"Tantive IV preview" Topic

link

This will make short work of those Aces you just bought.

How big is that thing? What next, a Star Destroyer?

BTW. That is one cool miniature.

16" long

Must Have!

That is great and I would not mind if they did a Star Destroyer next. Definitely one is needed. Then how about a Death Star?

@Allen57 and Disco Joe:
I hope you realize that a Star Destroyer in the same scale would be twelve feet long. That's not a model, it's more like terrain to fight the battle over.

12 feet?….Given time, I think I could justify that

Works for me.

Lupulus, I thought I knew how large an SD would be though I did think it would only :>) be about 10 feet long. Tantiv IV at 16" actually seems a bit small to me for X Wing. I thought it was a larger ship than that. How bout we play X Wing with some fleet scale fighters from Studio Bergstrom and get a 5 foot long SD? No, that wont work because even at 5 feet I could not hide it from my wife. I am crazy enough to try building one of that length however. What a great convention piece either size SD would be.

Given than in-game the corvette is a 2 card (so 2 piece) ship, a SD is feasible in a "condensed" (and so smaller) scale, by dividing it in sections. Main problem arises not with the SD itself but with the rest of the minis which could attack it, or the arc of fire of its batteries; it would need to be big enough as to allow for several smaller ships to attack one of its sides at once, for example. And the fact that it moves makes its portraying in a playing mat form difficult without rules affecting other ships' moves. It would be the focus of a scenario in itself. Maybe 2 feet long would be enough…

That said, the Tantive IV is a fantastic piece, and its translation in-game looks very promising!

I would love to see a 6-foot Star Destroyer on a large map, say a 15'x15' map on the floor, with fighters on raised stands. I saw a game at Origins that was played on the floor, albiet not X-Wing, and it looked like a hoot.

My knees wouldn't put up with that for long, so I would want to see the models on raised stands, say knee-high, though. Not sure how to handle models flying over or under the Star Destroyer though.

Didn't someone make a large SD out of layered foam board or something? I am fairly sure I saw an picture of such somewhere.

Sci Fi Supply in Orlando used to run Star Wars Giant scale games at conventions. The centerpiece was a 6' lit custom built Star Destroyer. they had a custom nebulon-b, blockade runners, corellian gunships, an interdict or and used micro machines en masses for the fighters. Big capital ships on 4' tall rolling stands. In the game Ai played in I rimmed my Nebulon into the Star Destroyer to cripple it, punching a hole for the Rebels to escape the trap. First time the Star Destroyer had been taken out at a convention!

Last fall I was at the Star Wars Identities show in Ottawa, and one of the props they had was the ISD model – I told one of my brothers that if I was going to steal any prop, it would be that. This isn't my picture (still need to get those up on my blog), but you get the idea:

However, to my thinking, a SD or ISD would be most functional as part of the game map itself, say a 12'x6' map with a 6'x2' (at the stern) image of the SD in the middle, with turrets, engines, and a bridge to target. Similar to what was done with zeppelins in the Crimson Skies game.

I went with one of the commercial "not-Death Star" paper products to do the same thing for a DS attack run. It's a bit of a pain though because no one does a space station map with a hex surface, so I'll have to re-jig the Silent Death rules to work with squares or hexless.

Folks in Singapore have made a 3' x 6' SD gaming mat:

Here's another WIP that's 75.5" x 47"
link