Hey Guys,

Under "Let the Battles Begin!" that FFG posted a few days ago, it included the Tournament Rules pdf. This had some information in it regarding fleet sizes for tournaments in Wave 2 & Beyond that I was excited to read! On Page 3, in the bottom right green bubble "The Future of Armada" (paragraph 2), It states "When Wave 2 is released, the official fleet size will increase to 400 points, the round time will increase to 150 minutes, and the Margin of Victory table will be updated. This is the culmination of the Armada tournament format, and will remain the standard from that point on."

Now, I'm not sure if anybody else felt this way, but when building 300 point fleets I felt like it was a pretty tight points limit for competitive play. Which in my opinion is good, as it should encourage some exciting games with enough variety to keep things interesting. However, I was thinking it wouldn't hold up so well when the Large ships were introduced. So the extra 100 points was well thought out by FFG, and will also increase the squadron limit to 133 of your total Fleet points.

Your thoughts?

why 133 for squadrons? has there been a formula already made up on the best way to spend your points?

i'm about to get my first game in this afternoon but i was already thinking that for 300 pt games i'd like to field in the range of around 120-150 points into squadrons and once the 400 pt hits i'd increase that probably by another 20-30 points

i'm interested to know if lots of squadrons can effectively pick away at the health of ships while absolutely swarming and crushing opposing squadrons due to the sheer volume of them

why 133 for squadrons? has there been a formula already made up on the best way to spend your points?

i'm about to get my first game in this afternoon but i was already thinking that for 300 pt games i'd like to field in the range of around 120-150 points into squadrons and once the 400 pt hits i'd increase that probably by another 20-30 points

i'm interested to know if lots of squadrons can effectively pick away at the health of ships while absolutely swarming and crushing opposing squadrons due to the sheer volume of them

You wont be increasing it....you can only spend a max of 1/3 of your points on squadrons

i see. guess i'll go back to the rulebook to look that up. or is it under the advanced guide book? i haven't read into that one yet

Page 22 of Rule Book, "Fleet Building Restrictions"

I'm excited. Even just thinking of what kind of ships you can fit now with that extra 100 points brings the game up from "Border patrol squadrons" to "Hey, this is a small Armada".

I'm excited. Even just thinking of what kind of ships you can fit now with that extra 100 points brings the game up from "Border patrol squadrons" to "Hey, this is a small Armada".

I'm cheap. I already spec' out a 400 point fleet for just an extra $50. Would include 3 frigates, assault frigate, and 5 squadrons. But this fleet would really be begging for the commander card from the Corvette expansion...... so--- $64 in expansions.

I'm thinking the 400pt limit strongly hints at the cost of the ISD and the MC80. We could easily be looking at a ship that breaches the 100pt mark sans upgrades.

I would think the ISD will run around 130 to 150 points.