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Star Wars: Armada Naval Academy – Dice 102

Summer - March 15, 2023

Armada’s delicious dice reflect the game’s core design: tight core mechanics supported by great depth beyond the rulebook. Following on from Dice 101, I want to talk about the deeper elements of the game’s dice. Forces for Change - “Page-turners...

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Star Wars: Armada Dockyard – Rebel Small Ships Part II

Summer - February 15, 2023

Today in Star Wars: Armada, Summer gets attacked by a swarm of angry fish. This is Part II of the Dockyard series on small Rebel Alliance ships. The Ships – “Fear is your natural warning system; it keeps you alive...

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Star Wars: Armada Dockyard – Rebel Small Ships Part I

Summer - February 1, 2023

The Rebel Alliance fields the largest selection of small ships in Armada, and has cemented itself as a definitive power in small unit gameplay. Welcome to Part I of Dockyard – Rebel Small Ships, an explainers article where I...

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Star Wars: Armada Naval Academy – Sloanager and Luminara Venator List Breakdown

Summer - January 4, 2023

I’ve been here for a few months going on and on about Armada. I’ve given faction overviews. I’ve overviewed ships. I’ve given the run-down on dice, and even touched on fleet-building. What about pulling it all together into fleet-building?...

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Summer’s 2022 Hobby Year in Review

Summer - December 31, 2022

2022 was a year of escalation. The previous years marked my journey through the pandemic under the familiar banner of my Master's degree. I'd grown horribly accustomed to the loneliness and shades of grey that permeated society, and three...

Gaming

Star Wars: Armada Naval Academy – Dice 101

Summer - December 14, 2022

Today’s naval academy is about Star Wars: Armada’s dice and their suspiciously candy-like design. This article is dedicated to Greg, who requested an explanation of the game’s dice in very, very simple terms. Let’s talk about basic mechanics, cryptic...

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Goonhammer Hot Take: Star Wars Legion December 2022 points changes

Magos Sockbert - December 9, 2022

After a wild year of battleforces, mercenaries, and Imperial oppression, AMG today released their 2022 points changes for Star Wars Legion. These are only the first of five (!) rules and erratta documents AMG has promised us before the...

Reviews

Andor: Star Wars Won’t Ever Be Permitted to Be Better Than This

Jonathan Bernhardt - December 6, 2022

This review contains spoilers for Andor. Is Andor the best television show this year? Seems like a question that, on the face of it and if you’ve been consuming media about it, is easily answered. This is then the part...

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Star Wars: Armada Faction Focus – Galactic Republic

Summer - November 16, 2022

Welcome back to our regular coverage of Star Wars: Armada. If you missed our article on getting started, you can find it here. I'm back with another Armada faction focus. It’s time to respond to the droid attack on...

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Star Wars: Armada Dockyard – Republic Navy Part II

Summer - November 10, 2022

This is the continuation of Dockyard – Republic Navy. I started with optimistic ideas about covering the entire faction in a single article, but the word count grew out of control and I wanted to get paid twice, so...