You might be a bit confused by the title of the article, but my thoughts on rogue one expansions is that they are VERY likely. We already heard that 3 of the planets featured are scarif, endor and hoth; but further more, if you look closely at the art on the HH-12 stormtrooper card he appears to be on Scarif. What do you guys think about Scarif and rogue one content. Is it confirmed? Am I just crazy?

I'd agree with you if there was a Shore trooper somewhere in the background, but card art isn't always indicative of anything. Could be ANY planet with the biome of "Tropical island" from Star Wars.

Plausible!

It’s not in any way whatsoever confirmed.

It is still extremely likely, as it always has been.

That’s about it really.

Yes.

They did the same with the x wing releases. They showed the HWK in the background on upgrade cards in the previous wave prior to its release in the subsequent wave, and did the same with the Tie Defender, E wing, and later with the scum and villainy ships prior to their release as a new faction.

so I’m gonna day that’s a definite yes. It makes sense as the next film to draw from for Troopers.

youve got Loads:

Krennic

Tarkin?

Death Troopers

Shore Troopers

K2S0 expansions as a personnel expansion to improve your storm trooper units

Saw Gerrera

Jyn Erso

Cassian Andor

Rebel Sabateurs

Saw Gererra’s rebel’s (I don’t know what you’d name them)

Tonnes to add to the game.

5 minutes ago, Kojib said:

Saw Gererra’s rebel’s (I don’t know what you’d name them)

Canon name for Saw's organization is the Partisans so that seems likely.

Given the setting is the GCW, it would be silly to ignore Rebels and Rogue One for content.

As much as want the OP to be right...I really cant see anything at all that shows them as Scariff right now?

Hopeful they will release stuff but nothing to say its coming imo atm.

If they do a K2-S0 expansion, I would find it interesting to have two different deployment options. Either as a trooper/specialist in an Empire unit, or a unique model attached to Cassian for Rebels.

But that's just me wishlisting.

So would the Shore Troopers be commanders? Personally I hope not despite the fluff written about them being sergeants and all. But at the same time, I don't know if I'd want a squad of them either. Maybe specialists/support?

5 hours ago, Jouster said:

So would the Shore Troopers be commanders? Personally I hope not despite the fluff written about them being sergeants and all. But at the same time, I don't know if I'd want a squad of them either. Maybe specialists/support?

It would be interesting to have some specialists/troops that can be added to other units.

7 hours ago, Jouster said:

So would the Shore Troopers be commanders? Personally I hope not despite the fluff written about them being sergeants and all. But at the same time, I don't know if I'd want a squad of them either. Maybe specialists/support?

Well since they have lighter armour maybe they will be more like the base rebels and maybe with speed 3

The only time we've seen the HH-12 on screen was Rouge 1 so it makes sense that the background is Scarif.

I personally think that a "Scarif Pathfinder" expansion could be used to add some randomness to the rebel units, with Rouge 1's signature theme of "the rebels look like they've just thrown on the first thing they found in their wardrobe.

It could also be used to give the rebels a rocket launcher, since we only see rebels use the HH-12 on screen. I dont know what else they could have, maybe a grenade launcher.

Shore Troopers are another specialist unit of Storm Troopers, just like Snow and Sand troopers. They wouldn't be mixing individuals with other unit types and would be their own squads with their own squad leaders. I am hoping for them as a troop type, would definitely increase my enthusiasm for playing this.

Aside from cosmetic changes, why should FFG add these? We already have Stormtroopers and Snowtroopers, so the design space is already filling up. Last thing I want is another corps unit that I need to get and compete with 2 other corps units.

Specialist would seem the best choice, but would people be OK with mixing Shore Troopers with Snowtroopers? And it's likely there will be less minis per unit.

16 minutes ago, Col. Dash said:

Shore Troopers are another specialist unit of Storm Troopers, just like Snow and Sand troopers. They wouldn't be mixing individuals with other unit types and would be their own squads with their own squad leaders. I am hoping for them as a troop type, would definitely increase my enthusiasm for playing this.

