Everyone at my FLGS and many on these forums always talk about how they love 600pt, 1000pt, or even larger games. We had an escalation league a while back that started at 180 and worked itself up to 450ish for the final match. Although 400 is a really balanced scale with the current ships in my opinion, I really enjoyed the small under 300pt games. Does anyone else like the small quick games where you have to decide on only a few ships and a couple upgrades?

I should mention that I also feel this way about other games. In X-Wing, everyone near me wants to play 300+pt epic games, but my ideal game is around 60-75pts. Or for 40k, I really enjoy the 500pt games and even in Warmachine, 25pts can be a blast. For all these games, I have enough figures to play humongous multi-day games if I were to field everything, but I like to get in a bunch of small games where I can try a different combination of models and upgrades every time.

What is your ideal "skirmish" level Armada game? I think somewhere around 260 does it for me.

I generally play games on my lunch break at work, so I usually go for 200pt games of Armada, 75-100 for X-Wing.

My wife will play armada with me, but only up to 200 pts. Anything longer and the game gets too big. So we play lots of 200pt games and have a really good time.

The only drawback is large base ships. I really really love them, but at that point level they don't really work too well at the low point cost. It always feels like you get a stronger deployment out of lots of smaller ships.

I play 250 point games with the students at lunchtime sometimes, as we only have 4x4 gaming table space.

Sometimes when we do not have the luxury of a full session to play, we just slap together a 150 point fleet and roll with that.

It is fairly fun and some unusual combinations could be found in the spur of the moment.

I ran an 8 week beginner league which followed this schedule:

Week 1 was 180pt 1 core set only

Week 2 was 180pt 1 core set only

Week 3 was 200pt no large ships

Week 4 was 200pt no large ships

Week 5 was 300pt anything goes

Week 6 was 300pt anything goes

Week 7 was 400pt anything goes

Week 8 was 400pt anything goes

Week 3 and Week 4 were a lot of fun playing those small point battles with CR90s, Raiders, Gladiators, and MC30s. All the fleets were a combination of those.

I love playing the Race for the Base multi player game for a short fun change of pace.

Here.

Taskforce Armada.

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/202957-theoretical-for-campaign-200-pt-armada-3x3-area/?hl=%2Btheoretical+%2Bcampaign

Here.

Taskforce Armada.

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/202957-theoretical-for-campaign-200-pt-armada-3x3-area/?hl=%2Btheoretical+%2Bcampaign

That's great. I think it is also a nice way to introduce people to the game beyond just using the core box. I have a lot of friends that play board games, but not miniature games, and this is something they would find much less daunting than a full game.