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Posted at 2017-04-22 01:34:16+00:00

I think its time for us to see Kallus join the Rebels, if you think so chime in below.

Edited April 22, 2017 by Cubanboy

Posted at 2017-04-22 01:40:00+00:00

The Imperials will only trade Kallus for the plans to the Gunboat.

Posted at 2017-04-22 01:54:57+00:00

Without giving ANY consideration to game balance, thematically this would be great. But before Kallus, we need to make Sabine crew tri-faction. #FREE SABINE

Posted at 2017-04-22 02:00:50+00:00

Agreed, step one is to remove all faction restrictions from Sabine

Posted at 2017-04-22 02:15:54+00:00

If they want to give us Rebel Kallus, I'd welcome him, but just as pilots change their abilities when they change faction, I'd like to see Kallus do something different as a Rebel agent; based on the fluff (where he's useful to the Rebels for his insider knowledge of the Empire), his ability should target enemy abilities. Here's my two ideas. (No, I'm not totally up to date on all current upgrades, so these may overlap something in existence...)-

Kallus (Rebel Only)- ACTION: Choose one enemy ship at range 1-2 and remove one token from that ship.

OR

Kallus (Rebel Only)- Once per round when attacking, if a friendly ship within range 1-2 scores a critical hit, you may exhaust one crew upgrade or secondary weapon on the target ship. Then cancel all dice and deal one critical damage to the target.

Note that the wording on the second one is intended to prevent Kallus being used to bypass shields. In effect, he's helping your targetting, so your sacrifice raw damage for greater precision. It would add an exhausted card mechanic to X-wing, which already exists in Armada, but I think it should work differently for X-wing, maybe refreshing the exhausted card at the end of the activation phase, in exchange for taking a stress token? Or just refresh at the end of the activation phase? The main point is that the exhausted card shouldn't be immediately refreshed during the end phase/planning phase, or Kallus becomes useless.

Posted at 2017-04-22 05:43:53+00:00

I mean it makes sense... the Rebels are missing out on so many game mechanics and the Imperials are dominating... and those filthy Imps have an iconic Rebel ship that they get new mechanics for too, so only fair to send one of ours back to them. <_<

Posted at 2017-04-22 05:45:16+00:00

No, not on Miranda or Kanan Biggs. No.

Posted at 2017-04-22 05:57:11+00:00

Agent Kallus wasnt a Rebel, Fulcrum was/is.

Posted at 2017-04-22 06:37:40+00:00

No. They already took our TIE. Now they want one of our best crew too?

Posted at 2017-04-22 06:38:48+00:00

When they make Sabine Scum we can talk.

Posted at 2017-04-22 12:26:30+00:00

Empire can't even get Boba Fett as a crew and we have him as a pilot... what makes you think you need Kallus?

Posted at 2017-04-22 13:02:27+00:00

Just need new versions of Sabine and Kallus. They could be tweaked to balance power and flavor that way.

Posted at 2017-04-22 13:24:06+00:00

Here 'ya go: remove all faction denotation on all crew cards. Also, (0) point upgrade to give any ship an agromech slot.

Posted at 2017-04-22 16:06:57+00:00

#FREESABINE #FREEKALLUS #SAVEFERRIS

Posted at 2017-04-22 16:27:38+00:00

Far more likely to see a different, Rebel only version featuring his new look from Season 4 of Rebels.

Unless we see a new Rebel ship introduced in Season 4, I think the most likely place for him to show up would be in a new Hammerhead Corvette Epic release. It's heavily featured in both Rebels and Rogue One, and would be a great place to release Crew versions of a lot of characters that we're conspicuously missing - A Rebel version of Kallus, Ahoska Tano, Commander Sato and K-2SO.

Presumably it would have unique mechanics for ramming other Epic ships, allowing it to play a very aggressive close range role in your fleet, and could include new titles for either Phoenix Squadron A-Wings (Offering an alternative to the current title, perhaps a more heavily armed but less versatile ship) or the "Blade-Wing" B-Wing Prototype (With some sort of Turbolaser-esque weapon powerful against low agility ships but weak against high agility ships. Perhaps the first non-Epic ship to use the energy mechanic in some way.)