My dog ate my cardboard ship piece!

By crimsonowl, in X-Wing Rules Questions

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"Proxies are not allowed during tournament play. Each player must use only the components included in
official X-Wing products. Each ship must have the official ship base, official Ship and Upgrade cards,
and the correct, official ship model."
The official ship base, to my understanding would be the plastic base.
As it is, I was able to make a 100% copy of the bases I do have, but my dog ate two of my Alpha Squadron Pilot cardboard bases (as well as a rangefinder and some target locks).
FFG does not replace damaged/accident stuff and the Interceptors are practically impossible to get ahold of. I have two working bases but I need another two. For science.
So. There are a couple of options here:
1. I have 100% size paper copies I can put on the base, the angle of the fire arc is actually the most important piece here as that applies most to the mechanics of the game. Paper copy could be used.
2. Paper copy, but I cut the front part shorter, and have a cardboard printed fire arc under it, from one of my other ships. This means I have the correct ship stats, and the fire arc is an actual FFG printed fire arc.
3. Use another ship cardboard base and just remember the stats are different (I don't really like this one, too often I see players forget that their Biggs isn't really a Biggs, or something like that)
The core question I suppose is: Would any of these options actually be legal in tournament play, based on the above Tournament Rules?
I intend to play fairly and competetively, and this could affect future tournament list choices.
Again, League and casual play is not really an issue. The question relates directly to playing a game in which Tournament Rules are in play, and there is the potential of prizes to be won.
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my understanding is no proxies of any kind however a lot of people will be in the same sittuation given time, okay not becasue I own a dog but because its all carboard soon the powere that be will have to adress this issue. One way would be to have replacment parts available at offical tournaments on pre order via email for a small fee.

I can see its a game and they want to make movey off us but people will lose interest if they have to keep buying the same thing over and over.

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Bazinga said:

my understanding is no proxies of any kind however a lot of people will be in the same sittuation given time, okay not becasue I own a dog but because its all carboard soon the powere that be will have to adress this issue. One way would be to have replacment parts available at offical tournaments on pre order via email for a small fee.

I can see its a game and they want to make movey off us but people will lose interest if they have to keep buying the same thing over and over.

Exactly, I bought four Tie Interceptors, I need to replace two tokens and the maximum number of tournament TIs I could run is 5. Even buying one replacement ship would only give me one more token, and guess what, I'd still be short 2 tokens. >.<

I do agree to your statement of no proxies, but also looking at the other part:

Official Ship Base

Official Ship Card

Official Upgrade Cards

Official Ship Model

At most, it 'might' fall under the "Base" but the cardboard isn't the base, it's something we put on it. The base would more likely be just the plastic piece with the pegs. Which then asks: why isn't the cardboard mentioned, because that has the fire-arc on it and we need that to shoot.

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You might ask and see if they'll replace the parts. A friend of mine has FFG's Battlestar Galactica game, and his dog chewed up one of the small cards. He e-mailed them a picture of the card and his dog (looking contrite) and they replaced it for free.

Its worth a shot, anyway.

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Although someone said your now officaly allowed to play with unoffical stuff because the wording in the tournamnet rules has change slightly but i dont know how FFG would be silly enough to allow third party stuff in.

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The third party ruling is in regards to range sticks specifically due to inconsistent printing of range rulers.

Other than what I listed above, the only applicable rule to my situation would be in regards to proxies.

In any case, I made my situation aware to the company and was informed of a package being sent my way. Told them of the honest situation and apparently got a response. Neat, and thank you very much FFG.

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FFG is very nice and does replace a lot of things for free (i damaged a lot of cardboard stuff from TI3, got them replaced!).

so, just ask the customer support, they are very friendly.