Over the last couple of weeks there has been talk of folks switching from playing Warhammer Fantasy Battles on Tuesday evenings to playing Firestorm Armada. This game came and went a while back when it was first released (much like its cousin, Uncharted Seas).

I decided to take a leap of faith and buy my first fleet, the Aquans. I like the look of the ships and from what I understand about their tactics, I liked that as well. It seems one tactic is to move through the enemy and drop mines along the way so when those squads activate, they set off the mines. The other tactic being moving into the middle of the enemy and firing all weapons in all arcs along with torpedoes. Sounds cool to me!

I spent a good part of the weekend assembling the models and installing magnets in their belly with magnets on the stem of the bases as well. This operation wasn’t as troublesome as I first thought.

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