Shoretroopers "operated effectively as sergeants which allowed them to command small squads of regular stormtroopers" which is the reasoning behind treating them as a buffer for regular Stormtrooper squads.

5 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

Aside from cosmetic changes, why should FFG add these? We already have Stormtroopers and Snowtroopers, so the design space is already filling up. Last thing I want is another corps unit that I need to get and compete with 2 other corps units.

Specialist would seem the best choice, but would people be OK with mixing Shore Troopers with Snowtroopers? And it's likely there will be less minis per unit.

I'm expecting more than two corps units for each side, else there will not be a ton of variation in corp compositions.

It would not surprise me to see Saw's partisans or the Rebel Pathfinders as a "Special forces" unit...shoretroopers, deathtroopers and the Jedha Tank would fit in too.

that runs into one of the problems with using Star Wars as the setting. The Rebellion doesn't have a huge variety in troop type while the empire has a ton, and seem to add more with every new movie. It seems to me at least that the rebels really only have the 2 types, the soldiers of the fleet and the ground troopers. The ground troopers seem to be used in any environment and all that changes is their clothing. The Empire on the other hand has Stormtroopers, Sandtroopers, Scout troopers, Death Troopers, Shore troopers, The Tank Driver guy from R1, Imperial Army soldiers, Imperial Navy soldiers, and at least 1 new type from the Han Solo movie. This makes sense from a story point of view, but it does make a challenging situation for game design.

Just now, jcmonson said:

that runs into one of the problems with using Star Wars as the setting. The Rebellion doesn't have a huge variety in troop type while the empire has a ton, and seem to add more with every new movie. It seems to me at least that the rebels really only have the 2 types, the soldiers of the fleet and the ground troopers. The ground troopers seem to be used in any environment and all that changes is their clothing. The Empire on the other hand has Stormtroopers, Sandtroopers, Scout troopers, Death Troopers, Shore troopers, The Tank Driver guy from R1, Imperial Army soldiers, Imperial Navy soldiers, and at least 1 new type from the Han Solo movie. This makes sense from a story point of view, but it does make a challenging situation for game design.

there are AT LEAST 2 rebel units in Rogue one...the Partisans and the Pathfinders.
Not to mention the characters we can get.
Imperials and Rebels should not have 100% parity...but the Rebels have tons of ways to deal with the imperial armor we see in the game AND are better at grabbing objectives

Not to mention doing various corps of different species such as Wookies, Mon Cal, or Bothans.

I believe they're are actually many kinds of rebels present at scarif according to the rogue one visual dictionary. The various individuals geared up with surplus equipment at yavin but it mentions then being from specforce, wilderness fighters, combat engineers, infiltrators, regular infantry, Marines and Pathfinders.

1 hour ago, Caimheul1313 said:

Not to mention doing various corps of different species such as Wookies, Mon Cal, or Bothans.

Xeno scum. Unacceptable.

like if you read that in the most contemptfull, imperial officer voice.

2 minutes ago, Jabby said:

Xeno scum. Unacceptable.

like if you read that in the most contemptfull, imperial officer voice.

Well, wookies apparently make pretty good prisoners with jobs.

Eh... I don't want to see racial units. I would rather see a heavy assault unit with a wookie, a talz, a gigoran, a lasat, etc...

1 minute ago, devin.pike.1989 said:

Eh... I don't want to see racial units. I would rather see a heavy assault unit with a wookie, a talz, a gigoran, a lasat, etc...

Agreed, but you have to admit it does make a modicum of sense as the different planets would have militias/special forces, some of which would "defect" to join the rebellion.

True, but mechanically would a squad of twilek, bith, rodian or zabrak rebels be any different than humans and duros? Wookies obviously would have a close combat advantage but so would some other interesting Star wars species that we might not get to see otherwise.