I'm a long-time X-Wing player who's always been interested in Armada. I've played the occasional pick-up game of Armada, and a friend loaned me the pieces to put a fleet together for a tourney two weeks back.
Just today, I bought the Armada core set. I figured I'd take the plunge. And so far, it's been a lot of fun.
There's been a lot of threads on here lately about how Armada is dying, I thought I'd inject a little positivity here.
Welcome
shame you for now got to see mostly this negativity, but soon enough the negative people get over it or leave, but the positive prevail!
Congratulations, welcome on board.
Where are you based? This is a social game, you need to find a group!
Don't mind us. Legion has just made us all a wee bit unstable.
Aaah a new convert, welcome!
I also just started, welcome!
9 minutes ago, TheCallum said:Where are you based? This is a social game, you need to find a group!
I'm in Vancouver Canada. We have a strong X-Wing scene here, and there's a decent group of guys who also play Armada.
If you're a local, we play at Ages 3 and Up in Burnaby.
34 minutes ago, MortalPlague said:Just today , I bought the Armada core set. ..... And so far , it's been a lot of fun.
I can see how
59 minutes ago, MortalPlague said:I'm a long-time X-Wing player who's always been interested in Armada. I've played the occasional pick-up game of Armada, and a friend loaned me the pieces to put a fleet together for a tourney two weeks back.
Just today, I bought the Armada core set. I figured I'd take the plunge. And so far, it's been a lot of fun.
There's been a lot of threads on here lately about how Armada is dying, I thought I'd inject a little positivity here.
90% of this boring „is dead“ is from the core community itself, not meaning it that way. kind of running joke, no worries.
Concratulations on starting such a great, dead game!
Seriously, Armada is fun. I am just about to grab up some of the new ships after being away for awhile, and I really like playing it versus the surprisingly small number of fleet-scale space games out there.
Congratuwelldone.
as for the joke consider this:
Edited by Geressen
Welcome!
Sorry about the mess..
So what had happened was:
Armada is a great game. Welcome!
However, here are some issues that many other folks have:
- It has been rolled out slowly (7 waves in three years now). This infuriates (I'm not kidding the rage has been real sometimes) gamers that expect FFG to pump out stuff like tic-tacs. It has also led to a slow but steadily growing game that is actually fairly balanced. (ARMADA is the fine scotch that you sip and hold your nose up while looking down at other games
)
- The flotilla is the most hated little ship on this side of the galaxy. We're anxiously awaiting a rumored FAQ that will hit it hard.
- FFG until recently hasn't really given us much promo material. That has actually changed and over the last three months we have had several articles. (If you can realize that Armada will not ever be a huge money game for FFG, and that they will always try to promote Destiny, Legion, etc over it, you'll be fine.)
These three issues will spawn an incredible amount threads. The faithful will respond with "Armada is Dead" as our war cry.
So here are some amazing things about the game:
- The game is solid, and you can play just about anything you want and have fun. At Wave 7, the stock of stuff is really great.
-You'll not find a more hilarious and cool crowd (minus maybe those that persist with the above.) I'd say out of all of the tourneys I've played, I can count maybe one dude that was a problem. Even then, he wasn't that bad. (This is not what I hear about other games).
-The game has incredible potential. Hopefully we see a revamped campaign that takes this potential forward.
ARMADA is dead. Long live ARMADA.
A lot of us are ex xwingers, promise we're mostly joyfully bemoaning our lack of news, it's pretty standard for the community to become whiny a couple months after a release. We should get news in the next month or so and we'll be all sparkles and rainbows for a couple months after that
Welcome, Armada is a fantastic game. Just know we're on a vastly slower release timetable than xwing, and news in general.
8 hours ago, Lord Tareq said:I can see how
What, the core set
isn't
everything I need to play?
When I count my experience so far, I'm counting the tournament I played in as well. All in all, lots of fun was had.
I'm used to some of FFG's antics from X-Wing (which I still play a great deal). A slower release schedule can definitely be a plus; there are times I wish FFG would adopt that for X-Wing too. But yeah, I can't wait to field a Star Destroyer or two and throw fistfuls of dice.
1 hour ago, dominosfleet said:A lot of us are ex xwingers, promise we're mostly joyfully bemoaning our lack of news, it's pretty standard for the community to become whiny a couple months after a release. We should get news in the next month or so and we'll be all sparkles and rainbows for a couple months after that
The greatest thing is some of the most heated discussions in here have not been Armada related.
18 minutes ago, Cusm said:The greatest thing is some of the most heated discussions in here have not been Armada related.
#Squidsquad
9 minutes ago, The Jabbawookie said:#Squidsquad
#ShrimpSquad
#OP30
5 hours ago, dominosfleet said:A lot of us are ex xwingers
there was an oppertunity to invent the term ex-wingers and you missed it! WHY DID YOU DO THIS?
People who used to be Jeff Winger?
##vote Ginkapo
54 minutes ago, LTD said:People who used to be Jeff Winger?
Annnnnmnnd you just became the hero we all deserve. Well done.
1 hour ago, LTD said:People who used to be Jeff Winger?
