Errr. You have:

X-wing: Barely competive

Y-Wing: Now is competitive

HWK: Is competitive as support ship

E-Wing: Corran

A-Wing: Jake

K-Wing: Miranda

B-Wing: Hello?

Z-95: Fully viable

YT-1300: Han Solo

YT-2400: Dash

Seems like you can play ALL your Rebel ships in a competitive scene, maybe just 1 pilot, but you can.

Try to do the same with Empire. I wan't to see it xD xD Half of the colection is eating dust. And we play some ships only for fun and trying new things.

Errr. You have:

X-wing: Barely competive

Y-Wing: Now is competitive

HWK: Is competitive as support ship

E-Wing: Corran

A-Wing: Jake

K-Wing: Miranda

B-Wing: Hello?

Z-95: Fully viable

YT-1300: Han Solo

YT-2400: Dash

Seems like you can play ALL your Rebel ships in a competitive scene, maybe just 1 pilot, but you can.

Try to do the same with Empire. I wan't to see it xD xD Half of the colection is eating dust. And we play some ships only for fun and trying new things.

1 useful pilot doesnt make a ship competitive. The ONLY use for Corran has ever been as a sidekick to Dash because he's so prohibitively expensive in anything but a 2 ship list. If the generics arent useful too(which they arent), then the ship is worthless. The E-Wing isn't useful, Corran Horn is useful. Big difference. This applies to all your specific named pilot examples.

The HWK has never and will never be competitive. Name the last time a HWK has been in a top 16 list. You can't, because it's never happened before.

A-Wings don't suffer as much, cause Jake and the generics aren't that bad, but i don't think i've ever seen them flown successfully in a tournament before. This may change with TLTs however.

The K-Wing's thing is ordinance. Ordinance has time and time again been proven to be a waste of points. That leaves the turret. Why run a turret on a K-Wing when it would work better on a Y-Wing?

Like i already pointed out, the only thing historically seen in the meta as a good ship in it's own right without just liking the pilots themselves have been both YTs, the B-Wing, and the Z-95. Now most if not all of that have been replaced with Y-Wings. Competitively, Rebels are significantly behind the curve.

TIE Fighters are still amazing, i see both named Phantom pilots, tons of named Interceptor pilots, all the named Advanced pilots, both named Firespray pilots, both named Decimator pilots, even the Shuttle has a spot thanks to Palpy. Rebels cannot begin to claim that kind of widespread meta success.

Sorry, but you're just objectively wrong. It baffles me that Imperials ACTUALLY THINK that Rebels have it so easy. Our options usually involve some kind of moral sacrifice by playing fatties or using TLTs. Imperials know no such feeling. Imperials are allowed to claim that the very first ship ever released for Imperial players are STILL making the cut in Wave 8. Rebels can't.

Why isn't this a thing yet?! 8 waves and no gunboat. No more than a general snub at all non-TIEs thanks to the Punisher taking the Missile Boat's place. I guess I can blame WEG for not putting the Gunboat into their sourcebooks and the Essential Guides only adopting the Defender from the many, many ship designs from the X-wing games.

Pg 54 of Edge of the Empire sourcebook, Fly Casual: Alpha-Class XG-1 "Star Wing" Assault Gunboat, complete with picture. FFG know what the gunboat is. I live in hope that we shall see it in Wave 999.

Fixed that for ya.

Dear sir,

Sincerely,

I have wanted to see the Assault Gunboat in a model of some sort ever since the original X-wing game was released 2 years ago (geez, was it really THAT long ago?). In 22 years, there has never been an official release of any sort. No toy, no Micro Machine...nothing. I'm hoping FFG will finally get around to making this ship, especially if they're making stuff like the Punisher. Seriously, the gunboat would have been such a better option.

Hi Guys,

I enjoyed the TIE fighter computer game as well, but if it aint in the new movie I doubt we will see it in the game.

Exactly how many waves of new ships do you think will be in these movies? The ot gave us only three.

Granted, but the OT also stopped after 3 movies and took a 20 year break.

Seems like Disney is planning to release a Star Wars movie every year until they kill the franchise.

Exactly how many waves of new ships do you think will be in these movies? The ot gave us only three.

Granted, but the OT also stopped after 3 movies and took a 20 year break.

Seems like Disney is planning to release a Star Wars movie every year until they kill the franchise.

Haha, you say it like George wasn't trying.

Your pessimism is enchanting.

So we got 2 out of 3 yet seen ... how is that age called anyway?

Age of Resistance? Age of First Order? Age of Disney?

We will get more of them.

There is no time and place for the Gunboat and the other EU ships we know from computer and video games ... for the next 3 years I guess?

If the Tie Cog is coming and it gets a turret slot,

I'm going to get myself Models of the Tie Aggressor and play them with the Cog rules.

How do you make these numbers? At two waves a year, even if all three movies came out today we'd be ready for them to be spoiled half way through 2017. The movies though are on a delay, so after wave ix picks up whatever wasn't released in wave viii they'll be pretty exhausted on episode VII putting us at December 2016 with a slot for old ships.

Episode 7 still has the Command Shuttle and troop transport and a freighter. And there may be even more ships in episode 7 that we haven't seen yet. According to sources, the toys that have been released only show the first 1/3 of the movie.

Episode 7 still has the Command Shuttle and troop transport and a freighter. And there may be even more ships in episode 7 that we haven't seen yet. According to sources, the toys that have been released only show the first 1/3 of the movie.

