I. J. Thompson said:

Not to rain on your parade... but weren't Dutch and Pops Y-wing pilots? After the debaucle that was WOTCs Starship Battles I'm not hoping for much with this game. I'd love to be pleasantly suprised though!

Oboewan said:

You're not raining on my parade. Yes they're Y-wing pilots, but the discussion was about using named characters as generic pilots. What they were flying in the film is besides the point, since pilots can be swapped between ships in this game, anyway.

I. J. Thompson said:

We hope so, at any rate. It's still up in the air since, as far as I'm aware, all the pilot cards specifically stated whether they pilot X-wings or TIE/ln Fighters, which may indicate that pilots are craft specific -- a very dark path for FFG to go down. Let's hope that is fixed in the final edition.

Oh crap, really? I haven't looked at those cards in a while.

Yes, FFG, let's keep things open to the maximum customization possible!

Oboewan said:

Go look at the WWII version of this, every pilot has a name. And since this game will just be a spin off, we aren't going to have a squad built up for 20 X-wings, more like 3-7 of them on the board so its easy to have a bunch of named pilots and not run out of names. Same for Tie-fighters. Plus like you said, you don't care, so it shouldn't bother you when they add a bit more life to the actual game instead of generic spam stuff that eventually gets phased out by better pieces in the future.

plokoon9619 said:

Are you replying to Oboewan, or to me?

If me, I'm trying to puzzle out what you're saying, here. Why would having named pilots in the game bother me? I only said that having generic pilots doesn't bother me. I simply don't feel that the stats of the 'minor characters' could be varied enough to force players to have to differentiate between Ed, Bob, Roger, Siggi, Fernando, and Gort. And if they're only using movie stills on the cards, that really limits their options to how many different characters can make it into the game (I'm assuming the Wings of War cards don't use photographs of real WWII pilots).

But I've already seen that this is a hot-button issue for you, and it's really not for me, so I'm lettin' it go... I just wanted to clarify that I'm not some kind of "no unique characters in the game" weirdo. If this issue is so important to you, you should start a thread about it where FFG can see it, and take it under consideration!

Oh crap, really? I haven't looked at those cards in a while.

Yes, FFG, let's keep things open to the maximum customization possible!

Yes, I agree!

You necro'ed a thread around 3 years old, for? Especially one discussing what may or may not come with the core set...

It's like the Walking Dead forum crossed over into this one*

*Let's just pretend there's a Walking Dead forum here. I thought FFG made a Walking Dead game?...

"where did you did up that old fossil?"

Now there's an idea for Wave 5: Rebel Zombie Ewoks!

LOL, I like the posts in this thread. '$40 for 3 ships is too pricey'. I'm sure some of those people have hundreds of dollars worth of ships.

Necroed as it is, kinda fun to read, especially this:

It's still up in the air since, as far as I'm aware, all the pilot cards specifically stated whether they pilot X-wings or TIE/ln Fighters, which may indicate that pilots are craft specific -- a very dark path for FFG to go down. Let's hope that is fixed in the final edition.

"where did you dig up that old fossil?"

This thread is a great thread

Dayum, ain't this a walk down Memory Lane!

...so it shouldn't bother you when they add a bit more life to the actual game instead of generic spam stuff that eventually gets phased out by better pieces in the future.

We were all so young in those days.

[EDIT: to add to your list, I do hope they eventually include the TIE Advanced x1, whether or not they choose to call it 'Darth Vader's TIE Fighter'. I'm totally crazy about that ship. ]

Well, you got what you asked for. Happy with how Overpowered it is??

This should be done more often.

... okay. this was a total waste of everyone's time.

This should be done more often.

Want me to choose another random thread to necro??

I'm totally lovin' this thread.

I love the post that said we'd probably never get Porkins, Jansen, Hobbie or any of the other Rogue Squadron guys.

This should be done more often.

Want me to choose another random thread to necro??

Might be fun to revisit some of them once or twice every time a new wave comes out...

We hope so, at any rate. It's still up in the air since, as far as I'm aware, all the pilot cards specifically stated whether they pilot X-wings or TIE/ln Fighters, which may indicate that pilots are craft specific -- a very dark path for FFG to go down. Let's hope that is fixed in the final edition.

This was my favorite that hasn't been mentioned...the path was so dark that X-wing became only the second best selling miniatures game 3 years later....

(Obviously it makes a lot of sense now to help with game balance to have a pilot card and its cost assigned to one ship--and if they do expand pilots to other ships they'd need different cards and costs for them).

DragonWhimsy said:I honestly would be fine with a simple poster starfield. Or cardboard. I don't need a fancy mousepad type material.

I and others have said many times (but I want to say it again, in case any FF staffers are reading!), that they could include a simple, single-sided starfield poster map for the price of next-to-nothing. People who would buy the deluxe mat when it's available (people like me, 'cause I'm crazy like that), will still buy it anyway... because, again, we're crazy like that. But people who wouldn't buy the deluxe mat when it becomes available (because, like you, they simply don't want one) might decide not to buy the game at all - because there's no poster map included, and having to play on a bare wooden table makes them feel like they've been 'ripped off'.

Heed, FFG!

This one made me smile.

Seriously though (but not really), it's really a shame that FFG never read these threads. I wonder where this game could have gone if they had just included a playmat!

As cute as it is to revisit old threads, I would probably lock this one and issue a warning if I were a moderator. What's to stop some idiot from going to the last page of the forum and randomly bumping any old thing?