Star Wars X-Wing B-Wing Expansion Pack Game

Product Description

FFGSWX14 B-Wing: Star Wars X-Wing Expansion

Bring the B-wing to your games of X-Wing with the B-Wing Expansion Pack. The B-wings heavy weapons array and resilient shielding quickly solidified it as the Alliances most formidable assault fighter. Accordingly, the B-Wing Expansion Pack packs a mighty punch! The B-wing can wield as many as two torpedoes, as well as a cannon, and it can be equipped with a system upgrade for precision targeting. The B-Wing Expansion Pack contains a stunning miniature at 1/270 scale, a maneuver dial, all necesssary tokens, four ship cards, and a devastating arsenal of five upgrade cards.
This is not a complete game experience. A copy of the X-Wing Miniatures Game Core Set is required to play.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3575 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Fantasy Flight Games
• Model: SWX14
• Released on: 2013-08-31
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.50" h x 3.25" w x 6.50" l,

Features

• The formidable and resilient B-wing joins the dramatic dogfights of X-Wing
• Features one pre-painted, detailed B-wing miniature at 1/270 scale
• Add flexibility to your X-Wing squadron with five upgrades and four new pilots

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Great addition to your Rebel fleet (the first Rebel ship that can barrell roll!)
By El_Tonio
The B-Wing is one of four "Wave 3" expansion sets for the X-Wing miniatures game. I think there are some good reasons to add a few B-Wings to your Rebel fleet; here are those that really stood out the most to me.

First, the base stats for this ship include 3 attack dice, 1 defense dice, 3 hull, and 5 shields (having more shields than hull means they will be less effected by critical hits overall). All B-Wings also have the focus, target-lock, and barrel role actions (note: this is the first Rebel ships with the barrel role action). They can also be upgraded in several ways with a variety of previous and new modifications.

Second, you get 4 pilots (including 2 unique pilots with some very nice special abilities). Pilots include:

(1) Blue Squadron Pilot, a level 2 non-unique pilot that cost 22 points.

(2) Dagger Squadron Pilot, a level 4 non-unique pilot that costs 24 points.

(3) Ibtisam, a level 6 unique pilot that costs 28 points, who has a very handy offensive AND defensive special ability that reads, "When attacking or defending, if you have at least one stress token, you may reroll 1 of your dice."

(4) Ten Numb, a level 8 unique pilot that costs 31 points, whose very nice offensive special ability reads, "When attacking, 1 of your critical hit results cannot be cancelled by defense dice."

Third, it also includes five new upgrade cards (two of which is exclusive to this expansion set at the time it was released): (1) Proton Torpedoes -- a 4 point upgrade that came with several other Rebel ships; (2) Ion Cannon -- a 3 point upgrade also came with the Firespray-31 expansion; (3) Autoblaster -- an amazing 5 point upgrade whose hits cannot be canceled by defense dice (this will likely find just as much or more use on the Firespray-31); (4) Advanced Proton Torpedoes -- another awesome 6 point upgrade that gives you 5 attack dice and allows you to change up to 3 of your blank results to focus results (also comes with the TIE Bomber); and (5) Fire-Control Systems -- a nice 2 point upgrade that allows you to acquire a target lock on a ship AFTER you perform an attack.

As with all expansions, this one includes all tokens, dials, etc. that you need to use this ship in a game (though a copy of the base set is still needed to play).

Given all the nice new things it adds to the Rebel side, I think it is definitely a worthwhile addition to the game. Not to mention that the ship itself looks pretty cool. I liked it so much that I bought 4 of them (I probably won't use more than 1-2 at a time, but I figure better too many than too few).

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A tough space fighter
By Neko-san
The B-Wing Expansion Pack is an expansion for the X-Wing Miniature Game, which happens to include a great model. The sculpt and paint of this miniature are really good. I wanted to buy this one just to collect, but I may try it in a friendly match.

This miniature is about 2" tall x 1.25" wide. Of course, it is at scale with other miniatures in the X-Wing Miniature Game such as the X-Wing and Tie Fighters.

In addition to the B-Wing, this expansion includes a stand and a base for the miniature, two ship tokens for the base, one maneuver dial, a rulesheet, and plenty of other tokens as those included for the X-Wing Miniature Game.

However, the cards included in the expansion take the spotlight after the miniature. This expansion includes:

4 ships/pilots: Ten Numb (8), Ibtisam (6), Dagger Squadron Pilot (4) and a Blue Squadron Pilot (2);
2 missile cards: 1 Avance Proton Torpedoes and 1 Proton Torpedoes;
2 cannon card: Ion Cannon and 1 Autoblaster;
1 sensor card: Fire-Control System:
1 reference card: Ion Token.

B-Wing is less agile than the X-Wing, but has the same attack power. It can not perform hard turns at speed 3, but instead it can perform a Koiogran turn at speed 2, and hard turns at speed 1 but with stress. It also takes stress on turn at speed 3 and straight at speed 4. This ship compensate on shields (5) instead and it also have a barrel roll maneuver.

Overall, this is good model for Star Wars collectors, but a tough fighter if you can master it.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great additon to the game.
By Kris Lynch
Fun, powerful ship. Great upgrades. A must for any X wing player. Not agile at all but with 2 advanced proton torpedoes who needs agility?

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