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Comparisons:
Fleet in General:
Armada: An actually well rounded and varied fleet
Forgeworld: A pretty sucky fleet where each ship is merely a bigger version of another.
Battleships:
Explorer: Heavy Carrier. Huge ordnance capacity, very much a nice 'carrier warfare' option. Buckets of ordnance, very cheap.
Custodian: Also buckets of ordnance. Not very innovative though since the Protector has ordnance too.
Big Cruisers:
Protector: Okay-ish weapons load, nothing too terrific though. Lighter than the Hero. The ordnance on it is way too much for what the ship looks like it has. Poor in general and overcosted. An unrestricted ship though.
Hero: A terrific ship, but it has a conflicted weapons loadout(having decent Ordnance and Decent weapons means you have to choose quite often between Locking on and Reloading, which is a pain). An exceptionally decent ship. It's also about 10pts cheaper than it should be, *but* it's restricted by the number of Merchants and Explorers you have.
Little Cruisers:
Merchant: A waste of space ship. Useful for getting Heroes cheaply, but overcosted (by 10-15pts) and weak. Generally a liability if you try and use it as anything other than a supporting fireship. Slow, very slow.
Emissary: A good bit faster, and more manouverable, has a hefty weapons load, but is almost unusably weak. It really needs a second shield(as there's noway to upgrade it's hit points, unlike the Merchant). Far to well armed for what the ship looks like, but there you go. Overcosted and overgunned for such a weak ship.
Escorts:
Orca:Exceptionally decent. Cheap, but restricted through Grav hooks.No complaints from me.
Warden: Faster than the Orca, and only available at a 3:1 ratio with Custodians. It's weapons loadout is roughly identical(fire arcs swapped) to the Orca, but totally daft: Can you see any way of making the Orca fire anything powerful to the side of it? 5pts more costly than the Orca. A bit rubbish really given that it doesn't really seem very different from the Orca.
Defender: A conflicted ship as it has hefty weapons and misssiles, but is unlikely to use both of them to full effect. Overcosted by 5pts, but still very useable as a ship. Excellent missileboat, but it's poor manouverability means it's not the best of escorts. Lovely model though...
Castellan: Identical again to the Defender, but faster and more manouverable. Pointless(fluffwise) when you already have the Defender as it'd make the Defender obsolete!
Things in common:
Niccassar Dhows(restricted rather sillilly in the resin list), Demiurg(fantastic) and Kroot Poop-ship(useless in every situation).
The Armada list is, in general, alot more suited to being a Carrier Force, given that you can make a good fleet of mainly Orcas, Explorers and Defenders, thus having buckets of Attack Craft, a ton of missiles, and plenty of escorts to fight with!
If you want my frank summation of the FW list, here it is:
A great big steaming pile of feaces. It's more than a bit rubbish. It doesn't make sense from any point of view.
Check out our fanmade CPF list, it's better by leaps and bounds. It also expands the original Armada list *and* does a decent CPF list, so you've got great access to everything you like(not in list terms!)!
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