There’s a surprising amount of strategy in just building your fleet and assembling your objective – whoever wins initiative wins it for the entire game, but the loser gets to pick what objective is played. Each ship can be equipped with a range of upgrade cards that add famous commanders, to improved guns, or abilities.Īs long as you have all the models you need, you decide on how big the battle is going to be in terms of how many points each side has to spend on ships, squadrons and upgrade cards. There are also ‘hero’ fighter units as well, including Mr Skywalker. Fighter combat is also represented here, except you control entire wings and squadrons of X-Wings or TIE Fighters. Think of it as the Rainbow Six Siege of tabletop games, except there’s only one of you. In Armada’s case, playing the objective and getting the job done is a better play than simply trying to take out that Imperial Star Destroyer breathing down your neck. It’s a more objective-focused game as historically the Rebellion didn’t possess as many heavy ships as the Empire did, so they had to fight smarter. It portrays fleet combat between groups of Rebel Alliance and Imperial ships.
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