At this point, the Rebels have way more unique crew options than any other faction:

27 for Rebels

9 for Imperials

13 for Scum

As an Imperial player, I wish they would get around to adding more crew options than just generics.

I would trade a third of Rebels unique crew for just one like the Emperor!! Scum and imperials have quality over quantity when it comes to unique crew. The Rebels have the opposite.

Lol

You can HAVE

Bodhi

Baze

Lando

Leia

To start

Rebs wouldnt miss them at all

Quality > quantity

Different things are focused on more in different factions. Imps don't need too many crew options because they have a ton of aces and are kind of supposed to be nameless fodder anyway. Except for higher ranking positions of course. They just take turns getting force choked.

The Rebels have more named characters than the Empire. By its nature, the Empire is largely a legion of faceless enemies with a select few figureheads, especially at the starfighter level.

There are also two Imperial Only crew which are non unique - Fleet and Systems officer.

That said, next time they release a ship in the GCW era with crew options, I would wager you would likely see more popular characters in the new, like Krennic, Thrawn, Cienna Ree (who was a naval officer who sometimes flew), various scrubs from Rebels, etc.

3 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

Lol

You can HAVE

Bodhi

Baze

Lando

Leia

To start

Rebs wouldnt miss them at all

Quality > quantity

Take Dash, Leebo , Bistan and Nein next!

Not to mention kylo and hux are coming

And both seem quite good!

Puts the Uwing crew to absolute shame, even if cass and jyn are decent

If Operations Specialist had been Imperial Only I'd be smirking all the way to my VT-49 Decimator...

Side note: FGD's use of the enter key is exacerbated by the new forum formatting

See?

So

much (more)

space.

Lol

Wow, that is annoying spacing to be sure.

I think PhantomFO has the right reasoning there. Rebels have more crew because they have more characters overall. Its also why they have more "named pilots" instead of just unique generic names like the empire.

Also on phone

Fatfingers mightve contributed to excess spacing

Rebels also have a lot of the most lame crew out there. Or overshadowed crew, i dont even remember the last time i saw poor Chewie...

And yeah the new forum spacing is irritating. I always HATED IT when Word started applying an automatic doublespace when i hit enter. i dont even see a way to get it to stop doing that either unless i use the numerical list feature (or bullet points)

4 minutes ago, Vineheart01 said:

Rebels also have a lot of the most lame crew out there. Or overshadowed crew, i dont even remember the last time i saw poor Chewie...

And yeah the new forum spacing is irritating. I always HATED IT when Word started applying an automatic doublespace when i hit enter. i dont even see a way to get it to stop doing that either unless i use the numerical list feature (or bullet points)

Shield upgrade/Chewbacca Sabine Tie. Pilotd by Captian Rex.

What is the recent obsession with the factions being identical?

If you include wave 10, there are 10 rebel ships that can take crew compared to 7 scum and 6 imp ships I believe. More crew for rebels make sense as they have more ships that can take crew. Also as far as quality over quantity goes I'd say the ships are pretty even (well, scum is slightly ahead but it's close).

15 minutes ago, Timathius said:

Wow, that is annoying spacing to be sure.

I think PhantomFO has the right reasoning there. Rebels have more crew because they have more characters overall. Its also why they have more "named pilots" instead of just unique generic names like the empire.

If you look at generic pilots with an EPT, Rebels are way behind both other factions.

Rebels: 2

Imperial: 8

Scum: 6

8 minutes ago, Icelom said:

What is the recent obsession with the factions being identical?

I don't what them to be identical; I just wish I had more options.

7 minutes ago, Evenflow30 said:

If you include wave 10, there are 10 rebel ships that can take crew compared to 7 scum and 6 imp ships I believe. More crew for rebels make sense as they have more ships that can take crew. Also as far as quality over quantity goes I'd say the shops are pretty even (well, scum is slightly ahead but it's close).

I suppose you have a point about the ratios. For one thing, releases with a crew slot will generate crew cards, so there will definitely be a hand-in-hand correlation. OTOH, it only makes me desire Imp ships that could field crew instead of another TIE variant. (Yes, I would be fine with multiple kinds of shuttles.)

34 minutes ago, MenaceNsobriety said:

Take Dash, Leebo , Bistan and Nein next!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Dash is fantastic on the Lothal Rebel. Being able to park on a rock and not care during the attack phase is terrific, especially if it baits your opponent's ace into forgetting that you can still attack while they boost into Autoblaster range. Lothal, Hera, Dash, FCS, and ABT is a mean 40 points.

Nien Numb also has some decent corner cases where he can prove useful, and Leebo can give your ship Boost access without tying up their Mod slot.

Bistan's kinda meh, though.

Take Luke too

25 minutes ago, joeshmoe554 said:

If you look at generic pilots with an EPT, Rebels are way behind both other factions.

Rebels: 2

Imperial: 8

Scum: 6

Weird. With the OP in mind, it's almost as if, you know, factions are different or something.

Really, I just want Sabine crew for Scum.

48 minutes ago, Rakaydos said:

Shield upgrade/Chewbacca Sabine Tie. Pilotd by Captian Rex.

Just ran Chewie crew last night on a Sabine Attack Shuttle w/ TLT, Hull Upgrade, and Predator. It's quite a tanky little ship that can pack a wallop.

1 hour ago, joeshmoe554 said:

If you look at generic pilots with an EPT, Rebels are way behind both other factions.

Rebels: 2

Imperial: 8

Scum: 6

Green Squadron, and what else?

Edit: Found it. Red Squadron Veteran in the T-70.

Red Squad Vet (T70) has an ept.

But yeah, thats it. Green squad Awing and Red squad vet T70.

1 hour ago, Kdubb said:

Weird. With the OP in mind, it's almost as if, you know, factions are different or something.

With EPT being sort of a core pilot enhancing mechanic (especially for generics to make them less, well, generic), I'm not sure how that is a great way to differentiate factions. Sheesh, you'd think I was whining about not having Imperial astromechs.

Moreover, UNIQUE crew would be a great way to DIFFERENTIATE factions, no?