When I started making my squadron builder, there was only the Core Set, X-Wing, Y-Wing, TIE and TIE Advanced released. I'd been hooked on the idea of the game, having always liked Wings of War but found it a bit flat (in terms of excitement as well as just using cards for planes), and I pre-ordered X-Wing as soon as I could.

When it came, the game lived up to all my expectations. I was instantly hooked. And not just on the game play. I loved the "what if I put this in, and take that out" aspect of squadron building. So, being a web developer, I decided to make a simple website to let me tinker more easily with different options. It was really just for me and my friends but, being a website, I opened it up to anyone else who might interested... and have never failed to be blown over by the appreciation I've received ever since.

I had no idea it would become so popular, nor that I would be building so many features into it. But one of my favourite things has been seeing all the awesome squadrons people save on the site. There have been so many that I had to completely change the database the site runs on to cope. And that's why I'm posting now: I just noticed that the 200,000th squadron has been saved (in fact there have now been 206,745 squadrons saved).

So, to mark the occasion, here it is (and it's a belter* - a fitting mix of classic miniswarm and shiny new TIE/x1):

DARTH AND THE BOYS

99 points

PILOTS

“Howlrunner” (20)
TIE Fighter (18), Swarm Tactics (2)

Darth Vader (31)
TIE Advanced (29), TIE/x1 (0), Squad Leader (2), Sensor Jammer (0)

Academy Pilot (12) x 4

View it here: http://xwing-builder.co.uk/view/200000

Thank you to everyone who has used my squadron builder, emailed me bugs and suggestions and to the X-Wing community for generally being awesome.

Cheers!

* "A belter" is Northern English for an exceptional thing.

nice man! Grats! Love your squad builder!

Cool I always use you squadron builder, it is very nicely done, especially the print view is terrific.

Nevermind - it looks like the autoblaster turret has been fixed.

I can't even imagine setting up a game without your builder.

Awesome !

WOW!!!

I didn´t know the Squadron Builder is yours!!!

I have used it thousand times, even for tournaments!!!

Thank you very much!!!

Being new to the game, I use your builder CONSTANTLY to toy with new builds I want to try out. A lot. I've only been playing for two months and I wouldn't be surprised if I accounted for 1,000 of those 200,000 squads

Thanks for putting so much work into it, it's an awesome tool!

Thank you, I use your squadron builder exclusively, I love being able to track the W/L records of my specific lists and also know what I can build based on what expansions I own.

Happy to contribute 100+ saved squads to the tally (and a few bug reports). Not even sure how many squads I've made in total so far, since I deleted a bunch of squads that would never see the light of day recently.

Needless to say, this represents countless hours of my hobby time and I appreciate the tremendous amount of work that goes into making this sort of thing possible. Thanks!!

Hey man, love your builder I don't know if it's appropriate but I wanted to bring up a bug. Sometimes, about 2/3rds of the way down on the screen, there will be what appears to be an adobe flash object that covers anything under it, preventing me from clicking any buttons. So I have to scroll around or resize the browser to click the buttons underneath. Thanks!

Grates!

I love your builder! Wouldn't use another at this point! Thanks for all the updates and fixes! You rock Voidstate!

Your builder is my staple when it comes to them. I request players bring print outs of thier lists from your builder for tourneys.