spirit said:

Doesn't it just!! I can't decide if I'm excited for this because it looks like a good game or because the other one is dead in the water, so I've got to be excited about something with the Star Wars label on it. But my goodness me, those miniatures and cards do look magnificent!

qwertyuiop said:

That's what I would have thought. Thank you!

Holy cow! There are 676 Facebook "Like"s on the "Prepare to Launch the Starfighters" article. I'd say this is a good sign for FFG -- and I'll probably have people to play with in my area!

Not sure how many of my friends will buy but I will be :) Very much looking forward to this now :) 

I'm into it..  to start… but to make a full Death Star Trench Run…..  it's gonna cost me $900  for the ships alone!!

Now to make the trench itself… that's taking some time….. and money and space….   I mean the Death Star wasn't built in a day you know!!!

lingster said:

I think the trick is to find a bunch of other people who collect in your area. You could build the trench, but then pool ships together to build the final battle. If you got 6 people, each with 10 ships, everyone just spends about $130. (The reason it's a little cheaper than your $900 estimate is that the starter is $5 cheaper than 3 ships. Also, you could get some good online deals that will further cut your costs, and if you choose to buy multiple core sets, you can improve on the $5 saved.)

Of course, it'd be more fun to own all the ships yourself. 

If I were to buy all the ships for the death star assault, I'd probably do the following:

18x Y-wing = $270
6x Starter = $240 
6x X-wing = $90
17x TIE Fighter = $255
1x TIE Advanced = $15
TOTAL = $870

This results in 30 ships on each side, 12 X-wings, 18 Y-wings, 29 TIE Fighters, and 1 TIE Advanced. Okay, so the savings aren't that great, but hey, with the $30 saved you could probably buy the Millennium Falcon when it comes out. 

EDIT: But the logistics of a 60-craft game seem like a nightmare, to me. I think the tedium would rob the enjoyment.

Unless you plan or really want to have all the ships on the table at the same time … you could probably get away with a lesser number.  Just allow destroyed ships to return to the battle to simulate reinforcements or ships coming in from a different part of the battle. Give each side a certain number of "reinforcement points" to keep track of the number returned to battle.  If you do this, you could probably do it with half the number of ships.

 Many places already offer 33% discounted pre-orders…you're down to $600! ;)

I just found this and thought I'd share…

 www.icv2.com/articles/news/22785.html

Edited because I didn't set it as a link….

 Thanks for that. First time I've seen the expansions in their packaging. Don't know why it even matters, but I'm a little disappointed that part of the flight stand is integral to the ship. Just doesn't look right.

Oh, how I hope they're all wrong about July… :(

 The packaging looks nice. My local game store confirmed that the game was delayed in order to re-do the sculpts and the packaging really shows them off.  Now imagine 10" capital ships packaged in a blister pack? 

Hurry up FFG…I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME!!!

I. J. Thompson said:

Curses, IJT!  My peepers are the reason I can't look closely at these!  (Not on the interwebz, anyway.)  Joking aside, I would need to physically see them and measure them to really know.  Based on the packaging, (and I didn't take the time to make any defined measurements), it appears that the TIE fighter is about the same height as the X-Wing is long.  IIRC, the X-Wing is about 12.6m long.  I'm not sure on the actual height of the TIE fighter, so I don't know if they are relatively close or not.  Seems like the TIE fighter might be a little big.  If I were to try and make measurements, I'd guesstimate the size of the holes where the packaging fits over the peg on the store displays, then use that as a tool to measure against the models in the packaging.  It might be a WAG, but it might get you in the ballpark.  Eyeballing that on my phone, and the X-Wing could be 42-60mm in length (assuming the peg hole is 7-10mm).  That's roughly…1.6-2.3 inches?  I haven't been able to read a lot of the stuff on the forums, but I'm guessing IG-58 has already made some estimations somewhere.  My completely uneducated WAG is around 1/300 scale for the X-Wing. How close am I to his?   

I've got all the ships for the WOTC game…   and that game works and flows very well.