When and if I do first.

As much as I'd like to see the vessels and fighters from the new trilogy, I suspect we won't see those until at the very least, after episode 8 releases.

In the meantime, I'd like to see the Dreadnaught or Assault Frigate Mk1 for the Alliance and the Strike Cruiser and Lancer Frigate for the Empire.

The Strike Cruiser is one of my favorites though as it's a midway point between a VSD and A Gladiator.

ISD prototype or vindicator, but probably a venator.

We haven't had any imperial release that isn't some form of triangle. Doesn't give me hope for strike cruisers i'm afraid, as cool-looking as they are.

Can never have too many triangles!

Since ep.8 is likely to have a space battle (or at least a shot with the resistance fleet) it's likely the game will start to migrate towards the new trilogy, since the galactic civil war is eventualy going to run out of ships

18 minutes ago, Visovics said:

Since ep.8 is likely to have a space battle (or at least a shot with the resistance fleet) it's likely the game will start to migrate towards the new trilogy, since the galactic civil war is eventualy going to run out of ships

Which means we may get the new canon form of lancer frigates, Maxima-A class heavy cruisers, and Dissident -class light cruisers.

On 3/15/2017 at 6:29 AM, NobodyInParticular said:

Didn't we get 3 in 2016? Wave 3 around March, 4 in August, and 5 in December?

Correct. We have gotten 3 waves in 2016. Wave 2 was late 2015 and wave 1 and core set was March 2015. So 2 to 3 waves a year.

I say MC75. It has to be large. It's the same size as MC80s. MC75 is about 1200m according to the ultimate visual guide, so to keep things scaled the same it will be large. Venator for imps and it should also be large for the same reason. It's about 1150m long. Where the victory is about 900m long.

At 1200+m long (estimate I've seen based on its main bay in Rebels comfortably holding a corvette) the Medium-sized Interdictor shows that Medium ships can overlap with the smallest Large ships).

If the MC75 is supposed to be an older, slightly weaker design than the MC80 - maybe it needs to be Medium (especially since the Rebels currently have a severe lack of Medium ships compared to the Empire).

I would still love to see the Vindicator heavy cruiser for the Imperials, though I expect to see either the Venator or Tector due to the need for more large base ships. The lack of official canonicity does also hurt the chances of my favorite little pizza slice, unfortunately.

For rebels, the MC75 seems like a no-brainer choice, after being shown off on the big screen in Rogue One.

1 minute ago, Diabloelmo said:

I would still love to see the Vindicator heavy cruiser for the Imperials, though I expect to see either the Venator or Tector due to the need for more large base ships. The lack of official canonicity does also hurt the chances of my favorite little pizza slice, unfortunately.

For rebels, the MC75 seems like a no-brainer choice, after being shown off on the big screen in Rogue One.

Tector is canon as we have the visual of the hanger bayless Star Destroyer in Return of the Jedi. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tector-class_Star_Destroyer

15 minutes ago, chr335 said:

Tector is canon as we have the visual of the hanger bayless Star Destroyer in Return of the Jedi. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tector-class_Star_Destroyer

Yeah but would it really be a good business practice to release and ISD model with no hangar and call it a day?

It would look like a serious cash grab and it's not needed. They could easily release the Venator and not catch any backlash from the community.

33 minutes ago, chr335 said:

Tector is canon as we have the visual of the hanger bayless Star Destroyer in Return of the Jedi. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tector-class_Star_Destroyer

I was a little unclear there - I meant that the Vindicator is non-canon, and thus unlikely to see the light of day anytime soon.

Comparing the two large-base options, I expect to see the Venator before the Tector, simply as a marketing decision. New models have to appeal to casual Star Wars fans as well as those more heavily immersed in the lore, and a new release that is almost the exact same model as a previously-released one is likely to cause some confusion and be less appealing for mass sales. FFG can get away with similar things in X-Wing, but Armada is a smaller market and has a higher per-item price point. That's not to say they won't do it, or that I don't want them to - but from a standpoint of which would be likely to sell better on the basis of the model alone, I suspect the Venator would win rather handily over a slightly-changed ISD.

EDIT: My argument was ninja'd there a bit, I got distracted at work while typing it!

It's rough, as there's a couple of really good Rebel suggestions, but the Imperial side is looking a bit lean.

I'd like to see a good "attack" flotilla for each side, but while the Dorneans are a good rebel choice, nothing good co es to mind for the Imps, other than a boring retread of the Gozanti.

Same with the MC75, which has the possibility to be quite different-or even moreso a Dreadnought to fill the Reb medium-sized hole-, but a counterpart for the Imps would be yet another grey triangle, as a Venator would only be a slightly more beefy Quasar Fire?

