Curious what's going to happen to Brobots.

At the moment I enjoy Firesprays and the Lancer. Looking forward to that new Firespray dial and the native boost. I expect the lancer will be quite the same but more expensive. So in the end I think the list will fly one way or another

I am also excited if there will be some sort of Attanni and how this will feel on the table

What I am really excited about though is the HWK-290 - I was flying it a lot when I started X-Wing but the dial and the one red die made it sit on the shelf for a while now. Palob, Fenn and Manaroo... we'll see

11 hours ago, gennataos said:

If Rey/Poe isn't at least decent when Wave 2 hits, I'll....I don't know. Be really sad?

Same, been my main list for over a year now.

I hope all valid squads from xw1 are going to die and we get new "wave" of cool stuff..

I would like to see more TIE Fighters, Interceptors, X-Wings(t65), A-Wings, B-Wings, Y-Wings, Star Vipers, Scyks and Kihraxz... ?

I just purchased a second Phantom II, so we know they will be awful.

I think they will do their best to keep movie ships strong. I doubt many people would complain about the meta if it was dominated by the likes of Vader, Academy Pilot, Porkins and Wedge.

51 minutes ago, Porkchop Express said:

I think they will do their best to keep movie ships strong. I doubt many people would complain about the meta if it was dominated by the likes of Vader, Academy Pilot, Porkins and Wedge.

Sir, you continue to underestimate the X-Wing Forums! ?

From watching the streams, tie fighters seem a bit worthless as X-wings have been buffed but tie fighters have not.

Also the fang fighters seem way better than tie interceptors, which is a shame.

My favorite list is a TIE Phantom (Echo), a TIE Punisher and a cheap buddy. This is completely garbage in 1.0 so I have nothing but great hopes for it in 2.0.

41 minutes ago, william1134 said:

From watching the streams, tie fighters seem a bit worthless as X-wings have been buffed but tie fighters have not.

Also the fang fighters seem way better than tie interceptors, which is a shame.

Eh, you just need to be able to roll green dice. But yeah, they blew up left and right.

My main squad is 4 TIE strikers + anchor. That has been a Lambda, a gunboat, a TIE shuttle, and will soon be a TIE Reaper...except it will be very light on points to upgrade the Reaper. But if I drop Lightweight Frame from all my strikers, it frees up a lot of points - which leads me to the question, "Will Lightweight Frame still be a thing?" Suddenly I'm not so sure. In fact, I kind of doubt it. It will be interesting to fly TIE strikers with only 2 agility, but I'm willing to give it a try!

Dash + Lothal was my jam for a while. Dash will change for the better, but I expect my Gunner + FCS Lothal will remain.

My all-time favourite list is Viktor, Asajj and Unkar all tricked out. We already know Viktor is essentially the same, Asajj is the baseline for new turrets, and Unkar will be buffed if anything. It's looking promising.

4 hours ago, Cartchan said:

My favorite list is a TIE Phantom (Echo), a TIE Punisher and a cheap buddy. This is completely garbage in 1.0 so I have nothing but great hopes for it in 2.0.

You sir, cannot be done justice to with a mere 1 like.

Upgrades, like said, impossible to tell. Faction splits do put nails into a few coffins for me though.

Imperial Boba. I use him a lot. As bizarre as running him with Kylo crew and a Phantom is... The new Boba should be far superior though so that'll be nice. I guess I need more scum.

Speaking of which. Triple PTL Starvipers. I'm hoping they retain some of their magic.

Backdraft, OL and... Ryad

Not being able to run TIE/SFs with Galactic Empire in general will stifle some of my go-to's. As much as it always gave me an uncomfortable wrinkle in the back of my mind, thematically.

In fact, most of my no longer possibles are down to the Imperial split. I only really have the TIE Bomber and TIE/FOs as cheap ~25pt filler ships. I am actually sort of pleased with the faction change though, I never really play anything without some head canon.

Rebel/Resistance wise, we only have the YT1300/2400 and 2 T70s. So that may cause some headaches for Dash.

Still, at home, I have to fight powerful inner demons when my boys want to run T70s with a 'stolen' TIE Bomber/Punisher already. So on that front, not much will change

Don't really know the "fate", but my go-to swarm is Rebel Z95s.

