Hey all, was thinking a lot about what I want to see if FFG were to do an 'Aces'-style pack for all the ships (like they are doing for the Interceptor). Please feel free to share your thoughts, with any luck FFG will take note!

Mine so far:

- Y-Wing alternate model with the exterior coverings intact

- Rogue Squadron X-Wing variants and pilot cards, especially Corran Horn and Tycho.

- Green Squadron A-Wings / Pilots

- The Battle of Endor TIE fighter pilots/squadrons

A-Wings for Aces, X-Wings in a Rogue Squadron box, Y-Wings in their own named box. Imperials don't need any more help. :-)

Disagree. A TIE Advanced x1 pack would be highly appreciated.

I've said it before, but they could make a title card for the Y-Wing's:

-Longprobe Title (Y-Wing Only): +1 crew slot

Something like that..

I'm seconding the A-wings and Y-wings. More pilot options please! A tycho and coran in a x-wing would be appreciated as well.

Tie fighters already have a lot of pilot options along with the upcoming interceptors.. would be neat to have a tycho in a tie though as he was a imperial pilot first..

I'm seconding the A-wings and Y-wings. More pilot options please! A tycho and coran in a x-wing would be appreciated as well.

Tie fighters already have a lot of pilot options along with the upcoming interceptors.. would be neat to have a tycho in a tie though as he was a imperial pilot first..

Yes, Han Solo as a Imperial Pilot as well as Chewbacca as a Slave working the chain gang would be a cool cards too!

I think a Tie Advanced box is greatly needed. At the moment I feel like the other Imperial ships are pretty much fine otherwise. Though more pilots for any of the ships never hurts.

I've said it before, but they could make a title card for the Y-Wing's:

-Longprobe Title (Y-Wing Only): +1 crew slot

Something like that..

I am not familiar with all the variants but I think this might be better as:

Longprobe Title (Y wing only) Add Sensor icon to Upgrade bar.

From Wookiepedia it says it has advanced sensors, increased fuel in place of the Weapons System Officer. To be really mean it could say:

Longprobe Title (Y wing only) Replace "Turret" icon with "Sensor" icon in the Upgrade bar.

Edited: Actually it still should have access to an ion cannon so here is another version that I like the look of:

Longprobe Title (Y wing only) Replace the "Turret" icon with the "Cannon" icon and add the "Sensor" icon. May only select the Ion Cannon upgrade.

This basically loses the turret ion cannon's 360 degree fire arc but allows a forward facing ion cannon to be added. It specifically says the ion turret was kept but was locked in the forward firing position.

Rogue and Wraith Squadron boxes and upgraded X-Wings with a Jaina Solo pilot card.

what i want: more x-wing and y-wing pilots with a title card for the y-wing. one new repaint of each model plz.

what im expecting: A-wings with more pilots and upgrades

When it comes to a Rebel Aces I'm a bit torn as I could see putting A-Wing, X-Wing, or Y-Wings in it. The question is which two.

The Y-Wing could use one of several "title" cards. You could have:

BTL-S3 Model: Add a [crew] upgrade slot

Longprobe: Add [advanced sensor] upgrade slot (remember this is one seater)

With the X-Wing I'm afraid you could/should see the XJ3 title card although what to include with that and how to price it could be highly debatable. I mean it's more maneuverable, hits harder, and is tougher than the standard X-Wing so how could that reasonably translate in the game? Give it access to two upgrades like the Royal Guard Interceptor or actually have that title grant effective modifications at some price.

Coming up with title card possibilities for the A-Wing is a bit harder.

I figure the X/Y combo is most likely although an A/Y combo would be equal as nice considering the availability of the X-Wing. To mirror the Imperial Aces I could see the pack having a couple Push the Limits cards, a basic R2 or two to mitigate the stress. Maybe it would have a Stealth Device to represent a Stealth X-Wing which could also make a very different paint job.

