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http://new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_ ... ?eidn=4979

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Well, I called this one in the X-Wing thread.

FFG just announced Star Wars: Armada, a fleet scale miniature game for Star Wars.

Sadly, it looks like the game isn't true to scale, and uses relative scale, but it still looks great all the same.
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oh no. And Armada "core set" probably means expansions which means $$$.
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With the X-Wing game printing money for them, yeah, this is gonna be a minis system.

Unfortunately for me, this is more interesting to me than the smaller scale game. I like slower cap ship combat more appealing than dogfights, and I like the big ships.

There's no way I can let myself buy in though. It'll just wind up being WAY too expensive for how little I'll get to play. I'll probably pick up the Executor whenever it winds up releasing, though.
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Probably no money in it for FFG but I would love this game set in the Babylon 5 universe. Quite a bit more ship variety.
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Very torn. On one hand, you can recreate Battle of Endor. Awesome!! But I don't know that scale will play well.

The deciding factor will be whether the level of miniature detail rivals the fantastic X-Wing models. If FFG cuts corners, I might be able to resist.
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I just bought into X-Wing Miniatures (I couldn't deny my kids, right?), but this scale doesn't really grab me. Maybe it's because we never really see starship combat in Star Wars except as a background to fighter combat.

Also, seeing the Blockade Runner at that size alongside a Star Destroyer just makes my head hurt.
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Yeah, those scales are completely out of whack.
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Well, you do need to be able to see the ships. Either you have star destroyers and fighters that are tiny specks, or giant star destroyers. I'm okay with wonky scales since there's really no good way to do it with physical minis.
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That Star Destroyer is Victory class, smaller than the Imperial class we see with the Corvette at the start of Episode IV:

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It does sound like they're going to fudge with scale moreso than X-Wing, though.

My biggest disappointment with this game is that the fighters are unpainted. I stink at miniature painting and a big part of the appeal of X-Wing Miniatures was that they all come painted.
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Problem is you can't do star destroyers to scale on the table, they are just too huge. With that in mind I am ok with it being a little off. I love that x-wing is largely to scale, but the scale in attack wing doesn't break it for me so I am sure I would be fine with a wonky scale here (to a reasonable degree).

Having just learned that the fighters are unpainted I am disappointed in that. I mean even attack wing managed to paint their fighters, and seriously that game is wonky on painting. Poor form FFG, I wish they would realize what makes the game just that much better and paint them.

I'm very interested in the new options this will bring to the table for x-wing style games. I can tell it won't replace X-wing, but I can also tell that it will have a place in my collection.
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The fighters may be either too small to paint or don't have much detail.
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It should be pretty simple to do a quick basecoat and drybrush the fighters if you want, which is probably good enough at that tiny scale.

I just got to read the full linked article, and I like a lot of what they're doing. The clicky movement snake thing is clever. I dig that the big ships get actions queued up in a stack like in Starcraft. It looks like they're using dials to keep track of ship states across the board, so bookkeeping shouldn't be OMG TOKENS, which is good.

I dunno, I'm still interested.

Though I'm a lot less interested now that I noticed the MSRP is $100. Ouch.
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Chaz wrote: Though I'm a lot less interested now that I noticed the MSRP is $100. Ouch.
Someone elsewhere said that the X-Wing Core Set started out at $100 MSRP and then quickly got cheaper in stores.
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wonderpug wrote:
Chaz wrote: Though I'm a lot less interested now that I noticed the MSRP is $100. Ouch.
Someone elsewhere said that the X-Wing Core Set started out at $100 MSRP and then quickly got cheaper in stores.
I don't think that's true. I jumped in day one pretty much and msrp was 40.
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$100 is a bit too rich for me at the moment. But I suspect that it will go on sale someday.
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