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Update, Wave 3 to be in stores Sept 13th according to the FFG site -

Where is this ship from and where is it heading cos if its heading away from Europe then its going the wrong fricking way! Ymmv.

Probably meaning we won't get our ships until the new year.

Better hope the pirates dont hijack the ship

Regular ones or Space Pirates?

*September

Yes... was hopeful they would be coming next month?

I've also heard in the next 3 weeks. I can say how in the next few days, but I have reliable info and will have a link as such when I'm allowed to.

Also, I'm loving my new b-wing! Yay RITides!!

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I've also heard in the next 3 weeks. I can say how in the next few days, but I have reliable info and will have a link as such when I'm allowed to.

Also, I'm loving my new b-wing! Yay RITides!!

3 weeks was already said by FFG in their public presentation at GenCon, so I'm not sure that's a big secret.

It does make me wonder why Tom put down December; mental lapse or doubt that FFG can meet that date?

Fair enough. I forgot they don't have secrecy as bad as GW. A friend does a SW podcast and he'll have info on the podcast. I'll share the info when he sends it to me.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Fair enough. I forgot they don't have secrecy as bad as GW. A friend does a SW podcast and he'll have info on the podcast. I'll share the info when he sends it to me.

There is no-one else who has a level of secrecy like that.

GW themselves didn't have it until some years ago, fortunately it's the exception rather than the rule.

Wayland list the 16th September for most x-wing restock.

I played a game with a b-wing yesterday, and my opponent had a bomber... I can say you guys should enjoy the new ships very much!

I took a dagger b-wing with marksmanship, heavy laser cannon and advanced torps, dutch with an ion turret, and wedge loaded with stealth, r2f2 (or the one that also increases agility) and markmanship. Great synergy with Dutch throwing a TL to the b-wing, allowing me to focus and fire the advanced torps, which pretty much means 5 hits.

My opponent was pretty new to the game, took a very loaded tie bomber with 3 missiles, howl-runner, and kath scarlett. I'm not sure his overall cards though.

The reason for that he made a critical mistake turn 2, going for a 4 k-turn with all his ships. Unfortunately I moved 1 forward and he collided in such a way that only his bomber could fire its regular guns... My ships were not so encumbered. I scored a crit that nullified all his upgrades and pilot skills, essentially turning his full loaded bomber into a really crappy regular tie lol. 2 turns later I wiped him off the table, he only got to shoot 3 times and I saved each one, even with the b-wing lol. Biggest x-wing slaughter I have ever seen, didn't even lose a shield!

So... in short that is why I like wave 3 so much, my one game with a b-wing was a route! lol

I hope the TIE bomber doesn't end up with the reputation of a clown car. I've already heard a lot of negative speculation regarding it -- but personally I can imagine it being a quite valuable addition to the Imp forces. For the B-Wing, I think it will be yet another nice mask for how good the underestimated Y-Wing can be as well of or rather because of how much fear it will generate.

I just can't wait until wave 3 is in stores so I can use my shiny new B-wing in the local league. Ten Numb with advanced sensors/autoblaster/PTL/engine upgrade just makes ships go away while dancing around the ball of collisions in the center. Hit a ship and lost your action? Pick your ship up off the table and don't even bother rolling any dice. Meanwhile the reactive ability of PS 8 with the ability to barrel roll AND boost before moving is just amazing, even PTL interceptors have to be jealous of that.

 Manchu wrote:
I hope the TIE bomber doesn't end up with the reputation of a clown car. I've already heard a lot of negative speculation regarding it -- but personally I can imagine it being a quite valuable addition to the Imp forces.

IMO the problem is the cost. The ship itself is pretty cheap, but once you start adding weapons it gets expensive fast. Then if you want to use it effectively you're spending even more points on the bomber character who lets you re-roll your attack dice. And once you've made that investment you probably want 2-3 bombers to make good use of it. Now suddenly you realize you're out of points and you've just spend $45-60 to build a rebel list with different ship models.


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 MajorTom11 wrote:
I took a dagger b-wing with marksmanship, heavy laser cannon and advanced torps, dutch with an ion turret, and wedge loaded with stealth, r2f2 (or the one that also increases agility) and markmanship. Great synergy with Dutch throwing a TL to the b-wing, allowing me to focus and fire the advanced torps, which pretty much means 5 hits.

