Worlds is going to happen soon and settle everything once and for all.... Or at least for a few months

I give Rebels an 86% chance to win worlds.

Bomber K-wings, Ghost, ARC-170, and Biggs of course.

There's a high chance Rey with Finn & Kanan crew will be viable.

X7 Defenders counter U-boats. This simply balances the meta.

B-wings and X-wings are still not relevant.

For Scum: Starvipers, Scyks, Kihraxz, and G1A are still not relevant

The G1-A with 1 AGI was DOA in an ordnance heavy Meta. Which is a total shame.

Ehh I guess I'm just sore... I need to adopt the ARC though. Maybe give Wedge some new friends to help him out or let him take a walk. As for Biggs, I doubt I'll use him too much but maybe. I love seeing some new Rebel list options. My local area just went very new meta, and even though I can beat Defenders with T-65s and can still duke it out with the aces it's become an uphill battle for sure now hahaha.

I think HotR is gonna bring Rebels back, and wave 10 looks good too. Rey is no joke with Finn, rolling 4/5 dice every time with rerolls and focus and no stress with 3 sloops and Kanan. And then PS9 Poe with Pattern Analyzer and Stay on Target. Dial any 3 move, and then can even switch to either Talon Roll and get his focus after seeing the entire board move. That is a legit jouster right there! And with Cassian in U-Wing supporting him, Cassian can take that stress away at beginning of activation phase, letting Poe do it EVERY ROUND. Good things are in store for Rebels, me thinks.

ARCs are a great addition. Lots of combos with them like the Ghost to build what you want for your squad.

But Rey, ****, she hits hard!

Cheers FGD, given me something to think about. I couldnt decide between a bumpmaster or Manny, went with manny for the token distribution, but she is still there to block. I like your pictures and your succinct account. I was only going to buy 1 ARC..you may have changed things for me mate lol.

Get 2, you won't be dissapointed. Been to a tournament Saturday with Fickles lists (except I used Flechettes on Braylen, which in hindsight was stupid as he already deals enough stress and the VTs would have been way better) and managed to get 8th place out of 28. won 3, lost 2 and the list never failed me, it was me who failed the list. Common mistakes where splitting the ARCs too far from each other and being too greedy with wanting to get shots (and in the process flying Norra off the board and throwing a game that by all accounts should have been won). I was still extremely pleased with the lists performance as I had only tried it once before.

VCX + Falcon or Dash is still a decent list

Easy as 1... 2... 3!!!

HoTR will be extremely nice, and Rogue One should help a little bit too.

Past that, until Episode VIII and the Han Solo flick, we'll be relying on Rebels to give us stuff.

So after the U-Wing and new X-Wing (it'll happen) we've got two more ships that need assistance (Y-Wings and E-Wings) and the A-Wings continue to be both ubiquitous and wildly varied.

So my predictions..?

Y/E as some new/old set. Of course with Sabine in a Y-Wing sporting an EPT (and maybe Chopper, a Y-Wing without astromech but with systems instead!)

And you can bet your rear end we'll be getting some kind of "Phoenix Squadron" bundle. If we want to get the Arquitens and Pelta in here for whatever reason, we'll also for sure be getting a Blade Wing (Wholly separate from the B-Wing as a ship but with upgrades that can help the B-Wing along, bundled with the Pelta) and a double A-Wing Phoenix Squadron pack would NOT be unwelcome.

Yeah, Hera in her A-Wing... bet on it.

Yeah, Hera in her A-Wing... bet on it.

At this rate it will be the entire Ghost crew in every Rebellion ship...

Yeah, Hera in her A-Wing... bet on it.

At this rate it will be the entire Ghost crew in every Rebellion ship...

FFG is all about REBELS.

Worlds is going to happen soon and settle everything once and for all.... Or at least for a few months

I give Rebels an 86% chance to win worlds.

Bomber K-wings, Ghost, ARC-170, and Biggs of course.

There's a high chance Rey with Finn & Kanan crew will be viable.

X7 Defenders counter U-boats. This simply balances the meta.

B-wings and X-wings are still not relevant.

For Scum: Starvipers, Scyks, Kihraxz, and G1A are still not relevant

The G1-A with 1 AGI was DOA in an ordnance heavy Meta. Which is a total shame.

The small base ship with a rear spoiler had agility 1 while the large base asymmetrical potty seat got 2 agility. Anything wrong with this picture?

Not sold on Sabine and Chopper as Y-wing pilots but the idea of Chopper as Y-wing pilot with different upgrade slots is intriguing.

I would love to see FFG create more ships with different stats and upgrades for each pilot. Not every ship with the same chassis is going to be kitted out the same way. The Outer Rim Smuggler was a (botched) attempt at this idea. The Punishing One title is another way to accomplish the same thing. But otherwise, the Elite upgrade is the only difference between the various pilots of a given ship. This seems like an unexplored opportunity.

