Reddit reviews Star Wars: Armada - Imperial Fighter Squadrons Expansion Pack
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An imperial star fighter squadron expansion for the star wars: armada miniatures game
Is this on a budget? Or just wondering what to get first? I'll link everything I name to Amazon, just so you can see what they look like and to see the rough pricing. You might have to change the url to your respective country's though.
It might look like a wall of text but I'm very brief on each ship here. The bottom will give you the best explanation. Please feel free to ask any questions about the various ships. I own at least one of each ship I name and have used them all at least once.
You could first invest in Squadrons. Rebel Fighter Squadrons Expansion Pack I, and Imperial Fighter Squadrons Expansion Pack I. Then there's also the Rogues and Villains Expansion Pack which includes ships for both factions. Such as the Millienium Falcon and Slave I.
For ships, it all depends on what you want your fleet to work as. Want large capital ships? Go for an Imperial-Class Star Destroyer, and a Calamari Cruiser, to which there are two options. The Home One Cruiser and the Liberty version. Easiest way of differentiating the two? Home One is slower and fires from it's flanks, Liberty is faster and spews out its attacks from it's front hull. All three are of course super fun to play, though they take a little more skill to manuever effectively. I rarely use fleets that lack my Star Destroyer Basilisk or my Home One Cruiser Allusis. My two favourite ships to use.
Want something smaller? Try an Assault Frigate or two. Great ships. They can lead fleets well as Flagships or support larger capital ships. Another invaluable Rebel ship is Mc30c Frigate. Fast, and deadly at close range. I rarely play Rebels, but when I do I always use this ship, along with the Assault Frigate or the Home One.
For the Empire you have lots of options. You can add a second Victory-Class Star Destroyer to your fleet, along with the core set Victory. They work pretty well, are easy enough to move around, and look cool. Want something up close and personal? The Gladiator-Class Star Destroyer is one of the most popular medium sized Imperial ship. Manueverable, deadly at close range, and very effective title cards.
Now lets talk Corvettes and Cruisers. Out of everything here I'm going to 100% suggest you buy at least one Arquitens Light Cruiser. Comes with great cards, works well as a Squadron carrier, picket ship, you name it. One fun and easy fleet I play is two or three Arquitens with a Gladiator, or two Arquitens and two Gladiators. They all fire from their flanks, so you line them up in a conga line like a convoy and fire salvos into your enemy. For something smaller the Raider-Class Corvette moves around the board fast, can move squadrons around, but is kind of hard to use unless you have experience with it. Still a very cool ship to own, I like using at least one when I run larger Capital ship fleets. Allows me to manuever my ISDs into space while also having something really fast to close gaps and push fighters around.
For the rebels there's options, depending on which flank you want to fire from. Front? Get another Nebulon-B. It comes with the Salvation and Yavaris title cards, which perfect the Nebulon-B. Corellian Corvettes are also good options. Side arcs? The MC30c Frigate.
Lastly lets quickly talk more speciality ships. I don't have any experience with Rebel Squadron dedicated carriers, but I do with the Imperial Quasar Fire-Class Cruiser Carrier. This thing exists solely to push Squadrons around the board. Know how to use it and you can wreck enemy fleets, make a bad move with it and it'll get torn to shreds ruining your strategy.
There exist two ships called Flottilas, they are very cheap and also exist solely as Squadron movers. They are the Gozanti Cruisers and Rebel Transports respectively.
That's the bulk of most of the ships. There are a couple others like the Hammerhead Corvettes and the Second wave of Squadron expansions, but these are harder to play with (in my opinion) and I'll let someone else tell you about them. Bottom line, it depends what kind of fleet you like playing. Squadron heavy? Look at Carriers and Squadron expansions. Classic ships? Go for a Star Destroyer or Star Cruiser. Want lots of ships in your fleet with lots of options? Get a bunch of Light Cruisers and Gladiators, and the various Rebel Frigates and Corvettes.
Edit: Forgot about the Interdictor-Class Star Destroyer. A personal favourite for casual games, but really hard to use competitively. A very expensive ship point-wise, and not very powerful attack wise. It has some cool abilities, like forcing enemy ships to change speeds, but that's about it. Shame really, this is by far my favourite looking ship.
If you'd like a more assertive answer. Buy the two Squadron expansions I. They come with classic ships like TIE Advanced, Interceptors and Bombers. And The Y-Wing, A-Wing, and B-Wings. Get one or two Light cruisers and one or two Nebulon-Bs. And if money isn't a problem get a Star destroyer and a Star Cruiser.
It seems like the original Imperial Squadron packs are still available online, at the very least.
Otherwise, thanks to u/TheDagronPrince for linking the blog so I don't have to, haha ;). Phantoms and Defenders are fairly multi-role for Imperial squadrons so they can work their way into fleets without too much trouble. Phantoms are tricky to get the hang of, though, and appreciate having some TIE Advanced Escort buddies around, which are unfortunately only available in the Imp Squads I pack.
Edit: and oh, I should add that Maarek Stele + Jendon is always a good combination, if expensive. You can do that alone just from the Imp Squads II pack. All the Imperial aces in Imp Squads II are good (Morna likes Jendon, too, and Whisper is really tough to kill when used well and good at getting into good positions), if expensive.
Here is the link for it: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Imperial-Squadrons-Expansion/dp/1633440001/ref=pd_ys_c_rfy_166220011_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1633440001&pd_rd_r=N6DDQB8M9WHJ00QDHHAT&pd_rd_w=CLf3c&pd_rd_wg=nShVk&pf_rd_p=6636a75a-fbe2-408a-b440-ad7d93dc2134&pf_rd_r=N6DDQB8M9WHJ00QDHHAT&psc=1&refRID=J2H7XXTCNEHFKSH4DBZE
I wouldn't get too excited; they've bumped their prices up a bit recently (some over RRP). At the moment even with the 5% off I only have them cheapest for the Liberty (24% off) and Phoenix Home (21% off) - and that's not including delivery.
Current good deals I have:
There are also a couple of "used" ones on Amazon at the moment:
As always, full spreadsheet over here - feel free to add to it/update it as you see things.
It's above $20 again through prime. This would also have worked:
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Imperial-Squadrons-Expansion/dp/1633440001
though I like this list better:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1633440001
And then you could format your link
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/star-wars-armada/products/rebel-fighter-squadrons-expansion-pack/
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Armada-Squadrons-Expansion/dp/1616619996/
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/star-wars-armada/products/imperial-fighter-squadrons-expansion-pack/
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Armada-Squadrons-Expansion/dp/1633440001/