So, a few weeks ago we got a spoiler look ahead at the upcoming gift box coming to Imperial Players (and to a lesser extent, everyone else in the form of some neato upgrades). Since then I have been itching to get my hands on them. Since I'm not the kind of person who likes to proxy things, I'm gonna have to wait to see how things work out. I am super excited to play an Epic game, getting to make a veteran bomber run on capital ships and such. There's a lot of new combos I can't wait to try too, not to mention finally flying with Maarek in a ship that suits him. So, what is everyone else looking forward to from Imperial Veterans? Mid-PS generic Defenders with EPTs? Epic bombing runs? Eager to see if LRS works as well as you hope? Or maybe you just want those sweet models on your shelf?

Colonel Vessery with either title.

There isn't a card in that pack that's not exciting. Even the repeats from old sets are good (Crack Shot).

More red ships!

I like both the repaints, and the possibility of fielding Defenders and Bombers without resigning myself to losing.

I'm definitely more excited for that than wave 8

I've had a couple of games with the new goodies and it's pretty sweet.

I've been using 3 Scimitar with the the tie shuttle title, Tactician on each then Mara jade, Rebel captive and Intel agent

Leading the way for vessery with the new title ion Cannon, and crackshot

I can say, its a beast.

Tanky.

Aces try to avoid the arcs like the plague, and I found it really makes it tough for opponent to decide where to go.

And vessery he's just full of awesome sauce now.

Only had two games with it, but beat a 6 ship tie swarm and had everyone stressed and beat a Vader,vessery, scimitar build with it.

I'll admit dmg output is slightly Lacking, but it works.

GUNBOAT!!!

er, I mean EVERYTHING! This is gonna be the best expansion ever. I love everything about it, it includes my two favorite ships, it makes the Defender and it's pilots total beats, MAAREK STELE where he belongs!

And long live Doom Bomber. Or well, actually kind of the opposite, but it will be glorious!

And it's not called Aces II.

Honestly, because I already fly Defenders well enough to be dangerous. Now, I'll be REALLY dangerous.

Honestly, because I already fly Defenders well enough to be dangerous. Now, I'll be REALLY dangerous.

**** straight.

cuz defenders finally become truly threatening. and tie bombers gain the shuttle option. and its just really good options for older smaller ships that are underpowered.

Honestly, because I already fly Defenders well enough to be dangerous. Now, I'll be REALLY dangerous.

You and me both, buddy. You and me both.

I WANT THE NEXT SPOILER ARTICLE SO I CAN START PLANNING MY SQUADS! SHOW US THE POINT COST, DARNIT!

Defender stuff.

Generics with EPTs, Defender titles, the first pilot that can pilot 2 different ships from 2 different releases with the same pilot ability.

I think Hera is the same in either the Ghost or the Phantom, but that sort of doesn't count given they are in the same release.

More Defenders and more Crackshots makes me happy.

I'd be more excited if Mangler Cannon and TIE/D were combinable. But still pretty psyched about Maarek in a Defender that won't suck.

I am a bomber fan so for one half I am ''annoyed'' (to strong a word, really) others start playing bombers and for the other half I am happy they get some attention

Very happy too to get cluster bombs. Now I don´t need to buy a Punisher

Nothing, It doesn't change how the ship is flown, if anything the evade title makes you more predictable. The titles are only making Vessery and Generics better. It doesn't do anything new with the ship. Just makes existing lists like the Jonus Brothers better. Very disappointing.

Triple Defender squads. They were even called "Trips" in some of the EU, because of their tri-wing design. And I'm a sucker for symmetry

The Defender titles are right up there with the red paint job for most exciting.

Though I do have to question why there aren't extra TIE Mk IIs included with it...

X7 glaives in general but especially juke

Ion Ds

Tomas the bren gun that shoots crack

And the unknown possibilities of the low PS named pilots + unspoiled crew with T-shuttle

Everything. Everything excites me about the pack. Even my least favorite detail, the red Defender repaint, still gives me a six-foot erection with a cheeseburger at the end of it.

It's all just fantastic.

I think that what I like best about Imperial Vets is that the Defender titles force an interesting choice to be made. With the TIE Advanced, there's no thinking about it - TIE/x1 is always better than no TIE/x1.

With the Defender titles, you have to give something up (either secondary weapons entirely, or the benefit of TIE/D for Mangler/HLC builds). It's an interesting set of optimization choices when building a list, in terms of the offense vs. survivability tradeoffs.

That's cool, and it means that the new hotness builds won't just be the old builds with a buff layered on top. I like it.

I'm looking forward to getting two ships I really want in a cool bundle. I already have 2 squints and 1 bomber, so another bomber and a defender is perfect!

The Defender TIE/D titles would be pretty good on Scyks too...

I think that what I like best about Imperial Vets is that the Defender titles force an interesting choice to be made. With the TIE Advanced, there's no thinking about it - TIE/x1 is always better than no TIE/x1.

With the Defender titles, you have to give something up (either secondary weapons entirely, or the benefit of TIE/D for Mangler/HLC builds). It's an interesting set of optimization choices when building a list, in terms of the offense vs. survivability tradeoffs.

That's cool, and it means that the new hotness builds won't just be the old builds with a buff layered on top. I like it.

And non-title builds are still an option, if not top tier. Rexlar and Maarek seems like a fun new double Defender list.