Lyraeus sighting! The world can now return to how it should be.

Welcome back!

I am not that important in the community. Thank you for the sentiment.

Yup. Everyone's scrambling to figure out what all the new releases mean for the game.

Perfect time to return!

(You didn't happen to have some students who turned against you but then some girl showed up and gave you your old maneuver tool, did you?)

It would make sense.

(Um. . . no. . . should I be looking?)

Welcome back my friend.

As for news, Rebels took a major boost, squadrons now rule the game, Imperials are at a disadvantage, and I am grumpy about it all.

That is before CC and wave 5. I think CC and wave V will fix some of this. I hope.

I have faith in your ability to cut through it all.

It is so good to hear that you are back Lyraeus! It is such a great time to be back too! The Conflict campaign will perhaps bring many more into Armada, and NOONE has figured out Wave 5 yet.

I'm looking forward to your energy on the forums. There are a few that seem to predict doom and gloom but for the most part the community is still as great and qwerky as ever.

You just want to see me get into more arguments ^_~

Welcome back Lyraeus!, and none to soon. Glad to have you back. It is irking Dras to have to be the voice of reason all the time, & we miss you. Wave 5 is as game changing as we could hope, and yet little has changed yet. Sato is an OP beast... Or no worth he points... Yet to be determined. We just missed having you around.

Merry Christmas Lyraeus!

Engineering Tokens!

Ackbar star destroyers won a vassal tourney, then I continued to fail at every table tourney! Ihave a foolptoof plan for feb....

Welcome back. There is too much salt in the forum so am trying a no reply to dodgy threads policy.

Thank you all who missed me and asked after me. I got my first game in as long as I have been away last night and it was fun. Gods I am rusty.

So who wants to catch me up on whats going on? Still Doom and Gloom? Any interesting rules discussions? How are people taking wave 5 other than the typical "Its new. . . I don't like it" or the "Its ugly and doesn't make sense with my perception of the universe" arguments?

As for my game last night.

Word of warning, I did had right out the list so I am pretty sure it is fine but it was last second so I could of been off in points. Don't think I was.

Mission: Sensor Net (I was second)

MC80 Command Cruiser:

Commander Sato

Home One (which was not really needed it turns out)

Flight Commander

Reinforced Blast Doors

Boosted Comms

Fighter Coordination Teams

Pelta Command

Phoenix Home

Flight Commander

Ahsoka Tano

Boosted Comms

Fighter Coordination Teams

All Formations Follow Me (I never used it but if I had on Turn 6 it would of been the right move!)

Gr-75 Transport

Toryn Farr

Bomber Command Center

Bright Hope

Squadrons:

Lancer

Green Squadron (WONDERFUL!)

Ten Numb (Decent ability but you want to REALLY mix it up with him)

Nora Wexly (BEST PILOT AWARD GOES HERE!)

Jan Orrs

2x YT-1300 (does so much work!)

VCX-100 (This, FCT and Sensor Net is stupid. . . Stupid GOOD!)

I won by 5 points but we did not really see fighting till T4. I lost my MC80 on T6. . . Rapid Reload worked wonders. . . I did forget that I used a Brace so I took the 10 damage when it should of been just 5. . . bleh. Typical me. Got excited things were happening and forget the one thing that saves me > .<

End result was me getting 10 tokens to his 3, killing his 88 point Demolisher which is 238 for me, and him killing Home One, the Lancer and a YT-1300 (the other would have died if I had it attack the Decimator it was engaged with but I decided against it. Good thing, it lived) so 233 for him.

He had 3 Defenders, 2 Decimator's, a Light Cruiser with TRC's and Blast Doors, Vader on an ISD 2, with XI7's and something else, Demo with Rapid Reload and Ordnance Experts (we both had not played in months and he is a FAR newer player than I am so he forgot Engine Techs).

He liked to draw me out so I hung back doing silly things with Strategic and a Token. I later learned from Dras that Fighter Coordination is indeed a move and satisfies Strategic. . . which. . . WOW! For a Slow moving Fleet I can steal that token almost every activation as long as I had a VCX (or 2) and Fighter Coordination Team.

To being with: Armada is dead. And broken.

WIth that out of the way: welcome back!

People complaining about things in the new wave. And of course people complaining about people complaining about things in the new wave. Nothing new.

Thank you all who missed me and asked after me. I got my first game in as long as I have been away last night and it was fun. Gods I am rusty.

