5 hours ago, the1hodgy said:

On a whole; the next 5 ships that are coming; are balanced.

I am not sure if DoA can be classified balanced

17 minutes ago, Daigotsu Arashi said:

Now if the picture of the x-wing t75 are in scale, FFG have screw it the silencer so hard.

The silencer is 17'5 m long and they made it two and a half the size of an 12'5 m ship.

BTW, that whole over size thing is an first order issue.

The Mandator IV class dreadnought has one point defense gun on its hull per about 1,000 feet. And two main guns for orbital bombardment. That's it. And noAA guns ventral . A 25,000 feet vessel, nearly 8km, for all pratical purposes a super-star-destroyer. But just two autoguns for orbital bombardment and 24 point-defense turrets.
http://www.starwars.com/news/inside-two-deadly-new-first-order-vehicles-from-the-last-jedi

Those guns must be might heavy. Or the first order have some mighty size issues.

6 hours ago, Sekac said:

And "how come the second largest ship in this wave doesn't have a crew slot?!"

The actual largest ship in this wave also doesn't have a crew slot.

In fact, only the tiniest ship, the Sheathipede, contains any space for crews.

10 hours ago, smccaughan said:

my thing is the size of the model

I'm sorry. That must be difficult.

This pack is 30 bucks to reflect the cost of the third peg you will need so you don't run into everyone and their mother in the furball.

11 hours ago, HolySorcerer said:

TIE/fo already have Evade.

Yes, but the idea is to get double evades to push their durability to insane levels. Careful astroid placement is necessary, but TIE/fos with double evades and a focus token, plus Juke. I'm already a big fan of Juke TIE/fos, so this just seems even more entertaining

i'm not sure why anyone thinks the Silencer can carry a passenger.. the images they've realeased show that the cockpit doesn't have much more room than Darth Vader's TIE Advanced had, and like Vader's ship, it isn't set up with passenger space:

compare to:

It is a big fighter.. but it isn't a mobile home. presumably most of that fuselage space is devoted the drives, powerplants, shields, etc.. just like TIE Advanced. given the size of those guns on it (those are warship cannon sized barrels!) the fighter probably has a hugely powerful reactor to run the guns.. even with first order tech, that wouldn't be all that small.

The cockpit is also clearly designed to give the pilot more visibility. TIE pilots are limited to sensors for anything not dead in front of them most of the time, though notch-wings like Squints, Mining Guild TIEs and even the Defender free up their periphery a bit.

10 hours ago, SEApocalypse said:

I am not sure if DoA can be classified balanced

Which one is DoA?

18 minutes ago, the1hodgy said:

Which one is DoA?

e: ugh apparently the image won't embed properly. Imagine I posted that gif of Gary Oldman yelling 'EVERYONE' from Leon.

In jest, of course. It's a pretty solid wave.

17 hours ago, Larky Bobble said:

Different people. And I'm not complaining. Although I say it is a Hummer with the agility of a motorbike, flight agility in a vacuum would be unaffected by shape or size. Thrust variation and power, relative to mass, would be key.

It is big though. It should have a crew slot...

Not if the whole back of it is engines and guns...

19 hours ago, Major Tom said:

Soonts is cool and all, but can’t equip Advanced Sensors so won’t be nearly as nimble as the Silencer, not to mention AS Silencer is effectively immune to being blocked.

A fully decked out Soontir is the same price as a non upgraded Kylo. I think you're getting what you pay for with both of them, but Soontir is having all kinds of problems with bombs that Kylo won't have to the same extent.

4 hours ago, the1hodgy said:

Which one is DoA?

The bomber imho.

7 hours ago, mithril2098 said:

i'm not sure why anyone thinks the Silencer can carry a passenger.. the images they've realeased show that the cockpit doesn't have much more room than Darth Vader's TIE Advanced had, and like Vader's ship, it isn't set up with passenger space:

compare to:

It is a big fighter.. but it isn't a mobile home. presumably most of that fuselage space is devoted the drives, powerplants, shields, etc.. just like TIE Advanced. given the size of those guns on it (those are warship cannon sized barrels!) the fighter probably has a hugely powerful reactor to run the guns.. even with first order tech, that wouldn't be all that small.

