So that is my guess for wave two. Each faction gets a "Close support Gunship"....that might actually get me to buy into this game....my poor wallet...

rampant speculation!

2 minutes ago, feydruatha said:

So that is my guess for wave two. Each faction gets a "Close support Gunship"....that might actually get me to buy into this game....my poor wallet...

The models would be easily five times the length of the T-47. If wave two is going to be including Rogue One units, I would expect Saw's Partisans and the Death Troopers rather than any vehicles, potentially with Saw and Krennic as Commanders.

I am slightly more inclined to expect the rumoured Scout Trooper snipers and some analogue such as Rebel Saboteurs.

Here you go... https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/268716-prediction-for-wave-2/

I don’t think we’re going to get “big ships” for a bit.

7 minutes ago, KalEl814 said:

I don’t think we’re going to get “big ships” for a bit.

U-wing being a troop transport, and clearly being used in Rogue One, makes it seem awfully likely though. I’d expect to see it within the first year.

Probably in conjunction with an Imperial troop transport. All the scheduled releases so far have been mirror units anyway.

ie Han Solo, Lando, and Chewbacca probably release against Boba Fett and Other bounty hunters (Dengar, Bossk, IG-88, etc) all of them could potentially fill out special forces slots.

1 minute ago, Derrault said:

U-wing being a troop transport, and clearly being used in Rogue One, makes it seem awfully likely though. I’d expect to see it within the first year.

Probably in conjunction with an Imperial troop transport. All the scheduled releases so far have been mirror units anyway.

As I've mentioned in other topics, the troop transport effect is already emulated by the Rapid Reinforcement battlefield condition card. Transports may be a long time coming, if they are ever included.

I highly doubt we will get any "air craft" larger than the Air Speeder. They will be too large and bulky, and thus expensive.

Why would they introduce a troop transport when range 4 is 2 feet long and most weapons are range 1-3? I have 18in of reach therefore I really don't need to be transported across the map.

How do you balance ships that travel must faster than speeder bikes and air speeders? What about weapons that are capable of taking down large ships like ISDs? Not to mention they have shields and small arms fire won't be able to penetrate that.

No way we get X-Wings Tie/F, U-Wing, etc.

1 hour ago, Undeadguy said:

I highly doubt we will get any "air craft" larger than the Air Speeder. They will be too large and bulky, and thus expensive.

Why would they introduce a troop transport when range 4 is 2 feet long and most weapons are range 1-3? I have 18in of reach therefore I really don't need to be transported across the map.

How do you balance ships that travel must faster than speeder bikes and air speeders? What about weapons that are capable of taking down large ships like ISDs? Not to mention they have shields and small arms fire won't be able to penetrate that.

No way we get X-Wings Tie/F, U-Wing, etc.

Had to reread your post after giggling little. First time through, I read it as X-Wings, TIEs and FU Wings! ?

Coming from someone who has argued that an AT-AT is not likely, but possible. ... no way. A U-Wing is too huge and too fast to make any sense. This game will be limited to repulsorlift craft only. #nostarfighters

Yeah this isn't 40k, we won't have flying gunships and tanks dropping troops all over the battle. There isn't a need for it on a 3ft table and looking at the shear size of the ATST scale just wouldn't work. Look how much space most fighters at 1/48 take up on the board, its crazy.

A U-Wing is 5 meters longer than an AT-AT. If you throw the wings back, it would stretch the entire width of the battlefield.

2 minutes ago, AldousSnow said:

A U-Wing is 5 meters longer than an AT-AT. If you throw the wings back, it would stretch the entire width of the battlefield.

Pretty easy to drop troops off anywhere then .

I think U-Wings, the Falcon, and some other starships could work for terrain (especially if some of the larger the models had an interior) but as I've stated in the past, I see them more included through card abstractions than actual physical models.

This game needs to stay rightly focused on what it wants to portray. Right now, that is iconic characters leading a platoon and big scary monolithic vehicles. The more they stretch the parameters the the more it will stray from the experience.

I’m hoping they keep it to nothing bigger than the AT-ST, the CIS AAT tank, etc.

Scale will be off for things like the uwing or reaper.

but I fully plan on flying those around an xwing mat

I really hope rebels get a barc speeder bike with a sidecar.

3 hours ago, AldousSnow said:

A U-Wing is 5 meters longer than an AT-AT. If you throw the wings back, it would stretch the entire width of the battlefield.

It looks significantly smaller than an AT-AT in the rogue one stills, and that’s when the U-wing is much closer to the camera than the AT-AT.

That is an at-act which is much larger than an at-at

U-Wing length = 24.98 meters, (82 ft) with S-foils forward

AT-AT length = 20 meters

AT-ACT length = 34.90 meters

11 minutes ago, devin.pike.1989 said:

That is an at-act which is much larger than an at-at

Those wings are doubling the length when forward, when back it’s maybe 12m, barely longer than the AT-ST is tall.

ATAT are not that long when compared to a lot of space ships.

It is yes shorter than a Uwing

4 minutes ago, Derrault said:

Those wings are doubling the length when forward, when back it’s maybe 12m, barely longer than the AT-ST is tall.

And they nearly make the U-Wing as wide as it was long when swept back. The model would simply be too large to move on the battlefield if produced at Legion's scale. Between the Rapid Reinforcement card and Leia's Coordinated Bombardment card, similar effects to what an air support model would provide will soon be in the game.

1 hour ago, Caimheul1313 said:

And they nearly make the U-Wing as wide as it was long when swept back. The model would simply be too large to move on the battlefield if produced at Legion's scale. Between the Rapid Reinforcement card and Leia's Coordinated Bombardment card, similar effects to what an air support model would provide will soon be in the game.

Wingspan is not a dealbreaker; rapid reinforcements represents attack waves, not transit; coordinated bombardment is modeling capital ships in orbit, making it totally unrelated to shuttles like the U-wing and Lambda shuttle, both of which are demonstably scaled appropriately for ferrying squads of these sizes in the movies.

10 minutes ago, Derrault said:

Wingspan is not a dealbreaker; rapid reinforcements represents attack waves, not transit; coordinated bombardment is modeling capital ships in orbit, making it totally unrelated to shuttles like the U-wing and Lambda shuttle, both of which are demonstably scaled appropriately for ferrying squads of these sizes in the movies.

Rapid Reinforcements also represents transit, as the units are deployed anywhere on the battlefield over range two from an opponent's units, not just into your deployment area.

Bombardment can be from any of a number of sources, beit artillery, aerial, or orbital. I would hope a capital ship's weapons are capable of greater damage than two measly red die that don't even have Blast, or than the directed fire of a single AT-AT (Maximum Firepower). The fact that it is against three different units, not "Units within a given radius" stikes me more as a strafing run than an orbital bombardment, or any kind of bomb.

The models won't fit on the battlefield without practically tossing the scale out the window, particularly as the deployment zones for two of the Deployment cards are only six inches deep.

Tbh the boggest thing I expect is the at-te