So who wants to catch me up on whats going on? Still Doom and Gloom? Any interesting rules discussions? How are people taking wave 5 other than the typical "Its new. . . I don't like it" or the "Its ugly and doesn't make sense with my perception of the universe" arguments?

As for my game last night.

Word of warning, I did had right out the list so I am pretty sure it is fine but it was last second so I could of been off in points. Don't think I was.

Mission: Sensor Net (I was second)

MC80 Command Cruiser:

Commander Sato

Home One (which was not really needed it turns out)

Flight Commander

Reinforced Blast Doors

Boosted Comms

Fighter Coordination Teams

Pelta Command

Phoenix Home

Flight Commander

Ahsoka Tano

Boosted Comms

Fighter Coordination Teams

All Formations Follow Me (I never used it but if I had on Turn 6 it would of been the right move!)

Gr-75 Transport

Toryn Farr

Bomber Command Center

Bright Hope

Squadrons:

Lancer

Green Squadron (WONDERFUL!)

Ten Numb (Decent ability but you want to REALLY mix it up with him)

Nora Wexly (BEST PILOT AWARD GOES HERE!)

Jan Orrs

2x YT-1300 (does so much work!)

VCX-100 (This, FCT and Sensor Net is stupid. . . Stupid GOOD!)

I won by 5 points but we did not really see fighting till T4. I lost my MC80 on T6. . . Rapid Reload worked wonders. . . I did forget that I used a Brace so I took the 10 damage when it should of been just 5. . . bleh. Typical me. Got excited things were happening and forget the one thing that saves me > .<

End result was me getting 10 tokens to his 3, killing his 88 point Demolisher which is 238 for me, and him killing Home One, the Lancer and a YT-1300 (the other would have died if I had it attack the Decimator it was engaged with but I decided against it. Good thing, it lived) so 233 for him.

He had 3 Defenders, 2 Decimator's, a Light Cruiser with TRC's and Blast Doors, Vader on an ISD 2, with XI7's and something else, Demo with Rapid Reload and Ordnance Experts (we both had not played in months and he is a FAR newer player than I am so he forgot Engine Techs).

He liked to draw me out so I hung back doing silly things with Strategic and a Token. I later learned from Dras that Fighter Coordination is indeed a move and satisfies Strategic. . . which. . . WOW! For a Slow moving Fleet I can steal that token almost every activation as long as I had a VCX (or 2) and Fighter Coordination Team.

To being with: Armada is dead. And broken.

WIth that out of the way: welcome back!

So dead.

In other news:

SSD argument remains a point of contention. Half the forums say, no way it's too big, while the other half reply, sliding scale and the missing SMW20 SKU, and a bunch of artwork, etc. This will likely continue until FFG confirms or denies this will ever be part of the game.

With wave 5's release, people have begun anticipating wave 6. Current contenders include: Hammerhead Corvette, Imperial Light Carrier (Quasar Fire), ISD I, MC75, Dreadnaught Cruisers, AF MKI's.... and a bevy of other ships. Demand for new squadrons has gone down considerably.

Rogue One generated quite a bit of discussion with its Battle scene. Many consider a gold standard for Star Wars combat, and the ships entered many wish list. There was some negative feedback concerning paper ISD's and ramming tactics and their place in Armada, with a Dead Sea's worth of salt.

That's all for now. Welcome back, and you stay classy San Diego.

Well, personally I'm glad for your return. I can't wait for your viewpoint on the new wave. Personally, I hold a similar opinion to cninja that the new stuff has busted open the possibilities, in squads and ships.

The new stuff is very exciting. Good to see you're back, Lyr. Please ignore the massive piles of salt that seem to keep popping up lately.

Lyraeus back with Armada and Wave 5 and Corellian Conflict released barely before Christmas. Gee, maybe we DO have balance restored to the force

Good to see you back!

Welcome back Lyr!!! Fortunately for the community, Dras was doing is best to keep people calm and peacefull during your absence

Okay, you guys are making this a better Christmas day for me than I thought I would have. Thank you for all the welcomes. Seem it was the same boards that I left months ago. Except that Dras made the most popular thread

Lyr, I know it can be figured out, just don't like it. I want capital ship battles, and this now is a bunch of flotillas running around shepherding bombers. But it's what it is.

Lyr, I know it can be figured out, just don't like it. I want capital ship battles, and this now is a bunch of flotillas running around shepherding bombers. But it's what it is.

Then take some Light Cruisers, Vader and some Glads. Use those with Defenders, Soontir, etc. If they are taking more flotilla's then out play their game.