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Rebel transport on the table

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06 May 2014 08:15 #177491 by edulis
A friend purchased and brought over the Rebel Transport for X-wing last weekend. We plunged into the Evacuation of Hoth scenario; him playing the rebels and me taking on the rule of the glorious Empire. We played the first two and yes, there was no catch of the day, the first transport got away.


Both players create their forces for all three steps of the scenario before beginning the first one. Each scenario has the Empire fielding different sized forces and has some gimmick, space mines, reinforcements, ion/ turbo laser shots (I liked these best) trying to destroy the GR-75. The Empire unique pilots used in one scenario may not be fielded again, while the opposite is basically true for the rebels. The rebels make a list of pilots and resources (upgrade cards and modification) that they can choose from beforee each match, depending on pilot death and other outcomes, this list can be modified. The rebels get free upgrades when they win, one critical damages stays on the transport, if the Empire manages to damage it...

The transport itself is a beast. My opponent's good use of the reinforce action accompanied with the ability to regenerate shields kept me from doing much damage. Taking this ship out of action will require some serious focus fire/ cluster missiles. The problem is if all your ships at blasting at the space-whale then the escort ships can pick you off at leisure.

Next time we play there will be more secondary weapons and more then one proximity bomb. Also focusing on killing a named pilot or two in the early scenario might be a better stratergy then even trying to damage the transport.

Anyone else had a chance to play with this yet?
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06 May 2014 11:53 #177515 by ThirstyMan
Can you take a pic of this monster with other ships to get a sense of scale??

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06 May 2014 11:55 #177516 by Black Barney
I was just about to complain that reading the initial post leaves too much to the imagination. I really want to see pics as well.

Great minds...

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06 May 2014 11:59 #177518 by Columbob
If you've seen Empire Strikes Back, you already know the scale.

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06 May 2014 12:03 #177519 by charlest

Columbob wrote: If you've seen Empire Strikes Back, you already know the scale.


The large ship miniatures are not in perfect scale like the smaller ships.

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06 May 2014 12:39 #177524 by Michael Barnes
I thought we established in the other thread that it is 1:1 scale with a $5 footlong.

What size playfield did you use? standard 3x3 or bigger?

Mine is stuck waiting for the Tantive IV, preordered them together...not in a big rush anyway. But sounds pretty great.

(September '13- "I'm not buying those!")

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06 May 2014 13:29 #177528 by edulis
The Hoth scenarios are all played on a 3 X 3.. .well we assumed since it did not say to do otherwise, while scenario #8 states it is played on a 4 x 3 and requires 3 transports!

I'll take photos next time we play, I do not own the monster, I mostly play empire and since my primary opponet owns it, I don't expect to.



Yes the scale is different, but it still looks pretty impressivly huge- it plowed down a few of my TIES.

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06 May 2014 14:53 #177542 by Disgustipater
My group is getting together tonight and we should be getting our transports at the same time. I'll try to take some pictures.
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06 May 2014 16:41 #177556 by Applejack
I think if the Empire had, say, a star destroyer, that might even things out a bit. If the capital ships are to scale with each other, then a star destroyer would be hella big compared to the rebel transports, with a price tag to match. I do have the Lego star destroyer (the two foot long one), I think it might be to scale actually.

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06 May 2014 17:19 #177559 by charlest

Applejack wrote: I think if the Empire had, say, a star destroyer, that might even things out a bit. If the capital ships are to scale with each other, then a star destroyer would be hella big compared to the rebel transports, with a price tag to match. I do have the Lego star destroyer (the two foot long one), I think it might be to scale actually.


Someone on BGG figured it out. Using the scale of the Rebel Transport and the Tantive IV, a Star Destroyer would actually be somewhere around 17 feet.

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06 May 2014 17:42 #177562 by Disgustipater
A friend of mine put it this way: "Just think of the opening scene of the movie where the Tantive IV gets pulled into the 'loading bay' of the Star Destroyer. Then think of how big that would have to be on the table. It's not really an option."

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06 May 2014 17:51 #177563 by wadenels
First the complaints about the ships in Attack Wing not being the proper scale and now this?! The Wings of War blimps weren't to scale either! Where's the quality control here? Clearly this entire game system is broken if not completely in shambles.

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07 May 2014 08:51 #177599 by Columbob

charlest wrote:

Applejack wrote: I think if the Empire had, say, a star destroyer, that might even things out a bit. If the capital ships are to scale with each other, then a star destroyer would be hella big compared to the rebel transports, with a price tag to match. I do have the Lego star destroyer (the two foot long one), I think it might be to scale actually.


Someone on BGG figured it out. Using the scale of the Rebel Transport and the Tantive IV, a Star Destroyer would actually be somewhere around 17 feet.


IIRC, they're something like 1.6 km long (1 mile?). Tiny things compared to the ships of the line in the 40K universe.

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07 May 2014 10:07 - 07 May 2014 10:10 #177608 by Disgustipater
We had 6 people so we did a team game of 300 points per side. No faction restrictions.


For some reason the player with the B-Wings decided to turn right into the Transport. The following turn the transport banked right over them, wiping them all out.



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07 May 2014 10:10 #177609 by scrumpyjack
Great pictures, you've sold me on buying a transport.

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