11 minutes ago, The Archangel said:

Vader, Palp, ATDP, Jets, Riots, Sentries, Terro, BT-1, and Imps can temp in cheap, strong Hunters like Onar, Vinto, & Greedo. There's also the MVP of every Imp list, Zillo Technique. I just witnessed a game where Vader took focused fire for two rounds from a Smuggler list with 5 of the 6 Rebels you named in it and live to the end of the game.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

The other problem for rebels is they really HAVE to use objectives to win, which makes it hard to build for a diversity of maps. You're just not going to have a kill-focused list. You basically have the points for 2 holdout figures (take your pick of Chewie, Jedi Luke, Drokatta), a finesse player, or two if you take only one holdout (Han, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan, Ko-Tun), and an embarrassing wealth of cheap support/objective runners (Gideon, 3P0, R2-D2, rsmuggler).

So the rebels have an edge on crate retrieval missions (Raining Freight except maybe vs ugnaughts, Crate retrieval on Mos Eisley with 32 points on board, crate carrying on Jabba's Palace), but suffer on "Stand on a Box" missions (Shields on Nal Hutta, Crate Points in Mos Eisley, Stashes in Jabba's Palace).

I'd give Vader/riot lists the edge for box-standing on Mos Eisley and Jabba's Palace, and Vader/Jets for box standing on Nal Hutta: cheerfully for them, they can do bring both! And EJets are a serviceable unit for Raining Freight (and have phenomenal movement opportunities in Mos Eisley alleys, and decent ones in Jabba's Palace), especially with Vader's Force-Choke and Palp's Tempt pinging away rSmugglers at long range. Jabba's Palace pickup mission is rough on movement points, freezing troops where Vader/Palp can get at them.

In general, it seems that:

Imps have best defense, middle attack, poor support
Mercs have best attack, middle support, poor defense
Rebels have best support, middle attack, poor defense

44 minutes ago, GottaBadFeelingAboutThis said:

In general, it seems that:

Imps have best defense, middle attack, poor support
Mercs have best attack, middle support, poor defense
Rebels have best support, middle attack, poor defense

Without devaluing folks who think each faction needs a little more... I gotta say that I am THANKFUL we are at this point. I figured after Jabba's Realm (and everybody played Mercs or Rebel Hunters) that we'd see more diversity in the game. HotE and the last two waves of A/V packs have really brought it.

1 hour ago, TheWelcomeMat88 said:

For sure. I think she is great but lacking snyergy because using strain to get rid of awesome cards hurts other figs

How dare you! Drokkatta has synergy with everything!!! ?

Love that Wookiee. ?

-ryanjamal

3 minutes ago, ryanjamal said:

How dare you! Drokkatta has synergy with everything!!! ?

Love that Wookiee. ?

-ryanjamal

Preach Jamal.

For real though, Drokkatta isn’t a figure that relies heavily on command cards to get value. Trait synergy is good, but destroying the enemy takes priority.

Lol guys, i dont mean command card, synergy i dont think SHE needs that

15 hours ago, TheWelcomeMat88 said:

Rebels have far less "strong" units compared to the other factions, and that's why I reason they are the weakest faction.

Actually, how many strong units do you need? As long as you can create a 40 points lists, that's enough.

Hera 4

Gideon 3

3PO 2

Chopper or R2 3

2x eRangers 24

Han 10

Rebel High Command 2

Balance of the Force 1

3x Smuggler 6

55

Leia, Chewie, Drokkatta, Kenobi, Asokha, ...

multi post

multi post

FFG has been really good at making competitive cards lately. With HOTE, JR, and the last two blister pack waves, there are a plethora of good deployment and command cards to use. I'm looking forward to this next wave because I don't doubt in the slightest that these next cards will be just as great as the recent ones. I'm excited to see what lists people come up with for Thrawn, or Rex, or Death Troopers.

Also I would not be surprised if we get this stuff right after legion comes out. It would probably be FFG's apology for the wait and oddities of HOTE, and it will also be another big signal to us that IA is not dead.

One last thing to add: What will the Merc blister be? I'm sure Thrawn and Rex will be blisters because that's how waves work, but we don't know about that Merc pack. Waves always have 1 Merc, 1 Imperial, and 1 Rebel. The artwork for the Thrawn poster looks like Lothal to me, but that could mean anything. Blister waves almost always have a theme. Last wave was force users, and the wave before that was Droids. If Thrawn and Rex indeed show up, I think the theme will be Military Leaders. But that also leaves a question in my mind: What kind of Military Leader would the Mercs have? That doesn't make much sense. Maybe General Kalani from Clone Wars and Rebels. If the next wave has a mini expansion along with it, I have a wild guess B1 Battle Droids will be involved. This could bring another trooper group of 3 to the Mercs. It would be the first trooper group for them since wing guards. Also, we never knew what happened to Kalani in rebels, and there may be a possibility he will show up in the finale of the show. But that's just my crazy and outlandish idea.

Military Leader: Saw?

If the theme is just Rebels: Hondo or Vizago?

8 minutes ago, DerBaer said:

If the theme is just Rebels: Hondo or Vizago?

Yup. I would love to see Saw as a duel merc/rebel but he cant be temp'd into the empire

Saw would be the most likely option. That flew over my head somehow lol.

Trooper theme with Rex and Death Troopers.

Mercs should get Mandalorian (Gar Saxon/Fenn Rau 's gang) and Boba fix

Rogue One stuff and Rebels would be nice but they seem to mix and match however they want.

I'm stll waiting on Garridan, Zuckuss and 4-Lom

If the Merc pack is 4-LOM & Zuckuss with a Boba Upgrade, every minut I've been waiting for an IA update is forgiven instantly!

It's back up. doesn't look as though anything has changed. I guess we'll see if they take it down again, haha

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/3/5/medal-ceremony/

Interesting.

5 minutes ago, MadFuhrer said:

Interesting.

Very.

This is Captain Rex?!? I don't think I've ever seen him in an outfit like this...

I paraphrase myself from facebook and BoardWars Discord:

When was the last time the OP had an error-free article?

call me unimpressed with top 16 and top 8

They probably realized that the cat was out of the bag at this point. Whether or not they meant to spoil it before, the information was already out there.

1 hour ago, ManateeX said:

They probably realized that the cat was out of the bag at this point. Whether or not they meant to spoil it before, the information was already out there.

What a boring reason to take it down and wait four days to put it back up.

Am I correct that there’s no way to earn the point dial? It’s only available at the prize wall?

-ryanjamal

Just now, ryanjamal said:

Am I correct that there’s no way to earn the point dial? It’s only available at the prize wall?

-ryanjamal

If you read in the top 4 I think, where thrawn art is a prize, it says it’s the same pic as in the dial which “top 32 get”. Basically. That could be a huge typo at this point but it says it.

For all we know everything the article says is false

But I also don’t understand the wording on the tokens. It says anyone who gets three wins gets a set. But then says 4-1 gets a single set, 5-1 gets two, and 6-1 gets three. That doesn’t make sense.