I was thinking about this as we were playing Descent the other night, and just because you have an app doesn't mean the Imp has to go away. I generally control the Monsters as the App tells me to in RTL, but you still have a lot of discretion. As they teach you, it can be harder or easier depending on what you do or where you place the figures, the rules can be interpreted a few different ways. Move towards the closest hero, attack, then retreat. Pretty straight forward, but if you read the rules and directions for each of those steps there is quite a bit of leeway in how you COULD play it. So I still play with a bit of OL element in the app, I make harder choices and put on my OL hat when it gives me directions on what to do. This will still very much be possible for the Imperial player I imagine within the confines of the app, you will still have to make decisions and assigning one player is the best way to do this.

I very much enjoy playing the Imperial, but it's gotten to the point for my Rebels that unless I make blatantly obvious sub optimal moves I will steam roll them. My last campaign was 8-3 for me (that was with me playing about 60%, and I really worked hard to throw the finale so they would at least get the win) with them running Fenn, Gideon, Diala and Verena. My group is experienced with 5-6 full campaigns under their belt and a few of the minis. I think the gap has just become that large as I eat, breath and sleep the skirmish. It has really opened up the view of the game and has taught me to see 2-3 moves ahead without even trying to. So what I have started doing is taking on more of a GM role and interpreting things with more flair than strategic purpose. It seems easier for them to accept the 'hand outs' if I can spin it into the overall or mission specific story. Anyway, the point of all this is that being able to translate the Imp app moves but also be technically on the side of my heroes and playing as a hero would be great as it is for us in RTL.

5 minutes ago, FrogTrigger said:

I was thinking about this as we were playing Descent the other night, and just because you have an app doesn't mean the Imp has to go away. I generally control the Monsters as the App tells me to in RTL, but you still have a lot of discretion. As they teach you, it can be harder or easier depending on what you do or where you place the figures, the rules can be interpreted a few different ways. Move towards the closest hero, attack, then retreat. Pretty straight forward, but if you read the rules and directions for each of those steps there is quite a bit of leeway in how you COULD play it. So I still play with a bit of OL element in the app, I make harder choices and put on my OL hat when it gives me directions on what to do. This will still very much be possible for the Imperial player I imagine within the confines of the app, you will still have to make decisions and assigning one player is the best way to do this.

I very much enjoy playing the Imperial, but it's gotten to the point for my Rebels that unless I make blatantly obvious sub optimal moves I will steam roll them. My last campaign was 8-3 for me (that was with me playing about 60%, and I really worked hard to throw the finale so they would at least get the win) with them running Fenn, Gideon, Diala and Verena. My group is experienced with 5-6 full campaigns under their belt and a few of the minis. I think the gap has just become that large as I eat, breath and sleep the skirmish. It has really opened up the view of the game and has taught me to see 2-3 moves ahead without even trying to. So what I have started doing is taking on more of a GM role and interpreting things with more flair than strategic purpose. It seems easier for them to accept the 'hand outs' if I can spin it into the overall or mission specific story. Anyway, the point of all this is that being able to translate the Imp app moves but also be technically on the side of my heroes and playing as a hero would be great as it is for us in RTL.

Pretty much the first thing I plan on doing when the app is released is sitting down and mapping out the missions that are on it. What the Reserve Groups are, what the Open Groups are, what the events are and what triggers them, everything. Then I can start figuring out what variations I can put in that would make it more fun for my group.

6 hours ago, Ace_of_Spades said:

You are talking from my heart.

I bought the game because of the co-op. But currently i am the only one in my team who can control the imps so i wont get the feeling what i hoped.

Dont missunderstand i still love this game but always beeing the bad guy can be very exhausting.

I partially agree, but then again, I might have difficulty giving up my role as Imp, even if another player offered. Perhaps I've become 'twisted and evil'

The good news, it's 2 pm Eastern on Tuesday and so far all we've got is a Lord of the Rings LCG article. Keep your fingers crossed for no IA news today.

2 hours ago, VadersMarchKazoo said:

The good news, it's 2 pm Eastern on Tuesday and so far all we've got is a Lord of the Rings LCG article. Keep your fingers crossed for no IA news today.

Apologies in advance - why don't we want any IA news today? Just curious, as I have seen a few people post this. I am new to the game, and absolutely love it - so I hope it has a nice future.

7 minutes ago, totalnoob said:

Apologies in advance - why don't we want any IA news today? Just curious, as I have seen a few people post this. I am new to the game, and absolutely love it - so I hope it has a nice future.

People think that no news today means more likely a smallbox or app announcement later in the week.

