Yeah, Favreau said Kathleen Kennedy actually said the "next chapter" was happening Christmas 2021. So verbal shenanigans to not give away the Boba spin off.

From what I saw, BoBF is going to push out Mando season 3. So we'll get Ahsoka and Boba 12/2021. Then Mando sometime in 2022.

They better have a neutral command card called "Maclunkey", which results in your operative or commander dying immediately.

Based on the conversation in the finale, why was Sabine able to pass the dark saber to Bo-Katan in the final season of Rebels without any issue?

Nice as standby is, I think I'd keep Ace as a contingency card. It's basically an improved version of Seize the Initiative since he can give a free order to himself or another unit on any turn and it can be outside of the Issue Orders phase. And you'd prefer not to discard from your hand. Contingency does have it's counters. Obviously if you lose Lando or Kallus, your contingency cards go away. But if you lose your character(s) on the cards in your command hand, you can't play them to trigger your contingency either.

I really like the idea of banking Han's Change of Plans. Each time you play a 3-pip, you have the option of denying their command card. With infiltrate and disruptive command cards, Lando might be a better version of both Han and Jyn.

I enjoyed the restored armor in this episode, seeing how he looks at the beginning of a mission. The paint job looked closer to ESB rather than RotJ. At least on the jetpack. Straight green rather than the yellow and blue.

Of the many things to love in this episode, the TPS report reference was great and totally unexpected.

I'd like to see some command cards for vehicle field commanders or maybe some non-weapon crew upgrades to make them work more efficiently. Like a 2-pip generic command card called "Imperial Assault", 1 transport and 1 troop unit, after a transport with an order token activated, you may disembark one corps unit. Or a Crew upgrade that might serve a similar purpose, 15 points with exhaust or something.

@Deadshane the Rebel Vets want orders for dodge and coordinate and the T-47's with LTA want orders. Do you find LTA on the speeders worth it for the times you get orders on them?

I can believe it. (I didn't watch the whole Crabbok video. So if I repeat any of his thoughts, then I agree.) Hopefully their sculpting has improved enough to make it look awesome. But the timing makes sense given changes to transports and field commander, and that we haven't had closed transports yet. The Imperials have an easy equivalent that's been in Mandalorian and throughout Rebels. So that'll be a quick match. I think Lando will be similar to Han. More of a disruptor with his command cards. Not the vehicle leader the Rebels need to make them more viable. But with the changes to field commander, they could put some generic command cards in the vehicle sets. This would help make the transports/vehicles more powerful, more marketable, and expand command hand variety that Alex said they were trying to achieve awhile back.

That would be an interesting direction to take the series either post-Gideon or alongside that continuing arc. Allow them to work through some character development and inner issues between sides while having great fight scenes. Mando hauling around a baby pseudo-Jedi would add its own complications to working with other Mandalorians. Now that you mention it, I'm surprised there was no follow up on the Armorer when he went back to Navarro. Either Din looking for her or Cara and Greef giving him an update. She saved their lives with that timely jetpack and they didn't check in with her while cleaning up the city? Just a quick one liner about how she moved on before they could find her, left behind a lot of scrap metal for them to clean up, yadda yadda yadda.

Season 2 is following a similar format to season 1. He goes on side quests, meets a bunch of people, then they all come together at the end of the season to confront Gideon. Give all the characters one more go around by season's end, maybe Sabine to tie in Bo-Katan and Ahsoka with a little Ezra reference. Then in the next couple months we'll get announcements for spin off series for Ahsoka chasing down Thrawn and maybe a separate one for Bo-Katan trying to re-establish Mandalore.

You can only perform 1 action if the vehicle performed more than one standard move. The compulsory move is a standard move for the speeder. So the transported unit gets 2 actions if the vehicle only performed one move or if it goes before the vehicle that round. So you can shoot and scoot with Han in a speeder if you get your order sequence right and get multiple moves out of the speeder. If the mortar support fires, it doesn't need the aims since the other unit is the attacker. But you're right that dodges will come in handy in all cases with the vehicles having larger profiles and heavy cover only goes so far.

Another factor is the FFG team spoke a few times about having a plan laid out for a few years. I think they had gotten approval from Disney/Lucas for a few years worth of projects. If they keep that pipeline in place, it would give the new team time to get up to speed with the direction they want to take things.

I don't like the end where they are looking to add more Star Wars mini games. I'm worried they focus on their own brainchildren and backseat their adopted games. Still too early to tell. But it sounds like Alex and Luke who were the heart of the game are being left out. I've got a bad feeling about this.

Despite its points being too high, it's a fun model to play with. There are a few builds it can run with. You can keep it bare bones and use it as a character delivery device. R2, Luke, anyone you want to get up close fast. Then displace units with your compulsory move and shoot up close to spread around suppression. Maybe Comms Jammer to mess with things when you get there. As a gun boat, you can put 3 range 3 guns on it (rifle, rocket, mark II) and hit units on the flank. Cover 2 (cover 1 pilot is nice) and Armor 2 helps keep it alive but you don't want to take on multiple enemy units. As an alternative gun boat, run 2 range 4 guns and keep the enemy at a distance. Slap on HQ Uplink since you'll want to recover often with the M-45. It gives you activation control over it and keeps that Heavy order token out of your pool. The hard part of this strategy is aiming towards the enemy, having to compulsory move every turn, while trying to stay outside of range 3. Once the points update comes out, some of these may be more viable in a few weeks.

How about Dr. Mandible as a medic for the future scoundrel faction? With that gambling addiction, he's bound to get caught up owing his services eventually.

If you divulge Phantom Menace, you have to discard it during the deployment phase and you're basically down a command card, right? That's not the usual "must play on turn 1" that we've seen on previous divulge mechanics.

I don't recall the wording of Observe Tokens from the insert. Has it been confirmed if they are removed after being used by a unit or at the end of the turn?