To be fair in the US there aren't a lot of better locations that also work for FFG. Minnesota has a solid and fairly cheap to fly into decently sized airport with fairly easy access to wherever they decide to host it in the area. So availability isn't a problem and the cost difference between flying into say Atlanta or New York isn't much more than flying into Minneapolis on out of country flights. Now count in the additional costs of hosting it in a larger city in the US. Most actual personal costs to attendees are higher as well.
 
I say this as a person who previously lived in CA and moved to MN. Most of my travel costs to events are far cheaper than they used to be in general living here. Coming here is cheaper in general as well for the US. And the area also has one of the largest FFG gaming populations (if not THE largest) in the US. Why move it out of the area?
 
Granted, they will likely be moving it to an actual venue next year just due to size of the events. The question then will be if they start running stuff at the same time and have a shorter convention or if they space out even just the miniature games and have a 4 day one that will cost them significantly more but boosts ticket sales as people can attend multiple events.
 
Also like the prizes even if my chance at winning any is pretty slim

I do the initial bulk purchases online. The discount is simply to good and allows me to solidly grab all the larger items. That said I tend to support local stores with misc. purchases anytime I come in. Be it food, paints, $20 or less additions to my various games/hobbies. Unfortunately I can't justify an extra $100 to a local store for a bulk purchase. But I don't go to the store unless I can afford something to purchase. And from time to time I grab larger stuff but normally it's in that $20 or less range.
 
I already put in my initial order for Wave 2 on MM and might be placing a second order for more large ships but I might also just grab them from time to time when I play locally. We'll see.

I do the initial bulk purchases online. The discount is simply to good and allows me to solidly grab all the larger items. That said I tend to support local stores with misc. purchases anytime I come in. Be it food, paints, $20 or less additions to my various games/hobbies. Unfortunately I can't justify an extra $100 to a local store for a bulk purchase. But I don't go to the store unless I can afford something to purchase. And from time to time I grab larger stuff but normally it's in that $20 or less range.
 
I already put in my initial order for Wave 2 on MM and might be placing a second order for more large ships but I might also just grab them from time to time when I play locally. We'll see.

Seriously doubt we'll see one today. Sad me. Oh well. At least I'm now off work

Yeah, I think Wave 2 is going to make fighter lists work. Between the larger carrier ships that still perform well at range and the possible ability to activate outside of range 1 you're going to see an uptick in fighters. That said right now it doesn't feel like they are needed.

Right 5+1 for expanded hanger and +1 for raymus who give you a squadron token when you reveal the command. So 7.
 
More realistically 6 with a higher range if the boosted coms allows for a longer ranged activation of fighters.

Right 5+1 for expanded hanger and +1 for raymus who give you a squadron token when you reveal the command. So 7.
 
More realistically 6 with a higher range if the boosted coms allows for a longer ranged activation of fighters.

If that purchase was in the last 2 weeks or so you're welcome

Indeed I did
 
The Twin Cities Armada was more to get a feel for our local TO's if they post on there and how the group as a whole saw it. On here it was about how people in the larger group view it. I'll agree that it's good to know who's local.

Ehhhhh, seems super high.....I was viewing this more as a slightly more maneuverable VSD-II. I feel like it's priced as if once all the upgrades are taken it's balanced but it's massively overcosted without them. Oh well. We'll see how it plays out. But at 114 my excitement for this ship has died a bit.

You posted this same question in the Twin Cities Armada group, didn't you?
Also good to know who is local on the forums.

Recently picked these up from Miniature Market on sale when I needed free shipping. Like the look so I'm hoping we see some more support. Time will tell but at least I got my dwarves

Recently picked these up from Miniature Market on sale when I needed free shipping. Like the look so I'm hoping we see some more support. Time will tell but at least I got my dwarves

Also considering they are running Worlds as a 300pt event I don't think they forsee it being here before September.

I'm going to be trying to make it. As long as the wife doesn't kibosh it I should be there

I'm pretty sure I saw some last weekend when I was up there. I'd assume they do. They have everything released so far.

Currently I bought:
 
2 Starter
1 CR-90
1 Frigate
1 Assault Frigate
1 Victory
3 Gladiator
2 of both sets of fighters
 
I'm going to be buying to round out wave 1;
1 Assault Frigate
1 of both sets of fighters
 
Basically I don't think I'll ever fly more than 6 of any given specialty fighter but I could see myself flying Rhymer and 5 bombers or 6 a-wings or so on so I wanted one more set of each to round them out. The second Assault Frigate is to round out my options even if I really don't like the look of the ship.
 
Wave 2 is likely;
1 Imperial SD
1 Home One
3 MC-30
3 Raiders
1 Rogue/Villain pack
 
And I might pick up a second Imperial just for funsies but I doubt I'll do 2 MC-80's because I'm waiting for the liberty variant (wings).

Hoping to see a size matched Assault Frigate MK1 on shapeways soon. I'll but the MK2 for cards and bases and such. I'd jus t like to swap it out for a better looking (in my opinion) ship

Hoping to see a size matched Assault Frigate MK1 on shapeways soon. I'll but the MK2 for cards and bases and such. I'd jus t like to swap it out for a better looking (in my opinion) ship

Possibly a Vic-I and 3 Gladiators at that point value too.
 
GSD-I @56*3=168
Vic-I @72
 
So Plus 4 Squadrons of Ties and Motti for a total of 296.

Now I'm going to need to pick up 1-2 more Gladiators. 1 Vic and 3 Gladiators doesn't seem like to bad of an idea. Or if you're willing to go light on upgrades and fighters you could go 2 and 2. Either way I think I'm going to need another 1-2...

Yeah, if they put up Wave 1 & the Starter pre-orders I'll pay for mine right now. But I'm not ordering 2 starters to start so I wouldn't get free shipping with just one. So the entire Wave 1 is what I'm waiting for.

No worries. I see how it could have been taken incorrectly