9 minutes ago, Kharnete said:

Hello thread, isn't this a nice day?

My name is Odanan and I approve this post.

(that's enough Gunboats to take back the Galaxy, right?)

On 11/8/2017 at 6:38 PM, ficklegreendice said:

the gunboat arrives on approximately the 12th of not-soon-enough-ember

....what ember?

1 hour ago, thespaceinvader said:

Underwhelmed with the aces, pretty good about the generics.

It does seem the latest Waves have less that great pilot abilities for the patriotic fly-boys. Just glad one generic got an EPT ?

9 minutes ago, clanofwolves said:

....what ember?

Dec-ember!

I’m going to go to the FLGS and pick up my four preordered GUNBOATs and open them up, flying them around my head and making pew-pew noises instead of studying for my final exams!

I'm hoping that next year we have an aces pack with moar gunboats.

16 minutes ago, Boba Rick said:

I'm hoping that next year we have an aces pack with moar gunboats.

FFG obviously listens to forum whining, so to make this a reality, it is our collective job to go spam the forums with a couple thousand threads saying “GUNBOAT DOA” and “Fix the GUNBOAT” right after its release, regardless of how good it actually is.

GUNBOAT ACES!!!

Just now, Kieransi said:

FFG obviously listens to forum whining, so to make this a reality, it is our collective job to go spam the forums with a couple thousand threads saying “GUNBOAT DOA” and “Fix the GUNBOAT” right after its release, regardless of how good it actually is.

GUNBOAT ACES!!!

The pack should be called "Ctrl+S", and the release article will be titled "Request for Reinforcements Acknowledged".

2 minutes ago, JJ48 said:

The pack should be called "Ctrl+S", and the release article will be titled "Request for Reinforcements Acknowledged".

Unfortunately, insider video game references seem to hate me. Last time I was playing with my Cruise Missile Gamma Veterans list, I was about to kill the last enemy ship, and I screamed “Boop! Boop! Missile warning! Key to target?” And proceeded to roll four blanks, spend a target lock, and roll four more blanks. I guess my opponent pressed the space key...

27 minutes ago, Boba Rick said:

I'm hoping that next year we have an aces pack with moar gunboats.

8 minutes ago, Kieransi said:

FFG obviously listens to forum whining, so to make this a reality, it is our collective job to go spam the forums with a couple thousand threads saying “GUNBOAT DOA” and “Fix the GUNBOAT” right after its release, regardless of how good it actually is.

GUNBOAT ACES!!!

Perhaps this is FFG’s plan as we have no Stele or Soontir? ??

7 hours ago, FTS Gecko said:

Nice work @Kharnete! If I recall correctly, when I saw you at the European Championships we did say that hopefully next time round we'd be flying Gunboats...

Haha...but Great Prophet - Did you work out who would be flying as who's wingman???

7 hours ago, Odanan said:

My name is Odanan and I approve this post.

(that's enough Gunboats to take back the Galaxy, right?)

ROFL!!! It was written: "And to all...corners of the benevolent Emperor's galaxy...the Five Winged Angels did fly to spread the word and enlighten all, noble and alien-folk alike."

1 hour ago, clanofwolves said:

Perhaps this is FFG’s plan as we have no Stele or Soontir? ??

Maybe the Ace will be named "ME" as in you/everyone who's ever flown the Gunboat in TIE Fighter!!!

39 minutes ago, Alpha Xg1 said:

Haha...but Great Prophet - Did you work out who would be flying as who's wingman???

ROFL!!! It was written: "And to all...corners of the benevolent Emperor's galaxy...the Five Winged Angels did fly to spread the word and enlighten all, noble and alien-folk alike."

Maybe the Ace will be named "ME" as in you/everyone who's ever flown the Gunboat in TIE Fighter!!!

Miis flying Gunboats in X-Wing? NINTENDO/DISNEY/FFG CROSSOVER CONFIRMED!

2 hours ago, Kieransi said:

Unfortunately, insider video game references seem to hate me. Last time I was playing with my Cruise Missile Gamma Veterans list, I was about to kill the last enemy ship, and I screamed “Boop! Boop! Missile warning! Key to target?” And proceeded to roll four blanks, spend a target lock, and roll four more blanks. I guess my opponent pressed the space key...

Decoy beam

I forgot to revise the pilot prices of my custom "Ace" Gunboat expansion. Now it's fixed:

Here are the upgrades:

And here is a new system upgrade (need feedback):

EDIT: third version of the System Jammer card.

Sensor Jammer already exists, and each action can only be performed once per turn anyway, and giving up your action to cost someone else their next token is probably bad.

14 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Sensor Jammer already exists, and each action can only be performed once per turn anyway, and giving up your action to cost someone else their next token is probably bad.

Dang, I wanted to name it System Jammer.

EDIT: what about now?

Functional, but whether that action is balanced at any price I would question.

It's a really, really powerful thing, but with a very high cost and very short range, in a very competitive slot. I'd be inclined to a higher price, personally.

15 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Functional, but whether that action is balanced at any price I would question.

It's a really, really powerful thing, but with a very high cost and very short range, in a very competitive slot. I'd be inclined to a higher price, personally.

Maybe this is better (to avoid abuse):

I hadn't even thought about the prospect of jamming carrying on round after roudn with it. That's much more balanced.

My major issue with this is that it takes a huge amount of agency away from the opponent which would make it immensely frustrating to play against, not that it's especially OP.

I'm unsure about the entire Jamming mechanic full stop at the moment. Most of the time you're likely to want to go for damage-dealing attacks instead, but the potential is there for one well timed Jamming atack to lock enemy ships out of tokens for multiple turns. I'm looking forward to seeing if and how this effects top level play.

Just now, FTS Gecko said:

I'm unsure about the entire Jamming mechanic full stop at the moment. Most of the time you're likely to want to go for damage-dealing attacks instead, but the potential is there for one well timed Jamming atack to lock enemy ships out of tokens for multiple turns. I'm looking forward to seeing if and how this effects top level play.

10 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

I'm unsure about the entire Jamming mechanic full stop at the moment. Most of the time you're likely to want to go for damage-dealing attacks instead, but the potential is there for one well timed Jamming atack to lock enemy ships out of tokens for multiple turns. I'm looking forward to seeing if and how this effects top level play.

I'd be shocked if it sees play anywhere but TIE/Ds. SO I'd be shocked if it sees play much at all.

Just now, thespaceinvader said:

I'd be shocked if it sees play anywhere but TIE/Ds. SO I'd be shocked if it sees play much at all.

Honestly, that's my initial feeling as well ...but I also have a nagging suspicion someone will come up with a nasty combination using it that will end up surprising a lot of people.

On 11/16/2017 at 3:29 PM, FTS Gecko said:

Honestly, that's my initial feeling as well ...but I also have a nagging suspicion someone will come up with a nasty combination using it that will end up surprising a lot of people.

Well, it is pretty good against reinforcement. So it will see epic play and if reinforcement becomes more prevalent in 100/6 JB might become a necessity.

EDIT: This is not true Jamming tokens interact only with focus, evade and blue target lock

WIth Tactician maybe?

18 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

WIth Tactician maybe?

Yeah, maybe. I just remember people writing off Attanni in a similar manner before the JM5K was released, and I feel like it's the kind of upgrade which might have some powerful synergy we're currently missing. Not that I expect it to have anything like the impact Attanni eventually did, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone, somewhere came up with a nasty combination using it.

Than the GUNBOATs big sister gets it