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The bases are also quite a bit more complicated than X-Wing, propped up on legs with attachable card and plastic shield dials, and the poles designed with a slide and slot to both lock down the ship card, and be removable to flip the card over to switch between basic hull types

I got the starter for $55. *runs and hides in the corner from rabid nerds*. Looking forward to trying it out.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I got the starter for $55. *runs and hides in the corner from rabid nerds*. Looking forward to trying it out.

Off the back of a truck, or bought from some rebel scum?

Heh. We'll go with Rebel Scum.

Just played my first Armada game today, I really like it. It is very satisfyingly different from X-Wing (which I enjoy a great deal). It doesn't feel like you're playing a scaled up X-Wing, it feels like a proper battle between giant engines of destruction. It really captures the feel of a naval battle vs. a dogfight.

Imperials take a LOT of forward planning to be successful, and you can't ignore those squadrons of mosquito-like starfighters. But the Impys sure have some tough capital ships - my Victory II took no hull damage in the fight, though its shields were taking a pounding.

The only *hrumph* about this is the dials on the fighter squadrons are hard to spin in place. I'm thinking of getting some quarters or tokens to put down so you can pick the darn things up and spin the damage dial without losing your position.

Well, that and some option to get out of a squadron engagement without having to have a special card. It's sad to watch ties mercilessly explode to x-wings and have no way to get out of a bad engagement.

Think the idea is that fighters tie other fighters down, it's more a limitation of the core set content as with the fighter expansions more options open up.

That, and I really haven't had as bad luck.

They are Ties. Meant to literally swarm. They even have a special rule Swarm. With, between it, Howl's ability, and a properly timed Squadron command, means you actually can lay down some hurt then tie them up while you wrap up.

Is it automatic? No. And that's why I like it.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I got the starter for $55. *runs and hides in the corner from rabid nerds*. Looking forward to trying it out.

I got mine for that much, maybe a little less - back in November last year amazon accidentally put up preorders for the starter too soon, and for too little. Took them a fortnight to take it down again, but by that time a lot of people had made their order, and though they did try very hard to convince me to cancel my order with stock level and delay warnings, I held out and got it in the end, about 3 weeks after everyone else got theirs at retail.