There's lots of hype surrounding the new skirmish upgrades for Vader, Han, and Chewy which I don't doubt will bring more balance to the game allowing players to not feel obligated to field a Luke or robot Luke (IG-88) list. Once we find out what more of the command cards are like, it might bring back some other groups too like Rebel Sabs, and possibly Imperial vehicles and maybe bring some players back from their hunter card love?

Personally, I'm more excited about what the skirmish new maps/scenarios are going to be like? Coruscant with some fun, elaborate objective to stop a shapeshifter? Emperor and some dance around his locked throne room? Maul and a some elaborate location on Naboo?

Anyone else have any predictions on the new scenarios?

HotE features new tile-sets on both sides based on Coruscant (the location of the campaign). Based on what we've seen one side is grimy outdoor streets while the other is fancy indoor rooms (see lots of Coruscant sets from the prequels for their inspiration). I imagine the maps will be mostly those tiles and I'm not expecting many (any?) forest or desert tiles to be used. The maps will probably mix in the indoor (Imperial and Scum) tiles from the Core to fill them out.

As for the Scenario? No way to tell.