Gen Con X-wing

X-wing display case.

Looks like there will be a ship announced tomorrow at noon... Imperial capital ship?

edulis wrote: Looks like there will be a ship announced tomorrow at noon... Imperial capital ship?

Probably.

Also, here's my friend's "Hello from GenCon" message to me:

At first I thought - Damn those new ships are huge look at them compared to the Falcon!
Then I realized it was glass shelf and everything else was below.

I know I said I was out, but um... I'll take a Decimator and an Outrider.

There's a rumor out there that it's going to be ships from the new Rebels cartoon...it's OT era, so within the realm of possibility. And possibly pretty cool if not essential.

Decimator looks awesome.

Wave 6 (from Team Covenant site)

Should have seen the Virago coming!

Whoa, that top one is IG-88's ship? C00L

Wookieepedia wrote: Because IG-88 had no reason to fear the gravitational effects of sudden maneuvers, the ship’s inertial compensators were often disabled, this allowed the droid to perform such extreme aerobatics that would otherwise kill an organic pilot.

Weapons-wise, the ship boasted two laser cannons, an ion cannon that was mounted below the cockpit, and two tractor beam projectors that were contained in the forward mandibles. Typically, IG-88 used the ion cannon to disable enemy ships, then used the tractor beams to maneuver the ship to the airlock, where four assault drones were kept and used as advance scouts for boarding actions in case his targets were not so willing to surrender. IG-2000 also contained sophisticated computer and communications equipment that allowed IG-88 to use his programming skills to attempt to slice enemy ship systems remotely in order to weaken them before battle.

Yeah, I was going to mention that...has "support ship" written all over it.

Cool thing about these ships is that they all seem like "only need 1" items. Thank god.

Lol yeah, I hear you. Anybody know what's the other ship?

Apparently these ships are for a third faction, "Scum & Villainy".

FFG's most recent update video had some good close-ups of the new ships. Starts at 3:18.

Here are a bunch of close-ups of the new ships as well:

www.flickr.com/photos/hexis/sets/72157646097611969/

So it appears that the ship on the VT-49's "Intimidation" card is the Mandalorian M3-A Scyk Interceptor from Wave 6. From Wookiepedia:

Although the Scyk barely provided more amenities to its pilot than a TIE/LN starfighter did, it had two strong points - it was cheap and its weapon mount was designed to handle nearly anything. Its standard equipment consisted of a weapon, an engine, a reactor, a capacitor and a weak shield generator. Its laser cannon could be easily swapped for an ion cannon, concussion missiles or a proton torpedo launcher. Large organizations used this versatility to create wings of starfighters with complementary weapon mixes, while individual pilots benefited by replacing or upgrading damaged weapons anywhere in the galaxy. Apart from that, it had very little room for modifications and additional equipment, and was not able to fit a booster or a flight computer in addition to its default equipment, which made its pilots rely on allied ships to plot a hyperspace jump.

Based on that description I'm going to guess that it's going to be a cheap, weak ship that can have many different kinds of upgrades. I also wouldn't be surprised if they added some keyword limitation to limit the ship to one or two upgrades instead of being able to stack a bunch of them.

Sounds pretty spot on, Sebastian. I'm looking forward to seeing the stats on this stuff.

I was a little nervous when I heard the announcement but FFG keeps on knocking it out of the park. The guy doing the modelling/conversion deserves props. I don't know his name but great job, man.