PSA - GenCon, Force Friday 2, Wave 12 & The Last Jedi

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

The Armada North American Championship starts at 10am and the X-Wing North American Championship (Flight 1) starts at 11am today.  Good luck to all taking part!

FFG's In Flight Report starts at 11am tomorrow morning.

If you're attending, let us know how you're getting on and post pics or updates if you get the chance!

[Ken on Cape 263]

Is FFG having a presentation at Gen Con this year? If so when is it? If not they just going to announce the new stuff first day of con?

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

6 minutes ago, Ken on Cape said:

Is FFG having a presentation at Gen Con this year? If so when is it? If not they just going to announce the new stuff first day of con?

Link is in the post right above yours! 

Edited August 17, 2017 by FTS Gecko

[rilesman 249]

On 8/16/2017 at 6:39 AM, ficklegreendice said:

yeah, and there's going to be more every wave

#patternanaylzer

 

Seriously?  Daaaaaaang. By the way, not impressed with the StarViper, it looks.... Bland.  Will need either metallic spray or weathering.

[ssspikeee 2]

Sorry to bother anyone offtopping, but will the in-flight report be broadcast somewhere live? Team Covenant, maybe?

[__underscore__ 1,093]

1 hour ago, ssspikeee said:

Sorry to bother anyone offtopping, but will the in-flight report be broadcast somewhere live? Team Covenant, maybe?

Yep.

https://twitter.com/teamcovenant/status/898406289318887425

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

This is your one hour warning, people. 

Edited August 18, 2017 by FTS Gecko

[DailyRich 3,346]

5 hours ago, __underscore__ said:

Yep.

https://twitter.com/teamcovenant/status/898406289318887425

If what I'm hearing now is the audio quality we can expect for the Flight Report, you're probably better off just following Twitter posts.

[Sithborg 11,644]

Yeah. As long as they get the cameras on the slides, we are good. 

[Wiredin 3,459]

well my twitter is up at work ready for the news!

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

Alright, let's get this show on the road! 

[Odanan 5,439]

Updates, please!

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

Going through FFG's catalogue at the moment, I'm guessing they're saving all the Star Wars properties for last!

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

And speaking of which, here comes the Destiny news...

[John Rainbow 355]

X-wing news now... some weird ship from Galaxies in wave 12... I think - I didn't catch the name of the scum one

Edited August 18, 2017 by John Rainbow

[John Rainbow 355]

Phantom 2 announced

[John Rainbow 355]

GUNBOAT!!!!!

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

GUNBO_IFOSFT

 

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

GUWNSBOT

[FTS Gecko 24,123]

GUBNBAPQ!!!!!

[drail14me 1,255]

On 8/3/2017 at 9:10 AM, FTS Gecko said:

Because we haven't had a PSA in a while.

So yeah, I see people asking about when Wave 12 / The Last Jedi etc is going to be announced in every other thread every single day, so we might as well point out that there's a very clear pattern for FFG's wave and film releases over the last couple of years.

Wave 8 was announced at GenCon in July 2015.  The Wave 8 announcement went up on the 31st July following FFG's In Flight report, and featured The Ghost, the Inquisitor's TIE, the Punishing One and the Mist Hunter.  Following the GenCon announcement, there was the surprise release of The Force Awakens Core Set on Force Friday (4th September 2015), then the announcement of the T-70 and TIE/fo Expansion Packs the following week, which were "added" to Wave 8, but released seperately (they arrived in December to coincide with the release of The Force Awakens).

Wave 10 was announced at GenCon in August 2016 (GenCon ran from 4th to 7th August, and the Wave 10 announcement went up on 5th August) featuring Sabine's TIE, the Upsilon Shuttle and the Quadjumper.  Then, on Force Friday (2nd September 2016) - we got the TIE Striker and U-Wing announcement, and again the ships were "added" to Wave 10, but arrived in December alongside the release of Rogue One.

This year, GenCon 50 runs from Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th August.  FFG are again an official partner of the event, the North American Championships are being held there and there are a LOT of other X-Wing events organised for the weekend.

What does this mean for us?  It means we're all but guaranteed a Wave 12 announcement at GenCon, and it will probabably follow the established pattern of both Wave 8 in 2015 and Wave 10 last year, in that we'll have Rebel, Imperial and Scum ships announced first at GenCon, then ships from The Last Jedi announced and added on Force Friday II in September.

It also means that the first ships announced for Wave 12 ships most likely won't be ships from The Last Jedi.  There's a fair few candidates still out there; Krennic's Shuttle, the Zeta-Class Cargo Shuttle, the TIE Reaper and the Partisan X-Wing could all potentially show up from Rogue One.  There's also potential for a Scarif Veterans pack in the future, with X-Wing, Y-Wing and/or U-Wing repaints plus the pilots and crew (K-2SO!!!).  And of course there's the possibility that Wave 12 dips back into the extended universe for inspiration.

Between now and GenCon, we can probably expect a Guns For Hire Vaksai preview article and maybe, just maybe, an updated FAQ (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!).

You have your schedule pilots.  Look lively.

So, with Wave XII announced and TLJ ships expected to announce on Force Friday, where does that leave the possibility of a Scarif pack?

And if we ever see a Partisan X-Wing, will it be Rebel or Scum or both?