/swg/: Star Wars General: One Little Ship Edition

Rebels is even more Mcquarrie.

But the E was made by Freitek in Legends, and Incom-Freitek exists in Canon now as the maker of the modern Xs (T-70, T-85, etc)

>Astromech is hidden in it's own compartment
>Have to remove part of the main gu to open the cockpit hatch and/or get the Droid out
What an awful design.

Been playing some X-Wing flight sim for the past week to get me in the mood for running some starfighter combat in AoR/F&D and I have one question for you /swg/: why is the y-wing perfect?

Stops the droid getting shot.

Compared to hard-wired, far away from the critical components of the ship?

Because she's the perfect Y-Fu

For shame.

If it's built in, why not just make the droid processor part of the ship?

Because it's a lazy half assed explanation to cover the ass of Lucasfilm's lazy artists who forgot to account for an R2 unit's lower body.

R2-D2 fits into those sockets, somehow.

Does anyone know what Ketsu Onyo's secondary weapon is on Rebels?

>R2-D2 fits into those sockets, somehow.
No he doesn't, they made new ones for TCWand even Gennedywars with center mounted astromech sockets.

Eta sockets were not so good.

Apologies, I got it confused with the later bag of holding R2 socket.

Fuck you Carlos.

Go here
Somehow ended up with two generals, let this one die.

Why let this one die and not the other? This is the original new thread

This thread is older.

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The Battle of Scariff really reminded me of the TFU 2 Battle of Kamino, which was really well shot and had a lot of EU favorites of mine.

Fun fact, you were originally supposed to be on the Assault Frigate, hence the internal size of the ship, but they changed to the Nebulon B at the last minute, presumably because it was more Iconic and also more disposable for the suicide attack.

Wait. What?
The dinky-ass laser cannons on the Aethersprite have one KILOTON of power per shot?

CURTIS SAXTON BAY-BEEEE.

sci-fi authors, scense of scale, etc.

Has saxton written anything for the new canon? Because I'm pretty sure the split invalidated basically all the reference materials prior.

He's basing it on back calculations from damage ships did to asteroids in ESB and AoTC.

To win arguments with Trekkies.

Question: If I build multiple Minion droids, do I need to make the roll to program each one separately?

If yes, what happens if I get a result like "add another skill to the Minion's list" on one of the droids, but not the others?

Welcome to the wonderful world of Curtis Saxton, who was somehow allowed to write books and included fantastical nonsense numbers so that he could win internet arguments on spacebattles.net

I'd rule that minions only contribute their rank to the minion group roll if they have the skill.

So like, if you have four droids and only three have the skill, then it only counts as a group of three for the purposes of that particular skill.

Still better than Karen Traviss and her decision to specify that there were 1 million clones.

Just one million. You know, that's a number smaller than 1/16th of the Americans that served in WWII. So, to put that in perspective, that's 6.25% of one nations' soldiers for a war that spanned one planet... supposedly enough to fight a war raging across an entire galaxy.

The scales are all wonky.

Oh, I know. I know all about it. I'm also a battletech guy. Scales that don't make sense are my old friend
And do you know what? I also found a fanfic thing, the purest expression of mandowank, maybe the most ever. If Traviss is regular wank, this is a few steps up, fleshlight&dragon dildo shit

She heard "One million units" and jumped to unit=clone mostly to underline how vile the Kaminoans were for treating cloned sapients as mere "Units" of product.

Keep that Mandowank to yourself, Shipfag. Spreading it only serves to spread it. It deserves to burn in the fiery pits of Mustafar, not get posted on /swg/.

Sure, sure. It's a shame ol' quest ain't around to be convinced to review it no more

Although, if nothing else, I do kind of think it something should be known as a what-not-to-do for future fanfiction gals and guys, but then it's not like anyone but X does that around here these days anyhow, and he already knows

Doesn't matter her intention, it was a godawful decision.

Even assuming war has only touched 1% of the planets in the Republic, at a ferocity seen in WWII (what Star Wars is primarily based on), they'd need somewhere around 9.5 quadrillion clones.

That's 9,500,000 times the number Traviss quoted.

>the purest expression of mandowank
Could it be? Has the search finally come to an end?

>mostly to underline how vile the Kaminoans were for treating cloned sapients as mere "Units" of product.
I mean hell, I'm a pure minimalist small galaxy guy, and I figure that calling it a thousand regiment-brigade sized units as I do would actually be WORSE in that respect because they don't care even vaguely for any individual, they only care that each unit of thousands is at the requested strength, they aren't even product, they're a subsegment of product, Iike a single item in a 53ft container sent to a customer

No, it ain't that. Hell, it's worse than that.
I could let you come and see, but it really is pure trash. I started out of morbid drunk curiously that it couldn't possibly be that bad, and then it was, so I kept going, and it was all downhill, and fast, fast

The search was for a clone gangbang, remember?

