The thing about Balderdash Conquistador is that there isn't a role he can play that wouldn't be better served by Tom Hiddleston.

Jaina over Mara is just flat-out disgusting, but I'm glad an EU character won.

Not sure where everyone got "Teacher" from, because it's pretty clearly not Teacher in the Wave 9 preview article. Teroch makes sense for a Mandalorian fighter, and it looks right in the picture. You're making the mistake of looking at the card, not the base insert (where 'Teacher' can be clearly seen).

Hey, the Earth Fighter is a McQuarrie design after all.

I got further into Twilight than I ever managed with Aftermath. The fact that they were willing to let him write for something as big as Star Wars says miles and miles for the gross mentalities prevalent with the people handling the new canon.

here's my totally seat-of-pants prediction: 5: red straight 4: white straight 3: red segnors, white banks, green straight 2: red tallons, green banks, green straight 1: green turns, green banks

It shows up in one of the Wraith Squadron books, which even if it's EU should count for story material.

This is a strange thing to me. Everyone I play with endeavors to play the game by the rules and the FAQ is the rules as much as anything else. When I'm the only one of the group who has time to waste on these forums/etc, it kind of makes more sense. The only elements of this FAQ that are any good (GONK, Stygium/discard) we were already using anyway. Plans are to implement bomb-speed rules in a few weeks as well.

How does one ignore a large clarification on overall timings and a generalized update and tightening on the rules? Easily? Heck, I had to push people to even read the FAQs to begin with.

I think this is the first FAQ we'll be ignoring casually, nobody's dumb enough to fly triple U-Boats here anyway.

No amount of inspiration will make that card not broken as-is.

I wonder if a 'This card does not occupy a crew slot.' bit would work. It's got a crew icon on it, so you can't equip it to a ship without crew on the bar, but it wouldn't take up the space. Still leaves the 'how does this fit on an IG-2000" problem.

According to my FLGS it shipped last Thursday, should be here any day now.

It's fake no matter how many times it's reposted.

So far FFG's been good about not adding ugly ships to Epic (the EU has a real kludge of them once you get higher than starfighter scale).

I was thinking the same thing, there has to be more to this. Even given how wrong OP is about the ruling itself, e-celeb USI is too juicy to pass up.

There's a huge difference between a ship with the weight and developmental planing of decades behind it and a bunch of upstart ships with little role definition and minimal aesthetic competency (ARC-170 excepted, the prequel design teams knew what they were doing, cartoons and nucanon not so much it seems). I can see 20 years of dust adding quite a bit of that weight you speak of. l m a o There's a huge difference between a ship with the weight and developmental planing of decades behind it and a bunch of upstart ships with little role definition and minimal aesthetic competency (ARC-170 excepted, the prequel design teams knew what they were doing, cartoons and nucanon not so much it seems). did you just insult the /sf because if you did we are now Enemies. t h i n k c a r e f u l l y it's a tremendously lazy piece of copypaste and the first order deserved better There's a huge difference between a ship with the weight and developmental planing of decades behind it I think that's adding a little bit too much credit. The gunboat is 20 years old, not 20 years of development. For all you know, people spent more time thinking about the Shadow Caster than they did about the gunboat. Just because it's been around longer, does not mean it is better. Okay, I'll give you that, maybe the Star Trek design team did put a lot of thought into the Shadow Caster.

There's a huge difference between a ship with the weight and developmental planing of decades behind it and a bunch of upstart ships with little role definition and minimal aesthetic competency (ARC-170 excepted, the prequel design teams knew what they were doing, cartoons and nucanon not so much it seems).

It's a normal-ish TIE/fo with less internal space for power systems and more systems drawing off a minimized reactor, I think the dial makes sense (although lacking the 1 forward would be okay too).

