3 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

On Death Abilities!!!!

Yeah I pointed out how it works earlier. Focus tokens will carry over to next round, don't receive them until after tokens would be cleared. Because after destroyed abilities wont trigger until just before the ship would be removed.

2 hours ago, reqent said:

It surprised me that it was so Rebel heavy I wonder if that will hold true for the other epic ships.

Naw.

The Raider is probably not going to have any Rebels in it at all.

I mean, unless it features a brig.

17 minutes ago, MegaSilver said:

Yeah I pointed out how it works earlier. Focus tokens will carry over to next round, don't receive them until after tokens would be cleared. Because after destroyed abilities wont trigger until just before the ship would be removed.

How does that follow? The ship is destroyed some time in the middle of the engagement phase.

The “destroyed” moment is separate from when removed from play. As evident by second sentence

23 minutes ago, astronautcowboy said:

I see. Well, I guess I just delayed my disappointment. Might save myself $80-100 now though!

I’m quite bummed myself on the republic content included after looking through the conversion again, but I don’t figure FFG will leave a lack of republic and separatists crew and commanders for long.....so new huge ships incoming soon???

5 minutes ago, Vykk Draygo said:

I’m quite bummed myself on the republic content included after looking through the conversion again, but I don’t figure FFG will leave a lack of republic and separatists crew and commanders for long.....so new huge ships incoming soon???

5 minutes ago, Vykk Draygo said:

I’m quite bummed myself on the republic content included after looking through the conversion again, but I don’t figure FFG will leave a lack of republic and separatists crew and commanders for long.....so new huge ships incoming soon???

New huge ships would be great. Perhaps this will explain why the Republic and Separatists were left off the card pack too: “ours” will be huge a ships card pack. Maybe...

Part of the reason I now want to hold off is to see if a Republic paint job is released for the CR-90, perhaps with actual Faction cards.

I missed this my first time going through the cards, but when I was taking a closer look at the title cards again, this caught my eye:

That's a Braha'tok gunship along-side the Thunderstrike!

25 minutes ago, ScummyRebel said:

How does that follow? The ship is destroyed some time in the middle of the engagement phase.

The “destroyed” moment is separate from when removed from play. As evident by second sentence

They recently ruled in the RR or FAQ or something that abilities that trigger "after a ship is destroyed" happen when the ship is removed from play. Presumably to nerf TA-175 from how people had been playing him, but this also kinda breaks Raymus from how I think they intended him to work. In this case, the focus would be passed out in the end phase, after round tokens are removed, since this ship is removed in the end phase.

EDIT: see rules reference screenshot on destroyed ships:

The devs just can’t win. OT players beg for more content, so they give them more content and suddenly the PT players feel left out

58 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

I mean, unless it features a brig.

Return of Rebel Captive confirmed!? 😉

These huge ships are looking like they are going to be real beasts like they should be. It looks like they took their time and really did a great job with epic. I wasn’t a fan in 1.0 but I will definitely try out a few epic games once it is rereleased.

49 minutes ago, ClassicalMoser said:

The devs just can’t win. OT players beg for more content, so they give them more content and suddenly the PT players feel left out

Fair, but I just don’t see a compelling reason why the old ships aren’t fleshed out even just a little bit more for the secondary factions. PR/ST epic play now seems like a total afterthought.

Maybe not five titles and four crew, but perhaps 2-3 of each? (I’m sure there’d still be people complaining about fairness. Personally I’d be happy to have more than just the one card though.)

1 hour ago, MegaSilver said:

Yeah I pointed out how it works earlier.

I'm just excited to see the mechanic getting explored. OTOH, I still think it needs more use in the game, if only for funsies:

1 hour ago, astronautcowboy said:

New huge ships would be great. Perhaps this will explain why the Republic and Separatists were left off the card pack too: “ours” will be huge a ships card pack. Maybe...

Part of the reason I now want to hold off is to see if a Republic paint job is released for the CR-90, perhaps with actual Faction cards.

Yeah, I think that is highly unlikely, which is why I'm pretty disappointed not to see blue accents as a 2.0 repaint.

27 minutes ago, Sasajak said:

Return of Rebel Captive confirmed!? 😉

I loved that card, just for it's in play hilarity of "No! No!! Don't shoot, I'm in here!!!"

I used to use it all the time; it would be awesome to see it back.

38 minutes ago, ClassicalMoser said:

The devs just can’t win. OT players beg for more content, so they give them more content and suddenly the PT players feel left out

I am so ready to table this ship for the Republic, Bail Organa or not.

I did a Scarlet Thranta repaint years ago; 100% ready to rock!!

