So it's March now, and FFG has been following a Small Box in March, Big Box in August reveal schedule. What are people's predictions?

I personally think we will see a Rebels and/or Rogue One small box and then an Endor big box.

My only hesitation with having an Endor big box is that we just got Jedi Luke and the Rebel Rangers, so that limits Rebel options to ewoks....shudder. Imperials meanwhile can get scout troopers and speeder bikes, although the later is a little absurd on such a small scale battlefield. Maybe it would get reversed? Endor small box and Rebels big box?

Any other ideas that are just passing me by?

Endor: ewoks, scout troopers and speeder bikes

Small epxansions: Yoda, Emperor, remaining bounty hunters from the original trilogy.

Want to see Rogue One expansions.

Don't care much for rebels as I have never seen them.

Don't ever mention prequels garbage.

Force Awakens and beyond in 2018.

I would really want to see Endor to and Endor waves to complete the original trilogy and then for FFG to release more campaigns and stories to tell.

Endor Small Box Expansion:

Zuckus & 4 LOM in some "Hunter Scenarios"

Scout Troopers, No Speeder Bikes

Imperial Army/Naval Troopers

Han Solo/General Ally

Ewok/Wicket Ally

Rebel Ranger Hero

Rebel ? Hero

A small box focusing on Endor is strongly implied by the Rebel Rangers ally pack. The Imperial figures for such a box are likely to be Scout troopers, and something that would fall under "Mercenary" Deployment cards. This would allow FFG to draw upon some of the fauna of Endor, droids, or aliens from the original trilogy that maybe not true Imperials, but acted in tandem with them. A dream come true would be for the Noghri to make an appearance. Something less popular and more obscure like the Kubaz seems more likely. An original character acting as a central villain also seems likely, perhaps a Scout Trooper commander on a speeder bike. Expect an Ewok ally pack. Rebel heroes will probably be one human hero and one non-human. My guess for the nonhuman is a Sullustan.

Oh, and the mini campaign can be the troops doing their stuff while the film characters are getting caught by the ewoks. I'm liking this idea more and more.

I want a chewie figure that slots into the top of an AT-AT.

shadows of the empire had black sun shipping parts to DS2 so they could play the part of the neutrals in this box.

I expect the mini-wave to follow endor to be yoda, xixor and palp.

1 hour ago, FatherTurin said:

Oh, and the mini campaign can be the troops doing their stuff while the film characters are getting caught by the ewoks. I'm liking this idea more and more.

I'm actually kind of on the fence about Endor being the setting, at least the Battle of Endor. Much like how the Battle of Hoth was not the focus of RtH, I wouldn't expect the actual battle at Endor or the events surrounding it to be featured even in a mini campaign. Remember, minicampaigns are also designed to fit into larger campaigns as side missions. It would be kind of bizarre for the heroes to fight in part of the Battle of Endor (or the events surrounding it), leave the planet to go to Hoth or Tatooine for a while, then return, possibly to an even earlier part of the battle.

If the focus is on Endor, I feel like it'd either be a secret set of scouting missions before the battle, or a humanitarian mission to work with rebuilding the Ewoks after the battle- that latter which would be much more difficult, given how it would have to delve into the much less explored territory of post ROTJ, though they could draw some inspiration from the Aftermath trilogy.

More Rebels/comic/other ally packs.

Rebels campaign book that is a crossover book with either X-Wing or the RPG or both.

Small box Endor.

Clone Wars and young Han/Lando etc. packs.

Large box Force Awakens in time for the next movie.

Clone Wars campaign crossover book.

App.

What are people's thoughts on heroes?

My guess is one human and one alien, seems to be a safe guess.

Maybe a human pilot/hacker with ranged attacks and a focus on manipulating Imp droids and vehicles, and a Dathomirian female with melee and a focus on magic-like attacks.

Also, in regards to the next small box, I'm thinking we won't get any merc at all. 2016 was a very merc-heavy year with both The Bespin Gambit's Empire-less box and Jabba's Realm. Maybe the wave will come with a Merc hero or two, and possibly a merc non-unique blister (like ISB). Fits with the Endor thing anyway, since the Merc faction wasn't all that involved.

If Endor is involved, one of them is gonna be an ewok. You know it, I know it, we all know it.

13 minutes ago, FatherTurin said:

If Endor is involved, one of them is gonna be an ewok. You know it, I know it, we all know it.

Maybe. Outside of the more merc-oriented heroes of Jabba's Realm, heroes haven't been particularly all that associated with the campaign they come with.

