According to the official tournament rules when wave 2 hits tournaments will be 400 points.

Thoughts?

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/3/26/let-the-battles-begin/

Good stuff. Might mean the ISD and MC80 are quite expensive.

Assuming the Imperial-class SDs are going to be a ton of points, I'm guessing 400 allows for a two ISD build. The part that concerns me is the timing of tournament rounds. Having never actually played Armada, I can't say if rounds will consistently go to time, but once Wave 2 hits and rounds are 150 minutes...that makes for a long tournament at potentially 2 1/2 hours per round.

Only how sweet that sounds...

Also, just to note.

Currently the tournament points level is 180 points, and 90 minutes long,

After wave 1 it will increase to 300 points, and 120 minutes long.

So, twice as long as an X-Wing game.

Edit: After wave 2 it will increase to 400 points and 150 minutes.

Sounds like they always had this planned. Good choice as I want crazy powerful capital ships.

Sounds like they always had this planned. Good choice as I want crazy powerful capital ships.

Me too. Glad to hear this.

I think it's great! Love the idea of a 400 point list as opposed to just 300. Will give it more of a fleet feel for sure.

Anyone else notice how the only playmats that can be used are FFG ones?

I literally just made a thread about that.

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/139010-only-ffgs-playmats-are-legal-for-tournament-use/

Also, just to note.

Currently the tournament points level is 180 points, and 90 minutes long,

After wave 1 it will increase to 400 points, and 120 minutes long.

So, twice as long as an X-Wing game.

You misyped the game lengths from the tourament rules. Wave 2 will be 150 minutes. However, I don't see anywhere in the rules or tournament rules how long the core set is supposed to be, but 30 minute increments seems like a good assumption.

Also, just to note.

Currently the tournament points level is 180 points, and 90 minutes long,

After wave 1 it will increase to 400 points, and 120 minutes long.

So, twice as long as an X-Wing game.

You misyped the game lengths from the tourament rules. Wave 2 will be 150 minutes. However, I don't see anywhere in the rules or tournament rules how long the core set is supposed to be, but 30 minute increments seems like a good assumption.

Ah, I typoed 400 instead of 300. Fixed now and added Wave 2 option.

The 180 point / 90 minute rule is in the tournament pdf page 1 under "Tournament structure"

I literally just made a thread about that.

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/139010-only-ffgs-playmats-are-legal-for-tournament-use/

I saw

I thought they were going to go with things easily divisible by 3... but 134 point fighter total it is, I suppose.

This is interesting as it will give us the power to make more flexible lists for tournament play, here is hoping that the ISD's are bad ass enough for me to run 1 of them with 2 gladiators and as many fighters and bombers as I can fit in my points , saying that dose this also mean we could see a legit Ackbar slash list with the MC80 and the assault frigates MK2 or the MC30c's? I hope so at least as I am doing both factions as I love ALL THE SHIPS!

Yeah. I totally am on board for Fleet Battles.

This is great news! One thing I am looking forward to though in casual play is to just have big fleets go smash each other. Multiple ISDs and MC80's coming this way!!

If 400 points is enough for two ISDs and an Interdictor, we can recreate that great TIE Fighter fan film. Mmmm.

400 points sounds awesome. The only down side is it's giving me further incentive to purchase even more than I already have.