This was fun. I have a couple homebrew escalation mods and missions but have yet to see proper scenarios played. Also with both X-Wing and Attack Wing I have relied on published AI for opponent movement/action for solo play, but this has me considering self v. self.

Good video, I wounder how it would have played out using 2.0 turn order rules with bidding,I imagine that haveing set turn order would effect 2.5 objective play. If you want to go first or second might also change on what scenario is being played too.

Firstly fantastic job demoing the games. Some of my thoughts and commentary while watching the video… This could be because I tried it on TTS but when I played 2.5 it looked like more than 80% of the non major/generic characters pilot cards got cut from the game. I personally give that two thumbs down. Also enjoy whatever version you like but the upgrade system in 2.5 seemed bonkers to me. Like what level of strategy is there in picking upgrades when everyone is just entitled to get whatever they want and it has no impact on the actual value/points on your list. I also might be misremembering but 1.0 had tons of named characters at a competitive level, you just had to make harder choices wether to take them (and upgrade them) compared to the 2.5 system I saw presented here….which seems like it doesn’t even want there to be any level of strategy/choice beyond wether to give the pilot 1 upgrade or the other… I personally like generics and non named Star Wars characters in games like this because It makes me feel like I get to make my own characters and stories in Star Wars and have them still feel part of the universe. Sometimes it gets a little tiring/boring/silly having the same major plot characters show up in every Star Wars game you play. Also sometimes Disney drops a hot turd of a Star Wars product and kills your love of a character so you would rather just run them as a generic instead. I like the manual turret arc swap I think it’s a great change, but you mentioned in 1.0 there was no counter play to turrets and I strongly disagree with that. Almost all turrets had a minimum+max range they wouldn’t function in and maneuvering within those range belts was a huge part of strategy/play back then. Having said that I do think 1.0 turrets where way to OP. The objective play is… interesting… part of me likes it, part of me doesn’t. I think it’s great in legion, and it seems to be implemented in a really similar way to xwing 2.5… but other part of me use to like the simple straight up dogfights of old.. even back when I played 1.0 we would do objective games so I think at the very least having it as an option for players is a great thing. Looking forward to further content!

How are you playing this on TTS? I;m getting dozens of import error messages trying to run it, suggesting almost none of the hosted files are available anymore!

target locking rocks is a bit daft. any rules that just ban that?

I don't think it's fair to say that 2.0 prices generics aggressively. Often a named pilot will cost the same or even less than a generic of the same Initiative. However, eventually 2.5 will have to do a points rebalancing and address the named vs generic issue. Even if that just means they decide to keep generics sub-optimal. And if they do decide to lower the cost of the generics, then the differences between 2.0 list building and 2.5 will become less and less.