wizkids star trek: attack wing

[emperorpenguin]

The science ship has some use hence ok, but the consensus so far is the scout ship is rubbish

[Lord GreyWolf]

I went over to see my mum today and popped into the local gaming store and saw they had a I.K.S G'orth on the shelf and it had 20% off so I folded and bought it so I could try out the Tribble trick.

also placed an order for the Valdore and U.S.S Defiant as well.

Might have a go with the tribbles tomorrow. but I must admit got to love the Klingins from the Original series and their lack of Ridge brows [my wife was stunned that Klingins looked like humans]

NB: note how I spelt the Klingons as Klingins thats how they were pronounced in the T.V series well at least in the Tribbles are trouble episode.

LGW

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Advice to fed players though, avoid using all TNG era ships, get them for the cards, but never waste points using them, those 90 degree fire arcs are deathtraps

That's funny, I almost feel the opposite about Federation ships.  I quite like the Enterprise-D for its 360 degree firing arc, and the Defiant for its maneuverability (although the Defiant is quite fragile).  Conversely, the TOS Enterprise is OK but the lack of rear firing arc makes it low man on the totem pole for me, since it can't make the most if torpedoes the way other Fed ships can.  The crew for the TOS Enterprise are spectacular, though, and perform really, really well on TNG ships.  I count the Excelsior and Reliant in both TOS and TNG, though, since ships of both classes were in service in both eras.

[Lord GreyWolf]

Are there any romluan ships with rear firing arcs?  I have torpedos that allow it not sure which ships can do it.

How do I get some of the LE ships? Considering no one here has or will organise events/tournaments.

Any more rumours regarding the Borg?

I hope we get Borg raiding parties. And they can then take over enemy ships be a great excuse to convert up and repaint some Fed/Klingon ships as Borg controlled ships.  

My only interest for me are Romulans, Borg, and Species 8472. The kids are Federation and Klingon. Will pass on the Dominian and Ferengi and if they do the Kazon that will be also be on the pass list.

What other factions are out there?

LGW

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Are there any romluan ships with rear firing arcs?  I have torpedos that allow it not sure which ships can do it.

I don't think so, but I only have the starter D'Deridex and the science vessel.  It's just that, within the set of existing Federation ships, most have a rear firing arc, which is why the absence of one on the Enterprise knocks it down a notch for me.  In comparison to other ships of its faction, that's an area in which it's lacking.  Most other factions lack both the 180 degree firing arcs and the rear firing arcs, though, so it's more of a benefit if they do have the rear firing arc, than a downside if they don't.

How do I get some of the LE ships? Considering no one here has or will organise events/tournaments.

Honestly?  If no one in your area is organizing actual events, I would just get some of the Heroclix Tactics ships cheap on eBay, re-mount them on Attack Wing stands, and then print out your own cards for them.  The LE's go for silly amounts of money on eBay, and are maybe even harder to get your hands on in Australia, and there's really no reason to have the official versions of them if you don't play in organized events anyways.

I'm not sure where you can find images of the cards, but you can find most of text and stats on HCRealms.com, here.  HCRealms and Board Game Geek tend to be very up-to-date on STAW info.

Any more rumours regarding the Borg?

Not that I've heard, other than that there are going to be 5 ships (or at least 5 sculpts): The tactical cube, the sphere, a scout cube, a Soong assimilator, and a diamond.

I hope we get Borg raiding parties. And they can then take over enemy ships be a great excuse to convert up and repaint some Fed/Klingon ships as Borg controlled ships.

That would be really cool, although very powerful.  Maybe a ship that had no shields, and was down to only 1 or 2 hull?  WK made some partially assimilated Federation and Klingon ships for the Heroclix game, so it would be easy to port those sculpts over to Attack Wing.  

My only interest for me are Romulans, Borg, and Species 8472. The kids are Federation and Klingon. Will pass on the Dominian and Ferengi and if they do the Kazon that will be also be on the pass list.

Kazon will be in the game, although so far from the looks of it they're just getting the one Nistrim raider.

What other factions are out there?

It looks like it's pretty much just everything you listed, plus Bajorans (they're getting a couple of raiders), Ferengi (just the one LE ship), and Independents.  The rulebook lists the mirror universe, but we haven't seen any hints at them in the game yet.  There are also two Vulcan ships coming out, but since Vulcans aren't listed as a faction in the rulebook I have to imagine they'll either be Independent or Federation.

Oh, they're also doing two "episode" organized play events, to fill the months between the end of the Dominion War and the beginning of the Borg invasion.  One is "The Arena", and the prize is a Gorn ship, and the other is "The Tholian Web" and, naturally, comes with a Tholian ship.  I think you can find images of those two on Wizkids' facebook page, maybe?

[emperorpenguin]

Nope, there are exactly ZERO Romulan ships with rear fire arcs, even though the various torps can be fired through those non-existent arcs 

[Lord GreyWolf]

Nope, there are exactly ZERO Romulan ships with rear fire arcs, even though the various torps can be fired through those non-existent arcs 

 

typical. oh well... you win some you loose some then you blow up...

LGW

[emperorpenguin]

Though it looks like we may finally get a Romulan rear-fire and heavy hitter!

http://www.universaldist.com/pre-orders.aspx?Command=Schedule

Scroll to the very bottom of the page, they're doing the Scimitar!

[Lord GreyWolf]

Though it looks like we may finally get a Romulan rear-fire and heavy hitter!

http://www.universaldist.com/pre-orders.aspx?Command=Schedule

Scroll to the very bottom of the page, they're doing the Scimitar!

Nice also saw the Borg ships whoop whoop so much to look forward to.

LGW

[Argonor]

Nice also saw the Borg ships whoop whoop so much to look forward to.

LGW

The Borg should provide for great scenarios. I'm intrigued!

[emperorpenguin]

http://wizkidsgames.com/blog/2014/01/02/star-trek-attack-wing-wave-3-4th-division-battleship/

This thing is a beast! 

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

That guy is pretty nasty looking.  I guess without any chance of evading, it's going to be vulnerable to concentrated fire from opponents, but 6 attack dice is nothing to sneeze at, so anyone gunning for it will probably take a beating in the process.

The other wave 3 ships were also reviewed by The Dice Tower.  You can see a rundown of them here.

I'm pretty much only in it for TNG/DS9/Voyager, not earlier era stuff, so not a lot of it appeals to me, but the Equinox looks pretty cool.

[emperorpenguin]

Can't tell from how you phrased that but do you know equinox is from Voyager?

http://www.universaldist.com/images/document/STAW%20Wave%209%20Quick%20Solicit.pdf

Posting this in case anyone here hasn't seen it. Pics of the (wings-up) Bird of Prey and Scimitar!

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Yeah that was ambiguous phrasing, huh? What I meant to say was that, since I'm mostly into TNG/DS9/VOY, Equinox is the one that I am primarily interested in. I like the Battleship, too, but don't have any other Jem'Hadar ships yet. A some point, though...

[emperorpenguin]

I quite like the Jem'Hadar attack ship, nifty & nimble little beast

Still waiting for Wave 2 to show up over here, haven't any of those yet