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Star Wars Armada

Empire versus Rebel Alliance

Rebel Alliance versus Empire, a confrontation in a competitive miniatures tabletop game. Ship miniatures in relative sizes are used for the introductory practice scenario with pre-set fleets as well as for scenarios with player-designed fleets. In those scenarios you play six rounds, whereby each round comprises four phases:

Command phase – players assign Command Dials to their ships, you can assign more than one dial to a unit. Command options are Navigation, Squadron, Repair and Concentrate Fire.

Ship Phase – Players alternate turns in attacking with ships and moving ships

Squadron Phase – you move your squadrons OR attack with your squadrons.

Status phase – all defense markers are readied for playing again and the marker for initiative is flipped over to the other side.

Additional basic rules concern line of sight and blocked attacks, as well as obstacles like Asteroid Field, Debris Field and Space Station. In a full game players decide themselves which ships, squadrons and upgrades they will use to make up their fleet. Each fleet must contain a flag ship including its command card and also one mission target card for attack, defense and navigation. You can only spend up to one third of your total fleet points for squadrons.

You win instantly by destroying all opposing ships or, at the end of Round Six, with most points scored.

Tabletop specialists with a preference for Star Wars will love Armada, because Armada is more strategic and less dice-dependent then Star Wars X-Wings, albeit probably needing additional ships from expansions for satisfactory, long-term play as the core came has a limited number of ships.

Players: 2

Age: 14+

Time: 120+

Designer: James Knife, Christian T. Petersen

Artist: Christopher Hosch, Taylor Ingvarsson, Sam Shimota, Evan Simonet, Christopher Beck; Steve Kimball, Ben Zweifel

Price: ca. 100 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Miniatures, SciFi, Tabletop

Users: For experts

Special: 2 players

Version:  de

Rules: de en fr it pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Fantastic components

Complex rules

Good introductory scenario

For long-term game fun expansions will be necessary

Compares to:

Star Wars X Wing, other miniature tabletops

Other editions:

Edge Entertainment, Giochi Uniti, Galakta

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0