One thing I love about this game is that, even if you are losing, whether it's because of bad dice or you just took a bad squad, you still usually manage to have fun as long as the other party is being sportsmanlike (which, I've found, is usually the case). This being the case, it's no surprise that you often have as much fun losing as you do winning.

At least, I sure do.

One of my favorite games was as an Imperial player, and I lost one of my ships pretty badly. I had Soontir Fel with a stealth device go up against a Rookie Pilot who took a range 3 shot through an asteroid. This gave me five defense dice versus his three attack dice. He rolled two hits and a crit, and I rolled all blanks. Needless to say, I laughed myself silly at the incredible bad luck.

Got any favorite stories involving times you lost a ship or a match?

Last week I ran OGP with APL, Bounty Hunter with Recon Spec, Defender with HLC. I was up against an overloaded Han and Wedge. I got pasted, but I managed to do about 5-6 damage to Han just with the APL, it was hilarious.

I can't remember the squad details anymore (except for the fact that my opponent played Roark), but I still remember very vividly how that match could have gone either way, and in the end was a 1 hull Roark vs a 1 hull whatever ship on my side, with him having the higher PS. He won in the end, as he could shoot first and managed to get a shot through. We both had lots of fun during the match, with no side having the upper hand at any time. Added to that, lots of interesting dice throws (huge misses or huge hits)

Most fun I had and lost was one of my first 100 point games I flew my own ships in (as opposed to using someone elses miniatures). I couldn't get over how much fun it is to fly these little things around. I made enormous mistakes and landed my Phantom on an asteroid (the same one) twice in three turns.

Jacob

Yesterday, I played tournament prep with a friend ... after beating the his list (Corran Horn+Adv. Torps, FCS, MF; Knave+Flechettes, MF; Roak+Blaster Turret, RecSpec) sky-high with mine (OGP+WE, Rexler+Predator, Vessery+VI), I upgraded his list with a few tweaks (just changed the upgrades; Corran Horn+FCS, Opportunist, R7; Knave+FCS, R7-T1; Roak with Ion Turret)

And with that list he broke my "Rexler never losses a one-on-one"-rule (well, Corran Horn and Rexler killed each other due to Simultanious Attack but my friend had Iniative) and so game ended on a draw. Even with the frustration a powered Corran Horn gave me, I was kind of proud that the modified list did so well.

Another story was a tournament game in which I played Rexler with Predator, HLC and 2x Scimitar with Proton Bombs, Proton Torps and MF against 8 Academy TIEs ...

The game was touch and go form the beginning and continued that way until the TO ended it (time was up); from the start every turn came down to who had the hotter dice and I loved every minute of it. I finally lost with him only having 5 Hull Points spread across 4 TIEs, I in turn had only 2 Hull Point Scimitar left.

Last weekend, I gave my uncle his own starter set, and we played a couple of one-on-one games. The second was great!

I had a Green Squadron Pilot and he was running Mauler Mithel. Long story short, it came down to each of us at one hull. I maneuvered behind him where I thought I had enough room, but nicked an asteroid with my maneuver template. *roll* Hit.

Took us a couple of minutes to stop laughing.

I participated in a 150 point tourney last weekend, and one of my favorite losses came from the last round. It was a Rebels vs Rebels game, and I was running three X-Wings (Wes, Biggs, and Tarn), Ibitisam, and Jan Ors on her HWK. My opponent ran Han (with Gunner, VI, 3P0, Falcon), Corran, and two Daggers. The game went for a long time with several pilots living longer than either of us expected, including Wes dodging four sets of rolls at range one from the Falcon at one point at range one. Wes also later spontaneously combusted trying to get shots on the last Dagger (I kept forgetting he had a Console Fire crit, and had been lucky on avoiding damage until I noticed it that round).

That left Tarn with R7, already missing one shield from an asteroid collision 1v1 with a mostly untouched Dagger (it may have been missing a shield, but I can't remember). After multiple jousts, it got down to both ships on 1 Hull remaining, and both sides had a range 3 shot to take. After rolling, and re-rolling a single hit from the B-Wing, Tarn rolled all blanks on his defense, and that was that. It was a long well-played game.

And if I learned anything, I'll be using those crit tokens in the future. Losing Wes that way stunk, but so it rolls.

TL;DR....

Most of my games have been for practice battles as I test out builds for tournaments. I started with an Inty+PTL setup and moved into Phantoms now. As you can see, these ships rely a lot more on positioning as they cannot survive if being shot at more than 1x per turn. So my practice battles have been all about learning how to position my ships, how my chosen upgrades will work with my preferred tactics, and so on.

As they are test fights, it is a lot of fun learning the ins-and-outs of the ships, of the game, and of the different upgrade cards I've chosen. I can lose a fight but have a lot of fun trying to get my list to work. I can get plastered by the opponent (usually flying Falcons!) but I just go back and have some more fun, this time involving a bit more "meditation time" in front of a squad builder program.

As I've said in my other thread, I'm learning how to fly my current squad so well that unless I'm against a Falcon or if the other guy has higher PS ships than I do, I sometimes feel guilty for my "guinea pig" player, so I do my best to make the game fun for HIM as well.

Every single game against Christian Busch. I lose every time, and it's the most fun I've had playing any game.

To my daughter when I played a phantom the first time. Decloaked, moved, and rolled and ended up just inside her arc. She blew me out of the sky and couldn't stop laughing.

Flew Corran against 5 Z-95s for about 60 minutes. Lost Han pretty quick due to really cold dice (getting shot at Range 3 and rolling blanks), but had managed to get him down 3 Z-95s in the process so I was only outmatched in HP by about double. I knew it was only a matter of time before the dice failed on Corran too, but I made my opponent really work for it between the Advanced Sensors (focus and evade usually) + PTL combo, and R2-D2 getting back a shield almost every turn.

I'm not a very good loser, so I'm not sure I can say I've ever had fun in a loss.

A bad day of X wing beats a good day of work everytime

Almost every game I've played against my youngest son has been a loss that I have enjoyed. The Grand Admiral has taken to the game too well.

Not a loss, but one of the most fun games I have had playing X-Wing was my first and only draw. It was at Imdaar Alpha,my first tournament and was facing an opponent with a list very close to mine .I was wedge,biggs and a naked chewbacca he was rookie x-wing,blue squadron b-wing and a fat chewbacca with a heap of upgrades. I tore through his lower pilot skill fighters and naturally lost biggs in the initial exchange, my wedge soon followed . The rest of the match saw the two wookie yt-1300's exchanging volleys of fire till we achieve mutual annihilation as all shots took place in the same pilot skill step. Oh how we laughed!