Why not? Looks to be lore-accurate according to wookiepedia: ArmamentTwin laser cannons(2)[1] Some were equipped with Flak guns and Proton bombs [4] Battlefront 2 (a game that gets far more acclaim than it deserves) had a really bad habit of misrepresenting ships just to pile them into gameplay roles, that's where the cannon/bomb stuff comes from. Yeah, that. I'm sorry, those bombs have got to go. I know, I'm being almost pointlessly demanding, but it was hardly a standard feature on that vessel. They were the poor man's ETA-2 in the GAR, essentially. Though they were really **** nice I kind of like them as an upgrade card, but on the main statline ew no.

Why not? Looks to be lore-accurate according to wookiepedia: ArmamentTwin laser cannons(2)[1] Some were equipped with Flak guns and Proton bombs [4] Battlefront 2 (a game that gets far more acclaim than it deserves) had a really bad habit of misrepresenting ships just to pile them into gameplay roles, that's where the cannon/bomb stuff comes from.

I don't know whether to giggle or look aghast.

Don't label him, he identifies as a candiru. I sexually identify as a BTL-S8 K-Wing. Ever since I was a prototype, I've dreamed of soaring over the asteroids dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting Yevethans. People say to me that a person being a starfighter is "impossible," and "I’m frelling delusional', but I don’t care, I’m beautiful. I’m having a black-market mechanic install SLAM drives, Twin Laser Turrets, and T-33 Plasma Torpedoes on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “K-Wing” and respect my right to kill from orbit and kill needlessly. If you can’t accept me you’re a snubphobe and need to check your starship privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

Shadow Caster Expansion Pack: Ship: Lancer-class Pursuit Craft: 3V^/2/7/3 Focus, Target Lock, Evade, Rotate Arc (unsure of actual action name) Crew, Illicit, Illicit ?/ /? ?/ /? ?/G/?/G/?/? ?/?/?/?/?/? ?/?/?/?/? Pilots: PS2 •Shadowp... (?pts) PS5 •Sabine Wren (35pts, "When defending against an enemy ship in your mobile firing arc at Range 1–2, you may add 1 <focus> result to your roll.") PS6 •Asajj Ventress (?pts, EPT, "At the... you... 1–2, ...") PS7 •Ketsu Onyo (38pts, EPT, "At the start of the Combat phase, you may choose a ship at Range 1. If it is inside your primary and mobile firing arcs, assign 1 tractor beam token to it.") Upgrades: EPT: Veteran InstinctsCrew: •IG-88(A/B/C/D/*?) (?pts, "Scum ONLY. You have the... each...") •Ketsu Onyo (?pts, "Scum ONLY. At the... phase...") •Latts Razzi (?pts, "Scum ONLY. When defending, you may remove 1 stress token...") Illicit: Ri(gged?) Cargo... (?pts, "LARGE SHIP ONLY. ACTION: ... to drop...)Modifications: Counter Measures Gyro(scopic?) Targ(eting?) (?pts, "LANCER-CLASS PURSUIT CRAFT ONLY. At the... phase, ...3-, 4-, or... this round... your...") 2x Tactical Jammer Title: •Shadow Caster (3pts, "LANCER-CLASS PURSUIT CRAFT ONLY. TITLE. After you perform an attack that hits, if the defender is inside your mobile firing arc and at Range 1–2, you may assign the defender 1 tractor beam token.")Unknown: 2x Black (Sun?) Slicer... (?pts, "ACTION: C... enemy ship... and roll... <hit> or <crit>...")Reference: Using (Mobile Firing Arcs?) (This card explains the... and...) Debris Cloud Tokens (Obstacles can sometimes be dropped in the same manner as bombs. Debris clouds are obstacles as described in the core rulebook...") Tokens: Focus Target Lock {II/JJ} Evade 3x Shield 2x Large ID (#0) 2x Large ID (#1) 2x Large ID (#2) ID (#0) ID (#1) ID (#2) Stress Critical Tractor Beam Mobile Firing Arc indicator Hyperspace token (mission) 4x Unknown (mission tokens, 1 side blank, other side numbered 1-4)