I hate waste.
I do not like it when things do not line up thanks to printed matter becoming redundant.
My Attack Wing collection is as complete as it is going to get. All I can get that I might want I have, but there are inconsistencies and some wasted elements.
Wizkids changed later ship point values to lower costs, sometimes much lower. My sets are a mix of decently consistent, to all over the place, but were helped a lot by splitting them into scale, era and faction specific fleets. Much of this is due to the tournament circuit outing some ships as weak and uncompetitive, but only if they are subjected to ships from all eras and factions mixed together.
My original Voyager for example is 30 pts. The three later ones are 25pts or under. The Delta Flyer is even worse dropping from 20 to 14!
Finally, my clear-out of a little too much a couple of years ago left me with some annoying holes.
Below are some fixes done the old fashioned way.
Can you see the changes? I run a little black pen along the cut edges, then sleeve them. Initial fears the pasted-on card layer may be too proud and obvious have proven unfounded (I actually lost one card, mistaking it for an unchanged one).
Anyone familiar can see what I have done, but for the rest of the world, here goes;
My Federation Defiant is the Mirror universe one. I sold my Federation one (stupid) and cannot replace it short of selling an internal organ. I actually liked the mirror version more anyway as the primary attack is 4, which I think it should have been on the Fed ship. A replacement Fed logo and the “I.S.S” replaced with “U.S.S.” (both from an excess Ent-D card) and I have a 4-2-3-3 Federation re-fit of the Mirror version that would never have been used anyway, as I had already stripped out the useful cards.
The Sao Paulo (later replacing the Defiant) is a 3-2-3-4 ship, slightly less punch but more resilience. I like the Yin and Yang of that pair.
Next was an excess mirror Chekov (I bought a second, so I could strip out the upgrade cards). There is no Chekov in the TOS range. The picture (hopefully not too manic?) and his ability are acceptable as long as he is not up against himself in a Mirror vs Prime universe fight. I may look at his top ability and switch it out (maybe from an excess TOM Chekov). Otherwise the only change is the Fed logo.
I added an excess K’Tinga Kronos One to the TOS set as I only had a single named Klingon D-7 ship. It fits in the timeline (especially if Strange New Worlds is to be believed), being maybe the first of it’s new class and adds something to the Klingon fleet, their “thing”, a crude heavy hitter that acts as an over powered, less nimble D-7 with no tech slot.
As the only 4 primary ship and more hull than the D-7 it justifies it’s cost in the TOS set, but the action bar included cloaking which did not feel right in this period, so I hunted for an action bar that matched the D-7’s and found it quite hard to do (almost all non cloaking ships also have Scan, which the Klingons in this period do not have in AW). An excess “Orrassin” from the Enterprise era was found and the action bar fixed.
The Koraga got what many will, a slight points change, depending on the set. The other named K’Vort, the Vorn is significantly cheaper than the older ship so down she went.
There will be a lot more to either adjust points or change factions etc. I have no issue with the process or the reasoning and many points changes are actually official, they just need doing.