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I'm fairly certain at Gen Con they said Legion would be March-Aprilish, their first article on their page says early 2018, and FFG has issues getting cards and dice off the boat in a timely manner so who knows with minis. I don't know why anyone would have thought it would be here before Christmas.
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Considering there are multiple Legion events at Adepticon (late March), it will have to be out by then. Might not be much before then though.
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Orvin posted:Considering there are multiple Legion events at Adepticon (late March), it will have to be out by then. Might not be much before then though. I signed up for one of those. It's going to be pretty fun to have a tournament style event with a game that will only have been out for a couple of months.
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The Imperial Assualt co-op app has been released! https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/12/1/a-new-legend-begins/
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So I walked into my Barnes & Noble today and found a 50% off ISD box, which is now mine. I've not really been following the Armada scene lately; what does a competitive double ISD look like these days? Gunnery teams on both probably, some kind of defensive upgrade to keep them alive, and an escort or two? EDIT: What are your thoughts on this - Faction: Galactic Empire Points: 400/400 Commander: Admiral Motti Assault Objective: Most Wanted Defense Objective: Fleet Ambush Navigation Objective: Minefields [ flagship ] Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points) - Admiral Motti ( 24 points) - Gunnery Team ( 7 points) - Advanced Projectors ( 6 points) - Leading Shots ( 4 points) = 161 total ship cost Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points) - Gunnery Team ( 7 points) - Advanced Projectors ( 6 points) - Leading Shots ( 4 points) = 137 total ship cost Raider-II Class Corvette (48 points) = 48 total ship cost 4 TIE Fighter Squadrons ( 32 points) 2 TIE Interceptor Squadrons ( 22 points) susan fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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That looks pretty okay. Another option is to go double Gozantis, plus you can free up 24 points taking Cienna Ree and Valen Rudor (from Corellian Conflict expansion) as your only fighter cover. If you're going fighter light, they are literally all you could conceivably need at 30 points. Try and fit Electronic Countermeasures in there somewhere, they're a better taken on ISDIIs than Advanced Projectors. Even if your opponent has XI7s, you'll be using all your shields with two redirects anyway. Also an option is Reinforced Blast Doors, but you've got to have an Arquitens for that card. Still, 14 hull (Motti) plus 3 you can repair at the start of a round is a lot of damage your opponent needs to chew through to sink even one of your big ships. I think the best double ISD commander right now is probably Moff Jerjerrod, but if you haven't picked up an Arquitens yet, Motti is perfectly servicable. You can also go Ozzel, because nothing is more hilarious than throttling from 1 to 3, or 3 to 1 on a big fat ISD.
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Also consider dropping the Raider II to a Raider I and add Ordinance Experts. Ordinance Experts really increases the damage done by the Raider. In addition, it makes it the strongest flack platform in the game, all but guaranteeing 2 damage on squadrons. You may not have any yet, but external racks on Raider 1s with Ordinace Experts is another really strong upgrade. It gives them a really strong single activation, especially if you can double arc something.
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Iron_Chef posted:The Imperial Assualt co-op app has been released! Holy Moly. I'll crack this out at the weekend and let y'all know how it plays.
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Yeah, I downloaded it and dicked around for a bit but I haven’t had time to actually play a game with it yet. And Gloomhaven is sitting on my porch as I type, so I’m not sure how quickly I’ll get around to it now.
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The Battlefront II DLC campaign set in the First Order era has exactly what I was talking about for a scum/other faction in Armada - a private security company running a task force built around an old Nebulon B frigate, teamed with a group of weaponised GR-75 transports, and escorted by a mix of V-Wings and ARC-170s. The PC also gets to steal from the PMC, and then use, a Republic-era AT-RT and a Z-6 Rotary blaster cannon on the ground.
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Dec 18, 2017 15:33
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What in the Christ is up with this new Armada wave? It's still listed as in development 4 months later
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China is slow and ffg are dumb and order production too late.
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banned from Starbucks posted:What in the Christ is up with this new Armada wave? It's still listed as in development 4 months later My money is on Legion and it's associated wave 1 jumping the line.
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If I was buying Imperial Assault with the intention of only running the App stuff, what do I need to get? The core set only? What is the "point" of all the extraneous minis? Do they replace the dudes in the campaigns or what?
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Waffles Inc. posted:If I was buying Imperial Assault with the intention of only running the App stuff, what do I need to get? The core set only? What is the "point" of all the extraneous minis? Do they replace the dudes in the campaigns or what? You only need the core set. If you have expansions you can play with any of the other heroes, and having extra Imperial miniatures from the expansions means there's a larger pool of potential spawns when the app places random enemies.
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Waffles Inc. posted:If I was buying Imperial Assault with the intention of only running the App stuff, what do I need to get? The core set only? What is the "point" of all the extraneous minis? Do they replace the dudes in the campaigns or what? In so far as the app is concerned, they may have plot cards, side quests and other stuff that gets mixed in. Some of the blister packs replace cardboard chits but most are add-ons. I haven't played around with the app enough yet to know how well it incorporates all of the expansions. The boxed expansions add new characters, map tiles, enemies, items, etc. As far as campaign play goes, I think those are a lot more relevant than having a C3-P0 model or whatever. In any case, you can certainly start with just the core set and see how well you like it.