7 hours ago, Ironlord said:

At 1200+m long (estimate I've seen based on its main bay in Rebels comfortably holding a corvette) the Medium-sized Interdictor shows that Medium ships can overlap with the smallest Large ships).

If the MC75 is supposed to be an older, slightly weaker design than the MC80 - maybe it needs to be Medium (especially since the Rebels currently have a severe lack of Medium ships compared to the Empire).

I would prefer it be medium but I think it will be large. I agree rebs need medium badly. Assault frigate mark I a, b, and/or c would be a start.

I was thinking, that an IPV Flotilla would work for the Empire, opposite Braha'tok gunship Flotilla for the Rebels as a more anti-squadron Flotilla platform.

I would love to see a Harrower Class Star Destroyer. I know it's from the sith empire but the empire had 2 in service if I remember right. That would be an amazing large base ship for us imps. Could make it a broadside ship as well just for the hell of it

An Arquitens flotilla would be cool......

8 minutes ago, TallGiraffe said:

An Arquitens flotilla would be cool......

Using the "Old Republic ships from The Clone Wars become Imperial ships" formula, the Councilor class could make an excellent small or Flotilla for the Empire as well.

1 hour ago, cynanbloodbane said:

I was thinking, that an IPV Flotilla would work for the Empire, opposite Braha'tok gunship Flotilla for the Rebels as a more anti-squadron Flotilla platform.

I think your on to something here. Have an anti squadron of 3 dice and upgrade cards to increase anti fighter dice and antifighter attacks in general. Still weak against ships but really push the anti fighter abilities.

Wave VII
MC75 + Raddus (large base)
ISDI1 varient (large base)

Wave VIII
MC80B (Mon Remonda) + Han Solo commander (large base)
ISD II Varient (large base) if we can have 3 types of MC80 we can have 3 types of ISD) with Thrawn/Pellaeon

Wave IX
MC40 Class Cruiser
Secutor Class Star Destoryer (medium base)

Wave X
Star Defender (epic base)
SSD (epic base)

On 3/15/2017 at 11:42 AM, Nostromoid said:

That's never been true. Core Set and two waves came in 2015. CC a double wave, and another wave came in 2016. Armada may not have the market demand of X-Wing, but its popularity is growing and it's never dropped to one release per year.

Core Set (Announced August 8, 2014 / Released March 27, 2015)

Wave 1 (Announced November 10, 2014 / Released May 15, 2015)

Wave 2 (Announced April 6, 2015 / Released November 26, 2015)

Wave 3 (Announced March 16, 2016 / Released August 11, 2016)

Wave 4 (Announced May 20, 2016 / Released August 5, 2016)

Correllian Conflict (Announced July 22, 2016 / Released December, 2016)

Wave 5 (Announced August 5, 2016 / Released December, 2016)

Wave 6 (Announced March 14, 2017)

So according to this, we get a wave 7 announcement in may. That's lit. I think that to continue the rogue one hype (which is very welcome) the mc75 with raddus is a given. I also think the dornien gunship flotilla is a possibility with general draven. For the empire, #teamvenator for the win baby. It was very prevelent in catalyst which was rogue 0 if we go that route. The admiral may be krennic or price, but I hope for Thrawn. Here's why: the new Thrawn book coming out has given me food for thought. Thrawn had to have been rescued from exile around the founding of the empire. No amount of politcs by palpi would let a non-human become a grand admiral without a long and productive career. If thrawn started service at this time, he would have almost had to have captained a venator. The empire would want to give him the crappy equipment first to test him, so aging venators would be on that billett. Also, timothy zhan himself was at ffg hq regarding thrawn's addition to star wars destiny. the interview was on youtube. I can't/don't feel like posting the link. Only a moron wouldn't consult zhan about thrawn for armada though. as for an armed imperial flotilla, you got me man. no idea on the admiral either, find somebody in rogue one.

3 hours ago, cynanbloodbane said:

I was thinking, that an IPV Flotilla would work for the Empire, opposite Braha'tok gunship Flotilla for the Rebels as a more anti-squadron Flotilla platform.

Barring the sliding scale, IPV's are a little on the large side to work as flotillas (120 meters). Probably work better as small-scale ships. However, as there's little flotilla-type ships available Imperial side i could live with them "fudging" it a lil.

16 hours ago, cynanbloodbane said:

Using the "Old Republic ships from The Clone Wars become Imperial ships" formula, the Councilor class could make an excellent small or Flotilla for the Empire as well.

With the Charger c70 retrofit variant for the other side of the cardboard. Mke it so FFG!