(Part 2) Top products from r/XWingTMG

TL;DR: Get him a Y-wing.

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You can't go wrong with the second core set. It comes with three different ships and an extra set of dice, maneuver templates, etc. It's cheaper than buying any three individual ships, and you get more with it. It's the fastest, cheapest way to get more ships and more parts (e.g. dice, templates) that make two-player games easier. Almost every semi-serious X-wing player eventually gets two core sets.

The only "downside" (if you could call it that) with getting the second, newer core set is that it mixes the "old Star Wars" (original trilogy) with the "new Star Wars" (J.J. Abrams' movie from last year). There's nothing wrong with that, and if your friend is a bigger fan of the new movie than he is of the original movies then maybe it's a better buy.

But if your friend grew up with classic Star Wars, I'd recommend the following (in order):

• Y-wing
  
• TIE-Advanced
  
• A-wing
  
• TIE-Interceptor
  
• B-wing
  
• TIE-Bomber
  
  These are all the earliest released ships, they all fit well thematically since they are from the same era in the Star Wars universe, and they gradually introduce new concepts to the player very well.
  
  If you don't know how much of a fan your friend is, the ships I listed above are "safe". Many of the other ships for the miniatures game come from video games, comics, etc. with which your friend might not be familiar (and, thus, might not feel "Star Warsy" to him)
  
  If you're only buying one ship, get a Y-wing. It's the next most thematically appropriate ship to buy after getting the old core set, and it immediately allows two ships per player since it pairs with the X-wing against the two TIEs your friend already has.
  
  If you're buying two ships, the following pairs go well together:
  
  
• Y-wing and TIE Advanced
  
• A-wing and TIE Interceptor
  
• B-wing and TIE Bomber
  
  If you're buying three, then, as I said above, the newer Core Set is by far the best value for your money.
  
  You could get the Millenium Falcon, too. The Falcon is the ultimate in continuing the Star Wars theme, but it will make game play a little lopsided for your friend at the moment if all he has is a core set.
  
  In terms of game mechanics, the Falcon is "worth" four TIE fighters. The X-wing is already "worth" two TIE fighters (which is why there is only one X-wing and two TIE fighters in the core set), and a Falcon plus an X-wing totally outclass the best two TIE fighter combinations you can come up with. Games with all four ships will be "seven TIE Fighters worth" of ships on one side against two actual TIE Fighters on the other side. So, I'd hold off on the Falcon until your friend gets more Imperial ships.
  

CamelCamelCamel shows that the Imperial Raider has been holding at $89 since mid february and it has recently dropped down to $76 (15% drop). It seems that around the holiday season it's price wildly fluctuates from around $80 to as low as $54, but $76 seems like its lowest between-holidays price.

Miniature Market: $85

CoolStuffInc: $85

This isn't by any measure the lowest this ship will get, but if you're hoping to get it in the next 6 months or so this might be the lowest price you'll find.

Not commenting on its playability in epic (as I don't play epic) the Imperial Raider offers the following for the X-Wing player: New Tie Advanced Pilots, four of the TIE/x1 title card, and the almighty Emperor Palpatine.

If you have no interest in playing Imperial then this ship offers nothing to you, and if you're interested in only playing competitively it doesn't offer much on that front either. Vader w/ TIE/x1 has been out of favor in the meta for a while now with the popularity of stress control and Emperor Palpatine was hit pretty hard with a nerf some time back. However Emperor Palpatine and Vader still do have their places in competitive lists occasionally and both are fantastic in casual play.

If you're wanting to fly the TIE Advanced and / or utilize a Palpmobile with the Epsilon / Upsilon shuttle and you're wanting to do it soon then this is a decent discount at $10 off the MM / CSI prices. However if you're not in a rush then I'd wait for the holiday / Black Friday season where you can get this for much, much cheaper.

