably very fun games!

Go for the narrative play and down the line, if you or your son feel like getting into competition, youll likely have most of the cards and ships you need!

edit: Ok maybe I should read the whole thread before posting

As a new player, this is a really useful thread. It's good to see what some veteran players think about various options.

1st off, thank you all for the input.

Right now it's extremely casual play. I'm teaching my 11 year old son the game and keeping it basic. No upgrades, just the ship cards. I think that way it will get him used to the basics of the game. Eventually we'll mix in upgrades, and maybe at some point go to some ga,etc kit events. I have also decided to just pick up Rebel and Imperial ships for now.

As a side note, my son flew Darth Vader and playing with no upgrades, it's really a good ship. So I don't see what the TIE Advance hate is all about.

So far I've got

1 of each starter

Heroes of the Resistance

TIE Advance

Imperial Veterans

Inquisitor TIE

Imperial Shuttle

ARC-170

You've amassed quite a selection of ships already. My next steps would be the TIE Fighter and TIE/FO packs for Imperials. The Rebels will be crushed soon anyway so don't support the losing side. Whooops dark side mode again.

Edit: those packs will also help if you're going run Heroes of the Aturi Cluster as you need lots of TIEs. HotAC is awesome by the way.

So quick update. Picked up Rebel Aces, Imperial Aces and K-wing tonight.

K wings are great!! I love them. Generics are great for dropping mines (cluster, proximity or conner nets) as you can drop them on aces and ruin their day.

Miranda and esege are great for dropping "on reveal" bombs plus mirandas regen is great

Do you or your son watch star wars rebels? If you pick up the ghost set you get sabine when who makes bombs and mines a lot more potent (and adds a bomb slot so k wing gets 3 slots plus extra munitions, so 6 bombs total

Yes, love Rebels. Came close to picking up the Ghost last night instead of the Aces. Looking forward to Sabine's TIE also.

the ghost is a whole other kettle of fish when it comes to flying. suffers to focus fire as it has no Evades but a Lothal Rebel with fire control system and your choice of turret works well.

I like running it alongside a bombing K wing as both are quick and both can put out a fair amount of damage!

Love my K-Wings and ARC-170's have the Ghost haven't broken her out yet, what upgrades are good to add on to her???

This is my Tanky Kanan list

Basically go wherever you want to whilst stressed, still perform an action (at a cost) and double tap autoblaster if you have the shuttle attached.

i do have an all ion one which is great fun to play with (Chopper pilot, ion torps, bombs with Sabine, and turret plus APL/Ion projector for even more hilarious shenanigans)

i love this one

It is the ultimate troll!! i ran it for Kessel Run a while back and walked an almost full health Kath off the board! not much damage output via secondary weapons but soo much fun. it is 61 points though so you could drop down Sensor jammer and APL for something else if needed.

Ebay has been my friend in avoiding excess ships for a single card.

If I actually find the time to start playing again, you may have talked me into adding a K-Wing to go with the ARC I seem to be destined to own.

That's a list I'm currently theory crafting. ARC-170 & K-wing. Not sure what to run for a 3rd ship. Thinking cheap A-wing with a missile or an X-wing

Talking of new purchases - I still can't decide if I really want to pick up the Upsilon when there are still so many other awesome ships I haven't yet gotten The rule of unknown-new-cool or tried-and-tested purchases...

I love the ARC-170 ship myself and can't wait to begin fielding it, but the problem with grabbing some is that from what I read you need half the Rebel fleet if you don't plan to proxy cards (looking at you various crew and epic ship droids!).

If you've grabbed Imperial Veterans expansion, don't forget to pick up the individual TIE Defender expansion to make use of the second TIE/x7 title card.

I'm leaning towards Ghost as my next purchase

I'm leaning towards Ghost as my next purchase

The Ghost is great fun and the crew are also useful (Kanan and Hera in particular) i still haven't got used to the Docking/Undocking mechanics though (i normally leave the shuttle on the ghost until it is dead then run away with it.

Latest update

Picked up the Ghost, Slave1 and special forces TIE tonight