My wife will go to conventions with me, we just came back from Cold Wars, but she will not participate in geek time.

My wife USED to really enjoy playing the game. Maybe it's because the first time we played, she beat me bad. But now that I play mire often without her, she doesn't win as much, so she doesn't want to play anymore! It's really hard to let her win too! I mean, I can't make my attack dice roll blanks! And she'll catch on if I stop.using my actions or something like that!

haha its seems that its not a good idea to teach wives to play X-wing....

In my case, my wife just give me a side look each time i tell that she could learn how to play, but after read all your post, I think I'll stop trying that... she is already beating me in scrabble...

The phenomenon is not that surprisingly really. How many times do you see a wife/gf woop ass on a March Madness bracket or fantasy football league ... even though they know absolutely nothing about it. Or the wife/gf whose never touched a video game controller before, but then proceeds to destroy folks on a FPS, smash brothers, etc. More than I'd care to admit...

I think the lesson is we WAY overthink our lists, strategy, etc, allowing someone with fresh eyes and not really knowing what the eff they're doing to come in and make us look stupid.

Keeps things interesting.

My wife USED to really enjoy playing the game. Maybe it's because the first time we played, she beat me bad. But now that I play mire often without her, she doesn't win as much, so she doesn't want to play anymore! It's really hard to let her win too! I mean, I can't make my attack dice roll blanks! And she'll catch on if I stop.using my actions or something like that!

Try playing with lists that you know won't be as effective. Play with that 3-ship rebel build. Toss Maarek Steele in an Advanced with a couple Interceptor wingmen and try to take down her Falcon. Load a HWK up with as many upgrades as you can fit on it and send it into battle.