My guess is Wave 3 is going to have the B-Wing, TIE Bomber, and the Lambda shuttle with one other imperial ship.

I think no.3 is the Lambda because it would work as an Imperial counterpart "Medium/Large" craft to the Millenium Falcon. Eyeballing the matte painting at least, they seem about the same size. There would probably be stats for the Tyderian, Emperor's Shuttle, Vader's Shuttle, and a Standard Lambda.

It's anyone's guess what the rebel craft will be. It could be anything from the Snowspeeder to the Cloudcar (boo), to a repainted previous craft (also Boo), to something exciting from the EU like an E-Wing or the Z-95 (yay!). This of course would open the door to even more exciting EU fighters for Wave 4, which I desperately hope include the TIE Defender and XG-1 Assault Gunboat.

I'd also like to see obscure fighters from the X-Wing and TIE Fighter computer games, notably the T-Wing and R-41. Especially the latter as the representative of a pirate fighter craft which is a challenge to use effectively. I'd have that over any of the uglies, which are easy to make by smashing apart the already existing models and gluing them together again.

Norsehound said:

I'm pretty sure they already consider Slave I to be the Imperial counterpart to the Millenium Falcon though.

I know the Millenium Falcon is coming out in wave 2 but I would really like it to have abalities that are something like this:

1.  Ingor arc of fire, when in the arc of fire treat all attacks as though you had acquired  missle lock.

2.  Hyperspace, upon a sucessfull dodge or focus roll you are allowed to perorm your selected green or white movement twice.  This stresses the ship.

edit to hyperspace..  if you fail a roll during hyperspace your ship moves 1 straight

The Falcon has two independent laser turrets.  I wonder if it'll be able to target multiple ships and get two separate attacks?

Everything thing Norsehound said.  To me this game conjures up feelings of the old PC games. 

So, is it likely that the cards for the Slave 1 with have the Imperial symbol on the back?  Surely at some point FFG will bring in new factions (like neutral).  I sure hope they don't make the same mistake as the other starship game did: only two factions.

 The new faction should be called: "Prequels." Special rules would then state that if a player plays with the "Prequels" faction, the Rebels and Imperials join forces to attack them and wipe them off the board.

Just kidding. I love the prequels too.

Definitely think the new factions should be the Trade Federation and Galactic Republic, with same exact ships as Battle Front 2

Personally I'd take EU fighter craft over anything from the prequel trillogy. Aside from the Clone Z-95 and the Early Y-Wing I haven't been impressed with any of the smallcraft from that era.

 Hm. New thought. Wave 3 will be 5 ships. 4 fighter sized ships, and a lambda shuttle. Personally, I don't see any reason they can't include pilot cards for both factions for the shuttle. Plus the TIE bomber, B-wing, aaaaand….I dunno. I mean, really what other fighters are there WITHOUT tapping into the EU just a little bit?

KarmikazeKidd said:

I don't really see why the Rebels should get a Lambda, aka Imperial Shuttle. They only stole it once right? Even if they got plans or blueprints from the ship it doesn't matter. The Rebels have stolen TIE Fighters before, and I'm sure they have the blueprints for them also. That doesn't mean you should be able to customize your Rebel squad with TIE Fighters. Imperial Shuttle should be an Imperial only ship.

 B-Wing and TIE Bomber seem to be a consensus and one I'm thoroughly happy with, I love the B-Wing.  I think the Lambda Shuttle is a safe bet if the set includes more mediums and I think it should be Imperial only.  I think if they go that way, with my limited knowledge of the extended universe, I would hazard that the Rebel counterpart would be the Outrider, Dash Rendar's ship.  In Shadows of the Empire Dash and the ship were insanely Mary Sue, but I'd make it faster and more maneuverable than the Falcon, but not as tough.  I'd also give it some new weapons or at least a different set than the Falcon gets.

That's just my 2 cents anyway.

 To an extent, I agree with what you're saying. But the logic is flawed. If we're trying to stick to the movies there aren't really any options for the Rebels in the medium ship range. The shuttle makes an appearance in the movies on both sides. And if you do want to allow the EU at all, the shuttle is most definitely not an Imperial specific thing.

 I admitted my limited knowledge of the EU.  We have to take the EU into account, because unless I'm mistaken, they've already taken pilots out of it.  The Lambda shuttle could certainly be neutral, in fact, I'd love to see them release at LEAST one neutral unit.  Whether the Rebels have it more often in the EU or not is irrelevant however, as it is still an iconic Imperial ship and there wouldn't be an issue with them making it solely Imperial.

I think something people may be glossing over, as I haven't seen anyone mention it, is that even though we all want more plastic crack… FFG is certainly capable of putting out expansions that simply have pilot cards, new skills, secondary weapons, etc.  Maybe they release the Lambda shuttle as an Imperial only unit for now, but they certainly could release an upgrade pack later that would add Rebel pilots for it.

KarmikazeKidd said:

If you allow EU, then Rebels should have access to limited amount of TIE Fighters as well. It's dubbed the Imperial shuttle, it would just feel wrong playing it on the rebels. I'm mostly just talking movies to be honest, and not EU, and using movie logic, the Imperial shuttle is, well the Imperials, anyone could fly it, but it doesn't mean they would choose it. I'm positive they have the blue prints, but they only use it to get somewhere, they don't produce them for a reason.