Lit Fantasy Flight Games and the Star Wars TCG

Having only played a few games myself, I find fighters tend to all get engaged in a furball and neutralize each other for a while. When they aren't, they do help in nipping away at shields and "keeping them honest." it's more of a choice to redirect some damage to a different facing if there are some fighters there that can take advantage of an unshielded side in the fighter phase.

Will probably put a preorder in for one of each of the wave 2 ships in a couple weeks.

 

Yep. These
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/2/6/desperate-allies/
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/star-wars-force-and-destiny-beginner-game/

 

I'm wondering if Latts Razzi and Moralo Eval are the first TCW characters to appear in the X-wing game, and what other characters, or even ships, are likely to:

http://xwing-miniatures.wikia.com/wiki/Hound's_Tooth_Expansion_Pack

 

Well this is different: An announcement for a new book called the "Mask of the Pirate Queen" about the Zann Consortium's new major rivals, the Veiled Sorority.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/7/6/mask-of-the-pirate-queen/

Spoiler: FFG Excerpt

Explore the jungles of an Outer Rim paradise. Slice into the networks of an interplanetary crime syndicate. Fight your way onto a pirate ship. Battle a seasoned pitfighter while thousands of spectators look on – all in pursuit of the nefarious, cunning, and powerful Pirate Queen. You never know what tough deals you'll make, what underground contacts you'll meet, or what illicit deeds you'll perform in this fast-paced bounty hunting adventure.

The Pirate Queen leads an all-female criminal organization known as the Veiled Sorority that predates the Clone Wars. Non-females of any species can join the sorority, and most of the lower-ranking members are male, but only females can hold leadership positions. The Pirate Queen herself remains anonymous to all but her most intimate counselors, always wearing an ornate, high-tech mask to maintain her anonymity– which is more necessary now that the infamy of the Veiled Sorority is growing.

The trademark criminal practice of the Veiled Sorority unites benevolence with ruthlessness. Preferring to take entire vessels rather than just cargo, a band of Veiled Sorority pirates will board a ship and offer to be merciful if the crew surrenders without a fight. If anyone refuses or offers resistance, then every single person aboard the ship could be executed.

The Zann Consortium, headed by a cunning former protege of Jabba the Hutt, is behind the bounty posted for the Pirate Queen. Having recently become the Veiled Sorority’s favorite target, they have lost too many ships, cargo, and lives not to seek retribution and revenge. Operating primarily in the Outer Rim, the Zann Consortium has made a windfall feeding on the conflict between the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire, extorting neutral planetary governments by offering military protection for their worlds. Those worlds that refuse find themselves attacked by domestic terrorists and plagued by corrupt government officials who have been bought by the Consortium.

In agreeing to hunt down the Pirate Queen, you and your companions are willingly becoming pawns in the vicious interplanetary rivalry between these criminal syndicates. Neither organization has the law on it’s side, and you’ll often have trouble telling the good guys from the bad. You might earn an enormous profit and gain powerful underworld contacts in this dangerous affair, but any mistake you make has the potential to get you killed.

I guess they had enough of Zann's frat parties?

 

Uh looks really interesting.

 

Just want to say that I love that they are using the Zann Consortium who are criminally underused since Forces of Corruption

 

... and FFG wins again. These guys are seriously on a roll with the Star Wars RPG stuff.

 

What I assume is the eponymous mask sure looks pretty neat.

 

TIE Punisher preview:

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/7/6/obliterate-your-enemies/

 

Because it just makes no sense what he supposedly able to pull off

 

To bad you don't have a hutt avatar right now since then I could make a quip about being surprised that a hutt underestimating the power of corruption

 

Oh I don’t doubt the potential of the SW Underworld, I have much bigger issues with how many really powerful people Tyber personally annoys and the kind of technological wonders and ship building capacities he can pull from thin air. Stealing other peoples stuff or getting Imperials/Rebels to defect would not be an issue, but being able to actually research, design, fund and build better ships then them is going very far.

 

Well, he did recruit Mandolore to his cause, and we all know that they are magicians when it comes to awesome powerful ship designs, in between being family oriented rustic farmers...

 

Tyber Zann also had incredible timing... let's not forget that Jabba, Xizor and the Emperor died and Thrawn went off into the Unknown Regions before they could really bring their forces to crush Zann.

I liked the idea - which was mentioned in the preview - of his criminal organization preying on the neutral worlds of the galaxy. Of course, I also like that there's a rival now. It's a big galaxy, and Black Sun and the Hutts can't be the only players on the galactic scale.

 

It's good to see an announcement for a new rpg book. They've been much quieter on that front lately. Will FFG be at SDCC?

 

Zaarin is just awesome like that.

I really hope we'll see some Zaarin action in the Age of Rebellion line.

 

Keeping the Peace.

 

For those of you interested in how the RPG handles the mechanics of the Dark and Light Side, Check this out.

 

I am a little sad to see TCW-style nightsisters in FFG, but I guess it was inevitable.

 

Almost certain they will also have other versions of the Witches show up.

 

Me I am happy that there are more Force traditions in the book then just Jedi and Sith/Imperial dark sider

 

For keepers of the peace, that art shows off a lot of dead bodies, burning villages, and attacks on herbivorous animals.

 

Clearly evil herbivores.