If X-Wing was the new hope Death Star attack, then Star Wars Armada is the major offence on the Death Star from Return of the Jedi. Well Fantasy Flight Games have done it again because Star Wars Armada takes the space battles from my favourite space opera films and scales it up so we can now blast each other with Star Destroyers. X-Wing was about dog fighting, Star Fleet should be about careful manoeuvring of massive dreadnoughts. When Wizkids took the same system and transferred it to Star Trek, to me, it just didn’t feel right.

Not only did it beautifully capture the look and feel of the Star Wars films that have been my geek passion for years, they also managed to skilfully capture the dogfighting and manoeuvring aspect of the attack on the Death Star in A New Hope (or just Star Wars when I first saw it). Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars X-Wing miniatures game is quite possible one of my favourite games of all time.