I would love to see Coruscant city fight. Kind of like Shadows of Nerehall for Descent, which takes place in one city, with varying locations within the city. Coruscant could be various shops and alleyways, that could lead to specific warehouses and whatnot to raid. It could be a reasonable spot to add OT bounty hunters or other underworld characters.

Endor would be great, but as mentioned it just doesn't have a lot going on.

As much as I would love having Yoda, I'm not sure he fits into the Rebel plight.

Rebels material also seems logical. Maybe Ahsoka?

4 hours ago, Pollux85 said:

A small box focusing on Endor is strongly implied by the Rebel Rangers ally pack. The Imperial figures for such a box are likely to be Scout troopers, and something that would fall under "Mercenary" Deployment cards. This would allow FFG to draw upon some of the fauna of Endor, droids, or aliens from the original trilogy that maybe not true Imperials, but acted in tandem with them. A dream come true would be for the Noghri to make an appearance. Something less popular and more obscure like the Kubaz seems more likely. An original character acting as a central villain also seems likely, perhaps a Scout Trooper commander on a speeder bike. Expect an Ewok ally pack. Rebel heroes will probably be one human hero and one non-human. My guess for the nonhuman is a Sullustan.

These are petty good guesses in my book. I think you are about Sullustan rebel hero, that makes perfect sense as a reference to Nien Nub. Yes, Elite and Regular scout troopers are a given. Maybe finally an Imperial army unit. The problem is that I can see the Imperial Army troops being better than Stormtroopers and this would make me very sad. I think Scout troopers will be roughly equal to rangers. Yes, while I hate it, I could see ewoks as a blister. I would also love to see 4-LOM and Zuckuss.

1 hour ago, subtrendy said:

I'm actually kind of on the fence about Endor being the setting, at least the Battle of Endor. Much like how the Battle of Hoth was not the focus of RtH, I wouldn't expect the actual battle at Endor or the events surrounding it to be featured even in a mini campaign. Remember, minicampaigns are also designed to fit into larger campaigns as side missions. It would be kind of bizarre for the heroes to fight in part of the Battle of Endor (or the events surrounding it), leave the planet to go to Hoth or Tatooine for a while, then return, possibly to an even earlier part of the battle.

If the focus is on Endor, I feel like it'd either be a secret set of scouting missions before the battle, or a humanitarian mission to work with rebuilding the Ewoks after the battle- that latter which would be much more difficult, given how it would have to delve into the much less explored territory of post ROTJ, though they could draw some inspiration from the Aftermath trilogy.

I think you are right about this. No Rebel sets foot on Endor until the canon heroes do. So the "Endor" set should be about getting all the information that Mon Mothma says many Bothans died bring us. Maybe there can be a 2 figure Bothan unit. There has to be a mission to rescue Bothans, who would be represented by pogs, from mass execution.

What about imperial heroes that have to infiltrate more heavily fortified rebel/merc bases.

after seeing jabba as playable in this game , i kinda want to see yoda, emperor palpatine, thrawn and tarkin on this ( the last two can work as supp )
for the rest i kinda would like to see some rogue one / rebels characters and more created stuff for imperials and bounty hunters / smugglers, specially with other races like duros or sullustans

With the Ghost showing up in RO, and now a Hera/Chopper pack coming... I'd say a large box Lothal would be in the works. Kanann, Ezra, Sabine, Zeb, Kallus, Price, Hondo, some other droids, Rex...

I'm expecting Endor/DS2 small box.

then I suspect we'll have more Skirmish packs and eventually a Lothal/Rebels large box

I like the idea of a Rebels box, but I wouldn't want to be restricted to Lothal. We have a ton of desert tiles already. See, the thing about a Rebels box would be that it would be difficult to implement strictly on Lothal. In the past, we could have heroes mopping up the mess after Yavin or running humanitarian missions after Hoth, but that was as part of the larger Rebellion. Don't we think Kanan and Hera would have noticed a similar group of Rebel operatives on their own planet? Wouldn't the GI and Kallus have been as invested with taking them down?

Minor spoilers for Rebels:

I think if we got a Rebels box, we'll probably see Lothal come up in a mission or two, but I wouldn't think it could or should be the main setting. Instead, remember, the Ghost are just one of many Rebel cells across the galaxy. We should play as one of those cells! In fact, that campaign could hold far more gravity than any one previous- because, as far as our system goes, we're pretty much the only rebels around.

Sure, Hera, Ezra, and the gang could show up every now and then, and Kallus could help the Empire- much as the Ghost's adventures often take it off Lothal anyway.

Endor small box absolutely works, just like the Bespin gambit they can all happen on Endor:

-Red side mission (Ewok hero)

-Red side mission (female hero, maybe a Bothan?)

