So this is going out on a limb, but it's a possible one. With Wave 3 (be it complete or incomplete) now teased, we have some pictures of what the new flotillas will look like.

In the teaser for Assault Carriers, a bit of a squint shows that the new Imperial officer is Agent Kallus, from Star Wars Rebels. This (to my knowledge) is the first time that we've seen a character from the show in Armada, who wasn't also in the original trilogy or established canon. By coincidence, the latest X-wing Wave VIII was also based significantly on the show (releasing the Ghost and Inquisitor's TIE), bringing these characters into that particular fold for the first time.

We also know that a couple of product numbers are missing from the Armada line-up. It's a long shot, but what if the SWM16 and SWM17 are for ships shown in the Star Wars Rebels show? And, if so, could they be the Imperial Light Cruiser (Arquitens) that Kallus uses for the Imperials, and either the Pelta-Class frigate that the Rebels use as Phoenix Home, or the Hammerhead Corvettes they acquire?

It's probably nothing, but you never know...

Imagine a pelta and 2 Cr90s on a medium base or something along the lines.

For game dynamics, I'd guess the Carrier and Interdictor as large ships over Phoenix Home (destroyed, would share a role with the Neb B) and the Arquitans (probably share a role with the Demolisher) respectively. Both would fit into the "support ships" theme and could have the new upgrade slot.

im expecting liberty class moncal as forward arc medium and the interdictor for imps as medium/small

I only want the Imperial if Cruiser if it it comes with a Hondo Ohnaka card that lets me rearrange my opponents command dials or something equally silly.

Because who doesn't want to see this guy?

The announcement of both the Gozanti and Kallus has gotten me very excited about the potential for Rebels stuff indeed. I'm very much hoping for more from the show, as I love it!

While I don't watch the show I hear enough about it here and other places on the internet to appreciate the work they have done on ship design in the SW universe, making stuff that looks consistent with what we all remember from the movies but still unique. But it is also quite difficult to integrate that into Armada. Let me propose a thought exercise to you; we are all FFG game designers and are having a meeting in a conference room at FFG HQ in Roseville, Minnesota about how to integrate Rebels into Armada.

Hey the protagonist's of Rebels fly around and have their wacky hijacks in a light freighter like the Millennium Falcon, let's include that!

The inclusion of the VCX-100/Ghost and it's parasite fighter as a squadron stand similar to the R&V squadrons makes total sense to me. Similarly it would make sense to include the Inquisitors TIE/TIE advanced prototype as a counterpart. You now have a squadron theme pack made up of two squadrons, wait, that's not right squadron packs are eight squadrons. Well just as it wouldn't make sense to include multiple copies of the Millennium Falcon/YT-1300 in the R&V pack we can't just pad it out with multiple copies of a ship we have only ever seen one of in the cannonical universe.

Alright then, so let's go mine the ships there are models for in X-Wing but not Armada to flesh out this squadron package. Throw in the Mist Hunter/G-1A starfighter to round out the ships for the bounty hunters we all saw on screen, a Lambda class shuttle, the VT-49 Decimator and two traditional fighter stands of the Z-95 Headhunter. That's 3 for the rebels and 3 for the imperials, still not a full squadron pack release but we're getting there. So lets include ... what?

And now we have hit a brick wall; because not only have we put together a squadron pack that doesn't have enough squadrons in it, but we have also lost any sense of a unifying theme.

Other ships from the show are totally cool and absolutely could have a role in Armada. The Arquitens class light cruiser could serve as the imperial counterpart to the Nebulon-b frigate, a long range, small ship with it's strongest arcs facing a different direction then the rest of it's factions fleet (I know, I know, Neb-bs are imperial ships that the rebels stole but the fact that outside of the x-wing video game we haven't seen an imperial neb-b makes it essentially a rebel ship). The Quasar Fire bulk carrier that has been resurrected from the old cannon could be just that, a carrier. Those hammerhead corvettes whose design came from the KOTOR game could serve as a flotilla in a non support role.

But now you are including ships from Rebels but not the Rebels ship, and that just seems silly. So it may be that the Gozanti assault carriers were included because FFG needed an imperial counterpart to the rebels GR-75 and, lacking anything else iconic chose a ship design being popularized by the Rebels show.