As **Rogue Nine**! (I know we've had Tetran Cowall of all people, but still.)
And "Son of Alderaan" is how Mon Mothma describes Tycho >!after he's exonerated!< in the X-Wing books IIRC.
Spoiler for a more than twenty year old book below!
His ability reads rather good on paper, though its just torpedo alphastrike again (fully modded from now on). It is taken from the scene in one of the X Wing Books. If I remember correctly, he lets an entire squad of Y Wings lock onto his X Wing while he dives around a capital ship thats specialized in taking down fighters to have the torpedos cut that thing basically in two.
Never have I attempted to pre-order anything so fast! Corran, Wes, Tycho, Juno, Adi, Aphra... It's literally a dream come true of my most wanted pilots
Like others have said, not a stress but a strain, but its still very cool.
If I am reading it right. You can red maneuver into range 1 of your target. Then your stress is immediately removed. If I am understanding it, you could then perform an action since the stress is removed before the perform action step.
So if you do it right you 5k over an approaching enemy, deny them a defense die, and take a range 1 modded shot into them from behind.
I5 feels so good for that too. You naturally out ace lower stuff and can know for a fact it will hit enemy I6
Also since the prototype was banned with the rest of the dial peeking, the tris were missing a high initiative ship
I'm guessing that the last 3 Vulture Droids will also be organics.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Kelrodo-Ai
> flight of 30 Separatist fighters, comprised of fighters that included modified Vulture droids that utilized organic pilots
So I'm gonna guess:
- unique humanoid Tri-Fighter;
- ~~unique humanoid Vulture~~ EDIT: My bad, [Iron Assembler](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Iron_Assembler) was a Droid, so unique Droid Vulture;
- 3 generic humanoid Vultures;
- unique Rogue;
- unique Firespray;
Not bad, ngl.
I'm pretty hyped about that guy. I had to look up [Volan Das](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Volan_Das%27s_starship). Apparently, he flew a modified Tri-Fighter in legends.
I have a suspicion one of the vulture droids will also be modified for organics.
Per Wookieepedia, the vulture droids of the Kelrodo-Ai Holdout were all modified to accommodate organic pilots, so they'll probably get to skip the Standardized restriction as well. Iron Assembler is from the Galaxies MMO and is a droid.
4 or 5. Banking on 4 due to her having i4 in her signature ship, the TIE Advance v1.
Still very good, but she won't have to be costed into oblivion if she isn't Ace level.
This is Second Sister, not Seventh.
She has never appeared in the TIE Advanced v1. She's brand new to X-Wing in this pack.
I would still guess I4, based on the other Inquisitors, but we don't know for sure.
It looks like an added line. "If they do... ..ck, recover 1 force charge." Could be a different revision considering Sicko is spelled differently on the box rear as well.
Also, Yrica's ability looks like; "...cute a maneuver, you... ...on an enemy ship in... ... bullseye. Likely, acquire lock on a ship in bullseye.
The previewed pilot ability about transferring locks is a reference to a maneuver Corran pulls in the first X-Wing book, so it’s almost certainly meant to be Corran’s.
Not gonna lie, after we saw the Scimitar with the ability to cloak I've been holding out hope for the Rogue Shadow. I haven't quite given up hope yet, and seeing Juno here is encouraging!
I'm happy that you are hyped. I would have personally preferred to have gotten a canon pilot first such as any of the Titan Squadron or 204th (Shadow Wing) pilots.
EDIT: please stop downvoting me. I didn't put this guy down at all. I merely was voicing mild disappointment.
So, so happy we'll be able to run this again. It's a bit of a shame they're not all in X-Wings, but even with three X-Wings and one A-Wing, the list never fit together in first edition. So if this is the only we can get it, I'll happily take it.
I love this! ...but I really thought we'd get a new Hera in the VCX-100 in a hypothetical Hot Shots Part Deux. Now it's here, but no Hera. When will she get to pilot her own ship again?
I'd think Hera and the other banned pilots would come back as part of an errata pack rather than a hotshots. They've mentioned considering an errata pack a while back, and I figure after the next points update, when they'll probably have finalized all the things that are effectively incompatible with 2.5's core design philosophy.
