Am I the only person upset by this news?

Yes.

Will they continue to support two miniature games?

Yes.

Moving swiftly on, a fleet-based game was widely requested stroke predicted on this forum... which begs the question, when will we see our Ground Assault game with AT-AT's, AT-ST's and Speeders?

I want to say cop out, but FFG is still going to get my money, so they win.

Wooo hooooooooo

I heard the box is 27 feet long 27 feet wide and will be fully compatible with X-Wing Miniatures lol

Awesome! Love it!

I hope Plano is paying attention.

This is freaking brilliant news. I might be $100 lighter and sleeping on the couch because the wife will not be pleased to hear this but bloody hell my body is ready.

Points for crabbok! Chuckling out loud is one of life's pleasures

Doubt I'll be trying to translate for the mrs mind...

Also.. I love that they are using a Victory class SD... soooooooooo awesome...

I do love a good paint sesh but let's be honest-time only ever gets tighter

Sure, but look at what we can see. It looks like the X-Wing squads are how they come out of the box, so I'd assume the Ties are as well.

For the Ties a quick dark wash on the wings and you're done. You could do all of them in what 15 minutes? The 2 squads of X's would require a little red stripe, a little yellow on the nose, both of those could be done in 20 min's tops.

So less then an hour and you've painted everything.

As for the unpainted minis it doesnt seem like it would be hard to replace the group of three with a single representative fighter from the X Wing ones that are already out. and just get capital ships when you want them. It would require slightly more suspension of disbelief but that is already a prerequisite

must buy

Looking at the price of the starter and the sheer volume of stuff that goes into one ship, this is looking to be significantly more expensive than X-wing, twice, maybe three times as much for the equivalent amount of squad points. I have a feeling X-wing stands to hurt Armada significantly because it's that much more affordable.

Throw in the unpainted squadrons and I get the feeling they aren't aiming as mass-market as they are with X-wing. My prediction is that it won't flop but it won't have nearly the success X-wing has.

The Star Destroyer is Victory Class, so that means an Imperial class will be quite larger....

in before the "When will we see the Executor" thread

For myself I'll get the core set. But I don't think I'll get anywhere nearly as into this game as I do X-Wing, maybe a few more squads of fighters but that would be about my limit I think.

When's the Black Sun expansion pack coming out?

Am I the only person upset by this news?

Yes.

Will they continue to support two miniature games?

Yes.

Moving swiftly on, a fleet-based game was widely requested stroke predicted on this forum... which begs the question, when will we see our Ground Assault game with AT-AT's, AT-ST's and Speeders?

Ooh! Ground assault game! Yes Please! Damnit! Like it's not already hard enough cutting the dogs down to one meal a week...

Oh and someone asked about who they were licensing the movement system from. I don't think they are, that little note meant that they have to get LFL's approval of the art on the template.

Excellent, I get to have my star wars cake in multiple flavors. Dog-fighting with x-wing and tactical fleet combat with armada.

This is freaking brilliant news. I might be $100 lighter and sleeping on the couch because the wife will not be pleased to hear this but bloody hell my body is ready.

Thought I just seen your name as an xwing newbie..? You either got the bug bad or xwing's gone...

(Me? I'm weak-it's all so pretty...)

Time to start saving. One miniatures game, an RPG, falconry, and about $200 a month of spending money don't mix together very well.

Well, we for sure need a new forum for that game. I am soooo looking forward to expansions.

Am I the only person upset by this news? Will they continue to support two miniature games? More likely I see that they eventually run out of ideas with X-wing, taper off its releases, and then begin releasing this as its flagship minis title. I mean, sure, I totally support this existing if they continue to support X-wing just as much as they always have, but not otherwise. Is this a single-box game? Or will it be a new competitive tabletop game with expansions? (I think that's likely)

Other negatives:

The rules seem super complicated. Big turn-off.

Expensive buy-in price. BIG problem. Means other releases will be expensive.

Includes unpainted miniatures.

Much more assembly, likely that has to take place during setup.

All reasons I don't like games like Warhammer...

Only good news I see: If they are releasing another competitive miniatures game, it is likely that they are not under threat of loss of license anytime soon. They just NEED to continue to support X-wing or many, myself included, will be sorely disappointed.

But, hey, if I don't like it, I won't play it. All of my concerns could be unfounded, and in fact I hope they are! And they DO have other Star Wars games, just not competing miniatures games. We shall see. Just don't take away my X-wing, FFG.

I think what people fail to realize about XWMG.. is that the ships are not infinite. They will eventually run out of ideas, or run out of ships they think they can sell and make money on.. I said it a year or kore ago.. I don't see support for this game after 2016 or so.. other than reprints to keep new players in ships.. not many games get decades of support and new material...

Just my 2 credits...

Excellent, I get to have my star wars cake in multiple flavors.

With this, you can can really start to do some cool campaign type stuff. Use Armada for some stuff, and then actually break it down using X-Wing for smaller engagements or even as part of the Armada battles...

Instead of rolling dice in a X-Wing vs Tie match up, put them on another table and play X-Wing to decide which squad lives and dies.

This is freaking brilliant news. I might be $100 lighter and sleeping on the couch because the wife will not be pleased to hear this but bloody hell my body is ready.

Thought I just seen your name as an xwing newbie..? You either got the bug bad or xwing's gone...

(Me? I'm weak-it's all so pretty...)

I do love a good paint sesh but let's be honest-time only ever gets tighter

Sure, but look at what we can see. It looks like the X-Wing squads are how they come out of the box, so I'd assume the Ties are as well.For the Ties a quick dark wash on the wings and you're done. You could do all of them in what 15 minutes? The 2 squads of X's would require a little red stripe, a little yellow on the nose, both of those could be done in 20 min's tops.So less then an hour and you've painted everything.

Nah I'm a perfectionist (or mindless fiddler-probably the latter given the results) but I would not be done touching up/faffing in less than an hour...

Me: Yesssss!

My wallet: Nooooooooooooooo!