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 Manchu wrote:
I wonder how they plot hyperspace jumps.

Built-in calculators, I guess?

Networked co-ordinate sharing with navcom capable ships? Pre-calculated before deployment?

 Slinky wrote:
Built-in calculators, I guess?

In that case, I guess they do have droids -- or at least (like the Falcon) droid brains.

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Networked co-ordinate sharing with navcom capable ships? Pre-calculated before deployment?

Don't wander off from the fleet!

The fluff in the video games for things like the TIE Adv/Avenger was that the computer stored a very limited set of coordinates programmed in ahead of time but was unable to calculate them on the fly. Perhaps that is the in-universe reasoning for a-wings as well.

Maybe they didn't think that far ahead when they first made the movies / etc

 MajorTom11 wrote:
yup, it was never that all rebel ships had astros, just y-wing and x.

Yeah, but they're such nice upgrade cards.

And just think, if the original model had shrunk the cockpit to fit an R2 unit, and used a smaller scale pilot figure, we wouldn't have all this complaining about the A-wing being out of scale!

RogueRegault wrote:

 MajorTom11 wrote:
yup, it was never that all rebel ships had astros, just y-wing and x.

Yeah, but they're such nice upgrade cards.

And just think, if the original model had shrunk the cockpit to fit an R2 unit, and used a smaller scale pilot figure, we wouldn't have all this complaining about the A-wing being out of scale!

Even better: Keep the cockpit , shrink the pilot, and put the Astromech IN the cockpit.

Fantasy Flight Games just officially announced Wave 4. Leia is confirmed as a Pilot for the Blockade runner and Jek Porkins and Wes Janson as X-wing Pilots in the Transport set. They also explain a little more about Epic Format and Cinematic play.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=4312

So a linked campaign mode and a larger scale version of the game with squads rather than a close in dogfight?

 doc1234 wrote:
So a linked campaign mode and a larger scale version of the game with squads rather than a close in dogfight?

Looks like it.

The article also explains that the transports aren't actually Wave 4, thereby sowing confused terror in short hand obsessed forums.

Even though I just bought the kenner blockade runner I'm excited for this release (who am I kidding, there was no way I was going to paint that thing).

We can run Porkins? Ahaahhahah that's awesome

Yeah, this is definitely a neat thing, but not "Wave 4" in the sense of Wave 2 and 3. This is more of an expansion of the framework of X-Wings while what FFG seems to want to call "Waves" is more akin to things slotting into the existing framework.

It was said in one of the Team Covenant videos that the corvette and transport are "not Wave 4" and that more information on what FFG considers Wave 4 would be coming later.

I think like plastictrees said, it's almost like they chose their terminology just to mess with the forums.

Quick!

Change the Thread Title to "Not Wave 4!" *Now complete with Cinematic Play*

Gives me hope there will be another "not wave" with Imperial Ships.

I'd love it if they would release the new X-wing pilots and upgrade cards separately, I'd rather not buy the transport ship...

 MandalorynOranj wrote:
I'd love it if they would release the new X-wing pilots and upgrade cards separately, I'd rather not buy the transport ship...

There are websites and programs you can use to print your own cards if thats all you need. Most of the squadron builder sites have click-on images of the cards when you select them and some more high quality images were at boardgamegeek last I checked. Hope that helps. In a tourny setting sponsored by FFG with prize support, I think its appropriate and polite to have official versions of everything you're using but I don't have a problem with an opponent using printouts during friendly games or even league play. Hell, if you just print it out on card stock and put it in a sleeve, no one can even tell without flipping over your upgrade card.

Deep Cut Studio has the second X-Wing-compatible mat on preorder:
http://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/wargames-terrain-mat-4-x6-planet-theme-preorder


As a reminder, here the first one:

Wave 3 has officially moved to "on the boat" status on the FFG website! It should be about a month or so for those of us in the USA who didn't get a chance to go to Gencon to get our hands on the minis.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_upcoming.asp

I WILL HAVE ALL THE B-WINGS!

ALL OF THEM!

...I really like B-Wings, is that so wrong?

Me too, Kan. Me too

 Manchu wrote:
Really?

http://swc.fs2downloads.com/reference/Another_Site/CapShip/Corellian%20Corvette/ics456_0405.jpg

Wait, we're going to debate canonicity in Star Wars?

It's the only license on the planet more muddled and contradictory than 40K.

Two of the B-wings are reserved for me. I claimed them by virtually licking them at the factory. Dibs!

 MajorTom11 wrote:
yup, it was never that all rebel ships had astros, just y-wing and x.

Not true. RotJ shows A-Wings and B-Wings making the jump with the fleet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFlSPtKVwn8&feature=player_detailpage#t=14




Good lord. I've made not one, but two posts about Star Wars on the Internet. I feel dirty.

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:

 MajorTom11 wrote:
yup, it was never that all rebel ships had astros, just y-wing and x.

Not true. RotJ shows A-Wings and B-Wings making the jump with the fleet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFlSPtKVwn8&feature=player_detailpage#t=14




Good lord. I've made not one, but two posts about Star Wars on the Internet. I feel dirty.

MajorTom11 is likely referring to "astromechs", not astrogation systems.

The A-Wing was a recon craft used to scout systems for raids and other fleet actions and it would kind of defeat the purpose if it had to be carried into a system on a hypercapable carrier.
The B-Wing was able to operate on its own as a heavy raiding craft with squadrons of B-Wings able to cripple capital ships if they had no fighter cover.

Ahh, my bad.


Dammit. Now that's three.

 Kanluwen wrote:


The A-Wing was a recon craft used to scout systems for raids and other fleet actions and it would kind of defeat the purpose if it had to be carried into a system on a hypercapable carrier.

Isn't it an interceptor first though?

To be honest, I'm a bit more excited about adding TIE bombers to the collection than any other ship. The rebels have had one to two heavy hitters (y-wings/x-wings) with proton torpedoes since the first release whereas the Imps have had to rely strangely on merc support via Firesprays for that.

 warboss wrote:
To be honest, I'm a bit more excited about adding TIE bombers to the collection than any other ship.

Same here. I think Imp players will be happy to fly with so many hull points. I keep wishing I had ordered three.

 BrookM wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:


The A-Wing was a recon craft used to scout systems for raids and other fleet actions and it would kind of defeat the purpose if it had to be carried into a system on a hypercapable carrier.

Isn't it an interceptor first though?

The A-Wing has kind of a weird history.

It's classed as an interceptor but it was more commonly used as a raider to harass Imperial shipping.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 BrookM wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:


The A-Wing was a recon craft used to scout systems for raids and other fleet actions and it would kind of defeat the purpose if it had to be carried into a system on a hypercapable carrier.

Isn't it an interceptor first though?

The A-Wing has kind of a weird history.

It's classed as an interceptor but it was more commonly used as a raider to harass Imperial shipping.

Reading up on the Wookiepedia entry, it certainly looks like it.