Presenting the Academy’s Finest for Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing
May 6, 2015 by stvitusdancern
Fantasy Flight Games has given us a sneak peek into one of the upcoming releases for their hugely popular and successful games, X-Wing. This time they present us with another large ship, the Imperial Raider Corvette Class ship and a TIE Advance (the type of fighter that Darth Vadar flies).
As you can see they are looking to add bigger ships to X-Wing as it adds an additional level of strategy to the game. This announcement zeroed in on the TIE Advance fighter in the set and that this type of fighter is usually assigned to the more experienced and skillful pilots in the Empire's ranks. In this set you get an additional four pilots to choose from to command the TIE Advance and take on the best that the Rebellion can muster.
In this roster is; Lieutenant Colzet, Commander Alozen, Zertik Strom and the particular nasty handpicked by Darth Vadar, Juno Eclipse. They all come with their own unique skill set and are guaranteed to give pilots like Wedge Antilles and Han Solo a run for their money.
One cannot help to keep wondering what Fantasy Flight Games will come up with next to keep X-Wing exciting and with the new movie to be released the end of this year, you can bet there will be plenty of material to come.
What do you think of the new releases for X-Wing?
"In this roster is; Lieutenant Colzet, Commander Alozen, Zertik Strom and the particular nasty handpicked by Darth Vadar, Juno Eclipse"
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Looking forward to getting the raider and TIE advance upgrades and pilots cards but on the FFG “Upcoming”website it says “At the printers”.So it’s still at the manufacturer so that maybe a few months more.Then if it goes as planned. It will change to “on the boat” so that’s another 4-6 weeks waiting time. Then “Shipping now” that will be an extra 7-10 days. So I am guessing it will be here around August/September time.
It’s nice that Raider box also gives you TIE Advanced and new pilots and upgrades for it.
Agreed!
Juno Eclipse! nice canon tie in there. She is the pilot and love interest in the Force unleashed games.
This is all good, and makes the TIE Advanced much more useful, but I’m really hoping for more sets along the lines of the upgrades & extra ship/pilot cards from the Scum & Villainy set. Especially if it gives us versions of pilots in different fighters (Marek Stele in a TIE Defender, Corran Horn & Tycho Celchu in X-Wings)…
I must get one of these monsters to battle the Rebel corvette 🙂