Just now, Sithborg said:

I think you may be overestimating at how quickly they will be re-releasing old ships.

Exact same argument was used about the EU ships. Game seemed to do well between Wave 4 and 7. Frankly, I don't see them necessarily releasing a new ship for each faction in each wave. Especially if they add the PT factions.

Probably, I was skipping/compressing waves to get to the clone wars era releases but you do see what I mean by releasing One faction in a wave then its rival the next wave instead of trying to release two factions in a single wave.

Nah, most likely we will get a PT and ST starter eventually.

4 minutes ago, Sithborg said:

Nah, most likely we will get a PT and ST starter eventually.

Could be the "missing SKUs" from the new line - SWZ02 through SWZ04 have no announced products, yet. (Obviously SWZ01 is the 2nd edition Core Set) Placeholders for a PT core set and ST core set...wouldn't be entirely unsurprising.

20 minutes ago, Sithborg said:

I think you may be overestimating at how quickly they will be re-releasing old ships.

They have said they are pursuing an “as aggressive a release schedule” as possible for getting the old ships updated. I fully expect them to be done updating in less than a year.

Republic being the 'force faction' makes sense - you've got 'generic' medium and heavy fighters, but where rebels and resistance get higher PS aces with pilot abilities, Republic would tend towards good-but-not-amazing PS (except Anakin) with force tokens and talents. The idea of even a top-level generic with the force isn't totally unreasonable.

Meanwhile, the CIS is even more swarmy than the empire with the bulk of your forces being droids. I'd love to see a large base swarm of small ships, or something similar.

2 hours ago, Forgottenlore said:

They have said they are pursuing an “as aggressive a release schedule” as possible for getting the old ships updated. I fully expect them to be done updating in less than a year.

Yes, they said they’ll be rereleasing as quickly as they can without it interfering with new releases. My suspicion is this proviso will slow it down considerably.

i'll get them, but only if they are good. low-tech ships are low tech.

On 5/15/2018 at 12:55 AM, Magnus Grendel said:

Republic being the 'force faction' makes sense - you've got 'generic' medium and heavy fighters, but where rebels and resistance get higher PS aces with pilot abilities, Republic would tend towards good-but-not-amazing PS (except Anakin) with force tokens and talents. The idea of even a top-level generic with the force isn't totally unreasonable.

Meanwhile, the CIS is even more swarmy than the empire with the bulk of your forces being droids. I'd love to see a large base swarm of small ships, or something similar.

I wanted to see these factions before, it only made sense to me as a complete Star Wars package, regardless of opinions on quality, but with a bunch of new rules in Second Edition, it just seems so perfect now.

Generic Force users as the Republic gimmick is just too perfect for the faction's theme and something that would make it distinct. I don't have a lot of attachment to Prequel ships, but I do like the Jedi Starfighter, and it would be neat to see things like the original Y-Wing (and I mostly collect the models rather than play this game anyway).

I would like to see better entry products in such a situation though. It's weird enough not having a Scum starter in a post-Scum edition. I hope other factions get Starter Editions.