I initially saw it before released and passed.

I was at a game store about 6 months ago Demo'ing some games and they had a Store Championship going on. I kept watching them and realized how each pilot could have it's own ability and upgrades. I loved the idea of the flying mechanics.

When I got home I did some research and started watching vids and then founds 2 auctions and bought a pretty decent collection. I think I ended up with 5 base sets and 2-3 of most ships. I sold some to my brother.

I use to play Magic and WH Fantasy a long time ago. Lots of board games and was really intrigued with Wings of War but lost interest with the vanilla planes. I'm also a pretty big Sci-Fi fan especially when it comes to space combat. A big one for me was Battlestar Galactica.

I really like the flight system and trying to get upgrades or combinations that work well together. It plays quick enough and isn't outrageous to my pocket (after about $750 lol).

I have always loved Star Wars. It was what turned me into the geek I am. Back in February my friend said he had played the core set a little and that it was fun. I bought it and was hooked from then on out. About a month later I owned at least two of everything.

I was watching Wil Weaton's Table Top, and saw a cool game. After two monthes my pathfinder group needed a place to host the campign and the game store we went to was selling it. After another month we needed a break from the campiagn and one of the local X-Wing suggested we play. We each bought a figter and played a few rounds. I lost every one of them and I loved it. Fast forward to the day of the wave 4 release I pick up the set, find out there is a tournamit the next day. Show up for the Tournamit and place second with wave 4 ships I never flew and my first ever victorys. So yeah I love this game.

I've played lots of (miniatures) games on and off and usually go through "genre phases," switching between Space Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Modern Era at times. I got back into Space Sci-Fi again at the end of last year and jumped full in to Star Trek: Attack Wing (shut your mouth, it's a fun game), but my more casual gaming friends weren't that interested. I've had much more success getting people to play X-Wing instead, but I do enjoy both.

This game review helped push me into it as well:

http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/v/review-x-wing/

I saw previews of an upcoming game with awesome miniatures in the Star Wars universe by FFG, somewhere around GenCon 2011, and couldn't wait until it was released.

When it finally was, I went all in.

I actually got into this game because my 7 year old son wanted it so bad. I kept telling him that it was too complicated for him to play. I took him with me to Gen-con and the smooth talking FFG salesmen suckered me into playing a simplified version of the game with my son. Well as soon as the guy handed my son Luke Skywalker and R2-D2 it was all over, Dad's fun money would be going towards X-wing. Little did I know that as soon as I played my first game of advanced rules with my brother-in-law we would be hooked like a couple crackheads. Only problem was that I was off on a duty injury from the Fire Dept. And my fun money was non-existent. Thanks to some ingenuity and Diablo 3 I was able to start selling items on the auction house and made $2,300! Daddy needs a new pair of X-wings baby! I have never been hooked on drugs but I can only guess it's like playing X-wing.

My git of a friend got me hooked then sold up. I loved this game from the first play through.

I'm a big Star Wars fan and had been working on a project to better understand naval and starfighter warfare in the SWU. Also, my wife (who is also a SW fan, but not really a gamer) and I were looking for something fun to do together. We've played a couple of board/card-like games and have had fun.

I saw it at the FLGS and local bookstore and was intrigued by it. I suggested this game to my wife, and she initially was on board. The complexity and the tactical/strategic depth of it turned her off, however, so I got into the local X-Wing scene to play it with people there, and have been involved for a few months now.

For 30+ years have been an avid fantasy and sci-fi enthusiast. Still can remember being 7 years old and my father took me to see the Empire Strikes Back in the movie theater (original release). Star Wars and gaming been large part of my life. At 12 was playing dungeons and dragons (wasn't even advanced then). Released I wasn't really an RPGer and stumbled across 40k (rogue trader back then) and 3rd edition fantasy battle. Games workshop hooked me into the mini life and have tried many mini games in my life. Always was looking for the perfect Star Wars mini game. Tried the CCGs and LCGs and also realized I wasn't a card-flopper. WOTC released their Star Wars collectible mini game and bought in. Still own 100s of figs but like all WOTC games the random figs and OP abilities soured me on that game. WOTC then released Star Wars spaceship battles which was one of the most disappointing games I've ever played. Keeping my ear to the ground for any redeeming Star Wars game I stumbled across x-wing on FFGs website. It had just been released and I was leery at first due to the bad taste from starship battles. I figured Wth I'll give it a shot and bought the core set. Where was this game my whole life!? X-wing satisfies both the gamer and Star Wars enthusiast in me. There's no doubt about it that Armada will be joining my collection of games after seeing how well FFG has developed and supported x-wing.

I have always been a fan of Star Wars since I first watched it when I was around 7. I loved the story the characters and the space battles. I have only recently becoming more of a fan since I bought the game.

