7 minutes ago, ScummyRebel said:

What I am hoping (but not expecting): first universal operative Hondo Ohnaka.

I'd love that, but I'm not expecting Hondo until FFG gets around to a "Scum and Villainy" faction (still with cards for every faction).

I think an accessories announcement is more likely, quite possibly paint sets for the Clone and Droids.

2 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

Nope.

To be fair.... software devs always have evolving requirements where the customers go back and add features while the project is in flight. At least, every single customer I’ve ever worked with, whether outside party or a “customer” as in another department of the same company. Hard to stay on time when the quote of time is not for the same product that ends up delivered

The joke is that I"m a software developer.

1 hour ago, Caimheul1313 said:

I think an accessories announcement is more likely, quite possibly paint sets for the Clone and Droids.

Least possible exciting announcement, which unfortunately makes it all the more likely.

Just now, ScummyRebel said:

Least possible exciting announcement, which unfortunately makes it all the more likely.

Yeah, but until we know what they are, lots of hype!

I have it on pretty good authority that the single unit preview will be...

… an Imperial Operative - The Mandalorian with Baby Yoda counterpart. The only issue is that he defects to your opponent's force half way thru Round 3.

2 hours ago, Alan Noir said:

I'd say the odd numbered one will be some sort of imperial/generic droid combo to balance out r2d2 and c3p0.

BT and 000 from the comics, 4lom amd Zuckus, Cad bane and his Droid pal? Or some other slippery pan CIS/Empire operative.

Why would they give empire that when no one else has bounty, no reason to give a similar unit to the empire

So the announcement is that they have 5 new things to preview 😀 but still can’t manage to deliver all their previous previewed products. 🤨

Honestly, I drop consultants with this kind of delivery history from the approved contractor list at work. Just saying.

27 minutes ago, Kwatchi said:

Honestly, I drop consultants with this kind of delivery history from the approved contractor list at work. Just saying.

Same. The company I work at just picked up a quarter million dollar job because of a contractor that failed to meet deadlines and communicate delays...

FFG isn't a real company, it's just 3 clowns in an overcoat pretending to be a company.

1 hour ago, Darth Sanguis said:

1 hour ago, Kwatchi said:

Honestly, I drop consultants with this kind of delivery history from the approved contractor list at work. Just saying.

Same. The company I work at just picked up a quarter million dollar job because of a contractor that failed to meet deadlines and communicate delays...

At least they are being upfront and early about this info, it is progress in the right direction................................... Unless they knew about this massive delay and only became more "open" about dates to make them look better!!

4 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

I wouldn’t count on an r2/3PO imperial counterpart, in large part because that helps get the Rebels extra VP like bounty does.

What I am hoping (but not expecting): first universal operative Hondo Ohnaka.

They could do 0-0-0 and BT as the imperial counterpart just that they would be a death machine with no bonus VP?? As for Hondo yes yes yes yes!! So much hype if it was him, I would preorder that day.

4 hours ago, Caimheul1313 said:

I'd love that, but I'm not expecting Hondo until FFG gets around to a "Scum and Villainy" faction (still with cards for every faction).

I think an accessories announcement is more likely, quite possibly paint sets for the Clone and Droids.

Ya that is my bet as well. Cassian/Iden, commander/opertive for CIS/GAR, and a random something nobody asked for lol.

They mentioned at one point having Lando come out "sooner than later", but having 4/5 products in this "wave" be for GCW would be a bit extreme...

Bit of a bummer, really looking forward to r2! That said my wallet will be happy

If* they do go the route of an imperial complementary release for the escape pod I could see something like this...

Big size. Droidy. Iconic. Air of secret mission about it...

*If

maybe the four factions commanders/operators and a clone wars core paint set

probs

but we still need more support on the new factions

No new releases this year? I'm sad... but my wallet sure ain't... XD

I hear that!

To be honest delays are to be expected, FFG knock out some awesome games, and so I feel we should just wait and see when the goodies arrive. They get here when they get here, if a product slips, so be it. As long as the game system in itself is good, and not under threat then it is all good. We will get what we are after over time, I for one would like Ewoks for Endor & more poses for the core troops, or even core troop packs that are totally multi pose along the same lines as GW marines etc, Oh and an FFG AT-AT!, also Yoda would be cool. If they did that and it was delayed, so be it, as long as we get the products at some point it's all good, (as long as we are not talking years).

Regards

Perry

Yeah, just look at X-wing. They surprised announced that 3 products were cancelled a month out from release (Saw's partisans, Tie Reaper and Imperial Raider 2.0)

Honestly, I'd love to have Pre Visla make an appearrance as a commander, with "Deathwatch Warriors" as Elite unit.

7 hours ago, KommanderKeldoth said:

Yeah, just look at X-wing. They surprised announced that 3 products were cancelled a month out from release (Saw's partisans, Tie Reaper and Imperial Raider 2.0)

Like, cancelled entirely? Or just delayed? Seems crazy that they'd cancel an expected expansion, people would be extremely pissed off... Or at least I would if 3 Legion expansions got cancelled...

4 minutes ago, Xclbr1 said:

Like, cancelled entirely? Or just delayed? Seems crazy that they'd cancel an expected expansion, people would be extremely pissed off... Or at least I would if 3 Legion expansions got cancelled...

The Reaper and Saw's Partisans came with 1.0/2.0 cards and bases in the package about a month or two from 2.0's release and then were soon OOP as I recall. Proper 2.0 releases of both came out later (or are coming out soon?).

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We had previously announced that we were releasing the Saw's Renegades Expansion Pack and the TIE Reaper Expansion Pack in "black boxes"—i.e. matching the rest of the second edition product, no first edition cards included within. The business team took a look at our stock, and it just didn't make sense to create those. The "grey boxes" released at the end of first edition included both first edition and second edition content, and there are still a ton of the grey boxes in stores. Because of that, we're pulling the black boxes from the release schedule, and will not be producing those. Anyone interested in that content should just get the grey boxes, which as I mentioned, should be readily available. Let me know if there are any questions! Hopefully this shouldn't ruffle too many feathers, but I'm sorry about the miscommunication!
Evan Johnson, FFG

So yeah, basically the business side of FFG says there's plenty of those hybrid 1.0 boxes in the wild, so there's no reason for them to order new batches of just 2.0 at the time. Raider was given a similar explanation, they have plenty of the 1.0 boxes and the conversion kit exists, and the idea seems to be that the actual business guys realized this only after the game and marketing team had pulled the trigger on announcements. Not great, but still a bit of a new wrinkle.

It should be noted this is vastly different from Legion, these are all products for a second edition of a game where they did, in fact, already have existing 1.0 releases. Legion would not cancel production of a product this way simply because they're not making any products like this. We don't have multiple editions or conversion kits.