r/StarWarsArmada Mar 01 '26

Recurring Thread Got a question? Ask it here!

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If you have a rules question, meta questions about the competitive aspect of the game, are looking for painting tips and techniques, have small quick questions, or are just excited about getting the game then this thread is for you to ask ALL those questions you have, and more! Old players, please jump in and answer the questions, and generally show our new players a good time!


If you have a question about what to buy, we recommend Crabbok's buying guides.


For rules and how to play, and ship breakdowns, we also recommend these videos.


We also recommend these content creators (this list is not exhaustive, just some of our favourites! If you would like to be added to this list, please send us a modmail message!


If you're looking for a faster response to a quick question, we also recommend the two popular Armada Discord Servers.


r/StarWarsArmada 9h ago

Painting & Mods Testing out a paint scheme for my Rebel/New Republic fleet. Shall I stick with the blue accents or branch out to other colours depending on ship type?

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116 Upvotes

(And huge props as always to Nomad Printworks for his excellent ship sculpts!)


r/StarWarsArmada 2h ago

Painting & Mods GAR Looks Good in Blue

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25 Upvotes

Another simple commission done! I think the blue looks sick! I've got two more red ones that need a home if any one is looking! Paint on!


r/StarWarsArmada 6h ago

Sales Thread Selling Rebel Fleet

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15 Upvotes

Items in Vancouver, BC, Canada, prices in Canadian Dollars. Shipping not included in prices.

All original FFG product, no 3d prints etc.

$250 Fleet includes:

Core Rebels (CR90, Nebulon B, 4x X Wings, Core Upgrades)

Nebulon B Expansion

CR90 Expansion

CR90 (no upgrades)

Assault Frigate Expansion

Home One Expansion

Rebel Transports Expansion

Rebel Fighters 1 Expansion

Add Ons

CR90 Complete Expansion- $20

Nebulon B Complete Expansion- $20

Assault Frigate Complete Expansion- $50

Tools package- $50


r/StarWarsArmada 7h ago

Question Any advice on getting into Star Wars armada

10 Upvotes

To be honest, I have no clue on which retailers to use, or how to even get into armada. Any advice?


r/StarWarsArmada 5h ago

Discussion The East Coast Championship 2026 is HERE!

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5 Upvotes

Ladies and gents:

The East Coast Championship is Baaaack!!!!!!

  • 8 qualifier events! (Gasp!!! That's two more than last year!)
  • 2 invitees from each event!
  • 1 Championship Invitational!

More opportunities for fun! More competition! And now we're including the Philly Expo Center and PAX! The only question is:

WILL YOU JOIN THE FUN!

Stay Tuned! Information for the Philadelphia Liberty Cup will be posting soon!


r/StarWarsArmada 6h ago

Meet-Up Requests Reminder: St-Laurent Open 17-18 October

1 Upvotes

St Laurent Open is returning again this year at the renowned Abyss Game Store

www.Saintlaurentopen.com

Join Us!!!


r/StarWarsArmada 2d ago

Painting & Mods Super positive review for DarkWarForge!

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365 Upvotes

Decided to order some 3D printed resin ships since, finally, there is a vendor inside of the EU to bypass the awful shipping and import duties for packages coming in.

Ordered:
- Mc70 Barracuda (with medium stand)
- Starhawk (with medium stand)

The first order I placed got lost (probably) due to the Italian shipping service. It arrived in Italy and then poof, it got lost!

So DarkWarForge was amazing with customer service, reprinted my order in record time and added the third ship (Republic Judicial war cruiser) for free to make up for the time lost and unexpected problems with the shipment. Much appreciated!

Here are a couple pics of the 3 ships, hope you enjoy! They are very detailed and arrived already cleaned up from all the supports. I have compared the Mc70 to a stock Mc80 and to the New Republic Vesper Cruiser, since it got shown so much in the latest Ashoka trailer.

Amazing quality, I look forward to painting them!


r/StarWarsArmada 2d ago

Media Homebrew Designer: Corellia Yards

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Hello everyone!

I've made a series of posts about making my own Homebrew cards for SWA.

Right now I've done, among other I have not posted, the TIE Droid, MC80-B and a Fanon Version of the Paladin-Class Corvette from the Clone Wars. Most of the cards are outdated now that I have gotten some feedback, and I plan to make a bigger Post with all the new, shiny Updates.

