I got to play Armada. Now I just buy models and think about playing.

Armada is dead!

Turn my frown upside down. Give me a Star Wars gif that will delight me.

Turn my frown upside down. Give me a Star Wars gif that will delight me.

I got to play Armada. Now I just buy models and think about playing.

I feel your pain - I played a couple of times with my brother-in-law and a buddy of mine that lives an hour away. I own all the ships and am constantly itching to play, but I've been unsuccessful so far finding players in my area as everyone appears to only do x-wing & IA.

Locally we've got people who own it, but never play. I've got one guy who plays but it's tough to arrange it, and one guy who is wanting to learn.

IA is very quiet minus a group running the campaigns. Few others own it, but don't seem to play much.

Even X Wing seems down, but I think the holidays have shrunk the base temporarily.

Turn my frown upside down. Give me a Star Wars gif that will delight me.

I said delight me Audio Weasel...what is that nonsense?

I feel your pain. All the gear and no idea (when I can get a game)

same issue here... I work every friday and saturday... can't ever find time to play.

I said delight me Audio Weasel...what is that nonsense?

Robot Chicken. Hilarious!

I said delight me Audio Weasel...what is that nonsense?

Why, that is Lobot dancing, of course. Is this better?

In all seriousness, I know exactly how you feel. My next games of Armada might be at the Stele Open.

I got to play Armada. Now I just buy models and think about playing.

yep that is about how it is for me :(

To those of you who have hard times finding a community, what sort of infrastructure do you have?

Are there (F)LGSs who are willing to host games?

Do you have Facebook (&etc) groups to help you organize?

Craigslist?

To those of you who have hard times finding a community, what sort of infrastructure do you have?

Are there (F)LGSs who are willing to host games?

Do you have Facebook (&etc) groups to help you organize?

Craigslist?

And would you all please put your general location in posts saying you can't find a local game, so local people can help!

When I first try the game, it was something that I immediately presume that it will be hard to find other people to play with (schedule issues, price tag, complexity of the game). So I took the decision to buy everything for two players, me and my guess. This way I'm sure to play at least 5-6 time a month. If it was from me, it could turn around 15-20 time per month but wiht the fact that a game take around 4 hours total (fleet construction, set up, play and put back all in the box), it's not that easy to find a lot of time.

Between those games I try to keep calm reeding this forum or looking for WWPDSteven game'S

My problem is entirely self-inflicted. I have a 10 month old son and just began grad school. I know of people available for games...just no time.

Ok, that's a good excuse.

To those of you who have hard times finding a community, what sort of infrastructure do you have?

Are there (F)LGSs who are willing to host games?

Do you have Facebook (&etc) groups to help you organize?

Craigslist?

Let's see...

The Scranton/Wilkes Barre PA metro only has (to my knowledge) one store supporting Armada/ Imperial Assault and two stores supporting X Wing. There may be 2 other stores locally I've heard of in passing, but they are strictly card shops.I have to give Tactical Advantage in Edwardsville major props. They carry the main lines of FFG and are willing to host events, but nobody comes for IA/Armada.

I currently run the local FB group after seeing how effective it is in Philly. We're always bouncing around 55 members give or take 5. It's helpful to promote games but still seems to be just as effective as calling the shop and seeing if anyone is there or looking. Honestly we're within an hour of Allentown and Binghampton NY. Even their FB groups have gone quiet in the last few months.

I am aware of maybe a dozen owners of Armada locally. I've played maybe 5 of them, the others may have bought in, but don't play. I'm a big pusher of growing the community and demoing the game. But ultimately, there isn't much of a community. Even our two X Wing shops typically only draw 8-14 players per monthly tournament.

Combined with an absolutely nutty work schedule cutting my free time to shreds, there isn't much short term hope here. I'm hoping this improves in 2017, but I do know personally I'm looking at getting married and having a kid by 2018. That means my ability to game will be coming to a severe hault in the next 12-24 months.

I'm OK with it. I love the game, but I've definitely lost some of the honeymoon glow in the last few months. I'm happy to play X Wing for fun every week or two at a tournament or random meet up. I'd even be interested in IA, but my wallet won't support another collecting dust game.

Never really caught on at my LGS. Anything that's not 40K or MTG has a VERY difficult time taking off here. X-Wing was an exception to that, however none of the X-Wing players even wanted to give Armada the time of day due to already being involved in X-Wing and the $100 buy in. And X-Wing itself has pretty much died off here as well this year, and its back to nothing but 40K and MTG.

Sigh.

Start playing Runewars when it comes out in a couple months. The community in your area may not be any bigger than Armada, but at least you will have minis to paint and assemble while waiting.

But in all seriousness, I feel your pain. I only get to play armada once every month or two (my own fault for being too busy).

Get thee to Vassal ... least you can get some games in...

What we did locally was just starting playing at our FLGS, stick to the same night week after week and that slowly has built momentum and players. It takes time.

When I first try the game, it was something that I immediately presume that it will be hard to find other people to play with (schedule issues, price tag, complexity of the game). So I took the decision to buy everything for two players, me and my guess. This way I'm sure to play at least 5-6 time a month. If it was from me, it could turn around 15-20 time per month but wiht the fact that a game take around 4 hours total (fleet construction, set up, play and put back all in the box), it's not that easy to find a lot of time.

Between those games I try to keep calm reeding this forum or looking for WWPDSteven game'S

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/223600-fast-setuptakedowns/

Get thee to Vassal ... least you can get some games in...

What we did locally was just starting playing at our FLGS, stick to the same night week after week and that slowly has built momentum and players. It takes time.

I have to say the physical miniatures is what I dig about the game. So to me, Vassal or TTS just don't call to me like actually pushing the miniatures do.

But I do recommend these platforms for people who want to play who can't do it locally.

When I first try the game, it was something that I immediately presume that it will be hard to find other people to play with (schedule issues, price tag, complexity of the game). So I took the decision to buy everything for two players, me and my guess. This way I'm sure to play at least 5-6 time a month. If it was from me, it could turn around 15-20 time per month but wiht the fact that a game take around 4 hours total (fleet construction, set up, play and put back all in the box), it's not that easy to find a lot of time.

Between those games I try to keep calm reeding this forum or looking for WWPDSteven game'S

Played two 600pts games the other day in about 4,5 hours total