I have not played Firestorm Armada yet. I read the rulebook and I like it. I figured gameplay would be much more interesting with more ship designs to build my fleet. Once again, I convinced my friend of ordering more Spartan Games models! I collect Sorylian and Dindrenzi; He collects Terran and Directorate. Our second order (via ebay) consisted of:

• Directorate: Carrier, Heavy Cruiser, Escorts
• Terran: Carrier, Heavy Cruiser, Escorts
• Dindrenzi: Carrier, Escorts
• Sorylian: Carrier, Heavy Cruiser, Gunship, Escorts
• FSA deck of 52 game cards

Note: I started gluing and basecoating my Dindrenzi fleet. It took a significant amount of time to clean flash from the models and sand all pieces to make them fit but the result is great!

I have always been interested in space combat through Sci-Fi series/movies (Star Wars, Star Trek, and more), RPG games (ICE Spacemaster, WEG Star Wars D6 with Star Warriors starfighter combat, TSR Star Frontiers), and computer games (Homeworld, Space Empires…). This interest plus my fondness of miniature games brought me to Spartan Games website and their lines of miniatures for their three games: The Uncharted Seas, Dystopian Wars, and Firestorm Armada (FSA). After reading a few reviews on their pure Sci-Fi game FSA, I wanted to give it a try.

The game system is appealing: streamlined (not too complicated) yet with many strategic decisions, each race/faction ships have different strengths/approach, starter fleets are affordable compared to other spaceship combat games, many models are nice sculpts. Also, FSA would fill a void in my game collection: spaceship combat games! I convinced a friend and we both ordered two starter fleets from Meeplemart. I bought one “good” race, the Sorylian Collective, and one “evil” race, the Dindrenzi Federation. See pictures below showing each fleet – cleaned and glued. My friend got Terran Alliance and The Directorate.

• Sorylian Starter Fleet
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• Dindrenzi Starter Fleet
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