Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles Review

southernman wrote:

n815e wrote: The X-Wing base set contains less and doesn’t give you a complete game experience.

So one extra ship is a complete game experience ? Give me a break.

I get that you don’t know anything about the game and you are responding out of a place of ignorance.
Besides being a more interesting game with that movement system (which is what dog fighting is really about), with significantly greater content delivered in the box than X-Wing, BSG’s starter is actually enough to keep interest for many plays and provides enough material for up to four players in the box. X-Wing’s starter literally has enough to keep only two people engaged for one session before it gets stale enough to need to buy more stuff.

n815e wrote:

southernman wrote:

n815e wrote: The X-Wing base set contains less and doesn’t give you a complete game experience.

So one extra ship is a complete game experience ? Give me a break.

I get that you don’t know anything about the game and you are responding out of a place of ignorance.
Besides being a more interesting game with that movement system (which is what dog fighting is really about), with significantly greater content delivered in the box than X-Wing, BSG’s starter is actually enough to keep interest for many plays and provides enough material for up to four players in the box. X-Wing’s starter literally has enough to keep only two people engaged for one session before it gets stale enough to need to buy more stuff.

Nah, I'm saying it out of someone who's played X-Wing and doesn't believe 4 ships makes a complete game when 3 ships doesn't - but you're definitely allowed your own taste and your opinion is equally as valueless as mine and anyone elses.

It makes a complete game for two teams of two, that's for sure.

I don't care about it being only a few ships. If I ever get X-Wing, it'll probably lots of X, and TIEs, their respective bombers and just a few more.

But the price is indeed a huge strike against it, as I'd want at least a lot of raiders. I mean, that scene of raider pouring out of a basestar like skittles... I want that.

Sevej wrote: I don't care about it being only a few ships. If I ever get X-Wing, it'll probably lots of X, and TIEs, their respective bombers and just a few more.

But the price is indeed a huge strike against it, as I'd want at least a lot of raiders. I mean, that scene of raider pouring out of a basestar like skittles... I want that.

So a SW Armada version required then ?

Sagrilarus wrote: It makes a complete game for two teams of two, that's for sure.

But when has dog-fighting been about equal numbers ?
And in tabletop gaming isn't it about the points system to make a competitive game, hence two Ties costing about the same as an X-wing. Plus you can't get the Millennium Falcon in the BSG universe (even though I'd watch BSG any day over a SW show).

PS In the UK BSG starter for £44, X-Wing starter for £25. And then you can custom build your X-Wing game ship by ship, which seems to be the biggest draw for tabletop games.

southernman wrote:

n815e wrote:

southernman wrote:

n815e wrote: The X-Wing base set contains less and doesn’t give you a complete game experience.

So one extra ship is a complete game experience ? Give me a break.

I get that you don’t know anything about the game and you are responding out of a place of ignorance.
Besides being a more interesting game with that movement system (which is what dog fighting is really about), with significantly greater content delivered in the box than X-Wing, BSG’s starter is actually enough to keep interest for many plays and provides enough material for up to four players in the box. X-Wing’s starter literally has enough to keep only two people engaged for one session before it gets stale enough to need to buy more stuff.

Nah, I'm saying it out of someone who's played X-Wing and doesn't believe 4 ships makes a complete game when 3 ships doesn't - but you're definitely allowed your own taste and your opinion is equally as valueless as mine and anyone elses.

Your X-Wing experience creates a flawed impression of a different game. In BSG, players control just 1-2 ships.

southernman wrote:

Sagrilarus wrote: It makes a complete game for two teams of two, that's for sure.

But when has dog-fighting been about equal numbers ?

When it's on my table and me and three of my buddies are playing.

The Wings of Glory games are about fellowship, not two guys controlling 19 ships each with their super-opto-permu-combo bullshit card-ship builds. If I want that I'll set the toys aside and play Magic, a true nerd's game.

The number of ships doesn't matter in the real world (which we'll stretch to include these two games) but it's fun to have a wingman in games like this, and four ships means you can play two-on-two. For me that's way more fun than controlling a whole side and optimizing each move across a dozen ships. It also means I can drink a bit while playing.

If I get a chance to play with a team-mate (I particularly like team games) I don't care if the ships are a little unbalanced. That's actually part of the fun.

Someone on the X-Wings reddit forum indicated that BSG not being set up for "competitive play" meant the game was a joke. The game wasn't designed for "competitive play". It was designed for a more casual session.

Plus you can't get the Millennium Falcon in the BSG universe

Watch the first hour of the new Star Wars movie Solo. That should kill any affection you have for the ship or anyone that flies in it.

Crikey - what a lot of fun-murderers this site has started to breed, just because it isn't your idea of fun doesn't mean it isn't fun for other people
And where's this thing about 19 ships coming from - I thought we were talking about X-Wing not Armada ? Or do some people actually play with fleets that large and you're using that example to represent the game itself. When I did play it (I'm more of a boardgamer than a tabletop minis gamer) I can't remember ever having more than about four ships each, it was purely about outmanoeuvring each other (same as it was when I did WoW many years ago).

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White elephant.

Sagrilarus wrote:

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White elephant.

It's all over now (discontinued, due to the end of the license agreement), sell quickly

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I wonder who will get it next.

I know this is a crazy idea, but if you’ve got the stuff for it and like it you can continue to enjoy what you have.

n815e wrote: I know this is a crazy idea, but if you’ve got the stuff for it and like it you can continue to enjoy what you have.

Yeah, you're right, fucking crazy ...