Let's talk about Leia the Commander

By Maturin, in Star Wars: Armada

10 minutes ago, Kerg12 said:

There's one thing I think we've all forgot about from a long long time ago that Leia kind of resurrects. Bear with me people. So with Leia you cant use tokens, but you can use them still to change your commands. Who does this you may ask the LIAISONS DO! Back from the good ol' core set. Instead of the expensive captains, use leia with the liaisons to use the token to switch commands, and remember they're 2 command switchers so defensive is nav and engineering, and weapons is squads and CF. LEIA HAS MY VOTE!

- Shout out to dras for encouraging this style of typing. I love it!

As Nobody in Particular reminds us I pointed that out yesterday. :D

Just now, Frimmel said:

As Nobody in Particular reminds us I pointed that out yesterday. :D

I didn't have the time to read through everything, there's so much going on in the forums right now its hard to keep up while at work :D

Just think of my post as reminding the community of our great idea :lol:

3 minutes ago, Kerg12 said:

I didn't have the time to read through everything, there's so much going on in the forums right now its hard to keep up while at work :D

Just think of my post as reminding the community of our great idea :lol:

If you can't keep up with the forums while at work you now have a really good reason to increase your efficiency and ability to push your work off on your co-workers.

22 minutes ago, Frimmel said:

If you can't keep up with the forums while at work you now have a really good reason to increase your efficiency and ability to push your work off on your co-workers.

If only I could, I'm always the one getting worked pushed onto me. The engineer life is a busy one, but I'll always have time for armada

Edited by Kerg12
13 minutes ago, Kerg12 said:

If only I could, I'm always the one getting worked pushed onto me. The engineer life is a busy one, but I'll always have for armada

As a fellow engineer, I sympathize. Now back to running up my phone's data plan!

Guys, as an engineer I have no sympathy. If you cant delegate you will never progress. Honestly, it regularly feels like you are the only one capable of completing a task, but thats just cause you havent trained them yet. Job gets done, they get new skills, you get to read the forums. Win win.

3 hours ago, Undeadguy said:

Motti!!

Motti only benefits you on the turn the ship would gave died....

2 minutes ago, Ginkapo said:

Motti only benefits you on the turn the ship would gave died....

Well I never thought of it like that...

Unless you consider you change your play style based on the knowledge that you have extra hull so you can be more aggressive. But that's not a direct benefit of Motti, more a result of him.

21 hours ago, Ginkapo said:

Deployment starts with obstacle placement. If asteroids are in the way you mucked up.

Get good.

Asteroids are not usually my problem.

Usually it's the squadrons that i only just put there.

Running over B-Wings pre FC/FCT days meant they were out of the fight for a whole extra turn or two.

On 3/15/2017 at 0:41 PM, DUR said:

I was under the impression that "resolve" meant spending token + dial as one thing? As in, you don't resolve navigate twice when you token + dial. This is why you can't CF where you add a die, then reroll on another attack, as this all must occur on the same "resolution?"

This is how I understand her ability as well... anybody know for sure?

I read it as you get the token and command dial effect together, no matter the command, but cannot spend any tokens if you do that.

Is that correct?

If so, the first time I leave home with Leia as commander will be the first time I leave Raymus Antilles behind to guard the base!

55 minutes ago, D503 said:

I read it as you get the token and command dial effect together, no matter the command, but cannot spend any tokens if you do that.

Is that correct?

If so, the first time I leave home with Leia as commander will be the first time I leave Raymus Antilles behind to guard the base!

No you won't.

You want Leia commanding your fleet from a transport with Antilles and EH and coms net.

1. Activate the transport and reveal a squadron command.

2. Get the token with Antilles.

3. Spend the dial with Leia to activate up to 4 squadrons.

4. Send the token to your Hammerhead/Mark

5. Activate the Hammerhead/Mark and spend the token to board something and then resolve whatever command you have with Leia like, why not?, CF.

Edited by ovinomanc3r
2 minutes ago, ovinomanc3r said:

No you won't.

You want Leia commanding your fleet from a transport with Antilles and EH and coms net.

1. Activate the transport and reveal a squadron command.

2. Get the token with Antilles.

3. Spend the dial with Leia to activate up to 4 squadrons.

4. Send the token to your Hammerhead/Mark

5. Activate the Hammerhead/Mark and spend the token to board something and then resolve whatever command you have with Leia like, why not?, CF.

What will the hammerhead do with the token it cant use? As it to will be using Leia's ability.

1 minute ago, ovinomanc3r said:

No you won't.

You want Leia commanding your fleet from a transport with Antilles and EH and coms net.

1. Actuvate the transport and reveal a squadron command.

2. Get the token with Antilles.

3. Slend the dial with Leia to activate up to 4 squadrons.

4. Send the token to your Hammerhead/Mark

5. Activate the Hammerhead/Mark and spend the token to board something and then resolve whatever command you have with Leia like, why not?, CF.

Sure that works, but that's 9 points to trigger an upgrade that can only be used once per game, when you could just as easily just bank a squadron token on the first round with the Hammerhead.

However, Raymus is probably worth taking on a Pelta in a Leia fleet.

8 minutes ago, Ginkapo said:

What will the hammerhead do with the token it cant use? As it to will be using Leia's ability.

It use it to trigger boradig trooper for example.

10 minutes ago, Lochlan said:

Sure that works, but that's 9 points to trigger an upgrade that can only be used once per game, when you could just as easily just bank a squadron token on the first round with the Hammerhead.

However, Raymus is probably worth taking on a Pelta in a Leia fleet.

Yes only 1 use. It just an example. I fact you will want the token when you didn't need Leia but you need flexibility who knows.

But yes the Pelta seems to be the best place for him or some 1 command ship in a Pelta fleet. It will depend on what command you need to resolve with the Pelta and what token you will need to resolve to trigger your fleet command upgrade.

Edited by ovinomanc3r

How does Leia work if you already have a token of the command dial you reveal?

For example, you reveal a squad command and already have a squad token.

I can definitely see use for the Liaisons with Leia and that's quite cool at the very least. :)

1 minute ago, Jambo75 said:

How does Leia work if you already have a token of the command dial you reveal?

For example, you reveal a squad command and already have a squad token.

I can definitely see use for the Liaisons with Leia and that's quite cool at the very least. :)

You can keep the token and use her effect, but can't spend it to add to the effect.