Fantasy Flight Games preview the Hammerhead Corvettes Expansion Pack for Star Wars: Armada.
From the website:
“Corvette Five, locked on target. Prepare for impact.”
–Kado OquonéThere were plenty of high-impact scenes in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We saw starfighters colliding with a planetary shield. We saw AT-ATs firing at Rebel soldiers, causing the ground to erupt with every blast. We saw an armored tank explode. And we saw the first test of the Death Star’s superlaser, in which a single reactor ignition utterly obliterated Jedha’s Holy City.
Among these various collisions and explosions, we also witnessed a scene that almost appeared like it had been scripted for fans of Star Wars™: Armada. Locked into close-range combat with dozens of enemy TIE fighter squadrons and a pair of Star Destroyers, the Rebel fleet still couldn’t punch through the planetary shield it needs to disable until Admiral Raddus had an idea.
Calling up a Hammerhead corvette, the Lightmaker, Raddus ordered it to ram into the side of a Star Destroyer that had been disabled by a barrage of ion torpedoes. The disabled Star Destroyer subsequently collided into the other Star Destroyer, which suffered damage and crashed into the Shield Gate that protected the planetary shield. The shield was disabled, and the Rebels collected the secret plans that eventually led to the destruction of the Death Star… and Armada fans everywhere thought to themselves, “All that from one facedown damage card?”
