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Yeah,
But they can't be at the factory as they are for sale at gen con with label saying available now.

August is/was the intended street date.

Panic...

 Panic wrote:
Yeah,
But they can't be at the factory as they are for sale at gen con with label saying available now.

August is/was the intended street date.

Panic...

They can if they made a limited initial run and had it air freighted over like they did both with x-wing's initial release last year at gencon and over Christmas with wave 2 being included in prize support only but not for regular sale. It is technically "available now" at gencon but it's also technically not "available now" anywhere else.

yeah!
LARGE ships incoming! early 2014!
Tantive IV and Rebel Transport are in Wave 4.
$90 Tantive IV
$60 Rebel Transport








Plus varient x-wing??
PAnic...

SWEET!

Blockade Runners and the escaping cargo ships.

I heard a thousand dollars screaming out, then they were suddenly silenced. I feel something wonderful has happened.



Wait, that's not how it goes...

Argh, my wallet, the pain...

This game keeps on getting better. Can't wait for spoilers on them.

Ok, that's totally awesome. What will they do with the Empire, however? They don't really have any iconic small warships, there's some stuff in the expanded universe, lancers, carracks, modular taskforce cruisers and so on, but FFG seems to want to stick with more well known stuff. I can't see even a Victory class Star Destroyer fitting in this scale comfortably.

Wow.. I have to say I'm a bit surprised and yet not surprised at the big ship announcement. The fact that popular fan made scenarios and conversions didn't escape their notice isn't surprising but the risk in going for their own "big" ships is. I'd be worried about the balance with those ships though from looking at them (and I'm talking about center of gravity tipping over balance rather than in game utility). Those stems are tiny but I do admit the plastic they use for the ships is quite light weight.

Well crap. At least it is 2014. But sign me up for one corvette and 2 transports.

Empire could get the IPV-1 System Patrol craft.

D'oh my Tantive!!

Transports would be great though!

yeah,
Early 2014 seems hopeful. rumours right now is that wave 3 wont reach the uk untill October... 2-3 months late.

New epic tournament format..
Must be more points! as I see these things costing more that 100pts each.

Panic...

Holy gak. FFG just broke the bank.

Just from eyeballing it.. it looks like the official ship is a little bit smaller than the toy tantive which is already about 1/3 smaller than the scale would indicate. Don't get me wrong... I'm fine with the size of the toy as it's big and impressive but not quite totally unwieldy so the slightly smaller size isn't an issue. I guess my final decision on whether to replace it would be based on the detail and paint job shown to see if it's worth investing $90 into. I do see myself however getting one or two transports although frankly I will try to get a discount on them as $60 feels a bit too steep for scenario pieces (although, again, not unreasonable for what you're getting nor out of scale with the other prices).








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 MajorTom11 wrote:
D'oh my Tantive!!

Transports would be great though!

Don't worry. I'm sure yours will still be the prettiest and most to scale! edit: Not to mention... yours has lights and sounds! pew pew vroom rumble rumble

I'll reserve weighing in on any scale arguments til we have better photos of the product -- it does indeed look "too small" on that slide.

Also, seems like these will not just be scenario pieces. It's time for 6'x4' tables!

 MajorStoffer wrote:
Ok, that's totally awesome. What will they do with the Empire, however? They don't really have any iconic small warships, there's some stuff in the expanded universe, lancers, carracks, modular taskforce cruisers and so on, but FFG seems to want to stick with more well known stuff. I can't see even a Victory class Star Destroyer fitting in this scale comfortably.

Corellian Corvettes weren't simply used by the Alliance.

The bridge on the Transport looks far too small, unless it's actually a cockpit and not a bridge at all...

Will await clearer pictures, but it looks like overall scale consistency is out the window.

Damn, they've really done it now.

Fuuuuuuu me. Taking jaw off the floor. Wow. $100? Damn. Going to be really expensive. I just wonder how much GW would have sold that for, unassembled, unpainted still on sprue.

Wow, how much is a Star Destroyer going to cost? How much will a Death Star be?

So looking forward to the capital ships.

Amaaazing !!!

Wow they really know what to release with this game.. I am already imagining massive fleet actions with 3-4 of those corvettes, dozens of tie fighters and x-wings flying around in amongst them..

yeah,
I believe this will be a never ending scale debate like the A-Wing ...

1/270 scale conversions by BGG user beorthulf gudmunsoetir
Tantive IV (CR90 Corvette) (150m) : 55.6cm
GR-75 medium transport (90m) : 33.3cm
(for what it's worth Wikipedia agrees with these lengths)

so...
X-Wing (12.5m) : 4.6cm
Corvette is about 12 x-wings long
Transport is about 7 x-wings long

Edit got my math wrong... they look too small !

Panic...

Look at the turret that is defined as a "bridge", it's about the same size as the X-wing cockpit.

Maybe i'm seeing things differently, but from those pictures the scale certainly isn't right.

 Panic wrote:
I believe this will be a never ending scale debate like the A-Wing ...

Which I'm sure can be debated to death anywhere in the X-Wing sub-forum and not in this here news thread, amirite?

 BrookM wrote:

 Panic wrote:
I believe this will be a never ending scale debate like the A-Wing ...

Which I'm sure can be debated to death anywhere in the X-Wing sub-forum and not in this here news thread, amirite?

You are most definitely right.

New pic!

Both Capital ships are smaller than they should be. Annoying, but makes sense for a cost and functional standpoint.

I think the detail is well worth it.

The cost of the Transport is technically only $45, as you also get an X-Wing with it, worth $15. Hopefully the new X-wing will include some new pilots/upgrades. Seems like the perfect place to do it.

Epic Tournament is probably something like 150 or 200 point games on a 4x4 or 4x6.

 Panic wrote:


Edit got my math wrong... they look too small !

Panic...

We did the math over in the subforum and the toy corvette should be 21 inches roughly but is almost 17 instead (for those interested in English units). Eyeballing it.. the official tantive looks another 2 or so inches smaller than even that.

 dashrendar wrote:
New pic!
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BRz6W1WCIAAIJ1G.jpg:large[img]

Black fething Sabbath yes!

yeah,

 dashrendar wrote:
New pic!

Scale whatever?
Sooo Much Want!

Panic...

The transport includes a new X-Wing with it?! Happy joy! Can't wait for these puppies. Time to sell my 40k to spend on this stuff. Yay!!!!

 Medium of Death wrote:
The bridge on the Transport looks far too small, unless it's actually a cockpit and not a bridge at all...
Will await clearer pictures, but it looks like overall scale consistency is out the window.

Well, it was out the window already with the A-Wing...