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  1. Posted

    If you're turned off by X-Wing's venture into the EU and that's making you lose interest in the game as a whole, I'd have to ask why you're turning to FFG's other Star Wars ship-focused miniature game. Their direction for this game is not going to be fundamentally different than it was for X-Wing - it's most likely going to be exceedingly similar. I'm not saying this to criticize you, but actually to warn against investing into Armada if your desire is to find a game that will stay away from EU and stick to iconic movie ships. There were very few capital ships in the movies and, as pointed out earlier, they started the Core set with an EU ship (The VSD) and are adding multiple EU ships with every wave (Assault MKII, Raider, etc). If anything, this game will spiral into obscure EU content much, much faster than X-Wing did.

     

    My gripe is not that Armada is EU, I have no problem with drawing from the EU. My gripe is that right now, X-Wing is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel. They've done all of the good ships, now they're having to resort to things like bizarre hodgepodge TIE thingies and (imo) other butt ugly ships like the K-Wing. The universe only goes so far.

     

    This may become a problem for Armada too. The first few waves seem cool, but eventually a triangle is a triangle, and let's be honest, the reason FFG created the Raider-class corvette was because the only other ship in it's size in the EU was butt ugly (And a bit phalic).

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  2. Posted

    They're scraping the bottom of the EU barrel now. This is a filler wave, biding their time until they're given permission to announce their new Episode 7/Force Awakens stuff.

     

    For wave 8 I'm predicting ships from the new movie, along with a new Core Set, to signify the slight shift in era, bring the rulebook up-to date, and a have new, complete, boxed product to put on shelves while the hype train is active.

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    It's a filler wave. They're scraping the bottom of the EU barrel now, and biding their time until they are given permission to announce their Episode 7/Force Awakens stuff.

     

    I predict wave 8 will be ships from the new movie, along with a new Core Set.

     

    For Armada, wave 3 will probably be that new Star Destroyer from the new trailer, unless they decide to stick with Galactic Civil War era. Then I have no idea.

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  4. Posted · Edited by MrHobbles

    I think I'll only be buying the Hounds Tooth and the Kuhxzzzsswuthowdoispellthisthing. They look ok. Will be skipping the K-Wing and TIE Punisher. They look a bit pants.

     

    I don't play competitively so I'm not too fussed about any killer upgrade cards they decide to put in to ship enough units to justify the existence of this wave.

     

    It very much feels like FFG is scraping the bottom of the EU barrel. This seems like a filler wave until they're allowed to announce their new toys from Episode 7/The Force Awakens.

     

    Roll on wave 8.

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  7. Posted · Edited by MrHobbles

    I think unlike the miniscule X-Wing box, the Armada box should be capable of holding at least a wave or two worth of ships, though perhaps with having dismantled the bases.

     

    Fingers crossed Battlefoam comes out with inserts which fit the retail box which you can customize the shapes of. :)

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  8. Posted

    Thanks guys, I think that clears up most (all) of my confusion. :) So crits count as normal damage up until damage goes through to the hull - if it goes through to the hull, then if one or more crits were rolled then you can activate a critical effect, which is either turning one of the damage cards face up, or activating a critical effect on an upgrade.

  9. Posted · Edited by MrHobbles

     

    Evade tokens don't half damage. They either cancel out or reroll 1 die at difference ranges. Your thinking of the Brace token.

    1) When the damage is halved the Crit doesn't disappear.

     

    2) Normal hits are used first then Crits. Face up damage cards are dealt when the Crit is dealt to the hull.

    This isn't quite right. No damage is applied "first". The critical symbol adds one die to the damage pool, then also allows you to trigger a critical effect. Many upgrade cards have critical effects, but the standard effect any ship can trigger is that the first damage card drawn is dealt face up. Even if you use your critical to trigger an upgrade, it still adds one damage to the damage pool.

     

     

    I see, so if a crit goes through, I can choose to either flip n of the first damage cards over (n being the number of crits I rolled), activate n number of critical effects (ie. From upgrade cards, etc), or a combination of both?

  10. Posted · Edited by MrHobbles

    Hi guys,

     

    I've read the rules a couple of times now, and there's one particular area I'm not clear on, and that's how critical hits are handled when shields, brace, etc, are in play.

     

    As an example:

     

    1. I fire on a ship hull which has 2 shields with 6 dice (3 red 3 blue, but doesn't matter), and I roll 4 hits and 1 crit, for a total of 5 damage.

    2. The defender chooses the brace action to half the damage, rounded up, making the damage 3.

    3. 2 of that damage brings the shield down, with the last damage going through as a hull hit.

     

    What happens in this scenario?

     

    1. I'm wondering if when the 5 is halved, it doesn't get rid of the crit (Perhaps priority goes to the normal hits to be removed first?). So that there's 2 normal and 1 crit going through.

    2. When hitting the shield, do the normal hits get priority to be used first, so that the crit goes through to the hull? Or is the crit absorbed first so that only a normal hit goes through to the hull?

     

    Cheers!

     

    Edit: Meant brace rather than evade!

  13. Posted · Edited by MrHobbles

    Hi all,

     

    I've seen pictures of Rogue Squadron in normal white and red markings, but I've also seen them in what I'm now calling their "Fancy-Ass Color Scheme".

     

    I've found this piece of artwork, which is inspiring me to try and paint a squadron of X-Wings, but I'd like to find some more reference material.

     

    Anyone know where this is from, and where I can find MORE? From what I've read, this is a picture of Rogue Squadron doing a ceremonial fly-by with Red Squadron.

     

    Thanks! (And Merry Christmas!)

     

    Rogue_Squadron_Scalf.jpg

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