But, other than that! I've taken some time to produce a site where everyone can make their own Homebrew cards! I've linked a page that I host and develop on my own.

It is very much still in development, and right now no real way to export or save a project other than screenshoting them from the UI. But those are features that are going to come very soon!

As always, I'd love to hear your feedback on anything that I post, especially on this site right now!

If anyone is interested in the code or specifically use the issue-tracker, this is the GitHub repository for the page!


r/StarWarsArmada 3d ago

List Building Help me make crimson command.

8 Upvotes

Together with my friends we decided armada. I haven't played before but i decided to make my fleet based on crimson command from legends. I already have printed a victory 2. What else should i add?


r/StarWarsArmada 5d ago

Discussion Upgrade Suggestion: Starhawk Weapon

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"This tractor beam was sufficiently strong enough to act as a weapon in its own right, capable of tearing sections of hull plating clean off a starship's superstructure."
Credit: Star Wars Squadrons, via Wookiepedia

Compare this with
"After the end of your activation, you may exhaust this card to choose 1 enemy ship at distance 1-5. That ship's speed is increased or decreased to match your speed.

While your speed is 0, you cannot ready this card."

We can all recognize the utility and combo potential of reducing a starship's speed to zero. What I hope we can also agree on is that this does not directly do damage to enemy ships.

I propose the creation of another upgrade for the Starhawk Superweapon slot.
Something that does do damage, potentially in a different way or via a different mechanism.

My preferred solution would be an attack that rolls blue dice equal to the targets hull category (1-3) and deals damage which ignores shields.

Other options include:
-an ignition attack similar to spha-t
-an attack that slows a target if they have shields, damages them if they don't
-an attack that gives the defender a choice between being slowed and taking damage cards

What are your thoughts?


r/StarWarsArmada 6d ago

Question How to fix this?

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71 Upvotes

Hey guys, I recently managed to snag an ISD for a good price, but once it arrived, I noticed that the ship's stand's body is leaning somewhat to the left and this makes the Star Destroyer tilted.

Is there any way to fix this? Like heating the stand with an hairdryer or something?


r/StarWarsArmada 6d ago

Homebrew & Third Party Just released SWArmada 0.2.1 with Clone Wars and Single Player AI!

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352 Upvotes

Hey again everyone! I finally got a baseline 0.2.1 release together this past week! As usual, it ended up going way further than I originally planned haha...

The big addition this time is the Galactic Republic and Separatist Alliance, along with their ships, squadrons, upgrades, commanders, and a whole bunch of new card interactions. I’ve also added things like Fighter Group leaders, Screen, more rules support, and plenty of fixes and polish throughout the game like crash/reconnect recovery (we'll see) and more configurable options in the option menu... and finally single player against AI!

There’s honestly way too much to cover in one post, and you guys are all much more knowledgeable about Armada than I am which is why your reports have been so helpful in making this possible, so I did my best to translate everything from the issues tracker and requested features faithfully. I’m sure some weird interactions or bugs are still hiding in there, so please keep dropping anything you find into the GitHub issue tracker and I’ll address it as soon as I can!

Thanks again to everyone who’s been playing, testing, reporting problems, and helping me make this thing better. The support, even the ko-fi love, and constant info and contributions from y'all have been amazing - makes me so stoked... I've been working on this project alongside my new music project this year, so some weeks are slower than others but I always check the trackers and want to make sure you guys are having as much fun as possible and it's something you all actually want to use. Hope everyone's having a great week - see you out there!!

Download the latest here:
https://github.com/thetrufflegouda/SWArmada/releases/tag/v0.2.4

(edit: keeping the link current to the latest hotfix version!)


r/StarWarsArmada 7d ago

Question What's a good second defensive retrofit for the assault?

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29 Upvotes

I usually go with Early Warning System, and then draw a blank on the other. On the Providence I'd go with thermal shields, but can't do that with this one.


r/StarWarsArmada 7d ago

Painting & Mods Nomad Summer sale! :)

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28 Upvotes

Hi all, having a summer sale at Nomad Printworks. Enjoy!

