.....Armada?

No impact on me, Armada is Horrifically overpriced. £80 and you get 2 tiny rebel ships and a sub standard Star Destroyer? Really? LOL Where's the Armada?

No starter includes a full army for that price it's the starter there to teach you the core rules.

Try looking at a few boardgames not made by FFG! LOL I think you will be surprised to find complete armies and hundreds of figures spilling out of normal game boxes which don't (clearly) require FFG to pay a huge amount of their asking price to Disney for the licence. FFG are the sort of company who would sell you a new Version of Axis and Allies with only the UK and Italy included... and then require you to purchase the US, Japan, Russia and Germany separately in order to play it! It's a detestable practice which I can stomach for X-Wing, but trying it again with Armada and Assault is just a step too far for me.

Hasn't effected much in my area.

Though I hear others in nearby towns have been seeing more armada games and more people playing vs xwing.

My cousin bought all of wave 1, so for now I've just been using his pieces.

It's hard to have the time when you have two kids and working all week.

I can find time for xwing games, but to fit in another is impossible for me.

Plus there is the price point.

I'm heavily invested in xwing and in between waves I like to spend money on other things and save up for the next eave, not buying into another wave of another game.

Wish I had the extra time and money, but i enjoy xwing.

Well I'm not complaining about the price of x-wing, which seems pretty reasonable -- $12 for a ship, $30 for a core set. Armada, Imperial Assault, and Forbidden Stars were more the games I was thinking of.

No it's not. It's fair compared to the US price, but the US price is also way too much. $76 for a game? That's normal now? Forget that -- I can get two very high quality games from another company for that. FFG has priced me out.

X Wing isn't really a wargame, and it's not really a board game. It's a weird, but very cool hybrid.

But it's very funny watching the way different players approach the game. Board game players think $76 for a game is expensive. Wargamers think that sort of money is loose change compared to the Games Workshop prices they're used to.

This is so damned true it's not even funny. I'm no big X-wing buyer, one expansion of each ship is usually enough for me, but that still mean I've spent about 400$ on X-wing stuff. In Games Workshop money, that's not even the bare minimum needed to play a full sized battle.

I have to admit that one of the regulars bought into it. They played a game last week. It looked awesome. I started going through my closet of games I don't play anymore looking to sell them for

Armada. I don't know when I would play, but I'm not playing the other games, either.

So, if anyone wants to buy some WWII US 28mm models, let me know!

What kills me about all miniature games is that when the dust clears you have a stack of toys (it's an action figure d***!) that either decorate your place or are stored. It makes me sad to look at all the mage knight, mech warrior and d&d mini's I have in boxes in a closet. Representing prolly a 1000 dollars of stuff I will never use again. Just seems like such a waste vs a board game you can store for a few years and dust off with all parts included and takes as much space as a large book to store.

That being said I know it's the nature of the beast with these things but that is my direct reason not to purchase or even tempt myself playing armada. It would require a much larger space to store properly than anything to date I have. Warhammer people must have it rough and that hobby too is something I won't touch. Xwing is pushing it with the large and epic ships but they masterfully hooked me with the upgrade card carrot on a stick and the models are just so well done that some will be displayed in retirement. Anyway, wall of text over, Armada looks neat but the physical storage space is enough for me to pass.

What kills me about all miniature games is that when the dust clears you have a stack of toys (it's an action figure d***!) that either decorate your place or are stored. It makes me sad to look at all the mage knight, mech warrior and d&d mini's I have in boxes in a closet. Representing prolly a 1000 dollars of stuff I will never use again. Just seems like such a waste vs a board game you can store for a few years and dust off with all parts included and takes as much space as a large book to store.

That being said I know it's the nature of the beast with these things but that is my direct reason not to purchase or even tempt myself playing armada. It would require a much larger space to store properly than anything to date I have. Warhammer people must have it rough and that hobby too is something I won't touch. Xwing is pushing it with the large and epic ships but they masterfully hooked me with the upgrade card carrot on a stick and the models are just so well done that some will be displayed in retirement. Anyway, wall of text over, Armada looks neat but the physical storage space is enough for me to pass.

Some things have longevity. I'm pulling out my DnD minis to play the RPG with my son these days. I'm quite happy to still have them. Also, Battletech has risen from the grave how many times? I have all the v.1 books from the h80's and wish I had the models.

