X-Wing

Tunney · 30 Dec 2013 at 10:26

Does anyone else here play X-Wing? It's a space combat game from Fantasy Flight. All the models are pre-painted (heresy!) but I can't stop collecting them.

Here's some pictures from our games:

And now with a play mat...

Tunney · 30 Dec 2013 at 11:48

Yeah, it's not a cheap game to get into. The smaller ships are around £10 each and the new capital ships go up to around £65! The mat is from a company called Gale Force 9. Lots of online shops in the UK stock them. Fantasy Flight are bringing out their own tiles to play on soon too.

I think you can have a decent game with just the starter box. Normal games are around 100 points a side, which will get you between three and eight ships. Imperial forces tend to have more ships as TIE Fighters are dirt cheap.

Tunney · 10 Jan 2014 at 14:56

It is a fiddly mess.

And it's a Fantasy flight game which means COUNTERS EVERYWHERE.

Tunney · 11 Jan 2014 at 11:03

Cavallino said:
Blimey didn't know such capital ships are being released! That's great! How do you know theyre going to retail for £65?

Also the Aces Expansion is not even out yet!

They're already up for sale on places like Wayland:

Rebel transport
Tantive IV

They're slightly cheaper on Amazon.

Tunney · 20 Jan 2014 at 10:53

Yeah, Howlrunner is pretty much a no-brainer if you're going to take a TIE swarm. I tend to hang her back a little from the other TIEs so that she doesn't get caught at range 1.

Tunney · 14 May 2014 at 23:35

Look what came today.

Tunney · 15 May 2014 at 12:56

Cavallino said:
Pff I see yours and raise you:

And for good measure:

Haha, you win!

Tunney · 18 May 2014 at 09:50

Amazon initially had it on pre-order for £46. Looks like they're going to honour the price too!

Tunney · 21 May 2014 at 20:14

And here's the Tantive IV...

And I thought that the Rebel Transport was big! :eek:

Tunney · 24 May 2014 at 12:12

It has two cards - one for th front and one for the rear, costing 50 & 40 points respectively. Not sure you can take just one half of it though.

Tunney · 31 Aug 2014 at 21:31

It's not just you. The Star Trek ones are made by a different manufacturer and they aren't anywhere near as good.

That's a shame as I know people who prefer Star Trek: Attack Wing to X-Wing.

Tunney · 27 Oct 2014 at 18:30

Warbie said:
I'm quite taken with the Rebel and Imperial Aces packs and was wondering if adding them to the core game would work?

I'd only get a second starter set if you're going to be playing the game regularly. Personally, I like having a force of mostly X-Wings and TIE Fights for thematic reasons. The extra dice and movement rules are definitely useful though.

Tunney · 28 Mar 2015 at 12:52

My copy is somewhere in the belly of Royal Mail.

Tunney · 29 Mar 2015 at 15:07

Update:

Box is about twice the depth of the X-Wing starter set.

Tunney · 15 Apr 2015 at 09:45

I'm not sure yet. With X-Wing, I picked up a second starter set. I think that might be the way to go here but another starter set is expensive.

Tunney · 15 Dec 2015 at 11:26

If you're not looking to get into serious competitive play, I'd pick up a couple of the smaller fighters for each side to give the game a bit of variety. Perhaps an A-Wing and B-Wing for the Rebels and a TIE Inceptor and a TIE Bomber for the Galactic Empire.

Competitive play is all about spamming the same ship over and over again, it seems.