I've loved Star Wars since I was a kid (not that far from one now still), never saw any of the movies at theaters, never played any Star Wars video games (unless LEGO Star Wars counts). I did read, though. For almost a whole year, once a week I would get on Wookieepedia and just read. Then when I finished reading the article I would save the whole page to my Star Wars folder. I have to have like over 100 old Wookieepedia pages in my Star Wars folder. Then I started buying Star Wars books from the thrift store. My first book was Shadows of the Empire, followed by The Last Command (when I realized I loved the Empire) and The Unifying Force (where I realized how amazing the Vong story was).

From then on out I went from being hooked to hopelessly addicted. I am a hardcore EU fan, always will be, never will change. My love of Star Wars then spread to my first real RTS exposure: Empire at War. Bought the Gold Pack, loved everything (except the Zann Consortium) and then got a mod called Thrawn's Revenge, an excellent total enhancement that took place in the decades after Endor to sate my love for the EU. Then on StarWars.com they had a news article about this new game: a tactical game of ship-to-ship combat designed by a company known as Fantasy Flight Games. It looked interesting, but I didn't hear anything else about it afterward, so I completely forgot about it.

Then about two-and-a-half years ago I was walking through B & N when I saw the game again. Being rather poor myself at the time I called my brother and asked of he would be willing to split the cost with me for a starter set (I know, so expensive, right?). He said yes and we bought it. We played probably 5–6 times and then it got put on the shelf for another year (trying to kill Luke + R2-D2 with two TIEs gets frustrating and boring real fast). After about a year, I had a Target gift card that was waiting to burn through my pocket, and I saw they had a Core Set there too! I decided to get another one (surely 2X v. 4 TIEs would be more doable and fun). We played a couple of times after this (it was a whole lot more fun) and then put the game back on the shelf for another six months or so.

Enter last year. I had been working on a story-driven X-wing campaign and finally had a rough draft finished. However, it's no fun when the only players in your town are yourself and your brother. I set off to recruit some friends (that was actually the subject of my first thread here, making a beginner's list for them). The result: they love the game, and I have more people to play with. I've been on the forum and X-wing has been with me ever since. Now we plan to start an EotE RPG soon.

I played star wars tie fighter as a kid and grew up playing all the Jedi Knight games. I played board games but never played miniatures.

One of my friends mentioned the game being fun but 6 months later when I was wandering around target with a gift card and found the core on clearance. I played a game using the beginner rules and quickly moved into the full rules and now my wife is asking why theres no space on the game shelf anymore.

I started up a tabletop gaming group with me and a couple of co workers back in 2012. It was one Saturday a month at a local restaurant (it has a beer bible!) and we would order appetizers and lunch and then play a game on their 6 person table. After a year I switched to hosting at my place to make it cheaper on the wallet and remove cost as a reason to hang out as I noticed many were not able to make it.

After about a year, and picking up new games to keep the gaming fresh, I saw the X-wing core set and had a thought. I would buy the core and every player would buy one expansion so I could split the cost and save some money. We would come together and play it out and it would either be really fun or, if it was a dud game, everyone would have cool pre painted mini's to put on their bookshelves. 2 guys bought in (one got a Y and the other got a Tie Advanced) and I gave everyone a ship to play that first time.

We ALL loved it.

2 co-workers got their own fleets, some got second expansions. And me, well, mistakes were made...

It is the one game we always have to play when we have a game day.

Walked past it in Target. Picked it up, and thought to myself, "Hmmm... cool". I've never been a table top gamer. In fact, this is the only table top game I play.

Huge SW fan, played FFG's SW LCG but never had played any miniatures. Came into some Christmas money and bought the starter on a whim to try out with my friends. Read the rules, played my first game - immediate left my buddies house to buy two more ships to up the anti... It was all downhill from there.

I think I just put more romance into that story than I do when I tell people how I met my wife...

