Yikes. Seems like an odd decision... It is a bummer but I suppose I’ll just use bgg more.

I also spend time on BGG but liked the different feel of this forum. It felt more like a small community. Good humoured and interesting and more manageable than other places. I'll miss the Shipping Now thread in particular.

With the post that has been put up from FFGEvan, the forum is going to be closed in the next few weeks.
As a result, I guess any discussion about the potential return of IA, or IACP etc. will need a new home.  This is the final push for me to move on to something new.
If FFG do ever decide to run that final World Championship that some of us qualified for, I hope to see some of you there, but I'm moving to Blood Bowl as my new strategic game for minis.
Imperial Assault will always be my most enjoyed community game, and those of you that I did meet in real life were nothing other than the best examples of wonderful people.
For people on the forum, I think we'd all be in agreement that A1bert has always been there to clarify rules queries in a knowledgeable way, so I salute you sir.
To everyone else, I hope you enjoyed the game as much as me, and find like minded people to run future campaigns with.

See the Rebels episode where he directly leads ground forces in the attack on the Rebel base on Atollon. He has way more of a place in Legion than the Emperor. 

warehouses in europe did send the widow out.

Someone seriously mis-estimated the need for xwing players to repurchase ships. There's an excess of used ships and there is no real advantage other than optics to purchase previously released ships for x wing. They have admitted as such and basically cancelled and rebooted the x wing game production. They are only going to release new ships from now on(which is what they should have done) so no surprise that x wing is flagging in sales

But yeah, it's pretty much dead as far as FFG is concerned.

The characters tagged with ‘Defender’ are the more modern Defender’s (I.e. the Netflix street level Defenders) rather than the original Defenders.
Thematically, that actually makes a reasonable amount of sense - the original Defenders weren’t actually a team, so much as a group of individuals that banded together due to circumstances. The game will allow those characters to team up and play together, but it won’t provide any trait synergy between them.
Dr Strange has the Avengers trait, as he’s been an Avenger since around 2008.

It's also important to remember FFG has to have every design approved by Lucasfilm.   The level of detail may have been required.
 

In an Interview they said the expansion should feel epic.   guess they got that covered.

Over on BGG, somebody bought Dr Strange Card-set and Wrecking Crew.  Not sure if timetravel was involved.
(there are pictures from the package art; no Cards spoilered so far)

I'd love a Star Trek LCG. There's loads of source material, and could lend itself quite well to a cooperative game.
I loved the Decipher Star Trek CCG back in the day, I'd enjoy a new Trek based game.

Over on BGG, somebody bought Dr Strange Card-set and Wrecking Crew.  Not sure if timetravel was involved.
(there are pictures from the package art; no Cards spoilered so far)

You are correct. MARVEL focused away from those groups. However, the best evidence that that doesn't really matter to the game licensing is Marvel Legendary, which for the past 6 or so years has had Fantastic Four, X-Men, Deadpool and Spider-Man content. So yes, you are right that in the past Marvel has changed their focused based on the success of their licensed franchises, I am correct when I stated that the two sets of right are unrelated.

FFG can ask distributors to hold on to product, doesn't mean they will. You guys are assuming FFG has control over this whole process. The ship leaves China when it leaves. It shows up at port and unloads when it does. The distributors ship when they ship. Good chance FFG doesn't communicate all this stuff because they don't know themselves, especially the over seas stuff. Also, they don't owe us day to day updates on the current status of their business.
FFG products are neither late or early, they arrive exactly when they mean to.

There probably will be one more Hero before the first big box expansion. I've seen some people speculate that it's gonna be either Ghost Rider or Moon Knight, but either or something else is fine by me. Speaking of deluxe expansions though, what kind of theme would you all want to see for one of those? Fantastic 4, X-Men, and Guardians of the Galaxy all seem like good candidates, but are there others that you all would like to see? Personally I would love to see a Spiderverse big box, but won't expect something like that until we have a bigger glut of non Spider-People identities to choose from. 

In case the tweet doesn't show: 
 

One interesting thing about this product that I hadn’t considered before - assuming you proxy tokens / health tokens, you can actually play this Scenario with just this pack and a hero pack - no core set required!

They print cycles of cards all together. So GG, Cap, and likely the next 4 packs are all already printed and in warehouses.
Of course cycles are defunct and the Scenario Packs are different sizes, so who really knows what their production stream is now.

Though the core set doesn't provide dials for four villains (unless you play solo and use hero dials) I'm glad that FFG haven't let the provided core box components be a restriction on their imaginations in bringing us new ways to play scenarios. From what was shown in the stream, I really like the way the Wrecking Crew scenario works.
I'll use dice to track villain's health.

Yeah, I’ll probably just track it on paper, that way I can log turns too. 

The designers have said they didn't base characters around MCU synergy. They chose Ms Marvel out of a genuine joy of her character. She is pretty popular with new fans.
This game would be designed with characters chosen a year ago. Way before the announcements of the shows. Most of these shows don't even have a director picked yet. 

i think this is very likely.  Really looking forward how FFG will tackel the campain format.
 

i think this is very likely.  Really looking forward how FFG will tackel the campain format.
 

I would love a big box GotG box with them plus Thanos or something.