A little overpowered, I'll admit. These are probably better suited to campaign or scenario play. Because Armada's current implementation of boarding always automatically succeeds, it makes it hard to fit in super-powerful effects. What do you guys think?

6 minutes ago, bleezy said:

A little overpowered, I'll admit.

Darth Vader's is cool but at that cost it should only temporarily exhaust those upgrades. If you want the current effect that card needs to be a lot more expensive at least sixteen.

Heroes of the Rebellion needs to be at least ten.

I love the idea, but am not sure they'd work in day-to-day play - they're too powerful at their current costing, but the price they'd require would be prohibitive to taking them. Perhaps they might form part of a future campaign? A one off card, or one particular to a type of mission, one where you have to board an opposition ship? Dunno, just thinking aloud.

Heres another question in regards to rules. Could you run the upgrade and have the hero present as a leader or squadron?

9 minutes ago, Forresto said:

Heres another question in regards to rules. Could you run the upgrade and have the hero present as a leader or squadron?

No

The capacity for an ISD to just remove and enemy commander with no caveats is too much.

Removing the the other three upgrades still seems too much. Maybe just the option to remove any one of the Officer/Gunnery/Support slots.

Also Heroes of the rebellion works only on Hammerheads and AFmk2s. You might want to make it more Rebel-wide.

Frankly, I would like a saboteurs upgrade that removes a single non-title upgrade from an opponent's ship

At some point we'll probably see stormtrooper and rebel infiltrator boarding party cards.

The boarding card idea which popped into my head is:

Many Bothans Died...

Has the usual spend dial/token and card for putting an objective token on target ship within close range. All friendly ships now count as having an accuracy when firing upon target ship.

Something along those lines, where it makes the target an easier, well, target, for an appropriate amount of points. It just happens to be a line of Mon Mothma's that always gets a giggle from me.

Perhaps though I am just pro Bothan murder.

Well for Darth Vader Officer card he can work just like a boarding party. I don't think you need the team slot. I am not exactly sure how Heroes of the Rebellion is unique? Is it supposed to be a persona of Luke, Han or Leia, or all three? I think an officer upgrade would be better. Leia already has one so she is out of the picture.

However we still have yet to see if boarding cards are any good? Unless you have seen them proxied or on Vassal there is no way of telling will they be the new meta, or a lot like proton torpedoes when X-wing first arrive?

Actually I though Charm could do something like your Vader. Not the commander and probably not more than one upgrade but close.

For a Vader boarding party card - which is now a must in my book - I like something with an on-going effect to simulate Vader's unstoppable assault as he chews through the target ship's crew:

Large Ship Only

When you reveal a command, you may discard a CF dial or token to choose 1 enemy ship at close range and attach Darth Vader to that ship. Whenever the ship with Darth Vader attached activates, draw damage cards until you reveal a card with the crew trait and assign it to that ship face-up.

8 points

make it a combo officer/offensive upgrade and I think it works better. Or officer hard hat team.

1 hour ago, Yipe said:

For a Vader boarding party card - which is now a must in my book - I like something with an on-going effect to simulate Vader's unstoppable assault as he chews through the target ship's crew:

Large Ship Only

When you reveal a command, you may discard a CF dial or token to choose 1 enemy ship at close range and attach Darth Vader to that ship. Whenever the ship with Darth Vader attached activates, draw damage cards until you reveal a card with the crew trait and assign it to that ship face-up.

8 points

That's an awesome idea. I think that's balanced enough for a standard tournament game. I made card for your version.

4 hours ago, Marinealver said:

Well for Darth Vader Officer card he can work just like a boarding party. I don't think you need the team slot. I am not exactly sure how Heroes of the Rebellion is unique? Is it supposed to be a persona of Luke, Han or Leia, or all three? I think an officer upgrade would be better. Leia already has one so she is out of the picture.

However we still have yet to see if boarding cards are any good? Unless you have seen them proxied or on Vassal there is no way of telling will they be the new meta, or a lot like proton torpedoes when X-wing first arrive?

I was just thinking there should be card to represent the movie heroes. It could Luke, Leia, Ben Kenobi, Han, Chewie, Lando, or any combination. That way you could use it even if Luke or Han were in a squadron for that game.

3 minutes ago, bleezy said:

I was just thinking there should be card to represent the movie heroes. It could Luke, Leia, Ben Kenobi, Han, Chewie, Lando, or any combination. That way you could use it even if Luke or Han were in a squadron for that game.

Give it time, I will say it is funny that every ship has only one officer slot, they should have called it a captains slot instead.

As for Vader yeah Rogue One made it so that he should be a boarding card that just does death to baby rebel seals.

25 minutes ago, bleezy said:

That's an awesome idea. I think that's balanced enough for a standard tournament game. I made card for your version.

Thanks for doing that! Glad you liked the card idea, though I'm partial to this art myself due to the now spoiled Rogue One scene:

One thing I just realized, Leia claims tells Darth Vader she is in a diplomatic mission to alderaan, and implies she is not in the rebellion, alhtough the officer at the end of rogue one has a rebel rank insignia and all the soldiers in ship have rebel outfits, isn't it kind of a stupid move to have rebel soldiers on the ship and claim not to be one?

3 hours ago, Visovics said:

One thing I just realized, Leia claims tells Darth Vader she is in a diplomatic mission to alderaan, and implies she is not in the rebellion, alhtough the officer at the end of rogue one has a rebel rank insignia and all the soldiers in ship have rebel outfits, isn't it kind of a stupid move to have rebel soldiers on the ship and claim not to be one?

Maybe they're trying to pass them off as hired help?

Also in the ANH book it is clearly stated that the plans were relayed to Tantive IV from a different location. Hence Antilles could play innocent as they weren't present at the engagement. Of course minor things like this never concerned Disney...

5 hours ago, Visovics said:

One thing I just realized, Leia claims tells Darth Vader she is in a diplomatic mission to alderaan, and implies she is not in the rebellion, alhtough the officer at the end of rogue one has a rebel rank insignia and all the soldiers in ship have rebel outfits, isn't it kind of a stupid move to have rebel soldiers on the ship and claim not to be one?

I guess the rebels could be using some sort of generic insignia that was later appropriated by the rebels?

In terms of different card types perhaps it could be a rising scale eg: Imperial navy troopers-stormtroopers-dark troopers, that progress upwards in terms of cost & effect

Heroes of the rebellion: When you reveal a command, you may discard a CF dial or token to choose 1 enemy ship at close range and attach the heroes to that ship. Whenever the ship with them attached activates, remove half that ships remaining shields round up, due to having a reactor shout down.

I would also like to see something that half's attack dice or only makes Hit symbols count.