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Wave 3 is listed as "available now" in the video and it appears it is available at gencon similar to how the attendees got an early release of the X-wing core game last year.
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The lambda shuttle is suitably as maneuverable as a school bus. I like it! I'm hoping to incorporate the shuttle (as well as the bombers) into my next Corellian Corvette scenario game.
warboss wrote: my next Corellian Corvette scenario game.
Oh oh oh -- how about landing an Imp spec force team via Lambda on the Corvette? If the Lambda deposits its troops (via taking 0 movement on the turn after moving into base contact) and can pick up the team (let's say doing the same thing on at least the next turn), then it gets the Rebel Prisoner upgrade for free.
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Lambda - speed 0 - it can stop! Although sitting stilll causes stress?
which might just make the anti-pursuit-lasers amazeballs!
no tight turn, no big turn and no k-turn.
HWK - terrible! I guess they just don't want to sell these!
warboss wrote: my next Corellian Corvette scenario game.
Oh oh oh -- how about landing an Imp spec force team via Lambda on the Corvette? If the Lambda deposits its troops (via taking 0 movement on the turn after moving into base contact) and can pick up the team (let's say doing the same thing on at least the next turn), then it gets the Rebel Prisoner upgrade for free.
Indeed! I had something like that planned and having a "zero" speed on the shuttle would prevent me from making a house rule to allow it. My initial idea is to continue the scenario approximately from where my first game left off with the corvette's engines disabled.
The corvette would be in the middle of the board (instead of racing off towards the edge like before) with rebel reinforcements hyperdriving in from the opposite end of the imperials. The imps goal would be instead to board the craft (red 0 speed maneuver within range 1 that moves them into base contact without any collision and then taking a "boarding" action) and then either stay there or return for the same to extract the rebel prisoner. The corvette's weapons would still be functional but unable to shoot the shuttle (as it is in base contact) and the rebels primary goal would be to destroy the shuttle (before boarding) or disable (via ion) it after boarding (to account for the rebel prisoner on board). Imps would instead be "protecting" the shuttle this time around and destroying the corvette after it extracts. Giving it the rebel prisioner upgrade for free is a good idea and I'll take it!
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MajorTom11 wrote:Don't forget to put those ideas in the x-wing section boys! They sound fun let's make sure to give those a go!
Indeed! I'll probably update my thread once I get my grubby hands on the actual ships and post a report as well in the new subforum.
Panic wrote: Lambda - speed 0 - it can stop! Although sitting stilll causes stress?
Panic...
Granted that my only "combat" flying experience is via tabletop and video games but I'd have to say that staying completely still unable to maneuver on a battlefield should be stressful! I've been playing the World of Tanks beta on the xbox and let me tell you that getting tracked on the first shot of an engagement leaving you immobilized for a time in front of enemy armor is a first rate nerd rage experience!
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Heh went through 3 stores today and managed to actually find an interceptor funnily enough. On the other hand the only other ship that seemed to be in rather large amounts of stock was the A-wing
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Perhaps, as Warboss says, the red zero is to represent how stressed the crew are just sat there, and also a way of balancing as the shuttle would be tremendously vulnerable like that?
Pacific wrote: Perhaps, as Warboss says, the red zero is to represent how stressed the crew are just sat there, and also a way of balancing as the shuttle would be tremendously vulnerable like that?
I have a feeling it's more the strain of the retrorockets to stop something dead in an inertia-less environment.
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Wonder what the scenario included with the Lamda is... if any GenCon'er picks one up try and post! Assuming of course there is a scenario, but large base track-record suggests there will be.
Panic wrote: Although sitting stilll causes stress?
Well, I don't know about you lot, but I'd find sitting still in the middle of a dogfight bloody stressful!
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MajorTom11 wrote: I have the best friends... guess who has all of wave 3 in the mail coming out to him
You realize that means you personally have to spoil everything in them on dakka now. With great purchasing power comes great community responsibility....
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But of course... but I do believe pretty much everything has been revealed at this point, pilots, upgrades, stats and movement are all out there now, barring any surprises and the as yet unknown lambda scenario, I think we know what we are in for!
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Yeah,
The stress of stopping?.. I do believe these ship are built to stop at some point... They won't starve.. They are not sharks!
azreal13 wrote: Well, I don't know about you lot, but I'd find sitting still in the middle of a dogfight bloody stressful!
All stopped is very Very situational.
If enemy fighters are behind me and all angry! And I have the option to slam on the breaks, watch those guys fly past me and asking Leia to put the space kettle on.... I call that a green move!
Platuan4th wrote: I'm jealous people get B-wings this weekend and I'm not one of them.
Since we didn't pre-pay for them a year ago via a Kickstarter, I'll forgive FFG.
FFG gave distributors dates. The August delivery date came from somewhere!?
I placed a £100 wave 3 pre-order with the store I've bought all my X-wing orders with.
If I don't get my order this month who's to blame?
Who was to blame for the other fail to launch?
Panic...
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I tend to go by the status on their site which still lists the wave as at the factory. It usually takes a good 2-3 weeks for it to "ship" and then at least another week to actually get to the store in the past, resulting in at least a month between the switch out of "at the factory" to my hands.
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