Here is an unboxing of the Revell Snap together model, it shows the size of the chair and pilot, and a larger empty section/landing under the hatch.

It is important to remember that TIE fighters were never cramped, they seem so because of the angle they were filmed in, but the models around lucasfilm show there is actually lots of unused space in a TIE, they are not a claustrophobic craft at all.

Definitely not cramped. But also not a multi seat craft either.

Also, I think the Title sucks. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the ship. Unless there's a scene in the movie that makes that Title make sense.

9 hours ago, mithril2098 said:

given the size of those guns on it (those are warship cannon sized barrels!) the fighter probably has a hugely powerful reactor to run the guns.. even with first order tech, that wouldn't be all that small.

Unfortunately, it's Attack value doesn't reflect the idea of it having crazy huge powerful guns.

25 minutes ago, DarthEnderX said:

Also, I think the Title sucks. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the ship. Unless there's a scene in the movie that makes that Title make sense.

Unfortunately, it's Attack value doesn't reflect the idea of it having crazy huge powerful guns.

So I don't know... A four?

3 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

Unfortunately, it's Attack value doesn't reflect the idea of it having crazy huge powerful guns.

The ARC sympathizes

On ‎11‎/‎29‎/‎2017 at 10:56 AM, dotswarlock said:

I would settle for a FAQ that says: IG-2000, for purposes of upgrades, the aggressor may use those labelled small ship only.

I would love to put Juke on those things.

IG-88C with Intensity!

Only real weird thing about the title is that it is Unique for some reason.

50 minutes ago, BadMotivator said:

Only real weird thing about the title is that it is Unique for some reason.

Given that every single pilot for the Silencer is a Test Pilot I think, I'm surprised the whole ship isn't Unique.

It seems like the idea is to do "Kylo's Shuttle" equivalent without just saying "Kylo's Silencer".

Just now, UnitOmega said:

Given that every single pilot for the Silencer is a Test Pilot I think, I'm surprised the whole ship isn't Unique.

It seems like the idea is to do "Kylo's Shuttle" equivalent without just saying "Kylo's Silencer".

The new EU didn't catch up with canon as of now. When the Advanced was first shown it WAS Darth Vader's TIE fighter. But the EU eventually added additional pilots.

I don't think it will be very long before we get a First Order super mega special forces uber commando comic, game, book or something, that will add extra pilots to the Silencer. (And possibly material for future expansions)

True, but they could've picked a better name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard

A vanguard is usually formed of multiple ships/troops etc, so you can easily have multiple First Order Vanguards.

Even in Star Wars:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rebel_Vanguard

I guess in fairness, there should also be no reason you can't have multiple Lone Wolves or Experimental Interfaces. I guess chalk it up to game balance > fluff.

Vanguard seems to tie into it's model number TIE/VN (I don't care if the entire Lucasfilm Story Group tells me it's actually Vengeance, I will say "Vanguard" makes much more sense as a military product and stop acting like the FO's R&D is run by 90s teenagers. Only giant nerds care about this stuff and they'd like it taken more seriously.) and it's function as a leading ship. The Unique-ity might have to do with the fact that, at least as seen it only looks like we have one TIE Silencer running vanguard duties with regular FO or SF escorts. The TIE/ad x1 was kind of extrapolated to a whole project later, something LF is well aware of, given they even introduced the pre-x1 stage in the form of the TIE/v1 prototypes, which are an actual prototype production line.

1 hour ago, UnitOmega said:

Vanguard seems to tie into it's model number TIE/VN (I don't care if the entire Lucasfilm Story Group tells me it's actually Vengeance, I will say "Vanguard" makes much more sense as a military product and stop acting like the FO's R&D is run by 90s teenagers.

Isn't Kylo Ren basically a 30 year old still acting like the worst stereotype of 90s teenager though? If he was involved in its naming, that might explain it.

He could have suggested "TIE Vendetta" with someone else vetoing it late in the production process in favour of TIE Silencer - hence the retention of TIE/VN in the designation.