Capital Ships: Keeping the scale. Place your vote.

By RogueMorgan, in X-Wing

Tiles would work great for Star Destroyers, actually. The things would be 22 feet long for crying out loud, I am sure we could use a 3' x 3' piece for a perfectly acceptable "terrain". You could have different tiles and miniatures to represent different sections of the ship, like a shield generator, turret, or bridge section, with rules in the SD release explaining how to arrange your tiles and pieces to accurately represent whatever section you are fighting over.

Good idea! with the tiles for the destroyer but allow the bridge to fit in somewhere with that cause most of the fighters harassed the bridges in the movies cause it was the weakest points on the ship! you take out the superstructure and or bridge! the ship is out of the fight. :)

I am all for a Star Destroyer that broke down into three or four sections for transporting to conventions, and setting up at a gaming site that was three or four feet long, and cost about $200 dollars. When I saw the Tantive IV it did it for me. I love the idea of playing this game on a table top with the biggest ships being The Millennium Falcon and Slave I, but now that I've thought about playing this game on special tables the length of entire basements, and living rooms, I'm all in this game 100%. It is very exciting to see such detailed models made that I would purchase just to sit on a shelf to look at. But being able to use them in a strategic game is just fantastic!

I think the only way to do this would be to follow 40k and have an 'epic' scale release as kind of a sister game. Feature scale capital ships with tiny little scale fighters, probably mounted as an entire squad on one base. I think that would be AWESOME but unlikely to happen, and I think just on a sheer matter of cost (to us, and to produce) and size capital ships are a no go at a hard 1/270 scale. There's just no way. Now if they released smaller scale fighter squads in line with the new big ships, and rules to play on that scale, cool.

Because, as stated above, a Star Destroyer in 1/270 scale would be roughly 20 feet long.

Edited by CrookedWookie