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On 9/6/2019 at 4:07 AM, Captain Lackwit said:

So, you know.

Cloud cars, T-16s, T-47s, all viable.

Legion will have them.

On 9/7/2019 at 7:10 AM, Darth Meanie said:

Photos I could find of folks "gettin' it done":

@heychadwick , didn't you have a pretty sweet Beggar's Canyon setup for Mario Kart??

I am still scratching my head why FFG didn't make Legion this scale and made it compatible with X-wing (like how Hordes is compatible with Warmachine). Instead they cannibalized their own Imperial Assault game and made them nearly the same scale. Speaking of Imperial Assault are they going to have any Clone Wars and Sequel models or has FFG entirely abandoned that product line? It seems like the game closest to X-wing in terms of campaign crossovers, have a RPG style X-wing battle, then get out and fight an Imperial Assault campaign.

1 hour ago, Marinealver said:

Legion will have them.

I am still scratching my head why FFG didn't make Legion this scale and made it compatible with X-wing

Soldiers at 1/270 scale would be pin heads and starships at 28mm ish are about 1/48 scale (so, the size of most model airplanes) which would be kinda too big* for table top gaming.

(*Well aware of your proclivity for the ISD in 1/270 scale. . . 😂 )

The T-47 is pretty small vehicle in the SW galaxy.

On 9/6/2019 at 12:29 PM, Jo Jo said:

I mean you could just take the X-wing ruleset and throw in speeders and say hey you are in atmosphere, but I don't know what you would do with obstacles besides clouds. You cannot have ground obstacles without including some sort of altitude component to it. I mean you could, but you would just have to pretend everyone is flying arbitrarily low for no good reason. That would just feel kind of cheap to me.

all the x-wing obstacles make more sense in atmosphere and dont make sense in 3d space.

Instead of asteroids(which move) its stone pillars, peaks, or skyscrapers.

instead of ion gas clouds, its a smoke stack plume or a straight up thunderhead cloud.

the debris clouds would keep moving the same speed as the ship that dropped the minus the force the were pushed with, so those should work differently in both space and atmosphere than they do in game.

really dogfighting isnt 2d or turn based, so x-wing is a super dubious translation of dogfighting to begin with. and if anything the game only makes more sense as an atmospheric only game.

My crew and I all use non space boards/mats and most of us understood the game to be in atmosphere

Just thought of another item to add.. Lightning storms...

Take some of those "ion cloud" tokens and create a system, where occasionally they could let off a 1 or 2d lighning bolt, at any ship in range 1 of them..

On 9/10/2019 at 11:02 AM, Marinealver said:

Speaking of Imperial Assault are they going to have any Clone Wars and Sequel models or has FFG entirely abandoned that product line? It seems like the game closest to X-wing in terms of campaign crossovers, have a RPG style X-wing battle, then get out and fight an Imperial Assault campaign.

once more for the people in the back:

Imperial Assault was a violation of Hasbro's exclusive Star Wars board game license. Hasbro and FFG worked out a deal where Hasbro distributes the game and gets a large chunk of the revenue. It is not in FFG's interest to encourage people to buy Imperial Assault miniatures, expansions, et cetera, instead of buying the same for Legion. You'll note that all "board game" coded product (IA, Rebellion, Outer Rim) is not available from FFG's online store.

10 minutes ago, skotothalamos said:

once more for the people in the back:

Imperial Assault was a violation of Hasbro's exclusive Star Wars board game license. Hasbro and FFG worked out a deal where Hasbro distributes the game and gets a large chunk of the revenue. It is not in FFG's interest to encourage people to buy Imperial Assault miniatures, expansions, et cetera, instead of buying the same for Legion. You'll note that all "board game" coded product (IA, Rebellion, Outer Rim) is not available from FFG's online store.

Ah, I was wondering why I hadn't seen new IA stuff in a while.

Never heard of that before.