Wave XI Speculation

By dpb1298, in X-Wing

These are the only ships I can think of for wave XI that have appeared in recent media.

Imperial:

Tie Reaper (In Rogue One)

Delta-Class T-3c Shuttle (Kennic's Shuttle from Rouge One)

Rebel/ Resistance:

Resistance A-Wing (In the Poe Dameron Comic)

Scum:

Rihkxyrk Attack Ship (Empire at War. Kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel, but oh well.)

What are y'alls thoughts. FFG is going to be hard-pressed to keep cranking out regular expansions in my opinion with the limited number of fighter ships.

My speculation: new colours of dice.

No more shuttles for the Empire please. At least not for another 3-5 waves. Having three different shuttles feels more than enough.

12 minutes ago, dpb1298 said:

Rihkxyrk Attack Ship

Bless you.

Mining guild ties

I read "Wave XI" and immediately thought, GUNBOAT!!!

They are probably in the last period where there will be difficulty finding movie ships to fill waves, if only because of Lucasfilm's unwillingness to share all the details of upcoming ships with them. The fact that the TIE Reaper didn't leak, didn't show up as a Lego set, or in the incredible cross section books suggests that FFG probably didn't see it in advance of when all the rest of us saw it - when Rogue one came out. Given their timeline for the development of ships is somewhere between six and eighteen months (both figures have been mentioned, but I suspect it's closer to the latter), we can't expect to see ships like that (I.e. The non heavily promoted ships) until at least a year after the movie comes out - I.e. probably two waves back.

That will cease to be a problem once they hit a critical mass of new ships - and that's likely to be soon given the pace of new movies. Not that I want these ships, but we're still waiting on:

•Krennic's shuttle (Delta class) (Rogue One)

•Imperial Cargo shuttle (Rogue One)

•Rebel transport (Force Awakens)

•TIE Reaper (Rogue One)

•Scum mining guild TIE (Rebels)

All canon, all appropriately scaled. There's at least three waves worth of new Imperial ships there, and when you consider those rumours about Kylo Ren's new advance TIE Fighter in Episode 8, you can see how the availability of ships will start to get away from FFG over time. There's really only space for one wave entirely before TLJ cross promotion becomes key; wave 12 will probably be out around the time if the film (EOY 2017) and will almost certainly have Last Jedi ships in it.

While there's an obvious bias towards the Imperials, which is where FFG might have to go briefly back to the EU, that will balance out over time, especially since we know we're getting another version of the A-Wing in Episode 8, and that we've heard about, but not yet seen, T-85 X Wings and Mk2 B Wings. Scum might have some issues, but the Han Solo movie has some potential there.

With that in mind, as much as it wouldn't be my chosen lineup, I think wave 11 will be:

Imperial Cargo Shuttle or Krennic's Shuttle

Rebel TFA Transport

Scum Mining Guild TIE

Some EU Scum ship to get the numbers back into line.

Hoping I'm not right, as that will be a boring wave, but it seems probable.

Edited by MacchuWA
Clarity

Doesn't Leia fly a Naboo fighter in her comic during the rebellion era? That's at least as likely as the alt A-wing. But I have no idea how you would distinguish it from both z-95's and a-wings. Also there's that troop transport (also with Leia) from TFA.

15 minutes ago, TasteTheRainbow said:

Doesn't Leia fly a Naboo fighter in her comic during the rebellion era? That's at least as likely as the alt A-wing. But I have no idea how you would distinguish it from both z-95's and a-wings. Also there's that troop transport (also with Leia) from TFA.

Naboo is Taboo. :)

1 hour ago, dpb1298 said:

FFG is going to be hard-pressed to keep cranking out regular expansions in my opinion with the limited number of fighter ships.

There as dozens of options in Legends and plenty more in the Prequels.

OTOH, I expect we'll mostly see stuff from Rebels at this point: Mining Guild TIE, Phoenix Squadron A-Wing, and Sentinel-class Shuttle.

Given how much the Aphra related stuff seems to be making it into Star Wars games recently, I am thinking the Ark Angel is upcoming.

3 minutes ago, Sithborg said:

Given how much the Aphra related stuff seems to be making it into Star Wars games recently, I am thinking the Ark Angel is upcoming.

Tried to find a GIF of Wasabi dry-heaving in Big Hero 6 and came up empty.

Does anyone have a pic of the Resistance A-wing from the Poe comic?

Gunboat. Lambda for the Rebels (seriously, Sabine's Tie before Shuttle Tyderium?". Gunboat. Avenger. Gunboat.

From the movies there are only a few ships we have seen that haven't been included, but there are a few ships that were implied that we still might see.