My solution is the Plano angled tackle box: http://amzn.to/2iGo49J that holds 72 small-base ships. It is out of stock online, but nearly every Walmart carries it for 59.99. Additionally, it has two smaller containers that are perfect for tokens and additional storage.

This is my set-up, and the Plano kit is essential for my concise storage and lack of jostling during transport: http://imgur.com/gallery/Syn5K

For the Epic ships, I bought Stanley toolboxes because they are cheap lock well and could be used for tools in the future if I discover alternative storage.

I do not display anything, as I do not feel possessing these toys is something that merits commemoration or observation. I don't place the cars and family pegs from LIFE on a shelf, so it seems silly to me to exalt pieces from a board game regardless of how intricate the pieces or rules are. I enjoy it, but my shelves are filled with personal items and commemorations of lost family members. An A-wing would feel disrespectful.

Anyway, I now have to make a purchase of more storage, and while I think the Plano cases are brilliant, I am now looking at Feldherr foam kits on Amazon for basic storage. They have several generic kits that hold a large number of small-base ships while still affording specialized storage (through pick'n'pluck foam) for large-based ships.

In the end, it will come down to bang-for-buck, and the WalMart plano cases look to be able to hold their own very easily.

Happy Hunting!

I bought a Plano 728 that has been working pretty well for me. It doesn't come with side containers, but I've been told these ones will fit nicely.

A lot of others here have the Plano 732 and I've heard good things about that one as well, but I think it's a little more expensive. It does come with side containers though.

If you have a Wal-Mart nearby, they have pretty good prices on them, but you can also get them online.

This Plano box for storing my extra ships and components. I have 4.

This Plano tacklebox for storing and transporting the lists that I'm currently playing. You can definitely fit all that. I also recommend getting some bubble wrap. They sell it in large rolls at hobby stores like Hobby Lobby. I bought a roll for like $5 a couple years ago and I still haven't used it all. It makes for good padding.

If you have free shipping from amazon (amazon prime), then I've found amazon's prices to almost always be the best. There's a really great site for viewing amazon price history called camelcamelcamel. Here's the page for the Aggressor:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-IG-2000-Expansion/product/1616619406

What did you just do, buy 4 starter sets and the 2 big ships from wave 2?

If purchased new from Amazon, that would only be 158.94 before tax, but would include free shipping if purchased with Amazon Prime. You're STARTING the bidding for your used set $40 higher than the retail price, and then charging an additional $15 dollars for shipping on top of that.

Amazon.com Listings, (if you don't believe me):

• Starter Set $29.65 x 4 = $118.60
  
• Millennium Falcon $20.48
  
• Slave 1 $19.86
  
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• Pre-Tax Total, brand new from Amazon: $158.94
  
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  Your asking price for used pieces should at least be somewhat lower than the price they could be purchased brand new.
  
  
  

It’s worth having a look around for old 1E epic ships going cheap. In the UK there’s been a few brand new C-ROCs (like here ) I’ve seen going so cheap buying them and a conversion kit would save you a good chunk of the cost of the 2E version and you’d still get all the stuff.

Plano 23750. Its durable and the containers inside are adjustable for whatever size and shape of token, obstacle, or ship you want to bring. I can safely pack 2 lists into it with enough tokens for everything. Your maneuver templates and range rulers fit like a breeze. Never had any reason to switch in 5 years and they're only $12 prime shipped on Amazon!

Oil/grease the male connector(s). Buy some green stuff: two part epoxy, yellow and blue, mix em to make green, mold them around the male connector. Remove gently and let dry. Will become as strong as PVC.

Better get it fast then.

