The Missing SKUs....

By MarekMandalore, in X-Wing

From what I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong), we're currently missing 3 SKUs; 67, 68 and 71. Two of these are certain Episode VIII ships, like the long exposed TIE Silencer and Resistance A-wing. I'm guessing these for 67 and 68, but the sequence doesn't really matter, I suppose. It just seems logical to put them side by side in SKU order. What about 71, then?

We have the Kimogila at 70, the Gunboat at 72, and Guns for Hire at 73? What will sit at 71?

More relevantly put, what is the third as yet unrevealed SKU? We can be pretty confident that Force Friday will see the revelation of 2 Episode VIII ships, but are we expecting maybe a third? An Ep. VIII scum ship, or maybe a dual box with another FO and Resistance ship? A dual faction ship? We've got about a week and a half to speculate, so why not have some fun with it?

(PS: thank you, FFG, for previewing a wave that I'm actually interested in 2/3 of, so far. Gunboat for fun, Phantom II for a cheap Rebel coordination option...)

Clone Wars Core set! Jedi Starfighter vs two vulture droids! Republic and CIS as new factions.

It's a long shot but I was hoping the missing sku would be a Heroes of Scariff expansion that has a Blue Squadron X-Wing , Alternate paint gold squadron Y-Wing (maybe a partisan X-Wing) and goodies like a T-65 X wing title, a K2SO crew and u wing pilot card, a u wing upgrade that allows a side firing arc (door gunner) etc

71 could be a box with the two ships of 67/68. Would make sense to me

2 minutes ago, BadMotivator said:

Clone Wars Core set! Jedi Starfighter vs two vulture droids! Republic and CIS as new factions.

Please no.

i wonder if the original idea was to have a first order ship from the last Jedi released in the wave, and then they designed the gunboat after that once they realized they didn't want to/couldn't reveal the Last Jedi material until later.

willing to bet its just TLJ ships, including a scum one for the third ship not a third core.
We already know its going to take place on one of the many desert planets. Thats typically where the scum ships are found, so look for a scum ship that looks more than just a personal speeder on the sidelines and bam theres our scum ship

If Phantom II is 69, maybe Resistance A wing is 68? That would make sense given the weird 71 we are missing. That could be the Silencer since gunboat is sitting at 72. So maybe 67 is the mystery one. But we might. It see it for a while regardless. It doesn't take the same amount of time for each product. I would guess either a Scarif pack or a hammerhead epic.

71 is probably a Rebels ship from Season 4, so they're waiting to announce it until whatever episode it's from hits screens.

When is the Han Solo movie coming out? Probably too early for it to be another Millenium Falcon.

I guess it's possibly a third Episode VIII ship that they want to release after movie because of spoilers (so that they can have named pilots instead of all that "Red Ace" "Omega Leader" "Omega Ace" nonsense)

edit: should've clarified that I agree with others and think 67 and 68 are the TIE Silencer and Resistance A-Wing, and that I think 71 will be released with Wave 12

Edited by Kieransi

If I remember right, wave 10 was announced and then the U wing and TIE striker were announced later on Force Friday and rolled into wave 10.

5 minutes ago, Kieransi said:

71 is probably a Rebels ship from Season 4, so they're waiting to announce it until whatever episode it's from hits screens.

When is the Han Solo movie coming out? Probably too early for it to be another Millenium Falcon.

I guess it's possibly a third Episode VIII ship that they want to release after movie because of spoilers (so that they can have named pilots instead of all that "Red Ace" "Omega Leader" "Omega Ace" nonsense)

edit: should've clarified that I agree with others and think 67 and 68 are the TIE Silencer and Resistance A-Wing, and that I think 71 will be released with Wave 12

Can't say I think its likely that our missing SKU is from the upcoming Rebels season. So far, their Rebels stuff has been released far enough after the fact to suggest that they aren't given anything to work with in advance from the series. I could be wrong. (The Protectorate was introduced on Rebels in January 2016, announced in June 2016, and released September, for an example.)