( nomadprintworks . gum road . com)

P.s. mods, if not allowed, please remove. I was unsure if ok (and I'm very sorry!)


r/StarWarsArmada 7d ago

Question Recommendations to even fleet

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Hello all! I am getting back into armada once again ans have been playing it with my girlfriend, i am trying to even my fleets out more and would happily take suggestions. Below is what i have:

1x Imperial Star Destroyer

1x Gladiator

1x MC-75

1× Victory Class (Core Set)

1x CR-90 (Core Set)

1x Nebulon-B (Core Set)

Plus the squadrons

I have been eying the Raider as well as the Hammerhead Corvette expansion. Any suggestions help!


r/StarWarsArmada 9d ago

List Building I get why Nexus is not ACE yet, now.

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After removing the new Nexus flak cannons from my list the other week, I had a mate of mine use the Precision Turbolaser Turrets on his ISDs. The 3 points upgrade completely murders MSU lists. Even side arcs are far more dangerous to low health ships such as CR90s.

If it were small/medium only, at least the number of total dice in an attack wouldn't be naff.

Anyway, small rant. I need to learn to fly better and expect the unexpected, I know. I'm sure someone will find a way to turn this into my fault, this being Reddit and all.


r/StarWarsArmada 9d ago

Discussion Looking for online play

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I have tabletop sim and wanted to see if I could find someone willing to run and play one of the campaigns with me I'm new to the game for the most part but have been watching battle reports on YouTube plus reading the rule book in tbts and feel like I have a good understanding of the game to play


r/StarWarsArmada 11d ago

Painting & Mods Victory II-class star destroyer

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341 Upvotes

Next ship in the imperial fleet has been finished, Victory II-class Star Destroyer came to the battlefield.

Fully 3D printed, and detailed painted. Tried to make a lore accurate painting on it, what do you think, achieved?

Available at DarkWarForge


r/StarWarsArmada 12d ago

List Building New player

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I've been watching allot of YouTube videos on armada and am considering playing I have atleast a partial idea of an empire list in mind.

The first ship would be the flagship as a quaser 2 with 2 arquentence and I think one or two gozanti support flotillas along with a mix of tie interceptors, bombers, and regular tie fighters. Since I've never played before I'm unsure what upgrades and commander or even objectives that would work well for it outside of flight controllers and bomber command center and was wondering if anyone had suggestions


r/StarWarsArmada 12d ago

Meet-Up Requests Does anyone play in person Northern Colorado?

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I have a decent sized collection, and I would like to get back into playing but I prefer playing local, are there any groups in the Fort Collins/Loveland area of CO? Not looking for tournaments, more for casual games. I’d love to find some people but if I can’t I will probably end up selling the collection.


r/StarWarsArmada 13d ago

Homebrew & Third Party Damaged Chimaera Star destroyer

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925 Upvotes

Opening the imperial fleet line up with a damaged Chimaera Star Destroyer for custom request. Basecoat was a little bit darker then usually

Imperial Fleet is rolling out!

Available at DarkWarForge


r/StarWarsArmada 14d ago

Battle Report Raddus vs Sloane Batrep

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97 Upvotes

I hope you enjoy.


r/StarWarsArmada 14d ago

Discussion Rules Change Suggestion: Swarm

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Good afternoon everyone!
Today I would like to discuss the Swarm mechanic.
This beloved synergy mechanic is central to many fighter strategies, but in my opinion fails to reflect either the function of fighters operating in numerically superior "swarms" or the feel of outnumbering an enemy squadron.
To resolve this, I suggest the following change:

Old: " Swarm. (While attacking a squadron engaged with another squadron, you may reroll 1 die.)"

New: " Swarm. (While defending against a squadron, you gain counter 1 or increase your counter value by 1 if the attacker is engaged with another squadron with swarm.)"

This shows the difficulties of close offensive action against numerically superior forces and favors the "correct" strategy of attacking large fighter formations from the edges as the safe play. For every tie-fighter an x-wing ace targets, he must play around others trying to get on his tail.

What do you think?


r/StarWarsArmada 16d ago

List Building Second Try Corellian Conflict Fleet.

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69 Upvotes

FLARE SQUADRON. 399 Points

MC80 Star Cruiser 96 (130)

- Admiral Raddus 26

- Engine Techs 8

MC75 Armored Cruiser 99 (106)

- Profundity 7

Hammerhead Torpedo Corbette 36 (40)

- Garel's Honor 4

Mediun GR-75 18 (20)

- Comms Net 2

SQUADS (103)

- Han Solo 26

- Jan Ors 19

- Biggs Darklighter 19

- X-Wing Squad (3) 39

Most Wanted

Contested Outpost

Superior Positions.

Any suggestion or correction will be accepted. Thnk U