How many of each expansions to buy?

By Coldhands, in X-Wing

How many of each model do you want? That's my metric...

(hide 8 Interceptor models...)

23 minutes ago, Sithborg said:

How many of each model do you want? That's my metric...

(hide 8 Interceptor models...)

Hides my 24 tie fighters ;-p

Wow, I have spent way too much money on this game ...

But, you can NEVER have enough TIE Fighters ...

My rule of thumb is about 50pnts worth of said ship unless you expect to play epic or you REALLY need a list full of upgrade cards (see autothrusers). Usually that doesn't lead to frustraion over wasted money (rage at ffg "gouging" when they are trying to make a ship more fun to some) when fix packs come out.

Edited by Ralgon
4 hours ago, Jadotch said:

Wow, I have spent way too much money on this game ...

But, you can NEVER have enough TIE Fighters ...

Target once sold X-wing when the red core sets were 19.99 i picked up 4 and that is how i started x-wing and when the blues hit 11.99 I nabbed 5 of them. I picked up a couple extra ties from a reseller for 6 each and boom now i have a 300 point epic list that has 10 Tie Fighters and 12 Tie F/O. I spent maybe 160 total for them, 80 a year on x-wing.

Truth be told if you put aside 10 a week it covers buying a couple ships within 2 different waves within a year or an ace box along with an epic then 1 of each ship that comes out. 10 a week really is not bad.

Edited by Cubanboy

I usually pick up two of each. That excludes the 7 Zeds, 3 K-wings, 4 Tie bombers and... mistakes were made.

All Rebels ships. Most Imperial. Zero Scum (Scurg exception as it is also Rebel).

Stopped buying Epic after the Raider, (IMO it's basically broken unless both players bring large ships... plus nobody plays it in my area).

1 of each. 2 of the good stuff.

15 hours ago, Cubanboy said:

PS if your going to Host HOTAC

12 tie fighters

6 intercepters

4 bombers/ phantoms/ defenders

1 Shuttle / Dec / Firespray / Rebel Transport

1 of each rebel small ship.

I'll give a +1 just for mentioning HotAC.

Though I'd say for the rebels, 2 X, 2 Y, 1 A, 2 B, 1 HWK is more realistic instead of forcing everyone to a different seat.

Cherry, Thank you all. I managed to sort out the numbers:) Just one thing: I dont want to Pick sides, Ill try to field the top lists at tourneys, no matter the faction. Though, ill have hard Times loking into the mirror after flying a rebel list... :D

3 hours ago, JayDestroyaC said:

I'll give a +1 just for mentioning HotAC.

Though I'd say for the rebels, 2 X, 2 Y, 1 A, 2 B, 1 HWK is more realistic instead of forcing everyone to a different seat.

I feel like most people have the rebel ship they want to use but extra Rebels are not a bad idea. (I totally forgot that some missions need extra rebel ships) If you used the extended rules from the Facebook page there are consistently updating new rules and ships so I defaulted to one of everything.

HOTAC is such a great way to play past doing the 100-6 normal. I think I enjoy it 1000% more then standard play.