1 hour ago, Marinealver said:

• Reinforce action for ships with 180 firing arc
• Dual faction ship in a single expansion, Havoc comes with 1 unique rebel pilot
• Salvaged Astromech upgrades for Rebels (Havoc title)
• Imperials now have a Turret upgrade slot. Incoming Imperial TLT lists.
• More double upgrade slots, (Double missiles for TIE Punishers)

Well those are the big highlights, now what does any of those mean for the meta?

Reinforce could see some new jousting lists, or lists supported by jousting.

Dual faction is great, hoping to see more of this, and hope FFG starts adding some older pilots across faction. Want an X-Wing fix? Put Soontir Fel in one!

Meh on the astromech, as it's still only on the one ship.

Imperial TLTs will likely be a thing, and probably better than the Thugs (dial depending). I actually might give this a shot, and I generally hate spam lists.

Double upgrade slots are interesting as a feature, and I hope it opens some more design space for FFG -- using combo slots (which Armada will now be doing) means we could get "fixes" delivered via new means now.

For the meta, I'm a little concerned about all the new bomb upgrades and how they'll play with Sabine crew. And Imperial TLTs. That's probably the bulk of it.

2 minutes ago, ArbitraryNerd said:

Imperial TLTs will likely be a thing, and probably better than the Thugs (dial depending). I actually might give this a shot, and I generally hate spam lists.

They'll be about as durable as TLT HWKs but probably more maneuverable. LRS makes them slightly more durable. They should still be easier for most ships to PS kill than a Y-Wing. With LRS and TLT, I think that they'd beat 4 TLT Y-Wings, especially if they can give initiative to the Y-Wings as the barrel-roll will give them the ability to better control which ships are taking fire each round.

10 minutes ago, WWHSD said:

From what I can read it looks like it probably allows you to discard the card when a friendly at a certain range is hit by an attack to suffer all of the uncanceled results instead. It looks like it will be small ship and rebels only.

Does Rebels Only fit? Selfless Imperials makes no sense but the card text centering doesn't seem right. Very possibly an error though. Have seen lots of cards change from announce article to release.

1 minute ago, gamblertuba said:

Does Rebels Only fit? Selfless Imperials makes no sense but the card text centering doesn't seem right. Very possibly an error though. Have seen lots of cards change from announce article to release.

It would be fitting to be rebel only to me just because then each faction has a 'ness'. Selflessness rebels, ruthlessness imperials, and fearlessness scum.

12 minutes ago, gamblertuba said:

Does Rebels Only fit? Selfless Imperials makes no sense but the card text centering doesn't seem right. Very possibly an error though. Have seen lots of cards change from announce article to release.

You may be right. It doesn't look like it will fit. Are there any other cards that are size and faction limited?

52 minutes ago, Sithborg said:

And I just realized that Tomax Bren is going to be super annoying with Unguided Missiles.

Tomax with LWF and the new unending missiles, but
Crack shot or cool hand?

Crack shot is so good... but cool hand seems to be made for this missiles. A ship with a so limited dial as a bomber gains a lot with free hard turns and a free and unblockable focus for the missiles (or a free evade if he can).

29points ship with 3 red and green, free 360º turn, free evade and 6 lives...

Seems like a x7 defender (with the preFAQ x7 title, but in exchange 6 hulls instead 3 shield, and a little worse attack and defense than a native 3/3).

8 minutes ago, nigeltastic said:

It would be fitting to be rebel only to me just because then each faction has a 'ness'. Selflessness rebels, ruthlessness imperials, and fearlessness scum.

It may not actually be a "lessness" card.

It know it isn't exact because of perspective and everything but I don't think the "Selflessness" fits. It think this one will be "Selfless" instead.

7 minutes ago, Draconis Hegemonia said:

Tomax with LWF and the new unending missiles, but
Crack shot or cool hand ?

Crack shot is so good... but cool hand seems to be made for this missiles. A ship with a so limited dial as a bomber gains a lot with free hard turns and a free and unblockable focus for the missiles (or a free evade if he can).

29points ship with 3 red and green, free 360º turn, free evade and 6 lives...

Seems like a x7 defender (with the preFAQ x7 title, but in exchange 6 hulls instead 3 shield, and a little worse attack and defense than a native 3/3).

Not exactly free hard turns. You still get stress for reds, you just still get a focus to spend with the missile, but you still have to clear the stress the next round.

10 minutes ago, Draconis Hegemonia said:

Tomax with LWF and the new unending missiles, but
Crack shot or cool hand?

Crack shot is so good... but cool hand seems to be made for this missiles. A ship with a so limited dial as a bomber gains a lot with free hard turns and a free and unblockable focus for the missiles (or a free evade if he can).

I think Coolhand with the 5 K-Turn is more exciting than using it on the 2 turn.

