Star Wars: Armada – Chimaera Expansion Pack
Star Wars: Armada – Chimaera Expansion Pack Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Ship Cards
Each ship card shows, from top to bottom and left to right: hull value, anti-squadron armament, the command, squadron and engineering values, the speed chart, the defense tokens, the anti-ship armament by arc, the upgrade slots along the foot of the card, the ship size, and the points cost at bottom right. Flag: on both ship cards the scan is cropped at the foot, so the ship size, points cost and upgrade slots are not visible in the scan and are not transcribed. The printed numbers in the speed chart, arc boxes and the rest of the upper card are shown in full.
Imperial Star Destroyer Kuat Refit
Faction: Imperial Hull: 11 Anti-squadron armament: 1 blue die and 1 black die
Command: 3 Squadron: 2 Engineering: 4
Speed chart (columns are speed 1 to 4, read top to bottom; a red cell has no entry, a grey cell is shaded and not used on this card, and the printed symbols are reproduced as shown):
| Row | Speed 1 | Speed 2 | Speed 3 | Speed 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | red | red | red | grey |
| 2 | red | red | I | grey |
| 3 | red | I | I | grey |
| 4 | I | I | – | grey |
Flag: the speed chart's fourth column is shaded grey on this card, not red. Its meaning is not printed. It is transcribed as shown and is not read as a red (no entry) cell.
Defense tokens: four slots on the green panel. Top left: a half-filled circle with spikes. Top right and bottom left: arrow-curve icons. Bottom right: a sphere with a grid pattern. The card does not name these tokens, so the names are not given here; the reading is from the icons alone.
Anti-ship armament by arc (dice shown, and the printed number in the circle beside each arc):
- Front arc (printed number 4): 1 red die, 1 red die, 1 blue die and 1 black die on the top row; 1 red die, 1 blue die and 2 black dice on the bottom row. In total 3 red, 2 blue and 3 black dice.
- Left arc (printed number 3): 1 red die, 2 black dice and 1 blue die.
- Right arc (printed number 3): 1 red die, 2 black dice and 1 blue die.
- Rear arc (printed number 2): 1 red die, 1 black die and 1 blue die. Flag: the rear box sits at the bottom edge of the scan and is partly cut off, so the blue die is read from its visible part only.
Upgrade slots: not visible in the scan (the foot of the card is cropped).
Imperial Star Destroyer Cymoon 1 Refit
Faction: Imperial Hull: 11 Anti-squadron armament: 2 black dice
Command: 3 Squadron: 3 Engineering: 4
Speed chart (identical to Imperial Star Destroyer Kuat Refit; columns are speed 1 to 4, read top to bottom):
| Row | Speed 1 | Speed 2 | Speed 3 | Speed 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | red | red | red | grey |
| 2 | red | red | I | grey |
| 3 | red | I | I | grey |
| 4 | I | I | – | grey |
Defense tokens: four slots on the green panel, with the same four icons as Imperial Star Destroyer Kuat Refit (top left: a half-filled circle with spikes; top right and bottom left: arrow-curve icons; bottom right: a sphere with a grid pattern). The names are not given, as above.
Anti-ship armament by arc (dice shown, and the printed number in the circle beside each arc):
- Front arc (printed number 4): 1 red, 1 red, 1 red and 1 blue die on the top row; 1 red, 1 red and 1 blue die on the bottom row. In total 5 red and 2 blue dice.
- Left arc (printed number 3): 3 blue dice and 1 red die.
- Right arc (printed number 3): 3 blue dice and 1 red die.
- Rear arc (printed number 2): 1 red die and 2 blue dice.
Upgrade slots: not visible in the scan (the foot of the card is cropped).
Notes on the Ship Cards
- Neither ship card prints ability text. The ship's behaviour is set by its speed chart, defense tokens, armament and the upgrade cards below.
- The two ships share hull, speed chart, defense tokens and the printed arc numbers. They differ in command/squadron values (Kuat Refit: command 3, squadron 2; Cymoon 1 Refit: command 3, squadron 3), anti-squadron armament (Kuat Refit: 1 blue and 1 black die; Cymoon 1 Refit: 2 black dice) and the dice in each arc.
- The ship size is shown by an icon at the foot of the card, which is cropped in this scan.
Upgrade Cards
Each upgrade card shows its name, a type icon at the bottom left (where legible), the points cost at bottom right, and the card text. Unique (ace) cards are marked with a bullet (•) before the name, as printed. Where a type icon is not legible, the card is marked as such and the type is not stated.
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Type: not printed as text; no type icon is visible at the bottom left of the scan Points cost: 32 Unique: yes
After deploying fleets, place 3 facedown command dials on this card. At the start of each Ship Phase, you may reveal and discard 1 of those dials. If you do, until the end of the round, before each friendly ship activates, it gains 1 additional dial matching that discarded dial.
Taskmaster Grint
Type: officer-style head silhouette icon at the bottom left (the card's type is not printed as text; the icon is read from its appearance only) Points cost: 5 Unique: yes
After deploying fleets, choose and place 1 command token on this card. When you reveal a command matching that token, you may gain 1 matching command token without spending the command dial.
