I am drooling with anticipation of getting my hands on the alt-art QD and metal shields in the upcoming Quarterly Kit. It got me thinking, what other cards/tokens would be cool to get official alt-art or acrylic versions of? It could be your favorite pilot or upgrade that you would like to see with some snazzy new art for, or maybe it's a card with art that you think is terrible and you want to see something cooler. What tokens are you still using cardboard for that you would love to have as acrylic or maybe even metal? Who knows, maybe FFG will read this and run with your idea.

For me, I would like to see Colonel Vessery get a fresh look. And how about tractor beam cannon to go with him because the current card art is a bit lame. As for an acrylic, i would love to see Palp get the Agent Kallus treatment. A big slab of acrylic befitting our beloved Emperor. Another one I would like to see get an acrylic is A Score to Settle. It's going to be sitting on the mat for as long as the ship it's on is alive so it should look cool and be durable while doing it.

So what do you want to add to your swag collection?

There are a ton of alt arts I would love to have. With Fenn Rau alt art for Worlds, I would love to get some good alt art for Ventress. I've already got the two of them painted up. Having alt art for them as well would be awesome.

As for tokens, I wouldn't mind some focus and evades in metal to match the shield tokens coming out, assuming good quality and preferably a little heft.

I really like the look of the full-bleed Shadowport Hunter style, and I hope we see some more in this style. I'd love to see Vessery as well.

I'm guessing we may have missed the boat on movie still alt arts from Rogue One?

As for tokens, I reckon a matching pair for A Score to Settle/A Debt To Pay might be quite good

I really liked that FFG alt art upgrades have been very useful...mostly (looking at you, swarm tactics) so anything along the lines of FCS or Expertise would be welcome

for pilot art, that Quickdraw looks incredible. I truly believe FFG should stick to helmeted pilots because of....uh...

...reasons

I've seen the new metal shield tokens, and am unfortunately not impressed. I've always thought metal tokens would be great, but these are just meh.

38 minutes ago, JediRush24 said:

I've seen the new metal shield tokens, and am unfortunately not impressed. I've always thought metal tokens would be great, but these are just meh.

Have you held them? Any heft?

39 minutes ago, JediRush24 said:

I've seen the new metal shield tokens, and am unfortunately not impressed. I've always thought metal tokens would be great, but these are just meh.

Couldn't agree more. Very unimpressed.

btw, remember this thing?

Come Saw's, you might actually see them on the top tables

I want new artwork for the poor Gold Squadron Pilot :|

6 hours ago, eMeM said:

I want new artwork for the poor Gold Squadron Pilot :|

Careful. They seem to have a blind spot for Golds. The official alt art wasn't so hot either...

I did hold the new metal tokens. Not really any weight too them, and not stamped on both sides. I think they weigh as much as a dime, maybe.

16 hours ago, DXCrazytrain said:

For me, I would like to see Colonel Vessery get a fresh look. And how about tractor beam cannon to go with him because the current card art is a bit lame.

I'd love to see the Colonel get a nice bit of alt-art, and an alternate tractor beam card would also be cool. An alternate ion cannon card would be nice. Something that's, ya know, blue and or shows the ion effect?

Anyone know how many sets of shields are actually in the new kits? I can't seem to find anything definite.

1 hour ago, JediRush24 said:

I did hold the new metal tokens. Not really any weight too them, and not stamped on both sides. I think they weigh as much as a dime, maybe.

That's unfortunate. Oh well.

1 hour ago, Red42 said:

Anyone know how many sets of shields are actually in the new kits? I can't seem to find anything definite.

I've been wondering this as well. I'd be disappointed if they've dropped down to one set of tokens per kit.

24 minutes ago, Red42 said:

Anyone know how many sets of shields are actually in the new kits? I can't seem to find anything definite.

