To be honest, the main thing that kept me from doing a campaign as the EotH was their outdated ground units, I would usually just play around with them in the battle mode, so I'm happy to hear that their turn is coming around in the near future. Excited for future updates.

Honestly, given that Zahn initially created the Chiss with the introduction of Grand Admiral Thrawn and his continued, dedicated efforts to try to bridge the gap that exists between Canon and Legends, I think your logic is entirely sound. I can't fault your decision and I'm not sure others can as well, unless they really try to do so.

Using cannon sources to help "fill out" a faction without conflicting with existing legends material is a good idea, it makes sense. I don't agree with most post return of the jedi cannon being added but the chiss lore was pretty thin in legends from what i remember.

Have to hand it to you, I'm excited for this! Their current ground roster in particular is the main reason I've never finished an EotH campaign.

i personally would love to see more videos like this, thank you very much for the update. Im extremely excited to try out the new EOTH once they're ready!

I reckon it would be good if the Empire of the Hand had limited access to some imperial roster units, only one or two ground and space units just to give a bit more speciality and varience to them

In my most recent playthrough the last two factions were me(empire) and the empire of the hand. Like literally we split the map down the middle. Your points of ground units haunt my dreams

Oh cool stuff! It's gonna be nice e having more going on on that side of the map. But man, it's getting hard to watch these previews because I want to play it! I am so excited for the new Dark Empire stuff! You guys took a system I already liked dialed up to 11!

This is great Corey, I love playing at the EOTH! Do you think you will re-enable the shorter retreat time? I think that was always such a cool and unique feature of the faction compared to others.

I love the idea of filling the blanks with canon Chess lore! I personally love the canon Thrawn books, so it'll be cool to be able to play around with heroes from them! But in general it sounds like it'll add a lot of depth and flavor to the faction! I'm hyped for the next few updates!

Keep up the great work and cant wait for .3 and beyond

Love these videos Corey, there's no way I'd go through washing my dishes without them.

I'd love to see the weapons from the thrawn trilogy be added: plasma spheres and spectrum lasers. And in later tiers have those weapons be upgraded into megamasers. I'd think of it as a blending of chiss and imperial technology

So excited for this! Just to be clear, Nightdragon, Groundlion, and Firewolf are names of specific ship classes rather than types. For instance, it would make sense for a ship to be called a Nightdragon Man-Of-War, but not a Phalanx-class Nightdragon. Man-Of-War seems to be the term used for the largest warships in the CEDF, and the name of individual classes seem to follow a standardized naming convention (Adjective+animal)

I'm really excited to see Canon timeline content being implemented. 99% of mods are Legends focused so it is nice to have a little more variety.

I just recently finished the Thrawn and ascendancy Trilogies, so im quite exited that you are importing some of the people and places from the books, thats awesome!

What a nice surprise to kick off the week.

Awesome stuff Corey! ❤. Thankyou so much! I’m really excited for the new ground roster for Empire of the Hand and the Unknown Regions map! 😍😍

Great work as always! I do hope that the Chiss planet that was used for training pilots will get some use

Nice to see the Empire of the Hand is getting changed and more stuff in the unknown region when i played it was kind of stale.

My biggest issue with the EOTH was their lack of an air troop transport unit (or any reliable troop transport unit for that matter), so hoping to see something like that added for the ground roster!

Honestly having some stuff from the Ascendancy Trilogy brought into the EOTH might make me play them again.

Cory its good to see one of my fav star wars factions getting some love in a mod and your groups are always good and i like them even better as you take the time to get things working right and looking great so as a fan of all your mods dont worry about how long it takes for things to be brought to the game as they are better when they are perfect and the empire of the hand has always been a hard faction due to its makeup and the lack of proper detail on the races in it and the ships other than the empire and chiss ones but you and your team are doing a great job at giving them and their part of space life

Excited for the rework lol at this point I would be happy with some generic Imperial troops to flesh out their ground roster until 3.4. I miss have a gunship and scout speeders in ground assaults.

