Happy Friday,

My local store is selling some older modes at 1/2 and it got me thinking about epic,

Let say all ships at double the cost from 1.0 to 2.0, would you like to see 8 smalls of one type or the limit raised to 12 again?

I prefer swarms of things over aces. I vote for 12.

2.0 Ion cannons would probably be brutal against 1.0 epic ships. I wonder how that'll balance out when they release the new epic rules.

(Everyone has heard about that Homestar Runner kickstarter for Trogdor's board game right? You have now. A jorb well done, if I do say so myself.)

Twelve - the more the merrier!

12. Of course we want full squadrons of TIE fighters.

True story: I played in an epic tournament using 8 Tie Interceptors (and 2 Gozantis). Immediately bought 4 more Interceptors because they were so good (second hand, very cheap. Like a lot of my fleets.)

The day that my extra ships arrived, the FAQ limiting ship numbers to 8 dropped. Wasn't happy .

Personally I prefer 8, mainly because I’m not the type of person to spam tons of ships, and if the limit is 12 then someday I’ll end up facing something ridiculous like 12 TIE-D defenders or 12 harpoon gunboats (or whatever the 2.0 equivalent ends up being) in a big epic game.

2 hours ago, Gilarius said:

True story: I played in an epic tournament using 8 Tie Interceptors (and 2 Gozantis). Immediately bought 4 more Interceptors because they were so good (second hand, very cheap. Like a lot of my fleets.)

The day that my extra ships arrived, the FAQ limiting ship numbers to 8 dropped. Wasn't happy .

Right there with you for some reason I ended up with 12 Ties and 12 Tie F/Os before someone pointed out the rule change.

Doh...

5 hours ago, Herowannabe said:

Personally I prefer 8, mainly because I’m not the type of person to spam tons of ships, and if the limit is 12 then someday I’ll end up facing something ridiculous like 12 TIE-D defenders or 12 harpoon gunboats (or whatever the 2.0 equivalent ends up being) in a big epic game.

There's an easy fix for that...

46 minutes ago, ViscerothSWG said:

There's an easy fix for that...

Oh don’t worry, I bleed imperial. But I’m not the kind of guy who goes out and buys 12 gunboats just for that one chance I might eventually get to run all 12 of them in an epic game, so I will never be on that side of the 12x spam exchange.

Just don't take my Toryn Farr. I love her so much!

Guys any 2.0 epic will likely feature the required huge ship rule so outside a couple cases of generics there isn’t going to be much room for 12 of anything. It’s probably why the pulled it back to 8 in the first place.

10 hours ago, Herowannabe said:

Oh don’t worry, I bleed imperial. But I’m not the kind of guy who goes out and buys 12 gunboats just for that one chance I might eventually get to run all 12 of them in an epic game, so I will never be on that side of the 12x spam exchange.

You don’t?

i have 12 Tie Fighters and 10 Tie F/O for that reason..

294 points of fun fun fun and like 44-66 dice then ram an epic for the win.

12 hours ago, Herowannabe said:

the kind of guy who goes out and buys 12 gunboats just for that one chance I might eventually get to run all 12 of them in an epic game

Somebody ask for me?

Happy Friday everyone!

Twelve Tempest with X1/Accuracy Corrector with a Ram Gozanti for me !

Welp, now I need to buy 6 5 more B-wings.

On 7/20/2018 at 4:54 PM, Herowannabe said:

Personally I prefer 8, mainly because I’m not the type of person to spam tons of ships, and if the limit is 12 then someday I’ll end up facing something ridiculous like 12 TIE-D defenders or 12 harpoon gunboats (or whatever the 2.0 equivalent ends up being) in a big epic game.

12 TIE-D defenders is more than 300 points. It's also a lot worse than you'd expect. You either compromise numbers, PS or both in contrast to normal ships. I'd take 12 TIE fighters and 6 harpoon gunboats over 12 Defenders any day.

An Australian online store has been burning through their core sets with a 66% discount, so I've picked up 8 TIE fighters from them. Once the expansions go on sale I'll buy up plenty more for Epic and HotAC.

5 hours ago, Astech said:

12 TIE-D defenders is more than 300 points. It's also a lot worse than you'd expect. You either compromise numbers, PS or both in contrast to normal ships. I'd take 12 TIE fighters and 6 harpoon gunboats over 12 Defenders any day.

We frequently play Massive Epic team games with anywhere from 600-1000 points, so encountering 12x TIE-D Glaives with support from other ships is a possibility.

I'll justleave this here