Two sets of five shields, three copies of QD, and 16 Shadowport Hunters

I would like it if at the end of a season, they had a buy option for any promos you missed. For some professions, certain disabilities, odd life circumstances in general, it is incredibly difficult to make it to organized play events with enough frequency, or sometimes even skill truth be told, to win a "full set". And I know a few players who despite having won some components won't use them in play since they wouldn't match the rest of their pieces. Even if they came at a premium or in limited offerings or even order individually. Heck, I would be happy if the tokens were the same every season so that if I did win a full set over a few years the whole set would still match. I know I'm in the minority on this, but come on FFG, your killing me smalls!

13 hours ago, SabineKey said:

Have you held them? Any heft?

2 hours ago, JediRush24 said:

I did hold the new metal tokens. Not really any weight too them, and not stamped on both sides. I think they weigh as much as a dime, maybe.

They have more heft than cardboard and most acrylics.

I have also held them and hefted them and I for one think they are sweet! I would love to get a set or two and paint them up.

18 hours ago, DXCrazytrain said:

I am drooling with anticipation of getting my hands on the alt-art QD and metal shields in the upcoming Quarterly Kit. It got me thinking, what other cards/tokens would be cool to get official alt-art or acrylic versions of?

A lot of the pilot cards have had horrible images (basically the @ficklegreendice posted, but also the Luke from nationals), so I simultaneously hope and fear that a horrid card will come out for a pilot I like. I'm waiting on Carnor Jax, Ryad and Thweek, but wouldn't be unhappy with Nym, Miranda or Vessery as they'd be useful pilots. Amongst the useful upgrades to release alt-art forms of would be Palpatine, juke, expertise and maybe pattern analyzer.

18 hours ago, DXCrazytrain said:

So what do you want to add to your swag collection?

Acrylic condition tokens of every type. A baggie with one of each of the following would be amazing: harpooned, I'll show you the dark side, a score to settle, fanatical devotion and mimicked/shadowed. FFG should just release baggies of 5 condition tokens every time there are 5 more conditions out. Also, tokens to track the usage of the Emperor or C-3PO would also be handy as long as they aren't as comically large and unwieldy as Agent Kallus' token.

1 hour ago, theBitterFig said:

Two sets of five shields, three copies of QD, and 16 Shadowport Hunters

Thanks, I was hoping for multiple packs of shields. Finished second at a kit tournament yesterday but the prizes hadn't arrived yet and so been hoping for shields - it's the one useful token I don't have in any sort of official form.

I believe FFG dropped the ball with the alt-art cards of pilots/crew that appeared in Star Wars Rebels. Alt-art cards for any pilot/crew from that source should be using stills from the show and not the artwork they have used. So we'd have Hera not looking like a man if they did this.

Asajj

Guri

RAC

Oicunn

Palpatine

More double cards - but actually useful ones. FCS and ACD, LWF and Spec Ops (maybe double sided with LWF and Ailerons), Black One and Optics, Juke and Comm Relay, maybe double sided x7/D, etc. Basically stuff people will actually use frequently, ideally in multiples. Not shadowport hunters and Horton friggin Salm.

On 01/04/2018 at 5:06 AM, ficklegreendice said:

btw, remember this thing?

Come Saw's, you might actually see them on the top tables

Yeah and I’m still waiting for the dual TIE/x1 Advanced Targeting Computer card

10 hours ago, thespaceinvader said:

Asajj

Guri

RAC

Oicunn

Palpatine

More double cards - but actually useful ones. FCS and ACD, LWF and Spec Ops (maybe double sided with LWF and Ailerons), Black One and Optics, Juke and Comm Relay, maybe double sided x7/D, etc. Basically stuff people will actually use frequently, ideally in multiples. Not shadowport hunters and Horton friggin Salm.

Yeah, the Fearlessness/Concord Dawn Protector combo card announced for Worlds is kind of cool and thematic, but replacing Fearlessness with Autothrusters in the combo would have made a card virtually every Fang Fighter wants.

I'd love an alt art deadeye with an imp or scum pilot.