This is what I hope to see in Wave 9.

Wave 9 should be announced shortly after the release of wave 8 and release towards the end of summer. There may be a few other announcements between the announcement and release of wave 9, Imperial Veterans has been announced already, and a rebel and scum equivient, and the first scum ship is being speculated. The next Star Wars movie is Rogue One next Dec - so we may see a small wave coinciding with the launch of that movie (it is unlikely there will be another core set) but that will be much after wave 9.

Over the next few months we can expect to see more short stories fleshing out the various scenery characters in TFA. The New Republic Bloodlines novel will be released in Mar and is a prequel to TFA by 6 years. Marvel comics has more OT era stories finishing and coming up including features on C-3PO and Chewbacca, along with the regular titles, Star Wars and Darth Vader. OT era short stories are extremely likely as well, and it is possible that Disney allows games like Battlefront to feature more OT and between OT and TFA story content.

FFG has their own Legends (non canon) products going - and as X-Wing is also a legends game - we could see some cross overs.

I'm expecting the next wave to have 4 ships as per wave 8, with 1 rebel, 1 imperial and 2 scum. Scum is still playing catch up and has much less ship than 2 original factions.

Rebels: Expecting a small ship of some sort - the N-1 is an option with Leia and Shara Bey (as recently featured in the Leia Marvel comic); the Thallanx from FFG's AoR RPG is another - its a stealth fighter with similar cababilities to a Z-95, even a legends New Republic era X-wing such as the T-65XJ might not be out of the question.

Imperial: Expecting the Upsilon-class shuttle or TIE/sf to show up in the next 2 waves and completely release all the starfighters from TFA. Either works, but the TIE/sf would be a more significant ship as compared to the Upsilon due to it being the first imperial turret upgradable craft.

Scum: Expecting a large and small or even 2 large - large ships seem to be the theme of scum - with their limited number of ships they already have more large ships than either rebels or the empire. For small ships, the Dunelizard and Drexl are the most appealing as they both can equip astromechs - an upgrade only used by the Y-Wing and the upcoming JumpMaster 5000. For large ships, the Scurrg H-6 seems very likely, having been released in Armada (Strangely as a Rebel ship); other likely ones are the Banshee/Shadow Caster and the Gauntlet fighter. If a second large ship is released, I hope to see a large but not heavily armoured craft - something like the Preybird or the Ixiyen. Scum is already heavy on big expensive large ships and could use lighter, and less point heavy large ships.

I dont't think the Tie/fo will be turret upgradable. A rear arc Tie/sf is more likely. Something I hope will come from all the new movies, is not new core sets, but boxes like the scum and villany one. A force Awakens one with a Ray Falcon card, more t-70ies and tie/fo pilots and the black/orange x-wing for example... Maybe even a named falcon pilot or two for the scum faction.

TIE/sf will probably feature some ordnance slots too.

Good (?) possibility that the Imperials won't be the only enemies featured in the Rogue movie, they'll probably have to deal with some Bounty Hunter or criminal organization Scum.

The Rogue movie is about the Rebels getting the plans for the death star, so it happens before TFA

The Rogue movie is about the Rebels getting the plans for the death star, so it happens before TFA

with, hopefully, more ships

The TIE Avenger and Assault Gunboat.

I personally think we'll see -

1. YT-1300 Scum/TFA re-issue

2. TIE/sf

3. Possibly Ren's shuttle

4. Possibly the Resistance or FO jump-ship

5. Possibly Poe's black & orange ship, but I would expect that to come out later, not so soon after the new core and T-70 expansion

Whatever we see, pretty sure I'll buy it

Rouge themed Box. X-wing fix and movie themed repaint. Other possible old trilogy ships that needs a boost or given new abilities fitting the movie. If Boba shows up, an updated Imperial pilot card for him... But thats it not have 9 material

I'd rather forget about the assault Gunboat. It was just an X-wing without Astromechs.

There, I said it!

Let's see. I called the Bounty Hunters and the Imperial Veterans packs, as well as the Tractor Beams and TIE Defender titles, maybe I can get this right too.

I suspect we'll see a number of SW: Rogue One ships. Likely one each Empire, Rebels, and Scum (I have to assume that Scum will feature in SW:RO at least a little). We won't know which ones until the run-up to the movie (or maybe even after it's in theaters).

We might also see a TIE/fo Special Forces, assuming it doesn't show up as one of the inter-wave releases (they seem to be doing a lot of those lately).

Given how large the last wave or two have been, it seems highly likely that we'll be getting more than 4 sets. That leaves room for a couple of Rebels ships.

FFG might also do a Most Wanted-style pack with alternate pilots for existing ships (Phoenix Squadron, Rey, etc.) and a new paint job or two (say, Poe's X-Wing).

I'm still expecting a Training Astromech or something like it, to help out low-PS X-wings and E-wings.

Because of the N-1 connection to the prequels I doubt it would be in X-win as of yet. Even if they bring it back as a lost weapon rediscovered such as the Destroyer Droids in Empire at War Forces of Corruption, it wouldn't fit in with the story.

However the lack of content that the Episode 7 brought does make wave 9 a big challenge for FFG. Then again while officially the TFA models were part of Wave 8 (which is still unreleased). Still I don't know how much rights Disney gave to FFG for TFA content. They may not have any and cannot make another TFA ship.

