FFG Announces Wave III For Star Wars Armada
March 17, 2016 by stvitusdancern
Fantasy Flight Games has announced the next wave of ships for their popular game Star Wars Armada.
If you were expecting big ships this time around and awesome weapons, well you will be a little disappointed. But, fear not these little support ships do a lot for your fleet as a whole.
Let's find out more about what this means.
Imperial Assault Carriers Expansion Pack
The Imperial Assault Carriers Expansion Pack brings the Gozanti-class cruiser to the Imperial fleet and while this ships are not as intimidating as an Imperial Class Star Destroyer.
They indeed bring a special surprise to the party with their special abilities that do not much for their own ships but add some impressive additions to your fleets bigger ships with special assets such as Bomber Command Center and Comms Net.
This gives the behemoths the added flexibility to be more manoeuvrable and combat worthy ( like they needed more weapons).
Rebel Transports Expansion Pack
For the Rebels there is the Rebel Transports Expansion Pack, which includes the GR-75 medium transports.
Again, not the most impressive (there is that word again, anyone else hearing Vadar's voice?) ships in the galaxy but they do have their benefits.
They have the ability to add Repair Crews to your fleet, so when they are getting hammered by the Empire they can stay in the fight longer. They also bring with them new commanders and crew members with special skills that can enhance your fleet.
These ships for both sides will be as a floatilla set-up, meaning that there will be two of each ship mounted on a standard base. These are in plastic and in full colour of course. They will be arriving in the third quarter of this year.
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"...fear not these little support ships do a lot for your fleet as a whole."
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I was a bit surprised to see there were only the two (four?) ships in Wave 3 but my wallet thanks FFG! I still haven’t got everything I need from the Wave 2 releases so a cheap Wave in the future will be wonderful.
It helps that the ships occupy a nice little spot in a fleet that isn’t covered by any existing ships.
This new ship type seems interesting. Oh and those minis look good for they small size.
Indeed. I don’t generally like pre-painted minis but FFG has a very high production value in all their products it seems.
There is speculation that the teaser image has been cropped (look at the edges) so there may yet be more announcements coming. If there isn’t then it will be a small wave!
I do like the sound of these ships though, should be quite a lot of added tactical depth there.