Star Wars: X-Wings miniatures game

X-Wing is a tactical ship-to-ship combat game in which players take control of powerful Rebel X-wings and nimble Imperial TIE fighters, facing them against each other in fast-paced space combat. Featuring stunningly detailed and painted miniatures, X-Wing recreates exciting Star Wars space combat throughout its several included scenarios. Select your crew, plan your maneuvers, and complete your mission!

The X-Wing starter set includes everything you need to begin your battles, such as scenarios, cards, and fully assembled and painted ships. What’s more, X-Wing’s quick-to-learn ruleset establishes the foundation for a system that can be expanded with your favorite ships and characters from the Star Wars universe.

Fantasy Flight has online resources available here, including rule books and an online squad builder.

So I managed to pick up the 1st Edition Starter Set and a Tie Advanced on e-bay cheap so this is a project to determine how to make this playable as cheaply as possible….

Included Components:
The X-Wing: Core Set contains three miniatures, maneuver dials and action tokens, pilot, upgrade, and damage cards, attack and defense dice (3 each), a range ruler, and maneuver templates.

Ships:
X-Wing
TIE Fighter (x2)

Pilots:
Rebel Pilots:
•Luke Skywalker
•Biggs Darklighter
Red Squadron Pilot
Rookie Pilot

Imperial Pilots:
•”Mauler Mithel”
•”Dark Curse”
•”Night Beast”
Black Squadron Pilot (x2)
Obsidian Squadron Pilot (x2)
Academy Pilot (x2)

Upgrades:
Elite:
Determination
Marksmanship

Astromech:
•R2-D2
•R2-F2

Torpedoes:
Proton Torpedoes

Damage cards:
Blinded Pilot (x2)
Console Fire (x2)
Damaged Cockpit (x2)
Damaged Engine (x2)
Damaged Sensor Array (x2)
Direct Hit! (x7)
Injured Pilot (x2)
Minor Explosion (x2)
Minor Hull Breach (x2)
Munitions Failure (x2)
Structural Damage (x2)
Stunned Pilot (x2)
Thrust Control Fire (x2)
Weapon Malfunction (x2)

Tokens:
Critical Hit Tokens (x3)
Evade Tokens (x4)
Focus Tokens (x3)
ID Token #1-9 (3 of each)
Shield Tokens (x2)
Stress Tokens (x3)
Target Lock A/B-K/L (2 of each)

Mission Tokens:
Asteroid Tokens (x6)
Satellite Token (x4)
Senator’s Shuttle Token
Tracking Tokens (x8)

Mission scenarios:
Mission 1: Political Escort
Mission 2: Asteroid Run
Mission 3: Dark Whispers

So looking at the internet the options are an upgrade pack which includes ships I don’t have so seems a waste…

The other option is the new Core Set which has the same ships

It comes with 1 X-Wing & 2 Tie-Fighters but apparently has multiple tokens

X-Wing Ship Tokens: (x2)

• Luke Skywalker / Red Squadron Veteran
• Jek Porkins / Blue Squadron Escort

Tie-Fighter Tokens: (x6)

• Iden Versio / Black Squadron Ace
• Iden Versio / Black Squadron Ace
• Valen Rudor / Obsidian Squadron Pilot
• Valen Rudor / Obsidian Squadron Pilot
• “Night Beast” / Academy Pilot
• “Night Beast” / Academy Pilot

The Tie-Advanced new version similarly has 1 ship and 3 Ship Tokens

• Darth Vader / Storm Squadron Ace
• Maarek Stele / Ved Foslo
• Zertik Strom / Tempest Squadron Pilot

So theoretically by getting these 2 packs I should end up with a 2nd Edition force comprising:

2 playable X-wings

4 playable Tie-Fighters
2 playable Tie-Advanced

Lets see what the reality is…