But since we're getting them anyway, I guess I can appreciate 'em

because reasons

I've thought from the beginning that a medium base would have been useful. So glad (and surprised) we are finally getting it.

I like that predator alt art.

Still obsessed with wingspan after all these years...

I love the medium bases, it makes for a totally new experience flying these ships.

wingspan shall NEVER die!

but yeah, bases make more sense now as a part of 2.0 than it did

back in the day it seemed like a needless gameplay impediment as the ARC's larger size + action dependency would = worse ARC

but hey, new game

2 minutes ago, Warlon said:

I like that predator alt art.

thanks, made it myself

...course now I gotta get them re-done for 2.0

might be the only issue I have with the reboot

9 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

but yeah, bases make more sense now as a part of 2.0 than it did

back in the day it seemed like a needless gameplay impediment as the ARC's larger size + action dependency would = worse ARC

Oh yeah, there was no way they could have ADDED a new base to the old game after the ARC and K-Wing came out. But it really should have been designed in in the first place.

Didn't they announce medium bases as part of the game early on, then went with small and large? Or were the large bases called medium at one point? Either way, I distinctly remember medium bases being mentioned prior to launch.

I can see how there would be a problem with firing arcs, but I was really hoping medium bases would have been rectangular (half large bases). And specifically with some being wide rectangles, while others tall rectangle. Banks and turns would different depending on the ships size

3 minutes ago, DailyRich said:

Didn't they announce medium bases as part of the game early on, then went with small and large? Or were the large bases called medium at one point? Either way, I distinctly remember medium bases being mentioned prior to launch.

Not that I've ever seen. Just Small and Large.

59 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

wingspan shall NEVER die!

but yeah, bases make more sense now as a part of 2.0 than it did

back in the day it seemed like a needless gameplay impediment as the ARC's larger size + action dependency would = worse ARC

but hey, new game

thanks, made it myself

...course now I gotta get them re-done for 2.0

might be the only issue I have with the reboot

Looks perfect for some kind of "When your opponent's ship is in your bullseye arc" meme.

1 hour ago, Animewarsdude said:

Looks perfect for some kind of "When your opponent's ship is in your bullseye arc" meme.

Dank X Wing Memes, get on this!!!

I am sooo glad they introduced medium bases!

Now we need an upgrade card that allows you to switch base size.

I think it's fine that we have medium ships now, but it never really bothered me that we just had the two sizes before. In my mind's eye, I could always justify a medium-sized ship with a small footprint as being especially fast and hard to hit, and a medium-sized ship with a large footprint being relatively slow and easy to hit. But I'm looking forward to trying out new Firesprays, and I'm hoping Aggressors are mediums as well.

I'm excited about a meaningful distinction between TIE Bombers and Punishers.

5 minutes ago, DagobahDave said:

I think it's fine that we have medium ships now, but it never really bothered me that we just had the two sizes before. In my mind's eye, I could always justify a medium-sized ship with a small footprint as being especially fast and hard to hit, and a medium-sized ship with a large footprint being relatively slow and easy to hit. But I'm looking forward to trying out new Firesprays, and I'm hoping Aggressors are mediums as well.

Ironically, in X-Wing being large base makes you faster than small bases...

5 hours ago, VanderLegion said:

Ironically, in X-Wing being large base makes you faster than small bases...

not necessarily anymore

apparently only the falcon can boost now, and it's red

so you can't just outpace freaking interceptors just by having a fat ***

incidentally, look out for two-tubes (didn't seriously think I was flying bodhi, did ya ? ?) he is pretty dang cool with sensors + rec spec + jan. He's a fantastic road block + support ship and is stupidly annoying to try to kill because he can tank up like a jackass if he needs to

he's always completely unchanged in 2.0, apart from a smaller base that makes not using sensors a lot easier (well, RIP Jan. Hello, Jyn)

1 minute ago, genXesis said:

So I wonder....because there are some large ships becoming medium based and theres some small ships becoming medium based....what peg are they going to use? Will my old Firespray be able to use the new medium base....right along with my G1A that uses a current small peg....I'm really curious about how FFG is going to pull that off for older ships moving to medium bases....

Apparently there will be crossover pegs in the conversion kits.

Medium bases will use the large peg. Small moving to medium get a converter.

my ARCs are magnetized, so fingers crossed on those power converters

11 hours ago, DailyRich said:

Didn't they announce medium bases as part of the game early on, then went with small and large? Or were the large bases called medium at one point? Either way, I distinctly remember medium bases being mentioned prior to launch.

11 hours ago, Forgottenlore said:

Not that I've ever seen. Just Small and Large.

I believe if you go WAY back, to like GenCon 2012 videos when they first announced Wave 2, they were really coy about calling the Falcon and Slave 1 Medium bases and then changed to large during the press conference. This was still a year before the huge ships would be announced, but they were already in prototyping.

Speaking of medium bases.....sorry if I missed the info, but where will we be able to get them for our 1.0 ships? Conversion kit?

theyre in the conversion kits. I dont think they said the numbers but i doubt medium base numbers will be an issue.

Medium bases are needed just to make a number of ships less janky looking. It also solves crap like the Uwing which definitely should NOT be a large base, but its so long a small base is weird.

That's a cool ship-card shield token holder, Fickle - never seen that before!