Couple issues there: dagger squadron doesn't have an elite pilot skill so no marksmanship. And R2F2 needs an action to boost agility so that's redundant points with marksmanship on Wedge. And IMO I wouldn't take both the HLC and advanced torps, you're spending a lot of points on guns with conflicting roles. Either you rush in ASAP for a torp shot and waste the HLC or you hang back with the HLC and risk dying with your expensive advanced torps still in the launcher. At most, if you really want better than a primary shot on your way in to use the torps I'd take standard torps and no gun upgrade. That saves you 3 points, increases your crit chance, and only having a single shot isn't a big deal when you're only planning on spending one turn at long range anyway.

I played a 200 point game a few weeks ago (weekend after GenCon) that was Han with Luke as a gunner and another upgrade, Chewie and some other pieces, A Gold Squadron Y-wing, Ten Numb, Dutch, and 2 Red Squadron X-wings. Vs 4 Tie Advanced (Marek Steele, Darth and 2 regular), 2 TIE Fighters, and a Lambda with Captain Kagi (I believe that's who I took). The B-wing and the Y-wing were the highlight of half of the Rebel Forces, with Han and Chewie being the other highlight. We just couldn't deal with them. Which reinforces my like of the Rebels .

The B-wing is a fun little ship, and the Lambda is too, but man is it expensive.

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 MajorTom11 wrote:
I took a dagger b-wing with marksmanship, heavy laser cannon and advanced torps, dutch with an ion turret, and wedge loaded with stealth, r2f2 (or the one that also increases agility) and markmanship. Great synergy with Dutch throwing a TL to the b-wing, allowing me to focus and fire the advanced torps, which pretty much means 5 hits.

Couple issues there: dagger squadron doesn't have an elite pilot skill so no marksmanship. And R2F2 needs an action to boost agility so that's redundant points with marksmanship on Wedge. And IMO I wouldn't take both the HLC and advanced torps, you're spending a lot of points on guns with conflicting roles. Either you rush in ASAP for a torp shot and waste the HLC or you hang back with the HLC and risk dying with your expensive advanced torps still in the launcher. At most, if you really want better than a primary shot on your way in to use the torps I'd take standard torps and no gun upgrade. That saves you 3 points, increases your crit chance, and only having a single shot isn't a big deal when you're only planning on spending one turn at long range anyway.

I see MajorTom updated the thread - "Shipping Now', expected September 13!

one of my FLGS put wave 3 ships on sale today

And Miniature Market just told me my pre-order just shipped!

I was at the FFG game center, and they said they were expecting a big day that day.

 MythicalMothman wrote:
And Miniature Market just told me my pre-order just shipped!

And yet they have not told me that!

I'm going to my game store tonight and I was promised one of each. Gonna be a good night.

I actually had my Miniature Market order delivered today - way faster than expected! Though I guess I'm relatively close to Missouri where they're located.

Ordered a B-Wing and a Bomber today from MM, very excited!

 MandalorynOranj wrote:
Ordered a B-Wing and a Bomber today from MM, very excited!

The B-Wing especially is quite fun! You won't regret it!

I got 2 Bwings and a tie bomber today. Can't wait to use them next week.

Wayland Games are listing UK release as 23-September, Total Wargamer a little after that? Guess it's back to the days of 16-bit computer game releases for us Brits then..

I played a game over the weekend, 100 pts. I was playing
Lambda (the one with the assigning target locks) + Vader + Pursuit Lasers + ST-321
2 TIE Bombers, both equiped with Adv. Protons, Shield upgrade

vs.

Wedge, Luke, and Tycho, all with various upgrades.


Let me tell you, it was hard to play my list. It was durable, but jeez, the TIE bombers are slow. And the shuttle handles like a whale with an eating disorder. Its really hard for the bombers to shed stress tokens, and they are easily outmanuvered by the rebel craft.

The advanced protons are deadly, even without focus tokens. With focus tokens, its disgusting how much damage you can do if you can get it into range 1 (2 with Jonus).

The shuttle's ability to stop was pretty amazing. The rebel player made a critical mistake in forgetting I could stop. So he was planning on doing a K-turn with luke and wedge to bring them behind my shuttle. However, I just stopped, and both collided mid manuver with the shuttle, triggering the pursuit lasers and preventing them from shooting my bombers.

All in all, I like the new ships, but they're a lot harder to fly than the normal TIE's.