If it's a rebels ship could be a tri faction Gauntlet Starfighter. That would be pretty sweet.

Could also be a second Scum huge...

Two of them are definitely locked down as the new TLJ ships for Resistance and New Order. The third will either be a Scum TLJ ship, the next Aces pack (possibly a Battle of Scariff, I'm still waiting for new E-Wing stuff, the Punisher might still need some love, the list goes on), or the next epic ship.

i very much doubt a new core set, but it is possible.

What are ship numbers at? I want to say the number of ships per faction had evened out and that FFG wanted to keep it that way. If I'm remembering that right, I wonder if they'll release a non-TLJ Scum ship to keep things even.

Campaign box would be welcome.

28 minutes ago, MarekMandalore said:

Can't say I think its likely that our missing SKU is from the upcoming Rebels season.

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Heavy bomber meta might get Resistance bomber from TLJ.

SKU 64 : Auzituck Gunship / SKU 65 : Scurrg H-6 Bomber / SKU 66 : Ti e Aggressor

SKU 67 : ??? / SKU 68 : ???

SKU 69 : Alpha-class Star Wing / SKU 70 : M12-L Kimogila Fighter

SKU 71 : ???

SKU 72 : Phantom II / SKU 73 : Guns for Hire

So what we know :

Force Friday coming 1 September 2017, so we will have some "The Last Jedi" ships, the obvious is Tie Silencer and New A-Wing who fit perfectly for Sku 67/68 and between two waves.

Sku71 : Since it's between two expansion pack from the wave 12, it could be a secret ship for Episode 8, rebels ?, han solo movie ? Or could be a new core set/campaign box/aces box

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4 minutes ago, Wiredin said:

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Would you like an EPT with tnat Cheese?

11 minutes ago, Arkanta974 said:

SKU 64 : Auzituck Gunship / SKU 65 : Scurrg H-6 Bomber / SKU 66 : Ti e Aggressor

SKU 67 : ??? / SKU 68 : ???

SKU 69 : Alpha-class Star Wing / SKU 70 : M12-L Kimogila Fighter

SKU 71 : ???

SKU 72 : Phantom II / SKU 73 : Guns for Hire

So what we know :

Force Friday coming 1 September 2017, so we will have some "The Last Jedi" ships, the obvious is Tie Silencer and New A-Wing who fit perfectly for Sku 67/68 and between two waves.

Sku71 : Since it's between two expansion pack from the wave 12, it could be a secret ship for Episode 8, rebels ?, han solo movie ? Or could be a new core set/campaign box/aces box

I'd actually like to see a campaign pack. ideal world, something like HotAC that can work cooperatively

Otherwise, I'd take a double card scum epic or a heroes of Scarif pack

31 minutes ago, Wiredin said:

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Actually her ability could be nice with an R2 astro. But better get dome rogue squadron and/or R1 pilots !

46 minutes ago, Arkanta974 said:

Force Friday coming 1 September 2017, so we will have some "The Last Jedi" ships, the obvious is Tie Silencer and New A-Wing who fit perfectly for Sku 67/68 and between two waves.

Do we know that, or do we repeat that, full of hope??

46 minutes ago, BadMotivator said:

Would you like an EPT with tnat Cheese?

yes please. Expert Handling would do just fine!

It's likely the Resistance A-wing, Resistance Bomber, and TIE Silencer.

Ok, I'm biased and one look at my avatar kind of explains it but...

SKU 71: IG-90!

I think that the Last Jedi ships were developed in conjunction with the wave, such that the TIE Silencer is numbered with the imperial ships (68) and the Resistance A-Wing is numbered with the rebel ships (71). That leaves 67, which I suspect is some kind of boxed set: perhaps Last Jedi Core Set, perhaps some other movie related box, perhaps Heroes of Scariff.

There have been faint whispers of a surprise release on Force Friday. We'll see. Personally my expectations are for the Resistance A-Wing and TIE/vn to be announced and added to Wave 12, and my hopes are on a "Heroes of Scarif" to be announced once Guns For Hire arrives.