Happy 86 day anniversary of the last article everybody! To celebrate, I thought I'd share these hi-res previews of Wave VII I just stumbled across.

See below for 1926 x 2872 images and all the visible text from the cards...





Profundity

• Jyn Erso (boarding team)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jyn_Erso
When…command…a squadron dial…card to choose…at close…has no ra….2 raid token…If that ship…token, you…

Early Warning System (defensive retrofit)
At the start…Phase, you…your hull zone…with a cha…end of th…ship or squ…that hull z…obstructed…Phase…ch...

• Caitken and Shollan (weapons team)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Caitken
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shollan
While attac…exhaust the…any num…1…

??? (officer)

• General Draven (officer)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Davits_Draven
While…squadron…or Intel…color to…

• Bail Organa (officer)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bail_Organa
Medium or…

After deploy…may place…on this card…the Ship Ph…matching the….you are the s…must activate…first player, y…2 comm…your…

• Admiral Raddus (commander)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Raddus
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/8/25/the-grand-admiral-arrives/

??? (title)

Mon ???

A???

• Profundity (title)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Profundity
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/8/25/the-grand-admiral-arrives/

Wide-Area ???

Heavy Ion Emplacement



Chimaera

??? (commander)

• Grand Admiral Thrawn (commander)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mitth'raw'nuruodo
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/8/25/the-grand-admiral-arrives/

• Captain Brunson? (officer)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Brunson
While…distance…obstacle…Spend D…step, you….this card….cancel...

• Governor Pryce (officer)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Arihnda_Pryce
Medium or…

After deploying…may place…this card. If..round…ma….token, you…the end of…(after all…a...

• Instructor Goran (officer)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Goran_Beviin
While a…Heavy Sq…distance…Counter 1…Counter...

• Taskmaster Grint (officer)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Myles_Grint
After deploy…choose…1 commander…card. When…a comma…that token…1 matching…token with…the co...

??? (defensive retrofit)

Early Warning System (defensive retrofit)
At the start…Phase, you…1 of your…mark it with…Until the end…while a ship…attacking this…attack is obstructed…the Status…that c…

• Darth Vader (boarding team)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker
When you reveal a command, you may discard a squadron dial or token and this card to choose 1 enemy ship at close range. Choose and discard 1 non-commander upgrade card equipped to that ship.

??? (offensive retrofit)

H???

??? (title)

Seventh Fleet Star Destroyer (title) x 2
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Seventh_Fleet

• Sovereign (title)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sovereign

??? (fleet command)

• Intensify Firepower! (fleet command)

• Entrapment Formation! (fleet command)

• Gar Saxon (squadron)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gar_Saxon

Very nice! Where did you find them?

part of me hopes that heavy ion emplacements causes blue crits from ships to activate squadrons or deal an extra damage if already activated

Heavy ion emplacements has a very promising picture...

Bail Organa looks like he counters the activation padding game/encourages high activations with at least 1 medium or large ship.

I’m excited for H????

1 minute ago, MandalorianMoose said:

I’m excited for H????

Thats an M

Just now, Ginkapo said:

Thats an M

Top left in the Chimera preview, looks like HAR (or P)

1 hour ago, Ginkapo said:

Heavy ion emplacements has a very promising picture...

Bail Organa looks like he counters the activation padding game/encourages high activations with at least 1 medium or large ship.

Agreed. Being unique, I am completely confident that the Imps will get a comparable counterpart. Probably one side will get a guaranteed first activator and the other side a guaranteed last, once per game, or something along those lines. FFG knows that activation padding is a broadly-criticized component of the game and I am very confident that they wouldn't address it for only one side or the other.

If that conjecture is correct, I would expect the Imps to get the guaranteed last (so as not to break Demo or BTvenger) and Rebels to get the guaranteed first (so as not to break Defiance and Ackbar reds in general).

There will almost surely be some kind of drawback associated: only one attack, forced to declare it well ahead of time, forego your command dial, something like that.

Raid tokens?

1 hour ago, MandalorianMoose said:

Top left in the Chimera preview, looks like HAR (or P)

Could be:

HAR

HAP

HAB

Doubtful

HAD

My guess is

HARD

or

HARRAS

No good HAP word or HAB

It's so sad that we get more Armada news from our own community than FFG...

Thank you for the find.

3 hours ago, GrandAdmiralCrunch said:

Very nice! Where did you find them?

A store's website had them tucked away (not sure how early they let this slip so I don't want to mention which!). Makes me curious if the stores might have a better clue when things are releasing...

1 hour ago, Ardaedhel said:

Agreed. Being unique, I am completely confident that the Imps will get a comparable counterpart. Probably one side will get a guaranteed first activator and the other side a guaranteed last, once per game, or something along those lines. FFG knows that activation padding is a broadly-criticized component of the game and I am very confident that they wouldn't address it for only one side or the other.

If that conjecture is correct, I would expect the Imps to get the guaranteed last (so as not to break Demo or BTvenger) and Rebels to get the guaranteed first (so as not to break Defiance and Ackbar reds in general).