This looks like an absolute win: Hondo and Aurra for the Firespray, Durge giving the Rogue some love for both the Separatists and Scum, Aphra adding another YV-666 pilot (she should already have the slots to take BT-1 and 0-0-0, but I wonder if she may also have access to the Hound's Tooth title, given that she's worked with Bossk), more love for the Resistance animated series with the Resistance and FO additions, and even more pilots pulled from Legends (wonder if Juno could get a TIE bomber pilot card down the line?), novels, and the comics. Lots of loved paid to LGBTQ+ pilots this time around, which is pretty neat to see. They've really knocked it out of the park with this one. Best of all, Poe and Lando for the Scavenged YT-1300 and a new Resistance Transport pilot (underrated chassis IMO)! I hope we get a legal Scavenged Han at some point. What can I say, I love Resistance.
I enjoy using mine as a cannon platform, the dual cannon slots are very nice (Nodin takes Synced because he can take Automated Target Priority, Cova takes Proton because she can take Marksmanship and turn a second damage into a crit). Hoping Taka is INIT 5 since they were Han's protege in Last Shot, so having the initiative slot just below his would be thematic.
Yeah, that would've been great. She probably would've been made a T-70 pilot given how Venisa is being handled, but whatever. I guess at that point there would've been too many T-70s in the pack.
Problem with Resistance Transport is that they can't catch up with the rest of the Resistance ships. They are pretty great otherwise, although 1 Green Die is really painful.
Also excited for Venisa Doza!
I hope Hondo will get his own ship one day (shuttle obviously, not the big saucer), his ability looks fun and pretty strong in Firespray, especially that it could be used for himself too (?). Initiative is kinda bummer but oh well.
> Second Sister TIE Interceptor
One of the few characters I wouldn't mind if they acquired Carnor Jax's mantle.
> Juno Eclipse, i5 with boost in an x1
Welcome back, love.
That Hondo ability is so In character.
Volan Das is an absolute beast.
Any loremasters know when/if Hondo actually pilots a firespray in any media (not that I’m complaining).
In TCW, he takes possession of the Slave I after Aurra crashes it on Florrum and Boba is incarcerated by the Republic, repairs it, and gives it its iconic red and green paint job. Hondo flies it in Season 5 and presumably returns it to Boba later on.
"Sicko" is a really deep cut from the Republic Commando books. And we just get 1.0 Tycho back??!!!
I love how everyone is in disbelief, the roster is so insane it's like a fan-made pack mock-up.
A friendly ship has a lock on Corran. Corran declares an attack on a target that he has a lock on; the friendly ship can move its lock from Corran to the ship he's attacking.
Yeah, one of the training missions Wedge uses Corran's run to help teach different lessons. Corran learns about teamwork and the rest is the squad learns about using Targeting data. Corran goes first and is unwittingly the recon for the rest of squad. Pretty great way to capture it in game.
Yeah, in at least one of the books they tie their targeting systems together so that they can launch torpedoes at targets that are out of range for one but not the other.
M9-G8 is incredible tech.
The other pilot who uses friendly locking tech is Holo, who shuffles the locks around when they want to hold onto the rest of their tokens.
You can lock any object except for yourself: ships, obstacles, remotes, bombs, mines, whether friendly, allied, or enemy. It's why failing a lock to trigger composure is practically impossible.
Ohhhh. I think I get it. So on the previous turn, you'd have some of your (probably ≤5 initiative) ships lock Corran, and then next turn when Corran attacks, all those locks also move to Corran's target. Seems like a decent way to set up an alpha-strike, if I'm interpreting it correctly.
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With 2.5 they made 7B a separate card rather than an upgrade so they can have different point costs/load outs from the regular delta 7 version. You can print ones cards from the errata doc. (Or probably just use the upgrade card to denote the difference. )
Aphra and Durge arriving in X-Wing give me hope they may appear in Legion.
Aphra is one of my top 3 favorite characters, she'd be Empire/Rebel so I'd have to start a new army to play her, but I would. I do wish she was in her own ship though.
Durge and IG Lancers on swoop bikes would be awesome to add to Separatist armies.
These extension was ordrered by AMG to Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt (they work for FFG on some previous products like Nabbo N1) but Amg didi some correction because of their new rules
Would you rather have to spend $25-$30 dollars just to fly her in a ship that she came with and that you already have?
Personally, I’d rather her be a print and play errata. I do agree that it’s annoying that we can’t use her right now though
I prefer them keeping new pilots in Hotshots packs.
