i can practically guarantee it will be Kylo's TIE for the imps and a Resistance Awing for rebels.
Scum will probably have something pop up in the movie for 5 seconds to justify putting it in the game. Again.

Just now, Vineheart01 said:

i can practically guarantee it will be Kylo's TIE for the imps and a Resistance Awing for rebels.
Scum will probably have something pop up in the movie for 5 seconds to justify putting it in the game. Again.

Given the way the new film releases panned out over the last two years, I can practically guarantee it won't.

3 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

Given the way the new film releases panned out over the last two years, I can practically guarantee it won't.

Agreed. They're almost certain to be ADDED to wave 12, but not be in the original announcement.

I expect to see

• Rebels - Resistance Transport with the Reinforce Action and TFA-era updated Crew cards for Leia and Luke.
• Imperial - Ark Angel with double System icons, Crew cards for Aphra, Triple Zero and BT-1 and a Scurrg-style Scum pilot card for Aphra
• Scum - Cad Bane's Xanadu Blood Rogue-class Starfighter, offering us our second legitimate cloaking ship in the game.

With a late reveal of Kylo Ren's Starfighter and the Resistance A-Wing for the new film.

Just now, VanderLegion said:

Agreed. They're almost certain to be ADDED to wave 12, but not be in the original announcement.

Yep. Force Friday II is on 1st September this year . Anything and everything The Last Jedi will be announced then, and only then.

GenCon 50 is on 17th-20th August , though, and will certainly feature X-Wing news & new product. I originally thought Wave 12 would be announced at GenCon, but if Wave 11 is out over a month earlier we may see an announcement sooner. GenCon might be the first opportunity to see/take photos of the Wave 12 models though, and with the C-ROC out we might see an announcement of another kind there.

Fun times.

22 hours ago, Thormind said:

Then there might be hope for a Gunboat It must be the most wanted ship in the game.

Most wanted ship in the game - by a few guys on the saltmine that is the FFG forums...

36 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

GenCon 50 is on 17th-20th August , though, and will certainly feature X-Wing news & new product. I originally thought Wave 12 would be announced at GenCon, but if Wave 11 is out over a month earlier we may see an announcement sooner. GenCon might be the first opportunity to see/take photos of the Wave 12 models though, and with the C-ROC out we might see an announcement of another kind there.

Depends on if there are any major trade shows between street date on XI and Gencon, I think.

1 hour ago, ThalanirIII said:

Most wanted ship in the game - by a few guys on the saltmine that is the FFG forums...

Seriously, a small number of people talking very loudly and frequently doesn't add up to a large number of people being interested.

The TIE Reaper count be interesting but Empire just got a large ship last wave and it could be harder to make it stand out from other transports, though there are definitely ways of doing it.

The TIE Oppressor is also a possibility with them dipping in to Galaxies for Empire now with the Aggressor, though again it would have trouble differentiating itself from the Punisher unless they wanted to give it SLAM and/or dial shenanigans.

The TIE Hunter and TIE Scout are also possibilities and could provide some unique mechanics but both are still rather obscure, even if we did just get the Aggressor.

The Avenger seems unlikely at this point due to the extreme design similarities between it and the new First Order TIE from TLJ which we are almost certainly getting in the bonus wave for the new movie.

18 hours ago, VanderLegion said:

Of course :). Black Krrsantan could be imperial and/or scum. Probably make it a scum ship, aphra, krrsantan, generics for scum, with aphra pilots for empire and rebel similar to nym. And the droids as crew

I'm actually kinda sad they didn't take the opportunity to give S&V Krrsantan as a cross faction ship the same way they did Nym. It'd make sense, both factions basically trade 1 ship, they even mention him in the Wookie Gunship article. I'm theory crafting that this either means that A) It was in the works but something came up balance wise, I can't think of anything off hand but crew is one of S&V's better slots so maybe it brought up complications. Or B) They planned to release Krrsantan as a pilot for another ship(Ark Angel) in an upcoming wave.

I think it's a safe bet that we'll be getting comic ships for Scum if nothing else pretty soon, we've already seen comic material used in IA with 0-0-0 and BT. I hope my assumptions are correct, I love the comics.

I'm really hoping for a Jar Jar crew card. Scum only. Because they deserve it.

20 minutes ago, BomberGob said:

I'm actually kinda sad they didn't take the opportunity to give S&V Krrsantan as a cross faction ship the same way they did Nym. It'd make sense, both factions basically trade 1 ship, they even mention him in the Wookie Gunship article. I'm theory crafting that this either means that A) It was in the works but something came up balance wise, I can't think of anything off hand but crew is one of S&V's better slots so maybe it brought up complications.

Probably Jabba.

