17 minutes ago, xanderf said:

Or if you wanted to make it *more* thematic...overprice the ships by a bit, then...

Title: Katana Fleet Flagship (unique)

Reduce the amount of command dials assigned to this ship by 1. You may equip the 'Slaved Turrets' upgrade at no cost. (0 pts)

Title: Katana Fleet (non-unique)

Do not assign command dials to this ship during the command phase. When a ship with the Katana Fleet Flagship title reveals a command, assign a command dial set to that command to this ship. You may equip the 'Slaved Turrets' upgrade at no cost. (-4 pts)

Hum, Thrawn. When you thrawn do those Non-unique ships effectively get 3 dials?(of course only being able to use 2 of the 3 capped...but token maybe).

For example

Thrawn- Con fire
K lead ship- Eng

K-ships - Con fire Thrawn from Thrawn

Con fire Thrawn from K lead ship
Engin from K lead ship

5 minutes ago, dominosfleet said:

Hum, Thrawn. When you thrawn do those Non-unique ships effectively get 3 dials?(of course only being able to use 2 of the 3 capped...but token maybe).

For example

Thrawn- Con fire
K lead ship- Eng

K-ships - Thrawn from Thrawn

Thrawn from K lead ship

K lead ship

Well, no, Thrawn doesn't have any ships reveal a dial, Thrawn reveals the dial himself and all ships then GAIN a copy of that dial. As worded, this upgrade only triggers on the lead ship revealing a dial, not merely getting one. So the generics would have two dials, same as normal - one copied from the lead ship (whatever it revealed), then a second dial that is whatever Thrawn gave to everyone.

The dreadnaughts were heavilly armoured and shielded, but were slow.

The Gladiator is basically the largest small ship in game at 500m, so at 600m the Dreadnoughtshould be a small medium ship.

3 red 2 blue out the sides, 2 red out the front, red blue out the rear. Black AS.

Same shields, speed, manouverability as the interdictor? 6/7 hull?

3 command standard, Non-unique Katana fleet title removes one dial.

1 version with a large hanger and one with an extra red out either side?

EDIT: also thats definatly a drednaught rear end in the image.

2 hours ago, Noosh said:

Thats a very PG mind you have there. I was thinking something a little more...... appealing to the ladies. That is the politests way i can put that.

Hey no kink shaming.

Command 3 would make it an excellent cheap ship to take with Garm since you'd just get tokens for days, and Thrawn would like it too because he'd make an otherwise unwieldy fleet with a bunch of them much more manageable.

Very lore friendly!

8 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

You would need a ‘little more’ than that for the Katana Fleet. ?

There should be a hard card upgrade to Ion Cannon Batteries when they do make these ships for the game. And of course the Katana itself.

With a special card that allows that ship to pass commands to other ships in the fleet.

"Only” 100 packs no? ? The fleet was 200? I don’t remember

This is great news! The chances of the Dreadnaught cruiser making it to Armada just went from “unlikely” to “just a matter of time”:) Between this and the Solo film, the Empire now have 2 new ships to look forward to. I just hope this doesn’t dampen the chances of us getting the Venator as well.

1 hour ago, Sharego said:

"Only” 100 packs no? ? The fleet was 200? I don’t remember

I’m sure FFG would give you a vendors discount if you got 100 packs.

Also your in luck, Thrawn was only able to obtain 178 of the original fleet, so you will only need 89 packs for realism.

Once you get the hang of it, set up time should be less then four hours, but putting those away after a game could get rough.

10 hours ago, thecactusman17 said:

Hey no kink shaming.

For that trim neck line that the ladies can't resist.

Or

My neck is killing me...... Aaaawwwwwww yeeeeaahh.

11 hours ago, E-Man720 said:

The Gladiator is basically the largest small ship in game at 500m, so at 600m the Dreadnoughtshould be a small medium ship.

Not true, the MC30c is 580 m.

I am surprised nobody got excited about the cargo freighter. Dump cargo as a debris field like rigged cargo chute. It sound about as desperate to me. I don’t understand the need for it to be in a one second clip. That doesn’t make it really Star Wars to me because it doesn’t give me the emotion that a neb etc. does. I would rather FF use their creative license. It can be approved by Disney without it being in the films. It just needs to make Disney money. Making the space razor is going to make them less money than something with a lot more style.

I wish thing did have to be cannon. I like the gladiator look. It look star War-isn. I personally wish FF designers would just make up ship star war-ish, maybe from Lucia film archive concept drawing s etc. that fit holes or gaps in the existing non-transport game (yeah homey here allows only one transport per side since it is a space battle game and not a game about smuggling refugees) instead of attempting to fit boring looking ships into the game that fill very little use. That dreadnaught looks horribly dull looking imo. So much small things you can do to a “space triangle” to make them look unquie without resorting to small shots of a hair razor or another blox ship.

Give me a few awesome ships for imperials in the 75-95 point zone that do something fun, redesign the interdictor with an alt look with two new ship cars, and a few ships in the Rebels at 70-90 points and I’ll be happy. Of course, I happen to love the loom the the space potato so what do I know. I hated it at first, then Lear. To love the fact that the ship was different looking and that made all the difference. Same reason I love the new m-75. I looks different. I do wish the stand was off to the side and the used a curved clear plastic stand.

