Yes, I know it's Thursday, but this was a better title!

So next poll for everyone: What's your favorite fleet point level? 200,400,600,1000/1200

I like some instances of the 200 fleets ala RitR, and all-out 1200 battles are so pretty, but I'm finding my sweet spot is 600 point fleets. That gives me a fun amount of ships plus upgrades (and occasional squadrons).

Wife and I are both teachers, so with the foreseeable extended school closures, we'll have plenty of different games/scenarios to try out.

Be well!

I love 700 total points, 150 max towards squadrons.

800pts

i can field a true armada instead of a taskforce at this size and higher lol

Full 1,200 points for me.

2 or 3 players on each team controlling a portion of the fleets is optimal, but not usually not feasible.

600/150 squadrons. Feels bigger, but still manageable.

All, the points.

I have played 800pts/200squads once, which was good but took hours and since I don't get to start setting up and playing until 8pm at the earliest I think we called it at the end of turn four at 1am. By that time his double MC80s were broken ruins and my fighters were finishing off the last of his fighter wing. It will be a day long remembered...

400 the way god intended it

600 is my preference

800 is the way Armada is meant to be played.



though every time I do 800 points it always feels like the game plays out on a 3x3 lol



Just mashing ships together.

That's a lot of HP there!

5 minutes ago, flatpackhamster said:

That's a lot of HP there!

Yes it was. I barely won this skirmish too.

With Thrawn as my commander I was able to heal and concentrate fire. Sacrificed the ISD to the left to sink the mc75 and soak shots from the left Hawk. That let the two ISDs on the right focus down the right Hawk. From there it was just a matter of fleeing the second Hawk. lol

800 is a gloriously fun time, especially because things WORK at that level that you can't pull off with a lower point cost. It's great for casual play or the occasional fun variant tournament.

400 is where the Meta is, and thus where the balance is baked in. It's the sweet spot for actual "for serious" tournaments.

Play 800 with the wife, you won't regret it. And try out some weird commanders with it. Some absolute trash at 400 points are gold at 800+. Looking at you Tarkin.

1 minute ago, BiggsIRL said:

Looking at you Tarkin.

Konstantine:

4 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

Konstantine:

Absolute trash to like sterling silver.

11 hours ago, BiggsIRL said:

Absolute trash to like sterling silver.

Too bad Entrapment Formation is pure diamond.

13 hours ago, BiggsIRL said:

800 is a gloriously fun time, especially because things WORK at that level that you can't pull off with a lower point cost. It's great for casual play or the occasional fun variant tournament.

400 is where the Meta is, and thus where the balance is baked in. It's the sweet spot for actual "for serious" tournaments.

Play 800 with the wife, you won't regret it. And try out some weird commanders with it. Some absolute trash at 400 points are gold at 800+. Looking at you Tarkin.

What if your wife/fiancee is still only 1.5 Star Wars movies in? She Someone fell asleep middle of Empire because of a stressful day. Asking for a friend. And said friend's fiancee doesn't want to play spaceships. Hypothetically, of course.

It seems to me that Imperials benefit from commanders who scale better at higher point values. Thrawn for example, and Tarkin.

7 hours ago, geek19 said:

What if your wife/fiancee is still only 1.5 Star Wars movies in? She Someone fell asleep middle of Empire because of a stressful day. Asking for a friend. And said friend's fiancee doesn't want to play spaceships. Hypothetically, of course.

I dunno. I've got a bad record with wives.

3 hours ago, flatpackhamster said:

It seems to me that Imperials benefit from commanders who scale better at higher point values. Thrawn for example, and Tarkin.

Ackbar, Garm, and to a lesser extent Sato and Leia all get better as the fleet gets bigger. And Rebels have access to a cheaper source of fleet commands in the Pelta (though at higher point values, Chimera or Cymoons become not quite the burden of an investment they might otherwise be).

I prefer 400, but I can dig 500 when my friend wants to do it.

11 minutes ago, BiggsIRL said:

Ackbar, Garm, and to a lesser extent Sato and Leia all get better as the fleet gets bigger. And Rebels have access to a cheaper source of fleet commands in the Pelta (though at higher point values, Chimera or Cymoons become not quite the burden of an investment they might otherwise be).

And Home One is pretty much a commander on its own.

Generally speaking, I think moar stuff is better up to the point where the game starts to degrade. In my experience, that sweet spot is right about 800.

800 points is definitely the sweet spot in my opinion if u plan on playing anything bigger then 400