I fail to like its design.
I find those wings so ... ridiculous ....
Finally we get an epic ship .... and I hate it ....
... this makes me sad ...
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
I disagree. There is nothing kotor "did well".One huge ship vs a swarm did not ring any "this is fun" bells in my mind
Opening sequence of KoTOR did this quite well.
You are simply wrong. No, you do not have a right to your opinion, not when its that wrong.
I hope the Emperor's ability is really difficult to use. After all, he's not supposed to be as forgiving as Vader.
Also,
I am very pleased indeed my only sadness is it makes me wonder about getting another tie advanced to use all 4 of those titles, though I think 3 will end up fine, especially if one is vader. Well done FFG, you will get the 100 from me for this. The Epic looks sweet, and the fix to the advanced, awesome.
When I saw the announcement this morning I was immediately in a fantastic mood! Then slowly, incrementally it dawned on me how long I would have to wait until I actually had these new toys in my hands... Probably summer of 2015 with the standard delay time.
The announcement stated 1Q 2015.
I had one Advanced for a ling time until there was a flash sale for like $7.50... I have three sitting in my case and on on my desk near my monitor.
"Asteroids don't concern me, Admiral."I think you overestimate their chances.I need to brush up on my Imperial Officer quotes.
"You may fire when ready."
"Intensify forward firepower, I don't want anything to get through."
"Good. Our first catch of the day."
"We only need to keep them from escaping."
I think some of these quotes could be directly be translated into crew abilities. Especially "fire when ready" "intensify forward firepower" and "asteroids don't concern me"
Why solar panels though. Let's run a poll. Does that look dumb or not?
Technically, aren't all the "solar panels" on Imp ships really 'Cooling Panels' for weapons and engines!?!? Hence, they seem reasonable given the purpose of this ship!
They look dumb regardless of what they are.
Why?
Because they almost entirely obstruct the rear firing arcs.
I can see your point. They do create blind spots for the rear turrets in particular.
As I look closely it almost seems as though they could pull right into the body during combat if they wanted.
That would fix it.
Advanced targeting computer and cluster missiles yes please
Hmmm... There's a typo over the box ship's title, it says "Rrider". Other than that: Awesome!!! (but not so sure 'bout X1 alt colors).
Edited by MporiCurrently we have the CR90 @ 3 Epic points and GR-75 @ 2 Epic points.
Its a safe bet to assume the Imperial Raider will be @ 3 Epic points also since its the same size of CR90 @ 150m.
I'm going to guess they will make a 2 Epic point ship for the imperials and based on the Epic Tourney rules I can see them making 1 Epic point ships for all factions. I can see the Gozanti coming in @ 1 Epic point and The Hounds Tooth for scum.
Scum's 3 Epic point ship makes the most sense to be the Star Jewel since its @ 160m and would bring Jabba into space battles.
Epic battles is now getting to be super exciting. There is a lot of possibilities for ships too if they open the design space for 1 Epic point ships @ the 50-70m range( Rogue Shadow, Gozanti, Hounds Tooth, Lady Luck, Ghost).
They will not make any 1-point epic ships.
The purpose of having a five-point epic limit is so that you can have two-point ships that are limited to two per squadron and three-point ships that are limited to one per squadron, or you can have one two-point ship and one three-point ship. The number system works perfectly. But I don't see FFG wanting there to be a capital ship that you can run five of in a squadron. Then it's practically a large-base ship at that point.
Edited by DanthraxAdvanced targeting computer and cluster missiles yes please
Primary Weapon only.
Also requires target lock, which Cluster Missiles spend to fire.
Advanced targeting computer and cluster missiles yes please
Primary Weapon only.
Also requires target lock, which Cluster Missiles spend to fire.
Wow my reading comprehension is horrible today.
The announcement stated 1Q 2015.
So... late summer, then.
There's no way this is coming out in the next 4 months.
Hmmm... There's a typo over the box ship's title, it says "Rrider". Other than that: Awesome!!! (but not so sure 'bout X1 alt colors).
Nah, look at the other A's in "Imperial", they're identical. Probably just compression artefacts.
I fail to like its design.
I find those wings so ... ridiculous ....
Finally we get an epic ship .... and I hate it ....
... this makes me sad ...
The good news is that you get to blow it up.
I'll take this brand new ship over the dild- I mean Lancer Frigate
Anybody notice the new -- no, actually new -- target lock tokens? Think they're paired for the Advanced Targeting System? It looks like a mini TIE/Adv instead of lettering this time. But there's only the one pair so idk.
My thoughts:
I like the solar panels. Makes it look more aggressive.
No 360 primary but it's still pretty easy to catch something with those arcs.
Doesn't look as long as the CR-90 does it? Looks a tad shorter to me.
I'm happy I asked for an Advanced for Christmas. After the Raider comes out, I'll have 3 Advanced. Get a 4th?
Would hope those crew cards are huge ship only cards. Have to figure out what crew cards we have now to put on it.
Release mid-late April.
I will cry myself to sleep once or twice if I can't put Palpatine on a shuttle.
Thrawn's conspicuous absence is like a knife in my heart.
Edited by IntroverdantActually, with those arcs, the only blind spot is behind the ship.
Also, I'm pretty sure those ten disks are space mines going by the art.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Space_mine
Possibly ion mines.
I like the design of the ship, it almost looks good. But those **** wings ruin it. What purpose could those serve ? it's like that one kid at school that gets a little ole 4 cylinder car all decked out and puts a 5 foot tall spoiler on the back, then paints flames on the front. Cause it's a scientific fact that flames make your car go faster.
If they had left those wings off it would of been perfect. Someone at LFL was asleep at the wheel when they approved this. They go on and on about keeping in touch with the movies and the trying to keep that design. And they pull this thing out. It would of felt like part of the same design tree or whatever you call it had they not put those wings on the ship.
Don't think those are ion mines. Ship comes with 4 ion tokens to go with 4 ion cannon batteries. The 5 tokens on the left remind me of the 5 tokens that came with the Imperial Aces for their mission insert paper. The other 5 smaller ones in the middle look like the ones from another ship's insert but can't think which atm.
So what's the jousting efficiency of a 22-point PS2 TIE Advanced that almost always does one critical damage in addition to possibly two more hits?
My analysis is here:
Some things i noticed: only 1 module slot, becuase only one comms booster. This is just a guess, but judging on the GR75 and CR90, its likely only 1 module slot on the whole thing.
It has 4 hardpoints. and a 4 dice primary attack. Wozers. This is based on the 4 ion cannon batteries and 2 of each of the other types that it comes with.
Also, Ions doing crit damage at range 4? LOVE it.