Norsehound said:

I don't see any reason why they couldn't release an alternate Fett card that isn't Imperial down the road. Having Luke the pilot didn't preclude Luke in the Falcon.

Kaxel Vofer said:

lol sorry not star wars… Buck Rogers FTW!

rumblefish said:

One's an upgrade and the other is a pilot though. Re-releasing Fett in the same ship with the same stats but a different faction feels redundant to me. Why do that when we could have something new for the game that doesn't make our already existing Fett cards obsolite?

dandirk said:

  Ummm, what´s a pity, but it's a great ship, no matter of what universe is, greettings.

I'd like to see a rebel pilot for the YT-1300 and an imperial pilot for the Firespray-31. I mean the ships aren't really faction exclusive, are they?

Other than that, fill out the ships in the movies and expand outwards to the expanded universe. I'm not sure I wan't Old Republic or prequel ships though.

Tesseract said:

I take it you mean that around the other way?

Cilionelle said:

Haha, yes. an imperial pilot for the YT-1300 and a rebel pilot for the Firespray-31 of course.

Norsehound said:

There's no reason that it wouild have to be an identical card, and I wouldn't expect it to be as part of a Firespray repaint, just a card pack. Fett, leader of the Mandalorian Protectors wouldn't necessarily be represented with the same pilot ability as Fett the bounty hunter.

We're getting very literal here though, my point is that I don't think that FFG has necessarily painted themselves in to a corner when it comes to any kind of expansion.

I'm by no means a Star Wars historical genius, but the lcg game has like 6 factions…it's the same time period as the mini game….so maybe they have something up their sleeves.  I just hope they don't reveal all the upgrades before (if) they release another wave.  Keep some mystery, at least till a week or so before release.

I would also like to see some same pilots in different ships. As booster packs of course. For example Tycho Celchu in an X-Wing (with the same pilot skill probably in his case but perhaps with a different ability, idk) would certainly not be wrong, since he flew an A-Wing pretty much only during the Battle of Endor. Another example could be new additions from the expanded universe. Rogue and Wraith squadron offer so many shining examples of interesting Pilots (as do their inperial counterparts) there should be no difficulty finding people they could use.

I would say yes to pilots that cross factions too because a lot of them actually did change sides during the conflicts, but it would get problematic regarding their uniqueness. Although you can on tournaments also have the same pilot twice if you play Rebel vs. Rebel or Imp vs. Imp. In friendly games you could just find a solution together who flies Boba Fett and for which faction. Then it would be okay.

Without wanting to heat up the discussion again, i would not mind if FFG would expand not only to expanded Universe but also to Episode 1-3 Stuff. For tournaments you have mirror matches anyway so why be against Old Republic vs. Rebel matches or Empire vs. Separatists… and in friendly games you could just decide if you wanna play thematically or with factions pitted against each other that could not have been because they didn't exist in the same era.

I would honestly rather see that happen than them digging out very unknown and perhaps impopular galactic civil war era ships.

I think it's a good chance that card-and-chipboard expansion packs with new pilots and upgrades for existing ships will appear sooner or later. The dice packs are available for purchase, so it's not like releasing component parts seperately is unprecedented. The game isn't even a year old after all and we're only two expansions in.

Of my favorite ships, the most obscure is probably the T-Wing. Plenty of people have played TIE Fighter and might remember what it is, but only the TIE Defender, and surprisingly the R-41 Starchaser have appeared outside of the flight sim (In the Force Unleashed II, as Rebel fighters accompanying the Y-Wings). The Assault Gunboat also hasn't had much coverage but it's more popular than the T-Wing.

For myself fighters from the comic continuity are obsecure IMO, but a number of them look interesting.

I don't know… I still don't feel like we should expect alternate factions. I suppose it's a hunch based on how they released Slave I. If there are future alternate factions, I would expect it to be the Republic and Seperatists from a clone-wars version of the game.

I would like to see a Tie Android.  I'm not sure if it could have variable pilot ratings.  

I think good stats would be 

Points: 6 - 10

Pilot skill: 1

Agility: 1

Attack: 2

Hull: 1 - 2

Shields: 0