Originally Posted by
kelsith
As I understand it that is true if you were not part of the Kickstarter, if you were than per the April 11th comment from Ares Games "ALL THE KICKSTARTER SHIPS ARE COMPLETE WITH SHIP MATS AND ACTION TOKENS. This means if you get 16 ships, you also get 16 mats and 16 set of action tokens. "
Therefore if you did get additional ships you may not need to get any additional mats until you have more ships on the table than you Kickstarted. Which could be as many as 32 for Commodore or more if you added extras.
...and if you do have a battle with over 32 ships please take pictures.