Mwulf: Yeah, the Fleet Ops mod is pretty fantastic. There's also a good Babylon 5 mod out there somewhere, or at least there was.
As for ETA... I'd guess it'd be a matter of weeks, or a few months at the most, right? I can't imagine they'd bother listing the game if there was going to be a long delay. Personally I'll probably be checking the site every other day to see when it's out... Armada 2 is easily among my favorite Star Trek games, and I am one huge honking Trekkie.
I really enjoyed that Babylon 5 mod, to the point where I took it apart to bug fix it.
Solved some of the issues, but when I reached out to the mod team they had no documentation on balance, so there was no guidance for what I had to change now that some broken parts were working as originally intended.
Still a great mod as is, though. Might see if I backed up my files, or maybe the original team might return now that Armada II will (presumably) be far easier to get running, and with a decent size audience.