Hi everyone,

Did a new trial run of our Death Star Trench rules.

Our goal was to figure out some cooperative rules for playing -- so that we could each play a squadron -- and have the Empire act as a 'robot' opponent.

This ended up being pretty fun -- and much, much less hectic. (The younger person in our group didn't really care for zooming down the Death Star trench with Darth Vader and a bunch of TIE fighters -- who are faster than he is -- right on his tail!)

Worked out pretty well this time. We had to make a few rule modifications -- and also ran into some trouble getting the game balance of the Turbo Laser Turrets just right. [We have new understanding for the people who create games - what a tough challenge to make things hard but not too hard.]

Biggest things modify for next time:

- Adding one more TIE fighters (so that there are two squadrons of three)

- Taming the Turrets a little bit

- Making the game shorter / faster somehow [this one went 9 turns -- and that felt a little bit long]

- Better Turret models !!

Here's a link to our detailed write-up and rules ideas.... http://battlegaming1.blogspot.com/2015/04/x-wing-death-star-trench-cooperative.html

By the way - yes, in turn #9, a lowly Gold Squadron Pilot had the one and only lucky shot which blew up the Death Star!!!