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On 10/20/2020 at 1:53 AM, Revan Reborn said:

I'd honestly prefer if FFG released single-ship expansions for the Acclamator, Consular, Munificent, and Hardcell ships before the Lucrehulk and Republic Arquitens are released. Whether the 4 starter ship expansions are considered Wave 3 or not, I don't know. (Perhaps classify them as a delayed Wave 1.)

I think the Lucrehulk and Republic Arquitens are safe bets for Wave 3 -- although there's a big size disparity in those ships. Either the Republic should also get a large/huge ship, like a Mandator II, and the Separatists a small ship (?), so that wave is symmetrical. I've previously mentioned that I hope the Lucrehulk will come with a detachable Core Ship. Perhaps there will be a separate CIS Core Ship expansion released alongside the Lucrehulk battleship expansion. The Core Ship would probably be a medium ship rather than small, so it might not match up with the Arquitens, but I think it would be acceptable.

The Republic Stealth Ship should be released in Wave 4.

After Wave 3/4, the Separatists should definitely get the Malevolence/Subjugator heavy cruiser as a huge ship -- perhaps in a non-wave, similar to the SSD.

I wouldn't be surprised if FFG releases a second Venator expansion with 2 new variants, similar to what they did with the Chimaera expansion.

After those Clone Wars ships are released, I'm not very enthused about the remaining prospects. I don't care about a Dreadnaught or CR70 or Republic Victory SD. I'd rather FFG created some new Clone Wars ships, similar to what they did with the Starhawk and Onager.

I’d like to see those releases but I don’t want them to be a special wave or even really add anything you dont find in the core. I just want them to be an alternative purchasing method.

But if they do choose to add stuff, new variants are a good way to help me justify my plasticrack addiction.

4 hours ago, Madaghmire said:

I’d like to see those releases but I don’t want them to be a special wave or even really add anything you dont find in the core. I just want them to be an alternative purchasing method.

But if they do choose to add stuff, new variants are a good way to help me justify my plasticrack addiction.

I know, the single-ship expansions for the CW Starter ships should not be their own Wave. They should be classified as a "delayed Wave 1". Or just tacked on to Wave 3 or 4.

Based on what FFG said at Virtual GenCon, those Starter single-ships will be released, but it doesn't seem like FFG is in any hurry. Like I said before, I suspect they're trying to compel players to buy more $100 Starters to get the ships they want. Then they'll release the Starter-ship expansions and players will be compelled to buy at least 1 of each for the unique Commander and ship titles in those expansions. Every ship expansion has unique cards -- even in the case of the Nebulon-B, which was the only ship expansion not to include a Commander, but it had unique Neb-B ship titles.

The ship titles are another reason why Starter-ship expansions are so important. Each faction Fleet Starter might only have one ship title per ship type -- the same as the original Armada core set.

If we're stuck with only one choice of ship title for each Starter ship until FFG finally decides to release the Starter-ship expansions, it's going to be incredibly lame !