Am a bit curious about how other people got into this game.

I had been aware the game existed for quite a while, but never really considered playing it until the excellent Tie Fighter short got a big itch for space battles going and I decided to read up more about the game. Had been wanting a space / sci-fi game to pair up with Malifaux as my fantasy-ish game, and X-wing seemed a good game with an alive community in the area.

went to the store to get my son some lego .... came home with a core set, extra x wing, y wing, tie fighter and tie advanced. and it all blew out of proportion very quick after that

When it came out, I bought the game and one or two of each wave 1 expansion. Later the Falcon, too. But back then it wasn't very popular at my club so I played other games more and basically skipped the next waves. Now it is very popular and I can play every week more than once if I can spare the time.

When Games Workshop decided to commit suicide by biting the hand that feeds them, I was on the lookout for an excellent tactical miniature wargame, with a sci-fi element.

Enter X-Wing.

I played a couple of games with a friend's core set, which was fun but I didn't have the spare money to pick it up at the time. So, a year or so went by and I kind of forgot about it.

Then Hedgehogmech brought it along to my local university's wargaming session, and I was hooked. Excellent game play combined with pre-painted miniatures (seriously, I can't stress how much of a selling point that is for me) sold me on the game, and X-Wing has become my go to wargame and the first game where I've participated in proper organised play competitive tournaments.

Got really sick of 40k and had heard good things about x-wing, bought the core played with a friend and loved it, I turned next week he had bought everything rebel he could so that was that

The owner of my store knew I was really into Star Wars and he told me about the game shortly before it came out in 2012. I bought the core set and the first wave of expansions but never really played it because I didn't know anyone else that also played it. It sat on my shelf until the early part of last year when I started buying more expansions and getting into a lot after meeting some people that were into it and convincing some of my friends to check it out.

When Games Workshop decided to commit suicide by biting the hand that feeds them, I was on the lookout for an excellent tactical miniature wargame, with a sci-fi element.

Enter X-Wing.

Actually this is pretty much it for me.

40K 7th came out. I was like "**** this noise". I've been looking at the pretty-prepainted models and decided to get a core set.

I fell in love with the game very quickly, the quick games even at 100 points (because i quickly bought every expansion pack i could get my greedy little mitts on) the fact that there were so few rules arguments and it was so streamlined (remember I was previously playing 40K...) the comparative lack of cheese(40k...).

This started a chain reaction which took me back to my teen + preteen years of being an epic star wars geek.

Well...

I saw this really cool movie back in 1977...

(insert four decades of wargaming)

... fast forward to 2013, when I bought a core set and all the Episode IV, V & VI ships as a birthday gift for my son. Thought it was a great gift as my son really liked SW: Clone Wars and was an avid (and quite competent) Wings of War/Wings of Glory player. Turns out he was not as excited about the game as I was... go figure... Any way, I was hooked- (but for the storytelling aspect of it, not so much the competitive aspects of the game, which others so seem to enjoy)!

That said, we are hosting a big Epic game at a gaming convention in Detroit in a few weeks.

Used to play 40K

Didn't like competition and preferred narrative/story

Games Workshop made then dumped Inquisitor

But White Dwarf revealed a game called Dark Heresy

Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch and Black Crusade led me to Fantasy Flight Games

My only 40K opponent (my brother) became verbally abusive and controlling. Though the high prices contributed to my quitting, I associated the game with the abuse and became stressed and anxious just touching the box. Getting flashbacks of being bellowed at.

I still wanted to game, and tell stories through gaming, and I associated Star Wars with my happiest memories. I was never good at modelling or painting, but X-Wing needs neither skill. Being able to just open the box, set up the floor and go made this game my first choice.

I'm now looking at Armada.

Already got Force and Destiny, and looking at getting one of the other two RPGs.

Hopefully

Early next year I'll be in a position to launch a full story based campaign.

