Hi Armada Community, thanks for your patience. Apologies for the slight delay - our webmaster is in limbo due to international airline woes, but we'll still get the ACE update out today! In the meantime please enjoy this article about...PDIC, and why we changed it the way we did. https://www.armadarulesetcollective.com/news/ionized-point-defense-cannonning-and-mathemating-EaOZkN

(corrected a silly typo after a loong time!)

So, the campaign in the Corellian Sector is moving along—we’re on the third turn. When I attacked Xquine II for the Alliance, the enemy team responded with an SSD. The match is tomorrow; I’m posting the lists here in case you want to place your bets. I’ll be choosing Infested Fields.

- Flare Squadron 500 points.

MC80 Star Cruiser (96)

• Admiral Raddus (26)

• Damage Control Officer (3)

• Weapons Battery Techs (4)

• Engine Techs (8)

• Heavy Ion Emplacements (9)

• XX-9 Turbolasers (2)

• H9 Turbolasers (8)

• Endeavor (4)

= 161 Points

MC75 Ordnance Cruiser (95)

• Intel Officer (7)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• Hardened Bulkheads (5)

• Electronic Countermeasures (7)

• Expanded Launchers (8)

• Assault Concussion Missiles (5)

• Profundity (7)

= 138 Points

Hammerhead Torpedo Corvette (36)

• Hondo Ohnaka (2)

• Jyn Erso (4)

• Assault Concussion Missiles (5)

• Garel's Honor (4)

= 51 Points

GR-75 Medium Transports (18)

• General Draven (3)

• Comms Net (2)

• Expanded Hangar Bay (5)

= 28 Points

GR-75 Medium Transports (18)

• Comms Net (2)

= 20 Points

Squadrons:

• Biggs Darklighter - X-wing Squadron (19)

• Jan Ors - Moldy Crow (19)

• Han Solo - Millennium Falcon (26)

• 3 x X-wing Squadron (39)

= 103 Points

Ordos et Pax 475 points

Assault: Advanced Gunnery

Defense: Asteroid Tactics

Navigation: Infested Fields

Star Dreadnought Assault Prototype (250)

• Moff Jerjerrod (23)

• Emperor Palpatine (3)

• Captain Brunson (9)

• Director Krennic (8)

• Leading Shots (5)

• Heavy Ion Emplacements (9)

• Spinal Armament (9)

• XI7 Turbolasers (6)

• Ravager (6)

= 322 Points

Gozanti-class Cruisers (23)

• Repair Crews (3)

= 26 Points

Gozanti-class Cruisers (23)

• Repair Crews (3)

= 26 Points

Gozanti-class Cruisers (23)

• Comms Net (2)

= 25 Points

Squadrons:

• Gar Saxon - Mandalorian Gauntlet Fighter (20)

• Whisper - TIE Phantom Squadron (18)

• 2 x TIE Defender Squadron (32)

= 70 Points

Dive into the full changelog for Armada Community Edition at: https://www.armada.community/news/community-edition-changelog-SVaYX4

Objective changes are coming with ARC03 the Community Edition launch, which is less than two weeks away! Find out more at: https://www.armadarulesetcollective.com/news/community-edition-objective-changes-FsjFo1

(yes this is an Armada Community Edition announcement - we'll work on getting new release terminology in place in the next few months.)

Nick takes us through a few of the changes to lesser used Upgrade Cards coming with Armada Community Edition on Monday, Aug. 3rd.

The ultra-short summary:

Nav Teams: don't need to spend a token to use it (but has a refresh cost instead).

Slaved Turrets: plays better in conjunction with Salvo.

Damage Control Officer: bonus damage reduction!

Read the full article at: https://www.armadarulesetcollective.com/news/community-edition-upgrade-changes-nWQmIx

I've been trying to make an SSD squad list for a bit, and I wanted to request some feedback on the latest iteration I've attempted

Assault: Advanced Gunnery

Defense: Contested Outpost

Navigation: Solar Corona

Star Dreadnought Command Prototype (220)

• Moff Jerjerrod (23)

• Captain Needa (2)

• Commander Vanto (7)

• Taskmaster Grint (5)

• Flight Controllers (6)

• All Fighters, Follow Me! (5)

• Take Evasive Action! (6)

• Boosted Comms (4)

• Leading Shots (5)

• Quad Turbolaser Cannons (10)

• Executor (2)

= 295 Points

Squadrons:

• Maarek Stele - TIE Defender Squadron (21)

• Whisper - TIE Phantom Squadron (18)

• 2 x TIE Phantom Squadron (28)

• 2 x TIE Defender Squadron (32)

= 99 Points

Total Points: 394

Largest limiter is the SSD only being one ship. I can only crew a maximum of 6 squads with Grint (7 if I don't activate All Fighters Follow Me) which is why I favor the Phantoms, which can use cloak to dart out of danger, and also push further with speed 5 and then cloak back to the SSD's long range if they extend too far. And Defenders do decently against ships and squads.

