Pre-Order Seas Aflame Expansion & Miniatures For Armada
July 8, 2021 by brennon
Mantic Games has started taking pre-orders for their Fantasy naval wargame, Armada. Seas Aflame is the new expansion supplement that allows you to take to the skies!
Seas Aflame // Armada
Included as part of this new book you'll find rules for fliers that will allow the factions to take to the skies. Drop bombs on your enemies or strike from on high with magic creatures and creations.
You'll also find rules for adding Coastal Defences to your games, new upgrades, ten new scenarios for you to play and campaign rules for developing your fleet. There is also a bunch of background for the upcoming fleets - Elves, Twilight Kin, Salamanders, Northern Alliance and Varangur.
New Fliers Packs
Part of this new supplement is the release of new Fliers which you can check out below for the Basileans, Orcs and Empire Of Dust.
Basileans Fliers Pack // Armada
Orc Fliers Pack // Armada
Empire Of Dust Fliers Pack // Armada
These give you both a set of monsters and vehicles that you can add to your fleet. I love the look of the massive bone dragon and that flaming phoenix in particular. I like contraptions but I do enjoy monsters more.
Magic For Your Fleet!
Finally, we also have a new set of Armada Magic Card for you to use when playing your games.
Magic Cards // Armada
The pack comes with a fifty-four card deck of spell cards plus five spellbook cards. You'll also find a bunch of counters which can be used to mark magical effects and a booklet that explains how to use magic in your games.
If you've been diving into Armada recently then this might be just what you need to boost your experience. I like that we've got the campaign rules in there in particular. I am eager to see what they do with the new fleets and fliers for the likes of the Dwarfs in particular.
Are you going to be snapping these packs up?
"I love the look of the massive bone dragon and that flaming phoenix in particular..."
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I feel like a giant, flaming phoenix would be a bit of a force multiplier in a game where everyone is using wooden sailboats.
Hopefully these will be out in time for my birthday at the end of the month. Looking fun!
The coastal defences should be a fantastic addition.
I can’t get a sense of scale from Mantic’s photos. Their website indicates these will mount on plastic flying bases, but I can’t tell if we’re talking planes vs. carrier levels of tinyness, or if they will be as big as the ships.
I believe they will fit on the small square bases that the little ship squadrons fit on … so 20mm or 25mm squares?
They are small and meant to be an additional option in the game, but they aren’t going to replace fighting ships, or at least that is how it was explained on their Mantic Live Podcast.
That also said, Armada is 1:700 scale “heroic” I believe, so there are 100% some artistic licenses being taken as far as scale for flyers in comparison to say the Black Sails line by Warlord (if they suddenly went out and made fantastic flying machines and monsters!).