Ladies and gentlefriends, the seven as-yet unannounced SKUs have given me renewed hope. With a bit of luck, before long my FLGS will look remarkably similar to the last page.

Gunboats are built on hope.

And hope is build on GUNBOATS!

I don't think I would want the gunboat to be an primary ordnance carrier, because we already have the tie bomber and tie punisher for that.. and they are both quite expensive base cost-wise, which makes them juicy targets when loaded up with bombs and the like.

Personally I would like the ship to have a title card that either allows you to use ion and lasers together like a y-wing or the other side gives you a discount on torps etc..

16 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

Gunboats are built on hope.

Gunboats are built on the fear, tears and blood of Rebel pilots.

All hail the malevolent Gunboat!

19 hours ago, RogueLeader42 said:

All hail the malevolent Gunboat!

May it destroy Rebel and Scum alike.

Don't let the Gunboat down.

A quick pool: In which SWX is the Gunboat?

• SWX67
• SWX68
• SWX69
• SWX70
• SWX71
• SWX72

I'm guessing SWX69. If it's in there, it'll be the third ship in Wave XII. Although, honestly, after 3 years of this thread going, I'm guessing FFG knows we want a gunboat and they're purposely ignoring us...

Gunboat Please!!!!!

I'll buy every Imperial ship I skipped since the TIE Ad Prototype if they release a Gunboat. Yes, even the patently absurd multitudes of TIE Fighter clones. And that ridiculous rebel TIE.

I'm afraid the Gunboat representation at the European Championships is not going according to plan. My win/loss record with triple TIE Defenders currently stands at 2-6.

Requesting reinforcements.

21 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

I'm afraid the Gunboat representation at the European Championships is not going according to plan. My win/loss record with triple TIE Defenders currently stands at 2-6.

Requesting reinforcements.

2-6?

Wouldn't happen if you were flying Gunboats.

18 hours ago, Xerandar said:

I'll buy every Imperial ship I skipped since the TIE Ad Prototype if they release a Gunboat. Yes, even the patently absurd multitudes of TIE Fighter clones. And that ridiculous rebel TIE.

No, no, no, not that! Pleeeeeease not that.

37 minutes ago, clanofwolves said:

No, no, no, not that! Pleeeeeease not that.

I'm quite willing to let @Xerandar take one for the team if it means we get the Gunboat.

2 hours ago, Stevey86 said:

2-6?

Wouldn't happen if you were flying Gunboats.

Indeed. Rho Squadron's assistance is needed more than ever!

Finished 2-7 over the two days. I let my triple Defenders down, I let the Gunboat down, I let the Empire down.

Still had fun though, at least four of my losses were really close (one came down to one health vs one health), and met a lot of great people.

Played two great games of Team Epic yesterday as well before watching that crazy final.

What is the tactic for destroying triple x/7 defenders? I ask because there is a guy at my club who luuuves flying those.

On 5/31/2017 at 5:42 AM, FTS Gecko said:

Ladies and gentlefriends, the seven as-yet unannounced SKUs have given me renewed hope. With a bit of luck, before long my FLGS will look remarkably similar to the last page.

Gunboats are built on hope.

Where are you seeing that FFG has seven as-yet unannounced SKUs? And are they supposed to fill those SKUs this year?

5 minutes ago, drail14me said:

Where are you seeing that FFG has seven as-yet unannounced SKUs? And are they supposed to fill those SKUs this year?

It's 6.

Wave 11 ends at SWX66
Guns for Hire is SWX73

That leaves SWX67-72 unaccounted for.

33 minutes ago, Stevey86 said:

It's 6.

Wave 11 ends at SWX66
Guns for Hire is SWX73

That leaves SWX67-72 unaccounted for.

Got it. Basing the missing SKU's off the Guns for Hire announcement listing it's SKU as SWX67-72.

Wave 11 hasn't even been released yet and now 6 new unannounced SKUs. Is this normal?

I'm new to X-wing. What's the typical announcement schedule for FFG? Do they make their announcements at any certain conventions? Dates?

Maarek Stele, I believe would guess SWX72.....

Technical specifications

14 minutes ago, drail14me said:

Got it. Basing the missing SKU's off the Guns for Hire announcement listing it's SKU as SWX67-72.

Wave 11 hasn't even been released yet and now 6 new unannounced SKUs. Is this normal?

I'm new to X-wing. What's the typical announcement schedule for FFG? Do they make their announcements at any certain conventions? Dates?

Yes. Wave 9 was announced a month after HotR and released a month before it, so they do have form for this.

GenCon is typically a good bet for an announcement. That's middle of August this year.

Force Friday is 1st of September, so soon after that if there's any Last Jedi stuff they're waiting to be allowed to talk about.

Or usually within a few days of someone spoiling it.

2 hours ago, william1134 said:

What is the tactic for destroying triple x/7 defenders? I ask because there is a guy at my club who luuuves flying those.

I was flying two TIE/D's and one x7, but in my case I faced a lot of burst damage which chewed through their defenses. Plasma torps, Miranda homing Missiles (and Sabine bombs), Ghost, Dengar, Bossk... there were lots of heavy hitters out there thus weekend.

Despite the final score, I was quite pleased with the TIE/D's performance. The Ion Cannons caused plenty of problems, I just failed to capitalise on them.

So, after waiting for nearly four years for a ship that I believe should have been included in Wave 5 or 6, I finally crumbled and bought a couple of those Gunboats with the foldable wings. So, what's the consensus on the best "version" of Gunboats that has been tried here? The 2-2-4-3 looks ok to me, is there a place where I can see all of those variants in a single place?

Here's hoping that FFG will make my purchase obsolete sooner, rather than later.