Any advice on either the squad list, or the SSD itself, is welcome and appreciated.

Republic fleets currently feel somewhat pigeonholed into a handful of dominant archetypes, specifically high-activation Anakin/Obi-Wan builds and the ubiquitous Bail or Yularen squadron lists. While we see plenty of Consulars, Peltas, and Venator IIs, other options have struggled to find their footing. Between these adjustments and the Arquitens tweaks from yesterday, the goal is to provide enough breathing room for players to explore more diverse and experimental fleet compositions.

Here are some highlights:

Acclamator II: 71 → 67 A big drop. Compared to the Munificent it has worse arcs, worse shields, and worse maneuverability, but it does get access to some interesting Republic tech. This was the least-used Republic ship at Adepticon and across tournaments this year and this buff is pretty significant.

Venator I: 90 → 86 Obi-Wan high activation Dedrick fleets aside, I think almost everyone agrees this one can come down. The gap between the Ven I and Ven II just isn't wide enough to justify the Ven I's downsides, and we'd like to see it show up outside of those builds.

Tarkin: 30 → 26 Tarkin is good, but costing more than Bail pushes him out of contention in a lot of fleets; at the time of writing he's the least popular GAR admiral in listbuilding and tournament data (he and Luminara keep swapping places). This won't make him too strong, but it makes him a real alternative to Bail.

Plo Koon: 26 → 24 Plo is awesome, he’s a great admiral with a solid effect but it's very much a "win more" effect, and Yularen outpaces him as the squad-commanding admiral in most cases. Peltas being as good as they are hasn't helped. Two points puts him on par with Yularen. I expect a Plo renaissance regardless; he and Anakin were trading places for the most-built GAR commander before the run-up to Worlds, and there's untapped potential there.

Barriss Offee: 6 → 3 Barriss can do good work, but she doesn't combo well with the faction's other defensive tools (Tranquility, Lumi, Adi, etc.). Three points opens her up on cheaper smalls, where shifting the defending hull zone can be the difference between a dead small ship and getting away on 1-2 hull.

There's more coming: a few other ships, some squadron tweaks, and more smaller changes. Check them all out in the Armada Community Edition release on Aug. 3rd!

https://www.armadarulesetcollective.com/news/community-edition-gar-update-6Miu2e

Hey all, I was looking to get into the game and like a fool I didn’t investigate anything before picking up ships. I’m not the proud owner of:

2 Nebulon b Frigates (Imperial and Rebel)

A gladiator Star destroyer

A pursuit class light cruiser

2 FarStar MC90 refits

A victory class star destroyer

An imperial dreadnaught

A Rebel Assault Frigate Mk 1 type 7

With these motley ships is there a faction that I can play. I realize that they is a mix of empire and rebel here, maybe I have just two small fleets?

How long does it take to get an account for Ryan Kingston fleet builder. I donated 4 days ago but didn't receive anything. Sent an email, no response...

After removing the new Nexus flak cannons from my list the other week, I had a mate of mine use the Precision Turbolaser Turrets on his ISDs. The 3 points upgrade completely murders MSU lists. Even side arcs are far more dangerous to low health ships such as CR90s.

If it were small/medium only, at least the number of total dice in an attack wouldn't be naff.

Anyway, small rant. I need to learn to fly better and expect the unexpected, I know. I'm sure someone will find a way to turn this into my fault, this being Reddit and all.

I’d like to ask for opinions and suggestions regarding this fleet, which I’ll be using in my first campaign in the Corellian Sector.

Flare Squadron (399 points)

MC80 Star Cruiser (128)

- Admiral Raddus

- Mon Karren

MC75 Armored Cruiser (107)

- Profundity

Hammerhead Torpedo Corvette (40)

- Honor of Garel

GR-75 Transports (26)

- Bomber Command Center

GR-75 Transports (21)

- Leia Organa

Squadrons (77)

Biggs Darklighter 19

Jan Ors 19

X-Wing (3) 39

Objectives

- Most Wanted.

- Contested Outpost.

- Solar Corona.

