Depends how prevalent ISDs are. If they're common, and you frequently run XI7, then they will frequently run Advanced Projectors, essentially nullifying the Turbolasers

Isn't it the other way around? I thought the x17 caused you to only be able to redirect one hit, in effect nullifying most of the power of 'advanced projectors'

Its been answered in an Email from FFG in the Rules section...

It allows you to only redirect 1 point on shield facings, yes, but the Advanced Projectors still lets you choose facings that are non-adjacent.

Which lets you redirect a total of 3 points.. (1 per shield facing)...



Wording was argued (plural/singular), but that is the answer we got from FFG on the matter.

That's in the official FAQ now too. Advanced Projectors are a good counter to XI7s. My general rule as been Enhanced Armaments with the Frigates because they primarily want to shoot from their sides and XI7 on the Neb-Bs because they like to shoot from the front. I imagine I'll want Enhanced Armaments on the Mon Cals under similar reasoning.

I'm not sure if this is what the original author was thinking of when he came up with the Akbar Slash but it sounds an awful lot like a Diekplous maneuver, which was a galley tactic where ships would fly through the enemy line then wheel around to attack the less protected rear. A high risk, high reward maneuver that really wouldn't work in space with engagement distances in the tens to hundreds of kilometers. In Armada though? Might work against a couple of Victories(Dominator excepted) the ImpStars move too fast and hit too hard for it I think.

Yeah In Star Wars battles are mostly fought at knife fighting range. Ad the fact that most Star Destroyers have little firepower to the rear while most Rebel ships have their heaviest weaponry to the broadsides and it becomes an even better idea. Especially if combined with Ackbar's Armada ability.

Personally, I am looking forward to calling it the Ackbar Stache.

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Am I the only one that read this thread title and thought, "I really don't want to hear a debate about why squid-person romantic fan-fiction is not to their taste. I mean to each their own!"?

You know, as in Ackbar-slash-Dodonna or Ackbar-slash-Solo, or even the ever popular Ackbar-slash-Tarkin shippings?

Am I the only one that read this thread title and thought, "I really don't want to hear a debate about why squid-person romantic fan-fiction is not to their taste. I mean to each their own!"?

You know, as in Ackbar-slash-Dodonna or Ackbar-slash-Solo, or even the ever popular Ackbar-slash-Tarkin shippings?

Isn't the obvious choice Ackbar-slash-Trap?

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Personally my big takeaway from Nelsons success at Trafalgar wasn't so much how he crossed the T - rather that he did something that caught the French/Spanish totally by surprise. In those days communications were very poor so any event that caused you to deviate from your pre-battle plan could cause great disruption. Plowing his flagship into their line threw the entire French/Spanish formation into chaos, resulting in their formation collapsing and greatly mitigating their numerical superiority.

This type of approach is easily transferable to wargames (Armada included) where an unconventional approach can often catch a good opponent off guard as they simply haven't encountered that set of circumstances before. True tests of skill in wargaming is when the initial plan falls completely apart and players have to improvise and make do with limited resources and contraints. The converse would be the tightly choreographed 'preplanned' opening moves that I often see wargamers execute. Set plays have their place - but you also need to know what to do when something doesn't go according to plan

To illustrate this in a more practical sense - in Armada you need to be very careful flying line astern - it is a great formation for concentrating fire. But if your opponent can get a ship of their own in front of the lead ship to cause a collision and block the formation then it can quickly turn into a catastrophe as all of the following ships crash into the back of the lead ships - inflicting a great deal of damage. I've seen this happen with VSDs, but equally Assault Frigates can get caught like this also.

Plowing his flagship into their line threw the entire French/Spanish formation into chaos, resulting in their formation collapsing and greatly mitigating their numerical superiority.

Indeed, Nelson was famous for"heading straight at 'em"...