Well we already know we are getting wave 6, and imperial epic, along with the advanced fix

What else do you think we'll get?

I'm thinking

A ace pack for each faction.

Imperial aces

Duel bombers. (because one just isn't enough)

Rebel aces

Xwing and 2 more z95, or ywing

Or maybe the yavin aces

Bomber and ywing

Scum aces

2 interceptor pack

Or

The Starviper and interceptor.

Likely see two new waves. 7&8

Each wave after Wave 6 will have either 2 of each

Or

One rebel, 1 imperial and 2 scum to (the extra scum ship will help play catch up)

Now what ships will we get in each wave?

Now that I'm not so sure of as I'm not overly familiar with expanded universe

Maybe a V or K wing?

Probably some new funky looking tie fighter.

Maybe the scout?

For scum I have a feeling we'll see dengar and boosks houndtooth. But maybe houndtooth will fall under epic play?

Maybe, I have a feeling we'll also see a scum huge ship for epic.

But I think we may get something in-line with the transport for rebels and maybe a conversion kit for the Tantive

And this is just wishful thinking buy maybe another imperial huge ship.

Again like the transport for a more support role

What's your predictions?

Easy: Episode VII stuff announced at Gencon...on sale late September / Early November. That is the time Hasbro is starting to sell EP. VII stuff.

I think that we will see the new wave setup to be...

1 Scum

1 Rebel

1 Imperial

1 Aces pack of whatever needs to be re-balanced

My predictions:

CloakShape for scum.

StealthX or Recon X wing as a rebel cloaking ship (Rebels got turreted ships and support ships (HWK and Lambda) but both niches got filled on both sides eventually, cloaking will be no different eventually).

Gozanti class as the Imp support epic ship.

Assault gunboat maybe for the Imps?

Sooner or later, Hounds Tooth and Action VI for scum, possibly the Skipray Blastboat as joint Imp/Scum. Also, probably the VCX 100 for rebels.

I'd also love to see the DX-9 Stormtrooper transport someday.

If they can't seem to fit prequel/clone wars ships in the game, I don't see how they could do sequel ships.

If they can't seem to fit prequel/clone wars ships in the game, I don't see how they could do sequel ships.

They are committed to "the galactic civil war period and beyond" according to the CEO.

My prdiction is the Ghost from rebels.

I'm hoping it can be awesome and expensive enough to be the first one ship list.

Multiple shots per turn, lots of crew slots, systems slot....

They are committed to whatever they think is awesome, which- given that they are late 20s/mid 30s means they like the stuff from the movies and video games they grew up with, rather than the stuff that's come out more recently.

I'd love to see an Imperial V-Wing, a Rebel Arc-170, and a scum, um.. T-Wing? I'm not really sure about the Scum, to be honest.

Scum YT-2000.

Well there definitely will be more large ships for scum

The yt2000 is a good call

Large and EPIC ships for S&V

More Aces as they seem to be a quick, easy addition that adds income efficiently. (Remember, FFG is still a company whose final goal is PROFIT!) Without profit, there would be NO new ships in anybody's future!

I think the Ghost from Rebels is very likely, with a mechanic for the separation of the Phantom (not the Tie, the little ship that comes out of the back of the Ghost).

Also, an Episode VII Falcon is an easy one. Update the sensor dish to the new rectangular one, have it come with new Rebel crew from the movie, and cards\dials to let you use both that ship and the previous Falcon as Scum YT1300's as well. Would be a nice new pack that would certainly justify the re-buy.

I think we'll see a gunboat and a T wing before year's end.

I also think by next year we'll see some huge-ship priced product that contains 2-3 large bounty hunter ships. Maybe a "Han vs Boba" pack, or a "Bounty Hunters of the Outer Rim" which contains the title campaign and two large ships from the EU.

they are committed to making money...which will make more money: Clone wars ships that a portion of the fanbase like or new episode VII ships just before the movie hits?

I would guess we'll see two main Waves, each containing 1 ship from each faction and one additional Aces-style release, probably containing a TIE Bomber and another Imperial ship (Defender?). I would guess Assault Gunboat and possible a TIE Avenger for the Imperial releases and T-Wing for one of the Rebel releases. At least one of the Scum ships will be large base.

The Y-Wing got more options with the Most Wanted pack, so although I'd love to see a Rebel Aces version that also came with the Y-Wing title and Bomb upgrade from Most Wanted, I suspect that's a long way off (and probably won't contain those cards )

I'm not convinced we'll get another Imperial huge ship. With Armada coming out, FFG may well put the huge ships on the back burner now that Imperials have one to satisfy the requests. My experience with huge ships is that they mostly just gather dust anyway.

If they can't seem to fit prequel/clone wars ships in the game, I don't see how they could do sequel ships.

Because, with the amount of Star Wars hype we're going to see this year, it will be a license to print money.

My guess is that the next wave will be 1 ship for each faction (maybe 2 for scum).

