Custom Armada: alternate rules, cards and models

XG-1 Star Wing, coming to Armada REAL soon!

Kuat Drive Yards

Kuat Drive Yards lets you create your own cards. Ships, including the ship cards and the ship (cardboard) tokens can be created and printed. Same for squadrons, upgrades, objectives and more.

Judging by the steady stream of new content, I'm probably not the only one who likes to dream up new cards - and "what if" versions of existing cards. It's easy to use, so it doesn't take a lot of effort to learn it and spew out new content. 

You can also look at what other users have made - the site has some filtering options - and get inspired. Just be warned: there is some gold there, but a LOT of rubbish, including stuff with no relation to Star Wars or Armada.

Arvel Crynyd - right before he slams into the bridge of the Executor

So what can this custom stuff be used for? Typically to have a good time with your mates :-D For example you could make a pack of extra unique squadrons and titles for use with the Corellian Conflict. Because you're tired of the same old squadrons being taken over and over - and becasue you want to do 600 point fleets.

Or you could redo some existing upgrades, because they are either too good/bad or because you find them to be not very thematic. Here is one such example:

Perfect for the Nebulon-B

Finally it could be because you want to use some custom miniatures. Stuff from the Clone Wars, for example. Or the XG-1 Star Wing. Or the Braha'tok-class gunship, also known as the Dornean gunship. Or the Assault Frigate mk 1. Or the Dreadnaught class cruiser. 

Which brings us to...

Mel's Miniatures

Assault Frigate Mk 1 vs Mk 2

To get ACTUAL custom miniatures in Armada, I would recommend Mel Miniatures. He has a wide range of stuff, from the Clone Wars era and into the TFA era. He does capital ships in all sizes (Executor included), as well as squadrons. There are even some small-scale fighters and smaller ships (like corvettes) for people who want to accentuate the size difference more.

ISD-I conversion kit

To bring these beautiful models into your games, you can either use them as stand ins for existing stuff: the AF mk 1 can replace a mk 2, for example. Or you can add completely new ships and squadrons to the game by using custom cards, such as those created with kdyards.com

Pair of Republic Venators, painter unknown

Diablo Azul's Shipyard

Finally a special shout out to Armada Shipyards. It's a site with lots of custom content, meant for use with Mel's minis (and others). It's a site that's been around for years, since the early days of Armada. Some of the stuff on there is pretty dated, but it's such great quality nontheless. It's also very fun to see the old imagined versions of ships we now have in Armada.

A medium-base ship, with command 4!