New guy here, buying the Republic starter set this week, ive had the original core set for a while but never really played with it as there wasnt much of a community near me (changing hopefully now with clone wars coming in)

are ship traits like transport and bombard going to be given to the Rebel and Imperial ships? are they only going to give those traits to new ships? have they gone back and given them to old ships?

Thanks in advance

They havent given these traits to old ships yet, but they said maybe in the future they will release a updated ship card pack with traits (and possible rebalancing) added to them

I'm guessing that Transport and Bombard must be something that you can do for points, or for some objectives.

It's going to make playing some objectives impossible if you're playing an Imperial or Rebel fleet. And if you turn up to a tournament with a Separatist fleet with an objective that you can score Bombard points from, and one of your opponents is running a Rebel fleet, they won't be able to do that.

Appreciate that not all the info is out yet, but the lack of updates for existing ship cards bothers me. Vic2 and Interdictor Combat Refit are two that are crying out for an update most IMO.

Maybe it’s a campaign thing.

Gernes said in the Gencon interview I believe that they're just keywords for ships, and will restrict certain upgrades, much like Clone Gunners.

38 minutes ago, flatpackhamster said:

I'm guessing that Transport and Bombard must be something that you can do for points, or for some objectives.

29 minutes ago, Formynder4 said:

Gernes said in the Gencon interview I believe that they're just keywords for ships, and will restrict certain upgrades, much like Clone Gunners.

This ☝. The traits dont do anything there just restrictions for upgrades so we will eventually see upgrades that say bombard only and transport only just how clone gunners and officer zak can only go on clone ships

Thanks for the replies guys, i was thinking about using those keywords in a galactic campaign that i am doing. Basically, armies can only be transported by a ship with transport etc. and ive been trying to balance it for all 4 factions. so far wwe only have the clone wars factions to worry about so i'll figure that out after playtesting a bit.