I predict Rebel Han will be playable as a vehicle enhancement, quite possibly with his pod also including the Falcon.
Escape From Hoth: Force pack #6
alpha5099 said:
Huh, I hadn't thought of that, I was just so excited for Rebel Han. It does seem unlikely Han, Toryn and Bright Hope are all in the same pod; it's feels like too many unique units for a pod, and I'm not sure how you fit Han into that pod when Toryn and Bright Hope fit together perfectly thematically. But on the other hand, two Rebel pods (or really two pods for any faction) in a single Force Pack would also surprise me. That really stiffs the other affiliations.
In fact, given that we already know from the preview, it could very well be that those two Rebel pods might be all the Light Side gets. We know the Neutral DS pod isn't Limit One, and so far we haven't seen any non-Neutral Limit Ones. If the Sith, Scum, and Rebel pods aren't Limit Ones, than that would cover the whole 60 cards of the pack.
We do know that there are 3 DS objective sets vs 2 LS ones… from the preview article:
The balance of the Force turns to the dark side in Escape from Hoth as it gains three of the Force Pack’s five new objective sets…
Hmm, that's right. So, either there are two Rebel pods, or one pod with a whopping three unique units. Weird as hell either way.
Hmm, all right, so we know the number of pods. I'm inclined to believe it'll be two Rebel sets. Three unique units per pod sounds way too high, and I just feel like thematically tying those three together would be hard. A Han pod's gotta be all Han all the time!
Hmm I see some interesting developments I did not notice before- rule book pg 16- "Cards with a resouce cost of '0' do not require a resource match to play". Cost reduction is going to be very big, thematically it makes more sense to have all DS to have it here and there- A bending of the rules to get what you want, but Smugspi should have it in spades
Also interesting that the Executor is not an Executor card.
MarthWMaster said:
Also interesting that the Executor is not an Executor card.
Were there other Executor cards already previewed? Or were you thinking they might do like Decipher did and give it locations and such?
The objective "Fall of the Jedi" has the trait Executer. So presumably they had some idea to have at least some cards key off of that at some point (similar to how Coruscant Defense Fleet protects cards with the Coruscant trait…
Yeah. Counsel of the Sith is also an Executor objective. Granted, there are no non-objective cards with the trait, but until it was previewed I did indeed assume that, much like the Death Star, the Executor would be treated more as a backdrop, and would not receive its own unit. And of course, should there come a time when a card lets you name a trait and do something involving cards with that trait, Executor objectives will be affected, and any future enhancements with that trait, but not the Executor itself. I just find this interesting.
Who says they cant make the death star into a card?
Nobody. But it could get a bit confusing to have a Death Star, a Death Star Dial, and objectives with the Death Star trait, none of which would have any direct gameplay connection.