(I'll post image later!!)

22 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

Yeah, I think that is highly unlikely, which is why I'm pretty disappointed not to see blue accents as a 2.0 repaint.

I completely agree. It’s a pipe dream to justify waiting, as I’m less compelled to jump in right away now.

(EDIT: My local community is pretty competition-focused, so I don’t really know how frequently it would see play anyway.)

26 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

I did a Scarlet Thranta repaint years ago; 100% ready to rock!!

(I'll post image later!!)

I've seen it; it looks good!

1 hour ago, Freeptop said:

I missed this my first time going through the cards, but when I was taking a closer look at the title cards again, this caught my eye:

That's a Braha'tok gunship along-side the Thunderstrike!

Of course, it's the Thunderstrike's companion ship right out of Twilight Company, still one of my favourite canon novels that no-one talks about. It's Gaunt's Ghosts in Star Wars!

5 hours ago, @ficklegreendice said:

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Who needs republic-only upgrades when you got Cody triggering like a madman?

Really late here, so maybe I am bit too slow to follow you. Are you want to have Cody on the Huge or Cody on a piddly 2dice Y-wing intentionally missing while firing before the Huge, thus having the Huge hit even harder?

As for Cody on the Huge. Cody triggers on miss, but the Huges hit pretty hard, so not that likely to miss. And as attacks cost energy (a lpt of precious energy if you fire several times) you normally would not try to miss to just trigger Cody? Also, the Huge engages at 0, so any Cody affected ships will not be attacked more this round, unless you have the hardpoints and the energy for several shots from the Cody Huge. Or more than one Huge ship on your side, which fires after the Huge Cody carrier.

Otherwise the Cody affected target(s) can try to dial in a blue move to get rid of the strain before being attacked by anyone. Granted you might force the blue maneuver(s), but that costs.

He is neat for 3pts, but is he triggering like a mad man?

1 hour ago, astronautcowboy said:

Fair, but I just don’t see a compelling reason why the old ships aren’t fleshed out even just a little bit more for the secondary factions. PR/ST epic play now seems like a total afterthought.

There still can be unannounced PT Huges in the making just waiting to be revealed, so a bit early to say it that way.

Dodonnas Pride is really sloppy rules text.

Should have been "Add 1 <Crew>. Add 1 <Cargo>".

With the current formulation "Add <Crew> and <Cargo> slots" I can totally see rules lawyers stupidly try to break this by wanting to add slots until they run out of points.

5 hours ago, ficklegreendice said:

Who needs republic-only upgrades when you got Cody triggering like a madman?

This presumes that the default Republic CR-90 has a Gunner.

To all the Republic players, this seems like a catch 22. They/we get very little here, but there will likely not be any new huge ships unless these first three sell well.

I've added all the Tantive cards from this article to Infinite Arenas:

http://infinitearenas.com/xw2browse

Select "Epic/Huge Q4 2019"/"Tantive IV"

I've gone through the Tantive IV content listing and compared against all articles and the huge ship demo stream. Here are the cards we haven't seen spoiled yet:

Stalwart Captain (Command/Crew card)

Gunnery Specialists (Team)

Adaptive Shields, Optimized Power Core, Tibanna Reserves (all Cargo cards)

If anyone has seen a card spoiled that I've missed, let me know!

I expect a future card pack to release that benefits both Separatist and Republic in epic games. There may be a wait, but they'll take care of you filthy prequel players.

Or prequel factions will get faction-specific huge ships and it won’t matter.

31 minutes ago, J1mBob said:

I've added all the Tantive cards from this article to Infinite Arenas:

http://infinitearenas.com/xw2browse

Select "Epic/Huge Q4 2019"/"Tantive IV"

I've gone through the Tantive IV content listing and compared against all articles and the huge ship demo stream. Here are the cards we haven't seen spoiled yet:

Stalwart Captain (Command/Crew card)

Gunnery Specialists (Team)

Adaptive Shields, Optimized Power Core, Tibanna Reserves (all Cargo cards)

If anyone has seen a card spoiled that I've missed, let me know!

Missed a couple listed on the C-ROC product page that haven't been spoiled yet. IG-RM Droids being one.

3 hours ago, Darth Meanie said:

I did a Scarlet Thranta repaint years ago; 100% ready to rock!!

(I'll post image later!!)

Posting to see this when you get to it!!!

I’m primarily OT era myself, but I do dabble in the Republic and FO. I imagine the generic commander cards that are in all three expansions as well as the conversion will see my CR-90 getting some PT era tabletime until we have more faction specific commanders.