Now while Clone Gunners has the potential to be alright, I think its pretty complicated. Is that short hand for the Republic Fleet, or will there be Clone and non-Clone ships in the fleet? We don’t know yet.

The first interesting thing to note is that it is locked to “clone only”. Here we have our first Republic upgrade card, the weapon team Clone Gunners. This is an ability that really wants to have a lot of ships on hand to make sure it goes off, and you get the most out of it. One downside I could see is that the CIS doesn’t traditionally have a lot of small ships, being more medium and large focused. Again I think this is a nifty ability and rewards playing a lot of small ships that you use to swarm the enemy. This is a pretty neat power, and serves as a counter to Obi-Wan as you can make sure to get accuracies in your die pool. Kraken allowes friendly ships to change dice to a facing (with one icon) of their choosing if there is another friendly ship near the target. Speaking of counters to Obi-Wan, we’ve got the droid commander Kraken. I think this is a super well designed card that rewards certain play styles yet has logical counters. In particular light ships could easily see their effective hull points doubled. While Motti gives your guaranteed extra hit points Obi-Wan promises nothing, but offers greater rewards. Overall he is fairly similar in concept with Motti (and only 4 points more) in that he makes your ships more durable. Of course you won’t get to use them every turn and accuracy can mean you don’t get to use them all. Most ships have between 1-2 shield redirect tokens, which if you could use them every turn, would be the equivalent of adding an extra 12 or so hull to each ship. Now how good he is in reality will depend on the defense tokens of his fleet and the Republic Fleet in general. Overall he’s got a pretty rad ability, letting you reduce suffered damage to a ship when it spends a readied shield token. Lets take a look.Įveryone’s favorite Jedi General, and smooth talker, Obi-Wan comes in, of course, as a fleet commander. But FFG kept saying that it was going to happen, and we kept believing, well now we have proof! Over on the FFG forums one of the FFG reps dropped a sneak peak with some of the upgrade cards we can look forward too. Then there was a lot of uncertainly with FFG ending some games and of course the current…. Now we did get promised this would happen a while about, but then there were delays and a lot of nothing (which fans of Armada are kind of used to by now). This has been a long time coming, but the Clone Wars is really, for real, coming to Star Wars Armada. Let’s take a look at the first cards we’ve seen from the Clone Wars expansions for Star Wars Armada.

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