I would laugh if it was a Carrack light cruiser instead

The First Order use Carrack Light Cruisers.

I know this looks closer to the Dreadnaught but I really think there's a chance it could be the Carrack.

Especially if Filoni is really doing a Resistance show after Rebels and is borrowing assets.

The design is definitely the Dreadnought Class. What they choose to call it on the other hand is another matter.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dreadnaught-class_heavy_cruiser

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Carrack-class_light_cruiser/Legends

They could choose to call this the Carrack Class for all we know. Dreadnought Class Heavy Cruiser is a bit muddled and confusing.

I also just realized that the Carrack was a redressing of the Neutron Star Class Bulk Cruiser, (OR vise versa) Look at them side by side and they share a lot of the same features.

Could certainly fill a role in-between the Arquitens and the Victory. A broadsider with more firepower and hull than the Arks, but less than the Victory. Command 3, Squadron 1, Engineering 3 or 4.

6 hours ago, >kkj said:

Not true, the MC30c is 580 m.

Huh, true. The model really should be bigger then.

The real question is do we want the imperials to get the dreadnaught or the vindicator

4 minutes ago, chr335 said:

The real question is do we want the imperials to get the dreadnaught or the vindicator

Why not both?

Its not like they couldn’t use both. Both are fan favorites. Both would make excellent additions to the Armada line up.

19 minutes ago, GrandAdmiralCrunch said:

Why not both?

Its not like they couldn’t use both. Both are fan favorites. Both would make excellent additions to the Armada line up.

Agreed!

4 hours ago, E-Man720 said:

Huh, true. The model really should be bigger then.

Frequently they go by bulk of the ship, not length. for example the quasar is only 340 meters but is medium in large part because it's so wide and displaces so much area. Dread could easily be a medium for it's length + displacement.

7 hours ago, idiewell said:

Could certainly fill a role in-between the Arquitens and the Victory. A broadsider with more firepower and hull than the Arks, but less than the Victory. Command 3, Squadron 1, Engineering 3 or 4.

Ah, no, definitely engineering 2. It's an old ship with significant crewing problems. Higher engineering values let it repair damage too easily, which sort of conflicts with the idea of it being old and hard to keep functional.

Really, the 'closest' I think we could guess would be to take the MC30c Torpedo Frigate, bump shields down to '2' all around, and hull up to '6'. Obviously limited to speed-2, small base, then command-3, squadron-1, engineering-2. (Possible defense token arrangement: double 'brace', nothing else?)

I'd also give it a title that is just a flat -6 pts, something like 'Obsolete Cruiser', that limits the ship to storing no more than 1 command token at a time, and only lets you get rid of a command token by spending it for its default effect (IE., once you get one token you cannot 'replace' it with another...once you have it, you have to use it to get rid of it, before you could get another one).

On ‎2‎/‎27‎/‎2018 at 1:51 PM, Animewarsdude said:

I kind of doubt they would use it for the upcoming series since it is going to be called The Resistance and might be set just before TFA or between TLJ and 9. Granted that is speculation and maybe Filoni wants to do some kind of version of the Thrawn trilogy for that show. Or, I can continue to hope/dream that they will do an animated trilogy of the Thrawn Trilogy hopefully with Mark returning to voice Luke.

Alternative theory, now that I'm thinking about it...

We got the Braha'Tok in 'Rebels', and Ghost and Hammerhead corvettes in 'Rogue One', because the two teams working on the movies share assets back and forth and basically work next to each other.

Soooooo...maybe the reason we have ended up with a Dreadnought model for 'Rebels' finale episode is because the 'Solo' movie guys had one just lying around from their movie work? (Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease...)

On 3/1/2018 at 7:06 AM, GrandAdmiralCrunch said:

Why not both?

Its not like they couldn’t use both. Both are fan favorites. Both would make excellent additions to the Armada line up.

Hrm...guys?

Is this the Meme you're looking for?

On 27.2.2018 at 11:21 PM, >kkj said:

Just from the two shots we see him in the Dreadnought looks downscaled and smaller than a Arquitens which is 325 m long. So maybe the Dreadnought could be a new Corvette for the Empire? Would make sense balancing-wise since the Rebels have the CR90 and Hammerhead. (Arquitens doesnt really count as a corvette to me, although its my favourite ship in the game right now)

I really hope the empire doesn't get it as another Corvette in Canon. The one (raider) they already have might even be one too much. A tool as subtle as a corvette is too subtle for the intimidation through overkill strategy the imperial Navy seemingly uses. But maybe it could be the unnamed class of frigate the Thrawn (and Tarkin too?) book mentions. To me it appeared that they might sit between the raider corvette and the arquitens light cruiser which would make sense given the classifications.

2 minutes ago, LennoxPoodle said:

I really hope the empire doesn't get it as another Corvette in Canon. The one (raider) they already have might even be one too much. A tool as subtle as a corvette is too subtle for the intimidation through overkill strategy the imperial Navy seemingly uses. But maybe it could be the unnamed class of frigate the Thrawn (and Tarkin too?) book mentions. To me it appeared that they might sit between the raider corvette and the arquitens light cruiser which would make sense given the classifications.

The empire might rule through intimidation but they are not dumb, as the TIE Defender and other specialized craft show. Im completely fine with them using corvettes. By your logic, does the Rebel Alliance then rule through intimidation too because they also use huge capital ships?