And even official estimates released later were lower than that, Clones are I believe still the Elite hammer with native forces providing the unseen bulk on less glamorous fronts.

Maaaayyyyy have been reversed in New Canon though.

But I think she wanted to avoid confusion between the Kaminoans using the term to mean "Product Unit" rather than "Military unit."

Still it was dumb, no doubt there.

Still hoping to hear about the arsenal of the Shadow Caster's pilot. Her pistol I could care less about, but that staff on her back? I'd like to know what that is

I don't remember her using it.

I really wish i had the offical height/floorcount on this tower, I wanna make an RPG base out of it and I need a good floorcount.

Damn. I think I'll pass, then. Still high on leftover holiday spirit, and I'd rather not sour it on anything other than the unholy grail fic itself.

I-I can write a clone gangbang fanfic if that's what you need to get off, X-kun.

From the look of it, it seems like it's one of those pole-style vibroaxes in design.

No no, the theory is that travis originally wrote one.

>clone gangbang
No, thank you. That will not be necessary. I already have that angle covered in my fap folder.

No, my friend, it's not the content, it's that it's said that our old acquaintance traviss perhaps wrote such a thing in the old days. Really, the content is nothing, probably a dozen have produced such. It's the author, and that's all.
I mean, if you're drunk enough, it's actually really funny.
>No, thank you. That will not be necessary. I already have that angle covered in my fap folder.
Brother, I hope not. The most shamefur of all disprays is at hand

>if you're drunk enough
I'm dismally sober. I already drank all the good whisky within easy access and the only thing left is a bottle of Yamazaki that appears to have spoiled, judging by its overwhelming superglue-like odor.

But if you're really insistent, I can't really stop you from posting the link. Or stop my own morbid curiosity.

>that appears to have spoiled, judging by its overwhelming superglue-like odor.
I mean fuck, I'm long done with the decent bourbon and am drinking double-strength vodka now, the last and most terrifying of the liquor
I ain't ever in my life heard of liquor going bad. Only think I could think of would be a bottle's cork rotting. Otherwise it's almost certainly just cheap greasy liquor, which has never failed to be fixed by cola.
At any rate, go buy a bottle of old crow and cola, and check in here at 7PM michigan time, for it. It will be good

And hell, yamakaze is the fancier kind of jap whisky, it's entirely possible thry just have weird ideas bout how it should taste

Okay, so it's a vibro axe, but I take it that she's got a modified one that can shoot blaster bolts too?

Okay, yup. That's more or less what it may be given this
starwars.com/databank/ketsu-s-staff

Provide the sauce. I'd like to see if mandalorian writing is as spicy as the food

It ain't spicy. That it ain't, not even close. It's just pure wank. And besides, you can't outspice Chinese food in a joint with cheap beer

And X, good old buddy, this is much more enjoyable with liquor, Old Crow, WT 101, maybe vodka if you lean as to that, so stay all for tomorrow (well technically today)

But here's the shit
.fanfiction.net/s/11818451/1/Even-if-I-Could

I world love to see some Y-Wings with all of their air-foil parts for the X-wing tabletop.

So if
Corellian Whisky = Scottish dito
Alderaanian Wine = French dito
Mandalorian Tihar = Scandinavian Akvavit/French Eau de Vie

What other real world spirit equivalents exists in Star Wars?

I'd imagine that absinthe would be available

Why did the EU fuck up the whole rule of two thing?

Yoda/the council makes it clear in TPM that they
1. Knew about the rule of two
2. Thought that the sith had been extinct for a millenia

This means that the rule of two was how the sith operated BEFORE their supposed dissappearance 1000 years ago.

Why did Jedi vs. Sith go full retard?

Is the canon sith lore consistent with TPM?

Rodian Ale = Corona

They had 1000 years to learn about the Rule of Two after the fact, and I think Bane offered up two patsies to make them think they'd finished off his sect very early on.

I'd rule minions as all having the same programming, keeps book keeping minimal and makes sorta sense too.

Wow, Mads apparently brought a whole vodka bottle to a Rogue One interview?

Someone call Kojima, this man needs an intervention! Or probably not, it was likely a bit of a stunt.

youtube.com/watch?v=Iy37ou-cjvI

Only because I spent at least 5 min's making some OC shitty sw pictures!

>Corellian
>Scottish
Given the large number of American-voiced Corellians in Legends, I'm tempted to say that the Corellian umbrella also includes bourbon and other American whiskies.

Corellia aside, there's also the following:
starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Alcoholic_beverages
Wine, mead, rum, and cider all existed in Legends. Wes also drinks brandy during one of the Wraith Squadron books and we all know Lando endorses DL-44 malt liquor.

