Epic 1.5 - The Interim

By ScummyRebel, in X-Wing Epic Play

What would you want to see happen for epic between the release of epic 2.0 materials and the release in september?

My thoughts:

1. Use 1.0 everything

2. Use 1.0 with a ban list (to gradually move to 2.0) - ban harpoons, TLT, maybe a few other issues

3. Play 2.0 everything except for the huge ship itself. For points, use twice the as-printed values on hardpoints and “huge ship only” materials, or maybe 1.5 rounded if you feel 2x is overcosted, and use the app to build the rest. Try to play as much like 2.0 as you feasibly can, only falling back on 1.0 for things not yet defined. The cr90 keeps its turret, for now, and play by ear.

I really want to try 3, because I don’t want to have to go back and fish out all these things I’ll never see again once everything is migrated. But not sure how it would work.

58 minutes ago, ScummyRebel said:

I  really w  ant to try   3

Option 3 is quite intriguing. I suspect it would make huge ship extremely powerful though, even at double point cost and it may be difficult to switch rule modes for one ship (having said the huge ships are a law unto themselves so maybe not). We’d have to wait for the full 2.0 rule book to know what else would need to be changed.

I don't see much in terms of mixing 1.0 or 2.0 I would usually go with 2.0. No need for a ban list you can just make huge ships immune to TLTs and Conditions (conditions cannot be assigned to huge ships, Reinforce blocks 1 damage on huge ships) and watch those weapons get swapped out.

2.0 I guess you could just swap bases and rules but keep the point cost the same as 1st edition counterparts. But lets face it we don't know the rules for 2.0 we just got what has been mentioned so until the rule book is on PDF or spoiled we can't play 2.0 at all not even on vassal .

As for me I will gladly wait for the inevitable conversion. (C-Roc needs a base redesign after it's fire arc snafu). We might have to wait a few more waves but there are many players who don't like 2.0 I will gladly invite those players to Epic for the time being.