I want Poe Dameron. Or at least to see what his special ability is. Maybe an X-wing with Scatter.

He's pretty sweet in X-wing, so we'd better get something equally amazing. [/quote

We'd have thought that about Wedge, too. :/

Ironically, I thought Wedge was pretty good when it started--six blue dice if you hold him in reserve (or use him in conjunction with Dutch) is close to a one-shot. Unfortunately the whole "hold in reserve" thing + Escort thing lends itself to focus fire... plus his special ability didn't do anything against all-ship builds, which were kind of a thing in Wave I.

I have yet to try him in Wave II. It seems extremely dangerous now to go no-squadrons (not that you can't do it, just that it seems... riskier than before...), so the odds of Wedge being "useless" seem smaller, plus Intel makes it more important to kill squadrons before they move away from you--which Wedge is good at--plus he's a black die bomber, plus now there's Jan to give Wedge even more braces if he needs them (though if Wedge is taking four attacks, he's probably going down, even with brace), plus there's Rieekan now, to allow zombie-Wedge if you want him.

A Rieekan-Adar-Yavaris triple-tap on zombie Wedge is 18 dice in a round if you play it right which is... um... a lot... Seems like it's at least worth some experiments.

One issue with mixing characters from the new movies in Armada is that you'd either end up with a bearded grandfather version of Wedge or an infant version of Poe Dameron piloting your x-wings.

One issue with mixing characters from the new movies in Armada is that you'd either end up with a bearded grandfather version of Wedge or an infant version of Poe Dameron piloting your x-wings.

Hardly. The Extended Universe went well towards 40 years after Return of the Jedi with most or all of the original cast still actively fighting for the Republic. Even in the new film, we see that many of the old heroes, both human and alien, are still around to support the Resistance.

Personally, I can't wait to see whatever new characters are introduced by TFA to the game. If they hold off to late next year, we could even see new pilots of the "classic" X-Wings and TIE Fighters as additional named pilots with Rogue One.

Personal expectations:

Resurgent Class Finalizer (TFA)

Imperial Interdictor Cruiser (Rebels)

Liberty Class MC80 (return of the Jedi)

Unknown Frigate Class (TFA)

Heroes and Villains fighter pack (TFA)

I've posted this on another thread but here it is again.

wave 3 - AF1 medium size and interdictor (or whatever)

wave 4 - liberty class large size aaaaand idk for imps

My Prediction

Wave 3

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Rebels

Liberty Cruiser

Rebel Transport - Small Ship

Rebel Squad Pack: K-Wing, E- Wing, Z-95 Headhunter, and more X-Wings

Imperials

Interdictor Cruiser

Imperial Assault Carrier

Imperial Squad Pack: Tie Phantom, Tie Defender, Tie Punisher, and more Tie Fighters

Rebels

Episode 8 Capital Ship

Updated X-Wing for Force Awakens

Imperials

Resurgence Star Destroyer (Large Ship)

Tie Fo Figheter

The reason why I expect Finalizer, Liberty and Interdictor in the next wave is because it does something really important: gives both factions a minimum two ships in each size class. Especially for Imperials this is a very important issue with the relative inflexibility of the Victory Class, and lets Rebels include Medium ships that aren't focused 100% on Broadside tactics.

how about a transport box consisting of:

GR70

Gonza

VX-100 (ghost)

Lambda

and some other sqn sized transports ( or 2 of the Sqn sized ones)

Even if they announced today it'd still be close to 6 months before wave 3 hit shelves... so there really isn't anything to worry about. A lot of us LOVE the speculation and dreams of what is on the horizon. It gives us something to chat about at the next social game setting, chatting about what upgrades each ship will have, how many we want to get, etc.

I'm predicting a Rebels/Comics inspired wave. Many ships have appeared in Rebels and the Comics. Even though I REALLY don't want any more squadrons - I'm guessing they'll do more of them. Honestly this game has twice as many squadron types as it has ship types. I'd like for the variety of the game to come from CAPITAL starships, rather than squadrons.

Also want to see some upgrades that deal with frontal arcs. Maybe a rebel general or rebel officer that Improve your front arc?

Also want Thrawn. Cmon Thrawn!

I would be cool with them doing one fighter pack again but with two new fighter squads for each faction and you get two of each squad per pack. That would slow down the new squads. It seems like they will have more design space for ships than squads anyway.

All I want is that each side will have at least the following:

2-3 Large ships

4-5 Medium ships

6-7 Small ships

8-12 "Run of the mill" starfighter/bomber squadrons

4-8 Shuttles, Light freighters, patrol craft etc.

More special character squadron cards as supplement to the existing squadrons in wave 1

More unique ship cards to the existing ships in wave 1 & 2.

And as a whole I would like to have:

More Missions to the existing ones from the core set.

Convoy Escort/Attack missions

Planetary assault missions

With the above you have many more combinations to make a fleet, so that no one can make the "un-beatable fleet combo", as any combo can be defeated by another combo

I want some of these:

and some of these:

and some of these:

I know sometimes these threads get a bad rap, but I love reading this stuff and seeing what everyone is excited about. My hope for Wave III is MORE of ALL of IT! I don't mind a Rebels theme, a TFA theme, or a OT theme...

I know sometimes these threads get a bad rap, but I love reading this stuff and seeing what everyone is excited about. My hope for Wave III is MORE of ALL of IT! I don't mind a Rebels theme, a TFA theme, or a OT theme...

I'm with this guy! Just feed my addiction!

My Prediction

Wave 3

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Rebels

Liberty Cruiser

Rebel Transport - Small Ship

Rebel Squad Pack: K-Wing, E- Wing, Z-95 Headhunter, and more X-Wings

Imperials

Interdictor Cruiser

Imperial Assault Carrier

Imperial Squad Pack: Tie Phantom, Tie Defender, Tie Punisher, and more Tie Fighters

Wave 4

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Rebels

Episode 8 Capital Ship

Updated X-Wing for Force Awakens

Imperials

Resurgence Star Destroyer (Large Ship)

Tie Fo Figheter

Only change that I can see would be to make it Tie Interceptors, especially if they are going to go with the updated Tie Fighter in wave three.