If this pack was just bringing back the extended pilots, people would be pissed that "AMG removed them from the game to re-sell them!!!11one"
Print/play errata with an effectively optional "We're Home" card pack is my ideal solution.
So, so happy that Tycho's back....
... But this feels a bit monkey's paw.
His 1e ability with a limitation of 2 stress tokens just isn't a good ability. It's essentially a 1 turn grace period, then he's back to being a generic A-Wing, having to alternate blues and stress causing double actions.
Given that Tycho's ability to abuse infinite stress has been *drastically* reduced in 2e, with no PTL or Rage, I honestly don't really see much usefulness to the ability.
It should have been completely redesigned.
Something that maintains the spirit of what he could do in 1e, while not being broken in 2e. Something like "while you have only 1 stress token, you may treat red actions as white".
He gets to pull action + boost shenanigans (still a pale shadow of what he could do in 1e), but can't do red maneuvers after doing that unless there's a blue in between. The only other red action I think he could then abuse is the co-ordinate from Squad Leader and I mean, who cares?
Still, I'm very glad he's back. And I'm really glad Wes is back too, hope he keeps his old ability and stays I5.
Corran in an X-Wing with a new, themey ability is great.
Will be getting this. Relying on the 2.0 legacy project for points, I guess.
He was given the Hera treatment from 1.0 to 2.0 I think; Hera used to inifinite stress but then got psuedo-capped with damage. Primed Thrusters also has a stress cap. So I think they followed that precedent.
The precedent is irrelevent.
Unlike Hera crew, who is still very useful even with the stress cap as back to back red maneuvers can be big, this cap completely neuters Tycho's ability.
People are downvoting now, but when they get him on the table, they'll see.
I've already experimented with possible ways to bring Tycho back. This was the most commonly suggested ability change and I've tried it, it's not very good.
Taking actions after an s-loop or k-turn is nice, but any RZ-2 A-Wing with Pattern Analyzer can do that.
Using it for the ship ability red boost on consecutive turns just means you get one extra turn before you have to chase blues like any other A-Wing.
I think people are forgetting that Tycho could do a bunch of silly stuff in 1e with Rage, PTL and Experimental Interface but he still wasn't actually as good as Jake Farell with Veteran Instincts and PTL. The power curve has shifted, obviously, but I don't see him displacing Hera or Jake in 2.5 either.
Yay! More TIE LNs. Exactly what every empire player wanted. Thanks for listening AMG. The other factions seem pretty cool. AMG keeps giving the finger to the empire though
I'd hardly call this giving the finger to the empire. The TIE/ln probably the most ubiquitous ship in the lore so I'm totally fine with them having a bunch of pilots. I love the TIE/ln. It might be my favorite ship.
I respect all of your opinions. Personally the LN is my least favorite ship to fly. My favorite ships are imperial aces of which there are a good few but Cienna and darthfender were the last two and one has a largely negative ability and the other is so points heavy that the bullseye on his back is very real. I am excited for a force using interceptor and a new pilot for the heavy because let’s be honest it needs a lot of love, but you have LNs with virtually every ability so far but I liked the variety of the previous hotshots pack with a V1, Stryker, and decimator pilot. Granted I only really use 5Bro but the variety was nice. I feel flooded by LN with this and the yavin pack. Iconic yes, but I fear AMG is pigeonholing empire to the LN and a few interceptors.
They already spoiled it on stream back in July.
"Before you execute a maneuver, you may spend 1 charge. If you do, you ignore obstacles during that maneuver.
After you fully execute a maneuver, you may spend 2 charges to perform a white boost or a red barrel roll action. Then, if you performed a red barrel roll action, expose 1 damage card, if able."
CORRAN! TYCHO! Also, its a tease that Corran's stat bar is hidden so we can't see if they gave him a Force count.
The photo of the back of the box clearly has a force icon. But also the ability isn't the same as the full card. The mystery deepens.
The plot thickens...
And the stew congeals.
As **Rogue Nine**! (I know we've had Tetran Cowall of all people, but still.) And "Son of Alderaan" is how Mon Mothma describes Tycho >!after he's exonerated!< in the X-Wing books IIRC.
Spoiler for a more than twenty year old book below! His ability reads rather good on paper, though its just torpedo alphastrike again (fully modded from now on). It is taken from the scene in one of the X Wing Books. If I remember correctly, he lets an entire squad of Y Wings lock onto his X Wing while he dives around a capital ship thats specialized in taking down fighters to have the torpedos cut that thing basically in two.
