Tie Fighter in FO paint: Legality

[Firespray-32 5,424]

Still, Id like to see an FO painted LN, next to a stock FO and see how they look next to each other. Bottom line is, at a casual glance, they can look the same.

And ships of the same model look exactly the same.

[GML 124]

Why has this thread dragged on for six pages?

 

Question was whether it is legal.  Answer is yes.  Then people started complaining that it would be inconvenient for them to look at the plethora of information that tells them that ships of a similar paint scheme are, in fact, different.

 

How hard is it to see that on the ship tile that a FO has a blue 1 and a TIE Fighter has a blue 0?  Seems fairly straight forward to me.

[Rawling 345]

Why has this thread dragged on for six pages?

 

Everyone should obviously agree with me.

[GML 124]

 

Why has this thread dragged on for six pages?

 

Everyone should obviously agree with me.

 

Cute.

 

Are the models different?  Yes.

Are you allowed to repaint the models?  Yes.

Are there ways to tell what the model is at a glance, be it stat differences?  Yes.

Are you capable of asking what each ship is for clarification during the game?  Yes.

Have you physically altered the model?  No.

 

This shouldn't have been a discussion that lasted 6 pages.  It was a thread that was answered in one post, and then had 6 pages of people complaining that they don't like it because it confuses them.  In the picture below, why is the top "cause for confusion and and issue," while the bottom isn't?  

 

 

The ship tiles have distinctly different stats (a blue 1 is easy to distinguish across the board from a blue 0), the actions available to each are different, and the names are different.

 

It is generally accepted that you do not have to number your named pilots in similar ships, so if I had Howlrunner beside Mauler Mithel, people are able to identify and know which one is damaged.  But heaven forbid we ask people to read the tiles in the event that someone prefers the looks of the First Order colour scheme.  What if they paint a TIE Interceptor as First Order?  How will people ever be able to tell the models apart?  I mean, they have differences, sure, but a good portion of the model is still similar, and the colour scheme throws everything for a loop!

[Rawling 345]

GML, you're just proving my point.

This thread has dragged on for so long because no-one will change their position, and everyone re-states it when someone disagrees.

You can't win the thread by being the first to point out that it has dragged on too long... especially if you then continue to post long arguments as to why you are in the right, which will just continue the cycle.

Edited March 13, 2016 by Rawling

[Firespray-32 5,424]

This thread has dragged on for 6 pages because some people can't read the Component Modifications section.