Hey, a friend and I managed to make out what Leia says: "When a friendly ship resolves a command by spending a command dial, if it has not resolved another command this round, it may resolve that command as if it spent a matching command token. If it does, that ship cannot resolve additional commands this round."
That's what I was thinking. Gives some pretty insane value to literally every ship in your fleet. Just not sure how you would build around her - not nearly as obvious as Sloane is.
Right off the bat, she seems like a perfect fit for Yavaris. Seems to also have a good synergy with MC30 and CR90s in getting to change speed by 2 off a single command dial.
Specifically Boarding Troopers + Avenger title. Will be hard to let go of Gunnery Team but it's way easier to pull off than Overload Pulse, but I might even be thinking small since it's spend instead of exhaust!
Brother- I love the excitement you have for Armada. I have been trying to get people in my area excited about it. we all play X-wing, but I caught the Armada bug too. Thank you for the inspiration.
Agreed with the Hammerheads, was a great move to put two in a box. Not many people bought CR-90's at first because they wanted the prices to go down vs something like the Neb-B. Having two in the box encourages people to spring for them.
Hi Crabbok. Just wanted to say i don't play Armada but really enjoy your Armada content. Really considering getting into it from your videos. Keep up the good work.
bloodzyAU it's a fun game. Everyone from the community that I've met are really nice and are more than happy to play and teach new people. Only downside (especially if you're watching Crabboks videos) you want to buy multiple of everything.
Great video! I am excited for more Armada at all times! I do worry that the Imp faction is lacking any large ship besides the ISD since the obvious next Reb ship would be the MC-75. But a proper carrier for Imp faction seems like the correct choice. I actually hope they don't pull the trigger on the SSD just yet. I could see it maybe being a "play mat" kind of thing where it is locked into a position and the imperial players have to pay to get to use it. In such a case it would be kinda a special game type or an objective or even a campaign mission. Otherwise they may need to expand the play area again. I wonder if maybe the attacking player spending the defender's tokens should be randomized somehow? I.e. maybe a dice roll for each token? With a command 4 then the point would be moot... same with a ship that has only 3 being boarded by a command value 3. But it seems crazy powerful to go in and cause the defender to lose his single used defense token without some kind of random chance to mediate it?
I'm an Imperial player and I'm just getting back into Armada, but holy crap, those Hammerheads are so cool that I think I'll buy them to display (and also to try putting external racks on VSD-I's).
I was disappointed when I first saw that there were only 2 new ships, but you made some good points that swayed my opinion. Armada IS in a good place right now, and while the Imperial lineup is a little less diverse than the Rebels, it's very well balanced on the most part and adding loads of new content without slowly adding in ships and watching the meta change would be a bad move. I totally agree on the fighters side of things though, I'm good for another 2-3 waves without new fighters, I'm still getting my head around the last ones (my favourite so far being Ten Numb and Ciena).
I kind of hope they might do a Rebel version of the Quasar Fire at some point. After all it has always been a rebel ship since its first appearance in Star Wars fiction and its only recently that its use by the Empire has been established.
I think Disney has done some amazing things with the franchise in recent years, and making the universe more diverse is absolutely one of those things. And Sloan is one of the best new characters they've introduced! She MIGHT even show up in Episode 8 if we are lucky!
hey Crabbok, may want to update this video because since the morning they've editted the article. the Quasar no longer has Contain and i think one less Engineering.
Thanks for noticing that - I'll try to keep that in mind the next time I mention the ship. not worth re-doing the entire video over though so I'll just let this one stand as historical evidence that they changed it!
In fact looking back there were several changes. Sloan in my image also required squadrons to have Swarm. Also the Cannon was called Quad 277 Battery - and has also been updated.
+Zelos Gaming, Seriously. There are so many cool ships that are not sold in Star Wars Starship Battles, or the Titanium Die Cast series. Friggin' awesome ships just wish they weren't so expensive.
Thanks for this! As an AtRtR player, I'm a bit disappointed --- another admiral 30+ points. I really wish we'd get more admirals in the 20s like the Imperials have. Sloane should have been 30 points. I know it might be thematic (larger talent pool, bigger fleet overall), but we need someone other than just Dodanna. I'd also like to see an Alliance admiral at some point that lets you run "captured' ships. I'd be okay with a certain limit (i.e., no ISDs), but Alliance players could choose to run the Quaesar or a Victory (or this is how the Dreadnaught could be addressed, if it's introduced in the future).
What do you think the chances are on us ever getting Grand Admiral Thrawn as a commander? I'm half way through the Thrawn trilogy and I just love how cold and calculated he is. I'd also love to see what they could do for his command ability.