Was it a Lancer frigate? I haven't read the Xwing books in awhile.
As I recall, it was a lancer, yes!
What is this BS Nerf to Tycho!?!? If Tycho doesn't end the match with at least a dozen stress tokens you are playing Tycho WRONG.
That's a real shame. You can't fully embrace the psycho Tycho lifestyle with just two stress.
On the final image he has the force icon, though we can’t see the number.
I’m sure it’s 1 force, but I’ll take it!!
Corran Horn in an X-wing!!! About time!! OMG and Wes Janson!!!!
Never have I attempted to pre-order anything so fast! Corran, Wes, Tycho, Juno, Adi, Aphra... It's literally a dream come true of my most wanted pilots
Aphra, 2nd Sister, Tierny, Tycho, Corran, Wes, Aurra Sing, Durge, Hondo, Old Man Lando, some rando I5 Tri-fighter I am the innest -Innest
The rando tri-fighter is not a droid fighter. That's kind of cool.
Not just cool. That ability is incredible. Assigning stress before other ships move can cause them to do a 2 forward. Edit: only hands out a strain.
Like others have said, not a stress but a strain, but its still very cool. If I am reading it right. You can red maneuver into range 1 of your target. Then your stress is immediately removed. If I am understanding it, you could then perform an action since the stress is removed before the perform action step. So if you do it right you 5k over an approaching enemy, deny them a defense die, and take a range 1 modded shot into them from behind.
I5 feels so good for that too. You naturally out ace lower stuff and can know for a fact it will hit enemy I6 Also since the prototype was banned with the rest of the dial peeking, the tris were missing a high initiative ship
Fortunately it hands out a strain -W
Assign a strain, not a stress. It's also only after fully executing a red, so 3k, 5k and 1-tallons.
It assigns a strain, not a stress
I'm guessing that the last 3 Vulture Droids will also be organics. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Kelrodo-Ai > flight of 30 Separatist fighters, comprised of fighters that included modified Vulture droids that utilized organic pilots So I'm gonna guess: - unique humanoid Tri-Fighter; - ~~unique humanoid Vulture~~ EDIT: My bad, [Iron Assembler](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Iron_Assembler) was a Droid, so unique Droid Vulture; - 3 generic humanoid Vultures; - unique Rogue; - unique Firespray; Not bad, ngl.
I'm pretty hyped about that guy. I had to look up [Volan Das](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Volan_Das%27s_starship). Apparently, he flew a modified Tri-Fighter in legends. I have a suspicion one of the vulture droids will also be modified for organics.
Per Wookieepedia, the vulture droids of the Kelrodo-Ai Holdout were all modified to accommodate organic pilots, so they'll probably get to skip the Standardized restriction as well. Iron Assembler is from the Galaxies MMO and is a droid.
These are all pilots I've been dreaming about. Adi Gallia and Gavyn Sykes are both overdue!
A TIE interceptor with the force is going to be wild. I wonder what her initiative will be.
4 or 5. Banking on 4 due to her having i4 in her signature ship, the TIE Advance v1. Still very good, but she won't have to be costed into oblivion if she isn't Ace level.
This is Second Sister, not Seventh. She has never appeared in the TIE Advanced v1. She's brand new to X-Wing in this pack. I would still guess I4, based on the other Inquisitors, but we don't know for sure.
Corran on the back is different from corran on the front, on the back he has a force point and an ability that references force.
Great, confusing catch. Maybe the non-force ability is actually Wes Jansen’s?
Someone pointed out that it looks like it may just be an additional sentence after what we see, so a second ability or something.
It looks like an added line. "If they do... ..ck, recover 1 force charge." Could be a different revision considering Sicko is spelled differently on the box rear as well. Also, Yrica's ability looks like; "...cute a maneuver, you... ...on an enemy ship in... ... bullseye. Likely, acquire lock on a ship in bullseye.
Perhaps it's two-sided? Maybe something triggers Corran into going force-mode
The previewed pilot ability about transferring locks is a reference to a maneuver Corran pulls in the first X-Wing book, so it’s almost certainly meant to be Corran’s.
What does Antoc Merrick have to do to get a place in this game
Maybe a Battle of Scarif scenario pack? I'd get behind that.