Ehh I guess I'm just sore... I need to adopt the ARC though. Maybe give Wedge some new friends to help him out or let him take a walk. As for Biggs, I doubt I'll use him too much but maybe. I love seeing some new Rebel list options. My local area just went very new meta, and even though I can beat Defenders with T-65s and can still duke it out with the aces it's become an uphill battle for sure now hahaha.

well you don't NEED to

there's always the K

the rebellion seems to be in its "go big/Biggs or go home" phase between all these ARCs, Ks and VCXs

well, maybe snap-crack As too but crutching on barely to unmodified dice is certainly not my style

Worlds is going to happen soon and settle everything once and for all.... Or at least for a few months

I give Rebels an 86% chance to win worlds.

Bomber K-wings, Ghost, ARC-170, and Biggs of course.

There's a high chance Rey with Finn & Kanan crew will be viable.

X7 Defenders counter U-boats. This simply balances the meta.

B-wings and X-wings are still not relevant.

For Scum: Starvipers, Scyks, Kihraxz, and G1A are still not relevant

The G1-A with 1 AGI was DOA in an ordnance heavy Meta. Which is a total shame.

The small base ship with a rear spoiler had agility 1 while the large base asymmetrical potty seat got 2 agility. Anything wrong with this picture?

That does seem ridiculous. Would seem to be reversed to make more sense. Perhaps without the rear spoiler, ship would have 0 agility.

In all seriousness, I would be happy if FFG would just start errata more cards. For now, I just house rule the things that seem truly out of place.

Honestly I don't think J5Ks would have been such a shock if they hadn't had 2 agility. It's silly.

Regardless, I'd like to see FFG release variant cards for some of the older iconic Rebel ships that have been really left behind by newer waves. There are huge differences between an Allison engined P-51A and a Merlin engined P-51D. Why not between a Wave 1 X-Wing and an update card released in 2017? With Rebels and Episode VIII related content coming they could easily include updated cards and even dials.

They won't. But they could.

Ehh I guess I'm just sore... I need to adopt the ARC though. Maybe give Wedge some new friends to help him out or let him take a walk. As for Biggs, I doubt I'll use him too much but maybe. I love seeing some new Rebel list options. My local area just went very new meta, and even though I can beat Defenders with T-65s and can still duke it out with the aces it's become an uphill battle for sure now hahaha.

well you don't NEED to

there's always the K

the rebellion seems to be in its "go big/Biggs or go home" phase between all these ARCs, Ks and VCXs

well, maybe snap-crack As too but crutching on barely to unmodified dice is certainly not my style

CHICKEN-ASS...

to about five seconds later some guy is gushing about his Syck list using Attani Mindlink or whatever.

Hey, that's me! Woohoo!!

I think Phoenix Squadron will happen, and Hobbie and Wedge may get A-Wing seats but I doubt we'll see them in TIEs. OTOH, looks like a new TIE Interceptor ace could be a possibility.

It seems to be that this game goes in cycles of Imperial dominance to Rebel dominance depending not on the latest Wave, but on the latest special Expansion pack.

Phoneix squadron expac is just a lot of debrus and a tie advance with vader

Doubled

Phoneix squadron expac is just a lot of debrus and a tie advance with vader

With the following card:

"After destroying an enemy ship you may perform a boost out of your rear guides, then rotate your ship however the heck you want to."

Phoneix squadron expac is just a lot of debrus and a tie advance with vader

With the following card:

"After destroying an enemy ship you may perform a boost out of your rear guides, then rotate your ship however the heck you want to."

You know, that was supposed to be the star viper fix

Hell while we're at it, let's have all the pilots in the expansion be sabine. You can have Happy Sabine, bad hair day Sabine, Sabine in fancy dress, and hungover sabine

Exactly a Sabine TIE swarm would be misery for the opponent.

Ehh I guess I'm just sore... I need to adopt the ARC though. Maybe give Wedge some new friends to help him out or let him take a walk. As for Biggs, I doubt I'll use him too much but maybe. I love seeing some new Rebel list options. My local area just went very new meta, and even though I can beat Defenders with T-65s and can still duke it out with the aces it's become an uphill battle for sure now hahaha.

well you don't NEED to

there's always the K

the rebellion seems to be in its "go big/Biggs or go home" phase between all these ARCs, Ks and VCXs

well, maybe snap-crack As too but crutching on barely to unmodified dice is certainly not my style

CHICKEN-ASS...

Most importantly, I love that Jump. You should consider letting me have it. I would trade of course because I don't want the stigma of owning a 3rd one.

Not my jump

Not my jump

So it is a win/win situation, you get a free jump and he gets an awesome jump