I know there have been lots of posts made about armada and the excitement and everything however this post is actually about both games so I hope I don't get any flak about not posting in the armada forum from the forum nazis around here. Ok on to the idea I had....
So armada has shown us the capital ships and how you can send out fighter squads, it's also shown us the cr90 as a playable ship. So what of you had armada going the same time as xwing? You would start off with the 1st round being armada, as soon as you send out fighters you would then deploy your xwing squad or tie squad. This could also work in conjunction with the cr90 since it appears in both games. As the cr90 takes damage from the armada side it would transfer over to the xwing play as well. For instance it takes a hit and critical from armada it would suffer damage on the xwing side of play. However say your not wanting to use the cr90 on both and just strictly fighter combat. Well the fighter squads on the armada side are 3 ships in formation, I'm not sure the rules on how many squads your allowed to send out in armada but you could essentially have 1 squad equal say 50 pts in xwing? Once they are deployed combat would take place between fighters in the xwing side of play. If armada allows firing on fighter squads you could also represent this in xwing play too (havnt figured that out yet need to more rules on armada first). Essentially a game round would go something like this in theory....
Round 1
Armada side
Movement of capital ships
Deployment of fighter squads
Xwing side
placement of squad on table
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Round 2
armada side
Movement of capital ships
Targeting/firing
Movement of fighter squads
Xwing side
Movement of squad
Attacking
Armada side
(Presuming you can attack fighter squads)
Capital ships choose a target in the squad and attack
Something like that at least, as I mentioned I need to see more rules related to armada first to see how the combat flow goes as well as if damage can be transferred 1:1 in xwing (I'm assuming not so some conversion will need to take place most likely). Anyways that's my rough idea if combining the 2. Any thoughts? I know it would make for a long game but if it works would be truly epic IMO.