I like it both. Hidden information best information.

6 minutes ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

Yea, though that Hyperspace'd ship can't activate first, as explicitly noted by Raddus. Which makes it less effective than the standard "first player kill something run away before it goes" sort of strategy.


I dunno, still not seeing it.

It may or may not be a tournament winner, but it will certainly be fun and it adds nice options.

I like fun options.

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas.

Profundity

Fallout Board Game

Battlefront 2 for the PS4

That'll do nicely for this 46 year old.

Just now, Reiryc said:

It may or may not be a tournament winner, but it will certainly be fun and it adds nice options.

I like fun options.

Yes this exactly. Its gonna be fun!

1 minute ago, Gallanteer said:

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas.

Profundity

Fallout Board Game

Battlefront 2 for the PS4

That'll do nicely for this 46 year old.

Considering how less and less excited the tease from Last Jedi make me this wave and Battlefront 2 will soften the blow.

4 minutes ago, Reiryc said:

It may or may not be a tournament winner, but it will certainly be fun and it adds nice options.

I like fun options.

I'm going to challenge that right now.

I can normally get a pretty good MC30 2 way pickle going. Raddus is going to make that 3 way. That means you're going to lose 2 ships on my clobber turn. Raddus fits my playstyle perfectly.

I don't know how much either will see in high level tournament play. Giving up activations and stocking 1 or two ships together in one destroyable platform is dicey.

But I can see how they'd be fun, and even effective. Drop two hammerheads with external racks into the rear arc of a VSD in a way that they can both double arc it. Combine it with rapid launch bays and drop off a couple bombers too. Heck, you could drop a large, a small, and a couple fighters into an ISDs rear arc. Most of your fleet could be represented by 1 piece on the table...just waiting to pounce an anything that gets close.

Dropping a large ship at range one also gives you a heck of a lot of range.

It's a high risk/high reward scenario that would really ruin someone's day if you pulled it off.

Raddus looks way more exciting. I'd grab a speed 4 cheap ship, run it wherever you want that big Mc80 to pop in and let people squirm. Profundity is flavorful, but not anything I'm too excited for.

I want to see the cost for the Mc75. It has to be in the 90s to not overshadow the Assault Frigate or be ignored for the bigger Mc80s, right?

1 minute ago, Rocmistro said:

I'm going to challenge that right now.

I can normally get a pretty good MC30 2 way pickle going. Raddus is going to make that 3 way. That means you're going to lose 2 ships on my clobber turn. Raddus fits my playstyle perfectly.

That sounds fun!

But you still may not win a tournament with it... but of course you may!

Raddus on a ship somewhere plus an MC80/MC75 waiting to drop in? Great fun watching the Imperials squirm, terrified where and when you'll drop it in.

Just now, Reiryc said:

That sounds fun!

But you still may not win a tournament with it... but of course you may!

Of course, there's always the "YMMV and actual play not resemble the theorycrafting in my head"

However...one of my biggest limitations on spamming MC30's is how fragile they can be without titles and ECM/AP. Now I can take a Torp Frigate, give it external racks and OE,nothing else, and I can pretty much guarantee it's going to survive to deliver it's hammer.

As others have said, I'm not sure about Profundity title yet.

31 minutes ago, ImpStarDeuces said:

It also means you can lifeboat if really want? Drop a flotilla out and fly away?

Don't think so, because it says "If Able".

I agree with OP, Radish and Fecundity title look bad from a competitive standpoint, purely gimmick cards. These are are cards that will be fun to mess around with in casual games but don't look like the cornerstones of a competitive tournament list. The drawbacks of these cards, which are spelled out in the article, are just too huge to be worth whatever positioning advantage you get, which itself was further nerfed by restrictions like not being able to activate first.

It's fine if they want to design gimmick flavor cards, casual games are important too, but it's a hard pill to swallow when Imperials are getting super efficient cards like Thrawn and the ISD Refits that are just good without any gimmicks. Doesn't help that the Rebel admiral from the last wave was also garbage and the Imperial admiral was great.

Just now, Crabbok said:

Don't think so, because it says "If Able".

Unrelated, but wanted to let you know that I've enjoyed your armada videos.

Great work!

1 minute ago, Rocmistro said:

Of course, there's always the "YMMV and actual play not resemble the theorycrafting in my head"

However...one of my biggest limitations on spamming MC30's is how fragile they can be without titles and ECM/AP. Now I can take a Torp Frigate, give it external racks and OE,nothing else, and I can pretty much guarantee it's going to survive to deliver it's hammer.

As others have said, I'm not sure about Profundity title yet.

I think that sounds awesome -- and fun! I will probably do similar!

I love this game

23 minutes ago, GreyFoxx said:

EXACTLY! If you have an admonition hidden up your sleeve ready to pounce out facing whatever direction at any point... You're going be facing one twitchy opponent.

Pfft, close the distance with a suicide flotilla, then drop a liberty or 75 on their side and watch em squirm. Unlike HA, doesn't say small/medium. Bonus points if the flotilla survives and prevents them moving.

25 minutes ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

I'm guessing you haven't seen the "gureilla walkers" or the "space orkz cannons gots da BIGGEST SHIP" dreadnaught design yets? Or those lame wobbly 'sandspeeders' or those giant goofy flying "L" bombers from the trailer?

It's a little late for Episode 8 designers, as they have failed miserably. Perhaps Episode 9 designers can redeem themselves, but seems unlikely.

1 minute ago, Darthain said:

Pfft, close the distance with a suicide flotilla, then drop a liberty or 75 on their side and watch em squirm. Unlike HA, doesn't say small/medium. Bonus points if the flotilla survives and prevents them moving.

Agreed. Just looking to keep my activation count up by using smaller ships like MC30's or HH + <whatever> instead of Libbos.

Just now, Rocmistro said:

Agreed. Just looking to keep my activation count up by using smaller ships like MC30's or HH + <whatever> instead of Libbos.

Activation only serves you to engage favourably, and no further. You are too worried about it.

As someone who plays 40K 8th Ed, I can tell you few things can fubar your game plans like your enemy dropping a good, vicious deep strike exactly where your enemy wants it.

Admiral Radish gives the rebs that deep strike.

Could you chain this?

Raddus on ship A. He drops Profundity. Profundity drops ship C.

Beyond the sneak attack style moves you could pull, you could just use it all at the start of the game giving you some interesting positioning for flanking maneuvers or completing objectives. Heck, you could start with ships on objectives. This wouldn't hurt your activations, and if you drop a large ship at distance one, then a small ship distance one from that...well, that's some incredible range at the start of the game.

4 minutes ago, Darthain said:

Pfft, close the distance with a suicide flotilla, then drop a liberty or 75 on their side and watch em squirm. Unlike HA, doesn't say small/medium. Bonus points if the flotilla survives and prevents them moving.

Back when we could put Commanders on flotillas I used Quantum Storm a bunch... now I think it might have a new fun use.

1 minute ago, Darthain said:

Activation only serves you to engage favourably, and no further. You are too worried about it.

Only?

ONLY!?!?

Just now, Rocmistro said:

Only?

ONLY!?!?

What else do you have in mind? To a certain degree, Raddus lets Rebels ignore activation disadvantage for placing a single ship. Sure, one target can escape, fat lot of good that does targets two and three.

So if I bring the Profundity with Admiral Raddus, a small-base ship, a medium-base ship, and my Hyperspace Assault is chosen as the objective, and I manage to make that fill 400 points...

Does that mean I could deploy none of my ships if I wanted to?