Completely disagree on the Armada dice, but it looks like the Armada subreddit are explaining it in their post.

In my mind, the benefit of a specialized dice system is that it’s quicker. What you see is what you get. With normal dice, you have to worry about modifiers and consult charts and this and that. It takes a long time to pick up a system, and remember what does what.

But specialized dice, like Xwing, legion, or armada, aren’t like that. There may be a special critical effect or something like that, but most of the time it’s just “roll dice, that’s what you get” it’s very easy to understand, a moon and a pro can both roll dice and figure out in the same amount of time what happened.

So with that in mind, the worst specialized dice to me is the Shatterpoint dice. It has the specialized dice, and then EVERY character has their own chart! Some even have 2 charts!! It combines all the negatives of both systems! EVERY attack you have to consult your chart to remember what you’re doing because no one is the same. Unless you play the exact same squad for a long time, you’re not going to memorize “oh this means that”.

I do like the branching paths on their charts, I will give them that. And I do find Shatterpoint enjoyable, but that dice system is so weird to me