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{{quote|''"There's nothing quite like the look on your opponents face when you steal a battleship out from under his admiral."''|'''Unknown'''}}
'''''Firestorm: Armada''''' is a science fiction wargame setting produced by the UK based Spartan Games. It has undergone only slight rule revisions since its initial release in 2010, and maintains a small but loyal fanbase in most areas. It is played as a tabletop wargame where two or more players use a variety of ships to attempt to destroy the enemy fleet, capture enemy ships, or achieve certain objectives.
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* [[Arbitrary Maximum Range]]: Enforced. No ship is able to fire further than 32". Handwaved as being the maximum effective ''sensor'' range—which runs into [[Space Does Not Work That Way]].
* [[The Asteroid Thicket]]: Played straight. Every asteroid field is dense enough to have a fair chance of doing significant damage to anything passing through.
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* [[Critical Hit]]: Built into the game. Hit a ship hard enough, and you'll inflict lasting damage. Get Boxcars or Snake eyes on the critical table, and the ship undergoes [[Critical Existence Failure]].
* [[Desperation Attack]]: Ramming; it can only be done when a ship is on 1 HP, and will only work 1/6 of the time. The other ship can also try to evade it. If it works, however, both ships take a critical hit, and bad things will happen.
* [[Fanon]]: Pretty much any piece of background material not from the rulebook proper.
* [[Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon]]: The Dindrenzi's Hat. Given that these tend to be [[BFG]]s, it's just as well their arc of fire is limited.
* [[Flying Saucer]]: The Directorate. All their ships are reminiscent of old 60's and 70's sci fi, complete with [[Zeerust]].
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* [[No Saving Throw]]: Unless you have shields, nothing is going to stop that attack punching clean through the hull.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Roll a 2 or 12 on the critical table and that annoying enemy ship either [[Stuff Blowing Up|blows up]] in spectacular fashion, or [[Ret-Gone|disappears]].
* [[Energy Weapon|Plasma Weapons]]: The Directorate. Combining good old beam spam with [[Kill It
* [[Point Defenseless]]: Averted. It's not always 100% reliable, but point defense guns have the ability to decimate entire wings of attack craft or reduce massive torpedo salvos to nothingness.
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: Played reasonably straight for balance reasons. Both ships suffer a critical, which will kill the ramming ship every time, and also has 1/18 chance of completely destroying the target as well. Otherwise it just knocks off 2 HP, and does damage to the weapons, engines or crew.
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* [[Splash Damage Abuse]]: Stealth Bypass. Mines are are effect munitions, and ignore the effects of cloaking devices, making them an ideal weapon against the Relthoza.
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: The Relthoza, with an emphasis on the wizard. About as tough as any other fleet, but they come with [[Invisibility Cloak|cloaking devices]] as standard.
* [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet]]: Each of the core races currently has access to Frigates, Cruisers, Heavy Cruisers, Destroyers, Carriers, Battleships, and Dreadnaughts. Several also have access to [[Squishy Wizard|R&D Cruisers]], [[Big
* [[ISO Standard Human Spaceship]]: The Terrans. Boxy and wedged shaped to a tee, with some trilateral symmetry thrown in for flavour.
* [[Standard Starship Scuffle]]: The game is built around this ideal. That said, the ranges are reasonable if one extrapolates the scale.
* [[Stealth in Space]]: Deconstructed/Reconstructed in Fanon. Played straight otherwise.
* [[Subspace or Hyperspace]]: Foldspace. Stated to work by folding distant points of space together. Range is rather limited however.
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