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

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Aside from the “We are excited to continue support for Star Wars Armada”  being the usual corporate speel, it doesn’t sound like they plan on “killing” it off, in fact, reprints will probably solve the biggest problem Armada has which is actually getting the ships as like anything previously FFG stock management wasn’t a phrase that they knew existed.

The impression I get is that they want to work out what to do with it and meanwhile will reprint the existing product lines, which seems sensible. The game probably wasn’t as popular as expected, certainly compared to X-Wing so never saw as many releases anyway. Now, will the community fall for the “Armada is Dead” line that YouTubers will start bashing out is another question.

In all honesty, I don’t think Armada has a need for a huge amount of releases, outside of them finishing the clone Wars lineup. The rebellion era already has a nice selection of ships and variations in them to make the game is self interesting, adding more designs just makes the stock harder to manage (sorry fanboys who want X ship from Y obscure reference). Simply pumping out more ship designs feels like one of the problems X-Wing created for its self.

They might just leave it similar to Imperial Assault, a game that continues with reprints and doesn’t really need new releases. The fact that there are no new releases doesn’t make a game any less fun or “dead”, I know ill still enjoy getting my ships out and enjoying a game.

What I would like to see

• carry on reprinting the game
• another wave or two of clone wars era releases to round out the range
• some new rebellion era faction starter sets (repacks) similar to the newer clone wars ones
• maybe a V2 of the rules though I’m not sure it needs it? And if so that would depend if they avoid the X-Wing debacle of needing new cards for everything.