Noble Armada

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Noble Armada is a board game published by Holistic Design in 1998.

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Gameplay

Noble Armada is a science fiction miniatures wargame involving spaceship combat, compatible with the Fading Suns role-playing game. [1] : 275  The game also featured shipside boarding with soldiers fighting in the interiors of enemy ships. [1] : 276 

Publication history

Shannon Appelcline explains that Noble Armada, "co-designed by Holistic founder Ken Lightner and marketing guy Chris Wiese" was the first of "a slew of tabletop miniatures game releases" in 1998 from Holistic Design. [1] : 275  Holistic also published a fully supported line of miniatures for the game. [1] : 276  A second edition of the game was published in 2002. [1] : 276  Two sets of deckplans for Noble Armada were released, one in 2005 and one in 2006. [1] : 278 

Mongoose Publishing began producing a new version of the game called A Call to Arms: Noble Armada (2011). [1] : 279  This version used the "Call to Arms" system from Mongoose in the Fading Suns universe which was licensed by their partner RedBrick Limited. [2] : 125 

Reception

Shannon Appelcline noted that in publishing this game, Holistic was "figuring out how to take advantage of the lucrative miniatures market" and that the game's high "price point and muddy rules marred the first edition of Noble Armada, but they weren't enough to stand in the way of the game's success. Better, both of these elements would be resolved in a second edition (2002), which cleaned up the rules and lowered the price point by splitting the Ships of the Line miniatures apart from the rules. Because of Noble Armada's success, work also began on a computer adaptation, which would have been the second Fading Suns computer game." [1] : 276 

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '90s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN   978-1-61317-084-7.
  2. ↑ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN   978-1-61317-087-8.
  3. ↑ "Pyramid: Pyramid Pick: Noble Armada". www.sjgames.com. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  4. ↑ "Fading Sun: Noble Armada". Archived from the original on 2004-07-18. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
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