Catalog numbers from the new product pages just posted by FFG:
SWX35: Imperial Assault Carrier
SWX36: ........?
SWX37: ........?
SWX38: ........?
SWX39: Ghost
SWX40: Inquisitor's TIE
SWX41: Mist Hunter
SWX42: Punishing One
Combined with the announcement that *something* for The Force Awakens is already on the boat, I'm going to guess that the three intervening numbers are for a new Core Set, a T-70 X-Wing expansion pack, and a Special Forces TIE expansion pack.
Nice. I think I agree.
I feel overwhelmed by all the things to buy.
I have to change my mind!
These will be:
New X-wing
New TIE Fighter
New Falcon (with new crew galore!)
Nice. I think I agree.
Did I ninja your other thread by ONE MINUTE??
Nice. I think I agree.
Did I ninja your other thread by ONE MINUTE??
Yes
I hope you're right. Except for the Falcon.
At what development stage are catalog numbers assigned?
Nice. I think I agree.
Me too. New Core Set, T70, and SF TIE seems likely.
New X-wing, new TIE fighter, and a ship we haven't seen yet in the previews... I'll guess that ship to be the Slave II.
my guess is:
Box-Resistance Expansion T-70 Xwings: 1 BlacknOrange color scheme and 1 Blue color scheme
Box-First Order Expansion 1 Chromey TIE and 1 Special Forces TIE
Something Not Seen Yet.
Something Not Seen Yet: A blue T-70 and a couple Chromey TIEs as a new starter set with updated artwork. 
Forum's unsurprisingly been moving fast these last two days - I never saw your thread at all, but it clearly was posted first.
Amazing how similar they are though, right down to the title. Great minds clearly think alike!
Forum's unsurprisingly been moving fast these last two days - I never saw your thread at all, but it clearly was posted first.
Amazing how similar they are though, right down to the title. Great minds clearly think alike!
I thought I was going crazy. I saw the other one, and saw it didn't have the star next to it and was like, "I was SURE I posted in that thread already..."
Forum's unsurprisingly been moving fast these last two days - I never saw your thread at all, but it clearly was posted first.
Amazing how similar they are though, right down to the title. Great minds clearly think alike!
True enough. The other night I checked thread notifications around 3 am. By sunrise, there were another 55 new notifications across maybe 3 or 4 threads I was following!
And yes, I was kind of startled to see the same words in the title. Haha. We can consider it mutual validation of the significance of our observations.
my guess is:
Box-Resistance Expansion T-70 Xwings: 1 BlacknOrange color scheme and 1 Blue color scheme
Box-First Order Expansion 1 Chromey TIE and 1 Special Forces TIE
Something Not Seen Yet.
I actually like this thought; I could see ship 3 as Ren's shuttle.
Maybe the third ship is something new from Episode 7 that hasn't been spoiled yet? I know nothing about the EU so no SWAG from me.
In the flight report did he say it was for X-wing specifically or Star Wars in general?
Edited by StonefaceMaybe the third ship is something new from Episode 7 that hasn't been spoiled yet? I know nothing about the EU so no SWAG from me.
In the flight report did he say it was for X-wing specifically or Star Wars in general?
And that if we wait in midnight queues we wouldn't be disappointed. As he spoke to 200 x-wing players.
Star wars in general.Maybe the third ship is something new from Episode 7 that hasn't been spoiled yet? I know nothing about the EU so no SWAG from me.
In the flight report did he say it was for X-wing specifically or Star Wars in general?
And that if we wait in midnight queues we wouldn't be disappointed. As he spoke to 200 x-wing players.
This has me intrigued. Being able to keep Wave 8 a secret and now this, it maybe time to rethink the old saw that the only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. Seems they have better OpSec than the NSA! My curiosity has definitely been aroused.
I thought they would have something to unveil for Episode 7 but it seems they really did it up right. This also explains why reprints were taking so long. Production capacity was being diverted for this reveal.
My guess at the moment is the new TIE, a T-70 X-Wing (including the T-65 fix I've been expecting) along with Kylo Ren's shuttle.
There needs to be some sizzle and the shuttle would provide that for sure.
I still think for three products, they treat it as a new entry point for potential X-Wing players and introduce an alternate Core Set that remains fully compatible with the existing game. Then the other two products are simply standalone expansion packs for the two ship types (T-70 and new TIE) provided in the new Core Set.
But the thing I wanna know is how are the 2 new factions gonna play in???? Will we have 5 now ??? Will the resistance just become part of the rebels and first order be considered imperial??? If not then u will have to fly all t-70 x-wings or all of which tie they give us until we get more ships????
I very much doubt that.
I am betting the splinters of the empire will be considered imperial, and the resostence will indeed be rebels
But the thing I wanna know is how are the 2 new factions gonna play in???? Will we have 5 now ???
There's no possible way that happens. When FFG added the Scum faction they gave them an entire Wave of ships (3 entirely new, 4 retro-fits, 7 total). In addition Scum are getting 4 of the next 8 ships out of Waves 7 and 8. That will bring them up to 11 total.
We have to be looking at essentially 2 options here. On one hand they could go Core style with one T-70 X-Wing and two First Order Ties along with expansions of each. On the other hand we get the aforementioned expansions plus an additional ship such as the Kylo Ren shuttle or perhaps something we haven't seen yet.
Either way that's a maximum of 1 ship for one faction and the potential for 2 ships for another. That's not enough to build new factions on. Resistance = Rebels & First Order = Empire. There simply isn't going to be enough source material to create new factions right now.