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Sushi in Yiddish posted:"Katana Fleet" Dreadnought with Thrawn admiral card perhaps. That would be awesome. Mix and match it so the ship can be rebel and imperial
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Thrawn just has a regular ISD in the trailer, fairly certain they're taking the best and most useful parts of the character and dumping the rest of the silly EU stuff. Certainly no sign of a Dreadnought, and the series 2 trailer spoiled all the pretty new ships early - this trailer shows off a new YT-2400 f.ex
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Jul 16, 2016 21:26
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I'm still holding on for the Dreadnought. It's by far my favorite ship and I'd hate for it to never come out for Armada, even if it isn't in Rebels. And it's a way to get Thrawn on the table without releasing just another ISD.
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NTRabbit posted:Well yeah, they use plenty of True, although to be fair, he doesn't start with the Katana fleet if they want to bring that back in. But they've also come up with plenty of other clone wars era ships that kind of fill the same role as the Dreadnought, so I don't think they'd turn it canon, given how strongly they are sticking with wedges and TIEs.
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Eimi posted:I'm still holding on for the Dreadnought. It's by far my favorite ship and I'd hate for it to never come out for Armada, even if it isn't in Rebels. And it's a way to get Thrawn on the table without releasing just another ISD. I still want the old republic type hammerhead cruisers and that big carrier the rebels captured in last season
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:I still want the old republic type hammerhead cruisers and that big carrier the rebels captured in last season A Rebels series themed fleet would be pretty cool. And yeah, they've got a pretty respectable fleet going in that show. Some CR90s, some old "stolen" Alderanean Transports/"cruisers", a stolen Quasar Fire carrier, and buckets of red-shirt A-wings. 
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NTRabbit posted:Thrawn just has a regular ISD in the trailer, fairly certain they're taking the best and most useful parts of the character and dumping the rest of the silly EU stuff.
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I hope thrawn lets you force your opponent to draw art for you
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*draws a stickman drawing, shows it to thrawn* "My opponent... is a child" wow such insight
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:I hope thrawn lets you force your opponent to draw art for you Your opponent has to hand you their phone and you go through their camera gallery
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If the rebels trailer is is anything to go by, the force blocking iguanas are back
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canyoneer posted:If the rebels trailer is is anything to go by, the force blocking iguanas are back You had one job, Disney. One job.
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Jul 17, 2016 00:56
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Just when we thought the EU was out, they pull it back in
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canyoneer posted:If the rebels trailer is is anything to go by, the force blocking iguanas are back  Someone in Disney must've been a huge EU fanboy. Watch it turn out to be that guy who did the cross-sections books just so he could prove SW was better than Trek.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmXp802sFgQ&t=116s Check 1:56 and 2:19. Would a grand admiral have his office or whatever decorated with a force iguana motif without owning a force iguana? I think not.
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Yeah I saw those immediately.  Tekopo posted:Just when we thought the EU was out, they pull it back in 
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If we get Lieutenant Kettch in X-Wing or Armada it will all be worth it.
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A zero point slotless cleaning droid that you give to your opponent that makes them play with their dials visible.
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Multiple Goons posted:Anti-Force Lizards! Filoni has said those statues are an homage to Thrawn's EU pets, but they are specifically not coming back.
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Oh hey neat thread. My wife started working for FFG a little less than a year ago, so I'm officially inundated with SW games now, and I love it.
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blackmongoose posted:If we get Lieutenant Kettch in X-Wing or Armada it will all be worth it. That's a high price to pay.
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I am 100% okay with "unflappably calm and dangerously competent bad guy" and even more okay with it being applied to one of the iconic figures of the old EU. The art history/criticism I could do without.
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MockingQuantum posted:Oh hey neat thread. My wife started working for FFG a little less than a year ago, so I'm officially inundated with SW games now, and I love it. When I was 18 I worked as a canyon/climbing guide and made the princely sum of $250/week. I spent nearly 100% of the money that summer on gear because I got it at a discount. I'm pretty sure I'd be in a similar situation if I was a grownup working for FFG
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Strobe posted:I am 100% okay with "unflappably calm and dangerously competent bad guy" and even more okay with it being applied to one of the iconic figures of the old EU. And not a single person noticed the droid phoning Thrawn with the deets either... 
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Thrawn is great as a competent commander, compared to the Ozzels and Needas out there. Hopefully they can ignore some of the stupider poo poo and keep him from being a goddamn mary-sue. It'll all be worth it to get The Maarek Stele Chronicles.
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Arquinsiel posted:I re-read the books recently. He literally just had a droid permanently sweeping the floor and watering the plants in a hallway in Republic HQ where by sheer coincidence all the people who normally treat droids like people and regularly use them for espionage somehow all became morons and discussed all plot-relevant plans in said hallway in front of said droid. Actually it's a recording device hidden in the trees oh God trap sprung
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Strobe posted:I am 100% okay with "unflappably calm and dangerously competent bad guy" and even more okay with it being applied to one of the iconic figures of the old EU. Its better than vanilla protege / savant / tactical genius. The reason he's so good is mental not physical or mystical, and the reason his mind game is on point is he studies people through their art and culture. I think Thrawn resonates with people because he wins through skill not power, and his skill isn't the standard mary sue type of thing.
