Didn't the Cloud Car have an open cockpit? Not very useful in the vacuum of space.

I remember the toy at least having a closing hatch with Windows.

Give us boba fett in a jump pack too

And spacewhales!

And the flying whale thingies of Kamino

12 hours ago, RufusDaMan said:

And spacewhales!

Am I the only one who would be totally on board with space whales for obstacles? I think that would be kinda cool. Make them move ever so slowly in a random way. Could be interesting.

15 hours ago, Stoneface said:

Didn't the Cloud Car have an open cockpit? Not very useful in the vacuum of space.

You just have to hold your breath. No problem. But I'm actually pretty sure they had closed cockpit versions as well.

Ewok gliders vs a Raider

18 hours ago, Stoneface said:

Didn't the Cloud Car have an open cockpit? Not very useful in the vacuum of space.

The cloud car could function in the tibanna gas clouds so basically just as much a space ship as the Tie Striker, IE just barely.

The biggest issue with these kinds of ships is pricing. A cloud car would be a 2/2/2/0 most likely which would be like... 8 pts? It doesn't really fit the game design space. Imagine a T-16... 1/2/1/0?! What like 5 pts?

The TIE/striker is at least space-capable (it is built on the standard TIE chassis afterall). It was just optimized for atmospheric maneuverability, which makes sense for a bomber that will often find itself down bombing planetary targets though will frequently get from Point A to Point B via capital ship. Which is why you don't see them in space outside of the Rogue One film, though at least makes them plausible in X-Wing (you can assume that they'd perform even better in an atmosphere).

Cloud Cars and Snowspeeders and T-16 Skyhoppers, though? Not space capable, so without a lot of retrofitting they couldn't appear in X-Wing. And even if you retrofitted such craft to be space-capable, what are the stats of a goony cloud car gonna be? 1 AttacK? 1-2 Hull? No shields? I mean, the thing is tiny, and would by far be the smallest miniature yet. Does the game have a place for such an underwhelming craft?

As to why we see one in the Vader comic, we have to assume the nebula it is stationed in effectively has an atmosphere or that it's been heavily retrofitted. Either way, I can't say I've been very impressed with the new ships and vehicles of the "New Canon" comics. Bear in mind Poe has given us the Avengers-esque weird air-craft carrier that makes no sense, the Ark Angel from Vader is ugly and has enough giant cannons to be a 40k vessel, and the pleasure yacht in the Lando comics is ugly and pretty indiscernible from its few images. The only one that looks even a little bit at home in the Star Wars mythos is Nien's Melcrawler, and chances of getting that in X-Wing are almost surely zero percent. EDIT: PS, I forgot Han's "wife's" atrocious looking "super-Falcon" YT-freighter.

57 minutes ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

The TIE/striker is at least space-capable (it is built on the standard TIE chassis afterall). It was just optimized for atmospheric maneuverability, which makes sense for a bomber that will often find itself down bombing planetary targets though will frequently get from Point A to Point B via capital ship. Which is why you don't see them in space outside of the Rogue One film, though at least makes them plausible in X-Wing (you can assume that they'd perform even better in an atmosphere).

Cloud Cars and Snowspeeders and T-16 Skyhoppers, though? Not space capable, so without a lot of retrofitting they couldn't appear in X-Wing. And even if you retrofitted such craft to be space-capable, what are the stats of a goony cloud car gonna be? 1 AttacK? 1-2 Hull? No shields? I mean, the thing is tiny, and would by far be the smallest miniature yet. Does the game have a place for such an underwhelming craft?

As to why we see one in the Vader comic, we have to assume the nebula it is stationed in effectively has an atmosphere or that it's been heavily retrofitted. Either way, I can't say I've been very impressed with the new ships and vehicles of the "New Canon" comics. Bear in mind Poe has given us the Avengers-esque weird air-craft carrier that makes no sense, the Ark Angel from Vader is ugly and has enough giant cannons to be a 40k vessel, and the pleasure yacht in the Lando comics is ugly and pretty indiscernible from its few images. The only one that looks even a little bit at home in the Star Wars mythos is Nien's Melcrawler, and chances of getting that in X-Wing are almost surely zero percent. EDIT: PS, I forgot Han's "wife's" atrocious looking "super-Falcon" YT-freighter.

Well at least Sana herself is pretty good looking.