Fantasty Flight Games has revealed the latest ships for Wave 8! The Ghost & Phantom from Star Wars Rebels are arriving soon, come see!
via Fantasy Flight Games
Lothal orphan. Mandalorian explosives expert. Lasat Honor Guard. Ill-tempered Astromech Droid. Twi’lek pilot. Jedi survivor. These are the crew of the Ghost and the protagonists of the hit show Star Wars Rebels, and they will soon arrive to your games of X-Wing™ in the Ghost Expansion Pack.
The first Standard Play expansion to incorporate materials from Star Wars Rebels, and one of the most keenly anticipated expansions in X-Wing Wave VIII, the Ghost Expansion Pack allows you to fly to battle with Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, Ezra Bridger, and the rest of the Lothal Rebels. This fact, plus the fact that it introduces not just one, but two ships, makes the Ghost Expansion Pack an excellent entry point for new players looking to experiment with tactics beyond the X-Wing Core Set or The Force Awakens™ Core Set.
Just as the crew of the Ghost most often conduct their missions against the Empire as an isolated Rebel cell, theGhost Expansion Pack stands well on its own. Combined with your Core Set, this expansion provides everything you need to assemble a fun and competitive Rebel squadron. In fact, the Ghost Expansion Pack comes with so much material that we need two previews just to explore it all.
Today, though, we start by looking more closely at the expansion’s two miniature starships, the VCX-100 light freighter and the attack shuttle!
Foremost among all the components of the Ghost Expansion Pack are its two detailed miniature starships, both of which have been lovingly rendered at the same 1/270 scale used throughout all of X-WingStandard Play.
Notably, rendering these ships at 1/270 scale makes the first of them, the VCX-100 freighter, a massive presence on the battlefield. The largest large-base ship currently in X-Wing, the VCX-100 is even larger than the Galactic Empire’s VT-49 Decimator, and it dwarfs even some of the game’s other large-base ships, like the YT-2400.
The second ship in the Ghost Expansion Pack is the attack shuttle, a worthy addition to any Rebel squadron. The attack shuttle offers three attack, two agility, two shields, and two hull, as well as the focus, evade, and barrel roll actions. Notably, it is also the first Rebel ship for X-WingStandard Play that comes without the acquire target lock action and the first to arrive without a non-unique pilot.
For more info check out the Full Ghost Expansion Preview direct from Fantasy Flight Games.
Personally, I’m pretty excited about these new ships! The Ghost is a MASSIVE ship that has a whopping 10 Hull and 6 shields to chew through! AND it’s firing back with 4 attack dice! It’s going to be interesting to see what crazy combos you’ll be able pull off with the new cards as well. OH and it also looks like the rebels will get access to the new “Docking” mechanic with this bad boy as well. The very last thing I wanted to point out was this little tid-bit from Fantasy Flight Games:
The first Standard Play expansion to incorporate materials from Star Wars Rebels…
That’s right – this is only the tip of the iceberg! Fasten your seat belts for more awesome Star Wars Rebels action – and watch the show, too! I hear good things!
So Dash, Kanan and Kyle walk into a bar…
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