I see that the Imperial Assault world champion receives a special playmat. usually, the artwork is related to characters released, or images from the expansions.

This playmat has an image of Captian Rex. Did I miss this release, or perhaps a taste of what's to come?

I'm serious, did I miss the rex model - I'd be most upset if I missed that one.

It has not been released or announced.

It's all the rage for those of us speculating, though.

"Rex" and Thrawn and death troopers have not been announced or shown to us in any form of announcement for anything imperial assault related. Either they are teasing us with spoilers of stuff to come, or we have nothing coming out and they are riding the art train of their other star wars games. I believe it is the former (the latter would make me very sad).

I'm also not convinced that that is captain rex.

59 minutes ago, MadFuhrer said:

I'm also not convinced that that is captain rex.

Huh, interesting. I went to the article because I was sure it was originally listed as Rex, but it's been changed to "veteran clone trooper". I'm sure I'm late to realize this, but I wonder if that was the reason the article was pulled over the weekend?

Also, I wonder if, in the most unlikely of chances, that the veteran trooper is actually a new hero coming?

12 minutes ago, subtrendy2 said:

Also, I wonder if, in the most unlikely of chances, that the veteran trooper is actually a new hero coming?

I'm not familiar with Skirmish and its play mats, but have any of the play mats ever depicted FS heroes? (I only recall having seen villains depicted on them, like Greedo + Kenobi, etc., but I might very well be wrong).

Pretty sure Diala was on one. Biv too, maybe? Lemme check...

edit:Oh yeah, actually it's extremely common.

Allrighty then. Me, and my pet theory that only allies are depicted on play mats, stand very much corrected

I can see the idea of Veteran Clone Trooper as a hero. That would actually be like Royal Guard Champion, you can play him as Carnor Jax or, more rightly, Kir Kanos

6 hours ago, subtrendy2 said:

Huh, interesting. I went to the article because I was sure it was originally listed as Rex, but it's been changed to "veteran clone trooper". I'm sure I'm late to realize this, but I wonder if that was the reason the article was pulled over the weekend?

Also, I wonder if, in the most unlikely of chances, that the veteran trooper is actually a new hero coming?

When they initially put the article back up, it was still listed as ‘Rex’. It’s interesting to me that they changed it after the fact.

Yep, you missed it. Was on the super secret sales section of FFG's website a week ago. All sold out now, sorry.

1 hour ago, Hawkstrike said:

super secret sales section of FFG's website

I've heard about this mysterious realm once before, how do I access this seemingly forbidden area?

2 hours ago, QuarrenKing said:

I've heard about this mysterious realm once before, how do I access this seemingly forbidden area?

It's a secret...

He came in the Core set, just wearing ahelmet to fit in with all the other STormtroopers. He's the one that always rolled 2dmg on the green and 1 dmg and a surge on the blue. The other stormtroopers always needed rerolls.