Has everybody buggered off to the Imperial Assault board or something?

It's the calm before the storm...

Imperial Assault is awesome though

So is Assault basically Star Wars "Descent?"

It is the suspense before the preview of the Scyck fighter and wave 7

I agree, next monday should be the Scyck and new cannons. I'm hoping!

So is Assault basically Star Wars "Descent?"

Similar. The basic game looks to be basically a star wars dungeon crawl, but from what they have said, IA includes rules to expand it into a regular skirmish wargame.