Let's say FFG has the license for Ep VII and plan to release every major ship as an expansion for the current game. From what we have seen in the previews, Han and Chewie are 'home' and the Falcon has a new dish. It's essentially the same ship with the same pilots as OT.

Falcon dominates the meta so certainly doesn't need any updates.

What can FFG to make us want to buy a new Ep VII Falcon?

What can FFG to make us want to buy a new Ep VII Falcon?

Make a new Ep VII Falcon.

It sat rusting on that desert planet 30 years apart from the dish it's the exact same ship.

Well, for starters, it will depend on what the pilots and crew cards do. We assume that it is Han and Chewie piloting the craft, when it could be Rey, Finn, Poe, or even BB-8 on the ship. If the new Millenium Falcon also comes with cards for the scum and villiany faction, people will buy it up.

Replace the ordnance with a sensor slot and people will love it.

Do we really need a fourth large base turret option in the same faction.

I agree: Scum falcon, and/or movie crew.

I'll buy it even if it is just the same ship with a different dish.

But I'm insane

The Falcon isn't going to be in Scum. No way, no how. It will be a Rebel ship all the way.

Whatever they do with it, there needs to be some kind of draw for people to want to buy the new one when the already own the old one.

Obviously you have new pilots to work with. Beyond that it is largely the same ship outside of the possibility of slightly different upgrade options as one would speculate that it's been tweaked even more over the 30 year hiatus.

It's tricky on one hand because you probably don't want or need anything better than what Han or Chewie currently bring to the table yet whatever new pilots it would get are still good enough for people to want to purchase the ship outside of it just looking cool.

I'm sure FFG will not dissapoint with however they handle it.

Is the Ep7 Falcon even any different? It's not like it's a new model of ship like with the X-Wings. It's the exact same ship.

I could see the Ep 7 falcon as being cheaper and having maybe a little less hull and shields. Maybe even losing a primary weapon die, because it's been rusting for so long. But I'd also expect it to be cheaper.

As far as making it different, I think you could give it a systems slot, represented by the new dish. For game balance, now you'd have two different ships, and lots of options between them.

It will have lens flares

And JJ at the helm

Do we know that its been sitting on this desert planet for sometime or is this just guess work??

square dish.

We have no way to know before the movie premieres..

Do we really need a fourth large base turret option in the same faction.

It's more likely to be an Aces-pack model than a separate ship, if they even do it.

Only thing I'd expect is some new pilots in the package. Maybe some new upgrades like a mod for upgraded sensors or something of that nature.

Just add another two copies of engine upgrade to it and I'd buy another one

They won't waste an expansion pack slot on a "new" Falcon. But in a Force Awakens Aces pack, they can include a little rectangle you can use to replace the dish on the existing model.

why not just make us a new rectangular snap on dish and some new crew cards? ack was ninja'd

What can FFG to make us want to buy a new Ep VII Falcon?

Make a new Ep VII Falcon.

Do we know that its been sitting on this desert planet for sometime or is this just guess work??

It apparently crashed there after the big battle then the new heroes find it and go in search of han which is why we have the clip where they say "we're home"

I hope they don't do another. I guess they will though because what else are they going to release for Rebel faction?

I know some people will be talking about an Aces pack, but the issue there is that the YT-1300 doesn't need any sort of boost or fix, and that's what the Aces packs have been all about. A YT-1300 Ace pack simply removes the possibility of an X-Wing/E-Wing (or to a lesser extent Y-Wing/Z-95) Aces pack, that would be far, far more useful.

YT-1300s were smugglers ships. Make a new one with a square dish and scum pilot's. Keep the stats the same and include an "upgrade" for sensors that is rebel only to represent the new dish. Paint it more in browns or rust not white to distinguish an out of the packet one from the falcon. That way all the rebel players can repaint if they want.

Replace the ordnance with a sensor slot and people will love it.

So what cool new system upgrade would come with it?

Edit: quasi-ninjaed by Vixen Icaza...

One thing I've always found curious on this forum is how people keep saying 'sensor slot'. The upgrade type is called system, not sensor.