R5Don4 said:

The Cloud Car is just atmospheric.  I'm sure if they do expand to ground/atmospheric scenarios it would be included, right next to the snowspeeder.

4-LOM is partnered with Zuckuss so they share the same ship.

tiepilot1138 said:

it did engage the Falcon, as did the Tie's on Bespin.  Just pointing it out as they included Obsidian squadron, might not be that much of a far reach.

tiepilot1138 said:

Lest hope they'll do that; the ground scenarios with some semi-terrestrial ships will give an interesting twist to the game..

 It would also be interesting to see some accessories such as asteroids, space mines, and turrets…

R5Don4 said:

Really, your surprised?  First of all it is a high altitude skimmer, not a star fighter.  Secondly, how do I put this gently, I'll just say it.  The cloud car is pretty lame.

(please do not interpret this in any way as a suggestion that you are lame. I am sure you are a really cool guy (or possibly girl), but the cloud car--- not Lucas's best vehicle.)

 Yep, the cloud car is the Volkswagon of SW vehicles, just a notch below the Landspeeder, I'll agree.  I'm just quite surprised that no one brought it up, with all the speculation and vehement opposition to the possibility of Prequel based expansions.

(waves hands) Hey, I'M there for Prequel-based expansions. Nooo problems saying it. Gimme Aethersprites!

IG-58 said:

Second. Give me as many ships as you can, FFG!

 Hmmm Anakin Skywalker in a Jedi starfighter vs Darth Vader in a Tie Advanced, interesting.

IG-58 said:

Truth-be-told, you can sign me up for prequel ships, too. There are plenty of fighters to choose from in that era, and many of them (including the Y-wing and Z-95 headhunter) are still hanging around on backwater worlds in the time period of the original trilogy.

Still, I'd like to see some repaints of the OT base ships with some new cards for diversity. As I said before, I'd love to field "red group" and "green group" X-wings and give them different targets/mission objectives for that extra sense of immersion.

 Mmm, droid Tri-Fighter… mmm.

I am down with more ships.  I think both EU and Prequals are fair game.  I do think that Prequel ships should be a seperate game (with the same rules) so that tournaments can be X-Wing or Clone Wars, or mixed.  The idea of adding prequel ships is what makes me think that enforcing Imp vs Rebel at tournaments won't work.  I can see a day where there are Rebel, Republic, Old Republic, Empire, Seperatist, Sith Empire, Neutral, Vong (I kind of home not), and maybe other factions.

Thanks,

Duncan

I FINALLY got around to skimming the rules, and saw two snippets:

"… and other ships from the Star Wars universe." Well, that's open to interpretation. But then again:

X-Wing has two sides, Rebel vs Imperial (paraphrased).

Sooo… will they just expand the game, and it's factions? Will they make a new game, based on this rulesset? Will they not even bother (like SSB was planned as a one-shot from the start) and just do a couple-three sets of OT ships?

Anybody's guess.

 The word that gets me from the core rulebook is "primary."

"There are two primary factions involved in the time period depicted in X-Wing: the Rebel Alliance, and the Galactic Empire. Each ship in this game box belongs to one of these two factions."

So why would you have two primary factions unless you were going to have other supplemental factions? But then, that's using the same logic as there needing to be ships bigger than the Falcon, since that one is "only medium." They may be covering all their bases, or they may just be really sloppy with wording and terminology. Tough to say.

EDIT: The pharse, "time period depicted in X-Wing" seems to be global to me, suggesting that if they did choose to do other eras, they'd be released as their own games.

Right below that quote it says "Although a game of X-wing always consists of two sides, the Rebellion and the Empire, it is possible to play the game with more than two players."

That doesn't look good for more factions either, unless the rule book is simply laying out the situation at launch.