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No big news but the items in this wave have been listed as "on the boat" status on the FFG website and have had their availability date changed to March.

yeah,
very disappointing with how they handle their releases/release dates.
I pre-paid my pre-order back at the end of October expecting this wave in December.

The Kessel Run Event was a badly run mess and because of the Kessel Run wave two holds no surprises. Lose/Lose

FFG suck!

Panic...

And here we were, worried about what they were going to do for wave 3! If only we knew that they had plenty of time to consider it with the wave 2 delays.

Well, I'll do a little brainstorming:

Rebellion Era Fighters (Episodes IV-VI):
Z-95 Headhunters
B-Wing
ARC-170
E-Wings
V-Wings
Tie Bomber
Tie Defender
+ More and More Tie Variants than you can shake a stick at.

Bounty Hunter Ships
G-1A Starfighter (4-LOM and Zukuss's Ship)
YV Class Light Freighter (Bossk's Ship)
Jumpmaster 5000 (Dengar's Ship)
Aggressor Assault Fighter (IG-88's Ship)

Of course, there are other ships from different eras that they could expand into... I don't think that they would fare well against later models. Even the ARC-170 and Z95 are at a disadvantage against a similarly piloted X-Wing.
Droid Fighters
Naboo Fighters
Jedi Starfighters

Don't forget shuttles and DX-9 transports. I would love it if they put in DX-9s.

Good news??? Keen observers on the FFG site noticed the wave 2 entries changed from March back to February (but still on the boat status). The drama continues...

I wouldn't put too much stock in the little symbols at their website. I've seen certain icons appear when I've known for a fact that it was either on the step before or after the one displayed.

Anyone have a good option for a transport case? I see that Battlefoam has made a foam tray, but i dont really want to drop the cash for that and a case.

I actually made a custom tray for my existing Gw cases during their holiday sale. Its deeper than the standard inch so I can fit more than one ship in each outline spot. Its still not cheap but its not expensive either if youve already got a sabol or gw case lying around without foam as I did.

I have the battlefoam tray that inserts into the X-Wing box. I like it well enough. I'm using a Plano box to keep all the tokens organized, and the spot in the tray isn't big enough for the Plano. Other than that, I really like it. It keeps everything secure and it fits my collection just fine.

I have used a quad-pistol case that I picked up at my local Walmart. Each store is different, and they may only carry it during hunting season, but I got it for less than the Battlefoam insert. It is pluck foam, so you make your own shapes.

Update!!!! Feb 28th new wave will be in stores according to FFG Facebook page!!

https://www.facebook.com/#!/FantasyFlightGames

Woot!

 Falco wrote:
Anyone have a good option for a transport case? I see that Battlefoam has made a foam tray, but i dont really want to drop the cash for that and a case.

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/krmstar-xw-b.html

And they're out:

Indeed! I'll be picking some up tonight.

Just picked up my minis yesterday and they look great. While I was opening my minis, a guy came up and was asking a few questions while looking at them and he then went and bought around just shy of $100 of them... during the subsequent quickie demo I gave him, another guy was watching and then ended up buying around $150 of stuff.

One word of warning though is that my FLGS was selling out of them incredibly fast and said that EVERY distributor and even FFG were sold out when he tried to place another order today. I don't know if FFG only got another partial shipment or if they underestimated demand but that's what he was told when he tried to reorder. The store bought a dozen millenium falcons and starters each and they were down to one starter and no falcons when I left yesterday (which was only the second day they were on the shelves).

yeah,
Got my wave2 ships today!
Very impressed with the large ships. bigger than I expected.

I can't wait to make derelicts for my dead ship grave yard!
but it'll have to wait FFG have taken too long in releasing these and I've started a new project... dungeon bowl!

Panic...

if the minis are available in the UK, then I hopefully won't have to wait until mid-April, like some German ebayshops state...
waiting since december on my wave 1 order... -_-

I ordered:
1 starter box
2 Twin Ion Engine Fighter
1 Twin Ion Engine Advanced X1 Fighter
1 Y-Wing bomber...

I already recieved:
1 X-Wing

can't wait to get my brother and friends addicted, so I can buy a 2nd starter box and some wave 2 ships. ^^

I"m waiting on Wave 2 until I fill out my wave 1 Battlefoam is full.

I know my wishlist for big games is

10 Tie Fighters
5-10 Tie Interceptors
3-5 Tie Advanced
3 Firespray

5 X-Wings
5 Y-Wings
5 A-Wings
3 YT-1300

But you know what they say about wishing in one hand...

Anyone else been having problems with the FFG forums for the past week or so? Pages half load with the logo and headers and footers but skip the posts or they take a full minute to connect and load. I'm not having any problems otherwise with the web so it's not on my end.

