ok it'a all very cool, new pilots of Tie Advanced, new pilot skills, new upgrade card, finally Tie Advance is not so bad... rather!

But my question is: where is PALPATINE? i need an answer very, very, very soooooooooon!!!!

ok it'a all very cool, new pilots of Tie Advanced, new pilot skills, new upgrade card, finally Tie Advance is not so bad... rather!

But my question is: where is PALPATINE? i need an answer very, very, very soooooooooon!!!!

I need you to guide us to the dark side of the force.

I hope that its effect is: you can take control of an enemy ship in 1-2 rage and use it normally for a turn as if it were yours.

That would be ridiculously OP

All depends on how much it costs. I expect him to be expensive. I also expect him to be powerful. What I am really unsure of, is just how powerful a very expensive card could be. The Heavy Laser Cannon is pretty darn nice for a weapon, and at 7 points it is expensive. Suppose the emperor costs 10 or more.... I just wonder what power level of upgrade that could mean..

Not fluffy. I'd go with Battle Meditation. All friendly ships get +1 attack for reminder of this turn. If used, cannot be used the next turn

Gaining control of a ship makes it too easy to suicide that ship. Especially if you're in range 1-2 of a Raider.

I would rather see an ability like:

Effect mind = at the start of the activation phase, choose 1 within range 1-3. look at that ships dial. you may change it to any maneuver with the same bearing.

or

Fore sight = place 3 Fore sight tokens on this card during set up. during any of you dice rolls, you may spend one of these tokens to change all of the die results to hits or evades.

Clouded the dark side is. I foresee much anger and fear when he finally reveals himself.

Palpatine will equal force push, 7-10 points

"At the start of the Combat Phase, choose 1 enemy ship at range 1-2. That ship must perform a barrel roll in the direction you choose"

alternatively,

something in conjuction with Ion weapons (aka force lightning).

Oooooo,

how about:

Over confidence = choose a friendly ship (no range limit) you may add any number of attack dice to its attack up to its agility value. then reduce its agility value by the number of attack dice added for this combat phase.

Luke "your over confidence is your weakness"

so, a TIE defender using a heavy laser cannon could get 7 attack dice at range 3!!!! but it then has no defense dice.

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or, as we learned in the Heir to the empire trilogy, that the emperor himself was using the force to influence his forces in combat from his thrown across the galaxy.

Dark side Aura = all friendly ships in play may reroll 1 attack die each turn. all friendly ships within range 1-3 can reroll 1 attack die and 1 defense die.

I would give this upgrade card the first cost multiplier: points = 5 + (2 x total friendly ships in squadron)

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this could be cool also:

Palpatine = increase ships PS by +2, all ships in squadron with royal guard TIE title cost -4 points. (points for card = 5)

Emperor ability - Your confidence in your friends is yours - All enemy ships in range 1-2 reduce attack value by 1.

on the opposite side of the token,

why no Obi-Wan crew card?

This is not the target you are looking for = action: roll 1 attack die, on a hit result, the targeted ship roll no attack dice the next time it makes an attack.

Apparently the emperor's shuttle was cloaked.... Imagine that as a crew card - make add cloaking!

Here's what I'd like to see:

Emperor Palpatine
Empire Only. Huge Ship Only.
Immediately after you spend any amount of energy, place the energy tokens on your ship card instead of discarding them.

"POWER! UNLIMITED POWER!"

Once per round, you may change 1 crit result to a hit result while you perform an attack.

Cost: 1

AUTOBLASTER CANNONS REDEEMED

LOL

THE EMPEROR IS COMING HERE?

you know what it really means?

do you really want to know what it mean?

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It means another preview... which means

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ANOTHER WEEK AT LEAST OF WAITING BEFORE THE RELEASE SHOULD BE.

Feed the dark side= while this card remains in play, you may add 1 attack die to any attack roll. Then roll 1 attack die against any ship that uses this ability.

you know what it really means?

do you really want to know what it mean?

It means another preview... which means

ANOTHER WEEK AT LEAST OF WAITING BEFORE THE RELEASE SHOULD BE.

Better than waiting 6 weeks after everything has been spoiled for the pack to finally be released.

I don't think spoilers will be pushing back the release date. Spoilers can't hold ships up (unlike labor disputes).

I am sure that whatever FFG came up with for Palpatine's ability will be great. And not trying to burst any bubbles, but does anyone else feel like, "Why is there even a Palpatine card in this game?" I mean I guess he would fly in his shuttle from point a to point b, but would he ever really fly in a Raider? The Raider is a corvette sized ship. Pretty much microscopic compared to the other monolithic ships of the Empire. So Palpatine is going to fly in his shuttle from his Super Star Destroyer and then dock said shuttle at an airlock to board a Raider. It would never happen. There is no scenario where that would happen. And I know that in game terms, there are lots of things that would never "really" happen, but it just kinda bugs me. I would also say that technically the same could be said for Tarkin, Motti, Isard, Jerjerrod, etc. These type of guys fly from their Star Destroyers to their Death Stars, not to a puny Raider. It just makes no sense for them to do so.

Battle Meditation type ability. Note this is not Huge Ship only. Treat all of your ships/pilots as Pilot Skill +2. If this card is removed from play, for the rest of the game treat all of your ships/pilots as Pilot Skill -2 (to a minimum of 0).

If he isn't Huge Ship Only, I'd like to see him be the Empire equivalent of pilot Jan Ors with a single alteration. Instead of receiving a stress token to allow a target ship to roll an additional attack die, give the stress to the target ship instead.

It fits thematically with Palpatine as an overbearing force, providing a neat bonus.

but, at least, there aren't no rumors now, right? only suppose