The timing of Worlds could not have come at a better time for me. While it's true I was incredibly frustrated by the announcement (mostly by the Q3 part of it), I had the perfect weekend planned to get my head on straight. Instead of spending my Saturday dissecting the results and getting even saltier about squadrons, I loaded onto a bus full of fans and got to watch Sporting KC dominate the soccer pitch. Beer flowed, smiles came easy, and my voice is hoarse from chanting and cheering. Little (as soon as the SSD drops, I won't be able to say little any more...) plastic ships were the last thing on my mind.

Sunday came, and spending the day on the couch nursing a hangover gives you plenty of time to think. Armada is my favorite "tactical miniatures combat" game, and it really isn't even close. It's not perfect, I have real issues with it. ...but, nothing is perfect. I *tried* to like 40k again when 8th edition came around, and it only took about 5 games for me to realize that wasn't going to stick. I had no qualms leaving the forums behind and packing up my army for another 4-5 years. I can't do that for Armada, it's just too good not to play. So I decided that it's time to make the best of things. I want to LOVE this game again.

I've been playing Imperials almost exclusively for about 2 years now. I've let myself get stuck in some familiar patterns, repeating what works competitively. Shaking things up seems the best way out of my current rut, so I'm letting Imperials take a back seat for 2019. Time to re-learn how Rebels work and start figuring out how I'm going to slaughter SSDs when they come around. My MC30s have gathered dust long enough!

I apologize for any frustration and annoyance I personally have caused. I promise I'll do my best to stay positive and trust FFG to treat us right. In return, if anyone has tips for how to deal with Pryce/MMJ with Rebels without resorting a full squad wing, I would love to hear them.

3 minutes ago, IronNerd said:

I apologize for any frustration and annoyance I personally have caused. I promise I'll do my best to stay positive and trust FFG to treat us right. In return, if anyone has tips for how to deal with Pryce/MMJ with Rebels without resorting a full squad wing, I would love to hear them.

Medium Squad Wing! They're extra armor for your ships the way "infantry riding on the tank" was extra armor for the tanks! My current favorite build is 3 Y's, 2 A's and Gold. The A's and Gold can tie down fighters, and the Y's need someone dedicated to locking them down, or they go off and start bombing things.

Two options for dealing with Pryce: Option 1: Stall. If she pops turn 2, get your ships to where no matter where she moves her ship Turn 2, Turn 3 is still a bad engagement. Option 2: Jump! Raddus is the best at this, but everyone is usually smarter than that these days. My current favorite trick is to park Admonition directly across from the ISD in deployment, then jump to a double arc at the end of Turn 1, letting me activate before his now forced to be last Turn 2 ship, unload a double arc, and run for the hills! (Hint, run away from the rest of your fleet, so he has to commit fighters in the wrong direction to take out Admonition, or allow 84+ points to fly away.

More proof football hooliganism is good for the soul!

Everybody has periods of high frustration with armada for a truly diverse set of reasons, and many of these will depend on where you are in your development as a player.

Since putting a lot of effort into a squadless Isd glad glad goz goz for euros last year iv been steering away from these ships during listbuilding and have greatly improved with what I was considering the 'lesser' imperial ships and squadrons.

Newfound affection for interdictors and arquittens especially.

I guess what I'm getting at is that if you do join the rebellion I won't be angry, just dissapointed 😃

That's awesome @IronNerd, and I hope you find that love again!

I, too, have come to a point of acceptance with the game after a nice first weekend of Spring. I've come to peace with the fact that Armada, as great of a game at its core as it is, just isn't for me anymore. It's really fun in a casual setting, but the local scene has gone tragically extinct despite a few last attempts by me and the one other remaining loyalist to resurrect it. For me, the game gets increasingly less fun in a competitive setting, and I don't say this with "salt" as someone who couldn't figure the competitive game out (had a solid run, including a Regional Championship and a handful of T4 finishes at things), but it's just a harder and harder thing to justify devoting an entire weekend towards.

I've come to peace that my gaming tastes have sufficiently changed, in that "it's not you, it's me Armada" sort of way, and that's okay. So I've listed up the last of my collection for sale, hopefully it gets a vibrant new gamer into the community. I had a lot of fun, met some cool people . Painted some beautiful squadrons. Conquered Corellia a few times, failed to prevent Corellia from being conquered a few times. Time now to paint a few X-Wing ships and dust off the half-finished gaming projects in the den, hah.


Anyways, so long and thanks for all the fish! I'm sure quite a few folks will be thankful for my departure, so hopefully my absence brings them and the community joy as well! Like Obi-Wan, I shall disappear into my robes for the good of the cause, hah.

May the Force be with you, always...

