Star Wars: Armada – Imperial Class Star Destroyer Expansion Pack
Star Wars: Armada – Imperial Class Star Destroyer Expansion Pack Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Ship Cards
Each ship card shows, from top to bottom: the ship's name and faction symbol, the hull value with the anti-squadron armament (the burst icon), the Command, Squadron and Engineering values, a green panel of four symbols, the speed chart, the shield-and-armament diagram (front, left, right and rear hull zones), and along the bottom the ship-type icon, the upgrade bar and the printed number.
Imperial I-class Star Destroyer
- Printed number: 110
- Hull: 11
- Command: 3
- Squadron: 4
- Engineering: 4
- Anti-squadron armament: 1 black die and 1 blue die
Shields and armament by hull zone (shield value in the circle; dice in the zone's armament box):
- Front: shield 4. Armament: top row red, red, blue, black; second row red, blue, black, black (8 dice in total: 3 red, 2 blue, 3 black).
- Left: shield 3. Armament: 2 red dice and 2 black dice.
- Right: shield 3. Armament: 2 red dice and 2 black dice.
- Rear: shield 2. Armament: 1 red die and 2 blue dice.
Speed chart. Columns are speed 1 to 4. Rows are shown top to bottom as printed. A red cell is a red-coloured chart cell, a brown cell is a brown-coloured chart cell, and "1" and "–" are the values printed on white cells.
| Row | Speed 1 | Speed 2 | Speed 3 | Speed 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | red | red | red | brown |
| 2 | red | red | 1 | brown |
| 3 | red | 1 | 1 | brown |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | – | brown |
The chart carries no printed legend text on this card, so the meaning of the colours is not transcribed. Speed 4 appears only as brown cells with no value.
Upgrade bar: six upgrade-slot symbols, as printed. The card prints no names for them.
Imperial II-class Star Destroyer
- Printed number: 120
- Hull: 11
- Command: 3
- Squadron: 4
- Engineering: 4
- Anti-squadron armament: 2 blue dice
Shields and armament by hull zone:
- Front: shield 4. Armament: 4 red dice and 4 blue dice (8 dice in total).
- Left: shield 3. Armament: 2 blue dice and 2 red dice.
- Right: shield 3. Armament: 2 blue dice and 2 red dice.
- Rear: shield 2. Armament: 1 red die and 2 blue dice.
Speed chart: the same as the Imperial I-class chart above (columns speed 1 to 4, the same cell colours and values).
Upgrade bar: six upgrade-slot symbols, as printed. The card prints no names for them.
Upgrade Cards
Each upgrade card shows its name, its printed number at the bottom right, and a symbol in the lower-left corner where one is printed. A bullet (•) printed before a name is transcribed as a bullet.
Darth Vader
- Type: Commander (commander icon on the card back; no lower-left symbol on the front)
- Unique: yes (bullet printed before the name)
- Printed number: 36
While a friendly ship is attacking a ship, it may spend 1 defense token to reroll any number of dice in its attack pool.
Captain Needa
- Type: officer-type upgrade (head-and-shoulders silhouette in the lower-left corner)
- Unique: yes (bullet printed before the name)
- Printed number: 2
At the start of the first round, you may replace 1 of your defense tokens with a [bent-arrow icon] defense token.
(The defense token symbol in the card text is a bent-arrow icon. The card does not print its name.)
Phylon Q7 Tractor Beams
- Type: Modification
- Printed number: 6
Modification.
When you activate, you may exhaust this card to choose 1 enemy ship of your size class or smaller at distance 1–5. That ship must spend a [half-shaded disc icon] token or reduce its speed by 1 to a minimum of 1.
(The token symbol in the card text is a half-shaded disc with a spur. The card does not print its name, so it is transcribed as an icon.)
Avenger
- Type: Title (Star Destroyer ship icon in the lower-left corner)
- Unique: yes (bullet printed before the name)
- Printed number: 5
While attacking, the defender cannot spend exhausted defense tokens.
Devastator
- Type: Title (Star Destroyer ship icon in the lower-left corner)
- Unique: yes (bullet printed before the name)
- Printed number: 10
Once per round, while attacking from your front hull zone, you may add 1 blue die to your attack pool for each of your discarded defense tokens.
Relentless
- Type: Title (Star Destroyer ship icon in the lower-left corner)
- Unique: yes (bullet printed before the name)
- Printed number: 3
The total number of command dials that must be assigned to your ship during the Command Phase is reduced by 1.
Heavy Turbolaser Turrets
- Type: upgrade with a gunner silhouette in the lower-left corner (the card prints no type name)
- Printed number: 6
While attacking, the [half-shaded disc icon] defense effect cannot reduce the damage total by more than 1 unless it is the only defense token spent by the defender during the attack.
(The defense token symbol in the card text is a half-shaded disc with a spur, similar to the symbol on Phylon Q7 Tractor Beams. The card does not print its name, so it is transcribed as an icon.)
Ruthless Strategists
- Type: upgrade with a crouched-figure silhouette in the lower-left corner (the card prints no type name)
- Printed number: 4
After attacking a squadron, you may deal 1 damage to a friendly squadron engaged with the defender. If you do, the defender suffers 1 damage.
Redundant Shields
- Type: Modification
- Printed number: 8
Modification.
At the start of each Status Phase, you may recover 1 shield.
Boosted Comms
- Printed number: 4
[squadron-icon]: You can activate friendly squadrons at close–long range (instead of close–medium).
(The icon in the card text is a symbol the card does not name; it is transcribed as an icon.)
Support Officer
- Type: officer-type upgrade (head-and-shoulders silhouette in the lower-left corner)
- Printed number: 4
At the start of the Command Phase, you may discard this card to discard all of your command dials.
Gaps in This Transcription
The product's card list names 18 upgrade cards (the preview article's count, including Phylon Q7 Tractor Beams). Eleven are transcribed above. The following seven were not available as card scans, and no text has been written for them:
- Wing Commander
- Engineering Captain (two copies)
- Tactical Expert (two copies)
- NK-7 Ion Cannons
- Slaved Turrets
Notes on the Transcription
- Symbols that appear inside card text are shown in square brackets as icon names (for example [bent-arrow icon]) where the card prints no name. These bracketed names describe the printed symbol; they are not printed keywords.
- Lower-left silhouettes on the officer, Title and other upgrade cards are transcribed by what they depict, because the card does not print a type name for them.
- Card artist credits, flavour text and the copyright line are omitted.
- No errata, setup text or rules insert exists for this pack.
- Base-game rules (command dials, shields, speed, dice, keywords such as Escort, Counter, Swarm, Bomber and Heavy) are defined in the Star Wars: Armada rulebook and are not repeated here.