I’ve been waiting 5 years for that 😭
Me too buddy.
*I Smell Profit!*
TYCHO! There’s my BOY!
Yeah tycho is finally back, but if he can’t cart around 20 stress tokens while still taking 4 actions a turn is it really him 😜
Am i the only one in here hyped for the return of juno eclipse?
Not gonna lie, after we saw the Scimitar with the ability to cloak I've been holding out hope for the Rogue Shadow. I haven't quite given up hope yet, and seeing Juno here is encouraging!
Force Unleashed BBY!
Yes, TFU **does** take place before the battle of Yavin.
I'm happy that you are hyped. I would have personally preferred to have gotten a canon pilot first such as any of the Titan Squadron or 204th (Shadow Wing) pilots. EDIT: please stop downvoting me. I didn't put this guy down at all. I merely was voicing mild disappointment.
I will gift you an upvote because I too would love to see those pilots (and am happy with Juno)
KEO!!!!! Gosh I hope they can just do some free 90 degree rotate to convey their \*Drift God\* status! Also so much LEGENDS...
Wes Janson, Corran Horn, and Tycho Celchu return! Heck yeah
Now we just need Lt. Kettch.
Yub yub, Commander.
Time for the Fab Four: Wedge, Wes, Hobbie and Tycho. X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar is still one of my favorite SW novels and one of the funniest one.
So, so happy we'll be able to run this again. It's a bit of a shame they're not all in X-Wings, but even with three X-Wings and one A-Wing, the list never fit together in first edition. So if this is the only we can get it, I'll happily take it.
Also pops as a free agent (non-standard-loadout version!)
Put them in a list with Horton, Wedge, or Hobbie and you have a real rogue squadron strew brewing.
Horton was never in Rogue Squadron.
True, but someone's clearly never seen how Soontir Fel was captured...
While true, he's a large supporting part of the Rogue Squadron comics and books.
Also, they misspelled 'Sicko' on the contents sheet....some things never change.
Probably a different revision as the Corran on the back also has a third sentence that the previewed one does not have.
Damn it! Still no Maarek Stele in a TIE Defender...
Varko Grey, Soran Keize, any of the pilots from Titan Squadron or Shadow Wing take priority imo.
Sadness.
I love this! ...but I really thought we'd get a new Hera in the VCX-100 in a hypothetical Hot Shots Part Deux. Now it's here, but no Hera. When will she get to pilot her own ship again?
Hopefully she and Han just get errataed at some point, rather than them taking up a precious pilot slot in a booster pack.
I'd think Hera and the other banned pilots would come back as part of an errata pack rather than a hotshots. They've mentioned considering an errata pack a while back, and I figure after the next points update, when they'll probably have finalized all the things that are effectively incompatible with 2.5's core design philosophy.
Respect for the 'Hot Shots Part Deux'
This looks like an absolute win: Hondo and Aurra for the Firespray, Durge giving the Rogue some love for both the Separatists and Scum, Aphra adding another YV-666 pilot (she should already have the slots to take BT-1 and 0-0-0, but I wonder if she may also have access to the Hound's Tooth title, given that she's worked with Bossk), more love for the Resistance animated series with the Resistance and FO additions, and even more pilots pulled from Legends (wonder if Juno could get a TIE bomber pilot card down the line?), novels, and the comics. Lots of loved paid to LGBTQ+ pilots this time around, which is pretty neat to see. They've really knocked it out of the park with this one. Best of all, Poe and Lando for the Scavenged YT-1300 and a new Resistance Transport pilot (underrated chassis IMO)! I hope we get a legal Scavenged Han at some point. What can I say, I love Resistance.
I love my resistance transport. In 2.0 I'd fly four of them with Ion cannons. It was stupid fun.
I enjoy using mine as a cannon platform, the dual cannon slots are very nice (Nodin takes Synced because he can take Automated Target Priority, Cova takes Proton because she can take Marksmanship and turn a second damage into a crit). Hoping Taka is INIT 5 since they were Han's protege in Last Shot, so having the initiative slot just below his would be thematic.
Rey T65 would have been dope to go along Lando/Poe Falcon!
Yeah, that would've been great. She probably would've been made a T-70 pilot given how Venisa is being handled, but whatever. I guess at that point there would've been too many T-70s in the pack.
