1 minute ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Rad. I envy the pedals, but I've got a HOTAS. Thrustmaster 16000M, solid stick lemme tell ya (though ideally, CH pedals, thrust, and stick, whew.)

Got a goal ship? I tend towards Imperial and I gotta say, if there's any one endgame vessel I'd love to have it's the Cutter. Flew one in a beta, fell madly in love.

The pedals were a christmas present from a squad mate, I am still not 100% comfortable with them, but at least in theory they rock, even when I usually don't need them as the CHP throttle thumb stick is a god send for fine control. Though your 16000M rocks too, solid stick, even when it might not be build to last as long as my sidewinder II, which is literally in use for 20 years now and outside of needing from time to time some contact spray it still works like a charm, force feedback and all. Best thing Microsoft ever build.

And well, I did quit for more star citizen before the cutter was released, but my goal ship was anyway a Viper with complete optimal gear of my choice. Mostly A-grads, a few C and D compromised to allow for a few more A's somewhere else. Though IIIRC the Viper ain't the first choice anymore amount bounty hunters. They did add plenty of great ships in the last years.

26 minutes ago, SEApocalypse said:

The pedals were a christmas present from a squad mate, I am still not 100% comfortable with them, but at least in theory they rock, even when I usually don't need them as the CHP throttle thumb stick is a god send for fine control. Though your 16000M rocks too, solid stick, even when it might not be build to last as long as my sidewinder II, which is literally in use for 20 years now and outside of needing from time to time some contact spray it still works like a charm, force feedback and all. Best thing Microsoft ever build.

And well, I did quit for more star citizen before the cutter was released, but my goal ship was anyway a Viper with complete optimal gear of my choice. Mostly A-grads, a few C and D compromised to allow for a few more A's somewhere else. Though IIIRC the Viper ain't the first choice anymore amount bounty hunters. They did add plenty of great ships in the last years.

I've heard great things about the Sidewinder II.

In regards to ships, yeah- I was never a Viper fan, always been a HUGE Cobra MK III fanboy- if the MK IV was viable in any way (and not slower than a python ugh) it'd be my ship of choice. Python's like a fatter Cobra. The real Bounty Hunting ship these days is a Fer-De-Lance- which I can tell you personally, flies like a dream. Tanky shields, four medium hardpoints and one huge hardpoint (Class 4 Multicannons ARE GOD.), whole bunch of stuff. Federal pilot's Corvette isn't anything to cough at either, but I'm REALLY excited for the Alliance Chieftain and standard Krait. (The Krait is a medium, carries a fighter, what looks like two medium hardpoints, and three seats on the bridge. Chieftain has three seats, looks like four C2 hardpoints, SLF by as of yet undetermined.)

But shoot, we're a bit off topic, huh?

Back to Rebels....

Hera remembers the basics of CQC.

Basically, it looks like she had the speed or skill advantage, but Rukh is tougher and stronger, he took multiple shots to the head and kept going, and was able to take Hera down with just one solid blow each time. And Hera's tough enough to cold-cock an Imperial Vehicle Corpsman.

20 minutes ago, JJFDVORAK said:

Back to Rebels....

Am I the only one who thought it was absolutely ridiculous that Ruhk fought Hera multiple times this episode in hand to hand and didn't instantly destroy her? She held her own way more than she had any right to do. He should have just fought her once and owned her instantly.

2 hours ago, Captain Lackwit said:

It doesn't mean that, actually. Not in this case. The software they use for TCW and Rebels (and it is at least similar enough to almost DIRECTLY port assets, as shown in LOTS of the art for the show on their site in the renders) is versatile enough that they can extremely easily render changes to existing models without much hassle.

Indeed, they literally did directly port models from Rebels to the movies - 'Rogue One', in this case, got the Ghost, Hammerhead corvette, and Dornean gunship 3d models from the Rebels team.

Not sure how well the embed will work with the timestamp, but starting at 3m42s in this vid:

Good episode. They really redeemed Rukh from his first "meh" appearance. Apprehending Hera gives him instant credibility.

Great Thrawn episode. Everything went smoothly except, as always, the one guy that didn't do what he was told.

The X-Wing reveal was pretty underwhelming. I'm glad they didn't glorify it more than it deserved, but I was disappointed there was no story of them getting the X-Wings in the first place. They didn't seem to have any at Yavin and yet, when the time for the attack comes, they're just in them.

At this point...it pretty much seems like the writers of Rebels don't think capital ships have shields...

Also, who the **** is Mart and why wasn't he Wedge?!

5 hours ago, UnitOmega said:

Plus, the TIE Defender hit the magazine.

Magazine of what?! They use lasers!

3 hours ago, mithril2098 said:

and that wasn't an Elite Defender.. it was one of the regular defenders they'd been fighting, with a special color scheme. the Elite defender has the extended after section between the engines, while the one Skerris was flying didn't.

I'm not sure about that. It had the missile pods that the standard Defender didn't.

4 minutes ago, DarthEnderX said:

Also, who the **** is Mart and why wasn't he Wedge?!

probably Mart Mattin , Nephew of Jun Sato. Former commander of Iron Squadron.

they probably didn't want to put Wedge into that battle since the X-wings take a beating, and to avoid having to explain how Wedge escaped whatever major event that they have planned for the finale. (honestly from Mon Mothma's warning to Hera about the imperial evacuation order, it sounds like they're setting up for a Base Delta-Zero..)

