Wow. Did not call.

TIE Punisher ...

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its like Tie What?

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Did FFG 'invent' this name?

Might of invented the name, but the ship was in Galactic Battlegrounds as the most advanced you could make your bombers.

Why not make the Scimitar if you wanted a cool bomber?

There were rumors a while ago that Tie Bombers in EP7 had stacked pods

-edit- meaning the person who glimpsed the concept art may have mistaken them

So are the Tie Bombers to be replaced by a Tie Bomber with multiple pods?

So even more room for ordnance?

Why not make the Scimitar if you wanted a cool bomber?

This.

A million times this.

I know it's not an FFG-original design, but seriously, guys, it's just ugly. It looks like it was knocked together too quickly by a lazy video game designer who realized he was supposed to have a new model done by Friday, and it's Friday morning and he hasn't even started one.

Because the Scimitar Assault Bomber looks worse than a K-wing/TIE punisher Ugly would?

The TIE interdictor looks like a symmetrical TIE bomber.

Wave 7, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Not Spending $150 on Plastic Spaceships.

Might of invented the name, but the ship was in Galactic Battlegrounds as the most advanced you could make your bombers.

Why not make the Scimitar if you wanted a cool bomber?

Because the Scimitar is one of the 5 ugliest TIE variants in existence?

Wait, hold on, what?

Hold on, _what?_

An Ordnance based TIE but... No... No Missile Boat?

Buh?

Wait, we're ragging on the Punisher as silly looking but saying *this* is cool?

Ooookay.

Hmm interesting didn't see them adding that.

Wait, we're ragging on the Punisher as silly looking but saying *this* is cool?

Yes, because it looks original and not like someone said 'oh, crap, I'm missing a deadline, what can I knock out in 15 minutes...uhhh...uhhh...okay, load up the mesh for the TIE Bomber, let's just...copy+paste a couple times on the pods...DONE! *whew*, okay, now where was my whiskey again...'

Yeah, I'll take the Punisher over the Scimitar POS any day.

I just looked-up the Scimitar and... yeah. I mean, it just looks like a giant *****.

The Punisher/Interdictor has a lazy design, but at least it doesn't look that awkward.

At least the Punisher looks like it came from the same design school that brought us all the other TIEs. The Scimitar looks like someone described a TIE Advanced in one language to someone who spoke a different one after seeing it for about five seconds.

Wait, we're ragging on the Punisher as silly looking but saying *this* is cool?

Yes, because it looks original and not like someone said 'oh, crap, I'm missing a deadline, what can I knock out in 15 minutes...uhhh...uhhh...okay, load up the mesh for the TIE Bomber, let's just...copy+paste a couple times on the pods...DONE! *whew*, okay, now where was my whiskey again...'

The K-wing is original.

Wait, hold on, what?

Hold on, _what?_

An Ordnance based TIE but... No... No Missile Boat?

Buh?

They can't add the Assault Gunboat (at least, not the one featured in X-Wing / TIE Fighter).

Licensing issues. :|

Gotta love IP shenanigans.

Wait, we're ragging on the Punisher as silly looking but saying *this* is cool?

Yes, because it looks original and not like someone said 'oh, crap, I'm missing a deadline, what can I knock out in 15 minutes...uhhh...uhhh...okay, load up the mesh for the TIE Bomber, let's just...copy+paste a couple times on the pods...DONE! *whew*, okay, now where was my whiskey again...'

The K-wing is original.

That's true, but the K-Wings problems stem from another source.

It looks more like something a 12-year old would draw, who thought an F-14 looked really cool, but that it would look way cooler if it had bombs and guns on TOP of the wings, too, and on the tailfins, and with a turret on it, and with claws, and with...etc, et al.

Wait, hold on, what?

Hold on, _what?_

An Ordnance based TIE but... No... No Missile Boat?

Buh?

They can't add the Assault Gunboat (at least, not the one featured in X-Wing / TIE Fighter).

Licensing issues. :|

Gotta love IP shenanigans.

dafuq?

Where did you hear that? Surely, everything LucasArts did is within their license?

Punisher looks like half an Interdictor.

I never really liked the Scimitar, and since I am an Age of Empiresholic, I love to see the Interdictor* represented in-game

*AND WHAT'S A BLOODY PUNISHER????!!!!

Wait, hold on, what?

Hold on, _what?_

An Ordnance based TIE but... No... No Missile Boat?

Buh?

They can't add the Assault Gunboat (at least, not the one featured in X-Wing / TIE Fighter).

Licensing issues. :|

Gotta love IP shenanigans.

What? Since when?

The last thing I was expecting was another bomber - seeing as we've already got one - but I think it looks pretty damned badass so I'm in

They can't add the Assault Gunboat (at least, not the one featured in X-Wing / TIE Fighter).

Licensing issues. :|

Gotta love IP shenanigans.

....where's

...for that particular assertation?