Star Wars: Armada review – epic space battles on your dinner table

The pre-painted ships and custom dice peeking out from the box beg to be played. But is it worth the price?

Board game publishers Fantasy Flight already make some of the most high-end tabletop games in the world, but Star Wars: Armada is something else entirely.

A two-player celebration of the fizzing lasers and swooping squadrons of Star Wars, this is a deep box packed with pre-painted miniatures, tiny dials, custom dice, even an intimidating snake-like thing called the "Maneuver Tool". And these are just the toys that'll catch your eye. As you pick them up to start fiddling, you'll reveal still more stuff to play with -bound packs of cards, endless tokens, flatpacked asteroids.