As somebody who enjoys tactical flight-based wargames, but has difficulty convincing people to play Crimson Skies or the various historical rulesets, the notion of this announcement intrigues me.

One thing gives me pause, though: Is this intended to be "collectible", distributed in random packs and whatnot, as the Wizards of the Coast starship battles game was? That's a quick way to kill my interest. If I can purchase what I want to expand my fleet, as it were, directly and without rarity shenanigans, and the game is more concerned with creating tactically interesting and playstyle-customized rosters and load-outs, than I'm certainly listening.

Thanks for the info, if anybody's able to provide it!

Reading the description, it sound like the minis will be released like Wings of War.

That's just my opinion/speculation.

Brian

the Wings of War minis look okay on the website, however I've never seen one in the flesh (so to speak), so I'll have to reserve judgement as yet, looks promising though

Hmm.... if they are the same size (roughly) I will be a bit dissapointed. They wouldn't fit with the original micro-machine ones which I still regard as the best of the Star Wars miniatures.

I don't know a great deal about Fantasy Flight Games, but from what I've seen (Wings of War, Dust Tactics) you know exactly what you're getting.

Briper82 said:

Curiosity: What is the medium for WoW aircraft? A soft poly, a hard styrene, or metal?

Here is a link to the video interview at Gencon. From what Fantasy Flight Games said in the interview they do not do the "collectible" or words to that extent type of games. FANTASTIC! I HATE those, I use to buy Star Wars Miniatures just to get Snowtroopers and Hoth Figures, cost me a ton and have 100s of figures I will never use.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/events/gen-con/star-wars-x-wing/

VR
James Mattes

And I hope you don't have to buy the Imperial and the Rebel sides seperately, but the expansions will have thematically paired and balanced adversaries.

FFG has repeatedly stated that they don't/won't produce any "blind buy" products. So I'm fairly certain that "collectible" doesn't mean you will be buying a pack where you don't know exactly what you are getting.

bsmith13 said:

About that stuff regarding no "blind buys," does FFG actually say which cards are in each pack and what they do? I can see how that's just asking for people to copy them without buying products, but I still can't help but feel that, even if I know what ship it is, I won't know if I really want that pack or not until I know what cards it comes with.

Yeah, no blind buys (although that would be really cool).

"Posted September 8, 2011"

This thread is 6 years old, I think this is officially the oldest necro-post this forum has seen. How did you even find this post in the first place?

Is it older than derpfender?

Excellent troll necro-ing at it's finest.

1 hour ago, Otacon said:

"Posted September 8, 2011"

This thread is 6 years old, I think this is officially the oldest necro-post this forum has seen. How did you even find this post in the first place?

Boba Rick necroed the first post ever a few days ago.

2 hours ago, Otacon said:

"Posted September 8, 2011"

This thread is 6 years old, I think this is officially the oldest necro-post this forum has seen. How did you even find this post in the first place?

I went to the very last page of posts.

5 hours ago, Celestial Lizards said:

I went to the very last page of posts.

And still failed to beat Boba Rick?

Here's a challenge: go find and necro the first thread complaining about game balance. Should be pretty early.

2 hours ago, Bike Stunts said:

Here's a challenge: go find and necro the first thread complaining about game balance. Should be pretty early.

I did it! What's my prize?

25 minutes ago, GLEXOR said:

I did it! What's my prize?

THE GLORY

Just now, Bike Stunts said:

THE GLORY

YAY! My favorite!

Why did you Necro this post!! Its one of my favourites and now I won't be able to find it easily :'(

2 hours ago, Infinite_Maelstrom said:

Why did you Necro this post!! Its one of my favourites and now I won't be able to find it easily :'(

Now it's on the front page! Easier to find.

1 hour ago, GLEXOR said:

Now it's on the front page! Easier to find.

...and as long as we keep bumping it, it'll stay there

1 minute ago, haslo said:

...and as long as we keep bumping it, it'll stay there

And so it begins...