This forum holds a wealth of knowledge, history, and discussions around the game. Given the wording of the announcement, FFG doesn't appear to be planning to archive and set it to read-only, to transfer all of this to AMG, or in any way perpetuate it. In the interest of ensuring that everything here is not lost, I am crawling and archiving the main Armada forum and all of our subforums. I don't have a clear plan for what I'll do with it, how best to make it accessible to the community, how thoroughly I'll host it locally, or anything like that. I banged out a script this afternoon that I'm running now, that will produce a complete list of URLs to every page of every thread on Star Wars: Armada and all six subforums, as well as downloading the raw HTML for each. That means I'm capturing pretty much all the text from the forum, but none of the graphics or richer features like that. I am not a good person to be doing this. I'm terrible at webscraping; I'm not a web developer; I have no interest in running a replacement forum; I have no plan or aspiration to host all of this on a website or anything. If there's anybody who is interested in this project and wants to contribute in any way--technical or not--please reach out. I'm happy to share what I have. PLEASE NOTE: If you're going to test the linked script, please have a rudimentary understanding of how much performance impact you'll have on the server first! I don't want to be responsible for a DDOS that knocks down the FFG forums for the entire last month that they're up! If you want to try it out, pick one of the smaller subforums to test it against.

FTFY. @RapidReload : I'm not shy about the fact that there are things I'm not happy about in the errata, but I'm also not out here disparaging the competence of the people working on it. "I think the pass mechanic coupled with the ace nerf is going to lead to a proliferation of unstoppable dual ISD Christmas Trees" is an concrete objection that doesn't **** on people. "Almost everything since the SSD has been garbage" is not. Like Gink said: if it's so bad you think that everyone who worked on it should be fired, feel empowered to fire them by not participating anymore. If the community is as firmly crystallized behind your personal opinions as you seem to think it is, it should be pretty trivial for you to write your own custom errata and persuade everybody around you to play that instead.

That was quick, boys...

RRG pg 5 EFFECT USE AND TIMING, seventh bullet point:

Gotta wait and see which ones get softened up by flak first.

If you find yourself running into that a lot, I found (back when I was playing a lot of 8x CR90B swarms, lol) that a staggered deployment, like this: ... helps keep me from tripping over myself quite so much, while still keeping a good balance between movement flexibility and concentration of forces.

Totally stealing Lyraeus' series title because he can't stop me and it's appropriate. A discussion with Tirion just now just kind of knocked it all into place in my head: all of my most successful Wave 2 lists have all been about circumventing defense tokens in one way or another. Shores of Confession (8x CR90B with SW-7): overwhelm defense tokens with ridiculous numbers of piddly but reliable damage attacks. I'll Shoot, You Run (2 MC30 w/ H9, 3-4 CR90's): guaranteed accuracies out of 2-4 hard-hitting arcs means even ECM and redundant tokens are limited in effectiveness; if I run the IO variant, this is even worse. Surest of Favors (Haven, Yavaris, 1-2 support ships, and 120+ pts of squadrons): similar to the SW90B Swarm, overwhelm defense tokens with small attacks Similarly, Clonisher is built to do this by eliminating the brace that it's juiciest targets have only one of (with IO); the triple-VSD Rhymerball sets up a defense token attrition fight by stacking the deck with huge hull and defense pools on its own side and a huge number of reliable attacks wearing down the other side. So, what do you guys think: is this just a personal tendency, or is this the direction the game is going right now? Or is this just an obvious observation brought on by my fever-addled brain?