What I want-

I: Tie Reaper (a shuttle that can move! With AA and bombs and a bomb load out for the striker escorts!). The fluff even says it could be scum cross over so that makes it more likely right?

R: N1- Leia

S: manga guard

What we'll get-

I: FO/interceptor (hopefully with basic upgrade!)

R: Bomber (making them better at bombing again).

S: mining guild tie (which if it has tie only upgrades to share with the Imperials I am actually ok with!)

What People will say regardless of what we actually get-

I: We still suck at bombing and tech when compared to the other factions!

R: This thing doesn't have enough HP! (To which everyone else will remind them that they can't have 9hps and AG 2+ ships AND regen).

S: whelmed. It's not as strong as the jumpmaster.

Wave 12 will have template weapons. I.e. Magic flame throwers In space.

4 minutes ago, Fuzzywookie said:

Wave 12 will have template weapons. I.e. Magic flame throwers In space.

D&D Attack Wing Cross Over Campaign Set

1 hour ago, kris40k said:

D&D Attack Wing Cross Over Campaign Set

And the dragons are considered in scale with the ships.

10 hours ago, Princezilla said:

Probably Jabba.

Eh. Jabba on a 30 point high-PS Auzituck would still cost 35 points. The remaining 65 points still only gets you five Z-95s with 1-point Illicits to double up on. Doesn't seem too bad to me.

9 hours ago, Fuzzywookie said:

Wave 12 will have template weapons. I.e. Magic flame throwers In space.

Uh that's pretty much how I use Conner nets.

14 hours ago, Mangipan said:

I expect to see

• Rebels - Resistance Transport with the Reinforce Action and TFA-era updated Crew cards for Leia and Luke.
• Imperial - Ark Angel with double System icons, Crew cards for Aphra, Triple Zero and BT-1 and a Scurrg-style Scum pilot card for Aphra
• Scum - Cad Bane's Xanadu Blood Rogue-class Starfighter, offering us our second legitimate cloaking ship in the game.

With a late reveal of Kylo Ren's Starfighter and the Resistance A-Wing for the new film.

Given that Cad Bane is part of X Wing now, I'd love to see the Xanadu Blood. It's a really neat-looking ship.

The problem is that AFAIK he's the only pilot of that class that isn't one of the Separatist magnaguard droids from the prequels/clone wars and FFG have repeatedly demonstrated that's not a can of worms they want to open.

10 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Given that Cad Bane is part of X Wing now, I'd love to see the Xanadu Blood. It's a really neat-looking ship.

The problem is that AFAIK he's the only pilot of that class that isn't one of the Separatist magnaguard droids from the prequels/clone wars and FFG have repeatedly demonstrated that's not a can of worms they want to open.

They've also repeatedly shown themselves happy to invent new pilots or dip into their own role-playing games for pilots, so I don't think that's ought to slow them much.

Just now, Mangipan said:

They've also repeatedly shown themselves happy to invent new pilots or dip into their own role-playing games for pilots, so I don't think that's ought to slow them much.

I hope you're right because Cad Bane is a boss and the Xanadu Blood is really cool.

12 hours ago, Princezilla said:

Probably Jabba.

Given that Jabba sucks, I doubt it.

It was probably just down to the number of cards they could fit into the pack and the number of base tokens they could fit onto the cardboard.

Speaking of which, I wonder what pilot is on the back of Rebel Nym. The Scurrg for Scum is either going to come with an extra generic, or we'll see double sided rebel/scum Nym.

18 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Speaking of which, I wonder what pilot is on the back of Rebel Nym. The Scurrg for Scum is either going to come with an extra generic, or we'll see double sided rebel/scum Nym.

On the back of rebel Nym is probably... Rebel Nym.

6 minutes ago, BoxerlessBossk said:

On the back of rebel Nym is probably... Rebel Nym.

I doubt they'd waste cardboard by making a double sided base plate with the same pilot on both sides.

16 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

I hope you're right because Cad Bane is a boss and the Xanadu Blood is really cool.

Yes, that's it. With the introduction of Cad Bane crew card, there is no reason to do not bring his ship.

My renewed list:

• Rebels: N-1 Naboo starfighter (with Princess Leia, Shara Bey and Queen Sosha)
• Empire: Assault Gunboat
• Scum: Rogue-class starfighter (with Cad Bane and the Xanadu Blood title)

and around September, tie-ins with TLJ:

• Rebels: Resistance Bomber
• Empire: Kylo Ren's Interceptor

2 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

I doubt they'd waste cardboard by making a double sided base plate with the same pilot on both sides.

They did for the Z-95 cardboard in the Hound's Tooth expansion. There's five pilots in this expansion, cardboard is gonna get wasted either way.