Crabbok Sweet. Maybe with the Super Star Destroyer you alluded to in this video. that ship will be huge. I wonder if ffg will increase the points value for the standard game when they release that ship.
Hi Crabbok, I've been watching your in-depth videos since a few weeks, can you make a focus on who Admiral Sloane is, please..? I don't know her, I don't know in which part of EU she is. Good luck for more videos! P.S. usually what do you play? Imperials or Rebels? I'd need some advices for an imperial list fighter based, as I imagine it I'd need a ship focused on squadron support, spamming squadron command maybe every turn. May I ask for some help as I can't put enough activations inside of the list? X'D Thanks!!
Crabbok I'll buy one Gozanti, still I haven't tried one...my original duo ISD with one acting as a carrier now looks a bit obsolete compared to the greater activations of this meta.
Do you think the Hammerheads will have the same paint scheme as each other, as shown in the preview? Or different paint schemes, as in the Rebels show?
Does boarding troopers mean that if you have a squadron value of 2 or higher, your boarding troopers can hit the same defense token? Eg hit the brace, turn it to red. Then hit the brace again and discard it?
No. One effect doesn't ever have the same target twice. IE Ordnance experts won't let you re-roll the same dice over and over again. Each instance of an effect is a one-shot.
When Sloane forces a defense token to be spent, does the defender get the benefit of that token? This might be a case where exhaust would actually be better.
No they don't. You are doing this stuff before the spend defense tokens step, so the defender won't even be able to start doing that until after you are done activating Sloan's tricks. She is nasty!
The question I had was whether or not spending a token outside of that step would still produce an effect. If not, the note about spending tokens to activate upgrade cards would be unnecessary as I don' t think any card that does this does it during the spend defense token step. Also curious if the limitations of spending multiple tokens of the same type applies or the one where tokens cannot be spent if the defender is speed 0. There are a couple places where I think the Rules Reference needs to be re-written in light of new upgrade cards. I'm hoping it happens in a new EP7/8 starter pack.
the game isn't at the right scale for executor class ships, at the same scale as the isd it would be around 2m+. unfortunately to make it playable in size would eliminate the awesome scale of the ship vs a isd or mc80.
Hey Crabbok, since the Fantasy Flight Games might be running out of imperial ship designs, Do you think that we will soon see other factions from different era's such as First Order, Resistance, Galactic Republic, CIS, etc? If so do you think that we will be able to fight different factions from different era's (such as Rebels vs CIS, or Galactic empire vs Galactic Republic) Also love the videos and content. Keep up the good work!
I think the Clone Wars factions will NOT happen - more likely some of those ships will get absorbed by current factions, like the Empire getting a Venator. However, the First Order and Resistance will absolutely show up, and be fully compatible with their respective counterparts, just like they are in X-Wing. That's what I expect.
A cloaked ship would be amazing but I don't know how Fantasy Flight Games would write rules for a ship with cloak. However we already have cloak for squadrons so it is still a real possibility.
Hey, a friend and I managed to make out what Leia says:
"When a friendly ship resolves a command by spending a command dial, if it has not resolved another command this round, it may resolve that command as if it spent a matching command token. If it does, that ship cannot resolve additional commands this round."
If that's accurate, then wow, that is pretty amazing! It's basically Raymus Antilles on every ship!
That's what I was thinking. Gives some pretty insane value to literally every ship in your fleet. Just not sure how you would build around her - not nearly as obvious as Sloane is.
Right off the bat, she seems like a perfect fit for Yavaris. Seems to also have a good synergy with MC30 and CR90s in getting to change speed by 2 off a single command dial.
The Enthusiasm plus zoom on the Red squadron die made the video for me. Great stuff! Look forward to boarding parties.
Specifically Boarding Troopers + Avenger title. Will be hard to let go of Gunnery Team but it's way easier to pull off than Overload Pulse, but I might even be thinking small since it's spend instead of exhaust!
Brother- I love the excitement you have for Armada. I have been trying to get people in my area excited about it. we all play X-wing, but I caught the Armada bug too. Thank you for the inspiration.
Been in the game for about 4 weeks, really enjoy the content, happy to see this video when arrived into work this a.m.
Agreed with the Hammerheads, was a great move to put two in a box. Not many people bought CR-90's at first because they wanted the prices to go down vs something like the Neb-B. Having two in the box encourages people to spring for them.
True, looks like one of the older versions.
No idea, but good catch!
Being on the fence on investing in armada I began to watch your vids and it changed my mind to go for it! Love your armada content keep it up :)!!!