It's good that you are taking stuff from the Ascendancy trilogy since almost everything fits into the EU and was created by Zahn anyway.

just had this video pop up in my feed and it looks super interesting, i just hope they get some new ships and story events as those are kinda lacking, keep up the good work you guys!

Love this! So 3.3 is just background stuff plus all factions minus vong being placed on map? Or is this also Hutts and SsiRuvi too? 3.4 EOTH update and Hutts if not added 3.3? Or is this a Chaos update with SsiRuvi and Chiss?

Would it be possible for a few more Imperial ship heroes to be included in the roster if certain conditions are met, certain planets lost to New Republic, Era changes, etc to show imperials fleeing to the unknown regions being picked up? The EOTH I think is the only faction without an economic hero too I think. Just some flavor ideas. I like heroes being unlockable based on certain conditions. Adds a bit of structure to a campaign

I can't wait to play as the chiss ascendancy, favorite star wars faction by far!

So because you mentioned the Canon novels having their own ship designs, will we be getting the depiction of Ar'alani's Nightdragon from the comics? There is already a design for it and it looks pretty interesting. I see it sort of like the Providence, but minus the large hangar. A vessel made to face off against other capital ships with a variety of torpedoes and lasers.

I love the last updates of the TR. Your team did outstanding job. But I kept myself from doing a campaign because of domination of chiss content of the faction. What about idea to add more imperial, human space and ground units - limited numbers, of course? Cause EotH has imperial military core. It'll be cool to see some VSDs or ISDs, except the hero units. Maybe limited number of imperial infantry or specforce and hovertanks? Thrawn had blueprints, engineers and training programs to do so.

It always felt a little goofy to choose rapid fire tanks over flame tanks so hopefully theres a reason to go rapid now. I hope the rgt stays the medium tank role is one not many other factions have a horse in. The rgt outclasses sabres in my experiance so i hope it sticks around in some capacity. Megamaser tanks are wacky i love them dearly. I wonder if it would make sense to have the hand factor in to imperial legitimacy? It sounds like in the future they'll be tied into chiss politics so maybe it wouldn't make sense but their definitely in an odd spot between the imperial and future chiss factions so maybe? Edit oh also the munificent class you can build by having influence on muunalinst doesn't spawn fighters but a fighter compliment is listed

It'd be sick if you all added Che'ri as a pilot hero, commanding a squadron of fighters. She should be an adult by the point of the Thrawn's Revenge timeline. The books mention her love of flying. It would make sense that she would agree to be a pilot for Thrawn's Empire of the Hand.

I just hope they get stronger starting forces some Integos would be great as the EoTH poor economic region combined with their current starting forces puts them at a massive disadvantage when going against the Empire or the PA with their robust economic regions and dreadnoughts.

I played the most out of TR with Empire of the Hand mainly because of the very familiar design of the threaded tanks EoTH has, Megamaser? Totally Apocalypse Tank from Red Alert Trilogy, RGT? MBT but way cooler, Flame Tank? Chimera smaller but dealier distant cousin. Laser Tank? Way more believable Modernized Saber Tank without missiles

Great News! But what about the Yuuzhan Vong? I always wanted to fight them in Thrawns Revenge.

3:55 this sounds cool, but how will it be implemented? Like the voting/legitimacy mechanic? That way you, the player, can tailor the EotH the way you want to?

So, one bit of feedback I have on Thrawn's Revenge is that it's kinda difficult to really get anywhere in the early game. A _lot_ of AI-controlled planets tend to have really big fleets on them from the very start, not only the enemy factions but even the independent worlds.

They are my favorite fact. To play love the ship design

Please, don't forget the 501st for the EotH

Theres a nightdragon in the Thrawn comic when we see general O'relani I believe

Always love to play EotH

Any word on the Duskhan League?