Most Wanted
Rebel Aces

And yes, they are only producing 2E content now. Only exception being the Saw's Renegade and Tie Reaper expansions (because those come with 2E content)

So I own this one. It comes with 3 3700 trays like the 1374 uses and 2 3600 trays that the 1363 (the size in between your linked ones) uses. The 1354 uses 3500 trays and I looked at getting one of those trays for token storage to toss in the top because after trying out the 3600 trays, I couldn't imagine the 3500 series being worth anything more than that. The 3600 snugly fit x-wings, and actually I use one for dial/base/pegs/boards for individual ships. There is an appreciable difference between the 3600 trays and 3700 trays (which nicely fit all the ships) and if that type of difference holds to the 3500 (which looking at the ones in the store suggests they do), I can't imagine the 3500 (and therefore the 1354 box that uses them) holding ships well at all and possibly not even any large ships.

tl;dr- It's half price because you are shrinking the tray compartments down in all 3 dimensions, not just fewer compartments, but smaller ones that I would not recommend trying blindly.

What would be a good and cheap alternative? I've been looking at something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/COMPARTMENTS-UPGRADEABLE-PLASTIC-STORAGE-350x220x48mm/dp/B002TGCZ4C/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1425389638&sr=8-14&keywords=plano

Question for you. Is there a reason your stuff has to be on "trays" or something similar for tournaments? Or could one use something like [this] (http://www.amazon.com/Plano-StowAway-Organizer-Adjustable-Compartments/dp/B007UTNREK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1450477702&sr=8-3&keywords=plano+3750)? I have yet to go to any tournaments but I was thinking about starting soon and want to know if I bring one of those with my stuff in it, if I will be fine?

http://m.barnesandnoble.com/p/toys-games-star-wars-x-wing-hwk-290-light-freighter-expansion-pack/26370056?ean=9781616617042

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1616617047/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1417279068&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SY200_QL40

Crow's normal price on Barnes and noble website and Amazon. I don't know what you were looking at.

it's $38 on amazon - and free shipping if you have prime http://www.amazon.com/Plano-Molding-728-000-Angled-Tackle/dp/B006PKXVAA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425395304&sr=8-1

Amazon had the first edition box at $55-ish last night when I was browsing. Not a bad deal if you have the conversion kit for the Empire already for the TIE X1 and don’t mind getting a huge ship conversion.

EDIT: It doesn’t show up on Amazon’s internal search, only on Google.

Going rate for Autothrusters on UK ebay is £6.99+£1.00 P&P
or grab the viper from Amazon its better to get a cheap Viper as you get two of said cards
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/1616619384/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1475083137&sr=8-1&keywords=x+wing+starviper&condition=new

In all seriousness, the deal on the Imperial Raider is pretty good.

Sorry, I was thinking of a different box. I was thinking of this.

This is what I use, and I love it. You can get it for $40 at Wal-Mart. I'm actually going to be posting my storage setup tonight. I don't know if it actually gets you too much more space than what you have though. The one other piece of advice I do have is to not be afraid to cut some plastic.

Whoa that's cool. Is that this?

I believe it was from a YT-1300 technical manual? I believe they are cannon. It makes sense that a standard freighter would be modular. Let me see here....

I'm fairly certain it comes from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Millennium-Falcon-Workshop/dp/0345533046

Sure! i got it on amazon uk but annoyingly its out of stock.

Sounds like he's a Rebel player, in which case grab him Rebel Aces. It's got a lot of bang for the buck, in both ships and upgrades.

The Starviper is under $14 on amazon right now, it's actually cheaper than buying autothrusters on eBay for $9 each.

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-StarViper-Expansion/dp/1616619384

OP means to add USA only.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MZBQPE6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

green stuff https://www.amazon.com/Green-Stuff-Yellow-Epoxy-Putty/dp/B002MB61RQ

Slave I also

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Slave-Expansion/dp/1616615362/ref=gbps_tit_m-3_f6e6_3c75b50f?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=da7be7f0-a4ea-4ce0-bccd-2bd5b54bf6e6&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=2241292011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=V0FEF1J770J58S8NK2NZ

They also claim the ig2000 is in stock, see here so I bet they are selling based on their expected stock then will only ship if and when they get it in.

