2 minutes ago, ovinomanc3r said:

You build a ship.

You built a MC80

You name that ship.

The ship is caled Home One.

Home One is not different than any other MC80.

But it happens it will be.

Home One has a long career against the Empire.

His name didn't give it its achievements, it didn't make it famous and recognisable.

You put a name on a ship, but the ship made that name famous.

How? Thanks to a veteran crew, clever officers, special upgrades, whatever you prefer or everything at once.

The ship built up a fighting idiosyncrasy and that made the name famous.

Then, after years of service, Home One faced Vader.

Vader was angry.

Vader boarded the ship and made his way through the crew, destroying systems, killing officers, whatever you prefer or everything at once.

Home One is still named Home One but what made Home One being famous is now dead or destroyed. The skillful crew is teared to pieces all along the ship.

The ship is still alive, the paint is still on the hull. But Home One, what made Home One to be Home One is gone.

Home One is just another MC80 full of dead bodies.

Discard the title.

Note that the rule is to discard the title to represent that what that ship was able to do is gone for good. The rule doesn't say repaint the ship, nor rename it.

When you don't equip an officer it doesn't mean there are no officers. It means that those officers are not skillful enough to make a difference.

I cried a little.

52 minutes ago, Madaghmire said:

I cried a little.

To be fair, just as Vader discarding, say, Leia (officer) or another unique officer doesn't necessarily represent him killing that officer (As evidenced by the fact that said officer will be right back at work next battle in a Correlian Conflict Campaign), discarding the title doesn't necessarily represent him gutting the ship; Just causing enough damage that the ship cannot do the one thing it is most famous for until some after battle repairs are made and the red shirts replenished.

1 minute ago, Squark said:

To be fair, just as Vader discarding, say, Leia (officer) or another unique officer doesn't necessarily represent him killing that officer (As evidenced by the fact that said officer will be right back at work next battle in a Correlian Conflict Campaign), discarding the title doesn't necessarily represent him gutting the ship; Just causing enough damage that the ship cannot do the one thing it is most famous for until some after battle repairs are made and the red shirts replenished.

*sniff* do you promise?

23 minutes ago, Madaghmire said:

*sniff* do you promise?

Well, in the average game, the narrative is what you and your opponent decide it is as you play the game, so how much damage Vader really inflicts is up to the two of you. I lean towards less lethality, personally, if only because envisioning every engagement as a climactic battle with huge casualties that decides the fate of the galaxy seems silly when the battles are a) this small, and b) four times out of five involve Vader getting destroyed by so no-name like a chump in the first turns of the game.

Disclaimer: I am terrible at telling when people are talking tongue in cheek on the internet, and tend to err on the side of caution lest I offend someone by making light of their concerns. Also, I struggle to stop myself from droning on and on about things when I'm in a comfortable environment.

22 hours ago, DrakonLord said:

Then its not discarding.

Well, even discarding isn't discarding.

It's just flipping over

On 1/11/2018 at 9:28 AM, Drasnighta said:

Credit to all the time I worked for Games Workshop. You can say many poor things about the company’s practices and people - but when you found a store that actually cared and followed the directions the way they should, like Darren does as the manager here in Calgary- then you get profoundly positive experiences...

The Painting Posture Triangle has kept me working in the industry far longer than my ailing body should have. And when I get actual time to paint, I still pull off some decent work because of it.

Can you elaborate on this painting posture? Still not quite able to visualize it.

26 minutes ago, Valca said:

Can you elaborate on this painting posture? Still not quite able to visualize it.

Elbows on table, wrists touching.