I would not be surprised to see updates of crew cards in the near future. Eventually they are going to run out of crew to include and will start doing new versions of the recognizable characters. I have seen it in about ever other Star Wars game so why should X-wing be different. They could do General Leia Organa, General Han Solo, Master Luke Skywalker and General Lando just to name a few. You wouldn't be able to use them with the older versions that way but they could give them different abilities that reflect the characters changing roles.

You could always release him in a TIE defender.....although I dread to think what Darth Vader in an Engine Upgrade, TIE/x7 defender could be capable of...

Nah, he should be a shuttle pilot, he at least rides in one in Return of the Jedi. Of course engine upgrade that thing, a fast(ish) shuttle carrying the Emperor around, lol. Maybe Daredevil for his EPT (it can TURN, lol).

The game, or any product, won't survive simply from looking backwards all the time. Rogue One, the new era of movies, SW: Rebels, these are - and will continue to be - the source of new material in my mind. One doesn't pay $4.04 billion for a franchise to want to just keep remembering the ghosts of movies past. I saw E4 in the theatres in 1977 when I was a kid. I'm as long-serving a fan boy as one can pretty much be. I love the new material, that the stories that I loved as a child are getting new life and new characters, and will be essentially for the rest of my days above ground.

So do the OT characters all need to be centre stage? Nope. Not any more. There's loads of new stories out, and more coming over the next 30+ years. And each of them will have their turn in the spotlight I'm sure.

You could always release him in a TIE defender.....although I dread to think what Darth Vader in an Engine Upgrade, TIE/x7 defender could be capable of...

They could just release every pilot in a Defender, and make the Tie Defender available to every faction. Finally, a fair game!

Rogue Squadron did briefly fly them in one of the novels... Expertise + /x7 Corran Horn anyone?

Their issue is they were characters that had to be introduced quickly since theyre the most iconic ones: and the early days of Xwing...heck until Wave7 if you wanna be technical... Xwing was pretty stale and lacked a lot of creative interactions, Sure there were some but very few.

Luke crew isnt used because 2pts for a single focus mod isnt worth it. If they wanted him to be a gunner it should have either modded all focus or just be a Unique gunner, i.e. same cost but cant be used on multiple ships.

Han crew and Leia crew were brought with an Epic ship, im sure they were designed with Epic in mind as theyre pretty sound in Epic - just lack the Huge Only tag.

Chewy is fine on his own, just outshined by other crew. As is C3P0.

R2 i never ever wanted to use him lol.

I think atleast for the original trio of main characters they should release new cards that actually do something. And specifically mention its because its the original hero trio of the Trilogy as to why theyre getting it so we dont get flooded with "Now that they've released a new Han/Luke/Leia, what other crew do you think they should rerelease?" threads (oh they will still show up just not AS often).

Vader/Palp popped up late enough where the unique shenanigans started appearing. I imagine if Yoda/Ben shows up they'd be pretty common too.

You could always release him in a TIE defender.....although I dread to think what Darth Vader in an Engine Upgrade, TIE/x7 defender could be capable of...

They could just release every pilot in a Defender, and make the Tie Defender available to every faction. Finally, a fair game!

So everyone plays Fox on Final Destination?

You could always release him in a TIE defender.....although I dread to think what Darth Vader in an Engine Upgrade, TIE/x7 defender could be capable of...

They could just release every pilot in a Defender, and make the Tie Defender available to every faction. Finally, a fair game!

So everyone plays Fox on Final Destination?

If the game was not receiving any more releases that will (hopefully) bring some balance, I expect the competitive game would eventually devolve into such, with Bombing Ks being the annoying Jigglypuff that wrecks all the x7s in the top cut.

You could always release him in a TIE defender.....although I dread to think what Darth Vader in an Engine Upgrade, TIE/x7 defender could be capable of...

They could just release every pilot in a Defender, and make the Tie Defender available to every faction. Finally, a fair game!

So everyone plays Fox on Final Destination?

If the game was not receiving any more releases that will (hopefully) bring some balance, I expect the competitive game would eventually devolve into such, with Bombing Ks being the annoying Jigglypuff that wrecks all the x7s in the top cut.

Okay, now I want to figure out how the rest of the cast, most likely Melee's, relates to X-wing.