Fantasy Flight Games Announces Star Wars: X-Wing Wave XIV

Fantasy Flight Games has announced the next wave of ships for their fast paced starfighter miniatures combat game Star Wars: X-Wing. Wave XIV will feature:

Saw's Renegades Expansion Pack

TIE Reaper Expansion Pack

Saw's Renegades Expansion Pack doesn't feature any new ships; in fact they'll sweet and slick black and white repaints of the previously released U-Wing and T-65 X-Wing starfighters. Along with the new paint schemes of course comes some new cards. Fifteen Upgrade and ten Ship cards to be exact.

The TIE Reaper isn't your ordinary run of the mill TIE Fighter, oh no, it's actually a troop transport. Being a transport it loses some of its agility but also has six hull and two shields making the TIE Reaper pretty durable on the battlefield. The TIE Reaper expansion pack also comes with four new Ship cards and eleven Upgrade cards.

Make sure you hit up Fantasy Flight Games to get more info and to preorder these great up and coming miniatures.

-GJ

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First Thoughts: Hasbro's Rogue One U-Wing

A couple of days ago our friends over at From 4-LOM to Zuckuss.com gave us our first look at Rogue One's U-Wing from Hasbro; and today we are ready to share our first thoughts after seeing the reveal.

First thing above all else is the fact that it's another Nerf missile gun. For some this is great, for those like us, it's a meh feature. Hopefully with the U-Wing being a smaller craft the Nerf gun will be removable.

Size, now there's another problem. The U-Wing is not a single pilot starfighter, it's a troop transport, and at first look, this toy doesn't look like it'll hold more than a single figure in the cockpit area (hopefully, if you recall, The Force Awakens X-Wing failed to fit a figure in it's cockpit).

Don't worry, there are positives amongst our first thoughts. Like, good grief that U-Wing design is amazing! Yes it's another ship that isn't made to scale, but the overall design is something we love. Second, the Cassian Andor action figure (with blaster) looks pretty neat too.

The U-Wing is rumored to retail in the neighborhood of $50, and may or may not be available on Force Friday (9/30).

-GJ