1 hour ago, Forgottenlore said:

Finally got a chance to demo legion here at GenCon, so this is good info for me as well.

You know me, bandwagon jumper and I like ground combat

Id say check out the master of the force batreps they are pretty representative of the current game state.

1 hour ago, Ophion said:

Id say check out the master of the force batreps they are pretty representative of the current game state.

Good to know

7 hours ago, Forgottenlore said:

Finally got a chance to demo legion here at GenCon, so this is good info for me as well.

Which table did you play on?

i only as I’m one of the guys demoing. ?

9 hours ago, FSD said:

Which table did you play on?

i only as I’m one of the guys demoing. ?

He probably picked on poor @Crabbok

lol

The Legion / Armada demo situation was strange.

Armada had nobody scheduled to demo it, so it was going to just sit there on a table. I was scheduled for Legion, but on the first day decided to cover both tables. This was difficult, because it was a bit overwhelming. On days, 2 and 3 I was strictly Armada - while one of the Legion tables was mostly un-manned . On the last day (today) i was judging for a legion tournament so no idea what they did with Armada. Hopefully someone was there.

21 minutes ago, Crabbok said:

lol

The Legion / Armada demo situation was strange.

Armada had nobody scheduled to demo it, so it was going to just sit there on a table. I was scheduled for Legion, but on the first day decided to cover both tables. This was difficult, because it was a bit overwhelming. On days, 2 and 3 I was strictly Armada - while one of the Legion tables was mostly un-manned . On the last day (today) i was judging for a legion tournament so no idea what they did with Armada. Hopefully someone was there.

Sad to hear... Likely no one responded to do it or those that could participated in the tournament.

17 hours ago, FSD said:

Which table did you play on?

i only as I’m one of the guys demoing. ?

I was on the Tatooine table Friday morning. Played rebels and managed to take down Vader and the speeder bikes, but didn’t have much of a force left after that.

Sunday I watched most of a demo on the same board. Whoever ran that one had “a bum knee”.

@Crabbok Yes, sadly, the Armada table was empty today.

Nice to read a informative post for the new players. I don't play the game currently as neither starter faction appealed to me. But, when the Clones and Clankers become available, I will be getting in to the game with the GAR.

On ‎8‎/‎3‎/‎2018 at 8:39 PM, Thevshi said:

Good question. The answer can get a bit complicated, but the short answer (as others have said) is, yes there are upgrades in expansion packs not in the core set, but from what we know so far, FFG seems committed to ensuring those new upgrades are always available to each faction in the expansions for the particular faction (i.e. an player that only plays the Empire will never need to buy a Rebel expansion to get an upgrade they want) and that there are a number of options for obtaining a new upgrade for a particular faction.

The longer answer requires a bit of explain how upgrades work.

Taking as an example, the Rebel Troopers unit available in the core set (and in an expansion) there are four upgrade slots that "can" be filled, if you choose to spend the points to do so (the other corps units have the same four slots as well):

1) A grenade slot,

2) A gear slot,

3) A personnel slot, and

4) A heavy personnel slot

Addressing the last two first, as TauntaunScout indicated, currently the only options for those slots are unit restricted upgrades that come in the core set and expansions (ie a fifth rebel trooper for the personnel slot and either a Z6 or Ion trooper for the heavy slot). The Stormtrooper, Rebel Fleet Trooper and Snowtrooper units each have their own heavy options that are restricted to them as well.

For the other two upgrade slots, as TauntaunScout stated above, the corps set comes with four versions of each type (one for each corps unit provided in the set), concussion grenades and targeting scopes. Focusing on just the oncussion grenades for this discussion, those grenades provide the unit with an attack that has the Blast keyword (which allows the attack to ignore any cover a unit has), making it useful against other corps units and speeder bikes. The core set is currently the only place you can get concussion grenades.

The other grenade option currently available is impact grenades, which provides the Impact keyword (which is useful for attacking units with the Armor keyword - the AT-RT, AT-ST and T47 currently). Currently, the only place to get an impact grenade is in corps unit expansions (Rebel Troopers, Rebel Fleet Troopers, Stormtroopers and Snowtroopers). I think impact grenades might also be available in the soon to come special forces unit expansions (Rebel Commandos and Biker Scouts), but I am not sure.

So, as you can see, if you want impact grenades, you need to buy at least one expansion set, but have options in which expansion(s) to get. There are a variety of other upgrades that have come with other units (or are coming with others) where FFG has similarly provided options for obtaining the particular upgrade.

Just a quick question. I'm getting ready for my first game this week. Does this mean a corp unit isn't able to take both heavy weapon options? As there is one heavy slot does that mean I have to take either ion or Z6? Can I not have both in one squad for a seven person squad?

1 minute ago, Tonytt1642 said:

Just a quick question. I'm getting ready for my first game this week. Does this mean a corp unit isn't able to take both heavy weapon options? As there is one heavy slot does that mean I have to take either ion or Z6? Can I not have both in one squad for a seven person squad?

Correct. There is one Heavy Weapon symbol on the card, so you can only take 1 Heavy Weapon upgrade.

Just now, Caimheul1313 said:

Correct. There is one Heavy Weapon symbol on the card, so you can only take 1 Heavy Weapon upgrade.

Thank you.