I first saw the game at Target, thinking that it might be fun to play. However, it took me awhile to actually purchase the game. I had never played a miniatures game before but I thought that this would be a good way to start because it was Star Wars. I went into my local Games By James and saw the core box plus the TIE Advanced and I decided at I had to find out more about the game.

I watched reviews of the game showing how the game works and the suggestions to start out. I went into Games By James and bought two cores and the expansions and from the first game I played I was hooked. Ever since then I have invested hundreds of dollars into the game and I do not regret it.

The only thing I do regret is not being able to play as much as I would like.

I played 40k for a long time but 6th wasn't a good edition and I started playing battletech and x-wing instead for a change of pace, 7th killed all desire to play 40k anymore it's got crap rules there is no balance anymore and it's become far too expensive.

X-wing offers a nice rule set its cheaper and most importantly **** fun.

As a big Star Wars fan, this game of course caught my eye. But it was FFG's youtube tutorials that really got me interested. After buying a core set and playing a game with my friend -who isn't a big Star Wars fan, but loves miniature games while hating the often required assembly/painting part- we quickly found the core set lacking and dove into expansions.

Every friday I spend my evening at a tabletop club, where we play all sorts of games from 40K to funkenschlag. Having just finished a game before we headed out to the club, we of course were chatting about the game as soon as we entered. Heads turned from different tables and pretty soon we had a solid club of 6 to 8 X-wing players. We now play X-wing every other week. Big multiplayer team battles that last about 4 hours a game.

Saw the strategy and area for self improvement. Also just love the idea of flying.

Taps my inner fantasy nerd.

Started by playing with my friends collection. That's the best way. Let them play and let them begin to obsess themselves. After a while. If they don't choose to buy the game and help you get more ships at least make them bring food or drinks. That'll be a little light pressure later.

Saw the game in release in a Waterstones (bookshop) of all places , picked it up but was turned off by the lack of models. I am a big SF fan generally and the original SW trilogy specifically. I've been playing RPGs since the late 80s and some 40k since my son played it for a while. Nov 13 the group I play RPGs with split for a while due to work. The survivor and myself had fallen out with 40 K. He had the basic set and we had a game 1 night. 6 games that night later I was hooked and in love with the TIE barrel roll. We only got the RPG mob back together as a whole 2 weeks ago. In that time there have been 4 of us playing xwing every week. If reminds me of the TiE computer game that I loved but some of the newer ships are not for me, they are not in my Starwars, however Armarda!!!

Why did I start playing? Simple: Star Wars fan since 1977. Wargamer since 1980. FFG have very kindly combined the two passions for me. What more can I say?

@Slugrage: Given the size of your city and potential player base, you should have more than just a handful of players around. It also depends on where you play. Are you normally gaming at a friend's place, or at a gaming/comic store, or at a gaming club?

We found that gaming at the local store didn't do much to promote the game, and the local wargames club gave us a much broader reach for new gamers. Even got some of the 40K gamers interested. The store's customers were usually only there to browse the comics and looked at the gamers as a somewhat eclectic bunch that were refusing to let go of their childhood. This was coming from middle aged guys that were still reading comics graphic novels. Yeah, right!

You can spread the word by either gaming at a club, or getting you local store to help promote the player base with a contact card given out with every core or expansion. Our local guy kept telling me he was selling heaps of X-Wing to local guys, and we weren't seeing any of it showing up at our club meetings. So it was getting played somewhere. I asked him to put a small flyer on each pack he sold that was promoting our club, and we've been picking new gamers ever since.

I'm 15, and yet still grew up with the special addition original trilogy, and I saw the movies in the order they came out. I have been in love with star wars my entire life, and have plenty of models, trading cards, legos, and really anything with star wars written on it. I heard about X Wing somewhere and thought about getting it just for the models, and by the time I heard it mentioned on the forcecast as an awesome game, I decided to ask for the core set for Christmas,and got it. To be honest at first I just got the models out and figured the rest was too much work to learn. But once I saw some of the expansions in wave one and two a few months later, I went and learned the game and loved it! I've been playing it for over a year, and I have had no miniature gaming experience before it.

Why did I start playing? Simple: Star Wars fan since 1977. Wargamer since 1980. FFG have very kindly combined the two passions for me. What more can I say?

@Slugrage: Given the size of your city and potential player base, you should have more than just a handful of players around. It also depends on where you play. Are you normally gaming at a friend's place, or at a gaming/comic store, or at a gaming club?

We found that gaming at the local store didn't do much to promote the game, and the local wargames club gave us a much broader reach for new gamers. Even got some of the 40K gamers interested. The store's customers were usually only there to browse the comics and looked at the gamers as a somewhat eclectic bunch that were refusing to let go of their childhood. This was coming from middle aged guys that were still reading comics graphic novels. Yeah, right!