>bourbon and other American whiskies.
So the larval from of Scottish Whisky?

So /swg/, how is this for a basic Scum starter squadron?

geordanr.github.io/xwing/?f=Scum and Villainy&d=v4!s!173:176,-1,-1,177,118,113:-1:-1:;120:176,120,136,1,118:-1:-1:;115:26,-1:-1:-1:;115:53,-1:-1:-1:&sn=New Squadron

Based user.
I can live with this as my headcanon.

I just play X-wing casually with friends and my brother, is using the ships from Most Wanted plus an extra Y-wing any good? By casually I mean fluffy/basic lists like Y and X wings or Vader and friends.

I would give the Z-95's missiles and use the Y's as turret trucks.

My party are about to break into a weapon manufacturing corp's asteroid base to access their mainframe and slice into it as a favour to a crime boss they're trying to stay on the good side of.

What fun stuff can I throw at them to keep things interesting? Been looking at the heist advice in Fly Casual.

>ISB agent on suprise inspection
>rival team intending to grab the mainframe for a rival crime boss
>rebel cell there to blow the place up
>imperial bureaucrats touring of the plant
>kell dragons used as guard beasts
>mandos/clone ex-commandos working security
>overzealous security droids

>>rebel cell there to blow the place up
Oooh, I like this a lot, the system they're in is currently full of riled up rebels looking to get revenge after Yavin so it'd make a lot of sense.

A rival team looking for the same objective
Imperial inspection team with bodyguard detail
Sienar skunkworks abominations
Usable prototype weapons
Usable prototype weapons wielded by the guards
Usable exotic ammunition
If biological/chemical weapons, compromised containment or a firefight in a room with easily compromised containment
Classified data that can lead up to an even bigger mission down the road
Towers of Hanoi and other logic puzzles
Kyle Katarn
Slavs

>If biological/chemical weapons, compromised containment or a firefight in a room with easily compromised containment
This is a nice idea. I'm using Edge of the Empire, so I could do some really cool stuff with Despair and Threat mechanics.

A friend of mine wants to GM a game that uses the FFG role playing rules for a Metroid home brew (he likes the fact that checks can have advantages and disadvantages).

What's a good primer and rules overview so he can get acquainted with the systemost and combat? For reference he's familiar with d20 systems.

Just reading the rules chapters of the core book for any of the systems is probably the best move.

Yeah, reading the rulebook will help immensely, though unfortunately it probably won't help with his shitty taste in sci-fi/space fantasy.

Other than that the Game Master's Kits and Beginner games can be good ways to start to grasp the basics of the game, but if you're going to GM you've got to be willing to read the rules your world will play by.

Slavic Kyle Katarn

Of course I'm going to give him my core books, but are there any videos or guides to get a handle on the broad topics before diving right into the book?

Heck, even if would like a few reference docs to refer to.

Mix these two up and you got a very volatile situation on your hands.

Maybe Johnny Reb and his striketeam has figured out that the plant produces/refines chemical and/or biological weapons and that's why they are there to blow it to kingdom come.
The PC team could try to convince them to work together for a while, or if they really blow it they might end up in a three-way shootout in a room full of easily-cracked canisters of nasty chems and bioweapon precursors. Doesn't that sound like fun with a capital F?

FFG do tutorial videos for all their games, track those down.

Oh I wasn't aware, I'll be sure to share that. Thanks!

>Slavic Kyle Katarn
After reading XWW's XW:HD and playing far too much C&C Tiberium Sun recently all i could think of was this.

ARC's are pure sex.

On that note does anyone have a good Thane build? He's my favorite nucanon character.

Yeah I think this is what I'll steer things towards. I've been wanting to give the players a hook to potentially get involved with the rebellion, might be a good opportunity for it.

I have had problems with ffg star wars in the past and I am looking for ways to tweak saga. Is there any resource where people have posted homebrew stuff for saga or attempts to tweak the system?

I dont care how much people love ffg star wars, Im just looking for saga stuff.

Fixing all the problems with Saga would take a novel worth of houserules, do you really want to dump that on your players? You're probably best accepting most of its flaws or using a different system.

Again with non answers.

I am about done with this shit hole.

feeds2.feedburner.com/order66saga/

Its been years since I had anything to do with saga.

You not liking the answer he gave does not make it a non answer.

Don't be a passive aggressive whiner because he tried to give you advice.

Off the top of my head one of the big math fixes is to not let people take Skill Focus (use the force) until around level 6.

Haven't done any d20 in ages so I don't have anything more than that in easily searchable memory.

Ban any force-user class
Ban the Use The Force skill
Stick to one Era and ban anything from splats not having to do with that Era

This fixes a small part of what's wrong with Saga. The multitude of other shit that needs fixing takes up too much time to write down for me.