UPS is a great buy for OpSpec alone. That card is nuts, im surprised its not more limited or 5pts.

Pair it with a couple Snapshots. Snapshot failed? someone gets a focus.

FFG really needs to up their FAQ game. A wave should never drop (especially with Regionals going on!) without an updated FAQ dropping same day.

1 minute ago, gamblertuba said:

FFG really needs to up their FAQ game. A wave should never drop (especially with Regionals going on!) without an updated FAQ dropping same day.

Agree. How long do we have to wait? I've been hoping for weeks that one would have dropped today.

While the wording on Ts is very suspect, i do hope it just gives sharas ability

Sharas ability is jank regardless and the damn upgrade is 3 points

Should take whateverbenefit you can out of it

1 hour ago, Punning Pundit said:

Yes, all the time. They'll probably announce Wave 11 in the next week or so.

Fingers crossed!

55 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

2 hours ago, Punning Pundit said:

Yes, all the time. They'll probably announce Wave 11 in the next week or so.

Fingers crossed!

Actually hoping we get a bit of a gap for once. Announcing the next wave always seems to take the wind out of the sails of the just released wave. I'd be fine with a month of just CROC previews and strategy talks about wave 10.

1 hour ago, gamblertuba said:

FFG really needs to up their FAQ game. A wave should never drop (especially with Regionals going on!) without an updated FAQ dropping same day.

The stuff actually has to be out there in the wild for a little bit before all the issues start to come up. So as opposed to releasing one today and then having to release another FAQ in like a couple weeks they keep it simple and just put out one once the commoners who don't play with everything on vassal or proxy things early can actually play with it.

59 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

While the wording on Ts is very suspect, i do hope it just gives sharas ability

Sharas ability is jank regardless and the damn upgrade is 3 points

Should take whateverbenefit you can out of it

Well, they can't word it just like Shara's ability sadly because they don't want to hand out too much free candy to abilities like OL and ATC - Shara is limited by faction and platform.

11 minutes ago, SkyWarp said:

The stuff actually has to be out there in the wild for a little bit before all the issues start to come up. So as opposed to releasing one today and then having to release another FAQ in like a couple weeks they keep it simple and just put out one once the commoners who don't play with everything on vassal or proxy things early can actually play with it.

The other issue here though is that they are releasing cards that immediately need a FAQ due to unclear wording. All I want to do right now is use Targeting Synchronizer, but because it is so foggy from the text on the card (and not some niche interaction you may find way down the road that needs a FAQ), I feel paralyzed and don't want to play with it to only find out days later I was using it incorrectly one way or the other.

17 minutes ago, UnitOmega said:

Well, they can't word it just like Shara's ability sadly because they don't want to hand out too much free candy to abilities like OL and ATC - Shara is limited by faction and platform.

I don't see why not

Shara's ability is a croc of shite that doesn't actually result in any action efficiency, you just pay points for, at best, a lateral exchange of mods

big issue here being the ARC is an expensive bugger and needs said mods

TA is similar, it's expensive as balls for an upgrade card. It's only saving grace is you can put it on a cheap nippy bugger like the FO or quad

even in the case of FCS, having someone else spend your lock means you don't get to re-roll your dice come next attack unless you take another lock action and then you might be screwing over your action efficiency unless you also have something like expertise

though it is good for bypassing normal ordnance problems regarding TL, esp countermeasures. Still, 5 points

EDIT: I forgot empire also has Systems officer to hand out TL candy to OL and ATC

24 minutes ago, Kdubb said:

Actually hoping we get a bit of a gap for once. Announcing the next wave always seems to take the wind out of the sails of the just released wave. I'd be fine with a month of just CROC previews and strategy talks about wave 10.

I'd agree if there was actually anything in Wave 10 that I was interested in or planned on buying.

However, there is not. It's the biggest anti-climax since Wave 5, and I'm glad it's out of the way. Roll on Wave 11!

5 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

I'd agree if there was actually anything in Wave 10 that I was interested in or planned on buying.

However, there is not. It's the biggest anti-climax since Wave 5, and I'm glad it's out of the way. Roll on Wave 11!

Really? Rebel Tie is pretty lame, and QJ I can understand being unimpressed with as well, but the Upsilon Shuttle I figured would get the interest of players from every spectrum.

3 minutes ago, Kdubb said:

Really? Rebel Tie is pretty lame, and QJ I can understand being unimpressed with as well, but the Upsilon Shuttle I figured would get the interest of players from every spectrum.