But if they do then my guess would be well sort of like a wave 5 release. They will have Kylo's shuttle, a TFA Falcon and as for scum those B-wing or maybe even a quad hopper, or both. Then that leaves the Stormtrooper shuttle and the Resistance Recon shuttle and we got a total of 6 ships (2 for each primary faction) for a wave.

The obvious ones are:

Ren's Shuttle

TIE/sf

Less obvious, but definitely on the cards:

New Falcon with new cards

Resistance lander

First Order transport

Quadjumper as a scum ship

Distant maybe:

X Wing 'rebellion aces' pack.

with, hopefully, more ships

I would like to see some uglies for Scum. The Death Seed from X-Wing books would be awesome. (TIE cockpit and X-Wing S-Foils). Rebel Veterns pack with Tycho and Corran as X-Wing pilots. I would also like to see a Stealth X-Wing, only unique Jedi pilots. Empire: gunboat/missile boat, TIE Advanced from TIE Fighter game.

In honor of the fact that the game is in Legends, I would love a Wraith Squadron pack that would give TIE fighters and Interceptors to the Rebels. It would only be named pilots

Rouge Five: I Hope none og that happens or the N1 for that matter

I personally think we'll see -

1. YT-1300 Scum/TFA re-issue

2. TIE/sf

3. Possibly Ren's shuttle

4. Possibly the Resistance or FO jump-ship

5. Possibly Poe's black & orange ship, but I would expect that to come out later, not so soon after the new core and T-70 expansion

Whatever we see, pretty sure I'll buy it

YUP... We will.

I'd rather forget about the assault Gunboat. It was just an X-wing without Astromechs

Between this post and the "TIE Defenders are still 7 points too expensive" rant, I just can't take you seriously any more.

I'm hoping for:

Imperial/fo: ren's shuttle

Rebel/resistance: some kind of falcon upgrade pack or new falcon box

Scum: who knows? Plenty in the eu to pull from.

Inter wave: rebel veterans pack, with t65 and e-wing

Epic: star Jewel and Wild kardde.

The obvious ones are:

Ren's Shuttle

TIE/sf

Less obvious, but definitely on the cards:

New Falcon with new cards

Resistance lander

First Order transport

Quadjumper as a scum ship

Distant maybe:

X Wing 'rebellion aces' pack.

A New Falcon would be an aces style pack - which always outside of a wave - same as huge ships - which is why I'm not including them.

Quadjumper is totally unarmed and has poor crew space. Not sure what role it can have in a starfighter game where the cheapest ship is artifically capped at a TIE Fighter. If scum breaks the 12 pt barrier, there are a lot more scum ships, but at this point it's still unlikely. The same applies for uglies.

The Fist Order Transport is an AAL or Atmospheric Assault Lander. Basically an atmospheric rather than space craft - sorta like a cloud car that can just penetrate the atmosphere.

The TIE/sf would proably still have a turret upgrade slot (as opposed to a cannon upgrade) regardless if it fires 360 or front/rear arcs. In the case of front/rear, it would probably have a special firing arc rule like the Ghost to restrict the turret to firing only front/rear, with a point reduction for the additional restriction of the turret. It'll probably be packed with a TLT in that case.

A fix for the Firespray, Scyk and named B-Wings.

A fix for the Firespray, Scyk and named B-Wings.

*twitches uncontrollably*

A fix for the Firespray, Scyk and named B-Wings.

None of those will be in wave 9 - fixes are out of wave - waves only have brand new small and large ships. Agree that the Firespray is the large ship most in need of an update - popular but doesn't seem to pull its weight well compared to other scum or imp ships.

Rebels TV show:

Wookiee Gunship

Shadowcaster

TFA:

TIE/sf

FO Shuttle

Resistance Transport

Black-One X-Wing

Epic:

Jabba's Yacht

(not a prediction... I just want em)

The Force Awakens can still potentially give us:

• TIE/sfs
• T-85 (Poe's Black X-Wing)
• Kylo Ren's shuttle
• Falcon re-release
• Leia's Resistance Transport
• Stormtrooper Landing Craft
• Quadjumper

I'd say the first two are the most likely, although I could see Poe's X-Wing coming in a Rebel Veterans' style box alongside the T-65. Kylo's Shuttle is also likely, Falcon re-release less so, and the other three are outliers. I'd expect another Force Awakens release fairly soon - certainly no later than the film's DVD release.

Scum & Villany could still give us any number of ships.

The Force Awakens can still potentially give us:

• TIE/sfs
• T-85 (Poe's Black X-Wing)
• Kylo Ren's shuttle
• Falcon re-release
• Leia's Resistance Transport
• Stormtrooper Landing Craft
• Quadjumper

I'd say the first two are the most likely, although I could see Poe's X-Wing coming in a Rebel Veterans' style box alongside the T-65. Kylo's Shuttle is also likely, Falcon re-release less so, and the other three are outliers. I'd expect another Force Awakens release fairly soon - certainly no later than the film's DVD release.

Scum & Villany could still give us any number of ships.

I think Poe's Xwing is just a customized T-70... but we should see the T-80/85 in Ep.8 and get another new Xwing model from FFG.