I was hoping for a better speed 3 just because I'm a helpless Cracken addict, but otherwise I'm pretty stoked about all of this. And I'm probably going to try them with Cracken anyway just because.

Oh, and Hondo is hilarious!

Looking forward to playing with four torpedoes, with racks and task force Antilles. Five hull and three damage mitigation is great for a ship that needs to get in close. Maybe flying them with home one to use the red or blue to make the black damage stick.

Just now, Ardaedhel said:

On one ship, and it means you didn't take Rieekan.

It's a good tradeoff.

You say that now!

Just you wait until Sato APTs are unleashed from long range and then you take another face up when you get rammed, but you can't kill that ship because the force ghost of Darklighter flows through the Hammerhead and all the damage you deal gets moved around, then the Assault Pelta (also has APTS) triggers Shields to Max and all the damage is healed creating a never ending cycle of APTs and damage mitigation.

We will all wish for Rieekan by end time wave 7 rolls around....

Otherwise I'm pleased with the hammerhead. Gunna be a fun wave.

ERaiders are going to be all over my lists soon.

I think they really hit the points balance on the nose, I super hope they put two of each Task Force title in though...

The "Rowdy Rabble of Rebels" list grows...

1 minute ago, Undeadguy said:

You say that now!

Just you wait until Sato APTs are unleashed from long range and then you take another face up when you get rammed, but you can't kill that ship because the force ghost of Darklighter flows through the Hammerhead and all the damage you deal gets moved around, then the Assault Pelta (also has APTS) triggers Shields to Max and all the damage is healed creating a never ending cycle of APTs and damage mitigation.

We will all wish for Rieekan by end time wave 7 rolls around....

Otherwise I'm pleased with the hammerhead. Gunna be a fun wave.

So now he has Sato, too?

Just now, Ardaedhel said:

So now he has Sato, too?

And 2 objectives in play, and more than 500 points on the table.

I gotta stop playing against Ben.

29 minutes ago, Ardaedhel said:

At 36/5=7.2 points/hull, the torpedo corvette is now the most efficient non-flotilla hull in the game, taking the title from the Motti ISD1 by over .6 points/hull. For comparison, the CR90B was the rebels' previous most point efficient rammer at 9.75.

Fantastic.

Tua/RBD enhanced ISD1 is still better

I do think these have potential as Sato torpedo platforms. I'm thinking TF Organa, APT, and either OE or even GT.

Cheap enough torpedo platforms that you could still fit in the squadron support Sato demands.

nvm

3 minutes ago, PT106 said:

Tua/RBD enhanced ISD1 is still better

If we're counting RBD the CR90B is far and away the best.

54 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

No they are fine. I'd ******* hate to run against 6 32 point ships with 3 dice in the front, +2 for ER, +1 from CF, and a reroll from Leia, and 2 more rerolls from the title.

Nope. No think you. Go away.

They are so overcosted sorry to tell you. You are deliberately ignoring that most of this 3 dices will never happen because a single shot.

33 minutes ago, Audio Weasel said:

Definitely need to swing by the XWing forums all "We've got Hondo, and you dooooon't neener neener neeeeeeneeerrrrrr"

I think X-wing gets a version of Hondo with the Scum Epic C-Roc ship that is coming soon.

1 minute ago, xerpo said:

They are so overcosted sorry to tell you. You are deliberately ignoring that most of this 3 dices will never happen because a single shot.

7-8 damage is a pretty beefy single shot, my dude.

33 minutes ago, Thraug said:

Each Hammerhead pack comes with 2 Hammerheads, and 1 copy of Task Force Antilles and 1 copy of Task Force Organa?

I don't like that math.......

You got me worried for one minute. But then I saw that there is a pile of face down cards on the left of the picture. I expect the second copy of each task force to be there.

I have voiced my concern to FFG that they could provide two copies of cheap generic upgrades instead of one, especially when only available in a single big pack (Skilled First Officer comes to mind as a perfect example where a second copy would have been welcome)

But I refuse to believe they could have only put a single of each task force in the pack. That would be soooo bad.

When considering the cost efficiency of the ship, I think task forces should be part of the equation. Both look like very good deals as soon as you are planning to pack more than one hammerhead.

And then each of the card displayed looks like a satisfactory new option to me.

Just now, Frimmel said:

I think X-wing gets a version of Hondo with the Scum Epic C-Roc ship that is coming soon.

Given how Hondo is in the series, I think the appropriate way to play is to make your own Hondo and keep using him until you're called out on it.

Also, no one tell @shmitty that Hondo makes Garm even Garm-ier.

3 minutes ago, Frimmel said:

I think X-wing gets a version of Hondo with the Scum Epic C-Roc ship that is coming soon.

I didn't see any indication of him in the card fan

14 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

Just you wait until Sato APTs are unleashed from long range and then you take another face up when you get rammed, but you can't kill that ship because the force ghost of Darklighter flows through the Hammerhead and all the damage you deal gets moved around

You are just dropping hysterical nonsense here. You cant do face UP damage ramming from a title and spread 1 damage taken to another HH with another title. You cant have both.

1 hour ago, Democratus said:

Looks like they are misinterpreting Task Force Antilles. Seems to me that the wording of title doesn't allow you to spread damage to more than one ship.

FFG article writers keep themselves on track adding wrong examples.

You could use this for boarding but you do not want to.

5 minutes ago, Ardaedhel said:

7-8 damage is a pretty beefy single shot, my dude.

From multiple ships? That corvettes will last 1 turn, you want us to put it into close range to do whatever fancy stuff and last one more turn to trigger it? No wonder why rebels win everything, we must excel in tactics... and luck.

ISD 2 with gun teams h9 and capacitors = dead hammers

1 hour ago, Ardaedhel said:

I'm not sure about that. You suffer damage one at a time, suggesting that you may be able to get one "when" trigger per damage dealt.

Just of the top of my head.

Major Derlin?

4 minutes ago, Audio Weasel said:

I didn't see any indication of him in the card fan

Yep. I might have been thinking of Cad Bane who will be in the Scrugg expansion. Some of this stuff bleeds together.

So "neener, neener" it is!

53 minutes ago, Thraug said:

Each Hammerhead pack comes with 2 Hammerheads, and 1 copy of Task Force Antilles and 1 copy of Task Force Organa?

I don't like that math.......

This seems unlikely. If they give two each I'd think we're more likely to buy three boxes to run six than just two boxes to run two.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

My thoughts:
-Gonna love whipping these things around at Speed 3 with Madine
-Love the lower speed maneuverability.
-I love the cheap one as a black die platform. With a black anti-squad and black side arcs, I'm going to be hard pressed to run anything but OE on them.
-HEH. No rear arc. Though I suppose we could have seen that in the announcement.
-Maybe I'll use my Rapid Reload alt arts on these...? But based on their likely survivability, ER will likely still be better.
-No synergy with Ackbar really. To get EA on the more Scout, you're already at 51 points and why not take a TRC90.
-Ruthless Strategists might not be too bad on these guys, or Flechette and OE. They could be a nice little equivalent to a squad hunting Raider.