My unreasonable selfish disappointments in X-wing 2.0

By Icelom, in X-Wing

Let me start with, I love most of 2.0 and what I am sad about is stupid.

1. My old sculpts are going to suck (in my mind) by comparison, I have 4 fang fighters so I won’t be getting the blisters and that means my fangs cant articulate and It will piss me right off. How many more sculpts are going to annoy me in the future.

2. I love my coloured bases, but I don’t have medium colour bases, this is also going to drive me nutz the coloured bases fit my ships better (less loose connections) and just look way cooler and make differentiating my army from my opponents easier.

3. I laser cut all my own templates and tokens, most will be fine, but shield tokens are double sided now and I love the implementation of the double sided tokens. I can cut new shields but alignment is tricky to engrave on one side then flip and engrave again and cut. Things like range rulers should be easy to recut.

4. 5 months is a long time to by hyped about the changes to 2.0 while still playing 1.0… I want to try new stuff! No this is always the case with normal wave announcements but it feels more heavy knowing that what I am playing is an inferior design and the new one is right there I just don’t have it. Wish they gave like a 1month notice.

5. having to come to this forums pit of negativity about everything in order to check on news…. I need new info I have a serious problem but sometimes I need to just not read anything on these forums. So I either risk missing exciting news or read a certain subset of the forum base complain about the colour of the sky or whatever else they happened to look at while typing.

All in all I am hyped but those are few things that are eating at me.

6. Green dice still exist

**** green dice

Btw double sided shields don't actually matter. They're a neat way to track your "max shield value" so they don't have to always write it on Regen, but I doubt any non-competitive setting could give you **** for just using old tokens and ditching them when you lose shields

Unless you're a messy bastard like me

Edited by ficklegreendice
5 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

6. Green dice still exist

**** green dice

Btw double sided shields don't actually matter. They're a neat way to track your "max shield value" so they don't have to always write it on Regen, but I doubt any non-competitive setting could give you **** for just using old tokens and ditching them when you lose shields

Unless you're a messy bastard like me

Oh i know they dont matter, its just really cool.

For me I just really have to get use to the new dials, prefer the old design with the equal sized card board piece.... But that blue they have choosen for the Imperials, WHY??? Looks so cheap and toyish..

Edited by Dwing
24 minutes ago, Icelom said:

2. I love my coloured bases, but I don’t have medium colour bases, this is also going to drive me nutz the coloured bases fit my ships better (less loose connections) and just look way cooler and make differentiating my army from my opponents easier.

You can spray paint them very easily.

I'm saddest about losing the alt-art pilot cards. I absolutely LOVE my movie still alt arts with Biggs, Luke and Han. Disco Vader is fun, but movie Vader was awesome. Even though FFG is likely to create more alt-arts, they're probably going to stick with their in-house art pieces and won't reprint the movie stills.

I'm not looking forward to having to find space for the new, wide upgrade card layouts at smaller tournaments.

That's really the only complaint I can muster at the moment.

i don't even think that's a valid unreasonable complaint as you're probably putting less total card-stock down than you did when you ran 8+ upgrade ships like nym ?

I need to buy all conversion kit double and sell the generics, because a shared collection with my wife still needs the unique cards twice. It's a pain in the *** the sell all those generic conversions. I mean who would buy 5 Kihraxz fighter conversion from me anyway`? ?

3 hours ago, ficklegreendice said:

6. Green dice still exist

**** green dice

Btw double sided shields don't actually matter. They're a neat way to track your "max shield value" so they don't have to always write it on Regen, but I doubt any non-competitive setting could give you **** for just using old tokens and ditching them when you lose shields

Unless you're a messy bastard like me 

Red dice too. They had a great opportunity to go diceless but didn't do it. oh well.

48 minutes ago, period3 said:

Red dice too. They had a great opportunity to go diceless but didn't do it. oh well.

Dice add a huge thrill....

I need to roll 2 crits with my tie fighter at range 3 of his 3 agility ship and he needs to roll 4 blanks..... COME ON DICE GO GO GO. Adds a huge thrill and excitement, sometimes just having a chance even if its super tiny gives that adrenaline surge on both sides of the roll.

I don't really want to just play math the star wars game. Sometimes I want to spit in the face of the odds and go for the long shot! I always call 1 on C3P0 even on 2 and 3 dice rolls because its just way more fun.