Grew up with Star Wars. Read almost everything on Star Wars with my absolute favorite things being the Rogue Squadron book series/ comics. I noticed that a lot of the pilot cards had people I recognized from the books (Salm, Tycho, Fel, Phennir, etc etc. That instantly got me excited. However I didn't have anyone to play with. Just recently reconnected with one of my old school friends who's also an avid Star Wars fan and he had bought two starters and we just sat down and played. Instant addiction.

Target clearance 4 core sets

My wife was taking our kids to a play group and met a mom who said her husband played some kind of star wars game. I went to his house and played and now I just got the core set, YT, advanced and interceptor for fathers day.

Target clearance 4 core sets

Hey I did the same exact thing! Although in my case I was already fully loaded waves 1-3, it was just to feed the TIE Mega-Swarm! Buwhahaha!

I'm a huge board game lover but this never seemed to be my kinda game, I'm not huge into Star Wars, I enjoyed the original movies and some video games but no further. Some of my favorite games come from FFG though, arkham horror, Battlestar Galactica, and all of the game of thrones (something I am an addict for) games. This I had a mild curiosity for but not enough to commit until I saw this on tabletop, looked like a blast, made sure at least 3 of my friends wanted to start playing too, we each got our own core set and the rest is history!

I've been a fan of Star Wars for as long as I can remember.

The West End Games version of the Star Wars RPG came out a couple of years after I started playing RPGs, and I continued playing some version of it until the early 2000s.

I've played a few Star Wars video games over the years. Shadows of the Empire was a near-perfect game in terms of showcasing the sorts of adventures that make Star Wars so much fun for me. I also had a lot of fun with Pod Racer, the old X-Wing PC game, Jedi Outcast and a couple others.

I think I became aware of FFG when it became the publisher for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Second Edition, or maybe a little bit before that. I picked up Citadels at some point and that became a popular party game among my friends. I kept up with FFG's news after that, and was excited about X-Wing from the moment it was announced.

I collected about four of each ship from Wave I, wrote up my Death Star Trench Run mission to demonstrate what I really wanted from the game, and soon after stopped playing tabletop games to focus on work. I gave my collection to my nephew and thought I'd never regret it, but when Wave II was available I started collecting again and have been keeping up ever since.

Star Wars is my favorite movie franchise of all time. I've been a fan of the movies since I was a kid. It's funny you brought up Tie Fighter/ X-wing.. I used to play those games when I was younger. Very recently, I got an itch to play some flight simulator games. I started to search around to see what flight sims were the favorites. I was really surprised to see some games that I had played years ago still on top of that list! Falcon 4.0! Granted, Allied Force (or whatever) is really a new game.. but still seeing that "4.0" kind of surprised me... It's been 10+ years... we're not even to 4.1, yet?

Anyway, I was searching around, and thinking about what my favorite flight games were back then.. Microsoft Flight Sim, Chuck Yaeger.. and most of all... Tie Fighter. I had tried without success to get a playable game loaded a couple of years ago (though I'm sure I gave up rather abruptly). I decided to try again, and I'm once again hooked.. I bought a new flight stick (x-55 Rhino) and have been playing a bit (but really not much, with a new little girl in the house). Of course, I didn't buy the stick for just Tie Fighter, it's a little dated for such advanced technology, but it's definitely a lot of fun..

OK, I digress. I also used to play SWCCG when I was a kid. My cousins and I pretty much played against eachother, and it was mostly the thrill of collecting that kept us going. That faded, and I got out before a lot of the later expansions came out...leaving any decks I could build basically useless against the later cards. Depressing.

I stumbled upon miniatures while looking into any possible new attempts at a Tie Fighter-esque game. What I saw surprised me... how had I not seen this before?? The moment I saw it, I knew it was made for me. I consumed as many videos as I could, and built my first purchase.

I was actually at home on paternity leave... I ran out of patience a day or two into my wait, and I had to seek out the game locally. I found a local hobby shop that had a starter kit, and a few other pieces I nabbed. Everyone was saying I could use 2 starter sets anyway, so why not? I made my wife play against me, and she actually took to it better than I imagined. We played a couple of nights, but I'm a night owl.. I stayed up much later and flew against myself to better learn the rules and strategies.