I pre-ordered both big ships, 3 A-Wings, and 4 TIE Interceptors. These join 3 X-Wings, 3 Y-Wings, 1 TIE Advanced, and 6 TIE/LNs.

I'll likely get another X-Wing, A-Wing, and TIE Advanced. Whoops, make that another Interceptor, Y-Wing, A-Wing, X-Wing, TIE Ad, and 2 TIE/LNs.

So that's a total of

Alliance:
- 4x X-Wings
- 4x Y-Wings
- 4x A-Wings
- 1x YT-1300

Empire:
- 2x TIE Ads
- 5x TIE Interceptors
- 8x TIE/LNs
- 1x Firespray

 warboss wrote:
Anyone else been having problems with the FFG forums for the past week or so?

The FFG forum has had extremely low loading speeds for months now.

yeah,

 Manchu wrote:

Alliance:
- 4x X-Wings
- 4x Y-Wings
- 4x A-Wings
- 1x YT-1300

Empire:
- 2x TIE Ads
- 5x TIE Interceptors
- 8x TIE/LNs
- 1x Firespray

That's a pretty similar list to what I'm planning list.
Rebels:
- 4x X-Wings
- 2x Y-Wings
- 3x A-Wings (1 more)
- 1x YT-1300

Empire:
- 3x TIE Ads
- 3x TIE Interceptors (1 more)
- 8x TIE/LNs (2 more)
- 1x Firespray

 warboss wrote:
Anyone else been having problems with the FFG forums for the past week or so?

 Manchu wrote:
he FFG forum has had extremely low loading speeds for months now.

I found the ffg forum slow and boring...
the software they use is also annoyingly limited... and no custom avatars...

Panic...

Panic, there are some good ideas over there but you have to kind of sift through the wish listing.

Meanwhile, I recently received this:



I'm very pleased with the quality.

Which company did you order from and how long did it take? Also, what size is it? I'm considering ordering one eventualy at 6x4 even though the standard size for this game is 3x3... I figure bigger games above 150pts should probably increase width but not depth between players. Anyone know the size of tables in the mongoose space game and the firestorm armada game? If possible, I'd probably prefer something that can be used for all three (and future/past game systems as well).


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 Manchu wrote:
The FFG forum has had extremely low loading speeds for months now.

Ah... I've been mainly remembering to check it on my phone over the past few months since the Kessel Run event so just figured any delay there was due to the mobile network instead. I only started checking with a land connection more recently as news of this wave arriving started to hit the web.

 warboss wrote:
Which company did you order from and how long did it take? Also, what size is it?

I ordered from Miniature Market. It took a few days to get from MO to VA. It is 3'x3'.

 warboss wrote:
I'm considering ordering one eventualy at 6x4

I plan on eventually commissioning one that size from Hot Matz. Actually, I already did but needed to cancel/modify the order last minute for another gaming need. Ideally, I'd like to see somebody like GF9 do a larger vinyl mat like this one but if they don't I'll definitely go Hotz. Hotz does fantastic work but it's expensive and takes a long time.

 warboss wrote:
I only started checking with a land connection more recently as news of this wave arriving started to hit the web.

Wow, I just tried checking it and it's much slower now than last time I checked (early last week); also seems the whole site is experiencing problems.


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 warboss wrote:
Which company did you order from

Sorry, for some reason I thought I had hotlinked that image. It's a vinyl mat from Gale Force 9 rather than custom felt. It's readily available for 32 USD from Miniature Market. There's also a Death Star surface one, but I don't like it too well.

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/gf9bm0002.html

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/gf9bm0001.html

Just picked up Slave 1, a Tie-interceptor, 2 A-wings, and the Falcon.

I am excited about the A-wing. the Interceptor looks awesome as well. A little pricey but still I am excited to get these bad boys on the table.

Anyone got any games in with wave 2 yet?

Murdog talks about his experiences here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/508783.page

 Manchu wrote:
Murdog talks about his experiences here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/508783.page

Awesome, thanks!

After reading through his reviews I get the feeling that the A-wing is a sucide ship, throw some cluster missiles on them and blast forward allowing your other ships to come behind un-molested.

 Manchu wrote:
Sorry, for some reason I thought I had hotlinked that image. It's a vinyl mat from Gale Force 9 rather than custom felt. It's readily available for 32 USD from Miniature Market. There's also a Death Star surface one, but I don't like it too well.

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/gf9bm0002.html

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/gf9bm0001.html

Ah, thanks. I had heard GF9 was coming out with mats but I didn't realize they were 3x3. I hope they come out with something bigger as those designs look quite nice. They're out of the star field nebula one unfortunately.

Is this game any good? Got an Amazon voucher for my birthday and took a punt on this just on a whim.