There will almost surely be some kind of drawback associated: only one attack, forced to declare it well ahead of time, forego your command dial, something like that.

I think Pryce is probably the imp equivalent since she has the same medium and up restriction. Probably has a slightly different faction flavor but accomplish the same goal.

45 minutes ago, NeonKnight said:

Could be:

HAR

HAP

HAB

Doubtful

HAD

My guess is

HARD

or

HARRAS

No good HAP word or HAB

My hope is on "Hardened" something or another. Maybe "Hardened Shields"?

Nice! Trying to decipher those hidden cards should keep me occupied for the next few hours, until the familiar existential despair for Wave VII sets in again.

1 hour ago, Ardaedhel said:

Agreed. Being unique, I am completely confident that the Imps will get a comparable counterpart. Probably one side will get a guaranteed first activator and the other side a guaranteed last, once per game, or something along those lines. FFG knows that activation padding is a broadly-criticized component of the game and I am very confident that they wouldn't address it for only one side or the other.

If that conjecture is correct, I would expect the Imps to get the guaranteed last (so as not to break Demo or BTvenger) and Rebels to get the guaranteed first (so as not to break Defiance and Ackbar reds in general).

There will almost surely be some kind of drawback associated: only one attack, forced to declare it well ahead of time, forego your command dial, something like that.

It could be that the Empire won't get a specific card to do this, but new ships like the Cymoon ISD might end up influencing more double and even triple ISD lists, so maybe rebels are forced to do it and Imperials are encouraged to do it.

Anyone notice that one of those titles in the Profunity may be non-unique?

9 minutes ago, TallGiraffe said:

Anyone notice that one of those titles in the Profunity may be non-unique?

I just saw that - I'm very intrigued.

1 hour ago, NeonKnight said:

Could be:

HAR

HAP

HAB

Doubtful

HAD

My guess is

HARD

or

HARRAS

No good HAP word or HAB

Is it possible for it to be Hyper Mater Reactor. The picture looks a bit like it could be a power generator of some kind

On 08/09/2017 at 1:27 AM, Kalic89 said:

If the Thrawn Novel is anything to go by the female captain will be Captain Faro, then Governor Pryce, Taskmaster Grint and Instructor Goran, mostly from Rebels and tied to Thrawn in someway (Faro is Captain of the Chimera, Pryce and Thrawn helped eachother to their respective positions, Grint im not sure about and Goran went to skystrike academy, a place Thrawn sent his adversaries in the imperial academy to). If there is another character itl be Eli Vanto who helped Thrawn become Grand Admiral, itl doubtfully be Krenic.

I for one dont think we will get 2 commanders, I think its just a mistake but we certainly aint seen all the cards on offer in the pack

I posted this on a different page a while back. Basically everything I the Chimera ISD pack seems related to Thrawn so I am certain that the captain is captain Faro. What she does is as good a guess as anyone’s right now

26 minutes ago, Kalic89 said:

I posted this on a different page a while back. Basically everything I the Chimera ISD pack seems related to Thrawn so I am certain that the captain is captain Faro. What she does is as good a guess as anyone’s right now

It could possibly be Captain Brunson from Rebels. As the faces are quite similar.

Edit. Especially the eyebrows.

16 minutes ago, TallGiraffe said:

It could possibly be Captain Brunson from Rebels. As the faces are quite similar.

Edit. Especially the eyebrows.

Completely forgot about her, maybe it is

18 minutes ago, TallGiraffe said:

It could possibly be Captain Brunson from Rebels. As the faces are quite similar.

Edit. Especially the eyebrows.

Given the Rebels theme of everything else in that pack I'm convinced. Going to add the link for her to the first post as possibility.

Did we know about the mc75 variant names and dice config before?

So the armored cruiser is 3 blue two black front.

The mark II cruiser is three black two blue front. Cant see any other differences yet, might be in the upgrade slots.

Early Warning ... kind of looks like you can choose a hull zone and it's treated as obstructed while defending for that round... against ships and squadrons. Now that is an interesting squadron defense Def Retrofit if that's so.

13 minutes ago, Ardaedhel said:

Early Warning ... kind of looks like you can choose a hull zone and it's treated as obstructed while defending for that round... against ships and squadrons. Now that is an interesting squadron defense Def Retrofit if that's so.

That's got the potential to be a game changer, if that's the case.

2 minutes ago, Ardaedhel said:

Early Warning ... kind of looks like you can choose a hull zone and it's treated as obstructed while defending for that round... against ships and squadrons. Now that is an interesting squadron defense Def Retrofit if that's so.

I would say so it also by it's mere existance make big ships with large batterys more appealing, CR-90s become crapshoots at long range along with pretty much all other small ships. If it effects squadrons it will be interesting, but at most it will delay when squdrons get to bomb your ship, and will protect vunruble areas of your ship most squadrons will be able to repossession and take the shots they want, but it will still be very good against squdrons.