My guess is I'll be just fine, but I'm worried on the fate of Lt. Blount & his awesome ability. Missiles will still be missiles so I'm sure I'll settle on something, even if concussion/guidance chips go away.

guess I should add that, since Norra's gone and r2-d2 gutted, I'm a little anxious about my beloved ARC

but given the firespray gets white boost and red reinforce, the ARC deserves at least a white reinforce and red barrel-roll. Def gonna need that reinforce to go through the TIE SWARM!!! wood chippper

also punisher, baby, we need to get you a reinforce too. maybe a red boost

My current tournament list is two accuracy corrected TLT Ghosts both with engine upgrade. That list has been nuked into oblivion. But that was a reaction to the utter trash that I had to face up against. With bombs and turrets getting major nerfs maybe I can go back to my "Tie Salad" lists of various named Tie pilots again. Those were actually fun. Or some awesome original trilogy X/Y/B combo with Luke running red as leader. Either way, I'm stoked!

Oh...totally forgot about the love given to the Firespray. Can't wait to get my boy Boba on the table again.

4 gunboats.

3 gunboats

4 x wings

4 b wings

Pile of z95s

Even if the loadouts change im sure I'll still run the same.

Tie Swarm! Nothing says Star Wars to me more than a giant mess of Ties, and using them to block and mess everything up is fun. With Howlrunner 2.0 assisting herself, Versio helping keep her alive, and less insane token-staking they'll be back in a big way and I'm all in!

21 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

guess I should add that, since Norra's gone and r2-d2 gutted, I'm a little anxious about my beloved ARC

but given the firespray gets white boost and red reinforce, the ARC deserves at least a white reinforce and red barrel-roll. Def gonna need that reinforce to go through the TIE SWARM!!! wood chippper

also punisher, baby, we need to get you a reinforce too. maybe a red boost

I don't think Nora ARC is gone.

2 minutes ago, Sithborg said:

I don't think Nora ARC is gone.

I sincerely hope not

Her ywing ability is INCREDIBLE

and if we also get Thane back in with his xwing ability, we'll be in for some dang fun times

I think part of the reasons for subtitles was to allow pilots to have different abilities on different ships.

(hopes for Luke in E-wing)

8 hours ago, Gersun said:

5x Snapshot Black Squad and Mauler Mithel with Snapshot. It all hinges on whether or not snapshot makes it into 2nd ed... I really hope so because it is so fun to fly!

i sincerely hope snapshot is not gone.

Its not a broken ability at all but its difficult enough to use that i could see them potentially slapping the "pointless just get rid of it" tag on it.

I'm the only person in my area that actively uses snapshots and i've proven SEVERAL times that when massed snapshot is lethal. Four Awings w/ Snap, PTL, VT, Chaar/Title will rip things to shreds if flown right.

18 minutes ago, Vineheart01 said:

i sincerely hope snapshot is not gone.

Its not a broken ability at all but its difficult enough to use that i could see them potentially slapping the "pointless just get rid of it" tag on it.

I'm the only person in my area that actively uses snapshots and i've proven SEVERAL times that when massed snapshot is lethal. Four Awings w/ Snap, PTL, VT, Chaar/Title will rip things to shreds if flown right.

going by the current trend of existing epts (at least, predator and crackshot and marksmanship) it'll be bullseye only

4 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

going by the current trend of existing epts (at least, predator and crackshot and marksmanship) it'll be bullseye only

Which i also hope not. That'll make it nigh impossible to get, unless they bump it to R2.
Especially since repositioning is toned down and part of the reason quadA's is so deadly with it is the constant boost/roll to keep that arc facing you up close n personal. Which that in itself isnt a thing anymore.

1 minute ago, Vineheart01 said:

Which i also hope not. That'll make it nigh impossible to get, unless they bump it to R2.
Especially since repositioning is toned down and part of the reason quadA's is so deadly with it is the constant boost/roll to keep that arc facing you up close n personal. Which that in itself isnt a thing anymore.

They might even make it range 3, since the bullseye arc is pretty hard to line up.

My favorite list is triple Defenders (Ryad, Vessery, ps1) or dual + hlc Karsabi and I am fairly sure that won't be an option. BUT on the other hand I have high hopes of the the list I would like to play if it weren't so bad in the meta and that is triple Interceptors.

9 minutes ago, Vineheart01 said:

Which i also hope not. That'll make it nigh impossible to get, unless they bump it to R2.
Especially since repositioning is toned down and part of the reason quadA's is so deadly with it is the constant boost/roll to keep that arc facing you up close n personal. Which that in itself isnt a thing anymore.

Long as it's priced appropriately, it'll be usable

Doubling up on attacks in the new edition, which lacks the absurd defensive mechanics, will be HUGE