"Something small is coming!"
You were right until the last sentence.
This is going to be amazing.

I have been doing some thinking, (Always, ALWAYS, a bad, bad idea) and deduced (ie, wildly speculated, in an unfortunately sober, brainstorm) that the whole forum shut down thing has to do with the next Armada release. February 1, 2021, FFG announces Star Wars Armada: Ewok Adventure Core Set. Hangglider Squadrons deployed from wooden spaceships vs AT-AT planetary deployment vessels with Wicket Warrick as Admiral. Sell your Asmodee stock now, this one isn't going to work.
 

The Venator will be the first ship that is not a huge to have 6 defense tokens.
 
All of them will be Salvo.

@ExplosiveTooka vs. the Jabbawookie has ended in a 9-2 win for Tooka.  400-106.
Being a bold one General Kenobi chose Surprise Attack, figuring it would lead to some redundant raid tokens and a manageable position for Swift Return to, well, swiftly return to the rest of the fleet.
This was a bad plan.
The speed-2 limit combined with nav raids prevented the Republic fleet from engaging in a timely or unified fashion, something by which MSU lives and dies.  A few positioning errors on my part didn't help this.
Tooka dismantled the Republic fleet with mechanical precision, losing Tide of Progress XII and killing everything else.  Some very hot bombing rolls felt like they merely accelerated the outcome, rather than altering it.
Hondo died taking a final killing shot at DBS-404, rather than choosing to leave.
Very well played by Tooka.  Thanks for the valuable lesson and may your fighters dominate in future rounds!

Long time lurker, first time poster.
This place has always been a great place to read up on the happenings of the game and draw up ideas to try.
It will be sorely missed.

No, in all seriousness none of you get rid of me that easily.
I'll be on Discord.  I'll be on Reddit.  I'll be on Boardgamegeek.
I'll be on the screen of your smart fridge when you go downstairs for a midnight snack.
It's been fun here, but our community is the Darth Maul of miniatures gaming.  We will always survive. 
Thanks for the good times, and see you guys elsewhere. 😉

Reavan was right about the upgrade cards

I want a beer

Some ace squadrons have begun to appear with evade defense tokens. They would have been pretty useless apart from long-medium range flak but the new v1.5 changes to the evade token means they are reasonably useful.
Could we see an ace squadron with a salvo token in the future? 
It would be the equivalent of counter that could attack squadrons with the normal anti squadron armament and could also attack an enemy ship with the battery armament that uses flak against the ace. It would only take a small rule change to allow a squadron to use salvo with he standard anti ship or anti squadron armaments rather than the rear arc battery.

Gentlebeings and co-delegates,
A wise person once said“ Catch a man a nerf, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to nerf herd, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” We must always seek to sell nerfs, not teach herding. The Party has brought the greatest prosperity we've known since the Fall of the Empire. Through our continued leadership, and with your support, we can achieve prosperity never before seen!
Long live the revolution!

 

After they have ruined most of the brands that made me fall in love with them, FFG are now taking away the last thing I have from them.
Their forums have been a way for me to feel like im part of the community, armada and legion has both been big for me as well as xwing previously. Ive not been very active but ive always lurked, read, laughed and cried on these forums.
 
But now FFG is truly dead, be it their own fault or asmodee I see this as the final sigh before the name perishes completely. I feel so sad that things went this way, FFG was once the undisputed grand masters of boardgames and with XW they moved into and took firm hold of miniature gaming as well. Man I wanna cry...Think I am tbh...
 
Thanks everyone for making this such a great community, despite the soulless corporate overlords not giving two damns worth about it. I love you all.
 
That is that.

I think I'm going to take inspiration from @CAP116 and post dreadnaught pics to bump us up to 400.
 

I'd say yes to X-wing and Legion, Armada I think will go the way of 1.0 X-wing. 3/4 waves of the new factions then the last wave with '2.0 cards preview included', followed by wholesale change.
They indicated on one post they want to look into campaigns and tournament play, they may even open their own forums.

We have tupe rights in the uk. Get to transfer to the new company with contract honored

Admonition emerges from hyperspace next to Avenger. 2018, colorized.

...Let me get back to you on this.

Signups are now open! Tag anyone you think may be interested.
Format- players will create and submit any role they like, crazier the better. 
Once all players have submitted a role, alignments will be drawn. You will then submit a second role, and once the final setup has been chosen, the game will begin!
You will not necessarily receive the role you created.
This is a closed game.
*Realistically, we probably won't get started until after Christmas, but we should be finished long before February 1, when the forums shut down.
@PodRacer
@EbonHawk
@The Jabbawookie
@Lord Preyer
@FortyInRed
@GhostofNobodyInParticular
@Madaghmire
@CaribbeanNinja
@BiggsIRL
@Matt3412
@ovinomanc3r
@Battlefleet 01 Studios
@Caldias
 

Good speed, friends!
 
 
 

F...
For almost five years now - ever since Armada was announced - this forum has been my most-visited website and has always been the first bookmark I set when installing a new phone.
Here's me hoping for a new forum for us to assemble.

It's very easy to:
Use software like HTTrack to dl and preserve the entire old FFG forum (or a specific sub-forum). EDIT: DL speed is ATROCIOUS. Set up an independent forum. My big question is: how many would use such a forum?
What would really be awesomesauce: if FFG downloaded the forum db and handed it over. Then we could actually rebuild the forum elsewhere.

...Let me get back to you on this.

...Let me get back to you on this.

...Let me get back to you on this.

No, in all seriousness none of you get rid of me that easily.
I'll be on Discord.  I'll be on Reddit.  I'll be on Boardgamegeek.
I'll be on the screen of your smart fridge when you go downstairs for a midnight snack.
It's been fun here, but our community is the Darth Maul of miniatures gaming.  We will always survive. 
Thanks for the good times, and see you guys elsewhere. 😉

There is already a thread started for discord links, I just thought if anyone has any links they want to share, people can copy and paste them into a text doc from here or add them to their favourites before the Forums self destruct.
Links could be for Discord, a new server forum, podcast, or anything really. Post away if you want to share.