Editing Star Wars: Armada (section)

==Fleet Building==
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Every fleet ''must'' have exactly one "flagship" - a ship equipped with your Commander, a unique character leading your fleet and granting a fleet-wide effect. Any ship other than a Flotilla can serve as your flagship. 

Each ship can equip one Title upgrade (for example, turning a generic MC80 into Admiral Ackbar's ''Home One'') and/or your Commander, plus a variety of other upgrades depending on the upgrade icons on its ship card. You can equip no upgrades, or as many as you have slots, and you can take as few or as many ships as you want (to a minimum of one, your flagship). There are at least two variants of each ship model, with different point costs, dice, Squadron values, or upgrade slots. Unique cards, usually characters like Darth Vader but sometimes upgrades like the Interdictor's Grav-Shift Reroute, are indicated by a dot next to their name and can only be taken once per fleet - so you can't have Darth Vader as your Commander ''and'' field Darth Vader's TIE Advanced at the same time, or field both Officer ''and'' Commander Leia. The same upgrade can't be taken more than once on the same ship, and a ship can have at most one upgrade with the "Modification" keyword.

You cannot spend more than a third of the match's point limit on squadrons, rounding up, and can only take one named, defense token-carrying "ace" squadron per 100 fleet points of the agreed total for each fleet.  For most games, played at 400 points, this means you can take at most 134 points worth of squadrons and a maximum of four aces. You can take none, or up to your squadrons point cap; taking multiple generic squadrons and/or unique aces - such as a "Red Squadron" wing of Wedge Antilles/Luke Skywalker/Biggs Darklighter, or simply 8 groups of TIE Fighters.

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Finally, every fleet has to select one each from three types, of ''objectives'' - Assault, Defense, and Navigation. Every game is played using one of the players' chosen objectives. During setup, the player with the lower points value chooses who goes first, giving incentive to "bidding" by intentionally taking fewer than max points to try and guarantee being first (or second) player. First player always activates first in the ship and squadron phases, [[Go|granting a significant advantage]]. To counteract this, ''the first player has to choose one of the second player's three objectives to play that game'', with most objectives granting the second player a large advantage - but moreover, giving second player the ability to bring objectives uniquely suited to his list.