I picked up a 3rd ISD and lemme tell ya - running three ISD's with Motti is quite strong indeed. You can even give them some upgrades if they aren't all ISD2's.

Agreed. One of my friends ran two tricked out VSDs and an ISD (no fighters) with Motti against a 2 VSD, 1 Gozanti fleet + Rhymerball fleet. He just ran Engineering commands every turn to keep his ships up through the bombers and drove straight at the capital ships, winning that way. Even four bombers + BCC have a tough time chewing through all those shields and hull.

Ran a brutal MC80 Battle spear + Madine, and a pair of Scout MC30 Extended Launcher shrimp-boats, loaded up with upgrades. Amazing maneverability and damage output. Issues with bomber lists, but it's so fast it basically screams across the board and guts out the capital ships in a couple turns anyways. Trying to shoehorn in a clutch of A-wings for bomber mitigation...

Ran a brutal MC80 Battle spear + Madine, and a pair of Scout MC30 Extended Launcher shrimp-boats, loaded up with upgrades. Amazing maneverability and damage output. Issues with bomber lists, but it's so fast it basically screams across the board and guts out the capital ships in a couple turns anyways. Trying to shoehorn in a clutch of A-wings for bomber mitigation...

This sounds like fun. I'm working on my own variant of this right now because of this post! Then entire game should be decided by turn 4!

Depends on what you mean by 3 ship fleet? Now if you were to say Three ISD lists I don't think that list took off to begin with.

I still see the 2 ship fleet with 2 large ships that have been upgraded and supported by squadrons, but as the cheaper options such as flotillas came out those have been rarer. Now you see the 2 large ship with flotillas more than the pure 2 large ship list or 2 large ship with a raider/cr-90.

Armada has received more options for ships in the <50 fleet point range which means more lists that squeeze in a small ship with the 2 large behemoths. So that might be the decline in the 2-3 large ship list you remember seeing back in Wave 2.

We've been through this.

"Fleet" is a perfectly legal definition for what we run here in this game, based on the very meaning of the word.

I prefer the term Fleet over Army, which some people consistantly use, despite that it is spaceships and starfighters and not tanks and infantry

Nope 3 ship builds works just fine, sometimes having +4 activations can also be a disadvantage, because you sometimes find your self in a situation where you have two smaller ships in a position where no matter which one you activate first the other is going to get one shooted or seriously damaged, where a follow up attack by a few squads close the deal.

Riekaan can mitigate it a bit but you would still have lost a ship at the end of the round.

Having a slightly less choice of activation, makes it easier to take a decission

We've been through this.

"Fleet" is a perfectly legal definition for what we run here in this game, based on the very meaning of the word.

I prefer the term Fleet over Army, which some people consistantly use, despite that it is spaceships and starfighters and not tanks and infantry

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Yeah, what ship has a General leading them

We've been through this.

"Fleet" is a perfectly legal definition for what we run here in this game, based on the very meaning of the word.

I prefer the term Fleet over Army, which some people consistantly use, despite that it is spaceships and starfighters and not tanks and infantry

...

Yeah, what ship has a General leading them

General Douglas MacArthur was in command of every ship in the SouthWest Pacific Area. And there were times when he was commanding from a ship in his fleet

No they are not just going to be less common