Dash Rendar wrote:“I owe the Outrider the best. She's brought me home when any other ship would have scattered me across space.”

Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce the upcoming release of two new starships for X-Wing™!
In the game’s fifth wave, two large starships arrive ready for the heat of battle: the Rebellion’s YT-2400 and the Imperial’s VT-49 Decimator.



In addition to their starships, each of which is sculpted faithfully at the game’s standard 1/270 scale, the YT-2400 Expansion Pack and VT-49 Decimator Expansion Pack introduce a host of new upgrades and terrain pieces that allow you to explore a wide range of new tactics in your space battles.

You’ll also find a large cast of characters drawn from the expanded Star Wars universe, the first Imperial turret weapon, and upgrade cards designed by the game’s first two World Champions.

YT-2400 Expansion Pack

A fast and resilient light freighter, the YT-2400 features no fewer than thirteen weapon emplacement points, making it an attractive vessel for smugglers, mercenaries, and other individuals looking for a heavily armed “transport.” Although a stock YT-2400 light freighter has plenty of space for cargo, much of that space is often annexed to support modified weapon systems and oversized engines.

The YT-2400 Expansion Pack brings this formidable light freighter to your table as a Rebel starship with two attack, two agility, five hull, and five shields.

The highlight of the YT-2400 Expansion Pack is its detailed miniature starship, which is enhanced by one new mission, three debris cloud tokens, a maneuver dial, all requisite tokens, and four ship cards, including one for the famed smuggler Dash Rendar.



Of course, a ship as readily customizable as the YT-2400 needs to come with a host of upgrade options, and the YT-2400 Expansion Pack comes with thirteen upgrade cards, including a Lando Calrissian crew upgrade, the Outrider Title, and upgrade cards designed by each of the game’s first two World Champions.


VT-49 Decimator Expansion Pack

To be granted command of a VT-49 Decimator is seen as a significant promotion for a middling officer of the Imperial Navy. A heavily armed transport, the VT-49 Decimator is one of the Empire’s most feared warships, often used to provide long-range reconnaissance or to deploy raiding parties past enemy forces.

The VT-49 Decimator Expansion Pack brings this intimidating Imperial gunboat to X-Wing as the game’s largest ship yet designed for Standard Play. Even at the game’s signature 1/270 scale, the expansion pack’s detailed miniature towers over its base and smaller starfighters.



In addition to its imposing, pre-painted miniature, the VT-49 Decimator Expansion Pack introduces four ship cards, three debris cloud tokens, a new mission, a maneuver dial, and all the tokens you need to fly your Decimator into the thick of combat. Finally, you’ll find thirteen upgrade cards, which introduce a variety of crew members like Mara Jade and Fleet Officer designed to help you fill out the Decimator’s three crew member slots.


Blast into Action

With its two high-powered new starships, multitude of upgrades, debris cloud tokens, and new missions, the fifth wave of X-Wing expansions is destined to make a massive impact when it blasts into action across gaming tables everywhere.

Wave V is scheduled to arrive late in the third quarter of 2014. Until then, keep your eyes open for more X-Wing news, including previews of these new hard-hitting expansion packs, which will look more closely at their various unique pilots, their new debris cloud tokens, and their missions!

 Manchu wrote:
I wonder, will there be two huge ships or perhaps only one very huge one ...

 derek wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
I wonder, will there be two huge ships or perhaps only one very huge one ...

I know everyone wants the Star Destroyer, but I am personally hoping they stick with "smaller" capitol ships and do something along the lines of a Dreadnought. Either way, it'll be interesting because I don't remember any Imperial ships even from the EU that don't just dwarf the CR-90 in length.

 derek wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
I wonder, will there be two huge ships or perhaps only one very huge one ...

I know everyone wants the Star Destroyer, but I am personally hoping they stick with "smaller" capitol ships and do something along the lines of a Dreadnought. Either way, it'll be interesting because I don't remember any Imperial ships even from the EU that don't just dwarf the CR-90 in length.

 derek wrote:
I know everyone wants the Star Destroyer, but I am personally hoping they stick with "smaller" capitol ships and do something along the lines of a Dreadnought. Either way, it'll be interesting because I don't remember any Imperial ships even from the EU that don't just dwarf the CR-90 in length.

 d-usa wrote:
They could probably come up with some very interesting gameplay options for something like this:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Light_corvette

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Star Wars is the Battletech of Space Combat. The ships are utilitarian, to an extent that any aesthetics are incidental. When they vary from this theory, you get stuff like the Naboo starfighters.

Fugly is much better than pretty starfighters.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 derek wrote:
I know everyone wants the Star Destroyer, but I am personally hoping they stick with "smaller" capital ships and do something along the lines of a Dreadnought. Either way, it'll be interesting because I don't remember any Imperial ships even from the EU that don't just dwarf the CR-90 in length.

A Dreadnought would still be 4 times the size of the Corvette.

The ones that make the most sense are the Lancer Frigate and Marauder Corvette. Both aren't too huge compared to everything else (Maurader is about the same size as the Corvette, the Lancer is the biggest but still under 300m). Even a Carrak is 350m in length, which is 230% bigger than the CR90. The model would have to be enormous and before they scale it down.