The old man in me remembers when games didn't need artificial replay through 'achievements' and were so good you actually wanted to play them again.
Mayday! Seal the Quarantine Breech! (Steel Squadron May Thread)
41 minutes ago, Darthain said:The old man in me remembers when games didn't need artificial replay through 'achievements' and were so good you actually wanted to play them again.
Memory is tricky like that, especially when you get old. 
Gotta give 'chevos to the young generation. We can't all make up our own Low A-Press Mario 64 runs.
On 01/05/2017 at 3:35 PM, Ginkapo said:630 at the moment, unless I get 100pts for the international vassal tournament....
Captain Ginkapo reporting for duty.
Better than me, I scrape 435.
seemingly I'll have to see to everything personally from now on.
❏ Fight for the Rebellion - Play a Tournament as Rebels (10 points)
❏ Fight for the Empire - Play a Tournament as Imperials (10 points)
❏ Finish What We Started - Complete a tournament without dropping (10 points)
❏ A Small Step into a Larger World - Compete in Store Championship (10 points)
❏ Local Governors Will Have Full Control - Compete in a Regional Championship (10 points)
❏ Battle of Atollon (Rebel) - With Sato as your Commander, ram an enemy Konstantine Flagship to death - (30 points)
❏ Battle of Atollon (Imperial) - During a Corellian Conflict base assault use an Interdictor to prevent at least one opposing ship from entering Hyperspace in Rounds 4 & 5 and destroy the rebel base - (30 points)
❏ Battle of Yavin (Imperial) - Using Tarkin, destroy every Rebel ship lead by Dodonna - (30 points)
❏ Fully Armed and Operational - Roll 11+ dice in a single attack - (10 Points)
❏ Made Some Good Investments - Destroy an enemy squadron using Cluster Bombs or Point Defense Reroute. - (10 points)
❏ Many Bothans Died - Look at the top dial of each enemy ship with Director Isard - (10 points)
❏ Punch It Chewie! - Change your ship’s speed by 3 in one activation - (5 points)
❏ Never Tell Me the Odds - Re-roll the same die 3+ times in a single attack - (5 points)
❏ “Little” Maneuver - Using just Lando, reduce the damage from an attack to 0 - (20 points)
❏ Powerful Enough to Stop Any Bombardment - Redirect 6+ damage from the same attack and take none to the hull - (10 Points)
❏ A Few Maneuvers - Have a ship use 6 clicks of Yaw in one activation - (5 points)
❏ Prepare for Impact! - Lose two ships by ramming them into one another - (10 points)
❏ Can’t Repel Firepower of That Magnitude - Lose an undamaged ship with 5+ hull in a single attack. - (10 points)
❏ Clumsy as He is Stupid - Unintentionally fly your flagship off the board. - (10 points)
❏ Well, THAT Was Pointless - Use MS-1 Ion Cannon’s Critical Effect to exhaust an upgrade card without an “Exhaust” effect - (10 points)
❏ 3720:1 - Reroll one die 2+ times and get a worse final result than your original - (10 points)
❏ Evacuate Now? In Our Moment of Triumph? - Lose a second ship immediately, because Motti’s Flagship was destroyed - (10 points)
❏ Alderaan Refugee - Place Last in a tournament without dropping - (10 points)
❏ Hyperlane Convoy - As Imperials, score 3+ Victory Tokens in a Hyperlane Raid - (20 points)
❏ You’re in Command Now, Admiral. - Win a Tournament while playing as Imperials - (30 points)
❏ Ben Kenobi? - Play a game against a new player - (20 points)
❏ Now I am the Master - Win a game against someone who has won a Regional or higher Championship - (30 points)
❏ War Games - Use a fleet you are not familiar with to help another player practice for a Tournament. - (20 points)
395.
Which isn't bad, considering how statistically abysmal I am, and thus, don't win games, or travel for games, or anything like that 
I wonder if we can think of TO achievements...
2 minutes ago, Ken-Obi said:I wonder if we can think of TO achievements...
Play against every opponent with a Bye, and win the tournament, had you entered with those wins. 40 pts
I think some unique squadron focused ones would be good to add as well.
And also:
It is Your Destiny: Travel 3+ hours to a tournament and be matched against someone you traveled with in the first round.
Edited by EggzavierI finally got around to redoing the "New to Armada" page so it is updated to the current era. Probably play around with it some more, and hopefully Shmitty and Truthiness will add their own spin on it. In the meantime, check it out, and hand the link out as a resource to new players!
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/p/welcome-to-armada-new-players-resource.html
Will Armada ever see Errata the way the Imperial Assault and X-Wing have?
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/will-ffg-get-out-its-nerf-bat.html
The Academy has been updated with new lessons!
In other words I linked everything that was posted since January.
Truthiness continues to post things without posting in this thread!
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/summer-vassal-tournament-pre-action.html
I wrote about all the content that Armada has gained from Star Wars: Rebels:
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/imperial-players-should-be-gratfeul-for.html
On 5/8/2017 at 4:09 PM, BiggsIRL said:Truthiness continues to post things without posting in this thread!
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/summer-vassal-tournament-pre-action.html
I'm just a Rebel like that, you Imperial stooge 
Introducing our first joint recurring segment: Truth(iness) vs. Logic. Shmitty and I decided to duke it over increasing the tournament standard to 500 points. Enjoy:
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/truthiness-vs-logic-500-point.html?m=1
5 hours ago, Truthiness said:Introducing our first joint recurring segment: Truth(iness) vs. Logic. Shmitty and I decided to duke it over increasing the tournament standard to 500 points. Enjoy:
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/truthiness-vs-logic-500-point.html?m=1
This may be the best idea that Steel Squadron ever had, and I'm not involved in any way!
... maybe that is why it is the best idea?
Ever have a moment where you realized a project you started 4 months ago hasn't been touched since?
To be fair, you've been kinda distracted 
I added a new page to the site compiling all of the tournament data collection in one place:
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/wave-5-upgrades-rapid-launch-bay.html#more
Also a blurb about the Authors is up.
3 minutes ago, BiggsIRL said:http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/wave-5-upgrades-rapid-launch-bay.html#more
Also a blurb about the Authors is up.
Ever since we got that e-mail confirmation on RLBs I've been building fleets like mad for them. Sadly, I'm having a hard time making the imperial version work..... I feel like the ISD I should sing with this upgrade, but I've yet to pin down how to make it truly work. Maybe the Quasar will fill the holes? lol Good read.
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/05/wave-5-upgrades-reinforced-blast-doors.html
More upgrade articles while I clear out the backlog of things I was supposed to do.
Edit: Next up, Fleet Command Upgrades!
Edited by BiggsIRLNot exactly a new article, but we're playing a fun* game in the off topic forum. Did you know we had an off topic forum? Anyways, we still need 4 more players.
*fun may or may not be actually had.
6 hours ago, BiggsIRL said:Not exactly a new article, but we're playing a fun* game in the off topic forum. Did you know we had an off topic forum? Anyways, we still need 4 more players.
*fun may or may not be actually had.
3 slots left! Join quick!