X-Wing

[NecroBlade]

Any other X-Wing fans here? I've got a small fleet for both the Rebels and Imperials.

2x X-Wing
2x A-Wing
1x B-Wing
1x HWK-290
1x YT-1300

4x TIE Fighter
2x TIE Interceptor
1x TIE Bomber
1x Firespray-31
1x Lambda Shuttle

I'm always finding out something new about this game, strategies and tactics I never would've thought of. And there's plenty more to get!

What are your favorite ships to fly, or combos to put in a squad? I'll be posting lots more when I have more time!

[MegaSilver]

[Hahma]

[cwidje]

Originally Posted by Hahma

Explain. Explain! EXPLAIN!!!

[Hahma]

One of the guys in my game group found a scenario on Boardgamegeek.com for the battle of Hoth.

The rebels are defending some shield generators at the center left side of the top picture. The guy who brought the scenario made the generator out of paper. He also used some rectangular cardboard with images of AT-ATs and some smaller cardboard circles for the smaller AT's. They were marching toward the generators with some Empire ships as escort. The figures represented rebels and they had some minor rule of sort I can't remember exactly.

I used the scape tundra set as well as some other snow pieces to help build the trench in front of the shield generators and also the glaciers to add some difficulty to maneuvering. I nearly crashed when maneuvering between two glaciers in the center.

It was pretty fun, I had a couple A-Wings and maybe an X-Wing. We had 3 players a side. We've had games where we had 3 or 4 a side and maybe a couple ships each and just asteroids, but tried something different in the above game.

A few of the guys in my game group did some major playtesting for the base set and gave some good suggestions that were used. I got to test the B-Wing and Tie-Bomber before it came out, but haven't played X-Wing in a while unfortunately.

[cwidje]

The hiding Talz was an especially nice touch

[Arch-vile]

Wow, love those pics.

I just discovered X-Wing over Thanksgiving break; my uncle brought the Core, an Interceptor, and an A-Wing over. I bought a YT-1300 soon after, though I haven't had a chance to play it yet. I'll have to throw the Millenium Falcon in a 'scape game on of these days.

My favorite combination so far is the A-Wing plus Maneuverability (allows you to use a sharp 1 red turn as an action w/o stress. It gives the A-Wing insane maneuverability, outperforming even TIEs (though no Barrell Rolling still is a disadvantage. I haven't tried out a large fleet yet, so I'm most excited to put 6-7 TIEs on the board and try not to crash into myself.

[Porkins]

I've been interested in the game, as I enjoy all things Star Wars...but the game is just so darned expensive!

[Dignan]

I'm a huge fan of the game. I've bought in whole hog. I've got at least 3 of every small ship (with 8 Ties, and 5 x-Wings). I think it's a great game. Last month at BGG.Con, I ran a epic scale game with 10 players and 500 points per side (basically my whole collection). Here are some shots from the event.



Here is a shot of the setup.



A shot as the two fleets converge.



A shot of the Falcon as it gets swarmed. All of the large ships had huge targets painted on them. Everyone was gunning for them. None of them lasted very long.



A shot toward the end of the game. The rebels made some (IMO) poor maneuvers and ended up in a huge mess in the middle. The imperials controlled the flanks and pushed them into a huge meat grinder in the middle. It was brutal (especially at the end). Ships were dropping like flies in the last round.



The last two rebels in the meat grinder (they didn't last long).



A final shot of the tracker board I used to keep the game organized. As you can see, the Imps didn't lose many ships.

It was a ton of fun and everyone had a blast. I can't wait to run another epic game next year.

[rym]

Dignan, how long did that game take to play out?

I know for us, even 100-150 points-ish can take close to 2 hours, so I'm just curious.



Rebels - 4 X-Wings / 2 A-Wings / 2 B-Wings / 2 Y-Wings

Imperials - 6 TIEs / 3 Interceptors / 4 Bombers / 2 Advanced

+ the big ships and 2 sets of Imperial Aces coming in soon!

[Dignan]

Originally Posted by rym

Dignan, how long did that game take to play out?

I know for us, even 100-150 points-ish can take close to 2 hours, so I'm just curious.

The game took about 5 hours to play. The amount of carnage sped things along. I think it could have taken longer if the rebels hadn't gotten stuck in the grinder, but the game does speed along with all of those ships firing.

The key is being organized. You've got to have some means to track all the ships in play and who's turn it is to move/shoot.

[Hellfire]

We had a blast playing this game during the New Year. For everyone,except for myself, it was their first time playing. Pure fun.

Originally Posted by Porkins

I've been interested in the game, as I enjoy all things Star Wars...but the game is just so darned expensive!

Not sure if I should say this or not ... as I kind of feel bad for not supporting a great game and great gaming company (I dump sizable sums of money on FFG).

A year ago, I played a demo of this game at a local gaming store and really enjoyed it...it was excellent.

Months went by ... I kept eyeing that core set at Target. I was tempted but I wasn't ready for the monetary commitment. Members of my gaming group kept talking about how much they wanted to try the game but they thought it was too expensive. Then I'd eye the minis on sites like Coolstuff and tempt myself further...then I'd start adding up all the costs and deflected my temptation.

After months of tantalizing myself, I finally caved. However, I didn't buy the game; I built all the pieces myself using Photoshop (some cool dudes have shared their templates; this saved me a lot of time as I was planning on making the templates myself), Canvas boards, Heroclix pieces, cutting tools, and foamcore boards. It's a little rough around the edges but overall it turned out really well and my group went bonkers in disbelief and excitement:

Spoiler Alert!

The starfield isn't done yet.



I didn't make the dice. This isn't all the stuff I put together. There are 12 Ties (I think) and 6 X-Wings total.



Hmm ... looking at this I don't see much value in the pic ... unless you want a sneak peek at my C3G figure collection (If you're wondering, I have every figure or at least an "unofficial" proxy of every figure ) and my gaming workshop/studio.



Some trimming work is still needed.



Everything is sized to the actual scale; except the ships. I just eyeballed it and decided it wasn't a big deal if they were a little off. Nobody commented on them in disdain, so I guess I was okay.

Still not entirely done. I have 2 1/2 more waves of ships in order to catch up to the FFG releases before Wave 4 . It's been a fun project ... although it is a bit of work.