Armada: The cost of victory

Ackbar trolls my wallet.

The purpose of this article will be to evaluate some of the Wave 2 metagame in respect to cost for competitive lists.  What I did was to break apart the Wave 2 competitive metagame by archetypes and then break down a few lists with what I can find from Store/Regional Winners lists on the forum.  This is no way suggests that these are the only lists out there, but these should give us a good idea how much some of these more competitive lists cost.  All pieces are broken down by the least expensive option at MSRP.

Disclaimer:
I am having trouble finding Regional-winning or multiple Store Championship winning Fireball and Rhymerball lists.  If anyone have a link to them, please let me know!  Or better yet, break it apart yourself and let me know on the price!  I am posting variants that I have fought against that are brutal and effective.

For Regional data, I used schmitty's thread here:
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/218949-revised-regionals-data

Archetypes Examined:
Rhymerball (2 variants)
DeMSU (2 variants)
Rebel Gunline (1 variant)
Rebel Carriers (2 variants)
Rebel Swarm (1 variant)

Imperial Samples:
4

Rebel Samples:
4

Rebel Archetype Cost Analysis

Rebel Gunline
http://lkhero.blogspot.com/2016/03/bfg-armada-mp-beta-starts-thursday.html

List analysis:
MC80 - 1x Home One Exp
MKII - 1x MKII Exp
CR90 - 1x CR90 Exp
Missions, tokens, playing tools - 1x Core Set
Intel Officer - 2x Neb
Engine Techs - (in Neb)
2x ECM - (in CR90 and MKII)
2x XI7 - (in Neb)
Leading Shots - (in CR90)
Gunney Team - (in MKII)
TRC - 1x MC30c Exp
4x YTs - 4x R&V Exp

Buy list without overlaps:
1x Core Set - $99.95
1x Home One Exp - $39.95
1x MKII Exp - $39.95
1x CR90 Exp - $19.95
2x Neb Exp - $19.95
1x MC30c Exp - $29.95
4x R&V Exp - $19.95

Total MSRP:
$349.50

***Bonus round!***
Took a look at a 3x MKII Ackbar build with 4x YTs and it came out to $379.40)
http://nanotanks.pythonanywhere.com/fleet/str/400u63s8u36u3u6u41s8u3u6u41s8u3u6u41q30n4o3o7o11

Rebel Swarm
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/222920-the-road-to-nationals-thoughts-from-the-final-match

Buy list:
1x Core Set - $99.95
3x MC30c Exp - $29.95
2x CR90 Exp - $19.95
8x R&V Exp - $19.95

Total MSRP:
$389.30

Rebel Carriers #1
http://warhammertruthiness.blogspot.com/2016/06/martinsburg-wv-regionals.html

Buy list:
1x Core Set - $99.95
1x Home One Exp - $39.95
1x MKII Exp - $39.95
1x Neb Exp - $19.95
1x CR90 Exp - $19.95
1x MC30c Exp - $29.95
1x R&V Exp - $19.95
2x Rebel Squadron Exp - $19.95

Total MSRP:
$309.55

Rebel Carriers #2
http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2016/05/biggs-in-pittsburgh.html

Buy list:
1x Core Set - $99.95
1x Home One Exp - $39.95
1x Neb Exp - $19.95
1x MC30c Exp - $29.95
1x Raider - $19.95
2x CR90 Exp - $19.95
2x Rebel Squadron Exp - $19.95
2x R&V Exp - $19.95

Total MSRP:
$329.45

Rebel Total MSRP Average: $344.45


Imperial Archetype Cost Analysis

DeMSU #1
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/203083-is-clontroper5s-build-invincible/?p=2061041

Buy list:
1x Core Set - $99.95
2x MC30c Exp - $29.95
3x Gladiator Exp - $29.95
3x Neb Exp - $19.95
4x Raider Exp - $19.95

Total MSRP:
$389.35

DeMSU #2
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/215949-adepticon-armada-tournament-report/?p=2144569

Buy list:
1x Core Set - $99.95
3x Gladiator Exp - $29.95
3x MC30c Exp - $29.95
2x Raider Exp - $19.95

Total MSRP:
$319.55

Fireball
http://nanotanks.pythonanywhere.com/fleet/str/400u17s12u50u56u3u6u41u37s13u73s13u73q9n1q25n1q10n1q20n4o3o7o9

Buy list:
1x Core Set - $99.95
1x ISD Exp - $49.95
1x Neb Exp - $19.95
2x Raider - $19.95
1x Imperial Squadrons Exp - $19.95
4x S&V Exp - $19.95

Total MSRP:
$309.50

Rhymerball
http://nanotanks.pythonanywhere.com/fleet/str/400u17s12u50u56u3u6u41u37s13u73s13u73q9n1q25n1q10n1q6n8o3o7o9

Buy list:
1x Core Set - $99.95
1x ISD Exp - $49.95
1x Neb Exp - $19.95
2x Raider - $19.95
1x S&V Exp - $19.95
4x Imperial Squadrons Exp - $19.95

Total MSRP:
$309.50

Imperial Total MSRP Average: $331.96

All sample lists averaged: $338.21

If you have a competitive list that you'd like to share, please break it down if possible and list it out like I did.  Be curious, because I sure am!  Since Wave 4 is out not out, it's still too early to start breaking it down because we don't know what will be tournament-successful.

You can see what I'm doing with this data here on the forums.