Can i get a "Praise the EMPEROR?!"

Thanks, that made my day brighter

Can i get a "Praise the EMPEROR?!"

I think the boys at IFF said it best, in a few months time you can't just smash one of everything in a list and play, now something has to get left at home.

The big problem being, what gets left out?

Does it rhyme with schmictory?

I've been playing games for too long now and every game I use to play, even the very successful ones, have come and gone.

Sometimes it's because the designers end up breaking the game, the company goes broke or the game runs its course and runs out of material to keep it fresh and alive.

Armada will be no different. As long as they keep releasing new expansions it will keep going but one day it will come to an end.

BUT not today, this week, this year or maybe next year but it will eventually end.

For me I will lose interest when Armada no longer resembles the movies and I f a game of Armada no longer looks like it's set in the Star Wars universe then I'll look for a game that does.

Until then my collection of SW-Armada will grow and join my collection of other games in my spare room.

Sometimes it's because the designers end up breaking the game, the company goes broke or the game runs its course and runs out of material to keep it fresh and alive.

Looking at you GW.

with the current state of balance (or lack there of) 40K, it's been over a year since I've played a game.

I bought an Iyanden 40k army with the release of the Iyanden codex, played the entire Iyanden apocalypse campaign book. Spent 3 years and all of my hobby fund building up 10,000 points of painted Iyanden.

No-one would play a game against me after the new Eldar codex hit, and I couldn't blame them, so I started playing Armada and Imperial Assault with them instead.

I love the background and minis for 40k, but the game has devolved into a pile of utter ****.

Hahaha, true, but ISDs shouldn't be afraid of CR90s with a tiny pew pew upgrade, but here we are!

I view situations like that as the ISD is not really destroyed, but if the CR90's lived long enough, they shot off taregting and shield systems that the ISD is essentially out the fight more then a David killed Goliath.

Think of it as a big bouncer type got hit in the eyes and temporaraly blinded, he's not gone, it's just that he can't fight so withdraws.

Yes the little ships make a mission kill or forces a jump into hyperspace. Remembering that in Star Wars the larger and more powerful the ship the more likely you are to find its inherent hit here to blow up switch.....

To sum....Armada is Dying! NEVAR FORGET!

Everything is in a constant state of dying. It is the constant of the universe. However, WHEN it will die is the unknown.

I think the word is decay. Things generally have to be alive ( have the characteristics of life) to die.

Im not concerned about product releases or gameplay, Im concerned about the lack of players. I can only speak for my local scene, and its pretty static with a known and seemingly fixed group of us at around 4 serious players that get together with some regularity. Compare this to our X-Wing scene that gets 10+ people for their weekly gatherings and Im a little worried about being able to play Armada.

Our area has a HUMUNGOUS gaming scene too, there is a weekly friday night magic event that occasionally breaks 200 players, even with another store 2 mins down the road that simultaneously get ~30.

To sum....Armada is Dying! NEVAR FORGET!

Everything is in a constant state of dying. It is the constant of the universe. However, WHEN it will die is the unknown.

I think the word is decay. Things generally have to be alive ( have the characteristics of life) to die.

An Idea can die. A place can die. Rome use to be a great country yet it died. Everything is alive in a way. A thought can be given life when it is put into an idea and then pursued, a place can die for the ecosystem around it can wither away and die, a country is alive through its people and places yet both can be destroyed causing the country to wither and die.

To sum....Armada is Dying! NEVAR FORGET!

Everything is in a constant state of dying. It is the constant of the universe. However, WHEN it will die is the unknown.

I think the word is decay. Things generally have to be alive ( have the characteristics of life) to die.

An Idea can die. A place can die. Rome use to be a great country yet it died. Everything is alive in a way. A thought can be given life when it is put into an idea and then pursued, a place can die for the ecosystem around it can wither away and die, a country is alive through its people and places yet both can be destroyed causing the country to wither and die.

Is this thread dying or decaying? I guess that is the question now.

Im not concerned about product releases or gameplay, Im concerned about the lack of players. I can only speak for my local scene, and its pretty static with a known and seemingly fixed group of us at around 4 serious players that get together with some regularity. Compare this to our X-Wing scene that gets 10+ people for their weekly gatherings and Im a little worried about being able to play Armada.

Our area has a HUMUNGOUS gaming scene too, there is a weekly friday night magic event that occasionally breaks 200 players, even with another store 2 mins down the road that simultaneously get ~30.

When I joined in with Xwing toward the end of its own Wave 2 (All Bwings and Ywings vs tiefighters!) we'd get about a dozen people for a tournament. This Saturday's one near my house has over 50.

I don't anticipate Armada ever having the broad appeal of Xwing - Armada is to Xwing what Epic:Armageddon is to 40K. A more serious, tactical game with much larger battles requiring much smaller models, and less people drawn in for the sake of the 'toys' themselves because of that.

I do anticipate the player base growing over time as it expands and improves.

Im not concerned about product releases or gameplay, Im concerned about the lack of players. I can only speak for my local scene, and its pretty static with a known and seemingly fixed group of us at around 4 serious players that get together with some regularity. Compare this to our X-Wing scene that gets 10+ people for their weekly gatherings and Im a little worried about being able to play Armada.

