5 articlesGetting more fleets in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2’s campaign is tied into shipyards, your admiral’s level, and renown unlocks. You don’t just click a button and spawn an army.
Instead, you earn the capability over time as you grow your empire and resources. But how exactly do you build new fleets? Let’s take a look.
How to Build New Fleets in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
After leveling up and winning a decent number of battles, you’ll have access to creating more fleets. This will gain you an advantage over your missions, which will make your fleet encounters easier to win.
Every faction has a fleet cap, and you only unlock additional fleets as you earn renown and level up your admiral.
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To actually make a new fleet, you have to be in a system that has a shipyard and available fleet slots.
Head to the campaign map, select a system you control with a shipyard and look for a small “+” icon near where your existing fleets are parked. Click on that to recruit a new admiral and form a brand-new fleet from scratch.
Keep in mind that shipyards give construction capacity, and the game lets you use that capacity to assemble fleets as long as you aren’t over your command capacity.
However, you can only recruit a new admiral and fleet at locations tied into your ship infrastructure.
What to Consider Before Building a New Fleet
Before you start building a new fleet, there are a few mechanics you need to actually expand as well. They’re as follows:
Renown & Admiral Level
As your flagship and admirals earn renown, your overall leadership cap goes up. Higher leadership unlocks both more fleet slots and bigger fleet strength limits.
This means that you can support and build more fleets and add more powerful ships to them.
Fleet Slots Per Faction
There’s a shared limit for most factions. For example, in the Imperial campaign you might start with two navy fleets and two Space Marine fleets available.
You can only recruit up to that faction’s cap.
System Connectivity
You must recruit the fleet in a system that either has a shipyard or is connected on the warp network to a system that does. That’s because you’re not just spawning ships, you’re organizing them from shipyard resources.
It’s worth noting that you won’t see a million fleets pop out overnight. Campaign progression and hard resource limits mean every new admiral and fleet is earned.
Sometimes, you even have to evolve planets or grind secondary objectives to get enough renown to unlock the next slot.
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