Since OP didn't link it:

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Expansion-Pack/dp/1616613777/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522262378&sr=8-1&keywords=x-wing+expansion+pack

http://www.amazon.ca/Fantasy-Flight-Games-Star-X-Wing/dp/1616619112/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454104614&sr=8-1&keywords=rebel+aces

http://xwing-miniatures.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_5:_Preystalker

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Slave-Expansion/dp/1616615362

I'm not sure what the question is... so here are some links? :P

Link...

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-wing-Imperial-Expansion/dp/1616618035

EDIT: According to 3Camels, this is the lowest price it's been on Amazon.

Also at lower prices (Deal of the day):

$16.80 (Millennium Falcon) https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Millennium-Expansion/dp/1616615354

$18.99 (TFA core set) https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Awakens-X-Wing-Miniatures/dp/B014TKHEPA

$8.98 (Tie Advanced)https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Advanced-Expansion/dp/1616613807/

$11.29 (HWK-290) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1616617047/

Not deal of the day

$13.37 (Proctectorate Star Fighter) https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Protectorate-Starfighter/dp/B01GPELASU/

$24.98 (Original Core Set)https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Miniatures-Game/dp/1616613769/

The X-wing and TIE fighter are on amazon right now for $15 each:

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Fighter-Expansion/dp/1616613785/ref=pd_bxgy_t_text_y

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Expansion-Pack/dp/1616613777/ref=pd_bxgy_t_text_y

The Y-wing was at $15 earlier, but has jumped back to $40.

The Adv was also up for $15, but is now out of stock :/

Link for the lazy

Sadly not on Amazon Canada.

Why the hell would you buy a T-65?

More importantly: Protectorates in stock - https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Protectorate-Starfighter/dp/B01GPELASU/ref=pd_sim_21_47?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01GPELASU&pd_rd_r=VWT90A51M9ZM7XHVK27D&pd_rd_w=HGofw&pd_rd_wg=YWei5&psc=1&refRID=VWT90A51M9ZM7XHVK27D

I believe the pusher model was made somewhat official in the Hayne's Star Wars Millennium Falcon: Owner's Workshop Manual.

Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars: X-Wing: C-Roc Cruiser Expansion Pack Game https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZBQPE6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_H1Rlzb4S5APXY

They're on Amazon. But I guess it depends on how bad you want one cause they're up to $35
Star Wars X-Wing: TIE Phantom Expansion Pack https://www.amazon.com/dp/1616617748/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vXUizbB9E4TWA

Edit: Turns out Amazon isn't the only place with them available, I had missed them on other sites. Here are the complete set of links of those stores with them available, and then a list below with stores checked but where the pre-orders are not yet available.

• Tie Defender - Amazon.co.uk // Total Wargamer // Travelling Man // Firestorm Games
  
• E-Wing - Amazon.co.uk // Total Wargamer // Travelling Man // Firestorm Games
  
• Tie Phantom - Amazon.co.uk // Total Wargamer // Travelling Man // Firestorm Games
  
• Z-95 Headhunter - Amazon.co.uk // Total Wargamer // Travelling Man // Firestorm Games
  
  Amazon.co.uk have published a release date - May 28, 2014. Of the other retailers I have found offering pre-orders, Total Wargamer suggests a June 1st release date, and Travelling Man suggests "Q3 2014". Firestorm Games has no date listed on their site.
  
  
  As a side-note, my past experiences with TotalWargamer would cause me to suggest not buying through them. After three months of waiting for a product that was "in stock" when I purchased it, I gave up waiting and demanded my money back.
  
  I have no experience with Travelling Man, and know them only from /r/boardgames list of FLGS in the UK, but Firestorm Games are my FLGS, and have dealt fairly with me, including accepting a return with no fuss.
  
  Other gaming stores that are NOT currently showing the pre-order are:
  
  
• Clifton Road Games
  
• Leisure Games
  
• Eclectic Games