Our area has a HUMUNGOUS gaming scene too, there is a weekly friday night magic event that occasionally breaks 200 players, even with another store 2 mins down the road that simultaneously get ~30.

When I joined in with Xwing toward the end of its own Wave 2 (All Bwings and Ywings vs tiefighters!) we'd get about a dozen people for a tournament. This Saturday's one near my house has over 50.

I don't anticipate Armada ever having the broad appeal of Xwing - Armada is to Xwing what Epic:Armageddon is to 40K. A more serious, tactical game with much larger battles requiring much smaller models, and less people drawn in for the sake of the 'toys' themselves because of that.

I do anticipate the player base growing over time as it expands and improves.

That is how I feel.

Yet still no Arquitens.....

GRRRRRRR.

My FLGS does good sales in Armada, but no one seems to play it at the store. I usuall can only play with my best friend at his house. I am hopeful as I finally got to play X-wing at my FLGS. They do Wedsnday night X-wing, but as school/work/wife/3 kids schedule had prevented me, summer has opened it up. I asked and most of the group said they are interested, but had already invested time+money into X-wing. So next week I'm bringing my Armada stuff and going to try and convert some people. Even if they always use my stuff, I can atleast get games in when my best friend can't play.

My FLGS does good sales in Armada, but no one seems to play it at the store. I usuall can only play with my best friend at his house. I am hopeful as I finally got to play X-wing at my FLGS. They do Wedsnday night X-wing, but as school/work/wife/3 kids schedule had prevented me, summer has opened it up. I asked and most of the group said they are interested, but had already invested time+money into X-wing. So next week I'm bringing my Armada stuff and going to try and convert some people. Even if they always use my stuff, I can atleast get games in when my best friend can't play.

I have about 5 friends who play with me pretty regularly, and all of them use my stuff. Which is awesome for me, because when by friend took fourth at our regionals using my fleet, I got an extra set of dice and such. But more to the point, once the stuff is on the table, as you said, it doesn't matter whose stuff it is because you get to play and thats whats important.

My FLGS does good sales in Armada, but no one seems to play it at the store. I usuall can only play with my best friend at his house. I am hopeful as I finally got to play X-wing at my FLGS. They do Wedsnday night X-wing, but as school/work/wife/3 kids schedule had prevented me, summer has opened it up. I asked and most of the group said they are interested, but had already invested time+money into X-wing. So next week I'm bringing my Armada stuff and going to try and convert some people. Even if they always use my stuff, I can atleast get games in when my best friend can't play.

I have about 5 friends who play with me pretty regularly, and all of them use my stuff. Which is awesome for me, because when by friend took fourth at our regionals using my fleet, I got an extra set of dice and such. But more to the point, once the stuff is on the table, as you said, it doesn't matter whose stuff it is because you get to play and thats whats important.

Same here, I have a lot of friends who play, but 0 who have bought in. One might be close, and one friend went into the store to buy some Armada expansions (since I have multiple core sets and volunteered to give him the essential parts so he wouldn't have to buy a severely overpriced CR90) and ended up walking out with $200 in X-Wing despite never having played it because the FLGS clerk convinced him "If he liked Armada he would like this one more." That one irked me a bit. And guess what? After trying it out all our mutual friends like Armada more, and all that X-Wing is still sitting in a box under his coffee table, while he and I have played probably 20 games of Armada since.

That clerk is an idiot. Probably could have made the same sale in armada, which is probably the harder inventory to move.

My FLGS does good sales in Armada, but no one seems to play it at the store. I usuall can only play with my best friend at his house. I am hopeful as I finally got to play X-wing at my FLGS. They do Wedsnday night X-wing, but as school/work/wife/3 kids schedule had prevented me, summer has opened it up. I asked and most of the group said they are interested, but had already invested time+money into X-wing. So next week I'm bringing my Armada stuff and going to try and convert some people. Even if they always use my stuff, I can atleast get games in when my best friend can't play.

I have about 5 friends who play with me pretty regularly, and all of them use my stuff. Which is awesome for me, because when by friend took fourth at our regionals using my fleet, I got an extra set of dice and such. But more to the point, once the stuff is on the table, as you said, it doesn't matter whose stuff it is because you get to play and thats whats important.

Same here, I have a lot of friends who play, but 0 who have bought in. One might be close, and one friend went into the store to buy some Armada expansions (since I have multiple core sets and volunteered to give him the essential parts so he wouldn't have to buy a severely overpriced CR90) and ended up walking out with $200 in X-Wing despite never having played it because the FLGS clerk convinced him "If he liked Armada he would like this one more." That one irked me a bit. And guess what? After trying it out all our mutual friends like Armada more, and all that X-Wing is still sitting in a box under his coffee table, while he and I have played probably 20 games of Armada since.

Yea. . . People need to try both before they buy one or the other. Most move to Armada I have noticed.

That clerk is an idiot. Probably could have made the same sale in armada, which is probably the harder inventory to move.

Not with you buying goodies for 5 people, I recon they would be doing OK in Armada.