I've been watching allot of YouTube videos on armada and am considering playing I have atleast a partial idea of an empire list in mind.

The first ship would be the flagship as a quaser 2 with 2 arquentence and I think one or two gozanti support flotillas along with a mix of tie interceptors, bombers, and regular tie fighters. Since I've never played before I'm unsure what upgrades and commander or even objectives that would work well for it outside of flight controllers and bomber command center and was wondering if anyone had suggestions

What it says on the tin

Changed boosted Comms for rapid launch bay though

My brothers and I are looking to get into Armada. Can you guys give some starter lists for Republic and Separatists that we can use to learn the game?

The Community Edition launch also covers some squadron changes. Here's some insight into one of the keyword adjustments, as well as a couple of fun tweaks to rarely seen squadrons: https://www.armadarulesetcollective.com/news/community-edition-squadron-changes-Zc4mMS

I'm trying to build a thematic thrawn list like the fleet he has when invading the rebel base in the rebels show and would like some suggestions of ships/squadrons I should add

While I've been playing Armada for years I play so infrequently that I'm basically a new player. I also mostly play Empire and so I'm struggling with getting Rebels to work.

I've built what I thought was a solid Ackbar MC80 fleet for some friendly games at my local store but it keeps getting picked apart. The MC80 gets focused down and I can't seem to deal enough damage early blast anything away. Maybe it's because my games with this fleet have been up against Motti ISD heavy fleets.

It could also be that I'm terrible with positioning and I'm just flying it wrong. Anyway, here is the fleet let me know what you think!

MC80 Assault Cruiser (110) • Admiral Ackbar (38) • Electronic Countermeasures (7) • Leading Shots (5) • H9 Turbolasers (8) • Home One (5) = 173 Points

Assault Frigate Mark II B (72) • Caitken and Shollan (6) • Electronic Countermeasures (7) • XI7 Turbolasers (6) = 91 Points

CR90 Corvette A (44) • Turbolaser Reroute Circuits (7) • Jaina's Light (5) = 56 Points

GR-75 Medium Transports (18) • Comms Net (2) = 20 Points

Squadrons: • Shara Bey - A-wing Squadron (17) • Tycho Celchu - A-wing Squadron (16) • 2 x A-wing Squadron (22) = 55 Points

Most Wanted, Fire Lanes, Solar Corona

Total Points: 395

I've always kinda struggled with making a CIS Squadron list, mainly because I never feel like I have enough going on, so I wanted to try something with Grievous and wanted feedback

Assault: Precision Strike

Defense: Asteroid Tactics

Navigation: Superior Positions

Providence-class Dreadnought (97)

• General Grievous (20)

• TI-99 (4)

• Flight Controllers (6)

• Boosted Comms (4)

• External Racks (4)

• Point Defense Ion Cannons (6)

• Linked Turbolaser Towers (7)

• Enhanced Armament (10)

• Invisible Hand (8) = 166 Points

Munificent-class Comms Frigate (70)

• Tikkes (2)

• Fighter Coordination Team (3)

• Boosted Comms (4)

• Linked Turbolaser Towers (7)

• Point Defense Ion Cannons (6)

• Sa Nalaor (5)

= 97 Points

Squadrons:

• DBS-404 - Hyena-class Droid Bomber Squadron (17)

• DIS-T81 - Droid Tri-Fighter Squadron (17)

• Jango Fett - Slave I (22)

• Wat Tambor - Belbullab-22 Starfighter Squadron (18)

• 2 x Droid Tri-Fighter Squadron (22)

• 2 x Hyena-class Droid Bomber Squadron (22)

• 2 x Vulture-class Droid Fighter Squadron (16)

= 134 Points

Total Points: 397

The hope is there's enough fodder in there to protect my aces, and recharge the defense tokens of anything that needs them (the vulture droids are there mostly to be meat shields). And enough actually useful stuff to destroy stuff.

So this little issue comes up as I am about to start playing. I equipped this new upgrade. I see it as a 4 points upgrade on the StarForge app and website, but the card says 6 points. My friend also says there was a drastic revision of the text to power it down. And only a single slot.

So which one is it?

FLARE SQUADRON. 399 Points

MC80 Star Cruiser 96 (130)

- Admiral Raddus 26

- Engine Techs 8

MC75 Armored Cruiser 99 (106)

- Profundity 7

Hammerhead Torpedo Corbette 36 (40)

- Garel's Honor 4

Mediun GR-75 18 (20)

- Comms Net 2

SQUADS (103)

- Han Solo 26

- Jan Ors 19

- Biggs Darklighter 19

- X-Wing Squad (3) 39

Most Wanted

Contested Outpost

Superior Positions.