You can spread the word by either gaming at a club, or getting you local store to help promote the player base with a contact card given out with every core or expansion. Our local guy kept telling me he was selling heaps of X-Wing to local guys, and we weren't seeing any of it showing up at our club meetings. So it was getting played somewhere. I asked him to put a small flyer on each pack he sold that was promoting our club, and we've been picking new gamers ever since.

I'm very much in the same group as you Parravon. I saw SW:ANH in 1977 when I was 8. Mind. Blown. Basic D&D from 1981 and the rest is history.

It's a weird market here where I live. There's a very active card/comic/game shop in town but it's mostly MtG and Hero Clix. The MtG night at the shop can pull 20+ players in easily. There's also a fairly active WH40K crowd too still (despite GW's best efforts... but I digress). We've had X-Wing at the local semi-annual game con for a few years now and haven't picked up more than 5 or 6 active players, and about 25 on the Facebook group. We ran a Furball back in the spring which was very well received, and we'll be doing that again in late September.

That's a good idea about the contact card. I may try that. I may also try to convince the shop manager to drop the price of the core set down to something cheaper (as he prices everything at 2x wholesale which makes for a *very* expensive core set and then can't understand why the ships don't sell very well...).

Good ideas and input everyone. Thanks for all the comments so far!

Same, 13 in 77 playing wargames in 76, D&D in 78.... gamer ever since, nut not usually a miniatures gamer, this one and wings of war/glory got me into this type.

I miss those old TIE Fighter vs X-Wing games. Mine I still have, on 5 or 6 disks I believe when I bought it. Back before every PC had a CD-ROM! God, did I just date myself.

I still have my Windows 95 on disk as well!

Yup, this describes me exactly.

Heck, I've got the strategy guide that actually TELLS the story of Farlander (who we'll finally get to see as a B-Wing pilot in 'Rebel Aces', but was ostensibly the protagonist of the first LucasArts "X-Wing" game).

It's really all that chunk of my childhood spent running X-Wings and TIE Fighters that make this game 'click' so much - although I confess I wouldn't mind some more shield/power management, but... ...it's close enough!

Was never really into "miniature" games, before. Indeed - 'violently opposed' might be more accurate. I *was* a serious boardgamer and PC gamer, so the idea of having to spend SO MUCH TIME outside of actually 'gaming' in assembling and painting minis just seemed...insane!...to me. So X-Wing really helped bridge that gap - I'm still a huge hex-and-counter wargamer, but I've now got shelves of minis, too!

I have been a long time RPGer and BoardGame player. I own several games from Fantasy Flight. I have always enjoyed the quality of their games. Once they announced the game I very intrigued, being a fan of Star Wars. It wasn't until last year at GenCon when I picked up the core set.

I'm okay with the mistakes that Wheaton and Co. made in playing it, simply because of how much fun they had playing. And it carried through very well for the audience that they were having a good time at it.

Yup. It was this TableTop episode that got me to buy it. I generally stay away from 2 player games as they feel anti-social at our games nights. Saw them playing it with 4 and was like "oh duh, you could do that". I picked it up and didn't play it any, but then Gen Con rolled around and I HAD to have a Lambda Shuttle. Between it and all the other stuff I bought that day, I really started to see the combinations of cards and that hooked me big time. Been poor ever since.

Been a gamer since forever (D&D in Jr. High, original X-Wing computer game on floppies), but my WarMachine habit was suffering since my wife and I just had a baby and that doesn't leave much time for the building and painting that WarMachine needs.

I have a couple friends that are into X-Wing pretty deep, and so between having someone to play with, the low price of entry, FFG doing a decent job of keeping things balanced, and the lack of required assembly, decided to give it a shot.

Looking forward to when the little one stops trying to eat the dice. The master needs an apprentice.

Part ongoing disappointment part happenstance.

I've got a solid 40k group that I've been playing with for 15 years. The height of our gaming was 5th ed. Since 6th and the revision, we've been far less interested in playing. I could tell you all the reasons I don't like it, but bottom line is that it's just not *fun* anymore.

I'd been hearing goods things for a while about X-Wing. I've yet to play a Fantasy Flight game I didn't like. Really enjoyed their Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Black Crusade games. Got into Edge of the Empire a year or so ago and really enjoyed that as well.

So, I picked up the starter box and then bought about 8 more ships over the next week. Co-incidentally I joined a new gaming group who are really into it X-Wing so it's given me plenty of new opponents to play against, plus I'm trying to convert my old group as well.

Bottom line is I'm having FUN again, and that's such a simple but crucial part of a GAME.

A friend bought me the core set as a wedding present, 14 months later I opened it because there were a number of events in the area around out new condo and I needed a gaming fix. Completely addicted ever since.