1 minute ago, BVRCH said:

Whilst valid statements, do we really need another TLT?

I'd love to see a 'Repeating Cannon'. *insert Slave 1 Heavy Repeating Cannon noises* PEW PEW

Repeating Cannon - 3 or 4pts - 2 attack, Range 1-3. Perform this attack twice, your attack dice cannot be rerolled.

Great on a 16-18pt TIE, okay on a B-wing, trash on a 48pt Dash..

P.S. I love the look of this new TIE!!

Make it 3 points, so the Defender can use it.

Otherwise... meh. The 2 attack dice sucks


Anyways, the problem with TLT is that it is a turret, not the effect itself.

13 minutes ago, RufusDaMan said:

Make it 3 points, so the Defender can use it.

Otherwise... meh. The 2 attack dice sucks


Anyways, the problem with TLT is that it is a turret, not the effect itself.

3pts for Tie/D is nice.

This new ship is still a TIE variant. An arc locked TLT might not be so bad in our current ships, but it could be in a squad of 5 ships with TIE dials. Unless your happy with this being a min 22pt ship?

I'd really love for this to a be a cheaper ship, hence the 2 dice cannon. Like I said before, for 3pts, you're going to throw it on a 16pt TIE, or a Heavy Scyk, but maybe not on a B-wing or IG-2000.

Having a high PS TIE pilot with Repeating Cannon and Expertise for under 30pts? Yes please.

its likely a flight instructor Tie.

like in drivers ed or flight school, you have a second set of controls with an instructor, overseeing the pilot in training

9 minutes ago, Vontoothskie said:

its likely a flight instructor Tie.

like in drivers ed or flight school, you have a second set of controls with an instructor, overseeing the pilot in training

The new trailer shows its a weapon pod.

Repeating cannon sounds cool. I just want it to buff swarms. I just want it, it looks really neat. Maybe 5 hull 0 shield, cannon, and systems slot? And a title? (No 0 point auto include titles, I want one that makes you decide whether or not you want to fly it the way the title wants you to fly it or some other neat way.)

2 hours ago, BVRCH said:

The new trailer shows its a weapon pod.

which trailer is this? neither clip I watched showed weapons pod or a close enough view of the ship to tell.

not saying your wrong, i just didnt see anything to say either way.

im basing my guess on the Han going to flight school and the existance of instructor ships both in real life and Star Wars.

also the only EU ship ive seen which looks like that has 2 crew pods

33 minutes ago, Vontoothskie said:

which trailer is this? neither clip I watched showed weapons pod or a close enough view of the ship to tell.

not saying your wrong, i just didnt see anything to say either way.

im basing my guess on the Han going to flight school and the existance of instructor ships both in real life and Star Wars.

also the only EU ship ive seen which looks like that has 2 crew pods

13 hours ago, AwesomeJedi said:

9 hours ago, AwesomeJedi said:

These are screen grabs from the latest extended teaser. At the end after the Solo banner is shown.

I like it!

I think a cheap cannon carrier (like the Scyk) would be a good addition to the Imperial stable.

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For those who need to fill in the gaps on design evolution, could have gone something like this :

TIE/ln deemed a successful design but found some situations called for more fire power.

Decision to slap some heavier cannons into an asymmetrically fitted pod on essentially a standard chassis/panel design.

Field trials found, whilst the added fire power was a good addition, the limitations of the base chassis led to less than satisfactory results.

Hence the design team began work on a more radical redesign leading to the Interceptor and Advanced.

(disclaimer: I'm not familiar enough with the detail of established Canon to know if this could retrospectively slot into the history)

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Please, oh please, if FFG got a preview of this ship - PLEASE let it be images of it firing!

That being said, if they only got the short teaser footage without any supplemental info, and assumed it was a sensor pod (like many of us did), at least that gives them scope to come up with a title that trades whatever they came up with for a cannon slot.

