https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/f7/9b/f79b916a-2cc4-4776-b773-426a89527509/swl_rules_reference_140_eng-compressed.pdf

My takeaway:

1. Ion is getting buffed against shields, which is great since Dekas will be a common sight at least during the early Clone Wars release.

2. Ram is dope since it can change a blank face to a crit.

3. Droids can't be poisoned, which makes sense.

4. Coordinate fire got nerfed. It was probably for the best since it could lead to an apocalyptic situation for the opponent under the right conditions.

5. I'm still not sure if it's worth it, but it seems like Wookies will now be brought back with 2 HP instead of 1.

Other than that it was mostly clarification for how rules interact, mostly for creature troopers and detachments.

A little disappointed they didnt say anything about the abilities of either droid or clone trooper units except that droids can't get poisoned...that Ram keyword though...so good

Creature Troopers on Huge bases? Rancor riders confirmed 😛.

3 minutes ago, Caimheul1313 said:

Creature Troopers on Huge bases? Rancor riders confirmed 😛.

Yes please!!!

In other news, looks like they made some clarifications on other rules (for instance, shored up the "multiple weapons in different attack pools without Arsenal X" loophole), and marked Crew and Armament upgrades as weapon upgrades.

Edit: And wheeled vehicles are quite possible. Rebel Tanks? I guess some of the GAR/CIS vehicles are also wheeled.

empire command card got "nerfed" by limiting the amount of aim tokens you can now pass

12 minutes ago, bllaw said:

A little disappointed they didnt say anything about the abilities of either droid or clone trooper units except that droids can't get poisoned...that Ram keyword though...so good

the coordinate fire is one of the abilities of the clone troopers.

13 minutes ago, bllaw said:

A little disappointed they didnt say anything about the abilities of either droid or clone trooper units except that droids can't get poisoned...that Ram keyword though...so good

FFG will likely do ANOTHER update prior to the drop of CW. This update is to cover up through Rebel Veterans/Tauntauns/Dewbacks/Shoretroopers.

11 minutes ago, thepopemobile100 said:

My takeaway:

1. Ion is getting buffed against shields, which is great since Dekas will be a common sight at least during the early Clone Wars release.

2. Ram is dope since it can change a blank face to a crit.

3. Droids can't be poisoned, which makes sense.

4. Coordinate fire got nerfed. It was probably for the best since it could lead to an apocalyptic situation for the opponent under the right conditions.

5. I'm still not sure if it's worth it, but it seems like Wookies will now be brought back with 2 HP instead of 1.

Other than that it was mostly clarification for how rules interact, mostly for creature troopers and detachments.

I don't think that's the case, as there's still the part in there about restoring a mini to one less than the wound threshold

1 minute ago, edmund_pevensie said:

I don't think that's the case, as there's still the part in there about restoring a mini to one less than the wound threshold

Wookies have a wound threshold of 3.

I can still read, right? Will this go into effect the day before it's released?

From the bottom of the announcement:

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Every product that has been released through the upcoming Imperial Shoretroopers and Dewback Rider Unit Expansions are supported by this update. All changes will formally go into effect on May 27th, 2019.

It's also on the pdf.

Just now, Duciris said:

I can still read, right? Will this go into effect the day before it's released?

From the bottom of the announcement:

well considering this is MAY 28th i say its already in effect

Just now, Caimheul1313 said:

Wookies have a wound threshold of 3.

I stand corrected

Wow, they really dropped the hammer on Coordinated Fire. That's really disappointing. It never seemed to work out that well for me, but this is just kinda lame.

23 minutes ago, thepopemobile100 said:

My takeaway:

1. Ion is getting buffed against shields, which is great since Dekas will be a common sight at least during the early Clone Wars release.

2. Ram is dope since it can change a blank face to a crit.

3. Droids can't be poisoned, which makes sense.

4. Coordinate fire got nerfed. It was probably for the best since it could lead to an apocalyptic situation for the opponent under the right conditions.

5. I'm still not sure if it's worth it, but it seems like Wookies will now be brought back with 2 HP instead of 1.

Other than that it was mostly clarification for how rules interact, mostly for creature troopers and detachments.

just saw this and realized that there isn't a coordinate fire in this just coordinate right now lol

1 minute ago, Alpha17 said:

Wow, they really dropped the hammer on Coordinated Fire. That's really disappointing. It never seemed to work out that well for me, but this is just kinda lame.

its not coordinate fire, its coordinate a different ability.

Would it kill them to make a printer friendly version? Sheesh. 🙄

1 minute ago, azeronbloodmoone said:

its not coordinate fire, its coordinate a different ability.

the coordinated fire card under the eratta section. the command card got nerfed

1 minute ago, bllaw said:

the coordinated fire card under the eratta section. the command card got nerfed

oh yeah the command card yeah that sucks.

5 minutes ago, Alpha17 said:

Wow, they really dropped the hammer on Coordinated Fire. That's really disappointing. It never seemed to work out that well for me, but this is just kinda lame.

It's power level was kind of out of line with the Rebel equivalent, especially since you can spend Aim tokens to re-roll zero dice, while the Rebel card is only ever 1 Dodge token.
Plus, the Empire has access to Pulling the Strings, which even with the new card wording allows the Empire to pass more aim tokens around.

i notice impervious/ immune pierce for sabine/dark saber wasn't clarified in this update interesting.

12 minutes ago, edmund_pevensie said:

I stand corrected

Do you?

Then, give that mini a number of wound tokens equal to one less than the wound threshold indicated on its unit card.

Doesn't that mean you're restoring the wookie with 1 health still?

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The jump x ability can be used any time a unit would
perform a move action or free move action, including while
using the dauntless keyword or when a friendly unit uses
the pulling the strings ablity.

I'm a little confused by this entry. If I activate Luke and perform TWO move actions with him, he still only gets to use his Jump card action ONCE, correct? This update is just letting me know if another affect grants Luke a move action, he could use the Jump card action?

31 minutes ago, Caimheul1313 said:

Creature Troopers on Huge bases? Rancor riders confirmed 😛.

It's probably Obi-Wan on that giant lizard thing.

Witches of Dathomir are actually the reason I stopped following the canon, though it wasn't called "canon" at the time. An unridden rancor I'd buy the **** out of though.

1 minute ago, Prokins said:

I'm a little confused by this entry. If I activate Luke and perform TWO move actions with him, he still only gets to use his Jump card action ONCE, correct? This update is just letting me know if another affect grants Luke a move action, he could use the Jump card action?

correct and also latter on it talks about when a unit is withdrawing/panicing to the edge of the field it can still use the jump ability to move to the edge faster.