I'm not debating whether they're cool, because they are. There's just certain things about them that I don't particularly like. I have thought about customizing minis or making my own, but I never really was the artistic type, and spending more money on the supplies and minis to make the customizations, not to mention destroying rare/valuable figures, never really appealed to me. Don't get me wrong, it's amazing what some people can do with a few minis, some paint, an X-acto knife, and some glue, but I just couldn't bring myself to do that because of my lack of creativity and the cost associated with it.


Touché.

For anyone who's never heard of Fantasy Flight Games or is worried these games will be flops, I can assure you that will not be the case. FFG is THE leader in the boardgaming industry currently, I'd say. Some of their better known titles are Arkham Horror, Mansions of Madness, Dust Tactics, Tannhauser, Chaos and the Old World, Battlestar Galactica, and a slew of other card and board games.

What's interesting is that from their announcement about the license, it doesn't seem like it came with rights to board games (card, RPG, and miniature games). What this means, I'd speculate, is that the games FFG makes will be heavily miniature based (and these minis will get double-duty for an RPG, if they do one, though I can't really see that happening with so many other Star Wars RPG resources already out there).


That being said, the X-Wing dogfighting miniature game looks absolutely amazing, in my opinion. The demo minis (unsurprisingly) blow the old WotC ones out of the water (much better quality and no incredibly bent TIE wings or s-foils). But, what's best of all, is that it looks like the size will be roughly comparable to the WotC miniatures, so I plan on immediately making house rules for A-Wings, Interceptors, etc., though I'm sure FFG will have expansion packs with these soon enough. Plus, having a bunch of the WotC minis means that with some proxying of the other components, you could have more X-Wings and TIEs duking it out without needing to buy multiple base sets of the game.

Check it out on the Geek (some great photos and reviews of demo games down in the forum threads for the game):
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/103885/x-wing

X-Wing game does look pretty cool. I shall wait and see if anyone else near me gets it, I would like a test run before buying in.

I am sure they will bring out more craft with time so will watch this with a lot of interest.

X-wings do look nice, still not interested in ships though.

If they do character figures as good AND they are same scale as WOTC I might get some. However I am not buying into a new game so will only pick up a few of the secondary market if they can be used to represent Vset characters. Still they are most likely only going to do minis from the films at least for the foreseeable future so I cannot see me needing many at all..

Exactly! Perfect custom fodder for Gambler Han, R2-D2 and C-3PO, Epic Luke, the new Vader and a Chewie might be a great double for a Wookie Jedi. Although we might be familiar with the characters and they may well be doubles of RS and CS, that might be exactly what we need for the V-Sets. Especially people like me who are not great at cutting up, but could paint a few ready made figures.

I'm sure the new style game is really cool. But here is what it comes down to for me. Ive got literally thousands of dollars(that might be putting it mildly) tied up in the Wotc game, as well years of playing. and a nice group of people still playing and having fun with The WOTC game. The Vsets have enhanced that and made the game exiting. For me to start a whole new game doesn't make much sense for me, no matter how cool it is.

Keep that in mind if FFG or LF ever makes them stop doing v-sets.

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amazing news, I live within 10 minutes of the roseville event center...I am very excited for the miniatures to be released

Yeah, I'm not particularly interested in either of the games FFG has announced so far either.

I just figure at some point, if the v-set project gets shut down by outside forces, there will be cries of "why?! It wasn't competing with FFG!" But in a way, it is, by keeping people satisfied with what they've already bought, rather than trying something new.

However, I rather suspect that what FFG puts out will be enough of a success, especially compared to what's probably a relatively small group still playing SWM, that there won't be much of an issue.