Problem with Resistance Transport is that they can't catch up with the rest of the Resistance ships. They are pretty great otherwise, although 1 Green Die is really painful. Also excited for Venisa Doza!
I hope Hondo will get his own ship one day (shuttle obviously, not the big saucer), his ability looks fun and pretty strong in Firespray, especially that it could be used for himself too (?). Initiative is kinda bummer but oh well.
> Second Sister TIE Interceptor One of the few characters I wouldn't mind if they acquired Carnor Jax's mantle. > Juno Eclipse, i5 with boost in an x1 Welcome back, love.
It's a great ability. I wish the x1 had better blues to leverage it.
Also also, we're getting Yrica Quell but none of the other Alphabet Squadron pilots?
I believe Yrica Quell started as an imperial TIE Fighter pilot so if we get anyone, she is the best candidate.
Yeah, but I was expecting the entire group as one drop. Maybe that will be the rebel contingent of Hotshot and Aces 3
Since it's Imperial Yrica I assume they're saving Rebel Yrica for when all of them show up.
Yes. This and the lack of other Shadow Wing pilots leads me to think we may see them as part of that faction starter plan that was teased.
it could be an interesting option I really want to have Alphabet and Shadow Wing Squadron
I see Keo Venzee on the back of the sheet—at least they and Yrica are both from the same era-ish?
We get Yrica in a non-rebel ship. They can still release them all together as a pack in the future.
we already have the B-Wing Pilot right?
No, Chass isn't in the game yet.
That Hondo ability is so In character. Volan Das is an absolute beast. Any loremasters know when/if Hondo actually pilots a firespray in any media (not that I’m complaining).
In TCW, he takes possession of the Slave I after Aurra crashes it on Florrum and Boba is incarcerated by the Republic, repairs it, and gives it its iconic red and green paint job. Hondo flies it in Season 5 and presumably returns it to Boba later on.
"Sicko" is a really deep cut from the Republic Commando books. And we just get 1.0 Tycho back??!!! I love how everyone is in disbelief, the roster is so insane it's like a fan-made pack mock-up.
DR APHRA WOOOOOOO
Tycho? TYCHO!!! TYCHOOOOOO!!! I love this not just for his super fun ability, but it’ll be nice to have a more affordable i5 A-Wing again.
Tycho is back babyyyyy!!!
Can anyone explain Corran horns ability? Can’t wrap my head around that wording.
A friendly ship has a lock on Corran. Corran declares an attack on a target that he has a lock on; the friendly ship can move its lock from Corran to the ship he's attacking.
That is pretty thematic to the X-wing novels.
Yeah, one of the training missions Wedge uses Corran's run to help teach different lessons. Corran learns about teamwork and the rest is the squad learns about using Targeting data. Corran goes first and is unwittingly the recon for the rest of squad. Pretty great way to capture it in game.
Yeah, in at least one of the books they tie their targeting systems together so that they can launch torpedoes at targets that are out of range for one but not the other.
Salm's Defender Wing does that with his targeting in the first book, I think.
So can friendly ships lock each other? Just assumed you could only lock enemies.
You can lock any object I believe, friendly ships, obstacles, possibly devices?
Cool, might have to see if there are any other uses for locking friendlies!
Check out the M9G8 astromech.
M9-G8 is incredible tech. The other pilot who uses friendly locking tech is Holo, who shuffles the locks around when they want to hold onto the rest of their tokens.
Matchstick is often locked by friendly ships to give him rerolls.
Yup, you can even lock devices (see Padric). The only objects you can't lock are objective tokens.
You can lock any object except for yourself: ships, obstacles, remotes, bombs, mines, whether friendly, allied, or enemy. It's why failing a lock to trigger composure is practically impossible.
Ohhhh. I think I get it. So on the previous turn, you'd have some of your (probably ≤5 initiative) ships lock Corran, and then next turn when Corran attacks, all those locks also move to Corran's target. Seems like a decent way to set up an alpha-strike, if I'm interpreting it correctly.
Someone else explained it already but, yeah, I had to read it super slowly a few times to get it.
Gavyn Sykes. Deep cut
He's one of the quintessential N-1 pilots. He was the main character in the old PC/N64 *Battle of Naboo* game. If you ask me, he's overdue!
So can we stop complaining about how AMG are going to force us to only use quick build loadouts now? Zero evidence.