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Is Legion likely to steal Imperial assaults future? I know they're not like directly comparable but both imp rear end and Armada seem like they're slowing down a lot lately and idk how popular either still are. I'll be sad if no episode 7 or 8 stuff ever makes it into either game :/
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Waffles Inc. posted:If I was buying Imperial Assault with the intention of only running the App stuff, what do I need to get? The core set only? What is the "point" of all the extraneous minis? Do they replace the dudes in the campaigns or what? Within the app "collection" you can, per product, get information about what components will contribute. For the existing app co-op campaign
We've been playing with my friends stuff and sorted and stored all the components into "needed for co-op" and "other"
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Is the app co-op campaign the same as the one in the core set or is it it's own separate thing?
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flightless greeb posted:Is the app co-op campaign the same as the one in the core set or is it it's own separate thing? Totally separate. Also I'm not sure most of the expansions are actually working in the app yet. They say coming soon when you click them in the collection manager
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Just bought the Heart of the Empire expansion for ImpAss, how good are the Heroes from that? I was kind disappointed with Twin Shadow's and Hoth's were pretty neat.
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Dived into ImpAss yesterday. The skirmish rules are a direct descendant of the old Star Wars Minis game except without all of the stupid stuff. I'm really excited to try out the campaign. Should I buy the core Hero/Villain packs now or should I wait? I mean, on one hand I really want those Han and Chewie minis but I don't know if having the cards that go with them will be a boon or detriment.
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I found getting packs later to be tough at times. It's probably best just to grab what you want whenever you see it. For skirmish you get everything you need in them, and for the campaign you will probably just not use them unless you have the relevant big box expansion.
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Profundity preview is up, Raddus is a new Admiral, and Bail Organa and General Draven are new crew cards
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NTRabbit posted:Profundity preview is up, Raddus is a new Admiral, and Bail Organa and General Draven are new crew cards I was expecting a decent attacker out of that ship, but drat. That thing is an outright brawler 
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Icon Of Sin posted:I was expecting a decent attacker out of that ship, but drat. That thing is an outright brawler That model alone might get me to give Armada another shot, haven't touched the game since wave one came out.
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I've always felt leery of the 'teleport a ship onto the table' abilities. I can see someone envisioning themselves pulling off some amazing coup with it, then having their asses shot off because their opponent got a few rounds with more tonnage on the table. Like, in the time it takes for Admiral Dash Cunning to get behind the enemy line to teleport some ships behind their ships, their ships have already reduced his pre-deployed fleet to junk and are basically unscratched, more than countering the positional advantage he sought. Now, an actual teleport that can pick a ship up from the table and put it down in a new position, call it a Picard Maneuver or a Hyperspace Hop or whatever, that would be super powerful. Possibly too powerful without extreme cost or hefty drawback. That aside, the new cruiser is badass. Great shields, great fire coverage and turns relatively on a dime for a ship its size. My nerd boner is still staying true to Thrawn, but I really wish they'd not saddled him with another ISD with a different paint job when I already have a couple of them. I know it's his ship and all, but they could've just included Chimaera's card with him and put in an actual different ship in the box like a Dreadnaught cruiser from the novels.
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Swiftly followed by Chimaera. Annoyed the Gauntlets have changed sides, they've only ever been depicted in scum and rebel usage.
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Seems that any ships that have ended up being Scum in X-wing have been Imperial for Armada, unless Armada had them first.
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The only one I understand is the Cruiser-Carrier, because despite being predominantly seen on screen as a Rebel ship, it was first introduced in a heist episode where the ship in Imperial service was the score.
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That's not in X-wing though. I mean stuff like the bounty hunter ships.
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Arquinsiel posted:That's not in X-wing though. I mean stuff like the bounty hunter ships. It id tho. As an imperial epic ship.
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bunnyofdoom posted:It id tho. As an imperial epic ship. ETA: which is also not a scum ship in any context anyways, so 
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Weren't the Mandalorian fighters in service to the empire in the first episode of rebels that they appeared in?
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No, they were Death Watch back then. They're Clone Wars ships, not Rebels ships. They just turned up again in Rebles first when Darth Maul did again and then with the whole Mandalore plotlines later.
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flightless greeb posted:Weren't the Mandalorian fighters in service to the empire in the first episode of rebels that they appeared in? This one is the Gauntlet, which was Death Watch, and later Maul's shadow collective, and later again Mandalore in general and the rebellion; Rebels introduced the Fang Fighter, which belonged to the Protectors of Concord Dawn, who were left independent so long as they reported on Rebel movements and denied their space to them, up until the Empire decided to annex their space and wipe them out. Clan Wren also had a squadron of Fangs later as well. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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There was someone in this thread a while back that painted their Armada fighter squadrons, and did a drat fine job of it. Does anyone have that image saved/are they still around? I started on my fighters (adding a slight bronze dab to my Y-Wings for the astromech slot) but I'd love if there were actually a good model to follow.
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Icon Of Sin posted:There was someone in this thread a while back that painted their Armada fighter squadrons, and did a drat fine job of it. Does anyone have that image saved/are they still around? I started on my fighters (adding a slight bronze dab to my Y-Wings for the astromech slot) but I'd love if there were actually a good model to follow. Grey Hunter posted:This is public service announcement from the PAINT YOU FIGHTERS movement. (please note, for anyone who has never taken a picture of a model before, the camera exposes every flaw - these look a lot better in real life.)
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I painted mine. searching my posts should find you the images. EDIT - beaten like a redheaded stepchild.
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