Armada is really good.  Unlike X-Wing which is primarily a “optimize your point buy fleet and then you win” game with fairly weak/bland at-the-table mechanics; Armada is a legit good minis game.

It stands on its own even without using any of they cards for boosts and each card offers just a minor buff that (at least with the cards released in Wave 1) you aren’t going to swing the odds much based brain burning your card buys.

Plus, there aren’t that many ships in the wave and you don’t need very many of them.  Although storage will be interesting.  So far I haven’t even tried to put the ships away yet.