Just a minor thing - our club had a Quick Build event last night. I was there in passing, dropping off Christmas presents*, and saw the participation prizes - some new quick build cards.

I've seen the Black Squadron Ace quick build card that was at the original launch event before, and thought it was gorgeous - awesome art, and all the (fixed) upgrades for the pilot on one card. A great idea!

So....looking and seeing there was another TIE fighter in the prize deck intrigued me and I wondered who it was. It turned out to be Iden Versio:

Thing is, it's not Iden Versio.

In the Quick Build PDF, and Quick Build Card, the only legal option for Iden Versio I have access to is Outmanouvre/Shield Upgrade. If I'm at an event where I need to use 'official' materials, I can't field the 'new Iden' - who's dramatically changed, not least because she's picked up a white Target Lock action on her bar for some reason (I know Inferno Squadron had ordnance but if I was creating a 'missile TIE fighter' I'd have given it Proton Rockets - or Barrage Rockets - for this reason), whilst someone who can produce the official Deluxe Kit Iden Versio can lob torpedoes around with her.

It's not earth-shaking, it's a minor gripe and if I'm being brutally honest with myself, a non-trivial part of it is unjustified sour grapes for not making it to the event because of many unavoidable things broadly falling under the banner of "Adulting".

But part of it is genuine concern. I did play D&D Attack Wing, and many friends played Star Trek Attack Wing, and whilst all of us liked the fact that the Organised Play events often came with unique scenarios, one thing that we all disliked was Wizkid's tendancy to introduce Participation-Exclusive or Prize-Exclusive ships/dragons. FFG's approach of Alternative Art characters is fine, but when attending gets you a new ship that you cannot get any other way and which is genuinely better than the 'normal' version , you start storing up balance issues, and a certain amount of angst for later.

I'd love to see this alternate version of Iden Versio added to the quick build .pdf, but I'm not sure you can even do that, since there's no logical way to denote adding the target lock action.

Don't get me wrong; I'm happy to see new and varied quick builds, or event-specific ones, or whatever, and as new stuff comes out, revising quick build options to add alternatives with new stuff is good practice. And I know I can ebay, beg, borrow or steal one off friends, or just use a print-out of the image above. I like the quick-build approach - in many ways more than 'standard' points values. But please don't issue ones that someone who doesn't make it to an event misses the chance to 'legally' access.

* Ho, ho, bloody ho**.

** Humbug .

It’s quickbuilds, do what you want man

This version of Iden is on the quick build squad maker page http://infinitearenas.com/qbsb/#

I wasn't aware that there was any requirement to have the physical cards at all in order to use them. Which means there is no problem here, all builds are available to everyone. Otherwise I'd struggle to make any high threat list at all!

By the way, 4 Knave E-wings is legal in this format...and is terrible!

Honestly I don't see the problem about this.

This is a prize card for a specific format, if I win I would be happy to use for my next game, any prize is a official material of FFG so I don't need to be worried !

I don't see in any official quick build tournament why you couldn't use either build of Iden. There's 5 quick builds promo cards released thus far and I don't have the rest in front of me... are the rest good to go? I think it was a skull fighter for scum, black squadron/gray squadron flip card, and Thane for rebels.

The Thane and Black Squadron cards are different from the original versions on the PDF, too. Variants are cool imo. Especially in a totally casual format like quick build.

All of the released quick builds are on the site mentioned above: http://infinitearenas.com/qbsb/#

A great tool for prepping a list for a quick build event.

"disliked was Wizkid's tendancy to introduce Participation-Exclusive or Prize-Exclusive ships/dragons...." If FFG is smart they will sell the new Alt paint ships at a latter date, say during the next reprint.. its a huge cash cow that WK missed...