While I wish it didn’t utilize an app, I can get past it. One of the worst things in my opinion is the artwork. It just doesn’t look like Terrinoth. I’ve loved the universe and lore and have purchased everything FFG has put out on it but this...I’m just not too sure about. And at about $200, ehhhh, I’m worried.

While I wish it didn’t utilize an app, I can get past it. One of the worst things in my opinion is the artwork. It just doesn’t look like Terrinoth. I’ve loved the universe and lore and have purchased everything FFG has put out on it but this...I’m just not too sure about. And at about $200, ehhhh, I’m worried.

While I wish it didn’t utilize an app, I can get past it. One of the worst things in my opinion is the artwork. It just doesn’t look like Terrinoth. I’ve loved the universe and lore and have purchased everything FFG has put out on it but this...I’m just not too sure about. And at about $200, ehhhh, I’m worried.

While I wish it didn’t utilize an app, I can get past it. One of the worst things in my opinion is the artwork. It just doesn’t look like Terrinoth. I’ve loved the universe and lore and have purchased everything FFG has put out on it but this...I’m just not too sure about. And at about $200, ehhhh, I’m worried.

While I wish it didn’t utilize an app, I can get past it. One of the worst things in my opinion is the artwork. It just doesn’t look like Terrinoth. I’ve loved the universe and lore and have purchased everything FFG has put out on it but this...I’m just not too sure about. And at about $200, ehhhh, I’m worried.

While I wish it didn’t utilize an app, I can get past it. One of the worst things in my opinion is the artwork. It just doesn’t look like Terrinoth. I’ve loved the universe and lore and have purchased everything FFG has put out on it but this...I’m just not too sure about. And at about $200, ehhhh, I’m worried.

Well...it’s something https://www.facebook.com/110432647142/posts/10156137483957143?s=100000300163909&substory_index=0&sfns=mo

Well...it’s something https://www.facebook.com/110432647142/posts/10156137483957143?s=100000300163909&substory_index=0&sfns=mo

You're in the wrong part of town, my man...

Seriously, it will hike the price point up big time if they are pre-painted and they'll be painted terribly (Flashback to Star Wars Miniatures <shudder>). If you have painting skill beyond a 4 year old (that's to say no skill at all) then you'll produce better stuff than what any company that pre-paints infantry will look like. 
As another note, when it comes to mini wargaming, the hobby aspect is actually what half of the community buys in for. This game is pretty much FFG's opposition to 40k. That being the case, they are going to follow suit with unpainted minis because paint is a pain to strip off of those figures and A LOT of people (as some have even voiced in this thread) are in it for the hobby and not so much the game.
That's just what the wargaming industry is: 1-part game/ 1-part hobby. And again, I'm pretty sure everyone here can paint better than the old Star Wars Minis game......
 

Looking forward to seeing it! I'm getting started on my new terrain soon. I just finished buying all of the extra revell and bandai ships I could that were close to our scale. I can't wait to make some crashed ship terrain with them.

That's the great thing about Star Wars (or sci-fi in general really) it's that size is very flexible. These are alien worlds we're talking about after all, with strange looking floras ranging in all different sizes. Even the trees can be different scale when it comes to the countless worlds in the galaxy. Of course if you're wanting to match it to, say, Endor then you might have to get it on a proper scale but if you're just making general terrain for different worlds then size isn't a huge issue. I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know but I just wanted to throw my two cents out there since we do have a lot of terrain noobies in the forums now.

Well it’s one of the old game books that were so fun to play. It’s not really a “game” per se, just as Dragonholt isn’t, it’s about the story you make for yourself (Though FL is more of a game since there is dice rolling mechanics and such). Fabled Lands is not a coop experience however. After looking a bit more at how LoD has done coop though I consider this a pro for FL.

Very! It was an open world experience and a very good one at that. Excellent storytelling, dice rolling skill checks, and you can get the books on Amazon for like $8 each. 

Much more so. I mean those were novel width books whereas these are perhaps the size of a Twilight Imperium instruction manual.

So one of my favorite unit types in any wargame has got to be marksmen units. I was thinking after watching some demos on YouTube, what abilities would a sniper have. I think some sort of concealment where he either can't be hit at a certain range or, much more likely, he is granted a level of cover at certain range. I also figure an ability will give him an automatic critical result bypassing cover as the marksman waits for the target to pop their squishy little head out from cover. The range is the thing that has me a little concerned. Granted the 4-range ruler is fairly long, I see a sniper, and in a game called Legion, to have a little longer range than that of one more range band compared to a standard storm trooper (which is 3). So do you think they'll make the range ruler extend even beyond 4 (it didn't seem so at the demo). If 4 is the max, isn't that kind of short for some weapons since the standard assault weapons are shooting at 3? What do you all think?

