If anyone has ever played Sid Meier's Ace Patrol (Pacific or Great War), I'm sure you could easily imagine that game model being ported over to a Star Wars theme. I have been playing Ace Patrol non-stop for the past week or so and I could not help but wish constantly that I were flying A-wings against Interceptors and to hear the sound of blaster fire.

So if you have not ever seen or heard of SMAP, here is a picture telling you just about all you need to

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Many elements of the current board game could be simulated in current engine, and the SMAP engine can simulate much more "nuanced" maneuvers than the miniatures game. Expansions would be ridiculously easy to sell (and with minimal development costs) to include ace skills, ships and missions. Capital ships would be easy to integrate.

A "SMAP" X-Wing would need some additional features on top of the SMAP engine such squadron selection, capital ships, better squadron management, better gunnery simulation, and additional features to simulate sensors, bombs, crew, droids, etc.

Really the possibilities are endless to expand upon the X-Wing miniatures franchise (and make FFG an obscene amount of revenue). The only issue is either licensing the SMAP engine or developing a new one of their own and diving into tablet gaming, something they have not done before.

Shut up and take my money.

I am pretty sure FFG does not have the StarWars computer game license. But who knows what is possible...

Hide the game in an app designed for supporting the tabletop game and fudge up the lines between computer game and tabletop game app?

Isn't this more the relm of an out-and-out computer games developer more than FFG?

Not that I would't immediately jump in (I do love a computer game as much as the next guy BUT....I've never enjoyed a computer game as much as the table/board game equivalent. Bloodbowl? Space Hulk? 40k? Rouge Squadron(X-Wing)? I LOVE both formats of all the aforementioned but the analogue beats the digital every time

Playing against the computer is boring, I'd much rather then have a remake of the X-Wing series games with modern graphics

EA has the video game rights and I dread to think how they'd muck up x-wing like they have dungeon keeper and so many other games.

FFG doesn't, and will probably never be able to get license to do Star Wars video games, or really any kind of electronic media. This was an issue back when Edge of the Empire came out, and people wanted to get the PDF versions just like all the 40k RPG's, and one of the developers came flat out and said that PDF's fell under electronic media licenses for whatever reason and the cost of getting said license would bankrupt the company.

I'd totally buy it!

Playing against the computer is boring, I'd much rather then have a remake of the X-Wing series games with modern graphics

You know, they have that right? Some good chaps at X-Wing Alliance Upgrade have made it possible for us. This link has some additional info too.

I play X-Wing Alliance often .. and it is AWESOME!!!!

I just picked it up

Its really a fun game.

A X-Wing version would be cool