''Noble Armada'' is a

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published by

Holistic Design Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), is an American game company. It was founded in 1992 as Several Dudes Holistic Gaming. The company has developed many computer games in its history, including ''Battles of Destiny'', ''Hammer of the Gods (video game), ...

in 1998.

Gameplay

''Noble Armada'' is a science fiction miniatures wargame involving spaceship combat, compatible with the ''

Fading Suns ''Fading Suns'' is a science fiction space opera role-playing game published by Holistic Design. The setting was also used for a PC game (''Emperor of the Fading Suns''), a live action role-playing game ('' Passion Play''), and for a space co ...

'' role-playing game. The game also featured shipside boarding with soldiers fighting in the interiors of enemy ships.

Publication history

Shannon Appelcline explains that ''Noble Armada'', "co-designed by Holistic founder Ken Lightner and marketing guy Chris Wiese" was the first of "a slew of tabletop miniatures game releases" in 1998 from Holistic Design. Holistic also published a fully supported line of miniatures for the game. A second edition of the game was published in 2002. Two sets of deckplans for Noble Armada were released, one in 2005 and one in 2006.

Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties '' Traveller'', ''Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...

began producing a new version of the game called ''A Call to Arms: Noble Armada'' (2011). This version used the "Call to Arms" system from Mongoose in the ''Fading Suns'' universe which was licensed by their partner

RedBrick Limited RedBrick Limited was a New Zealand game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. The company moved to the United States in 2010 and established business as RedBrick LLC. In 2018, RedBrick Publishing – the successor to RedBri ...

Reception

Shannon Appelcline noted that in publishing this game, Holistic was "figuring out how to take advantage of the lucrative miniatures market" and that the game's high "price point and muddy rules marred the first edition of Noble Armada, but they weren't enough to stand in the way of the game's success. Better, both of these elements would be resolved in a second edition (2002), which cleaned up the rules and lowered the price point by splitting the Ships of the Line miniatures apart from the rules. Because of Noble Armada's success, work also began on a computer adaptation, which would have been the second Fading Suns computer game."

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References

External links

* {{bgg, 11689, ''Noble Armada'' Board games introduced in 1998 Holistic Design games