4 hours ago, Archangelspiv said:

1. Who said anything about being Identical?

The people arguing that every faction must have medium based ships. That's not what balanced means.

37 minutes ago, mazz0 said:

The people arguing that every faction must have medium based ships. That's not what balanced means.

In fairness, we are well on our way toward getting a TIE for every faction already.

1 hour ago, JJ48 said:

In fairness, we are well on our way toward getting a TIE for every faction already.

Coming Wave 5: Resistance Captured Tie SF with all unique pilots....

On 2/21/2019 at 4:34 PM, Ebak said:

The Seperatists did have a big habbit of utilising Bounty Hunters a lot more than the Empire has in the movies and TV show. ****, one of the Clone Wars episode had Cad Bane literally giving orders to battle droids while sitting in the captains chair of a Sepratist battleship...

Honestly, this was perhaps the one thing that bothered me the most (aside from the handful of truly dismal story arcs meant for the youngest of audiences) in Clone Wars.

Stop calling them bounty hunters (looking at you Lucasfilm ). Bounty hunters collect bounties by apprehending (or disintegrating on occasion) suspects or fugitives. They aren’t soldiers.

When you have contracted forces whose job is fighting for you, you have mercenaries. Or call them private military contractors if you want to go all Politically Correct.

Star Wars has become pretty bad about equating the terms bounty hunter and mercenary as if they’re the same occupation.

On 2/23/2019 at 4:50 PM, mazz0 said:

Well, I will bet any of you a fiver that Jango comes out for Scum.

I'll take that bet, too!

Let's get as many people to take this bet as we can. Worst case, we each owe mazzo $5. Best case, he'll collectively owe us a few $100. Still, I think it's a very safe bet, for the many reasons lots of us have provided.

Time to keep a log of this thread with dates/times and all the folks who take mazz0 up on his offer.

2 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

Star Wars has become pretty bad about equating the terms bounty hunter and mercenary as if they’re the same occupation.

I thought Old Republic handled it pretty well. The Bounty Hunter class does get conscripted to do some mercenary work, but most of their class missions are actually hunting bounties.

On 2/23/2019 at 4:50 PM, mazz0 said:

Well, I will bet any of you a fiver that Jango comes out for Scum.

I’m in. (He’ll be CIS/Separatist)

10 minutes ago, Cgriffith said:

I’m in. (He’ll be CIS/Separatist)

🤝

Just to clear up the technicalities of the bet - what if he comes out for both in the same wave? A draw?

7 hours ago, mazz0 said:

🤝

Just to clear up the technicalities of the bet - what if he comes out for both in the same wave? A draw?

I'd call that a draw. that works for me.

On 2/20/2019 at 9:09 AM, LagJanson said:

1. Why do you assume Jango is coming?
2. Why do you assume he won't already be Scum when he arrives, thus not needing an original title for Slave I?

I really do not see a new Firespray being packaged and sold, sorry. I'm not sure how they would make a Jango pilot available with their current marketing strategies, but things can change. Crew? Yeah, sure, not a problem. Pilots are issues at the moment.

first, hes a known character from the films who people like who also flies a cool ship with a distinctive color scheme. on a long enough timeline he'll be in the game.

Second, there are very few prequel ships the seperatists have to fill the role a firespray does. to keep things fun for seperatist players they'll need more than vultures, hyenas, etc.

they'll get mankvims, and whatnot but they completely lack medium and large base ships. because of this it makes sense that you'd get access to the firespray, if only for Jango(like rebel nym in 1.0)

12 hours ago, mazz0 said:

The people arguing that every faction must have medium based ships. That's not what balanced means.

every faction should have a medium based ship, though not in the same roles. medium base is just one of a dozen stats a ship can have, it wont make them the same

2 hours ago, Vontoothskie said:

every faction should have a medium based ship, though not in the same roles. medium base is just one of a dozen stats a ship can have, it wont make them the same

Why does every faction have to have a ship of every base size? How does that make the game better?

2 hours ago, Vontoothskie said:

first, hes a known character from the films who people like who also flies a cool ship with a distinctive color scheme. on a long enough timeline he'll be in the game.

Second, there are very few prequel ships the seperatists have to fill the role a firespray does. to keep things fun for seperatist players they'll need more than vultures, hyenas, etc.

they'll get mankvims, and whatnot but they completely lack medium and large base ships. because of this it makes sense that you'd get access to the firespray, if only for Jango(like rebel nym in 1.0)

Seriously? Do you not read the PAGES that followed post number two? Really?

On 2/27/2019 at 1:42 PM, mazz0 said:

Why does every faction have to have a ship of every base size? How does that make the game better?

To put it extremely simply.

Options.

To put it into FFG words.

Sales.

11 hours ago, mazz0 said:

Why does every faction have to have a ship of every base size? How does that make the game better?

why are you so opposed to it?

1) it makes the game better by allowing players of each faction to enjoy the game space further, exploring different ways to play and fly

2) large ships can be very hard to fly on boards with many ships or obstacles in certain arrangements.

3) medium bases have distinct advantages over large base ships in terms of arcs and bullseyes, and theres no reason to utterly deny 1 faction thst advantage

11 hours ago, LagJanson said:

Seriously? Do you not read the PAGES that followed post number two? Really?

chill out

9 minutes ago, Vontoothskie said:

chill out

Heh, in the middle of a snow storm... dude, I'm chillin' way out. Like, totally, chill.

7 hours ago, Vontoothskie said:

why are you so opposed to it?

1) it makes the game better by allowing players of each faction to enjoy the game space further, exploring different ways to play and fly

2) large ships can be very hard to fly on boards with many ships or obstacles in certain arrangements.

3) medium bases have distinct advantages over large base ships in terms of arcs and bullseyes, and theres no reason to utterly deny 1 faction thst advantage

I didn't say I was opposed to it, I just don't care if it doesn't happen. I don't care if one faction gets no ordnance, or no crew, or no turrets, or no speeds fives. They can have differences, and that's fine by me.

On 2/23/2019 at 6:50 PM, mazz0 said:

Well, I will bet any of you a fiver that Jango comes out for Scum.

Bet taken.

On 2/28/2019 at 11:39 AM, Odanan said:

Bet taken.

🤝

Right, that's three, I have enough bets now!

1 hour ago, mazz0 said:

Right, that's three, I have enough bets now!

Limiting your potential liability eh? 😊

3 hours ago, Max Teranous said:

Limiting your potential liability eh? 😊

I don't want to create too much inequality by taking lots of other peoples' money!

I think Jango will be both factions. maybe specifics for each faction.

I would be cool to get a card set where you can use ships across faction, like a shuttle tyderian card, or other examples like that. Would be fun.

Jango should be Scum, with a cluster of new Firespray pilots... but he should also include a card something like this (NOT A REAL CARD):

That way, any squad could add a single scum pilot to their team, regardless of who they were. Jango working for separatists? Sure! But what about Boba Fett working for the Empire... or Resistance? Asaaj could throw her assistance to the Republic or Rebels. The Unique title makes sure you can only put a single scum ship into another squad, and you can scale the cost of the card to the price of the unit (say, "Hired Gun" costs 1 point per 10 points of unit cost, rounded up). It also prevents you from stacking titles on ships like Guri.