15 minutes ago, BVRCH said:

These are screen grabs from the latest extended teaser. At the end after the Solo banner is shown.

fair enough

TIE/mb

for Master Blaster...

"Two ships enter ( the swirling misty tentacled maelstrom ), one ship leaves!"

2 cannon slots.

Title : can fire from both cannons if they both cost 3 or less.

Good ?

Oh its a cannon? Well....Symmetry would look....20% Cooler....

The ****.. get that pony stuff out of here.

On 05/02/2018 at 4:56 AM, weisguy119 said:

This is my guess. We see Han signing up for flight training then we see a ship with a what looks like a sidecar. There's probably an instructor in there. Even if it is just a trainer, I still want at least one for my XWM collection.

Be interesting for a ship that a Flight Instructor is actually good on.

8 hours ago, Sir Orrin said:

I don't really mind the new TIE fighter varient. I'm just excited about this chase scence that will actually be a fast paced chase... *cough* Last Jedi *cough*

Remember that chase scene on crait ;-)

2 hours ago, Zeoinx said:

Oh its a cannon? Well....Symmetry would look....20% Cooler....

Hahaha, god what an old reference! +1, MVIII.

1 hour ago, william1134 said:

The ****.. get that pony stuff out of here.

2010. You've had since 2010 to cope with this stuff and just accept it as part of the internet's zeitgeist.

You've had eight years..!

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So what if this thing carried a turret, but, wait for it.

Could only fire in its primary arc?

10 hours ago, FTS Gecko said:

The Empire's all about lazy design; you're either flying in a ball with solar panels, a folding winged shuttle, a big triangle covered in guns or are on a spherical space station armed with a superlaser. At the first sign of adversity, repeat but BIGGER.

Lazy design is what the Empire does.

If it works, don't change it...

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Wait...

13 minutes ago, Captain Lackwit said:

So what if this thing carried a turret, but, wait for it.

Could only fire in its primary arc?

I am wondering whether the cannon pod can rotate to fire behind and we're gonna see a rear arc on it.

1 hour ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Hahaha, god what an old reference! +1, MVIII.

2010. You've had since 2010 to cope with this stuff and just accept it as part of the internet's zeitgeist.

You've had eight years..!

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So what if this thing carried a turret, but, wait for it.

Could only fire in its primary arc?

I dont apologize After all, Ive seen a Rainbow Dash Paintjob on here on a ship!

Thinking about it and reading through the comments I think that this tie would be better without a cannon slot, and just have a special rule. Perhaps something like it having a TLT but only in the front arc.

3 minutes ago, william1134 said:

Thinking about it and reading through the comments I think that this tie would be better without a cannon slot, and just have a special rule. Perhaps something like it having a TLT but only in the front arc.

This.

It looks like it doesn't havy any other armament, so the gun pod houses the primary weapon.

5 hours ago, spacelion said:

2 cannon slots.

Title : can fire from both cannons if they both cost 3 or less.

Good ?

No. I dont want any more cheap *** cannons. I want the big guns. 3 pts cannons are a joke, save for Ion which would be OP.

EDIT: added dial.

2 minutes ago, Odanan said:

Dude... No.

No uprade slots, no shields, bad action bar, low agility, and we have to put points in it to make it work. The scyck is way better, and that ship is bad.

Presumably you would want to add a worse than TIE fighter dial to it...

Why would you pick this ship?

16 points Mangler is not a good trade. The striker is similar price range and much better.

19 pts hlc is bad also. 2 of them falls down per round, and they are getting ps killed.

Besides...swarms suck. Everything kills them. Adding power to them achieves only one thing: harpoons are getting more efficient.

While my initial thought, based on the first teaser, was a trainer, it is clearly not that. It may or may not be a crewed gun pod.

I also cannot see if the main body is any different than a regular TIE. Lets assume they are the same for a moment. While I still think a new model is necessary, what if this is a modification? What would be the effect of adding a cannon to existing TIEs?