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Future of Star Wars Games (X-wing, Legion, Armada)
« on: January 26, 2021, 05:59:47 pm »
Asmodee took all the Star Wars games away from FFG and moved them toe Atomic Mass Games.  They have organized a twitch stream to talk about what this change means:

https://twitter.com/atomicmassgames/status/1352316344579055624

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Re: Future of Star Wars Games (X-wing, Legion, Armada)
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2021, 11:29:40 pm »
Yep, we had a thread in the News & Rumors when the news broke late last year. It will be interesting to see what comes out of the stream!

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Re: Future of Star Wars Games (X-wing, Legion, Armada)
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2021, 05:15:11 pm »
I did not see it, but here is a summary from Hotsauceman1 from dakka dakka:

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Ok here we go folks!

**Simone Eliot**: Head of Studio for AMG. Does all the business stuff.

**Will Shick**: Head of Product Development. Does all the "cool stuff".


States that they are going to talk about what's coming up for the games, so here's hoping for some news.

Studio started with 8 people. Hiring a lot of new staff. Possibly took on some FFG staff?

What's coming up next? It takes 18-24 months for ideas to get made into products. Simone says that all the product coming in 2021 was created while the studio was work-from-home, so expect delays on a lot of product.

Simone: Why was the move made from FFG to AMG? Simone has worked all these games with FFG. A focus was to move the games from a "Board Game Perspective" to a "Miniatures Game" perspective. "Give it a more authentic miniature's feel."

Shick: "Miniatures first, everything else second." Wants to build on the foundations that already exist, but with more focus on the miniatures. Miniatures are "An expression of your self", so AMG wants to have a valuable miniature experience even outside the game.

Shick: **X-Wing and Armada will remain pre-painted.** Possibly put out some painting guides for custom x-wings. More exciting sculpts, more dynamic.

Simone: "What you can expect from AMG." Spoilers at the end of the stream. "When will people see the change in branding?" Everything coming in 2021 is FFG stuff. In **2022 everything will move to AMG branding**. Reprints will have AMG branding.

Starting today or tomorrow all social posts will start coming from AMG. FFG's social accounts will be phased out over the next few weeks and months.

Starting next week Will Shick will live stream every Wednesday and there will be a stream on Friday for Star Wars content. Very hobby focused streams, painting and design and such.

Simone: Not a bunch of spoiler information at the end of this. In March there will be a ton of live streams with much more spoiler content than this one.

Simone: **Organized Play: Bigger announcement at noon central tomorrow.** Covers competitive OP for both studios. "We have made the decision to not move forward with a Worlds in 2021. We are not in a position pandemic wise to plan something that big." Next Worlds is coming in 2022. Wants to focus on smaller store level OP towards the later half of 2021.

Shick: AMG and Organized Play. Inheriting from FFG and wants to continue that legacy. OP will remain an important part of all their games. Want to explore different modes of play, want players to be able to explore their miniatures and ships in new and different ways. (My take on this means painting competitions and awards).

Simone: "Do I get to talk about my hopes and dreams for Legion OP?" Talking about doing something that is essentially "Vader Down" from the comics. She's super into that idea, and Shick is backing her up. It's just a "hope and dream".

Spoilers:

**X-Wing**

** There are no current plans for X-Wing 3.0. AMG is happy with the state of the game** but wants to explore other experiences such as co-op and other things. Expect regular points updates, and app updates. No schedule on that.

Release Dates: March 26

**Phoenix Cell:** Alt painted B-Wing and two a-wings. Already in a box at Simone's house.
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Hera Syndulla B-wing** card. Most skilled B-wing pilot in the game.

**Skystrike Academy**: Alt painted Tie Defender and two alt painted Tie Interceptors.

**Gideon Hask Interceptor** card. FFG is the #1 producer of Gideon Hask art in the whole world.

**Fugitives and Collaborators**: Alt painted HAWK and two alt painted Y-Wings.

**Kanan Jarrus HAWK card**. Brings the first light side Jedi to the scum faciton. Represents him in his lost padawan phase.

End of X-Wing Spoilers

**Armada Spoilers**

Armada products: Friday April 16.

**The Invisible Hand**: Grevious' Flag Ship.

Venetor Class Ship Card shown.

**Republic Pelta**

**Recusant-Class Support Destroyers**

**Legion Spoilers**

Release Dates: May 20th.

Two new vehicles.

**AA5 Speeder Truck for Rebels.** Looks chunky. Optional turret. Doors will open and close and it has a fully detailed interior (wow) with removable roof. Talk more about it in March as far as why and how it works.

**LAAT/le Patrol Transport.** Empire *AND* Galactic Republic faction in one box. Fully modular doors and detailed interior.

AMG will have studio miniature paints with photographs as examples for people.

**Rules Forums:** In the next couple of weeks AMG will be opening a Star Wars rules forum for Legion. Will server as a contact point between the community and the developers. Goal is to get official answers as fast as possible. Will not supersede official rules or FAQs until those answers are officially printed. The forum will have specialized tools to find these rulings. They will start with Legion but also put them up for X-wing and Armada.

These streams will continue every Wednesday and Friday at 1pm central. Starts out with mostly painting. More spoilers expected in March.

If you want to read it for yourself......
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/795622.page#11047412

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