Umm. What? T-65 X wing needs help, e wing needs help. So let's give two perfectly okay ships some help, and reuse old pilots. X wing seems to be turning way more corporate.

FFG marketing team:

"Hey guys, apparently making stuff from the new movie makes more money than trying to make a better game!"

"But what about the hardcore people who buy it for the game and not for the minis?"

"F*** them!"

ship cards for both Han Solo and Chewbacca that feature new pilot abilities

new pilot abilities

Did not expect that. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea though. I want to fly Han but I'm just not that into his current ability.

Looks interesting. Very excited about the number of new upgrades (rather than simply filling it with old cards) and interested to see if Han/Chewie is going to have anything new.

I'm assuming the tokens by the no fire token are for the included mission?

Hopefully we'll get some sort of news for us Scum and Imperial players soon? Scum Epic/First Order box?

So... will we see a Champions of The First Order with the Upsilon Shuttle and TIE/sf (hopefully not a Troop Lander)???

I think so.

The one card in the fan looks like it could be Snap S(hot)

Wonder if it lets you take a shot at someone that flies through your arc or barrel rolls/boosts out of arc or something similar that lets you break the normal combat rules.

Another looks like Pat(ern) Ana(lysis) And says something about pilot skill. Maybe increases your PS during activation phase only.

The tech upgrade in the front discusses after executing a maneuver, pilot stress and the perform action step as close as I can tell. My guess is it moves the check pilot stress step after the perform action step after you do a red.

That could be cool. Like a slightly worse Advanced Sensors I guess?

*Squints*

Huh. No matter how long I stare at it, this doesn't magically turn into a Wave 9 announcement, featuring the GUNBOAT...

Squint harder, see posts before theres a gap in the Imp Vets and this Product code. room enough for....

GUN BOAT

I really hope they don't re-release the huge ships with slight tweaks...

so the tiedefender/bomber veterans are SWX52 and SWX57 is the falcon. so we are missing five?

Don't you mean 4? 53, 54, 55, and 56 would fit between those numbers.

Also, if that Illicit grants SLAM, wouldn't there be TWO "Weapons Disabled" tokens? Since there are two cards?

Or could it be that Finn grants you the Weapons Disabled token? Considering the Falcon's turret broke when he was manning it? Maybe he is a gunner with a twice-a-round shooting effect similar to Corran Horn?

Well this is disappointing. Was hoping for Rebel Vets with a T-65 and E-wing. Oh well, atleast Nunb finally got his pilot card.

So much for my Poe repaint...

I no likey.

The fact that we suddenly have identical pilots in the same ship with different skills/abilities stinks. The have that we have identical ships.and upgrade cards that are now completely different also stinks.

The one card in the fan looks like it could be Snap S(hot)

Wonder if it lets you take a shot at someone that flies through your arc or barrel rolls/boosts out of arc or something similar that lets you break the normal combat rules.

Another looks like Pat(ern) Ana(lysis) And says something about pilot skill. Maybe increases your PS during activation phase only.

The tech upgrade in the front discusses after executing a maneuver, pilot stress and the perform action step as close as I can tell. My guess is it moves the check pilot stress step after the perform action step after you do a red.

Pretty sure I have it figured out:

Pattern Analyzer

When executing a red maneuver you may check pilot stress after the "Perform Action" step instead of before it.

Umm. What? T-65 X wing needs help, e wing needs help. So let's give two perfectly okay ships some help, and reuse old pilots. X wing seems to be turning way more corporate.

FFG marketing team:

"Hey guys, apparently making stuff from the new movie makes more money than trying to make a better game!"

"But what about the hardcore people who buy it for the game and not for the minis?"

"F*** them!"

You know they're not done with the game yet, right? Hell, they're not even done announcing stuff yet.

And if making stuff from the movie makes more money (ie, more people want to buy it), then shouldn't FFG try to accommodate the desires of those people, instead of the fewer hardcore people who are dying to fly a bunch of E-Wings?

Uh...

I'll save the falcon gripe for later (don't see em surviving torp boats and rey's ability is good); why is there a PS 9 poe with the same ability?

Is may the 4th a star wars April fool's?

Because people were complaining about the lack of a PS9 Poe, especially after seeing him in action.