Last weekend, I introduced my cousin to the game. I knew he'd be in right away, he has since bought a starter set, and confesses that he'll probably head down the expensive road I just did, purchasing every piece to have the fun of building different squads.

It's been awesome. I'm definitely a noob, but it's been a really nice compliment to some of my other hobbies. Pinball has consumed my free time for the last several years, so it's nice to have a board game type activity to sort of slow things down a bit.

/ end rambling

I was a big fan of WOTC's Star Wars minis from day 1. When they lost the license the community kept a close eye out to see who picked it up. I joined FFG forums when they announced they had the license, and have been an avid fan of X-Wing since day 1.

Similar story, but instead of Star Wars minis I played the RPG. Loads of fun. "Starships of the Galaxy" was my favorite source book. I literally dreamed about what it would be like to play the Star Wars X-wing Miniatures Game ever since I saw the videos from GenCon 2012. I was hooked way before I every got to play it!

I also clocked in many, many hours in a TIE fighter cockpit thanks to LucasArts. Good times!

I like both the narrative of X-wing and the competition. I'd love to be able to play more scenarios, but it seems like we're always practicing for the next big tournament. Which is also lots of fun, so I can't complain.

I started my hobby board gaming with Magic the gathering way back in 94'. I've always played games while growing up and I purchase between 5-7 board games a year. I heard all the buzz about FFG's X-Wing game coming out and it sounded good. I have many other FFG games in my collection as well. At GenCon the first year it was there I played the demo and fell in love. I now had to readjust my usual 5-7 games down to 2-3 to make room for X-Wing.

My wife was taking our kids to a play group and met a mom who said her husband played some kind of star wars game. I went to his house and played and now I just got the core set, YT, advanced and interceptor for fathers day.

Welcome!

I was at Rock con in northern Illinois, and was there mainly for the wings of glory games my friends were running. I saw a guy sitting and demoing the game all day and finally sat down and checked it out.. this was late 2012... well.. Sunday came and the vendors were having some sales.. so I picked up a Y wing, an X wing, TIE and an Advanced.. waited a few days and got the core set at my LGS and started checking it out... now... after throwing much money at it I have enough to host a game night where we can have 2 games going and everyone gets a list they like.. lol

I played most of the SW pc games during the 90ties. Starting with X-wing I spent a lot of time flying. I completed TIE Fighter 5-6 times and when the Collectors Edition was released I also completed that one a few times. It was crazy good

When I saw X-wing miniatures in 2012 I bought into the game (core + wave 1) as much as possible but I didn't play it until wave 3 had been out for some time.

Btw. TIE Fighter Collectors CD-ROM still sits in my pc and runs fine on Win7.

Star Wars and Batman are my two biggest loves. I can't remember a time when I didn't adore them.

Always had the toys, and played X-Wing/Tie Fighter/XvsTIE/Alliance in the 90's. The Special Editions coming out when I was 11 stoked the fire further.

Also played the Starfighter games on PS2, Supremacy (Rebellion), Dark Forces, Jedi Knight (Kyle Katarn and the Moldy Crow!) and Jedi Academy on PC.

I even still own a copy of Masters of Teras Kasi for PS1!

Tabletop wise I was Connect 4 Champion in my family for many years. We also played Monopoly to death. Never used miniatures though. Did love me some Pokemon cards in my teens though.

Over the last year I'd been introduced to some new board games. Smash Up! and King of Tokyo have become firm favourites, with my siblings always asking "are you bringing the games with you?". I do, and then lose 99% of the time!

My brother was looking for X-Wings for his Action Fleet squadron (I think he's up to 9), and came across XWM on eBay. We then both watched the Tabletop video, and we were in.