Yeah, I did play WHFB for 13 years and I'm told I have the largest painted OnG army in my state. I've spent over $1k on that game alone.

What kills me about all miniature games is that when the dust clears you have a stack of toys (it's an action figure d***!) that either decorate your place or are stored. It makes me sad to look at all the mage knight, mech warrior and d&d mini's I have in boxes in a closet. Representing prolly a 1000 dollars of stuff I will never use again. Just seems like such a waste vs a board game you can store for a few years and dust off with all parts included and takes as much space as a large book to store.

That being said I know it's the nature of the beast with these things but that is my direct reason not to purchase or even tempt myself playing armada. It would require a much larger space to store properly than anything to date I have. Warhammer people must have it rough and that hobby too is something I won't touch. Xwing is pushing it with the large and epic ships but they masterfully hooked me with the upgrade card carrot on a stick and the models are just so well done that some will be displayed in retirement. Anyway, wall of text over, Armada looks neat but the physical storage space is enough for me to pass.

Some things have longevity. I'm pulling out my DnD minis to play the RPG with my son these days. I'm quite happy to still have them. Also, Battletech has risen from the grave how many times? I have all the v.1 books from the h80's and wish I had the models.

Yeah, I did play WHFB for 13 years and I'm told I have the largest painted OnG army in my state. I've spent over $1k on that game alone.

That's awesome you get to play and experiment with your kids I think that is great to pass passion for gaming to a new generation that sorely needs imagination. My step-kids are the typical facebook and youtube fed teen zombies that have the attention spans of goldfish and the social interests of a bad teenage movie filled with needless drama and garbage morals. I get called a nerd and lame regularly for being interested in something that requires thought and a bit of imagination.

I agree that mini's can be repurposed but I have not role-played in years and have no real interest to anymore. I had a great group of guys to game with back in my early 20's then life got in the way and we all went our seperate ways. I have one friend left that is even close enough to do anything with and he will not spend any money on anything he can not play solo, ie video games, although I did recently get him interested in dice masters so that was a win I could try selling them online but that would require a huge time investment in looking up exactly what is in those tackle boxes, conditioning them all, and researching a proper market price(which is prolly much lower than would be required to offset the time investment) and then wait for a nibble on a game that is never played anymore.

Not sure what you meant by the BattleTech comparison you made, I was talking about the mini game like mageknight and hero clicks, outside of a miracle those models will never be used or legal again even if there is a revival. Congrats on the WH army though I have a lot of respect for someone who would devote that much time and money into anything. I still remember fondly the hours of reading roleplaying manuals and theorycrafting characters, fleshing them out with stories and back grounds and making it all work inside a context of available rules, good times. In todays world though I am pretty much forced into a monthly or bi-monthly FLGS pickup game for anything and I have my phone aps to build whatever for those games to fill the weeks between, love my MTG ap and have a pretty decent one for Xwing, breaks at work are pretty much building something So just to stay on topic, storage would be my biggest issue with Armada, the other would be a simple lack of ability to play it. I envy those that can get a group together but the one store is all warhammer, the other store is all mtg and pokemon and the handful in the bigger town near me are about all I have in exchange for a 40 minute drive. Hope springs eternal though and a true gamer never dies but the current hot games are what I am limited to so that is what I play and at least for now Xwing is way more widely played than Armada.

Here's my problem with Armada - and its not Armada per se, its adding another thing.

1) X-Wing is still a blast and still and expansions coming.

2) Star Wars Minis (WOTC) we still play. I bought Imperial Assualt (birthday money) but have not used it. Wish I had returned it (not anti, just I already still play a minis game I love).

3) All the regular board games we play (and only have to buy once, not wave after wave).

I have over the last few years collected and sold off all my FFG LCG games (AGOT, WH, SW), sold off all my SW SAGA RGP stuff and and now actively selling of all my FFG SW RPG stuff.

Not enough time.

I hope Armada does well. I hope Imperial Assault does well. I'd love to have the time >>> money to play them all, but that's before considering all the electronic games available as distractions (FIFA / MADEN / LEGO Stat Wars, etc).

Know what? Its okay to choose just what you will use, and still admire the shiny new kid on the block without buying in.