hope in upcoming card packs

By Mpori, in X-Wing

Hi there (hivemind)!

To be honest, Im super excited for whats coming up for the game; like someone else said elsewhere: The pool its half full but the party have started already... And its a great one.

But as a rebel-resistance player from 1e, Id jumped to second folllowing the steps to do so (buy starter+conversion kits), and I know that its is impossible to satisfy the expectations from every player... But hey! heres the thing: Id collected 3 rebels ARC 170 from 1e, conversion kit just allows me to field 2 because includes 2 dials...(so ones got shelved). Then with the arrival of the republic, Id buyed a 4th ARC, the galactic republic version, as an standard expansion pack just included 1 dial, but like a child in chirstmas eve I didnt kill the hope of geting another dial; yeah! thats the naive in me!. Now have 2 dials for the rebels, 1 for the republic and 4 models... So heres me hoping to get the generic pilots for the republic, along the base token and a dial, because somehow, I ended with model that I cant use (even taking the steps thats is soupossed to get me there)... I know, I know. Some would suggest that Id trade or buy the missing components or another expansion to solve this and I will, thank you (even being sold out at protech and ebay). But wanted to pointed it out because I get the feeling Im not the only one that even having invested to field my collection, still some pieces are missing and with the arrival of card pack... The spark of hope have blinked again.

So. CIS and GR players, and players of every other faction aswell of course, have you got in to this alley yourselves? What pilots-dial-base tokens would you like, more likely hope, to see get included in a future card packs?

I would liked that the upcoming hot shot and aces card pack included the 7 factions, as whole and solid start point to level every faction, common ground for everyone, yay! But its not happening, and isnt necessary cause the game is nicely balanced right now... Still card packs are around and perhaps not so far away we got one for CIS-GR republic of some sort... Im waiting for at least the base token and generic pilots for GR ARCs could be fitted there, but hey! Thats the naive in me... What would you expect to find in future card packs?

I'm a resistance/gr player so in a future card pack I'd probably like to see:

Adi Gallia - Delta 7

Rhys Dallows - Naboo Starfighter

Mara Jade in a Scum Z-95

Imperial Boba in the Firespray

Jango in the Firespray for both CIS and Scum.

Hera in an A-Wing.

1. I’m pretty happy overall with the pilot count and types we are getting in the first card pack.

2. I want some of my old xwing buddies back - Hobbie and Janson are both canon (I envision the 2.0 Janson saying “after you perform an attack, if it hits, assign a jam token to the defender”. So he can help with reinforce or target locks, but is not supremely powerful.

I’d like to see Hera in an Awing.

Though truthfully, what I want most in terms of new pilots isn’t canon and thus will never happen— I want a special pack of Tie Interceptors in the Scum faction. They have the paint jobs described in X-Wing book 6 (Iron Fist). And the pilots are the Hawk-Bat aliases of Wraith Squadron - who doesn’t want an I6 Lt. Kettch the Ewok? (Wedge with a stuffed Ewok toy masquerading as a pilot) Yub yub, Commander.

I would even settle for a card pack and I have to buy more standard interceptors and work on repaints.

I'm a Dirty First Order player through and through, and while I'm slightly more excited to be getting a new ship (with possibly more in the near future), getting more pilots is great too.

Excited to see what Rush does, because I'm getting tired of Kylo, lol; and Phasma will have terrific synergy with Tavson and QD.