1 hour ago, thespaceinvader said:

TIE Defender wants a word.

That wasn't their idea, though.

1 hour ago, Indy_com said:

TIE Striker wants a word.

Fair.

TIE Reaper, too.

But it is symmetrical. From a certain point of view...

5 minutes ago, Rossetti1828 said:

But it is symmetrical. From a certain point of view...

GIVE THIS MAN A COOKIE!

What slightly irritates me at the moment is that I can't discern any steel struts in the cockpit window- or rather, not the classic design anyway. It kind of looks like a big one-piece glass to me.

Maybe it's the speed with which the thing does it's fly-by, but still, I can easily see the cockpit framing of the normal TiEs. Is it just me or is this front view window actually different?

3 hours ago, Viktus106 said:

Since we are getting all the epic stuff into standard, how about the new TIE gets a range 2 - 4 cannon and a 3 - 5 cannon?

Then, as a marketing ploy, do NOT provide a range 4 - 5 ruler, add a acrylic one into a kit two years later when the TIE is obsolete and no one it no more.

That would then open the door to a title or modification card that allows you to convert two crew to a single team.

I actually had a similar thought for the TIE Bizzaro which I think would be quite interesting:

• Give it an energy score a la epic ships rather than a primary weapon
• Give it a zero-cost title which lets it generate energy by performing manoeuvres (2 on green, 1 on white, 0 on red?)
• Give it a hardpoint upgrade slot
• Include a range 2-3 'light turbolaser' hardpoint in the pack that's relatively similar to a hardpoint-mounted heavy laser cannon (so no extended range ruler needed), and maybe Quad Laser Battery.
• If you happen to have an epic ship, you can fit it with single turbolasers, or ion cannon batteries, because if you have either upgrade card you must also have a range 5 ruler (assuming you've not just bought the card separately).

Might be quite an interesting little gunship.

Just now, Magnus Grendel said:

I actually had a similar thought for the TIE Bizzaro which I think would be quite interesting:

• Give it an energy score a la epic ships rather than a primary weapon
• Give it a zero-cost title which lets it generate energy by performing manoeuvres (2 on green, 1 on white, 0 on red?)
• Give it a hardpoint upgrade slot
• Include a range 2-3 'light turbolaser' hardpoint in the pack (so no extended range ruler needed), and maybe Quad Laser Battery.
• If you happen to have an epic ship, you can fit it with single turbolasers, or ion cannon batteries, because if you have either upgrade card you must also have a range 5 ruler (assuming you've not just bought the card separately).

Might be quite an interesting little gunship.

Magnus, you miss a glorious business opportunity on INCLUDING a range ruler, just to sell the TIE Heavy in a bigger box!

3 minutes ago, Commander Kaine said:

Magnus, you miss a glorious business opportunity on INCLUDING a range ruler, just to sell the TIE Heavy in a bigger box!

The thing is, a long range ruler would need a huge box - longer even than a large ship - so there's no practical way of adding it to a small ship or even an ace pack without it looking ridiculous.

Besides which; this way is better because if Single Turbolaser armed Bizzaros were a viable choice, you'd have to go and buy a Raider or CR-90 to equip them.... making someone buy an epic ship as well for every two Bizzaros they want to field is better than making the bizzaro itself a few dollars more.

8 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:

Agreed. When you look at the military, non-sith, "you can have things in black, white, or grey" imperials, flowery and sinister names seem more out of place.

Well, I'd rather have "TIE Aggressor" to say than "TIE/ag."

5 hours ago, thespaceinvader said:

TIE Reaper, too.

And this doesn't have a TIE/?? designation yet, does it?

2 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:

The thing is, a long range ruler would need a huge box - longer even than a large ship - so there's no practical way of adding it to a small ship or even an ace pack without it looking ridiculous.

Ah, phooey, there are bunch of ways to make this possible:

A. Anyone who has a Epic ship has one.

B. Make it part of that year's tournament giveaways.

C. Players who don't do A or B could still source one from a 3rd party.

Essentially, I'd say don't ruin a good product idea over packaging.

Hope we get more experimental/specialty ships in the movie....even if they don't make it in the game.

I like the paint job on the solar panels... I painted one of my First Order TIEs like that.

I think this Heavy TIE would just be a slightly beefed up TIE either 3 RED dice (with a double tap?) or even a Cannon slot, add 2 Shields, 1 more Hull and a maybe bit faster.

"Defender Jr."

On 11/04/2018 at 2:03 AM, dewbie420 said:

Hope we get more experimental/specialty ships in the movie....even if they don't make it in the game.

I like the paint job on the solar panels... I painted one of my First Order TIEs like that.

I think this Heavy TIE would just be a slightly beefed up TIE either 3 RED dice (with a double tap?) or even a Cannon slot, add 2 Shields, 1 more Hull and a maybe bit faster.

"Defender Jr."

That's pretty much a TIE/sf you're describing, except the SF has to take LWF to make it to AGI3. So this thing's lowest PS pilot would have to cost 26-27 points for it to have a niche at all, and do something unique.