Sector 47: A Star Wars Armada Saga

Separatist Fleets Now let's dive right into the Separtist Droid Armada the courageous Clones will be fighting.  Starting out with a Munificent and some Hardcell transports.  The Munificent is awesoem and everybody remembers them form the Start of Episode III but the Hardcell is that little guy taking off at the Battle of Geonosis.  You may remember them from Anakin ordering an attack right above the fuel cells, because a trooper trained his entire life for battle probably doesn't know where to shoot? Don;t mind me, the splash of the starter is below. In general, we know a little less about the Separatists currently than the Republic.  Again, hopefully, that changes over the course of GenCon. Munificent Let's start off with the Munificent Class Frigate also known as the Banking Clan Frigate.  This is the CIS's medium based ship sitting opposite the Acclamator.  There should be two versions as most ships have at two (Except for the ico...

Republic Ships It's finally here, our first look at how the Clone Wars will kick off.  I'm starting with the Republic because Clones are cooler than droids and it's my blog.  If you think Droids are cooler start your own.  Maybe a small hint of who I will most likely be playing most of the time as well. Starter Fleets It seems FFG is trying a new entry point into Armada which I approve.  It hasn't lowered the cost of entry unfortunately but at least you get a little task force sized fleet to immediately start playing with...you just have to find someone with another collection to play against.  In reality the start of a game now costs ~200 USD since you would buy 2 starters to get a actual battle/game going.   BUT if you only want to play one side, this is a far better deal since it starts you out at ~200 pts (if I was to guess) and will allow you to expand as you want and not have a useless Victory or Neb B just hanging around. ...

Clone Wars Hot Takes Courtesy of FFG's youtube posting in HD and a European time zone, I intend to take a little stroll through what we can see in the trailer and spreads before we get to the actual livestream Friday.  Hopefully, this tides us over until then. I've got some good screenshots and I'll be posting interesting things I noted after too much time spend on the Armada Wiki and scrolling through the youtube video 1 second at a time. I'm going to break them down by Republic and Separatist after this but I'll start this one off with a quick discussion of the Dial and Upgrade Card pack. Dial pack John Shaffer mentioned that each Starter set would come with 10 command dials and i presume 3-5 speed dials.  It seemed he was implying that additional ships will not come with either.  This means older players with more dials than we can count will probably not need to make this purchase.   It also seems that new players will perhaps only need to buy a pac...