Any suggestion or correction will be accepted. Thnk U

I've been building a list for my elder sister, as she enjoys the game but isn't a huge list builder. So I made her a Jerjerrod, and wanted some feedback on the latest iteration

Assault: Advanced Gunnery

Defense: Asteroid Tactics

Navigation: Solar Corona

Imperial Star Destroyer Kuat Refit (112)

• Moff Jerjerrod (23)

• Emperor Palpatine (3)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• Early Warning System (7)

• Point Defense Ion Cannons (6)

• Expanded Launchers (8)

• Sovereign (4)

= 167 Points

Arquitens-class Command Cruiser (55)

• Captain Needa (2)

• Engine Techs (8)

• Reactive Gunnery (4)

• Turbolaser Reroute Circuits (7)

= 76 Points

Arquitens-class Command Cruiser (55)

• Taskmaster Grint (5)

• Nav Team (4)

• Reactive Gunnery (4)

• Turbolaser Reroute Circuits (7)

= 75 Points

(Fun fact, this thing can have 2 in all it's yaws)

Gladiator I-class Star Destroyer (56)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• Engine Techs (8)

• Assault Proton Torpedoes (4)

• Demolisher (10)

= 82 Points

Total Points: 400

Morning folks. I've been hard at work on some updates to Star Forge features. For those of you who are new, https://star-forge.tools is a listbuilder I built with fully remastered high resolution cards, free non-commercial printing of any armada cards & ship base tokens, and integrations into T5 and other tools.

Collection View

If you check under your user settings, and click "My Collection" you can now add models, cards, and expansions from all content available on Star Forge to your collection. This also includes card variants, meaning if you own an old mini-sized version of an upgrade, you can specify that.

In addition, you can print off full expansions and individual items by pressing the "Print Cards" button in the top right. This works similar to the "Print n Play" already present in Star Forge to print out your lists, but this should make it a little easier to print cards in bulk.

Cleanup

Across the application, I've done some performance improvements and UI cleanup. You should notice things load a bit faster and the website and webapp should run much better on older devices.

Stats View

The Stats view has received a visual overhaul with more up to date data and additional features. Specifically you can check out historical line-graph views of relative commander percentages, additional stats for ships and upgrades, and more.

Community Edition Launch Retrospective

Since the launch of Community Edition, Star Forge has reached a new peak concurrent user count, and we've had nearly 15000 fleets saved to accounts since the start of the month.

We're seeing much higher usage rates for the new or adjusted items (as expected), as well as much more variety in listbuilt fleets across the board. We'll see if these trends hold true as we move away from release and the "hype cycle" dies down.

As for new stuff coming soon, sure would be convenient to play Armada in your browser...

:)

Some in depth thoughts from a World Champ (and a Legacy Design Lead) on how two commanders from Legacy - Admiral Coburn and Poggle the Lesser - might be used in Armada Community Edition, releasing on August 3rd!

Read more at https://www.armadarulesetcollective.com/news/legacy-wave-1-commander-highlight-stapFG

Together with my friends we decided armada. I haven't played before but i decided to make my fleet based on crimson command from legends. I already have printed a victory 2. What else should i add?

I have played this fleet a few time. It is good but not great.

I know MC30 titles are usually put on them. But I have removed them for 2 additional squadrons as I felt the fleet lacked fighter support. Know that I tend to be a better navigator than brawler.

Can you help me make it greater? Better Objectives?

Name: Ackbar MC-30

Faction: Rebel

Commander: Admiral Ackbar (38)

Assault: Targeting Beacons

Defense: Planetary Ion Cannon

Navigation: Salvage Run

MC80 Assault Cruiser (110)

• Admiral Ackbar (38)

• Expert Shield Tech (5)

• Early Warning System (7)

• Leading Shots (5)

• XI7 Turbolasers (6)

• Home One (5)

= 176 Points

MC30c Scout Frigate (69)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• External Racks (4)

• Turbolaser Reroute Circuits (7)

= 84 Points

MC30c Scout Frigate (69)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• External Racks (4)

• Turbolaser Reroute Circuits (7)

= 84 Points

Squadrons:

• Shara Bey - A-wing Squadron (17)

• Tycho Celchu - A-wing Squadron (16)

• Z-95 Headhunter Squadron (7)

• Lieutenant Blount - Z-95 Headhunter Squadron (14)

= 54 Points

Total Points: 398