Reply To: Star Wars Armada is dead …… Sort of …..so what about X-wing and Legion ?

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Even before the pandemic, I was reading opinions on various game forums that Armada wasn’t as popular as X-Wing and was too similar. X-Wing’s problem, though, seems to be saturation of the vehicle types, and customers unhappy with buying the upgrade cards.

My gut reaction to Legion is that Imperial Assault won’t go away because of it. IA is a boardgame and Legion is a miniatures game. As a customer base, boardgamers can support more boardgames than wargamers can support wargames, which are sometimes “lifestyle” games. Speaking of “lifestyle” game, IA is also not a “lifestyle” game, which, I think, was a reason for FFG dropping the Star Wars Destiny collectible (or whatever) dice game. Of course, if FFG decides to put out a new version of IA, like they did Arkham…