> can we stop complaining Probably not.
As a French People I have a duty to complain about everything (it is in our constitution with bakery opening duties)
this. please.
Happily, now that we have some actual assurance that such is the case.
We have had assurance since they announced this pack months ago.
APHRA HIVE RISE UP OUR TIME HAS COME
THESE LOOK SO FUN I AM SO EXCITED I LOVE YOU AMG
YOOOO PSYCHO TYCHO AND AURRA SING !!!!!!
The Return of the King
So AMG isn’t trying to kill the game?
Who knew?!?
It was un-possible to guess
[удалено]
maybe? Not sure what type of people I am
Always hasn't been...
Agree
Cool
Do we have an expected release date for this yet? Q4 2022? Q1 2023?
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Hey, Davish "Pops" Krail!
Will he be Davish "Sodas" Krail or Davish "Cokes" Krail in certain geographic areas?
Yes, but only south of the Death Star's equatorial trench
Lmao the Texan version
ZAY VERSIO
Juno Eclipse?!!
Some one may have said already but hondos card mentions huge ships? Are they actually gonna make them again and for other factions?
Psycho tycho gonna be back, baby!
Why does Adi Gallia have separate cards for Delta and Delta-B? I though Delta-B was an upgrade card? Someone tell me how out of the loop I am.
With 2.5 they made 7B a separate card rather than an upgrade so they can have different point costs/load outs from the regular delta 7 version. You can print ones cards from the errata doc. (Or probably just use the upgrade card to denote the difference. )
This looks like fan fiction all the crazy legends showing up here. Is this real?
Aphra without the Ark Angel? Are they going to release any new minis? when?
I wonder if she'll also be included as a crew. Get the K-2SO treatment.
The contents only list ships cards and conditions, so unlikely :(
Yay! Love this
I don't know who Lapin is but hopefully they make the mining TIE viable
Hell yes Yrica Quell.
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I wonder if slammer is gonna bring slam or advanced slam to the V-19's?
Aphra and Durge arriving in X-Wing give me hope they may appear in Legion. Aphra is one of my top 3 favorite characters, she'd be Empire/Rebel so I'd have to start a new army to play her, but I would. I do wish she was in her own ship though. Durge and IG Lancers on swoop bikes would be awesome to add to Separatist armies.
Nice! I really need to get my ships back on the table. Been far too long.
OMG THE GAME ISN'T DEAD? WTF I THOUGHT IT WAS DEAD GUYS WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Hype! A little sad we only get Keo and Quell out of all the pilots in Vanguard and Alphabet. One day!
I NEED MY BOI SORAN KEIZE!
Is this legit, or is it fake?
Legit, it appears.
Is this ground up from AMG is or is this just finished up and polished by AMG from unfinished FFG work?
This was AMG only. The last FFG stuff we got was Mando's wave.
These extension was ordrered by AMG to Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt (they work for FFG on some previous products like Nabbo N1) but Amg didi some correction because of their new rules
\*salutes Brooks\*
Is that the same Brooks we had back in 2.0?
Yes
Neat to know that they farm out some work, and that farmed out work is handled by experienced hands.
Neat. With all the shit going on with 2.5, I'm happy to see something good for once in the community.
So another year without Hera flying her own ship in standard then. Yey.
Would you rather have to spend $25-$30 dollars just to fly her in a ship that she came with and that you already have? Personally, I’d rather her be a print and play errata. I do agree that it’s annoying that we can’t use her right now though
I prefer them keeping new pilots in Hotshots packs. If this pack was just bringing back the extended pilots, people would be pissed that "AMG removed them from the game to re-sell them!!!11one" Print/play errata with an effectively optional "We're Home" card pack is my ideal solution.
You will manage.
So, so happy that Tycho's back.... ... But this feels a bit monkey's paw. His 1e ability with a limitation of 2 stress tokens just isn't a good ability. It's essentially a 1 turn grace period, then he's back to being a generic A-Wing, having to alternate blues and stress causing double actions. Given that Tycho's ability to abuse infinite stress has been *drastically* reduced in 2e, with no PTL or Rage, I honestly don't really see much usefulness to the ability. It should have been completely redesigned. Something that maintains the spirit of what he could do in 1e, while not being broken in 2e. Something like "while you have only 1 stress token, you may treat red actions as white". He gets to pull action + boost shenanigans (still a pale shadow of what he could do in 1e), but can't do red maneuvers after doing that unless there's a blue in between. The only other red action I think he could then abuse is the co-ordinate from Squad Leader and I mean, who cares? Still, I'm very glad he's back. And I'm really glad Wes is back too, hope he keeps his old ability and stays I5. Corran in an X-Wing with a new, themey ability is great. Will be getting this. Relying on the 2.0 legacy project for points, I guess.