Not so sure that logic's sound, but I do think we might get something later this week anyway (due to Orlando Celebration).

3 hours ago, VadersMarchKazoo said:

I partially agree, but then again, I might have difficulty giving up my role as Imp, even if another player offered. Perhaps I've become 'twisted and evil'

I am a Imperial in my heart as well. I usualy say my wife who offten mention that she folow the path of the Jedi:

Baby you married to me. Jedi canot marry so sooner or latter " your journey towards the dark side will be complete!"

But if I play full power they usualy lose.

If i sell a mission they find out (at least my wife who know me quite well) and they will be angry. Keeping the fun as a Game master make me exhausted.

So if we get the app i will open a glass of champagne i promise

From the card game article today, it looks like FFG is setting its sights more on comics. I'm down for that, especially since Black Krrsantan is apparently in it. A scum Wookie bounty hunter is pretty appealing.

edit: MERC ! I'm getting too into X-Wing, please help.

I was excited to see the Card Game article with Black Krrsantan too. I painted one of my Wookie Warriors in the spirit of this character a while back (picture was before he was finished). I'd be stoked if he is in one of the next waves!

All right.

-It's Friday.

- It's April.

- It's Orlando Celebration

-There are 4 product codes as of yet unaccounted for.

This might be it. Lock S-Foils in attack position.

FFG will be making announcements between 6 and 7 tonight at star wars celebration.

/me removes wallet from pants

/me readies "shut up and take my money" post

/me locks in suspended animation until tonight

Still buzzing from TLJ trailer. What a great day already, could it get any better? Yes, yes it could.

1 hour ago, VadersMarchKazoo said:

Still buzzing from TLJ trailer. What a great day already, could it get any better? Yes, yes it could.

to be honest i liked first trailer for Rogue one more...

Is there a link where we can watch FFG on SW Celebration?

I haven't found anything. Of course all of the bigger panels are available: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/13/15273098/star-wars-celebration-2017-live-stream-schedule-watch-online

But not the FFG. I checked the twitch feed too and nothing there.

FFG says on Twitter that no stream is planned so that answers that.

I hear from facebook that Team Covenant asked about the app "progress" and got something akin to 'Yes, but nothing more to tell.'

Does that mean no IA news? Just more Destiny news?

I propose we change the name of this thread to "I hate Destiny, give us more IA!"

Edit: I mean it's awesome that they got Tiya Sirdar (actress who plays Sabine) to do the announcement. But I would have preferred she announce a new Sabine ally pack!

This is starting to get just a teeny bit worrying. No news really since January, what feels like a delayed Summer box wave, and the mythical app sounds like it's still a long way away. Hmmm.

1 hour ago, ellhaynes said:

This is starting to get just a teeny bit worrying. No news really since January, what feels like a delayed Summer box wave, and the mythical app sounds like it's still a long way away. Hmmm.

We won't hear anything about the app for a while still... Before end of the year if we're lucky.

Descent has two big box expansions and several small box. It might be possible the next release is a small box end of the year and other than that we will see figure packs.

Personally I feel we have a lot of components already... I wouldn't mind smaller and cheaper releases. What I'd really like rather than the app is a couple campaign books using all the existing tiles.

That was a bit underwhelming, was expecting them to announce the next small box and talk more on the app yet the focus seemed to almost entirely be on destiny which is understandable. It is their biggest seller right now. Maybe they have to wait for some other announcement to come out before they can announce the next box?

We have May 4th up ahead. Wave 9 is hopefully shipping by then (probably not in stores yet), at least the third preview will probably be out, so even if we don't hear about the App, the contents of the gap of 4 product ID's might get revealed.

With all the Runewars Miniatures news lately, it seems Runewars Miniatures is getting a priority now, and I think it is in FFG interests to concentrate in getting it out.

We still have a couple of days left of SWC, there is still a slim chance of an announcement.

Completely understand that there will be peaks and troughs over the years with any game line, but this mini-gap doesn't feel right. I'd guess it takes at least 12 months to bring a boxed set to market, and presume FFG had a fairly tight release schedule for the fist few years to cover the original trilogy. Despite the delays there's a fairly clear pattern of releases so far, so it feels odd that there's a pause when there's probably only one mor box wave to go to complete ROTJ.

I could have understood a pause at that point, to reflect, possibly release a 2nd edition, or a new starter box. But I find it odd to think they planned a larger than normal gap for this point - the whole Destiny saga/ success was unknown a year ago.

Personally I suspect the RoTJ box is ready, but is being delayed due to Destiny and Runewars. I don't believe that it's still under development. I just hope the delay isn't too long...