1 hour ago, IronNerd said:

The timing of Worlds could not have come at a better time for me. While it's true I was incredibly frustrated by the announcement (mostly by the Q3 part of it), I had the perfect weekend planned to get my head on straight. Instead of spending my Saturday dissecting the results and getting even saltier about squadrons, I loaded onto a bus full of fans and got to watch Sporting KC dominate the soccer pitch. Beer flowed, smiles came easy, and my voice is hoarse from chanting and cheering. Little (as soon as the SSD drops, I won't be able to say little any more...) plastic ships were the last thing on my mind.

Sunday came, and spending the day on the couch nursing a hangover gives you plenty of time to think. Armada is my favorite "tactical miniatures combat" game, and it really isn't even close. It's not perfect, I have real issues with it. ...but, nothing is perfect. I *tried* to like 40k again when 8th edition came around, and it only took about 5 games for me to realize that wasn't going to stick. I had no qualms leaving the forums behind and packing up my army for another 4-5 years. I can't do that for Armada, it's just too good not to play. So I decided that it's time to make the best of things. I want to LOVE this game again.

I've been playing Imperials almost exclusively for about 2 years now. I've let myself get stuck in some familiar patterns, repeating what works competitively. Shaking things up seems the best way out of my current rut, so I'm letting Imperials take a back seat for 2019. Time to re-learn how Rebels work and start figuring out how I'm going to slaughter SSDs when they come around. My MC30s have gathered dust long enough!

I apologize for any frustration and annoyance I personally have caused. I promise I'll do my best to stay positive and trust FFG to treat us right. In return, if anyone has tips for how to deal with Pryce/MMJ with Rebels without resorting a full squad wing, I would love to hear them.

Come find me on Discord and possibly Vassal if that's your thing. We're also more-or-less neighbors IRL (I believe we have met, did you bring RS bombers to a regional recently?), so I would happily attempt to talk the wife into letting me take a day trip out there and get some games on the table some weekend. Or vice-versa. I definitely have an interest in brainstorming good ways to counter heavy squads/Pryce with a low- or no-squadron rebel list.

21 minutes ago, rasproteus said:

Come find me on Discord and possibly Vassal if that's your thing. We're also more-or-less neighbors IRL (I believe we have met, did you bring RS bombers to a regional recently?), so I would happily attempt to talk the wife into letting me take a day trip out there and get some games on the table some weekend. Or vice-versa. I definitely have an interest in brainstorming good ways to counter heavy squads/Pryce with a low- or no-squadron rebel list.

I like to keep my video games and my tabletop games separate, personally. Currently hopelessly addicted to my manager career in FIFA, it's so rewarding turning a squad of hopeful youths into a juggernaut.

I'd love to get some games going though! I'm a local Omaha guy, and I did indeed bring RS Bombers to the recent Regional... unfortunately that experiment failed in spectacular fashion. I'm going to talk to the local shops, see if we can't put together some sort of fun event in the near future. Perhaps a team tournament or something with the new Sector Fleet rules? The local community certainly could use a shot in the arm.

10 minutes ago, IronNerd said:

I like to keep my video games and my tabletop games separate, personally. Currently hopelessly addicted to my manager career in FIFA, it's so rewarding turning a squad of hopeful youths into a juggernaut.

I'd love to get some games going though! I'm a local Omaha guy, and I did indeed bring RS Bombers to the recent Regional... unfortunately that experiment failed in spectacular fashion. I'm going to talk to the local shops, see if we can't put together some sort of fun event in the near future. Perhaps a team tournament or something with the new Sector Fleet rules? The local community certainly could use a shot in the arm.

We didn't play each other that day, but I was the guy telling you about my own experiment with that archetype. I'm from the Des Moines area, but both our communities seem rather small at the moment. The distance is too far to do something weekly, but I'm sure every month or two would work just fine.

I've found playing 'atmospheric' games have been fun casual matches recently. I plan trying to organize a planetary assault match here soon. The idea is to start with blockade run with armed stations, then an atmospheric landing with a planetary ion cannon firing between rock spires at ships.

The entire time, attackers need to move troop transports to the designated zone. Ships carry over from the blockade run to the assault.

Should be interesting. Just gotta get people in. I think Armada plays very well when its not in an entirely competive setting.

On 4/1/2019 at 11:40 AM, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

So I've listed up the last of my collection for sale, hopefully it gets a vibrant new gamer into the community.

PM the link?

1 hour ago, Darth Sanguis said:

PM the link?

Already SOLD, but thanks for the interest!

I just sold it through the statewide Armada group to avoid the nightmare of having to ship everything. I'd much rather drive the two-hour round trip than have to pack-and-wrap everything and charge the otherwise prohibitive amount of shipping that would be required for that much cardboard and the PLANOs.


Guy who bought it already has a sizable collection, so not sure it'll grow the Armada community +1. Apparently he's always been envious of my repaints and the painted squadrons, so at least they'll still get to enjoy table-time!