Quinns: All told, Armada’s the most expensive game we’ve ever reviewed. Paul: Okay so if I wear large enough socks my dignity is protected. It takes twice the table space and twice the time, the box is three times the price and, just like X-Wing, both players need a starter kit for enough ships that you feel like you’re actually playing the game and not simply nudging a couple of lonely vessels around a backwater system like a pair of paupers who found the game in a bin.īut two Starter sets is £80 each before you’ve even thought about all the ships that are going to hyperspace in with that first “Wave 1” of expansions. In Armada, the question of what range and angle you want is a puzzle in itself. Players now need to do more than just position their ships at the right range, facing the right way. The giant capital ships now have momentum, modelled by an intimidating “Maneuver Tool”.
The game’s squadrons can flitter about like mayflies, but they can’t attack on the same turn. Quinns: Everything elegant, everything simple about X-Wing has been replaced by a more complicated rule. Paul: i dont know what that means also my pa. If Armada was a person you lived with, they’d write their name on their eggs and milk. Remember how we loved X-Wing for its elegance? Sure, it has its astromech droids and its fierce strategems if you want them, but at its heart it’s a game about space and chance, a game of trying to maneuver your pilots into place with nerve-wracking banks and spins, wrenching yourself into a position where you can take that killer shot, before trusting in the dice to deliver your destinyĪrmada… well, let’s put it this way. My world’s been turned upside-down, too!Ī quick play of Armada reveals a few crucial differences from X-Wing. That leaves us with a big, hairy, Ewok of a question. The same collectable, pre-painted Star Wars ships, but this time they’re fighting on a much, much more epic scale. This week, with the release of Star Wars: Armada, Fantasy Flight is offering something more grand. Everyone can read our first impressions of X-Wing here and watch our comprehensive review here, but to summarise, we love X-Wing.
Quinns: We played Star Wars: Armada, Paul! Fantasy Flight’s new game in the style of their hugely popular X-Wing Miniatures game.
Quinns: Then you activated your squadrons and managed to disable my turbolasers with your mighty TIE bombers. We circled each other for hours, laughing, getting closer and ever closer. Quinns: How much wine did you have? Oh, it was beautiful, Paul. Paul: Oh God, my head… Quinns? Quinns, why are you here? What did we do last night? Where are my pants? Star Wars: Armada, Games for Two, SU&SD Recommends, Miniatures Games, War Games
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