4 minutes ago, WWHSD said:

It may not actually be a "lessness" card.

It know it isn't exact because of perspective and everything but I don't think the "Selflessness" fits. It think this one will be "Selfless" instead.

I read your suggestion as 'selfies' and had the image of chewie in the cockpit with an iPhone...

1 minute ago, nigeltastic said:

I read your suggestion as 'selfies' and had the image of chewie in the cockpit with an iPhone...

That's a way better title. I hope you're right. I still have the WKRP theme song in my head from typing "lessness".

Also, just realize that this is the first time since Wave 4 that we have a wave without a large ship. Sure, the Scurrg is one of the $20 packs, but that is still a lot better than having a $30 or $40 ship.

45 minutes ago, ArbitraryNerd said:

Dual faction is great, hoping to see more of this, and hope FFG starts adding some older pilots across faction. Want an X-Wing fix? Put Soontir Fel in one!

You know who used to be an Imperial Academy pilot?

Please kill me...

6 minutes ago, Sithborg said:

Also, just realize that this is the first time since Wave 4 that we have a wave without a large ship. Sure, the Scurrg is one of the $20 packs, but that is still a lot better than having a $30 or $40 ship.

it is possible that they'll be adding a large ship soon, and just didn't want it to overshadow the fighters. IIRC isn't that how the Upsilon was? announced later after the regular ships, in order to keep it from stealing all the attention.

No,

Upsilon, Tugboat, and Sabine's TIE were revealed together. The other 2 were the Rogue One ships revealed shortly later.

2 minutes ago, mithril2098 said:

it is possible that they'll be adding a large ship soon, and just didn't want it to overshadow the fighters. IIRC isn't that how the Upsilon was? announced later after the regular ships, in order to keep it from stealing all the attention.

No, the u-wing and striker were the late additions because of R1

s are everywhere

Im kinda bugged that they specifically called out Nym in the article, even flatout told us hes dual factioned without us just squinting at the cards to figure that out, and they DIDNT TELL US HIS ABILITY - in fact we dont have any pilots this time around.

Im really interested what he can do. I like the Scurrg, but its outright disgusting in Armada so i never fly it lol. Its shaping up to be pretty dope in xwing.

Unguided Rockets:

Therefore I love FFG. They try to adjust things to make older ships which people have bought playable

1 hour ago, Draconis Hegemonia said:

Tomax with LWF and the new unending missiles, but
Crack shot or cool hand?

Crack shot is so good... but cool hand seems to be made for this missiles. A ship with a so limited dial as a bomber gains a lot with free hard turns and a free and unblockable focus for the missiles (or a free evade if he can).

29points ship with 3 red and green, free 360º turn, free evade and 6 lives...

Seems like a x7 defender (with the preFAQ x7 title, but in exchange 6 hulls instead 3 shield, and a little worse attack and defense than a native 3/3).

Why not just Adrenaline Rush? Unless you plan on getting blocked or going over asteroids a lot, Adrenaline Rush seems way better for opening up red moves than Cool Hand for Tomax. Same effect, no stress.

7 hours ago, DailyRich said:

Wookiee Commandos is what was expected, you can re-roll all eyeball results when attacking. Not sure that's worth taking up two crew slots, unless I'm missing something; sure, if you don't have a focus token, it's helpful, but with that firing arc, why wouldn't you be taking Focus?

Norra would like the wookiees too. Spend target lock and reroll the added focus

FINALLY THE TIE AGGRESSOR!!!

... thats ... so ... great ... I can't belive it ... thats worth the biggest font available ...

Next the Gunboat and I am fine for eternity

2 hours ago, WWHSD said:

I think Coolhand with the 5 K-Turn is more exciting than using it on the 2 turn.

I like adrenaline rush better than cool hand. Just don't even get stressed and take whatever action you want. You lose the evade option but you also aren't susceptible to things that take advantage of stressed ships (and you could barrel roll out of an arc or 2 at ps8).

4 hours ago, Jedu said:

We don't know how did he end up on that lone island in the closing scene of TFA though. Maybe someone in the end has shoot him down. I have no better explanation to see a guy in the middle of the sea without his X-wing. We know that Luke isn't the best pilot if it comes to landing (uhm... Dagobah case?).

I think you are mistaken. That is clearly Luuke Skywalker.

4 hours ago, Marinealver said:

• Reinforce action for ships with 180 firing arc
• Dual faction ship in a single expansion, Havoc comes with 1 unique rebel pilot
• Salvaged Astromech upgrades for Rebels (Havoc title)
• Imperials now have a Turret upgrade slot. Incoming Imperial TLT lists.
• More double upgrade slots, (Double missiles for TIE Punishers)

Well those are the big highlights, now what does any of those mean for the meta?

6 more weeks of winter.