My friend and I literally were having this conversation like an hour ago. He was asking me what other ships we might get from 7 and all I could respond with was the fact that besides the Foo and the T70, the only other two ships I had seen from the movies were Kylo's command shuttle and the troop transport.

but like I just said in another thread; FFG will release it eventually, or we will all make Mel a millionaire by continuing to buy his from Shapeways. (Which btw, is having free shipping on all orders over the weekend starting tomorrow!)

'J-wing' fighter confirmed for TFA via Lego toy leak. Looks like Gunboat won't be possible until wave 10 at the earliest.

But there are rumors that the EU will still be an active pool for ship designs in future waves. There's still hope!

Gunboat!

'J-wing' fighter confirmed for TFA via Lego toy leak. Looks like Gunboat won't be possible until wave 10 at the earliest.

But their are rumors that the EU will still be an active pool for ship designs in future waves. There's still hope!

Gunboat!

There's absolutely nothing to say the spoor-wing will make Wave 9, and the Gunboat wouldn't even be the same faction.

'J-wing' fighter confirmed for TFA via Lego toy leak. Looks like Gunboat won't be possible until wave 10 at the earliest.

But their are rumors that the EU will still be an active pool for ship designs in future waves. There's still hope!Gunboat!

There's absolutely nothing to say the spoor-wing will make Wave 9, and the Gunboat wouldn't even be the same faction.

It does increase the likelihood that wave 9 will have another pair of TFA ships, and probably two more scum as well. No room for Gunboat in that, unless...

It's in TFA!!!! Gunboat in Episode 7 confirmed!

'J-wing' fighter confirmed for TFA via Lego toy leak. Looks like Gunboat won't be possible until wave 10 at the earliest.

But their are rumors that the EU will still be an active pool for ship designs in future waves. There's still hope!Gunboat!

There's absolutely nothing to say the spoor-wing will make Wave 9, and the Gunboat wouldn't even be the same faction.

It does increase the likelihood that wave 9 will have another pair of TFA ships, and probably two more scum as well. No room for Gunboat in that, unless...

It's in TFA!!!! Gunboat in Episode 7 confirmed!

Source with link please.

'J-wing' fighter confirmed for TFA via Lego toy leak. Looks like Gunboat won't be possible until wave 10 at the earliest.

But their are rumors that the EU will still be an active pool for ship designs in future waves. There's still hope!Gunboat!

There's absolutely nothing to say the spoor-wing will make Wave 9, and the Gunboat wouldn't even be the same faction.

It does increase the likelihood that wave 9 will have another pair of TFA ships, and probably two more scum as well. No room for Gunboat in that, unless...

It's in TFA!!!! Gunboat in Episode 7 confirmed!

Source with link please.

I still say gunboat in Rogue One is fairly likely.

'J-wing' fighter confirmed for TFA via Lego toy leak. Looks like Gunboat won't be possible until wave 10 at the earliest.

But their are rumors that the EU will still be an active pool for ship designs in future waves. There's still hope!Gunboat!

There's absolutely nothing to say the spoor-wing will make Wave 9, and the Gunboat wouldn't even be the same faction.

It does increase the likelihood that wave 9 will have another pair of TFA ships, and probably two more scum as well. No room for Gunboat in that, unless...

It's in TFA!!!! Gunboat in Episode 7 confirmed!

Source with link please.

Source: uh, you can't tell I was joking? And the rest was speculation. Please read posts carefully.

I've been wanting the gunboat since I started playing. It needs to happen.

At this point, the ships from the new Disney comics are probably more likely than the Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing.

At this point, the ships from the new Disney comics are probably more likely than the Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing.

No.

NO.

NOOOO.

At this point, the ships from the new Disney comics are probably more likely than the Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing.

No.

NO.

NOOOO.

Okay I'll agree here 'cause THOSE THINGS AIN'T PRETTY.

At this point, the ships from the new Disney comics are probably more likely than the Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing.

At this point, the ships from the new Disney comics are probably more likely than the Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing.

I was really hoping for the Assault Gunboat instead of the Punisher, because why have a fatter bomber when you could market a new model altogether?

Unfortunately, I have to agree that we're way more likely to see new models from Disney than old ones any more.

Ah well, some of those will probably be pretty cool anyway.

Unfortunately, I have to agree that we're way more likely to see new models from Disney than old ones any more.

OK, let's look at it this way.

The trailer for season 2 of Rebels shows an Imperial Immobiliser-418 Interdictor Cruiser in action - the first time it's been seen on TV or film in official Star Wars canon.

That particular ship was seen in the original X-Wing PC Game way back in 1993. I'm not sure if that was it's first appearance, but the XG-1 Assault Gunboat also appeared in that game.

If Disney can draw inspiration from Expanded Universe and canonize the Interdictor cruiser in the Rebels TV series over 20 years after it's appearence, they can sure as hell do exactly the same thing with the Assault Gunboat. It certainly fits quite neatly into the Rebels series timeline as well.

As for FFG themselves - well, they included both the Interdictor cruiser AND the Assault Gunboat (along with a number of other ships that have or could fit into the X-Wing Miniatures Game and/or Armada) in their Edge of the Empire sourcebook Fly Casual, which was released earlier this year. Take that for what it's worth.

Maybe the reason FFG has held off on the Assault Gunboat so far has been because the ship is due to appear in Rebels (or Rogue One), and, as such, Disney wants them to wait on that particular release in order to tie in with the TV series or film...