You know how the joke went, you don't need the plastic models, just stick a potato on the peg?

Well, I for one am kind of excited by these new $50 conversion sets. I have not bought more than a quarter of the last several waves, and there's probably 20 or more ships from the past two years that I still haven't gotten.

Now, with the conversion kit and a sack of potatoes, I will be able to fly all of them!

(Note, my sarcasm is not to fling poo all over this second edition concept. I'm actually being genuine about the opportunity of playing ships I never bought. Borrowing physical models is easy. Having all the cards in front of me to dwell upon and owning the dials and base chits for myself --which can be hard for a lender to dig out-- is a great value! Only the potato part is sarcastic.)

Lego-Wing?

Just now, kris40k said:

Lego-Wing?

Micro-machine wing... Hot Wheels wing...

But seriously, asking a friend to dig out their cards, dials, base tokens can be a huge hassle. This is a huge value for those who haven't bought all the ships.

Now that's odd. Because dials are freely avaible via apps, cards are freely avaible via apps and other web resources and only cardboard would be an issue to have. So what's so special about the conversion kit?

7 minutes ago, SEApocalypse said:

Now that's odd. Because dials are freely avaible via apps, cards are freely avaible via apps and other web resources and only cardboard would be an issue to have. So what's so special about the conversion kit?

I don't use apps except for squad building. Even then, I gather the physical cards to play with after I've done my brainstorming and tweaking of a list. I just use a printout for my opponent's convenience. I frankly dislike it when my opponent ONLY uses a printout in a casual game. I like to have all the physical components in front of me.

So this hugely opens the game up for me personally, and I imagine for others who dropped out of completist buying some time ago.

Im curious...do you use a dice app as well?

My wife likes to use dice apps sometimes.

Personally? I use the dial up simply to test unreleased stuff, the classic scenario you described. And I really dislike cards and prefer the print outs. For two major reasons. t would be stupid to carry $2,000 worth of cards with me around just because I might want to adjust my list with a few cards. Carrying with me around 30 pages out of my printer is dirt cheap, and reprinting or adjusting in an app your list is convenient on location.

Though I like the concept of the cards and I have my "main" lists in those handy sleeves with combine one ship card and 7 or so upgrade card on a single page. Super handy for tournament and super handy for your main lists. But in the end, cards are just helpers to remember something and a sheet of paper does the same thing. X-Wing in nature is not a card game, you don't touch them in game anyway, you don't play them and anything related to discarding or exhausting a card would be done with a token smoother anyway, because nearly all players sleeved their cards anyway. So why not use some nice token for those functions? ?

Different strokes. It's all good.

I am just happy to realize the upside for having sat out most of the last 5-6 waves.

(I think there's several hundred dollars worth of Scum ships alone that I bypassed.)