The alliance can survive the loss of the fleet or the ground base with the command not both.

I guess we'll see when it comes out, but I was thinking along one of two lines:

1. The Rebel assault is a tactical diversion to get the "Rogue One" team in to extract Mr. Ors (I mean, Erso). With the main Imperial fleet guarding the installation engaged, they can drop in as a ground assault.

2. The Rebels have no idea about the Death Star (which makes sense, given ANH). They think the planet is a testing ground for a new laser system (on that satellite/base thing we see in some of the trailers). The Rebel fleet assaults the installation and disables it with heavy losses. "Rogue One" starts as a ground mission to extract Mr. Erso from the planet, but it changes as they realize they went after the wrong thing. "Rogue One" comes up empty but figures out they need to go somewhere else. So, unbeknownst to the Rebel command (or known-st to them, as they could pull a "you are the only ship in the sector" line from Star Trek), they go "rogue" and infiltrate the D.S. to get Mr. Erso. As they escape (just Jyn, Cassian, Erso, and K-2S0 ... my guess) they transmit the plans to the nearest Rebel ship ... the Tantive IV. Or, they could push "send" on a transmission right before they get captured/Darth Vader-ed, which is then tracked to the Tantive IV.

Either way, we might get more fleet action in the first 3/5 of the movie than the back half ... which might be more close quarters, infiltration stuff.

But it really does look like RO is setting us up for a nice Wave VI and VII for ships!

Must... make... dual ISD fleet work again.... (with apparently a crapload of TIE ln as the only other fleet component)

I think that space station would make an interesting addition to the empire.

This is an easy one. Their strike was fast and decisive, allowing them to hit and fade quickly. The fleet likely disperses back into cells, trying to mask exactly which ship received the plans. If they had stayed together, they would have been easily crushed by the far larger Imperial Navy. By dispersing and obscuring where the plans went, they had a better chance of delivering the plans where they needed to go. By the beginning of New Hope, it is clear that Vader has seen through the Rebel attempts to obscure the location of the plans and tracked them to Tantive IV.

I was about to write something along those lines, a few posts up, then I saw this.

This makes very much sense, the Rebel fleet at this stage of the GCW is to small to go toe on toe with the Imperial fleet in a full scale battle, but has the resources to quickly gather a Task Force in one spot that is strong enough to gain a temporary local superiority, long enough for a important mission can succeed. Afterwards they would scatter.

Being a naval guerilla force they also need to tie down Imperial naval units in other parts of the galaxy, so being spread out would also force the Empire to spread out as they have more assets across the galaxy to protect than the Rebels.

And if any Rebel unit where to be ambushed or caught in a position they can't escape from, then it would not be the whole fleet destroyed, but a single or very few units lost.

They US navy was somewhat in the first couple of months of 1942, outnumbered by the Imperial japaneese navy in the Pacific, but the americans didn't refrain from making carrier strikes against japaneese positions.

Quite contrary the US navy waged a "naval guerilla war", by making "Hit and fade" raids against the japaneese. with the main strategic gain:

1: To keep the japaneese guessing what the US naval dispositions where.

2: Tie down units to patrol and secure important areas.

3: To give US forces combat experience in low risk of loss missions.

4: Buy time to build up a naval forces that is strong enough to go on a counter offensive.

Having strong and good intel helps with this.

Speaking of Rogue One, has anyone played the new Rogue One VR mission in Star Wars Battlefront? Maybe this new ship has shown up in that?

Speaking of Rogue One, has anyone played the new Rogue One VR mission in Star Wars Battlefront? Maybe this new ship has shown up in that?

I watched a playthru on youtube and all you can see are CR90's and debris. You do see the two ISD-I's as the blockade- I think they may be intentionally hiding stuff at this point.

OOPS- thoguht you were referring tot he battlefront DLC. I watched a playthru of the VR mission as well... jsut neb-B's and GR-75's for the rebel fleet.

I just saw a new commercial during the Green Bay/Seattle game and they showed the new ship in it. If I find it on YouTube I'll

Post it. They actually show the whole ship by a neb and it's about double the size.

I just saw a new commercial during the Green Bay/Seattle game and they showed the new ship in it. If I find it on YouTube I'll

Post it. They actually show the whole ship by a neb and it's about double the size.

I saw it too, way bigger than a neb and no front ventral spar, just the rear one.

That commercial was the best part of the whole game.

I'm still waiting for 1st Order and Resistance ships to appear in Armada.

They are not due until next year, after the SSD comes out as SWM20 to introduce Armada epic scale!

I have a screen capture from the new commercial, but I'm not sure how to attach an image. I tried .PNG, .JPG, and .PDF but was foiled at every turn. It could be because this is my first post...

Anyone find it on you tube yet? ? I can't

It reminds me a bit of the Dauntless-class Heavy Cruiser from the "Star Wars Rebellion" computer game:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dauntless-class_heavy_cruiser

It reminds me a bit of the Dauntless-class Heavy Cruiser from the "Star Wars Rebellion" computer game:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dauntless-class_heavy_cruiser

To me it looks like a stolen MC80 that ripped off part of a drydock docking ring trying to get away.

It reminds me a bit of the Dauntless-class Heavy Cruiser from the "Star Wars Rebellion" computer game:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dauntless-class_heavy_cruiser

To me it looks like a stolen MC80 that ripped off part of a drydock docking ring trying to get away.

More seriously, the upper and lower fin and the smooth hull gives him some resemblance to a Trade Federation Providence-class cruiser/carrier.

Well it is very clear that the capital ship is certainly a Mon Calamari cruiser.

It reminds me a bit of the Dauntless-class Heavy Cruiser from the "Star Wars Rebellion" computer game:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dauntless-class_heavy_cruiser

That's what I thought from the get-go, and the only reason I wasn't sure was because the other clips made it look like it had a second lower fin towards the front. I am pretty much convinced this is a reimagined Dauntless.

I just don't see a Mon Cal cruiser. Too many straight lines, hard edges, and the fin and tower...

It reminds me a bit of the Dauntless-class Heavy Cruiser from the "Star Wars Rebellion" computer game:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dauntless-class_heavy_cruiser

That's what I thought from the get-go, and the only reason I wasn't sure was because the other clips made it look like it had a second lower fin towards the front. I am pretty much convinced this is a reimagined Dauntless.

I just don't see a Mon Cal cruiser. Too many straight lines, hard edges, and the fin and tower...

I'll take it - as I told my (unimpressed to say the least ) wife I'm excited to see new capital ships in Rogue One this weekend (and the rest of the movie too!)

Is it just me, or does the one ship in the background look like an MC30? Middle left side of the frame, just under the front of the new cruiser?

Is it just me, or does the one ship in the background look like an MC30? Middle left side of the frame, just under the front of the new cruiser?

Enhance!

To me it looks like a stolen MC80 that ripped off part of a drydock docking ring trying to get away.

I don't really get an MC look from it. The hull isn't organic enough, too many large flat-panel plates.

Besides this, I'm not sure Mon Calamari is actually free of Imperial control at this point? Though I'm a bit rusty on my timeline.

Well I dint think the new canon has defined it. Also that does look like an mc30!