Started with one core set about two months ago. Now we have 2 cores for dice and rulers, whilst I took the TIEs and he took the Xs. So I have 6 TIEs and 2 Squints, with him owning 3 Xs and a Y. Our other brother has himself a Falcon (looking to get more soon), and a mate has loads of Imperial stuff (he's gone a bit loopy early on).

Ben wanted to be X-Wings so badly that I took up the dark side and have learnt to love my TIEs, even though once again I never seem to win. But I'll get there! I am casting an envious stare over the HWK and Outrider. Got a lot of love for Y-Wings too. Maybe in the future I'll branch out.

Just got some MDF and felt to make a game board so I guess you could say we're into it a little now.

Just got to remember to use my actions now.....

I played a lot of japanese TCGs (weiss schwarz, vanguard, sunrise crusade to name a few) and was getting quite sick of them. Then i saw the FFG tutorial video thru a link on my facebook. I went to search for the game and got my 1st core set. After doing a quick left hand vs right hand, i went back immediately and got a 2nd core set. They didnt have the wave1 ships at that time

Im not a star wars fan. I watched the original trilogy AFTER playing Xwing. The first TIE variant that i knew/recognized was actually the TIE Defender. My very first contact with star wars was the phantom menace. I was in it purely for the gameplay

I've been a gamer for more years than I'll admit. Card games (even CCG), board games, strategy games, war games, miniature games, euro-trash and ameri-trash, whatever... Also, I like so many others enjoy Sci-Fi such as Star Wars and Star Trek. One day I walked into a flgs (Friendly Local Game Store, okay not so local as I was out of town) and saw a game about to start. Someone had a pre-release of the Millennium Falcon. I looked at the detail, the stock paint job, the other figures and said: I don't care if I play or not I'm in. At a minimum I'm going to get at least a few of the more iconic ships of Star Wars.

Oops, well I have more than a few and I don't simply collect for looks I actually play. Just for fun (Fly Casual).

There were a ton of objections this game over came to get me interested. Things that were required for me to even considered the game:

• Not interested if every ship (or the main ship) was a different scale (reference to a different game). I'm still okay (I think, maybe, probably) with Epic being a sliding scale but the fighters are the same.
• Interested because of the level of detail - I love the amount of detail in this game. The molds are not overly simplistic. Okey the GR-75 top should have been in two halves. Got that but otherwise they don't scrimp. Look at the CR-90, they could have done mirror halves but they didn't.
• Not interested if they are not Prepainted - My years with miniatures have taught me something important. I have neither the time, skill or patience to paint. Sorry I can't do it. I've have 6 full regiments of Epic 40K; two each Imperial Guard, Space Marines and Titans. Half are painted with amazing detail even the belt buckles and bolts on the Sargent's forehead. The other half, some are spray painted when I bothered most are just sitting there. I haven't played in years and never even get them out to look at.
• Interested because are pepainted well. Okay maybe a modeler can to a fantastic job but I can't. And for a stock painting these are fantastic. Would I pay someone to paint me a couple of phantoms? You bet, but even without that, the paint jobs are great.
• Interested because it's Star Wars. Star Wars is awesome, the universe, characters, old ships and paint jobs, a story line resolved by individuals rather than a technical plot device no-one has ever heard of before. I like Star Wars. With the above (prepainted, detail, etc...) I bought them just to look at may maybe display a few. Haven't done that with other games. P.S. Nope I've never gone to a convention and dressed up and anyone other than me. I don't have anything against it and my wife and I talked about it and may do it. I'm not a Trekie or ultimate fan but I do like it and like enough to but some figures.
• Not interested if was was COLLECTIBLE. This is a biggey for me. I"m done with that! Period! I've done it a couple of times and have absolutely no interest. Actually further than that I will avoid the game. If you have to go to conventions, Ebay or buy tons of boosters for one card or a set of dice count me out. Boxing stuff for Ebay.
• The game is fun. I've played games that took weekends to play and and afternoon to setup. I've also play Chinese checkers. This hits the mark for me right in the middle. Good strategy but the dice gods still look over your shoulder. Rules that generally make sense and are easy to follow. I've had encyclopedias of rules and compendiums before. Rules for rule's sake. Complexity for the sake of ultimate realism. Really? I want to play, engage my mind and get to enjoying the game.