Seventh Fleet Star Destroyer
Type: not printed as text; the bottom-left badge is a dark hexagon carrying a "7F" mark (the Seventh Fleet mark). The upgrade type it denotes is not stated, and no type is taken from the badge. Flag. Restriction: "Star Destroyer" only (the card text opens with this restriction, in italics, as printed). Points cost: 5
While defending against an attack that targets your front hull zone, before you suffer damage, you may choose and exhaust a copy of this card on another friendly ship at distance 1–4 to reduce the total damage by 1.
Chimaera
Type: a Star Destroyer silhouette at the bottom left. The silhouette is a ship restriction; the card does not print the upgrade type as text, and the type is not stated here. Flag. Restriction: Star Destroyer silhouette (as above). Points cost: 4
You gain 1 [grey circular upgrade-bar icon] icon in your upgrade bar. You cannot equip this card if you have a [grey circular upgrade-bar icon] icon in your upgrade bar. At the start of the Command Phase, you may discard 1 [grey circular upgrade-bar icon] upgrade card you have equipped and replace it with another [grey circular upgrade-bar icon] upgrade card.
Flag: the grey circular icon is not named on the card. It is an upgrade-bar icon, shown in the text in the same form each time, and it is transcribed here only by its appearance.
Entrapment Formation!
Type: a circular icon with a radar-style sweep at the bottom left. The type is not printed as text and is not stated here. Flag. Points cost: 5 Unique: yes
At the start of the Ship Phase, you may discard this card or spend a [swirl token icon] token. If you do, until the end of the round, each friendly ship may change its speed by 1 during its Determine Course step.
Flag: the token named in the text is shown only as a swirl icon. The token's name is not printed on the card.
Intensify Firepower!
Type: a circular icon with a radar-style sweep at the bottom left (the same icon as Entrapment Formation!). The type is not printed as text and is not stated here. Flag. Points cost: 6 Unique: yes
At the start of the Ship Phase, you may discard this card or spend a [crosshair token icon] token. If you do, until the end of the round, while each friendly ship is attacking a ship, it may change 1 die to a face with 1 [burst icon] icon and no other icons.
Flag: the token and the burst icon are shown only as pictograms. Their names are not printed on the card.
Shields to Maximum!
Type: a circular icon with a radar-style sweep at the bottom left (the same icon as Entrapment Formation! and Intensify Firepower!). The type is not printed as text and is not stated here. Flag. Points cost: 6 Unique: yes
At the start of the Ship Phase, you may discard this card or spend a [half-circle token icon] token. If you do, until the end of the round, before a friendly ship reveals a command, it may recover 1 shield.
Squadron Cards
Each squadron card shows its name, faction, the speed, the hull, the anti-squadron and anti-ship armament, the keyword abilities, the squadron type icon at the bottom left and the points cost at bottom right.
Mandalorian Gauntlet Fighter
Faction: Imperial Speed: 4 Hull: 7 Anti-squadron armament: 1 blue die and 1 red die Anti-ship armament: 2 blue dice Points cost: 20
Assault. (While attacking a ship, you may spend 1 die with a ✸ icon. If you do, the defender gains 1 raid token of your choice.)
Rogue. (You can move and attack during the Squadron Phase.)
Flag: the scanned set contains one squadron card only. The pack's second squadron figure is not in the scanned set, so it is not transcribed.
Notes on the Upgrade Cards
- The bracketed icons are pictograms printed on the card. They are named here only by their appearance; their meaning is the one given by the base game's Rules Reference.
- Upgrade types that are not printed as text are left unstated rather than guessed. Where a type icon is visible it is described, not named.
- Card artist credits and flavour text are omitted.
Flagged Text
These are the passages the scans leave unclear. Each is transcribed as printed, and nothing is corrected from memory.
- Kuat Refit speed chart, column 4. Shaded grey in every row, not red. Meaning not printed.
- Kuat Refit rear arc. Partly cut off at the bottom edge of the scan. The blue die is read from its visible part.
- Ship foot (both ships). Cropped in the scan: ship size, points cost and upgrade slots are not visible.
- Defense token names (both ships). Shown as icons only; not named on the card.
- Upgrade type icons. Thrawn: no type icon visible. Grint: head silhouette. Seventh Fleet Star Destroyer: "7F" badge. Chimaera: Star Destroyer silhouette (ship restriction). Entrapment Formation!, Intensify Firepower!, Shields to Maximum!: radar-sweep icon. None is printed as text; none has been assigned a type name here.
- Token and symbol names. The tokens named in Entrapment Formation!, Intensify Firepower! and Shields to Maximum! are shown as pictograms only, as is the burst icon in Intensify Firepower! and the grey upgrade-bar icon in Chimaera.
- Final page. The last page is a promotional render showing the Chimaera and Entrapment Formation! cards in a fleet scene, not a firepower diagram. It adds no text beyond the two cards already transcribed.
- Dice counts. Read from a soft 200–300 px card scan upscaled to 1200 px. The arc dice are counted from the enlarged image, and the counts should be checked against a physical card if one is available.