So one of my favorite unit types in any wargame has got to be marksmen units. I was thinking after watching some demos on YouTube, what abilities would a sniper have. I think some sort of concealment where he either can't be hit at a certain range or, much more likely, he is granted a level of cover at certain range. I also figure an ability will give him an automatic critical result bypassing cover as the marksman waits for the target to pop their squishy little head out from cover. The range is the thing that has me a little concerned. Granted the 4-range ruler is fairly long, I see a sniper, and in a game called Legion, to have a little longer range than that of one more range band compared to a standard storm trooper (which is 3). So do you think they'll make the range ruler extend even beyond 4 (it didn't seem so at the demo). If 4 is the max, isn't that kind of short for some weapons since the standard assault weapons are shooting at 3? What do you all think?

This is a bit surprising and honestly kind of scary for fans of the physical game.

This is a bit surprising and honestly kind of scary for fans of the physical game.

I don’t even watch the show but I’ve got the same feeling for some reason. I think it might look like some of the art for her in the GoT FFG Games.

It’s the reason I actually had her as one my Heroes for so long, I just loved looking at her!

This is a bit surprising and honestly kind of scary for fans of the physical game.

Let's use this thread to talk about what we've found out while playing the app about how it works and what our thoughts are. But please no story spoilers or at least spoiler tag them. 
I told myself I was going to wait and play through it without spoilers, but I just couldn't help myself and fired up the app on my lunch break and went through a couple of missions and encounters to see what it's like and how it works. I decided to go with Hard mode and use my dice app to simulate how the first mission might go with the heroes I had chosen.
Mission Design and Difficulty: Hard mode seems legitimately challenging by virtue of just flooding the board with Imperials every turn. However it didn't really feel like the Imperials were snowballing on turns when I wasn't able to kill most of them off, so I think it takes into account what's on the board when it decides how much stuff to deploy at the end of each round, in fact at one point it actually asked me how many stormtrooper figures were on the board before it deployed. Also it seems that the type of enemy that appears is somewhat randomized, as each time they deploy a short little roulette like animation flashes through all the enemy types before locking down. The app is also very generous with ally figures even in the first mission which helps immensely, and is also not very aggressive about attacking your allies like a human would be, but it does eventually start attacking them. The scenario also gives you an escape route for your unwounded hero to run and hide when things start to go bad, so I really appreciate that. At the end of the simulated first mission that I played, 3 of my 4 heroes had been withdrawn while my 4th unwounded hero had run away. Interestingly in the first mission the AI didn't prioritize attacking non-wounded heroes and in fact seemed to be purposefully spreading its damage around, focusing on a new hero each round, but once all the wounded heroes were out of the way, the AI started double moving its troops towards my hiding healthy hero. 
While the first mission was definitely combat focused, it seems there is actually a lot of role-playing elements incorporated into the game as well as exploration and detective work for certain missions. Mission events are often times highly detailed and really immerse you into the scene. There are tons of non-enemy NPCs in the game that players can interact with and players are able to respond to NPC dialogue Mass Effect style with select responses that alter how the NPCs in the game respond to you. Non-combat related choices can change the way in which a mission unfolds.
Encounters are actually really interesting, the one that I did wasn't a full mission that used map tiles, but was in fact a moment-by-moment flavorful description of a pitched space battle where your team of heroes had a very specific role to fulfill in the battle as pilots (which also definitely opens up some crossover potential with other FFG games), which was acted through decision trees and cumulative attribute tests where everybody adds up their successes and inputs them into the app to see what happens. It really makes these feel like a team effort and also allows for one character to feel like the MVP when a test that matches their favored attribute comes up and they carry the team through that part of the encounter.
Fame is earned primarily by killing bad guy groups, which is nice as it seems to have a direct impact on how many credits you earn after a mission, and the bigger the bad guy the more fame you get, so trigger-happy players are going to be rewarded in this game. Crates typically grant you a medpac, a small amount of credits and a supply card, but occassionally will give you 2 supply cards. 
BTW, the ambient noise in the app is amazing. You can hear voices calling over the loudspeaker just like you hear in the movies on the Deathstar hangar or the Yavin IV hangar in Rogue One, or the constant sound of ship engines when your in space, or clank of dishes and voices in a cantina. Probe droids buzz and mumble when they deploy, and Stormtroopers yell "Blast 'Em!" when they appear on the app. Sadly, all the text including mission briefings are not narrated like they were in Road to Legend, so prepare to have somebody do a lot of reading out loud. 
I'm really looking forward to getting this on the table with some fellow players in the coming weeks. I'm impressed by how different the app games feel to the regular campaign, way more like an RPG board game hybrid than the tabletop version. 
I will say though that being limited to just the Core set bad guys is kind of lame after playing with the expansions for so long. Keep in mind that the only non-villain mercenary units in the Core are Trandoshan Hunters and Nexu, so in a mission perhaps focused around a criminal element isn't going to have very interesting criminals to fight against. Those missions desperately need for some Hired Guns or Weequay Pirates. 

The tournament rules state that you can run an event and participate as long you designate a secondary judge for any rules conflicts you’re apart of. I’ve done this multiple times with no real issues.

I am reviving this for a quick monent only to say “TOMORROW IS THE DAY!!!”