Happy Friday!

New ship? The big Mando one so you can have a whole Mandolorian list.

More stuff from 7-9.

Don't even know what is left.

I would not mind prequel stuff.

Happy Friday!

I would love to see:

RZ-2 A-wing Interceptor for resistance,

TIE/FO Bomber for FO,

TBH, I would like to see scum Vulture Droids, just for the halluvit, also Vaksai,

V-Wing Airspeeder for Rebels (From Rogue Squadron game for N64),

TIE/h Hunter for Empire (From Rogue Squadron III for GameCube, could fill the hole left by the SF).

2 hours ago, flooze said:

Happy Friday and thx a lot for that suggestion. Medium or large?

Large. The Gauntlet is a big boy thanks to those wings. It might even need to be scaled down to more comfortablely fit on a large base.

5 hours ago, Incard said:

Do you guys mean the TIE/rb "Roast Beef"? I refuse to aknowlege it by any other name.

Roast Beef? Tasty.

Tie McRib?

Tie Ribbed for her pleasure?

Tie round bottom?

Tie Real Big?

Tie round-a-bout?

Tie Raunchy Bunion?

Happy Friday!

I'd like to see a Defender Starfighter:

Not the prettiest IMHO, but I loved the cartoon as a kid...

Doesn't matter what we want, only what Disney says so.

Sure we got the Alpha Star Wing but how long did it take before the mouse said okay? In the meantime the ship no-one really asked for from the movie noone asked for is launched.

So might as well ask for this

Not a particularly happy Friday for me, given they just announced Netrunner is dead. Makes one a bit worried for the future of other licensed hobby games... ordinarily I wouldn't be worried given FFG just committed to a 2nd edition of X-wing, Legion, Destiny is still going strong, etc.

...but Netrunner hired a new lead designer less than a year ago, and completely revamped it's core set, and was their first LCG to enter rotation, and still had new product getting announced as recently as 2-3 months ago. It's a bit scary.

I'm going to need to pick a new avatar...

19 minutes ago, Toni Wan Kenobe said:

Happy Friday!

I'd like to see a Defender Starfighter:

Not the prettiest IMHO, but I loved the cartoon as a kid...

The lower arms look a little awkward, but the main body looks pretty nice to me.

And now I am pissed at WOTC again...

1 hour ago, Otacon said:

Not a particularly happy Friday for me, given they just announced Netrunner is dead. Makes one a bit worried for the future of other licensed hobby games... ordinarily I wouldn't be worried given FFG just committed to a 2nd edition of X-wing, Legion, Destiny is still going strong, etc.

...but Netrunner hired a new lead designer less than a year ago, and completely revamped it's core set, and was their first LCG to enter rotation, and still had new product getting announced as recently as 2-3 months ago. It's a bit scary.

I'm going to need to pick a new avatar...

Similar thing happened with their Games Workshop license last year. It's not just that they were licensing product, but they are also a direct competitor to the people they were licensing from. Runewars and Legion were coming right at Warhammer, and Netrunner has been a competitor of MTG for a while.

It's also possible that WotC was trying to leverage the fact that FFG just commited to a 2nd edition, in order to raise the asking price on the license beyond what they were able or willing to pay.

14 minutes ago, PhantomFO said:

Similar thing happened with their Games Workshop license last year. It's not just that they were licensing product, but they are also a direct competitor to the people they were licensing from. Runewars and Legion were coming right at Warhammer, and Netrunner has been a competitor of MTG for a while.

It's also possible that WotC was trying to leverage the fact that FFG just commited to a 2nd edition, in order to raise the asking price on the license beyond what they were able or willing to pay.

It's technically not as extensive as a full on second edition. None of the mechanics changed, the existing card pool remained. They just updated the core set contents. Netrunner was originally designed several years before FFG announced their rotation policy, so the base game and the first few cycles weren't designed with eventual rotation in mind. On top of that, the core set originally wasn't going to rotate, despite the core set being the source of a lot of the 'problem' cards still in the game. So instead of a full reboot of the game, when Netrunner was going to become the first LCG to hit the planned cardpool size for rotation, they revamped the core set as well, dropping a lot of the problem cards, both over and underpowered, and bringing in cards from the first two cycles that were considered key to the card pool. Then on top of that, they moved away from the Most Wanted List influence taxing system of handling overpowered cards(where influence is the resource you spend during deck building to import from other factions) to a more straightforward Banned and Restricted list. All of that stuff came together late last year, under the direction of a new lead designer, to breath a lot of new life into a game that was getting really stale.

But yeah, every indication was Netrunner was going to keep thriving for years, and if you go look at the breakdown of factions and ids from the European Championships things were looking pretty solid. Now less than a year after announcing the changing of hands and all of that stuff happening its on its way out.

It is true that Games Workshop may have considered FFG direct competitors, though at the time they decided to not renew that particular license, Runewars hadn't been announced yet and I'm not sure Legion was even in active development, though X-wing and Armada were out there. I'm not sure how much unannounced miniatures games would have played into that particular decision... But I'm not sure if WotC would consider Netrunner legitimate competition in the same way. Even the biggest Netrunner events at ~300+ players are dwarfed by the typical MtG pro tour event.

Other speculation I've seen is that Wizards of the Coast may have wanted to get control of Netrunner back given an expected resurgence in popularity for the IP the original 90's Netrunner CCG was themed around; Cyberpunk 2020. Specifically, The Witcher developers CDProjekt Red's next game, Cyberpunk 2077, is likely coming sooner than later, and the Cyberpunk pen and paper RPG is getting a new edition as well. They may feel that they can get more out of Netrunner if they bring it back in house in light of that, given how successful The Witcher 3 was.

The other difference here from losing the 40k license, it seemed apparent that something was going on there for quite a while ahead of the actual announcement. There was rumbling from Conquest playtesters that they hadn't received new content for months in advance, and there was no public news regarding any of the GW IPs for a similar time frame. Compare that with Netrunner where we had a new deluxe expansion announced back in March. ****, we had an article about its contents within the last week. There was no overt indication anything was wrong. Obviously FFG would have known the date the license was set to expire but unlike in the GW case where it seems clear GW let them know in advance they had no plans to extend it, you get the impression they expected to get a renewal with Wizards no problem, and that they were just as blindsided about this cancellation as we are.

tl;dr this is similar to the GW situation, but feels like it was much more sudden and unexpected, even for FFG.

3 hours ago, Toni Wan Kenobe said:

Happy Friday!

I'd like to see a Defender Starfighter:

Not the prettiest IMHO, but I loved the cartoon as a kid...

My pales ran as Obi-Wan Adobe and Qui-Gon Rum as extras for the far star campaign.

On that note how about an alternate model run and make a Epic farstar?

Also I apologize for the attempted thread hijack, today is just lame, I'm venting everywhere I can find that's even tangentially related.

6 minutes ago, Otacon said:

Also I apologize for the attempted thread hijack, today is just lame, I'm venting everywhere I can find that's even tangentially related.

Hang in there friend.

8 minutes ago, Otacon said:

Also I apologize for the attempted thread hijack, today is just lame, I'm venting everywhere I can find that's even tangentially related.

Hope it’s not as bad as this.

8 minutes ago, Cubanboy said:

Hope it’s not as bad as this.

Ouch. I have friends in the 501st, from them you really don't want to fall in one of those costumes, though for what it's worth I get the impression from the look of it that that was purpose made for being able to do that, rather than a straight up stormtrooper outfit.

16 hours ago, Odanan said:

The question is Large or Huge.

Doesn't look that huge on zur picture, but ok let's settle for large then ?

16 hours ago, Cubanboy said:

Looks legit.