Hi Crabbok. Just wanted to say i don't play Armada but really enjoy your Armada content. Really considering getting into it from your videos. Keep up the good work.
bloodzyAU it's a fun game. Everyone from the community that I've met are really nice and are more than happy to play and teach new people.
Only downside (especially if you're watching Crabboks videos) you want to buy multiple of everything.
Mannschaft Von Arschloch wow...
At least you have everything right?
It's not out in shops yet.
Which sucks because I want to get a quasar or 2 in my fleet.
Great video! I am excited for more Armada at all times! I do worry that the Imp faction is lacking any large ship besides the ISD since the obvious next Reb ship would be the MC-75. But a proper carrier for Imp faction seems like the correct choice.
I actually hope they don't pull the trigger on the SSD just yet. I could see it maybe being a "play mat" kind of thing where it is locked into a position and the imperial players have to pay to get to use it. In such a case it would be kinda a special game type or an objective or even a campaign mission. Otherwise they may need to expand the play area again.
I wonder if maybe the attacking player spending the defender's tokens should be randomized somehow? I.e. maybe a dice roll for each token? With a command 4 then the point would be moot... same with a ship that has only 3 being boarded by a command value 3. But it seems crazy powerful to go in and cause the defender to lose his single used defense token without some kind of random chance to mediate it?
Can't wait for these to come out!
I'm an Imperial player and I'm just getting back into Armada, but holy crap, those Hammerheads are so cool that I think I'll buy them to display (and also to try putting external racks on VSD-I's).
I was disappointed when I first saw that there were only 2 new ships, but you made some good points that swayed my opinion. Armada IS in a good place right now, and while the Imperial lineup is a little less diverse than the Rebels, it's very well balanced on the most part and adding loads of new content without slowly adding in ships and watching the meta change would be a bad move.
I totally agree on the fighters side of things though, I'm good for another 2-3 waves without new fighters, I'm still getting my head around the last ones (my favourite so far being Ten Numb and Ciena).
i think that boarding engineers plus the hamerhead title will be a good combo
I have 4 Imperial light cruisers! i got a friend that i can pre-order from! Love it!
Well the Imperial Carrier if it is good price might be the go to for Rhymer Balls without having Gozanti Flotillas.
The Quasar is going to be sweet, I've been waiting for a dedicated carrier ship.
And the defenders just got worth their points with the Quasar and Sloan
I kind of hope they might do a Rebel version of the Quasar Fire at some point.
After all it has always been a rebel ship since its first appearance in Star Wars fiction and its only recently that its use by the Empire has been established.
Great video as always
I think Sloan is going to be my mainstay commander. As a female gamer I love seeing women represented in games especially women of color!
I think Disney has done some amazing things with the franchise in recent years, and making the universe more diverse is absolutely one of those things. And Sloan is one of the best new characters they've introduced! She MIGHT even show up in Episode 8 if we are lucky!
Here's hoping!
hey Crabbok, may want to update this video because since the morning they've editted the article. the Quasar no longer has Contain and i think one less Engineering.
Thanks for noticing that - I'll try to keep that in mind the next time I mention the ship. not worth re-doing the entire video over though so I'll just let this one stand as historical evidence that they changed it!
In fact looking back there were several changes. Sloan in my image also required squadrons to have Swarm. Also the Cannon was called Quad 277 Battery - and has also been updated.
what the heck is going on over there at FFG?
I don't play the game but like to buy the ships because they look AMAZING.
Frothy Walrus Same the ships are great and have a lot of ships you can’t get in any form anywhere else whether die cast or anything
+Zelos Gaming, Seriously. There are so many cool ships that are not sold in Star Wars Starship Battles, or the Titanium Die Cast series. Friggin' awesome ships just wish they weren't so expensive.
Thanks for this! As an AtRtR player, I'm a bit disappointed --- another admiral 30+ points. I really wish we'd get more admirals in the 20s like the Imperials have. Sloane should have been 30 points. I know it might be thematic (larger talent pool, bigger fleet overall), but we need someone other than just Dodanna. I'd also like to see an Alliance admiral at some point that lets you run "captured' ships. I'd be okay with a certain limit (i.e., no ISDs), but Alliance players could choose to run the Quaesar or a Victory (or this is how the Dreadnaught could be addressed, if it's introduced in the future).
hi, I was debating on getting into armada. I was wondering how do u get the mini ti fighters and x wings as well as the millennium falcon
Boarding engineers on a Victory hitting after the avenger hits with boarding troopers could wipe a large ship in 1 turn
What do you think the chances are on us ever getting Grand Admiral Thrawn as a commander? I'm half way through the Thrawn trilogy and I just love how cold and calculated he is. I'd also love to see what they could do for his command ability.