Could the EotH get boarding shuttles?

so what are the plans now for empire of the hand? they're still a bit lacking sth. like there could be missions with the chiss ascendency. Is it also possible to recruit imperial models e.g. venator cruiser or ISD models?

I think that over differentiating Canon from Legends is not a good idea. For example, it would make sense to consider the Bad Batch (not the actual plot but the characters) part of Legends as well because they were conceived and the unfinished episodes were produced before 2014. So I'm glad you'll be using the Ascendancy Trilogy as source material. Either way, better to use official material from the Canon timeline than rely on fanon.

EoTH needs a unique way to advance eras in a progressive GC. It just seems weird to me that they have to kill each Imperial leader that pops up like any other faction. Especially when it's Thrawn's turn at the head of the Remnant. They should have some way of advancing while ignoring the Remnant, for that very reason. I understand that you don't want to encourage turtling behavior, but there needs to be another way than the EoTH proactively going after Thrawn's Remnant, or waiting for the other factions to do it (which doesn't seem to ever happen; I've never seen an AI faction kill the leader of another AI faction, just the heroes).

Hopefully dreadnaughts for the hand gets added. I know they weren't a huge faction but something to give them some oomf would for sure suck me in.

Do y’all plan on making galactic campaign multiplayer?

what’s the best faction in tharen’s revenge?

Why does there seem to be a hesitancy to including canon material? I think it should be done whenever it makes sense and doesn’t directly contradict prior EU/Legends material. Just as an example, someone like Moff Gideon could be added in as a character for the Empire. He wouldn’t (as far as I can recall) directly conflict with EU material. I really do think a blend of Canon/EU should be embraced wherever it makes sense.

Do we have a timeline for the release of .3?

Could the Empire of the Hand also have Imperial-class Star Destroyers?

I've been playing Thrawn's Revenge for a while and I SUCK at playing EotH,although it's my favorite faction. Anyone have good tips for how to play them (both for skirmish or campaign mode)?

Ssi Ruuvi Imperium and Yevethan Dushkan League?

So EotHs roster is basically all fanon?

Is it possible to play them on all maps ?

I'm glad you're accepting some canon into this, even if it's just to fill out the roster, with both the EotH getting the canon allies of Thrawn, and the Starhawk and MC-75 for the NR.

Please give them some better looking infantry. Droids for example.

Simple: they better make a permanent alliance with the GFFA, the Smugglers' Alliance, the Hapes Consortium, and other notable groups and factions so to finally try to explore and colonize the outside of the known galaxy for the glory of all... wait, wrong context.

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I love stealing the ships fro EotH their ships are highly effective when matched with MC80 Home Ones.

I'm going to admit I disagree with adding disney era content to an EU mod as I believe there shouldn't be any overlap, even if it is filler. I just now hope Imperial Reign doesn't throw huge chunks of the EU away in favour of the disney era.

I still really wish they had access to something like a SSD, just something really big to slug it out against the other factions instead of relying on smaller ships.

I don't care about updated ground units, as I will never play on the ground unless I miss click. Star Wars has always been about space battles, and not only that, but why would I want to fight on maps where you get stuck, especially the AT-ATs and other big units, tanks have no direction and routinely move backwards towards the enemy in spite of having mostly forward facing guns, Z levels aren't a thing apparently with both mechanical and bipedal units shooting into a side of a hill, TIE fighters die in the silliest ways, and really all air units are either too weak or too strong, and worse, have pathing issues. Just to name a few common bugs. This is why I like playing TR over AOTR. No matter how complicated you make the ground units, no matter what extra tweaks and "features" you give them, these core mechanics make ground combat totally broken and not fun for me. That being said, if these common core bugs were worked on and fixed, ground combat would be amazing! The diversity is pretty impressive, but I think that's putting the cart before the horse.

I’m always looking forward to new Chiss and EotH content and units, the designs your team has come up with have been amazing and I think demonstrate the amazing potential for fan contributions to fit within the Star Wars universe. Got dang is the ascendancy destroyer pretty