Lit Fantasy Flight Games and the Star Wars TCG

They just make a model kit:

 

Sadly WEG never showed Mark 1 Headhunters :/

 

I thought WEG did:


And then there is this interesting variant:


And on the fan side of things:

 

Afaik those are IRDs

 

No, the caption for the picture indicates they are the original Z-95s - the IRDs have a separate illustration a couple pages back in the sourcebook.

 

Now that you mention it... just means WEG was even more awesome

 

Not seeing 'swing-wings' there, but I'll take it.
Of course, how those and AF4s are both Z-95s is another question entirely.
Probably about as related as a 1964 Ford Mustang and a 2013 Ford Mustang.

 

I used to think that too, actually.

 

Myself as well. Very similar designs. More similar than these to later Z-95s anyway

Something else I have also wondered about. I wonder how long they were making Z-95s anyway. Maybe long enough for the above to slowly but surely morph into what we know? Though, if so, then it would be strange for X-Wings to be a separate class.

 

Z-95ers are already considered an older design by TMP and the AF4 was the last design model by Incom/Supro which split their partnership in 22 BBY after some 150 years of cooperation. Though people kept building variants and knock offs later on (the Grand Army Z-95er is properly one of those variant designs, though could already have been ordered when the Clone Army was being trained). Also since we know Ashgard was part of the design team and properly born sometime around 70 BBY and likely at earliest in his 20es when helping finishing the Z-95er, around ~ 50 BBY seems likely for the introduction of the Mark 1. The X-Wing was build without Supro and the S-Foils considered a rather drastic innovation to the design, so likely the reason they called it something else, whilst it really seem to still just be a redesigned Z-95er.

 

The short story "The Crystal" implies the original run was around 37 BBY, but there were already newer versions by 34 BBY. At least one source noted that the main Alliance fleet didn't use the Mark Is.

 

Hmm 15 years sound kind of short for how widespread they are, though granted it is the period were everyone and their mother was busy stockpiling weapons.

 

We could easily retcon the Crystal and Seti Ashgard's invomvelemt to not be the original swing wing Mk I, but various newer versions of the Z-95. And it is possible that the design grew so much that it was effectively several different designs with just a similar shape and style sharing a name for brand recognition, like how the F/A-18E/F Superhornet is still a F/A-18, despite only sharing the forward fuselage with the A/B model.

 

Hi! I'm new here, but just as interested as you guys in Star Wars RPG systems!

Damn... I was pretending to start a Star Wars: Saga Edition campaign this Winter. I was gonna buy a ****load of miniatures, some cool tiles for mapmaking, books(my players aren`t that well informed about the SW Universe!) but... *sigh*... I was looking through the Beginner's Set of this new system from Fantasy Flight and I must say I was really impressed with the quality of their stuff! The price is also very cheap( around 20 bucks I think) which was another thing that tempted me to buy it!

Now I'm confused about spending a load of money in Saga Edition stuff if I could just wait a lil bit more and buy stuff from this new system.

I must ask: Has anyone bought/played/ had any contact with the Star Wars material published by Fantasy Flight ? You guys think it's worth waiting till the end of the year, to see if the system is good enough?

Lemme know through here or send me a PM, pretty please !

Ta!

 

I've played the beginner adventure. Be aware you don't have the full rules, just enough for this adventure and to get an idea of how this works. Personally I found it to be very fun.

 

FFG is worth it for the artwork alone.

 

Sage Edition is not really worth it, as D20 in general is a pretty terrible playing system, at least imho. The FF rules are easy to use and intended to leave the GM a lot of fudge room, so I would rather recommend it (once it comes out that is, as it is still in Beta) then Saga, though if your really willing to sink tons of money into it, try to hunt down D6 instead as it is simply awesome to play.

 

Trimmed to the essential part and QFT. I don't even play RPGs or card games, but WEG and Decipher remain without peers. FFG appears to be working hard to catch up, though.

 

What I especially interesting is that FFG seems to favor the players having Fringe characters, not Rebels like WEG would usually take, or Jedi like WOTC seemed to always wanted people to play and also like WEG it focuses on the Rebellion Era.

 

got core rulebook and gamemaster screen today... absolutely WOW

 

textflavor: well spiced!
art: Fleetjunkies will kill to see it! and that I really mean!


BRANDNEW GALAXY MAP and information *nerdgasm*


will post a detailed full review to the sw sourcebooks facebookpage as soon as I am done with reading that gem of a book!