It's practically a sure thing. The only question is "when?"
Crabbok Sweet. Maybe with the Super Star Destroyer you alluded to in this video. that ship will be huge. I wonder if ffg will increase the points value for the standard game when they release that ship.
Acclamator and Venerator class ships next maybe.
they should add the providence class for the rebels to use, as a cheaper alternative to an MC-80 or as a big carrier
I wish they had used Lightmaker for the ramming title.
External racks on a raider I
Goodbye Gladiator, hello Quasar!
Hi Crabbok, I've been watching your in-depth videos since a few weeks, can you make a focus on who Admiral Sloane is, please..?
I don't know her, I don't know in which part of EU she is.
Good luck for more videos!
P.S. usually what do you play? Imperials or Rebels?
I'd need some advices for an imperial list fighter based, as I imagine it I'd need a ship focused on squadron support, spamming squadron command maybe every turn. May I ask for some help as I can't put enough activations inside of the list? X'D
Thanks!!
I play both fairly evenly. Try victory Star Destroyers and a Gozanti or two for lots of Squadrons commands!
Crabbok I'll buy one Gozanti, still I haven't tried one...my original duo ISD with one acting as a carrier now looks a bit obsolete compared to the greater activations of this meta.
If they do a Rogue One pack I'd love to see Raddison.
Do you think the Hammerheads will have the same paint scheme as each other, as shown in the preview? Or different paint schemes, as in the Rebels show?
Pretty sure they are the same in the preview and will be the same in production.
bring on an imperial/rebel Dreadnought!!!!!! and a Mk 1 type 5 assault frigate.
Man I wonder when these come out?
Does boarding troopers mean that if you have a squadron value of 2 or higher, your boarding troopers can hit the same defense token?
Eg hit the brace, turn it to red. Then hit the brace again and discard it?
No. One effect doesn't ever have the same target twice. IE Ordnance experts won't let you re-roll the same dice over and over again. Each instance of an effect is a one-shot.
When Sloane forces a defense token to be spent, does the defender get the benefit of that token? This might be a case where exhaust would actually be better.
No they don't. You are doing this stuff before the spend defense tokens step, so the defender won't even be able to start doing that until after you are done activating Sloan's tricks. She is nasty!
The question I had was whether or not spending a token outside of that step would still produce an effect. If not, the note about spending tokens to activate upgrade cards would be unnecessary as I don' t think any card that does this does it during the spend defense token step. Also curious if the limitations of spending multiple tokens of the same type applies or the one where tokens cannot be spent if the defender is speed 0.
There are a couple places where I think the Rules Reference needs to be re-written in light of new upgrade cards. I'm hoping it happens in a new EP7/8 starter pack.
Please be my father, my parents never cared about Star Wars
PartyCrashG JR same
wave 7: mc75, and venator?
the game isn't at the right scale for executor class ships, at the same scale as the isd it would be around 2m+. unfortunately to make it playable in size would eliminate the awesome scale of the ship vs a isd or mc80.
Hey Crabbok, since the Fantasy Flight Games might be running out of imperial ship designs, Do you think that we will soon see other factions from different era's such as First Order, Resistance, Galactic Republic, CIS, etc? If so do you think that we will be able to fight different factions from different era's (such as Rebels vs CIS, or Galactic empire vs Galactic Republic)
Also love the videos and content. Keep up the good work!
I think the Clone Wars factions will NOT happen - more likely some of those ships will get absorbed by current factions, like the Empire getting a Venator. However, the First Order and Resistance will absolutely show up, and be fully compatible with their respective counterparts, just like they are in X-Wing. That's what I expect.
Thanks Crabbok I'm really excited for Armada, I think there is a lot of good things too look forward too even if you are not a player!
I hope the Empire gets the Carrion Spike!
A cloaked ship would be amazing but I don't know how Fantasy Flight Games would write rules for a ship with cloak. However we already have cloak for squadrons so it is still a real possibility.
They better put it in the game. It is a canon ship after all and is unique to the Empire. Perhaps the cloaking function is part of a upgrade card.
Does counter count as attacking? I 'm not sure it does.
Yep it does. In fact it stacks with Howlrunner ability and Swarm ability..
Exactly. Counter is an attack and gets the same bonuses that attacks do.
Boarding parties are suicide missions unless you have a buddy named Darry Vader.
*Darth.
Darry Vader didn't use a lightsaber - he just throws empty beer cans.
The Quaser should be a rebel ship like in rebels