In the Empire at War PC game, he had his own custom ISD with some kind of heavy laser cannon.

Opinion: I think that would be more likely.

Opinion: They need to release him with a large ship.

6 hours ago, Norsehound said:

Hey Wraith! Nice to see you here. Honestly I expected your fanart piece to be among the first FFG art for Thrawn, it's perfect enough!

I did have a wonder... when FFG asks to modify artwork, do they come back to you and ask for those modifications, or are they passed to another artist?

Most of the time once the final image is approved by FFG it's done, but occasionally they do return to me for modifications if Lucasfilm requests it and if it's significant enough. For minor changes they'd just do it in-house. The Thrawn image above was kind of a corner case due the shroud secrecy he was under prior to the season 3 announcement.

On 6/17/2017 at 7:04 AM, Wraithdt said:

Technically this is not new art. I was commissioned for this way before it was announced that Thrawn would return in the new canon, hence why he looks like Legends Thrawn. FFG ended up replacing him with Lando for the LCG cover at the behest of Lucasfilm. I knew then that something important was being planned for Thrawn because normally they would not have issues with FFG using Legends material.

After Lucasfilm dropped the bombshell in the Rebels season 3 trailer, FFG had to move quickly so they decide to reuse this art(with modifications) instead of commissioning a new one. I would've preferred the latter but I understood they were under time constrains, and also they had to rush it out for the SW Destiny launch event so that they could present it to this guy->>

Anyway, I hope I get another chance to do Thrawn for FFG so I can do a new canon version, similar to my recent fan art of him >> https://www.artstation.com/artwork/92Q5q

Amazing fanart my man, bravo!

On 6/17/2017 at 11:25 AM, RobertK said:

Perhaps Thrawn's ability could be something like...

At the beginning of the Command Phase, choose an enemy ship. Your opponent must activate that ship first.

Mitigates activation advantage and fits with Thrawn's reputation as a master strategist.

That is such a good idea I that I can't imagine any other official Thrawn ability that could be better. It would fit perfectly with double ISDs and would completely upend the activation war, even in games where Thrawn isn't present. This ability would also be a good fit for Palpatine as a commander.

Do it FFG!