Think of it as the difference between him flying some other T-70, and him flying Black One. Yeah, he's a good pilot in any other ship. But behind the controls of the ship he knows inside and out, he's a wizard.

Does he come with Fireball, Ice Armor, or Teleportation upgrades?

Eh... I'm not sure this was milking the marketing or a side effect of the fact that they didn't have enough info to do a TFA Wave properly at launch.

We knew these two ships were coming eventually. Marketing demands it and of course there is no excuse for not having Rey in the game in some capacity. Kind of glad to see the pumpkin, but my collection doesn't really need another yt-1300. I'm happy to get some pilots that SHOULD have been in the core or T70 blister.

Not what I was hoping for though.

I predict that OT/EU is now pretty much dead. There is SO much new media coming, there is no longer any point in mining the old. A T-65 adjustment could still arrive in conjunction with Rogue One, but it won't have any EU pilot cards. Forget about Corran's green CorSec x-wing, or ever seeing Tyco either. Let alone Plourr, Dlrr, Nrin, Herrian, Feylis, Ooryl, Asyr, Myn, Voort, Kell etc....

Umm. What? T-65 X wing needs help, e wing needs help. So let's give two perfectly okay ships some help, and reuse old pilots. X wing seems to be turning way more corporate.

FFG marketing team:

"Hey guys, apparently making stuff from the new movie makes more money than trying to make a better game!"

"But what about the hardcore people who buy it for the game and not for the minis?"

"F*** them!"

not to echo as extreme a sentiment, as the t-70 really isn't okay (it was literally just Poe or bust), but yeah this is a $ move rather than a gameplay centric one

granted, far less than half of the content has been spoiled

only problem is what has been spoiled points to FFG not knowing what the game could use, since both titles egregiously favor high PS named pilots which is what both the falcon and T-70 already did well while their generics suffered due to overcosting and underperforming

not a good spoiler at all, but then again we're only looking at 20% of the pack here

Well, nothing that interests me. But I suppose it's a worth announcement for Force Day.

Although, if Poe can get a new card with a higher PS...PS9 Maarek?

What this expansion demonstrates, though, is that it hurt the flavour aspect of the initial TFA releases that they were done so early. This is a lot better.

Completely agree.

I miss the days where illicit slots and s-loops were things that only belonged to Scum... but I'll feel better if they give me some more scum toys instead

The scum tears are excellent. This set is a great addition to the game. It's a shame rebel players have to wait so long for it.

It also means we could still get Y-wing and E-wing fixes in Rebel Veterans.

On the right side, the placement of the crew upgrade card and the title upgrade card is unfortunate, to say the least.

Love it. Was disappointed since I saw the film that all the named X-Wing pilots weren't in the game yet due to 'spoilers'. Now we get them! Nien in an X-Wing!

Poe makes sense. If you watch the scene where Finn yells "That's one hell of a pilot!" again, he kills TEN TIEs and a bunch of ground stormtroopers in about 15 seconds of screen time. That deserves PS9. Love the title too, makes whoever takes it a real squadron leader. Can remove his own red lock, or help out someone else.

Also I love this because I never got a second Falcon, and I knew this would come in some form so never repainted a T-70 to be black.

And we get more Integrated Astro cards, and loads of new upgrades. And a new Astromech! Love it!

And this seems to be the perfect "what do I buy next?" for people who joined the hobby recently and just got the TFA set and some ships. Nice jumping on point, like the Most Wanted set for Scum.

I'm actually saddened by Black One

I know it was a t70 but come on, bb8 wedge would've loved it

s/Wedge/Wes/ = No tokens for you!

So let's give two perfectly okay ships some help, and reuse old pilots. X wing seems to be turning way more corporate.

This game has always been profit-motivated.

Autothrusters only come with StarViper. TLT only comes with K-Wing. Glitterstim on comes with Khiraxz. Guess what ships are flooded on Ebay with pilot cards, dials, etc but no Upgrade Cards, lol.

Umm. What? T-65 X wing needs help, e wing needs help. So let's give two perfectly okay ships some help, and reuse old pilots. X wing seems to be turning way more corporate.

FFG marketing team:

"Hey guys, apparently making stuff from the new movie makes more money than trying to make a better game!"

"But what about the hardcore people who buy it for the game and not for the minis?"

"F*** them!"