Some things in the Attack Wing universe have been let go.
The Romulan, Dominion and Borg faction packs from a few years ago and the third Dominion War set for Alliance are four and I accept that unless I am insanely lucky, I will never see them, but that is ok, I have plenty.
Another one that did get away and I remember having it in several carts, but never jumping was the Animated Series Faction set. The short run Animated series from 1973-74, the unofficial fourth series of the TOS period and a link to the movies, won an Emmy, helped keep the series alive and even broke some new ground in the world of early serial sci-fi animation, then dropped off the face of the earth.
It adds several ships including another Enterprise, two Klingon and a Romulan D-7 (bit rare that one), as well as several Captains and Crew with Weapons, Tech and the odd Elite. It fleshes out the TOS quite well, if you are ok with the animated character art (the other card art is mostly irrelevant).
Mildly interested in an end of financial year ad, I followed my nose and found not one but “3+” Animated series sets at half retail clearance price. On the open market these things are going for well north of $300US used!
What t do with a pair of TAS packs (yep bought 2, why would I not)? The Klothos, Devisor and Talon are all too cheap, I assume to be in line with later tournament costs, so these will have to be adjusted.
I can take the second Talon name and Devisor card as is with a picture change into the Enterprise era, but the second Klothos, a cloaking D-7 in the mid point between TOS and TNG is actually going forward to the TOM period (D-7’s are thin up there). Which gave me an idea.
I have a Vulcan/Fed TOS Intrepid coming in a repeat Vulcan faction pack and the second TAS Enterprise at 20 pts with shield repair which is a beast and too cheap and powerful for the TOS set, so these are going TOM (the other Ent will be point adjusted in TOS). The Enterprise refit was done early in the movies, so it stands to reason the older ships would have been in this universe as well (Excelsior, Miranda and Oberths all made it to DS9).
Looking to fill my cart and with a recent review of the Kirk expansion for Away Teams, I stumbled over that, the Scotty set and the “Q” expansion. The last one adds a lot of variety and different play styles with some needed randomness.
I am also keen on the terrain expansion, so we will see if it even actually comes up.
These seem to have evaporated, but the Q competition pack was a win.
Fun times.