As it started, so shall it end.
The last part of my Armada collection arrived recently, placed gingerly on a shelf next to, coincidentally, it’s bigger, small game version.
Like a shark and it’s young, the X Wing Raider looks more to scale than the Armada Star Destroyers. The big one above monsters the Victory and Imperial classes. The X Wing ship is actually undersized for that game, the Armada one oversized, but that is the reality of gaming, always forcing reality into a practical simulation space, which is why 20mm WW2 tanks don’t shoot 10 actual metres in wargames.
Personally, I think the Raider and CR-90 Corvettes (and Hammerheads etc) should be flotillas in the game, but I am not going to send this little shark back.
Seriously cool little ship.
Notoriously hard to play well, being a bit of a contradiction in role and play style, this little ship (all 40+ points of her) will balance out my Imperial Rebellion in the Rim fleets perfectly.
As a flak platform and a pursuit/striker, it will escort the Victory class, doing basically everything that SD can’t (flak, go fast, respond, look cool), while the Victory adds the squadron control, raw toughness and ranged firepower the little ship lacks. This fleet (The Dominator) will be the simple work horse, along with my Imperial class (Intimidator) , double Gladiator (Hunter) and Onager (Destroyer) 200 pt fleets.
The X Wing Raider was my first Huge ship, launching me into phase 2 (of sooo many phases) of my X Wing collecting, the Armada version is my last*.
So it ends,
how it began.
*Armada, especially the Clone Wars is not done with yet, but with no announcements, it is hard to plan and X Wing, especially new TFA era ships will be auto-buys.