From TFA and R1:

Other SW movies - I know there is a strong feeling by some of the playerbase against them, but from the prequels...:

  • N1 Starfighter
  • ETA-2
  • Delta-7 Aethersprite
  • Bellulab (Grievous' ship)

From Rebels

  • Phoenix Squadron A-Wing
  • Iron Squad YT-2400
  • Mining Guild TIE
  • Maul's Protectorate-Starfighter-like ship (but I think that's too big)
  • I feel like there's one more I had "on the tip of my tongue" when I started writing this but can't recall it

From the comics

  • N1 Starfighter
  • Sana Solo's ship (can't recall the name of it)
  • Any of the "uglies" seen in Terrax's collection
  • Anything that gets 0-0-0 and BeeTeen into the game as crew

From EU

  • Enough. Let's be done with it for a while, unless we really, REALLY need more Scum ships ;)

I'm sure I missed some and reserve the right to update this post :)

1 hour ago, MacchuWA said:

They are probably in the last period where there will be difficulty finding movie ships to fill waves, if only because of Lucasfilm's unwillingness to share all the details of upcoming ships with them. The fact that the TIE Reaper didn't leak, didn't show up as a Lego set, or in the incredible cross section books suggests that FFG probably didn't see it in advance of when all the rest of us saw it - when Rogue one came out. Given their timeline for the development of ships is somewhere between six and eighteen months (both figures have been mentioned, but I suspect it's closer to the latter), we can't expect to see ships like that (I.e. The non heavily promoted ships) until at least a year after the movie comes out - I.e. probably two waves back.

That will cease to be a problem once they hit a critical mass of new ships - and that's likely to be soon given the pace of new movies. Not that I want these ships, but we're still waiting on:

•Krennic's shuttle (Delta class) (Rogue One)

•Imperial Cargo shuttle (Rogue One)

•Rebel transport (Force Awakens)

•TIE Reaper (Rogue One)

•Scum mining guild TIE (Rebels)

All canon, all appropriately scaled. There's at least three waves worth of new Imperial ships there, and when you consider those rumours about Kylo Ren's new advance TIE Fighter in Episode 8, you can see how the availability of ships will start to get away from FFG over time. There's really only space for one wave entirely before TLJ cross promotion becomes key; wave 12 will probably be out around the time if the film (EOY 2017) and will almost certainly have Last Jedi ships in it.

While there's an obvious bias towards the Imperials, which is where FFG might have to go briefly back to the EU, that will balance out over time, especially since we know we're getting another version of the A-Wing in Episode 8, and that we've heard about, but not yet seen, T-85 X Wings and Mk2 B Wings. Scum might have some issues, but the Han Solo movie has some potential there.

With that in mind, as much as it wouldn't be my chosen lineup, I think wave 11 will be:

Imperial Cargo Shuttle or Krennic's Shuttle

Rebel TFA Transport

Scum Mining Guild TIE

Some EU Scum ship to get the numbers back into line.

Hoping I'm not right, as that will be a boring wave, but it seems probable.

if you are correct, and I suspect you are, I won't be buying anything from that wave.

The A-wing in Poe Dameron is an old RZ-1 flown by L'ulo; the Duros pilot who took over as Green Leader after Arvel Crynyd's suicide bombing of the Executor.

1 hour ago, Space Dragn said:

what about Darth Mauls ship from the Rebels show? basically a large Fang Fighter :P

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kom'rk-class_fighter/transport

Too big. It's bigger than the Ghost I think.

49 minutes ago, Bojanglez said:
  • Any of the "uglies" seen in Terrax's collection

If that's the one comic panel I've seen with a lot of ships in very large bookshelves, I'm not sure those are "uglies" so much as very poorly drawn regular ships.

There was definitely an ugly in an earlier Poe comic. It had Interceptor wings and a body made from an AT-AT head.

I think I saw that. Ok, that qualifies as an ugly.

Don't put that in the game, srsly.

Edited by Kharnvor

If there's another Imperial shuttle coming down the tubes, I'm not buying it. I don't care if it is 8 dice PWT with 5 evade, every dial movement green, and 8 crew slots.

Give us a new X-Wing/Y-Wing release to tie in to the awesome scenes in RO and to reinvigorate both ships so we have something more than Biggs and TLT carriers.

Give us the Gunboat so the Empire is something more than TIEs and shuttles.

Give us Scum YT-1300s so the Rebels know the butthurt Imperial players felt when Sabine's TIE was announced (or some other Scum ship).

Bring balance to the force before the new movie comes out then you can release all the new goodies.

If there's another Imperial shuttle coming down the tubes, I'm not buying it. I don't care if it is 8 dice PWT with 5 evade, every dial movement green, and 8 crew slots.

Give us a new X-Wing/Y-Wing release to tie in to the awesome scenes in RO and to reinvigorate both ships so we have something more than Biggs and TLT carriers.

Give us the Gunboat so the Empire is something more than TIEs and shuttles.

Give us Scum YT-1300s so the Rebels know the butthurt Imperial players felt when Sabine's TIE was announced (or some other Scum ship).

Bring balance to the force before the new movie comes out then you can release all the new goodies.

10 minutes ago, flyboymb said:

Give us the Gunboat so the Empire is something more than TIEs and shuttles.

This more than anything.

Maul's I-can't-Believe-It's-Not-A-Fang is called a Kom'rk-class fighter/transport. It's somewhere between 50 and 70 meters, which makes it bigger than the Ghost. That makes it doubtful that it would show up in X-Wing.

I also think it's doubtful that they'd do another regular expansion A-Wing or YT-2400. I'd love to see Phoenix or Iron Squadron show up in the game, but probably not as a Wave. Maybe a Most Wanted style box with lots of new cardboard, but not much new plastic.

Personally, I'm hoping for the Resistance Transport, as it would open up some _wierd_ options (sideways firing arcs!!), as well as maybe a General Leia card.

Oh! And there's maybe a 30% chance of a 1st Order higgens boat.