Well, the game is played by four out of the five people in my little corner of the world. Just have to convince my wife to play.

Well, the game is played by four out of the five people in my little corner of the world. Just have to convince my wife to play.

Sounds like you, sir, live in heaven.

We have a FLGS that actively builds communities by organising tournaments campaigns and other events. It has a deticated cellar with +/- 12 gaming tables. Lots of Flames, Bolt Action and Warhammer Fantasy/40K and LotR.

For Xwing we have around 10 casual players and about 4 that try to get a game at least once a week.

It's a awesome store and the best I've seen in The Netherlands (and I've seen a lot of gaming stores all over Europe). It's called Spelkwartier in Arnhem and you should definetly visit if you have the opportunity.

There are three of us who play regularly in our small Chinese city, and we'd possibly have more players if any of us were decent at the language. We buy either from foreign stores or, when available, from the handful of decent Taobao (Chinese online market) sellers. Given how often they're sold out, I assume there are more players in China.

Given that I handle most of the orders, I'm the closest thing we have to an FLGS.

Not popular enough in the UK, but it's growing.

Well, I'm in the UK (Preston) and we have an X-wing event at the store every couple of months which usually attracts 20+ people. I think we got up to 40 when there was a regional, but that includes several people from other areas

Most of the people at the store (Harlequins) have a squad and will be happy to give anyone a game.

It's been reported that it is now the second most popular tabletop wargame in the world. Second only to Warhammer 40K, and at the rate it's growing, it's likely to top that before long. Also doesn't help that GW keep driving their prices up and their player base away.

Down in my neck of the woods, we went from one guy with a core set to about twelve players fully kitted for a tournament in about six months.

Well, here in Poland we just had our National Championships last weekend. It had 71 attendees, making it the biggest X-wing event in Poland. It's one player more than French Nationals and 7 less then German Nationals.

Obviously, single event cannot gather all of players, and acknowledging the fact that many people only play casual and do not attend any tournaments I'd say there is 300-400 active players, both casual and competitive, in Poland.

In Ottawa/Gatineau region, we have 91 on a facebook account for X-wing. The stores that hold events around here are as follows:

Every 2nd Tuesdays its Game for all, Wednesday its Wizards tower, Thursdays its Multizone (Comic book shoppe may still be in there but I haven't gone in awhile).

Tournaments at least once a month.

2-3 dozen+ regular players from what I can tell plus more joining in.

We did have 2 people leave recently and sell off their entire collections.

I live in Nagoya, Japan. There is exactly one person who plays here.

Located in southwestern Oklahoma, about 87 mi (140 km) southwest of Oklahoma City, it is the principal city of the Lawton, Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the 2010 census, Lawton's population was 96,867, making it the fifth-largest city in the state. There is Carolina Comics were about twenty people gather to play x wing.

I think for a game that's only two years old it's already impressively big and still growing the fact it's already threatening gw a company around for thirty years says alot for how well ffg nailed it.

I would say that the game popularity has the potential to reach all those in the miniature game hobby.

However the miniature model hobby which is huge in Europe and Japan mainly revolves around those who prefer to build and paint the models themselves. AT-43 which used to be a miniature game developed in Europe created a little bit of a fuss when they did the move to pre-painted models.

Some people like the pre-painted models, others find it as a turn off as it doesn't give them a chance to express their creativity. I have met one person who only keeps one model of its kind in its original paint and repaints the duplicates. I am like other people who actually enjoy the pre-painted quality as it is superior to other pre-painted models that have been released. So it has potential and has reached Europe and Asia as you can see with some of the forum members posting their locations. FFG is also a big enough company to export to those locations.

Still it depends on the interest of those locations to develop the game. This is more of a niche hobby after all. There are people who don't really enjoy sitting at a table staring at a bunch of doo-dads and nick-knacks for an hour or so.

It's been reported that it is now the second most popular tabletop wargame in the world. Second only to Warhammer 40K, and at the rate it's growing, it's likely to top that before long. Also doesn't help that GW keep driving their prices up and their player base away.

Down in my neck of the woods, we went from one guy with a core set to about twelve players fully kitted for a tournament in about six months.

This. Honestly I can't believe it's threatening WH40K, a game that's been around for like 30 years. But FFG really nailed it with this game.

It's been reported that it is now the second most popular tabletop wargame in the world. Second only to Warhammer 40K, and at the rate it's growing, it's likely to top that before long. Also doesn't help that GW keep driving their prices up and their player base away.

Down in my neck of the woods, we went from one guy with a core set to about twelve players fully kitted for a tournament in about six months.

This. Honestly I can't believe it's threatening WH40K, a game that's been around for like 30 years. But FFG really nailed it with this game.

Well if gw was run by competent people instead of drooling idiots they'd still rule the roost, but they've alienated their customers and the third party sellers, priced themselves out of the hobby sector and allowed their rules to go down the crapper.

It's clear they never adapted to the information age because they still run their company like it's the 90s.

Their profits dropped 54% in a year they released a new edition and a new version of their most popular army the space marines, writing very clearly on the wall.

It's been reported that it is now the second most popular tabletop wargame in the world. Second only to Warhammer 40K, and at the rate it's growing, it's likely to top that before long. Also doesn't help that GW keep driving their prices up and their player base away.

Down in my neck of the woods, we went from one guy with a core set to about twelve players fully kitted for a tournament in about six months.

This. Honestly I can't believe it's threatening WH40K, a game that's been around for like 30 years. But FFG really nailed it with this game.

Well if gw was run by competent people instead of drooling idiots they'd still rule the roost, but they've alienated their customers and the third party sellers, priced themselves out of the hobby sector and allowed their rules to go down the crapper.

It's clear they never adapted to the information age because they still run their company like it's the 90s.

Their profits dropped 54% in a year they released a new edition and a new version of their most popular army the space marines, writing very clearly on the wall.

Yeah, I know, they ruined my beautiful Space Marines. But still, it's pretty amazing that in two years X-wing's gotten so high.

I live in Nagoya, Japan. There is exactly one person who plays here.

Do you play both sides and switch back and forth??

In Aberdeen (UK) our local gaming group has about 20 players about 50% of the games played are x-wing and we are converting more as we go.

It's been reported that it is now the second most popular tabletop wargame in the world. Second only to Warhammer 40K, and at the rate it's growing, it's likely to top that before long. Also doesn't help that GW keep driving their prices up and their player base away.

Down in my neck of the woods, we went from one guy with a core set to about twelve players fully kitted for a tournament in about six months.

Has it surpassed HordeMachines yet? (I know it is Warmachine and Hords but I like calling it HordeMachines because they are compatible games) Last thing I remember is that game growing rather rapidly in the miniature game market.

I can't really respond to the OPs question, as I'm in NOVA territory...

So you live on Xandar, wow x-wing really is popular everywhere.

For a game that is not supported in our country, X-wing is pretty huge in Brazil.

It's been reported that it is now the second most popular tabletop wargame in the world. Second only to Warhammer 40K, and at the rate it's growing, it's likely to top that before long. Also doesn't help that GW keep driving their prices up and their player base away.

Down in my neck of the woods, we went from one guy with a core set to about twelve players fully kitted for a tournament in about six months.

Has it surpassed HordeMachines yet? (I know it is Warmachine and Hords but I like calling it HordeMachines because they are compatible games) Last thing I remember is that game growing rather rapidly in the miniature game market.

Umm... second only to 40K, so I would say yeah, it has surpassed WarmaHordes.

In Mexico City, there are too many stores to get the tournaments, but in other cities are not popular enough, but it's growing, maybe in some years have a tournament in every state, greettings.

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