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So played my first few games and had a couple questions.

When a Capitol Ships firing arc fires, does it choose either a Capitol ship or fighter squadron to shoot at or can it shoot at one of each?

When targeting Fighter Squadrons I assume they need to be unengauged, am I correct?

Brace defence token, can you use it while shields are up on that arc? Maybe I'm over thinking it but it just seems like it should only work with no shields on the recieving arc

Thanks

A capitol ship can fire once from each arc, unless some upgrade (gunnery team) says otherwise. This means you can fire at either 1 capitol ship in that arc, or all fighters in the arc with your anti-fighter rating.

No, a capitol ship can fire on all enemy fighter squadrons in the arc that are in range.

Brace tokens can be used to halve totaled incoming damage, it does not matter if shields are up or down.

Capitol ships fire on all enemy squadrons in a fire arc? wow, I missed that when I read the rules. I'll have to revist that section.

Thanks again

 Rune Stonegrinder wrote:
Capitol ships fire on all enemy squadrons in a fire arc? wow, I missed that when I read the rules. I'll have to revist that section.

Thanks again

It's on page eight of the "Learn to Play" book as part of the "Phase 2: Ship Phase" section.

This may be somewhere buried but does anyone know the current rumor for when wave 2 comes out?

3rd quarter, this year...so no earlier than September (but probably later).

Yeah, late this year...November probably.
X-Wing gets a huge drop in August with Wave 7 and the Large Box Vader upgrade (rumor has it the TIE/X1 upgrade also comes with an Huge Epic ship that will be carried over in Armada...but those are just rumors).
To maximize sales of each product line you can expect a 2-3 month gap between drops. This also provides enough time for the Armada Wave 2 ships to get settled into lists for next years Store Champion season.
Our wallets cannot withstand Waves of that magnitude.

WAVE 2.....I predict the Imperial stuff will be flying off the shelves, those raiders are anti-squadron awesome. ISD are going to be beat sticks. Imperial stuff will be sold out fast. already have mine pre-ordered at FLGS just to be safe.

I think a GSD2 with Demolisher will be better at anti-fighter...shoot 2, move to a new arc, shoot 2 again. And if any ships happen to get in close the number of black dice you can throw will keep them back a bit.
As for the ISD...I'm betting for the points a third VSD or even flying 4-5 GSDs will focus them down PDQ.

No doubt the GSD2 is a beast against squadrons, But the raider is going to be cheaper points wise and its faster so it'll be able to get on top of squardons to use its black and blue dice. The ISD is just wow and heavy anti-squadron as well. The only way I'm going after one will be swarm it all at once from multiple arcs, otherwise I'm staying away from it.