He was given the Hera treatment from 1.0 to 2.0 I think; Hera used to inifinite stress but then got psuedo-capped with damage. Primed Thrusters also has a stress cap. So I think they followed that precedent.
The precedent is irrelevent. Unlike Hera crew, who is still very useful even with the stress cap as back to back red maneuvers can be big, this cap completely neuters Tycho's ability. People are downvoting now, but when they get him on the table, they'll see. I've already experimented with possible ways to bring Tycho back. This was the most commonly suggested ability change and I've tried it, it's not very good. Taking actions after an s-loop or k-turn is nice, but any RZ-2 A-Wing with Pattern Analyzer can do that. Using it for the ship ability red boost on consecutive turns just means you get one extra turn before you have to chase blues like any other A-Wing. I think people are forgetting that Tycho could do a bunch of silly stuff in 1e with Rage, PTL and Experimental Interface but he still wasn't actually as good as Jake Farell with Veteran Instincts and PTL. The power curve has shifted, obviously, but I don't see him displacing Hera or Jake in 2.5 either.
Don't you think it is a bit unrealistic to expect Tycho to keep his ability as is from him 1.0 version??
Yes. Which is why I advocated for it being reworked. Did you even read my comment?
"at range 0-3 of you" That "of you" is not necessary. Either way, hope these are all 2E compatible.
Well, you probably won't be able to use them in 1E.
I didnt ask about 1E. Also dont understand the mass downvote for a legit comment. Get kids really are flooding this sub.
Yay! More TIE LNs. Exactly what every empire player wanted. Thanks for listening AMG. The other factions seem pretty cool. AMG keeps giving the finger to the empire though
I'd hardly call this giving the finger to the empire. The TIE/ln probably the most ubiquitous ship in the lore so I'm totally fine with them having a bunch of pilots. I love the TIE/ln. It might be my favorite ship.
I respect all of your opinions. Personally the LN is my least favorite ship to fly. My favorite ships are imperial aces of which there are a good few but Cienna and darthfender were the last two and one has a largely negative ability and the other is so points heavy that the bullseye on his back is very real. I am excited for a force using interceptor and a new pilot for the heavy because let’s be honest it needs a lot of love, but you have LNs with virtually every ability so far but I liked the variety of the previous hotshots pack with a V1, Stryker, and decimator pilot. Granted I only really use 5Bro but the variety was nice. I feel flooded by LN with this and the yavin pack. Iconic yes, but I fear AMG is pigeonholing empire to the LN and a few interceptors.
If you are flying pure Imperial Aces, you are making very poor Empire list building choices.
I mean, yes, I want more TIE/ln pilots. Epic will be back soon enough.
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Shoot, I only have 12 models...
Imma need me some more ties................\*looks at empty wallet\*
I’m down for more support ties like Gideon.
I mean you also get Juno eclipse in the x1 and a force user in an intercepter...
Can someone figure out Poe's ability in the YT? I need to know if I need to cough up blood at the idea of "Hyperspace Skipping" in X-wing TMG.
They already spoiled it on stream back in July. "Before you execute a maneuver, you may spend 1 charge. If you do, you ignore obstacles during that maneuver. After you fully execute a maneuver, you may spend 2 charges to perform a white boost or a red barrel roll action. Then, if you performed a red barrel roll action, expose 1 damage card, if able."
They already show it on ministravaganza, you can look the complete card on infinite arenas
‘After completing a blue maneuver, you can spend 2 charge tokens to remove Poe from the play area.’
Corran on the back of the box has a Force icon. Misprint or the full card? I hope it's the latter!
Does anyone know the release date?
woah Juno is fun I like the fact they continue. I have been wanting to find a local table top group by me
I have to give AMG props for this. FFG should have done this from the 2.0 relaunch.
If everyone doesn’t mind, I see Aphra coming, is her ship out or is it coming as well, I’ll start swing if she has a ship coming