There’s a lot to unpack there and it’s to late for me to point out all the things that I believe are not per RAW but the first that I will point to is that I do not believe you are able to “Assemble” a ship for which you have swapped components, you merely swap out the hull and that’s that. Also, the limits on speed per silhouette are written pretty diffinitively. I haven’t sat down to look at Defense zones as it’s almost 3 am but I don’t believe that you’d be pulling in that kind of Defense zone capability with what you are suggesting. Again, I’d have to sit down and unpack each piece but I think there are some leaps there that a GM would be quick to quash. Just my two cents.

You misunderstand me. What I meant that I would have liked to have seen that the rules for crafting ships followed more in the tradition of crafting gear than in the tradition of crafting Droids. I.E. crafting the entire thing with a single check and tree, as opposed to doing one for Frame, engine and hull. But after reading the rules more closely I actually think that they did a decent job with it. I should have looked at it more closely before commenting. One of my biggest pet peeves with the droid crafting was that programming was not as easy to earn Schematics for, so you tended to end with a lot of negative traits. But I am digressing.

I take back everything I said about the crafting not being worth it. Just mocked up a Destroyer and was able to build it for 90 million less than it’s listed price in about 200 days. Not bad, all things considered, and that’s without applying any of the talents etc.

because the next question will be how many hard Points. You get 2 for engines and 3 for hull but your GM can veto it. Generally you are gonna end up using these in order to replace them, I don’t know of a single engine upgrade that’s less than 2 hardpoints.

Basically it’s as the above comment or said only when you are dealing with an existing ship you can swap out its engine or hull for the potential to gain hardpoints. This might allow a ship to then get access to more weapons.

The lower the silhouette the more powerful the crafting is, which is a good way to ensure power creep is contained, but freighters and above are in a weird place. If you can change the silhouette down then you can achieve greater handling and speed generally but there may be an argument for losing other key features. Speeder bikes and fighters are able to achieve pretty stellar results, but that’s where it really drops off. I would have liked to see more in line with crafting gear than with crafting Droids and that those bonuses you can accrue can actually result in a superior product worth the massive investment in time, money and XP. Remember, crafting is largely the main thing some engineers and technicians do for their party. Compared with other classes at the same XP investments your not really worth it if you are building these ships after 15-20 odd sessions.

Per RAW it appears that the hard cap on speed for custom built ships can not be exceeded. Now, that may not include hard point upgrades but it reads, “... there are still limits to how fast a craft of a certain size can go. The speed of craft built using these rules can never exceed the value listed for its silhouette. If various factors would indicate a higher speed, use the values listed here instead.” I think most GM’s will not hold that to aftermarket modifications, but the way it is written is pretty clear on placing firm limits.

I had looked at this when it comes to the speeder bike. Make it a silhouette 3 and it gets (potentially) Handling +3, Speed 6, +1 Boost to dedicated Pilot and can add a passenger.

I don’t find the Bith bad. I didn’t know the legends stuff but I was glad they took the route of dropping the “your entire species is dictated by what was seen in one scene once somewhere” approach. Imagine if you went into the park and saw a hippie with a guitar and thought all humans must be hippies who play guitar.

On a second pass it does have some upsides, just not where you might expect to have found them. Still not overly impressed, but I guess balance is what’s key here. (Also that silhouette three freighter would then only seat 1 per RAW?)

These crafting rules are the worst ever. In every case it’s better to buy an existing model than to build one on every scale. Restrictions on top speed mean that freighters can’t ever supersede speed 4. So the falcon must not exist. Y Wings and ARC fighters require you to roll well to create and generally you have to invest so much time into it it’s just easier to buy it.

Well they didn’t give the description along with the stats so some of that is at least plausible. I assume that comes from either Wiki or WEG? I’m fine with a different take on Bith although I do like the reproduction you describe. Statewise they seem okay, just a little short on the Int for your description.

My GM leaves that on in Roll20 after our session finishes every time and it plays endlessly while you adjust your character sheet etc. I’ve grown to singing along with it. Lol

Am I missing something? Is it low stat wise?

So what are you rolling? Do they have templates or are there specific entries for each possible frame, Hull and engine?

Crafting rules bro! Please! My shipment must not be arriving till tmw and I’m losing it. Lol

Crafting rules?!? PS - I hate my mailman, deliver this now!

My book was in transit to destination yesterday, so should probably arrive later today or tmw. Anyone else have theirs inbound?

Seems more like a Chiss fighter but without the upper section so it’s only half that ship. I love it.

And I spoke too soon, for some reason it was sent back to Chicago.... FO just loves to F with my feelings.

My book has cleared its international shipping distributor, so now it’s just got to cross the border, pass through customs and then make its way through the regional centres to final delivery. Seems on track to arrive for 29th, if everything goes okay.

True enough. There are always differences in what people want to see. That was one of the reasons I was so happy to see both camps represented so well in this book.

LoL with great responsibility comes hot neighbours like Mary Jane Watson.... at least that’s what I remember from the movie...

I get that it may not be your cup of tea but I have to say I think it’s amazing to have this. Imagine, there are stats for Inquisitors like Fifth, Seventh and Grand that we can have show up and try to kill our Force user? Perfect. They have stats for the characters from Rebels? Amazing, now we can have camels with those who are a part of one of the most influential rebel cells! Finally gotten the attention of the Empire in full for that amazing thing your group did? Well maybe Vader or Thrawn are dispatched to deal with you. Oh, your campaign has reached the battle of Yavin? Awesome, take part in it as one small element of the larger battle. Wait, so I can be at one of the momentous battles in history and still have my game be a seperate thing... um sign me up. I don’t see why getting stats for these things is anything but the most amazing thing that FFG has done since the CRB. Oh, and all that takes up about 10 pages, which is also split with details on Planets, locations and organizations, equipment and ships? Yeah, I might buy this book twice just because it’s that great.

Mine went into the system today but my tracker hasn’t come on yet so it hasn’t crossed the first hurdle. Assuming no border issues I should have it by the official release date I assume.