My next point is not intended to start a war. I don't think everything has to be "fixed", but I also believe FFG is way ahead of us in understanding which ships need a little "nudge", or aspects of play that can be "improved" (meaning making them more viable in competitive formats)

Currently the communities discussions have centered on 2 main issues (that may not be the right word). X-wings and ordnance. I believe ordnance will defintiely be addressed, and by addressing it the TIE Bomber will be back in business. Its a great ship it just needs the package its delivering to be "fixed". The basic way to do that would be an Aces pack. Possible packs could be:

TIE Bomber / Y-wing

Bomber / Defender

Y-wing / X-wing

Also I believe Hound's Tooth is coming this year. Whether its a VT-49 Large ship that costs more due to size or they bump it to Epic (doubtful now IMHO). I firmly believe that FFG wants to provide its customers great ships that add to the game but also have emotional connections if possible to our love of Starwars. In that vein I think scum will concentrate (when possible for gameplay considerations) on the bounty hunter circle from ESB.

Boba (Done)

IG-88 (Done)

Dengar

Bossk

4-LOM

Zuckuss

These guys will be all coming down the pipe at some point. I just think Bossk adds a little extra drool factor for alot of fans. Zuckuss and 4-LOM are a combo ship wise (maybe I'm wrong) so we are really looking at Mist Hunter / Punishing One / Hound's Tooth.

Rebel / Imp ships coming down the line...IDK Assault Gunboat and K-wing are probably pretty good bets.

In regards to epic. After listening to the developers interview on the scum podcast I believe that FFG is committed to Epic and will continue to push it along. If FFG believes that we will play long games of Armada (and we will) then there is no reason to think we won't do the same with Epic.

I have both rebel huge ships and although (to be honest) they have been gathering dust for a little while I think the more Epic ships that come into play the better Epic will get. I'm actually really looking foward to Epic becoming a bigger part of the x-wing community this year.

Recently on the NOVA podcast they talked about their Epic games in the Outryder Cup and I thought the discussion was really awesome. Epic ships need other Epic ships to shoot at. Once these options are available I think we will see more epic gameplay.

Really love this game. So impressed with FFG, the community, the podcasts, website, and well everything. I think 2015 is going be a great year for X-WING!

SMUGGLERS and SPIES FACTION GENCON 2016 (YT-1300, YT-2400, and Lambda Shuttle cross-over ships)

PREPARE THYSELF!

Based on all the information they've made public so far, it seems reasonable to make the following predictions:

• Wave 6 and Wave 7 will be released. We've had 5 waves since August 2012, which works out to 2 waves per calendar year.
• Wave 8 will be announced. Just as this year, we had two "full" waves delivered and the first wave of the next year has been previewed.
• The Imperial Raider will be for sale at GenCon, if not earlier. FFG's track record with Q1 releases is even worse than usual, so I'm expecting to see it sometime in Q2.

I think April is a good expectation for the Raider, just like the Transport. The Q4 stuff is where the real delays happen with this game (see Wave 2 and Imperial Aces).

Rebels:

Veterans of Yavin IV pack

1 X-wing

1 Y-wing

or

Rebel Aces II

1 X-wing

1 E-wing

I would love to see a few more variants of the base ships. For example, Y-wing longprobe (title?) giving a sensor to the Y-wing, maybe in exchange for a torpedo.

Imperials:

Advanced Imperial Starfighters

1 TIE/sa Bomber

1 TIE/D defender

The Rogue Shadow as a cloaking ship for Rebels, possibly a dual faction ship for Rebels and Imperials if they make the generics unique, or possibly no generics and just have the pilots be Galen, Juno, Proxy and Rahm Kota(rebel only).

It would be sweet to have a large base ship with the cloak action.

I don't think we're going to see a rebel cloaking ship. I say this because the ACD is phtantom only instead of cloak-action only (like, say, autothrusters).

The stigym particle accelerator didn't need to be phantom only because it only functions on cloaking ships, of which is current exclusive to the phantom.

Wave 7:

Rebels:

K-Wing

Scum:

Rihkxyrk (rik-zerk) Attack ship

Rebels & Scum:

T-Wing (or Cloakshape, or R-41 Starchaser)

Imperial:

Assault Gunboat

Wave 8:

Rebels:

VCX-820 Stock Light Freighter

Scum:

Kiraxz Assault Fighter

Imperial:

TIE Avenger

Imperial & Scum:

Skipray Blastboat

Scum Epic:

Interceptor IV Frigate

I am hoping for more Epic ships for all three factions to make that aspect of the game more viable for us.

I would love to see Hound's Tooth and Punishing one- even though I don't plan on playing scum.

I expect to see some tweaked stats to at least one ship, though at this point I have no clue which ship.

I would like to see a Rebel Aces/Imperial Aces II. Rebels with y-wing/x-wing combo or e-wing/x-wing combo. Imperials with defender/advanced combo or defender/phantom combo. Though at this point I would take any combo for each side.

I want to see the Wild Kardde come out, but will be saddened if rebels don't get a generic Action VI ship. Along with that, larger named ships would be a welcome addition.

This:

My reckoning.

Gozer for imperials

Assault gunboat imps

T-wing rebs

R-41 scum

YT2000 scum

Nova courier rebs

DX9 imps

To reinforce scum:

Skipray.

Vaksai.

Action IV and some black sun or Mando big ship as a match for raider/vette. But to be honest I think 2016 for that.

I expect an interim aces pack for scum depending if scum is bought into (oh lets face it, it is).