I, for one, will be trying three Snap/Juke A Wings, one Snap Crack, and Zeb TIE with Ops Spec.

That's enough to blast through a lot of shields in Activation and have some modified attacks for combat!

46 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

I don't see why not

Shara's ability is a croc of shite that doesn't actually result in any action efficiency, you just pay points for, at best, a lateral exchange of mods

big issue here being the ARC is an expensive bugger and needs said mods

TA is similar, it's expensive as balls for an upgrade card. It's only saving grace is you can put it on a cheap nippy bugger like the FO or quad

even in the case of FCS, having someone else spend your lock means you don't get to re-roll your dice come next attack unless you take another lock action and then you might be screwing over your action efficiency unless you also have something like expertise

though it is good for bypassing normal ordnance problems regarding TL, esp countermeasures. Still, 5 points

EDIT: I forgot empire also has Systems officer to hand out TL candy to OL and ATC

I hope TS lets you spend the lock to reroll otherwise it is terribly overcosted. I'm not sold on it actually working that way though because "game effect" has never before been defined.

I am not going to quote or repost the list I have posted elsewhere but after playing a few games where you treat the TL as not being able to be used to re-roll dice I still found it to be effective.

The list is PS8 Backdraft, Tomax, and Jonus. Backdraft has FCS and TS. Backdraft focuses R1 of combat, and picks up a TL from FCS. Tomax uses it to fire homing missle and jonus provides re-rolls. No TL spent. Jonus uses it to fire proton torpedoes and with chips and focus... still hits pretty hard. Next round do your best to repeat this process. After Jonus is out of ammo Backdraft uses his TL to modify his dice... and then FCS brings it back. Tomax, with more ordinance than Jonus can use it as needed.

In 2 of the 3 games I have played with this I have managed to fire all 3 SETS of munitions. Not that 3 games are telling but I was surprised at the way I could bump or stress the bombers and still pull of hard hitting shots.

54 minutes ago, Kdubb said:

Really? Rebel Tie is pretty lame, and QJ I can understand being unimpressed with as well, but the Upsilon Shuttle I figured would get the interest of players from every spectrum.

To be fair, I haven't bought into the First Order at all. Didn't bother with the TIE/fo or TIE/sf either, in fact I gave away the TIE/fo's from the Force Awakens core set.

When it comes to Imperial forces, I'm a bit of a traditionalist. Looking forward to the C-ROC though.

Targeting Synchronizer doesn't work with the Omega Ace ... It's a mistake that happen (too) often in FFG news.

Remember the K-wing

21 minutes ago, zimut-X said:

Targeting Synchronizer doesn't work with the Omega Ace ... It's a mistake that happen (too) often in FFG news.

Remember the K-wing

Why not? its an effect that requires the player to spend a target lock.

Omega Ace hasn't the Attack (Target Lock) header

And TS doesn't say "if that game effect" it says if "a" game effect. And FFG's article still says that it works with OL - if it was an error is that not usually fixed by now? I predict it shall remain that way for quite some time (indefinitely, in fact) which would lend credence that it really is intended that Game Effect refers to basically anything. Remember, the trigger on TS is "when a friendly ship at Range 1-2 is attacking...", the Attack header and the spending of target locks both come after that - they are not necessarily linked.

2 hours ago, zimut-X said:

Omega Ace hasn't the Attack (Target Lock) header

ok so? He can still treat the attack (target lock) as Attack. But that doesn't tie into the last line either. You don't need a secondary weapon to gain the target lock use from TS

the Attack (Target Lock) header is to distinguish certain ordnance from game effects that require TLs be spent

ala homing missile and adv homing missile (and IPM), all of which require Target Locks but do not discard them to fire the ordnance

27 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

the Attack (Target Lock) header is to distinguish certain ordnance from game effects that require TLs be spent

ala homing missile and adv homing missile (and IPM), all of which require Target Locks but do not discard them to fire the ordnance

yes indeed but you don't have to have ordnance in order to treat Attack(Target lock) as Attack . It just doesn't do anything useful for a ship that doesn't have any.

FFG JUST FAQ IT ALREADY. I NEED TO KNOW!!!!!

12 hours ago, Kdubb said:

Really? Rebel Tie is pretty lame, and QJ I can understand being unimpressed with as well, but the Upsilon Shuttle I figured would get the interest of players from every spectrum.

People not into TFA stuff at all do get very little out of it.