I for one, would love to to see more options for the ships that we have. More pilots, R2 units and upgrades. I think having a few more mid range ps pilots for each ship would be nice as well to give a little more variety.

Yeah, these aces/repaint packs need to keep the reprint upgrades to a minimum. Sure, I'm liking getting more Shield upgrades, but I have 3 A-wings already, so Push the Limit isn't a huge selling point. Opportunist, Hull Upgrade, and to a lesser extent, Royal Guard Interceptor and Targeting Computer Upgrade are bigger draws to me.

I'd go for Rogue Squadron X-wing(s) and pilots, and some Defender Wing Y-wing aces (Champion/guardian/warden squadron pilots)

I would love to see a ton of Rogue/Wraith Squadron pilots get pilot cards. In terms of new ships, I'd like to see the black 'Stealth Squadron' X-Wings with a Leia pilot card.

I question wether an x-wing will be in this pack or not. We are already going to see the x repaint in the transport with new pilots and presumably new upgrades. Also a-wings and y-wings need to get a treatment similar to the imperial aces box much more than an x-wing does.

What I would like to see the most is some kind of upgrade to the underused 2-attack fighters, the A-wing and TIE Advanced.

Some card like

Advanced Blasters (modification)

When attacking at range 2, increase your primary weapon value by one (to a maximum of 3)

This particular idea would give these ships a little more punch, but not completely turn them into x-wings/interceptors. Alternately, you could make the text say something like "when attacking with your primary weapon, you may change one [blank] result or [focus] result to a [hit] result." This would make their attacks more accurate without increasing the amount of potential damage, and could make them a bit more viable in terms of boosting into range 1 and still having a way to increase their shot accuracy after using that action.

The potential "issue" here is that any upgrades you make like this are available to other ships as well. The easy way to fix this is to say "A-wing only" or maybe "A-wing and TIE advanced only" but that seems a little heavy handed and prevents the upgrade from being used on any future ships that it may make sense for. However it is done, it would be nice to see the A-wing and Advanced see some general improvements (or at least the A-wing, as the advanced is at least decently capable in rebel vs imperial matches due to lower average agility on the rebel ships)

They could also make a title card for the A-wings like "Reconnaissance Fighter: Your ship gains the [systems upgrade] icon"

The a-wing was known for having sophisticated sensors and other systems for recon purposes, as well as sensor jammers. I would like to this reflected in the game now that we have system upgrades available. They could even add some new ones.

I also think that because the X-wing already came with the transport, “Aces” pack could came with Y’s or A’s, don’t think will be mixed.

Now if you ask me what I want, I want an ACE pack with an TIE/x2 and TIE/x3

I think I'll probably pick up 2 boxes. I like the idea of using the 181st model for Soontir and Turr and the Royal Guard for shuttle escort duties.

Really loving this thread. I'm in the A-Wing camp -- but I also really love Y-Wing stuff too.

Obiously, Advanceds can wait their turn after Aces.

The natural counterpart to the Imperial Aces seems like it should be a Rogue Squadron box with new X-wings and pilots and astromechs.

Of course, with the Transport announced with a new X-wing already, I doubt they would throw EVEN MORE X-wings into the mix because there will be a lot of people who will be buying the transport (or two!) already.

But then, they should also want to provide a shiny new X-wing for the people who DON'T want the transport, right? Because they've introduced it as an optional direction that the purely 100-point tournament crowd don't NEED to follow. (That said, I'm still perfectly comfortable making the transport X-wing unique.)

I would really like to see a Rebel counterpart being a boxed set of one X-wing and one Y-wing with a whole pile of new droids and some of the great Y-wing ideas that have been floated around. I think that could strike a really nice balance and update/upgrade the wave 1 ships that have become hard to come by.

(And I want them to announce it soon, because I'm developing an overwhelming craving to buy more Y-wings (when they become available again) because somehow two doesn't feel like enough, anymore...)