Will there be a "War Table"?

I don't think the feature is there. Preview said there's a 'war room', in the Tempest where characters meet to discuss missions and post missions or similar stuff, but you're not in charge of an organization in Andromeda, of people that you can send do missions in the way the WT did.

Reminds me of ME1 when you sit in the conference room between missions.

But to answer OP, we don't know but there's planet scanning and some anomaly system. The way it zooms in and out on a map reminded me a lot of the War Table from DA:I but I don't expect it to have timings. I expect this is how you discover new areas though and war-table-esque side-missions.

Oh yes, there will be a war room; and a fight will break out; and Ryder will say this to the fighting parties:

Something similar to the war table missions could be used for resource gathering. In DAI you could tell your advisors to get some stuff, too, but the options were a bit limited, so you mostly had to do it yourself (buying resources wasn't really comfortable, imo). They might have expanded on this a bit to let you coordinate other teams to do the job for you.

 Stop playing the game while waiting for an operation to complete? This sounds like a really stupid way to play the game. You didn't actually do this, right? 

I wouldn't mind something similar. But as other's have said, no more ridiculous wait times....with crappy rewards.

So short answer is yes, but now it's more to do with settlements and colonies.  You establish colonies, decide the type of colony (Military, Engineering/Tech, or Mining I believe), and assign colonists to that colony.  These colonies will grow and provide benefits back to your team.  This should all be down from the conference table on the tempest.

Also Eurogamer stated this, "[T]here are "Deployed Strike Team" missions which take real-time to complete sound similar to Dragon Age: Inquisition's war table missions, where you send out resources to complete missions in real-time. These will allow you to gather resources and keep areas secure, which also sounds similar to a Keep defense system intended for Inquisition but then cut during production. Inquisition's creative director Mike Laidlaw previously told Eurogamer this was due to the problems of supporting last-gen consoles, something which Andromeda will not have to consider."

This is also how Multiplayer fits into the game this time.  You can opt to do "Active Strike Missions" instead and they will vary from horde mode, defusing bombs, assassinating a target, etc. Multiplayer gives the player the choice to actively engage in the missions where you play as one of the characters being sent on strike missions or using the real time feature and only play single player.


Link"Guess"ski you knew about this, right?

Good.

I hope not. The War Table was my absolute LEAST FAVORITE feature about DAI. Who thinks playing a time sink minigame is fun? Maybe I'm just the strange one.