-Grey side missions (reward specific or linked to agenda sets)

-Green side mission (Wicket W. Warrick!)

Give us the same progression of set grey/green into choice of red into set grey/green into choice of grey depending on win/losses.

Then I expect to see a Yoda, Palpatine + wave (lots of tiles for a death star setting and Dagobah).

7 hours ago, subtrendy said:

I like the idea of a Rebels box, but I wouldn't want to be restricted to Lothal. We have a ton of desert tiles already. See, the thing about a Rebels box would be that it would be difficult to implement strictly on Lothal. In the past, we could have heroes mopping up the mess after Yavin or running humanitarian missions after Hoth, but that was as part of the larger Rebellion. Don't we think Kanan and Hera would have noticed a similar group of Rebel operatives on their own planet? Wouldn't the GI and Kallus have been as invested with taking them down?

Minor spoilers for Rebels:

I think if we got a Rebels box, we'll probably see Lothal come up in a mission or two, but I wouldn't think it could or should be the main setting. Instead, remember, the Ghost are just one of many Rebel cells across the galaxy. We should play as one of those cells! In fact, that campaign could hold far more gravity than any one previous- because, as far as our system goes, we're pretty much the only rebels around.

Sure, Hera, Ezra, and the gang could show up every now and then, and Kallus could help the Empire- much as the Ghost's adventures often take it off Lothal anyway.

That's a fair point about not being stuck on Lothal.

That said, there are plenty of Lothal "city" tiles that could become a new tile "desert" archetype (similar to what Bespin did for "scum indoor" tiles)

So far we've got;

Imperial Indoor

Forest/Jungle Outdoor

Desert Outdoor

"Scum" Indoor

Snow/Ice Outdoor

Snow/Ice Indoor

I'd love to see something that could tie in to a more City oriented Landscape, usable for places like Lothal, Coruscant and other more populated places. (not just Imperial Facilities...)

Just now, Majushi said:

That's a fair point about not being stuck on Lothal.

That said, there are plenty of Lothal "city" tiles that could become a new tile "desert" archetype (similar to what Bespin did for "scum indoor" tiles)

So far we've got;

Imperial Indoor

Forest/Jungle Outdoor

Desert Outdoor

"Scum" Indoor

Snow/Ice Outdoor

Snow/Ice Indoor

I'd love to see something that could tie in to a more City oriented Landscape, usable for places like Lothal, Coruscant and other more populated places. (not just Imperial Facilities...)

Absolutely, I'd love to have some more urban environments.

I'm not crazy about the idea of them being introduced with Lothal- but it's certainly a decent possibility.

I think we're probably right about today being the day (at least, I really hope so) so I'm gonna make one final, left field prediction: Rogue Down.

Loosely based on Aftermath (emphasis on loosely) the minicampaign would focus on the heroes going to find and rescue a shot down Wedge Antilles before he gets captured by bounty hunters 4-LOM and Zuckuss. Forest sides of terrain could include a crashed X-Wing in a foresty/swamp area (that could be used for a Dagobah skirmish map), as well as desert sides filling in some Jakku tiles.

Again, this is really a shot in the dark, but here's my reasoning-

1. Endor just doesn't seem like it could work with the structure of this game. Are the heroes going in before the battle of Endor? That breaks canon pretty badly. Will the entire campaign be simultaneous with the battle? That's much different than any other campaign so far, and wouldn't work as individual side missions. Will the campaign take place on Endor after the battle? Why? We can still get Scout Troopers and a Speeder bike trooper/captain (my guess is the trooper villain pack will be reconfigurable into a regular speeder bike) with a "Rogue Down" campaign, giving us that Endor feel without actually needing Endor.

2. Wedge is a pretty big character in the original trilogy that we don't have yet, and a crash landing seems like a logical way to include him in this game.

3. The story makes more sense as far as including the final ESB bounty hunters than one set during Endor.

Again, I think giving this even 1:100 odds is generous- rather, I'm just trying to demonstrate that I think Endor might not be as much of a shoe-in as we've been thinking. But maybe I'm wrong. Hopefully we'll find out soon!

Id love a Rogue one box!!

Favorite card? Single Reactor Ignition.

Rebels have 3 turns to get off the map or they are burnt to a crisp!!

In seriousness though, would love to paint the rebels from RO

Love the concept @subtrendy ! but I fear that might be a bit too out-of-left-field at present.

At a guess I'd say the next boxed set would have been in design for the best part of 12 months, and that far out I can't see the design team doing anything other than following the films in sequence.

(Not that I'm desperate for Endor, I can't get excited really for more forest tiles or ewoks)