So today, after about six or seven months of playing casually with my friends, I realized that I had been badly misreading the rules on Focus. I had originally thought that you spent one focus token to change one eyeball into a hit or evade, not to change all of them. This has, for obvious reasons, led to us not appreciating Focus as much as we should and, generally, less big shots or dodges and a much more "plinky" play style. The adjustment to the correct way is taking some getting used to.

Now I know that I can't be the only person who has made similarly silly mistakes that have drastically changed the game. What have y'all done? I can't be alone at being this boneheaded...right?

I absolutely cannot play this game after 10:00pm, I make boneheaded moves because I need to be in bed by 11pm. If you ever get the chance to play me after 10pm be ready for me to shoot with ships sitting on asteroids, forget pilot abilities, and totally ignore any crits on my ships.

I originally thought focus was used to re-roll all eyes

My first tournament match was where I learned a lot of stuff about the game. I had done 3-4 major things wrong before that.

What have y'all done? I can't be alone at being this boneheaded...right?

I've been playing for quite a while, and just last game I dialed up a red maneuver when I had a stress token-- on two ships!

I've K-turned off the game area, several times....that 5 is a lot longer than it looks

Just...tons of times. I can't even remember them all.

• Thought barrel rolling got rid of target locks
• Thought ion kept you from attacking
• Didn't know stress kept you from getting free actions
• thought advanced sensors ignored stress
• Did all ships moves and THEN all ships actions, instead of doing move then action for each ship.
• Only calculated collisions for FINAL position (after everyone had moved), which was a) very difficult and b) seriously gimped high PS pilots.

It just seems to be a continuous stream of realizing we were doing things wrong.

I played an entire tournament game, forgetting to use Wedge's pilot ability... whoops.

I have played two games with the transport. So far I have torpedoed more friendly ships than opposing.

I played an entire tournament game, forgetting to use Wedge's pilot ability... whoops.

Same.

Just...tons of times. I can't even remember them all.

• Did all ships moves and THEN all ships actions, instead of doing move then action for each ship.
• Only calculated collisions for FINAL position (after everyone had moved), which was a) very difficult and b) seriously gimped high PS pilots.

It just seems to be a continuous stream of realizing we were doing things wrong.

I still do that first one often. I'm moving past it, but it can be hard to remember that taking actions isn't its own "action phase."

And that second one, yea. Been there. Oh man.

I thought the same for focus for the first few months I played.

I find for me it's more situational things on things I don't use constantly, like remembering Kath's ability or making sure ships get stressed by Rebel Captive. However, my most general mistake is forgetting movement order, and doing maneuvers that would work if done in the right order, but then causing my high PS ships to crash into my lower PS and lose actions.

I was playing with some newer players recently who had only ever played each other, and they thought that Focus only changed one die, that colliding made BOTH ships lose their actions, and a couple other major things that I forget right now.

I played an entire tournament game, forgetting to use Wedge's pilot ability... whoops.

Same.

Me too ...

With wedge it's helpful to say outloud how many dice you're using and against what amount of dice and agree upon it with your opponent. So say 'this will be 3 on 2'

I used to play where low PS ships moved AND fired first. Derp.

I did the focus thing for the first couple of games I played, kinda pleased I'm not the only numpty!

My first few games I though you k turned by putting the template on the back of the ship and turning around.....

My first few games I though you k turned by putting the template on the back of the ship and turning around.....

I just played someone who did the same thing. Too bad that's not right; it would create some really interesting battles.

Well, let's all be thankful none of us have mangled the rules as badly as Wil Wheaton did on Tabletop. Not even Riplikash.

I skipped over the rules for 'bumping'. So when ships overlapped...we just left them half on the other ship. So we had some real clusters at first. I think in one game we had 6 ships sitting on top of each other. I wish I had a picture. It was pretty funny looking back.

up until recently I thought that you always had to target Biggs - even if he was off by himself- Somehow I missed the rule about him needing to be within range 1 of the ships he wants to protect.

I did the focus thing for the first couple of games I played, kinda pleased I'm not the only numpty!

I remember telling a player about the focus rules, and it made them very happy ... Then he went and beat me.

Although, I wound up getting him back in a tournament a couple of weeks later.

I've K-turned off the game area, several times....that 5 is a lot longer than it looks

Used my Tie Advance for the first time on Friday night. Flew Darth right off the board with a 4K. I thought it would be close .. wasn't.

Early on, I kept forgetting pilot abilities. Games turned into a raw shooting match, until " hang on, I think this guy does something special ". Game-changer.

A friend that's played a few more games than me surprised the hell out of me the other night when we had a game. He assumed you could put any upgrade card on any pilot, so he ended up with Rookie X-Wings with elite skills and ion turrets, R2-D2 (astromech) on the Falcon piloted by Chewie. And all sorts of other good stuff.

Twice now, in my excitement to kill the opponents last ship I have had my entire squadron turn in the wrong direction. Lol