36 minutes ago, mithril2098 said:

probably Mart Mattin , Nephew of Jun Sato. Former commander of Iron Squadron.

Oh, I just assumed it was a new generic pilot getting a bunch of screentime.

If it's actually a previous character, then fine.

The astromech that the pilot had sort of gave it away, you know that 'great' episode everyone loved called Iron Squadron.

1 hour ago, DarthEnderX said:

Great Thrawn episode. Everything went smoothly except, as always, the one guy that didn't do what he was told.

The X-Wing reveal was pretty underwhelming. I'm glad they didn't glorify it more than it deserved, but I was disappointed there was no story of them getting the X-Wings in the first place. They didn't seem to have any at Yavin and yet, when the time for the attack comes, they're just in them.

At this point...it pretty much seems like the writers of Rebels don't think capital ships have shields...

Also, who the **** is Mart and why wasn't he Wedge?!

Magazine of what?! They use lasers!

I'm not sure about that. It had the missile pods that the standard Defender didn't.

Because Wedge would not have been shot down.

2 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

Magazine of what?! They use lasers!

Tibanna gas.

1 hour ago, Mackaywarrior said:

Because Wedge would not have been shot down.

According to the aftermath trilogy, he has to get shot down in an A-wing and break his leg. He then spends time as a gunner on heavily modified freighter.... and returns to fly X-wings with red squadron a couple months before scarif/Yavin.

1 hour ago, Animewarsdude said:

The astromech that the pilot had sort of gave it away, you know that 'great' episode everyone loved called Iron Squadron.

To quote season one finale trooper: “I kind of like it”.

Shame that Sato died before we could fully explore his rivalry with Thrawn.

I am glad we didn't see X-wing origins, the Ghost crew is already involved in way to many important events.

Anyway, new Rebels Recon episode has LFL staff explaining why X-wings should have BR, and why the X-wing Fix Expansion will feature Hera at PS9.

But what they showed was clearly an aileron roll, not a barrel roll!

Though the way the BR acts in XWM is more like a displacement roll, maybe?

Only 6 episodes left.

I was always under the certainty that the X-foils in attack position were meant to spread the laser pattern in order to cover a relatively larger area, not because it was impossible to fire otherwise.

8 hours ago, xanderf said:

Indeed, they literally did directly port models from Rebels to the movies - 'Rogue One', in this case, got the Ghost, Hammerhead corvette, and Dornean gunship 3d models from the Rebels team.

Not sure how well the embed will work with the timestamp, but starting at 3m42s in this vid:

You're now one of my favorite posters ever for such incredible validation and understanding of the versatility of CG models.

7 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

Great Thrawn episode. Everything went smoothly except, as always, the one guy that didn't do what he was told.

The X-Wing reveal was pretty underwhelming. I'm glad they didn't glorify it more than it deserved, but I was disappointed there was no story of them getting the X-Wings in the first place. They didn't seem to have any at Yavin and yet, when the time for the attack comes, they're just in them.

At this point...it pretty much seems like the writers of Rebels don't think capital ships have shields...

Also, who the **** is Mart and why wasn't he Wedge?!

Magazine of what?! They use lasers!

I'm not sure about that. It had the missile pods that the standard Defender didn't.

Mart was the kid in the YT-2400. Agreed on the X-Wings but it was oh so horribly unceremonious for such a truly legendary vessel, was it not?

And yeah. That was an Elite defender. Had an elongated rear section, and I always double check.

1 hour ago, Jehan Menasis said:

I was always under the certainty that the X-foils in attack position were meant to spread the laser pattern in order to cover a relatively larger area, not because it was impossible to fire otherwise.

Not in the old videogames... That is pacified now, anyway.

4 hours ago, eMeM said:

I am glad we didn't see X-wing origins, the Ghost crew is already involved in way to many important events.

Anyway, new Rebels Recon episode has LFL staff explaining why X-wings should have BR, and why the X-wing Fix Expansion will feature Hera at PS9.

"Barrel Roll"

You keep using that word...

Anyway, whatever. Give the X-Wing a barrel roll (via title), but before adding yet another Hera in this green X-Wing, do justice to the true heroes .

8 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

At this point...it pretty much seems like the writers of Rebels don't think capital ships have shields...

We saw them in the Secret Cargo episode, at least - blue flickers over the half of the ship that was being hit by detonated nebula gas.

They just didn't do much to protect the ship. I think it's safe to say that "can withstand gigatons/teratons of energy" isn't a thing, anymore.

43 minutes ago, Ironlord said:

We saw them in the Secret Cargo episode, at least - blue flickers over the half of the ship that was being hit by detonated nebula gas.

They just didn't do much to protect the ship. I think it's safe to say that "can withstand gigatons/teratons of energy" isn't a thing, anymore.

"Can withstand a single shot of fighter grade light laser cannon" also isn't a thing anymore. In this show X-wings have better shields than CR-90.

8 hours ago, Mackaywarrior said:

Because Wedge would not have been shot down.

Because no one plays him..