You do understand, if it is Star Wars, LFL owns it right? If they want to use a certain character, LFL doesn't have to consult anyone.

I don't see FFG giving it up for Disney. Wizkids yes, I can understand Wizkids bending over for them.

I'm definitely excited for new ships. New stuff is always exciting even though I may not use a ton of the ships initially. I will be experimenting with new builds like I always do. I have played probably 20 games so far and have not used the same list twice. The depth is outstanding.

Now, if I was to really get excited I'd love to see some shadows of the empire love along with some of the main bounty hunter ships (I.e. IG-2000, Punishing One, Hound's Tooth). I've been addicted since I started playing.

Really looking forward to the E-wing as it looks like it'll give rebels some fantastic options however it will probably make A-wings obsolete Also really looking forward to Tie Phantoms, one of my favourite EU Ship outside of Defenders/advanced and Assault gunboats <-- Empire NEEDS these <3

The thing I do not like is that the E-Wing is a New Republic fighter which came in 4 years after the destruction of the second Death Star. But I can understand FFG bringing it in for game balancing.

Considering the E-wing was in service a mere 9 years after the battle of Yavin I don't feel like it's too far outside the scope of the game

Considering the E-wing was in service a mere 9 years after the battle of Yavin I don't feel like it's too far outside the scope of the game

The scope of the game? I'm not sure what you feel is the scope of the game. It's titled "Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game". I suppose a literal interpretation would be we could only fly X-Wings, but I prefer to focus on the "Star Wars" part. Which doesn't have a narrow scope, IMHO.

Obviously they have not explicitly defined "the scope of the game" but right now we at least have ships/pilots starting from the Battle of Yavin up through the battle of Endor and beyond to an undetermined end point, but generally staying within a period where most of those ships/pilots could have still been in service, assuming the pilots were not killed in action as some/most of them were.

Basically, just because a ship is from the beginning of the new republic era does not mean it is too far in the future to make sense in the context of a star wars miniatures game roughly based around the time of the original trilogy.