So, how many waves can we expect per year? One or two? I need to plan financially . . .

Honestly, we don't know, there has been enough delays and such to make it very unclear. Also we are only on our 2nd wave so this is all theoretical.

Probably 2 maybe 3

We don't know anything about Wave 3 at all, so either:

- It'll be a while before Wave 3 shows up

OR

- Wave 3 contains TFA stuff (most likely) AND will be announced soon after the 18th (less likely).

Rumors I've heard supporting the latter:

- FFG is supposedly working on Wave 4 (so is Wave 3 already well underway?)

- The TFA X-Wing set must have been worked on well before any of that was public, so FFG has a history of working on Disney Seekrets™

Again, all rumor so your wallet is most likely safe for a few months to come at least. Feel free to necro this thread if/when that assertion is shown to be completely wrong.

I just hope they are more cautious with the Wave 3 announcement than the Wave 2.

Generally speaking it looks like plastic ships made and painted in China have a few production risks that can push back schedules and such.

Im figuring a new wave ever 7 to 8 months.

If wave 3 is inspired by TFA figute it will not ship till march if that.

We really need to set up a go fund me page for some chinese worker in the factory to send us photos of new stuff

I just hope they are more cautious with the Wave 3 announcement than the Wave 2.

Generally speaking it looks like plastic ships made and painted in China have a few production risks that can push back schedules and such.

Here's hoping we don't get another massive explosion disrupting supply lines. (Imperial Assault players getting a little too into it?)

I hope Wave 2 lasts a while (although if I was FFG I'd be pumping these things out as fast as I could).

FFG currently has hit the sweet spot with their Star Wars games...these are the games I'm looking for...go ahead money in my wallet...move along, move along.

We don't know anything about Wave 3 at all, so either:

- It'll be a while before Wave 3 shows up

OR

- Wave 3 contains TFA stuff (most likely) AND will be announced soon after the 18th (less likely).

Rumors I've heard supporting the latter:

- FFG is supposedly working on Wave 4 (so is Wave 3 already well underway?)

- The TFA X-Wing set must have been worked on well before any of that was public, so FFG has a history of working on Disney Seekrets™

Again, all rumor so your wallet is most likely safe for a few months to come at least. Feel free to necro this thread if/when that assertion is shown to be completely wrong.

After the 18th?

They'll announce Friday at 0001am Greenwich Mean Time if they're smart.

Personally, I expect a new wave every 4-6 months. Or 2-3 times per year. Enough time that players can buy everything but a long enough delay to allow for creation of new ships (physically and literally when necessary) and also let the various properties (Rebels, the new off-year films, comics and videogames etc.) produce new content.

I hope 2 per year at the max. I know I need months and months just to test all the wave 2 stuff.

Attack wing has how many per year? 12? And surpringly they sell (but nowhere as good as Armada or X-Wing).

I'm on the 2 max a year train. I'm also agreeing that it's more likely to be every 8 months between releases. And I'm ok with that. I don't have a ton of free cash to spend of games, so that's a nice spot for my wallet.

We wont see more than 2 a year. My guess is Wave 3 will hit some time around June and Wave 4 by the end of the year.

I think it will be less than 2 a year. The first few waves are NOT a good indicator. They kinda had to rush out the early waves to establish the game. Now that wave 2 is out, we actually have some variety, though personally I'd feel better with at least 6 ship options per faction. Our biggest and best variety right now is actually with squadrons.... (Which I'm not exactly happy with- I'd rather flip flop those numbers).

I'm hoping we get a wave without squadrons personally. I'm almost out of storage room for squadrons.

but considering we haven't even seen a spoiler for wave 3 yet, I'm guessing we'll probably get a wave for this game every 7-8 months, so slightly less than 2 a year.

I am also thinking along the lines of 2 per year MAX, but more likely a bit less. I don't know if that's a fully reasoned out thought, or if that's because it's what I hope for (easier on the wallet), but that's what I am going with. I'm with Crabbock about the fighters too. This is a capital ship game. Fighters are necessary, but I don't think we need more fighter diversity than cap ship diversity. I wouldn't mind a wave or two of just cap ships.

Two or less please. Any more and I would have to seek employment from seedy space slugs to get by.

I think I'm on the two per year train now. Wave 2 appears to be promoting far more diversity in lists. The reason I was itching for more releases is because wave 1 got so very stale. It's early, so maybe we'll see an aligning in the meta like the GENCON special, but for now the diversity is strong. I think this wave may have provided the tools to level off balance very effectively for the long term.

do you all really need of want the game to change more then once a year now that we have a nice fleet of ships for both sides?? It should take you that long to really work out all the cool ways to field the possible combos of what there is now.

I just don't understand the modern gamers need to keep adding more and more to games or they stop playing it.

I've heard that they'd like to do more, but practically speaking more than 2-2.5 per year might not be reasonable.

They'd have to rush design, playtesting and production - this means that quality will probably start slipping. Secondly they have to worry about over saturation. If I'm getting a new Wave every 3-4 months, I'm going to be less tempted to buy multiples of every ship every Wave.

So I'm in the roughly 2 per year camp.