Of course, but I think they could have made the cube slightly bigger (or in fact, much bigger) without any problems. It was the largest ship IIRC, and the game had a pan-zoom so you could see things close by or from slightly afar, so it wouldn't have been that troublesome.
When Armada was released 1024x786 was your standard resolution, with 800x600 not being that unusual.
To have 'fleets', especially on the small maps, you were going to have to shrink that cube down. On top of that, only the Borg are going to send one at a time, a player is going to have several at once.
Didn't think about it, when I played Armada I didn't play online (still had a modem!) and the computer only sent one cube at a time. And I always was more like playing the Federation, I liked the ships more (I don't remember the name of the frigate class, but the special shot, bouncing among enemies was great, and the long-range destroyer "bombs" were also deadly: its range was barely a few more pixels than defense towers from the other races.)
