Pac, you are not alone. I regularly knock ships over when reaching for action tokens after movement. I think it because I am so focused on what I am doing.... that I don't pay attention to what I'm doing. IF that makes sense. Luckily our casual flyers are cool cucumbers.

Or, if you want to have some coffee (or, like me, live off the stuff the way a vampire lives off blood) I suggest getting well and truly addicted to caffeine to the point where your hands shake if you don't have any! Then hit Starbucks on your way to the tourney and you are all set!

If you need advice on things to get you addicted to caffeine, might I suggest law school? It did the trick for me. Watch out for kidney damage though...

In all seriousness, the little bumps happen. Especially on the FFG mats. I love mine, it's gorgeous, but **** do the ships go skittering a good couple centimeters if you touch the base the wrong way. I suggest 2 fingers pressing the template to the ship while you hold the ship centerline with 2 fingers, one on either side of the peg. Small amounts of movement stil happen, but it minimizes it.

I bring a cup of coffee to the LGS every week for casual play. Maybe that is my problem. So be it, Jedi.

This was such a problem and an annoyance for me that I invented a magnetic mat. The KS will launch soon and mats will go out prior to Christmas. PM me if anyone would like further details or access to one of my demo videos. I feel your pain and it doesn't have to be that way.

If there's a ship in the way that you're worried about bumping accidentally, ask your opponent to mark the ship's position with a maneuver template and take the ship off the board temporarily while you make your maneuver.

Just for goodness sake, don't pick up the maneuver template your opponent put down to mark the ship! I've done that a couple times and I really felt like a dunce.

Honestly, I think we all get that every XWing game at some point turns into jenga crossed with pick up sticks. Stuff happens, just do the best you can with it. I have shaky hands as well, but I'm always carefulin those situations,and my opponents notice,and appreciate that I'm trying. The beautiful thingabout this community,is that they tend to be very helpful in those situations

I put some grippy little nubs on my bases. Adds a substantial amount of friction.

I normally only get to play after having been on an early shift, so half four am start to the day and half six-seven PM start to the game. I've been on my feet running around like a lunatic all day and cycled 7 miles each way either side. Then I chuck as much coffee in me as I can so I at least don't fall asleep on the gaming table...

I can usually hold it together ok with just one or two incidents but this last week, every move was ham fisted and I was getting vocally annoyed with myself ( not as annoyed at forgetting to decloak Whisper 3 turns in a row when she had perfect field position with it but was being shot at for forgetting..)

Tiredness kills my little plastic space-crack pilots but I just make sure to check my opponent is ok with the reset position, even if it means I know it's a little worst for me. Also last week, I perfectly skirted Boba round an astound with about 2mm to spare then knocked him into it before my opponent has been able to see that he hadn't. After a chat, we rolled for it being on or off the rock and Boba ate asteroid, taking damage and no longer having what was 99% going to be a kill shot on Kavil who proceeded to wreck my day for the next couple turns.

It's frustrating as all hell but I just suck it up. After all no one made me be a clumsy oaf and I'd rather be annoyed with myself an ruin someone else's experience playing against me.

I glue a washer (four washers for larges) to the bottom of my flight stands, then I use spray on plasti dip on top of that. It all gets covered up by the cheery red spray paint I coat all the tops of my bases with so you can't see it. I also play on a felt (very shaggy) our mouse pad material game mat. I still nudge them once in a while but much less than I used to.

I'm renown amongst friends and family for my almost unholy levels of clumsiness. For some reason x-wing seems to bring out in the worst for me too. I really have two pieces of advice.

1) ask for help - if your ship is near thier edge and there's a bunch of ships in between you, don't try lean over the table to do the manoeuvre you just pulled. Just ask you opponent to move your ship a 3 bank or whatever after showing them your dial. Likewise, if you know the move will be close to bumping, ask your opponent to hold down the ships you may bump whilst you execute your move. X-wing can often be a four hands required kinda game when you're a clumsy as we are, and most opponents I've played are generally willing to lend thiers on demand.

2) in respect of tourneys, during the handshake and introductions when you first meet your opponent I always set expectations by saying I can be really clumsy at times and if it becomes a problem, let me know because I'm happy for you to execute all my manoeuvres for me. Never once has anyone wanted to do this, as after the first couple of rounds you're kind of in x-wing zone which I find helps with my clumsiness anyway, but I think your opponent knowing your happy enough to let them complete your moves just gives them confidence that any general clumsiness that does occur is deffinately not an attempt at minipulating an Advantage.

Oh your all caffeine fiends that explains so much, I never touch.

So you knock over ships.

Once upon a time I played Games Workshop.

Used the floor as the gaming board, though I had a 6x4 grey card from a photo framing shop.

Models were in the midst of battle when I needed to to get to the other side. Having as much grace as a Banther, I momentarily lost my balance and brought down my foot to steady myself before falling over.

CRUNCH

Dozen models were not the same after that.

My foot was fine in case you're wondering.

This was such a problem and an annoyance for me that I invented a magnetic mat. The KS will launch soon and mats will go out prior to Christmas. PM me if anyone would like further details or access to one of my demo videos. I feel your pain and it doesn't have to be that way.

Just so you know, somebody beat you to it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamersdoor/magnetic-war-mats-fix-the-slip

Wow those FFG official star mats are as slick as ICE

Yeah it happens, more time than not. I remember watching a MWG video and when templates overlapped instead of placing markers on bases and placing the maneuver template on the table they just placed it over and eye guess the base position. At that time I am guilty of being that guy pointing and saying you are doing it wrong. However The more I play (especially on FFG mats) the more times I have bumped, pushed, tipped knocked over to the point where I am thinking maybe just guessing would be the better move so I don't mess up other ships positions.

I've pointed this out to some rules pedants who like to argue about following exact rules even when the end result is no different (such as moving all ships of the same PS and then placing focus tokens on them all) Strangely they seem to have no issue breaking the movement rule, or rules about models needing to be on bases, but a big issue with the other.