Star Wars Armada

Star Wars: Armada is a miniatures game from Fantasy Flight Games. It is a two player game focused on space combat between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The base set contains ten squadrons of TIE Fighters and X-Wings, dice, cards, and painted models for a Victory-class Star Destroyer, CR90 Corvette, and a Nebulon-B Frigate. There are also starter sets for the Galactic Republic and Separatist Alliance.

All you need to get started is the Base set or a single player starter for one of the Clone Wars factions.

More ships and squadrons on the table will generally always be more fun, and the game’s well balanced so it’s hard to go wrong.

Star Wars Armada is played on a 6'x3 play area each player brings a fleet of 400 points. Star Wars: Armada is a competitive game in which each player controls a fleet of ships and squadrons. By commanding, attacking, and maneuvering with their ships and squadrons, they damage and destroy each other’s fleet. The goal is to destroy as much of the opposing fleet’s force as possible by the end of the sixth round. The game ends immediately if all of one player’s ships are destroyed. Each game will take about 2 hours to play.

With the intuitive dice based attack mechanics, the streamlined critical hit system or the simple card based approach to list building, all of which will be familiar to players of X-Wing. There’s a lot of depth here. The free rules can be found at https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/ae/7c/ae7c3224-9ed0-4d72-b5dd-b95f51e9d68c/swm01_armada_learn_to_play.pdf