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^^^^ 90% sure than if he was intended at all NOT to be a boring mary-sue then the smartest thing about the art analysis is that it was a cover for some mundane spy work. StashAugustine posted:Actually it's a recording device hidden in the trees oh God trap sprung
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Chill la Chill posted:Yeah I saw those immediately. I will lose my poo poo if/when we get an Admiral Daala and Trioculus upgrade cards 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Filoni has said those statues are an homage to Thrawn's EU pets, but they are specifically not coming back. And that's happened often enough, especially with KotoR stuff, for me to believe it. Looks like the YT-2400 will be that way too, letting fans see the Outrider just as random stolen freighter without mentioning Dash Rendar.
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I was listening to the first Thrawn book while painting a few weeks ago and I recall the first battle where the author displayed his prowess. It was something about knowing the commander would/wouldn't pursue or engage because it was a certain alien species (wiki says Obra-Skai?) whose psychology, studied through art, would mean it would act in that manner. It's (cultural) racist philosophy made into nerd fetish bait. I got to the part where he unknowingly finds Joruuuus Cbath on the cloning planet before looking up another asimov audiobook to listen to instead.jassi007 posted:Its better than vanilla protege / savant / tactical genius. The reason he's so good is mental not physical or mystical, and the reason his mind game is on point is he studies people through their art and culture. I think Thrawn resonates with people because he wins through skill not power, and his skill isn't the standard mary sue type of thing. Kilo147 posted:Thrawn is great as a competent commander, compared to the Ozzels and Needas out there. Hopefully they can ignore some of the stupider poo poo and keep him from being a goddamn mary-sue. Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Jul 17, 2016 |
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NTRabbit posted:And that's happened often enough, especially with KotoR stuff, for me to believe it. Looks like the YT-2400 will be that way too, letting fans see the Outrider just as random stolen freighter without mentioning Dash Rendar.
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Had a good game helping to teach a new player to do a 400 point game. He picked things up quickly and I made a lot of dumb maneuvering mistakes involving my CR90 and Nebulon B flying too close to the ISD IIs front arc. I lost the smaller cap ships but managed to take down his Victory and Raider. The fighters and bombers eventually chewed through his TIE swarms to get the win on points when all was said and done. Both his ISD and my Mon Cal cruiser survived to the end. Echo base Evacuation Fleet Author: Yiddish Sushi Faction: Rebel Alliance Points: 398/400 Commander: General Rieekan Assault Objective: Advanced Gunnery Defense Objective: Contested Outpost Navigation Objective: Intel Sweep MC80 Command Cruiser (106 points) - Independence ( 8 points) - Wing Commander ( 6 points) - Boosted Comms ( 4 points) - Electronic Countermeasures ( 7 points) = 131 total ship cost [ flagship ] CR90 Corvette A (44 points) - General Rieekan ( 30 points) - Tantive IV ( 3 points) - Engineering Team ( 5 points) - Turbolaser Reroute Circuits ( 7 points) = 89 total ship cost Nebulon-B Escort Frigate (57 points) - Yavaris ( 5 points) - Adar Tallon ( 10 points) = 72 total ship cost 1 X-Wing Squadron ( 13 points) 1 B-Wing Squadron ( 14 points) 1 Keyan Farlander ( 20 points) 1 "Dutch" Vander ( 16 points) 1 Wedge Antilles ( 19 points) 1 Dash Rendar ( 24 points) Next time I'd probably try something different with the nebulon b since the Independance was already doing heavy duty running squadrons. Maybe try to swap in a CR30 or add another Corvette+fighters. Hopefully I'm doing this right, if I get 2 hits and 2 crits and he has 2 shield to block, it would cancel out the hits? And you can only resolve one crit per attack so it comes out to one facedown and one faceup card?
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Hi guys I'm selling my Armada stuff so I can buy more X-wings, just wanted to let you know in case someone wants to get in on the DEAL OF THE CENTURY
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overdesigned posted:Hi guys I'm selling my Armada stuff so I can buy more X-wings, just wanted to let you know in case someone wants to get in on the DEAL OF THE CENTURY What, no Otis Nixon card?
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FFG has the licence for 40k poo poo. Descent/Imperial Assault would make a loving baller Space Hulk game, wtf FFG why isn't this a thing yet
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Because they would count as miniatures, and GW sure as gently caress aren't letting anyone else make minis
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Yeah, it's basically the opposite reason why FFG can't make non-miniature SW board games.
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Whelp, the Mon Karren fleet ended up winning the fleet commander contest. Though I have to say I have no idea why the guy playing my fleet ended up selecting Intel Sweep as an objective, as I would've gone for Fire Lanes, but c'est la vie. I still get a free Interdictor and Gozanti. E: After rereading the objective, I am so used to playing second that I did not remember who sets it up. I do think clustering the Intel Sweep tokens was a mistake though, the ones he deployed should've been as far away as possible, to either force a split or guarantee two tokens. Eimi fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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