Super Star Destroyers Come To FFG’s Star Wars: Armada
August 6, 2018 by brennon
Fantasy Flight Games unveiled another new ship for Star Wars: Armada at Gen Con last week. Here we have the mighty Super Star Destroyer which is going to be destroying planets and decimating entire fleets.
To give you a sense of the scale of one of these ships here it is compared to some of the existing ships.
The ship itself is a dangerous beast with a variety of different variants available and each of them armed to the teeth. It has six firing arcs, each of them laden with guns. As well as its own firepower the Super Star Destroyer also comes with a massive array of upgrades and more including the likes of Emperor Palpatine himself.
I cannot imagine this being a cheap addition to your fleet but you could very much see a big game being played around something like this. Massive fleet battles are going to be insane when one of these enters the fray.
What do you think of the new expansion?
"Massive fleet battles are going to be insane when one of these enters the fray..."
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This is just dumb as a box of frogs. Completely impractical, overpriced piece of ego plastic.
Agree… it’s the Forgeworld of Armada… :S
Yeah but I bought swords and a Masterchief helmet (in the attic, yo) so… If it costs less than Adeptus Titanicus it might sell.
All that and yet, I want it, can afford it, and no one can stop me from buying it! 🙂
There are power gamers out there that will not play anything other than the lastest winning list. To me that’s insane.
This thing is for, (in my opinion), the gamers who play for fun and story telling.
It’s all about having fun in your own way.
Now this is good stuff. How ever if I am not mistaken it does seem to be in smaller scale than it is in movies as I recall it as Dreadnought class ship dwarfing regular Star Destroyers.
Armada uses sliding scale so the ships are not necessarily in scale to each other.
a great centrepiece to the fleet.
Intensify forward fire power!
2ft long model on a 3ft wide table. I am not sure how this is going to play!
Reportedly 200 dollars. And yes, it is off scale. FFG have stated so themselves. It’s impractical as all get out. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a serious “wanty” factor to it
Yea, things like this should not be models in the game. Have them as terrain tiles or part of the mat that you can fly over and such. You can still have them take part in the game and be part of scenarios. I felt the same way when they added capitol ships to X:Wing. The fans were already doing the big ships as “counters” in scale to the fighters that you could fly over and around. It made much more since. I think FFG should do these things as scenario/campaign packs with large heavy card “top-down” counters. What’s next….a… Read more »
Forgive me, but how is this oversized ship any different than the blockade runner model for X-wing? Some folks will find a place for it in their games.
That was my point, it’s not. I didn’t like the inclusion of the Blockade Runner as an actual model at a different scale to the fighters. I feel large ships like that should have been top-down “counters”, printed to scale, and used in campaign packs. Fans were doing this sort of thing within weeks of the games original release and it made for great games. I think ships that are massive compared to the ones that are the focus of the game should be represented either as the counters I’ve mentioned or, if they are extremely massive, part of the… Read more »
Damn this is cool. Trying to get my head around the size of it.
cool thing to own, but in game terms? bonkers. even on a 6×4 loaded with suitable terrain this thing is just too big, too unwieldy. Besides, if it’s true to form, lot of money to put down on something you can destroy with an A-wing 😉