Hi all,

This is my first Armada list having taken the plunge from x-wing and now expanded to Armada. Have only played one game so far and will be looking for more in the New Year, with hopefully a few expansions from Santa!

Motti’s Imperial Might

Faction: Galactic Empire

Points: 400/400

Commander: Admiral Motti

Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120) [Flagship] (169 points)

• Admiral Motti (24)
• Avenger (5)
• Gunnery Team (7)
• Electronic Countermeasures (7)
• XI7 Turbolasers (6)

Victory I-Class Star Destroyer (73) (98 points)

• Admiral Chiraneau (10)
• Flight Controllers (6)
• Boosted Comms (4)
• Corrupter (5)

Raider I-Class Star Corvette (44) (60 points)

• Admiral Montferrat (5)
• Assault Concussion Missiles (7)
• Impetuous (4)

Imperial Squadrons (73 points)

• 1 Howlrunner (16)
• 1 Mauler Mithel (15)
• 1 TIE Fighter Squadron (8)
• 1 Major Rhymer (16)
• 2 TIE Bomber Squadrons (18)

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defence Objective: Contested Outpost
Navigation Objective: Minefields

I don't like the squadron list.

I you want the bombers you need more squadron points.

73 points is about right for a fighter wing.

Against a list with only a couple of squadrons they will target Rhymer and hold your bombers up for a few turns while their better ships will beat you.

Against a bomber wing they will have enough squadron dice to mangle you while their bombers just intel away and take apart your ships.

Guess it depends on the meta in your area and how many 120+ bomber lists you expect to face.

With that few points invested in squadrons, you need to pick one role. Right now your fighters don't scare me and your bombers don't scare me. You should either make a decent rhymer ball (3 bombers+rhymer+advanced+jumpmaster) or go toward a fighter wing (Dengar+Mauler+Vader+Fel would be my preference).

With that few points invested in squadrons, you need to pick one role. Right now your fighters don't scare me and your bombers don't scare me. You should either make a decent rhymer ball (3 bombers+rhymer+advanced+jumpmaster) or go toward a fighter wing (Dengar+Mauler+Vader+Fel would be my preference).

Both thank you for the advice on squadrons. Having reviewed your recommendations the bomber list provided would either enable me to get another TIE-Bomber for the points or re-invest the additional 9 points into the ship build. However, the proposed fighter list actually comes in at 74 points total, any ideas on how I could shave the list to find the required additional 1 point, that is assuming ship build is ok?

Drop the Raider, take more fighters. Bump the Vic-1 to a Vic-2 Keep your ISD and VSD together supporting one another's fire.

With that few points invested in squadrons, you need to pick one role. Right now your fighters don't scare me and your bombers don't scare me. You should either make a decent rhymer ball (3 bombers+rhymer+advanced+jumpmaster) or go toward a fighter wing (Dengar+Mauler+Vader+Fel would be my preference).

Both thank you for the advice on squadrons. Having reviewed your recommendations the bomber list provided would either enable me to get another TIE-Bomber for the points or re-invest the additional 9 points into the ship build. However, the proposed fighter list actually comes in at 74 points total, any ideas on how I could shave the list to find the required additional 1 point, that is assuming ship build is ok?

You can completely ditch Chiraneau with either of those builds, since he becomes redundant with Dengar or a Jumpmaster in the mix. That actually should leave you with 19 and 9 points respectively to play with.

Thank you for the advice so far, based on this have come up with 2 alternatives one based around a fighter squadron the other based around a bomber squadron:

Fighter Squadron:

Faction: Galactic Empire

Points: 399/400

Commander: Admiral Motti

Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120) [Flagship] (177 points)

• Admiral Motti (24)
• Gunnery Team (7)
• Electronic Countermeasures (7)
• Overload Pulse (8)
• XI7 Turbolasers (6)
• Avenger (5)

Victory I-Class Star Destroyer (73) (88 points)

• Flight Controllers (6)
• Boosted Comms (4)
• Corrupter (5)

Raider I-Class Star Corvette (44) (60 points)

• Admiral Montferrat (5)
• Assault Concussion Missiles (7)
• Impetuous (4)

Imperial Squadrons (74 points)

• Darth Vader TIE Advanced (21)
• Dengar Punishing One (20)
• Soontir Fel TIE Interceptor (18)
• Mauler Mithel TIE Fighter (15)

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defence Objective: Contested Outpost
Navigation Objective: Minefields

Option 2: Bomber Squadron

Faction: Galactic Empire

Points: 400/400

Commander: Admiral Motti

Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120) [Flagship] (177 points)

• Admiral Motti (24)
  
• Gunnery Team (7)
  
• Electronic Countermeasures (7)
  
• Overload Pulse (8)
  
• XI7 Turbolasers (6)
  
• Avenger (5)
  

Victory I-Class Star Destroyer (73) (88 points)

• Flight Controllers (6)
  
• Boosted Comms (4)
  
• Corrupter (5)
  

Raider I-Class Star Corvette (44) (60 points)

• Admiral Montferrat (5)
  
• Assault Concussion Missiles (7)
  
• Impetuous (4)
  

Imperial Squadrons (75 points)

• Major Rhymer TIE Bomber (16)
  
• 3 x TIE Bombers (27)
  
• TIE Advanced (12)
  
• Dengar Punishing One (20)
  

Based on feedback may settle on an initial run out of the following list:

Faction: Galactic Empire

Points: 400/400

Commander: Admiral Motti

Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120) [Flagship] (169 points)

• Admiral Motti (24)
• Gunnery Team (7)
• Electronic Countermeasures (7)
• XI7 Turbolasers (6)
• Avenger (5)

Victory II-Class Star Destroyer (85) (100 points)

• Flight Controllers (6)
• Boosted Comms (4)
• Corrupter (5)

Raider I-Class Star Corvette (44) (62 points)

• Ordanance Experts (4)
• Assault Proton Torpedoes (5)
• Impetuous (4)

Imperial Squadrons (74 points)

• Darth Vader TIE Advanced (21)
• Dengar Punishing One (20)
• Soontir Fel TIE Interceptor (18)
• Mauler Mithel TIE Fighter (15)