Hi all,

Have been playing since wave 2 came out and just want to see if there are any others like me.

I got in to X-Wing not to play tournaments, or even casually at the FLGS, but because, despite my wife being as big a nerd as me when it comes to what we watch and read, she never showed any interest in wargaming. She loves boardgames but my collection at the time consisted of Warhammer (both flavours) battlefleet gothic, spacehulk and wings of war. No.interest.at.all.

I had read good things about x-wing, so one day we just "happened" to be walking by the FLGS when I suggested we have a look. She agreed to brave the rather smelly lair of the local neckbeards. 5 minutes later a very happy me walked ut with a core set, a Y-wing and a TIE-Advanced.

We played 6 games that evening and have been hooked ever since. I have amassed the collection as seen in my signature block, and manage to play about once a month.

I have seince sold all my other game armies. I i love reading the tactics and strategies on these forums. I need to as the wife beats me 3/4 of the time.

I am now saving up and gearing to get her as excited about Armada as I am.

Anyone else out there use this game to bond with their better half in the wonderful world of wargaming

I tried.

I failed.

She's nerdy, but NOT a gamer. Lousy ex-boyfriend did something jerky back in the day, and she effectively swore off games for life.

My wife likes a lot of games (Agricola for example) but she doesn't like x-wing. She doesn't like the list building and finds the actual game tedious. She does support my plastic crack habit though and has bought me quite a few of the ships that she knows I want. Oddly she doesn't like the movies either, yet she knows lots of obscure trivia about the story.

I tried.

I failed.

She's nerdy, but NOT a gamer. Lousy ex-boyfriend did something jerky back in the day, and she effectively swore off games for life.

That's just... terrible. My condolences.

I tried.

I failed.

She's nerdy, but NOT a gamer. Lousy ex-boyfriend did something jerky back in the day, and she effectively swore off games for life.

That's just... terrible. My condolences.

In many ways it's been a good thing. It forced me to get out of the house and go down to the FLGSs, where I've met some pretty decent guys, who have been fun to play with.

I tried.

I failed.

She's nerdy, but NOT a gamer.

I hear you there mate, would LOVE to play x-wing with her but so far zero interest...:-( she's more a home crafts kinda girl...

On the plus side she bought me imperial assault for Christmas and she's happy to play that so there's hope yet...

My girlfriend is a board gamer, paints all her own Talisman miniatures, and was the one who actually got me into non-video gaming. However, she's more of a Trekker than a Warsie, and while we've played a few games of X-Wing, she's pretty clearly not that into it, unfortunately.

On the bright side, however, she does have AFL the paints and brushes and washes and things I needed to start custom painting my ships, so that was a bonus.

My ex-wife had no interest in anything.

So Ex-Wing I play with my friends.

Its a great idea to do this with your wife. Communicating and having something to talk about that you both enjoy will lead to a happy long marriage.

I tried. It did not stick. She tells me its because there were to much going on at once. So we play Dungeon Command, netrunner and other boardgames as well as D&D. So can't complain too much.

I also tried and failed. I keep trying to get her back into it but because she doesn't play with me it gives me an excuse to go to the FLGS and play with some awesome guys as well.

She also finds it very tedious as well. Especially the end game when its her 2 - 3 ships chasing down my lone academy fighter.

She's a board game player, and mostly Euros. She's not big into games with moving lots of little things around and rolling dice. But she does fully tolerate my collection, so long as it's not in plain site and taking up room for the "real" game collection.

I've played once with my girlfriend, who wasn't terribly interested. However, she comes with me to the LGS on x wing night as she's made other non-x wing friends there. They typically do a movie night at the shop in a seperate area from the gaming, beers pretzels and usually an obscure kung fu movie. It's a pretty solid way to kill a wednesday.

my GF isn't into Star Wars, Board Games, or anything of that nature whatsoever. To be honest, I rather like it that way. I find having something to do that doesn't involve her is valuable, as we have a lot of other things we do together anyway.

My wife will play but she doesn't get into it as I do, so she has never beat me. I wish she would spend just a few minutes learning enough to be competitive because I actually don't like winning all the time. If there is no challenge for me it just isn't as fun.

My wife plays as much as I do, loves the game, and plays well. She plays Imperial most of the time, and I play Rebel.

I married a non-nerd.

She doesn't even like the movies.

I tried.

I failed.

She's nerdy, but NOT a gamer. Lousy ex-boyfriend did something jerky back in the day, and she effectively swore off games for life.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

For my behalf at least she likes the ships somewhat and Star Wars and the movies in general.

But short-tempered and impatient when it comes to playing games .... like a real Sith

My wife is my main gaming buddy. Which is lucky for me since I only have one gaming friend, and it's hard to find time to get together for a game night with him.

My wife really enjoys playing X wing and the Star Wars LCG. She didn't seem that interested in Imperial Assault when I brought it home, but after we started playing it, she really got into it. She's winning 50% of the missions in the campaign. It's great :-)

My wife played it a few times with me. Not her thing. She likes board games, but doesn't like any game where I am a lot more knowledgeable or experienced. She likes to win...

My wife isn't a fan of Star Wars or tt wargames (she like most tabletop games though) but she's really enjoyed playing X-Wing when she has.

Which speaks volumes, I think, about how well designed X-Wing is mechanically.

My wife is non-nerdy as well. I've gotten her to play a few games (Carcassonne, Zombies!!!), but I don't see her showing any interest whatsoever in X-Wing. Luckily, she's good about letting me play with my friends, and the kids are nearly old enough to start showing how to play.

My wife is incredibly nerdy and plays a number of board games such as Netrunner, Battlestar Galactica, and Sentinels of the Multiverse. She plays MMO's and is training as WvW guild commander on GW2--but loathes X-Wing. She loves Star Wars, but she actively refuses to play and shudders at the thought.

I cannot figure it out, but I am learning to accept that--for whatever reason--this game is off limits with her.

If you guys are having trouble getting your wife to play with skill, I suggest changing the names of all the pilots to characters from Harry Potter. This only works if they are HP fans, but I simply put a picture of Voldemort on Darth Vader and Harry Potter on Luke, Hagrid as Chewie, Bella as Howlrunner etc. and my wife can now competivley play against me. Instead of shooting they are casting spells. I am entertaining the idea of even buying Harry Potter legos or figures to attach to some Litko bases for full on Harry Potter wizard wars. Anways, doing that made my wife pay attention and focus on the game much much more since she is a huge Harry potter fan. The downside is the time it can take to adapt upgrade cards and such...so far we have House Elves as astromechs, but still need to create HP alternatives for most of them.

Would be awesome to someday have highly detailed death eater miniatures with those neat masks!

Guys its simple if they wont play x-wing with you withhold the nookie they'll soon cave.