Fantasy Flight may not do everything I like or even everything in this game that I like. But generally they've made me a collector of a few cool ships and a player.

4 - X-Wings

2 - A-Wing (2 spare)

3 - B-Wings

2 - Y-Wings (1 spare)

3 - HWK-290 (I don't field all of them I use them for targets/obstacles in those scenarios)

1 - Millennium Falcon

1 - GR-75 (should I get a second for really big games?)

1 - CR-90 (why didn't they come out with Imperial cards too)

8 - TIE Fighters (enough for two players in an epic game)

2 - TIE Advanced

4 - TIE Interceptors (2 spars because of Aces)

3 - TIE Bombers (I want one more)

1 - Firespray 31

1 - Lambda Shuttle (I want another)

Yep, I'm getting wave 4 and wave 5. Many in our group only use my ships. Other than TIE fighters I'm not fond of spam squads. I prefer a more a balanced squad.

How many ships are you considering:

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1168965/how-many-ships-do-you-need-for-a-balanced-fleet

How many Wave 4 ships are you buying:

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1167141/how-many-wave-4-ships-are-you-buying

Played DnD since the red box era off and on. After a long layoff from playing, moved and found a group during the 3.0 era, and then started playing DnD minis with them also. Really enjoyed the technical aspect of building warbands and playing, but alas the scene died away fairly quick.

Fast forward to 2 months ago, instead of RPG night, my friends buddy came over with all these awesome Star Wars minis and we played a game. I had Han Solo and 2 Rooks. Next day at lunch went to the FLGS and bought the core set, and the rest is history. Already played in a couple of tourneys, and my son is hooked also. Great community to boot.

Surprisingly, I never thought the SW setting was really that great/interesting/well-written/believable enough to do any gaming in before now.

Saw Star Wars as a kid and loved it; it is such a part of our culture to this day. A chance to play-out my childhood fantasies is the primary reason I got into XWM in the first place. The simple rules yet sophistication of play- and the beautiful miniatures- are what keep me, not to mention the great customer service FFG provides.

So, did XWM change your mind, or do you like XWM despite the failings of the setting?

Given that you did love SW as a kid, what made you (originally) think it didn't work as a game setting?

My continuing love and appreciation for SW (OT, at least) is not due to the great writing, settings, characters, background, etc... but because the stories are simple... classic examples of timeless tales set in a futuristic setting (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away). Something I think George Lucas forgot about when writing Episodes I-III. SW excited my imagination in a way that has not subsided since.

IMO, XWM taps into that spirit, that is why (almost) all my squad builds involve some sort of "fluff" or background, because SW is about story telling. Well, to me it is.

I have done all sorts of different geeky things. It started with video and computer games, moved to pen and paper RPGs and comic books. I've not played many miniatures games due to having a difficult time putting models together and painting etc. I have played Warmachine/Hordes as well (I had to have some help putting the models together and they are still unpainted). As to how I got into the game, a friend showed it to me, said he'd played it. I bought the core set and played a couple of games and was hooked. Two weeks later I had bought almost everything. This was back in February I think.

I walked into Mecca Games (now closed) in Springfield Illinois. They just placed the core set on the wall and I just smiled and said... "Mine!"

I hadn't heard anything about the game and wasn't in the loop about it's release at all. Just stumbled in. Bought it and a Tie Advanced and a Y-Wing the same day.

I've enjoyed the SW story since the beginning and I've been a table top war gamer since 1970. (Yes that makes me almost older than dirt).

After opening the box and looking at all the bits and rules I call my son, Tyler, and told him he better check this out. It looks HOT!

And it was and is and is still to continue to be as I see the numbers of people competing across the country and the world.

The game stands strong. Good rules, good system, great figures. And a great community that communicates.

What a wonderful game.