I too think the Punisher looks a bit silly, and would have loved the Gunboat.

But, maybe they needed a TIE variant so they could include the Twin Ion Engine upgrade card that only applies to TIE models?

Disagree - I think that the Punisher is uber sexy. Native boost, sensor slot and all those munitions slots? Three shields and six hull? Most expensive pilot is 27 points?

Sorry, I am all about that bass and that ship is one beautiful big girl.

"Only seen in a videogame"

Couldn't you level the exact same complaint against the Assault Gunboat not to mention a plethora of other ships in the game? the moldy crow hardly has a huge list of apperances

If it was a good video game, I think the sentiment would be different.

I never really played Galactic Battlegrounds and I don't think I ever saw the TIE Interdictor. Looks badass to me.

If it was a good video game, I think the sentiment would be different.

...or if it had been in multiple good videogames, for that matter.

Videogames which shared a naming convention with this beloved miniatures game.

I'll just be using the Punisher dials/inserts/cards with my Shapeways Assault Gunboats that i'm ordering.

Easy, if stupidly expensive, fix. But i've given up waiting for my beloved Gunboats

Gunboats are extremely ugly IMO, would much rather have the Interdictor.

Would have preferred a TIE Oppressor.. But FFG's been really good with sating my SWG nostalgia with the Syck, Kihraxz and Decimator so I can't complain.

I think they just wanted to stick with a new bomber for empire since the rebels are getting one. I just want to know where the Scum designated bomber is? I am sure the Black Sun and Hutts would bomb their enemies into oblivion if given the chance.

Gunboats are extremely ugly IMO, would much rather have the Interdictor.

...says the advocate of the Y-Shaped Coffin.

"Only seen in a videogame"

Couldn't you level the exact same complaint against the Assault Gunboat not to mention a plethora of other ships in the game? the moldy crow hardly has a huge list of apperances

The Assault Gunboat is not a TIE and they have never released a non-TIE small ship for Empire. So, good luck with that i don't expect to ever see it unless there is absoluteky zero left to release, and then... Perhaps!

But honestly i like the mechanics, price, statline! I am completely fine with it!

Since the model got 2 bomb droppers - but there are no rules to cover that -

FFG could have come up with the Tie Heavy Bomber instead, with only 2 ordnance pods.

But well - maybe this was not bombastic enough. So we got the Tie Interdictor with a different name.

I've all but given up on the Assault Gunboat. At this point, I don't think FFG is ever going to release a small base Imperial ship that isn't a TIE variant.

So... Can I have my TIE Avenger now, FFG? Pretty please?

I think they just wanted to stick with a new bomber for empire since the rebels are getting one. I just want to know where the Scum designated bomber is? I am sure the Black Sun and Hutts would bomb their enemies into oblivion if given the chance.

Here's hoping...

No technically it was in 2-3 Videogames, but that does not really change things.

4 videogames, actually. And a number of novels and sourcebooks.

The Assault Gunboat is not a TIE and they have never released a non-TIE small ship for Empire.

Yet.

Gunboats are extremely ugly IMO, would much rather have the Interdictor.

Not so much ugly as they look like a mini-van - hardly an intimidating presence on the battlefield

Not so much ugly as they look like a mini-van - hardly an intimidating presence on the battlefield

Tsk, tsk, what a waste of an opportunity to use a picture of Eagle 5.

Not so much ugly as they look like a mini-van - hardly an intimidating presence on the battlefield

Tsk, tsk, what a waste of an opportunity to use a picture of Eagle 5.

Everyone goes for that - I wanted to be different

Of course, if you think this bad boy looks like a mini van, then I dread to think what your courier's uniforms are like

"Only seen in a videogame"

Couldn't you level the exact same complaint against the Assault Gunboat not to mention a plethora of other ships in the game? the moldy crow hardly has a huge list of apperances

The TIE Interdictor was only seen in one videogame, along with the heavy Y-wing. Some things are best left forgotten.

The XG-1 was seen in5 or 6. The TIE Defender was only seen in 4, and it spawned a lego set and micromachine toy.

(XG1 - X-wing, TIE Fighter, XvT, X-wing Alliance, Mysteries of the spliff).

(TIE Defender - TIE Fighter, X-wing Alliance, SW Supremacy / Rebellion, Empire at war: Forces of Corruption).).

To me both ships represent a time period of Star Wars cultural supremacy, the pre-prequel area where lucasarts could do no wrong.

GBG doesn't do this.

Other ships from the games:

Tie Phantom: (Rebel Assault 2, Empire at War: Forces of corruption).

HWK290: (Dark Forces, Dark forces 2 - Jedi knight).

Hey, these come from that same era, not including Empire at war.

Kihrax, Syck, Decimator - Star Wars Galaxies.

Any other ships that started out as being in the games? I don't think so but I accept my own fallibility.

YT2400 doesn't count, SOTE was a multimedia run, having comics and a tie in novel as well as the video game.

Of course, if you think this bad boy looks like a mini van, then I dread to think what your courier's uniforms are like

In the sense that the Lambda is a Space-Van, the Gunboat is a mini-van

A Heavily armoured for anti-zombie warfare with extra machineguns for thinning hordes minivan?

In the sense that the Lambda is a Space-Van, the Gunboat is a mini-van

Hmmm... I guess I can accept that particular analogy... *narrows eyes*

...so long as it is a gun and missile-filled mini van of DEATH.

The Punisher TIE, really named TIE Interdictor, is a model designed for the strategy game "Galactic Battlegrounds" so it's design does not have a highly developed logical, and is really unoriginal. It's just a simplistic rehash of the TIE Bomber.

FFG could have launched the most acclaimed and popular model, XG-1 Assault Gunboat, instead of a marginal model, only seen in a videogame.

I don't understand how a TIE Bomber with extra pods is unoriginal, but a Lambda with extra wings isn't.