And it all started with X-Wing Miniatures Game

I walked into Sci-Fi City in Orlando Florida. I was wandering and watching; a few people were just setting up for a game of X-Wing .This guy pulls out the Millennium Falcon, handed it to me and said 'here take a look, do you want to play?' I called my wife and said 'well I don't know if I'll ever have the chance to play buy I'm buying some of these figures'.

I saw it being demoed on an episode of Will Wheaton's Tabletop Youtube series last September.

After I watched it I started Googling how much it cost to get started and then found out the dimensions of the maneuver templates, range ruler, and plastic bases and cut them out of cardboard. Next I printed the pilots from the starter set and invited my family over to me and my wife's house and we played one game with the proxy pieces. We all enjoyed it so much that we bought core sets and a few expansions the very next day, and now I own at least one of every Rebel ship (minus the K-Wing)!

Been aware of it for a long time, then last year some friends gave me a demo and I loved it. Soon after I decided I could no longer put up with GW's increasing prices and bad attitude so blew a ton I'd been saving in my gaming budget and ended up with a load of cool fighters

I was always a "warhammer is our mainstay but this looks cool let's give it a try" gamer.

When we stopped playing WH&40K we cast around for a few other games. Played Anima miniature game liked it but could not do justice to the pretty but really expensive minis. Eventually settled on Dystopian wars and really love it. Tried x-wing when it first came out and said "Oh it's wings of war, I already have it as a box game over there"

Two years pass and I get a new lodger, I buy him a couple of HWKS for gifts and as he plays DW with me occasionally I say I will give it another go.

Well now the Almighty empire has a new recruit and I have 1 of everything for them bar the advanced pack (i have aces) and slave 1, which is not imperial. I even was the first to get a raider from our FLGS, sitting hoping it came in before I had to go to work.

I was with my wife at the local comic book shop and there was a tournament going, with a few guys I knew. It looked like loads of fun, and my wife encouraged me to buy into it. Bought the core set, guys played it at my local wargaming club and then the massive plastic crack addiction kicked in like a landslide.

Since I'm actually decent at the game, my wife insists I stay in practice.

Yes, I also am a refugee of an abusive GW relationship.

I played Star Trek: Attack Wing (STAW) for about a year - a friend got me into it. When that game jumped the shark, I broke down and played a few games of X-Wing. I knew all along I would like X-Wing better, but I had spent so much on STAW, that the idea of financing another miniatures game kept me from playing. Well, as soon as I played, I realized where all the things I like about STAW came from. It wasn't long before I had one (or more) of every ship (except the tie expansion... gotta get round to that).

Never heard of it prior to brother-in-law talking me into trying it out. I don't play any other tabletop games or card games. I never would have heard of it if he had not shown it to me.

I saw a review that mentioned the gameplay being similar to Wings of War on a site somewhere, and immediately went and bought a starter online. Read a bit more into it and decided to order a couple expansions. Got excited and actually bought a couple things at an FLGS before my first orders even arrived. I ended up not playing much until the Kessel Run prerelease tournaments a few months later, but that got me hooked. No mistakes made here.

Saw the core set on the shelf for a year or two and one day picked it up to read the back. Later did an internet search and read about the gameplay, then watched a few tournament matches on Youtube. This led me to search for game stores in my hometown that played and I found several. A few weeks after that I decided to buy into the game and now 2 months later I am playing at home building my skills. Sometime soon I will join an X wing night at a local game store.

When Games Workshop decided to commit suicide by biting the hand that feeds them, I was on the lookout for an excellent tactical miniature wargame, with a sci-fi element.

Enter X-Wing.

I have meet many players in the same boat.....

I had a few small FFG games in the closet and had to contact them about a problem with a new one I just bought (Cave Troll, which they are now reprinting!). I saw an article about X-wing on their website. After reading it, I read a few reviews. I had to have this! Even if the game sucked, the models were beautiful and they would sit on my desk.

So I bought a Core set and invited friends to come play, asking them all to buy one expansion. They felt the same way, the miniature was worth the $10 alone. The rest is history. Most of us walked away that evening hopelessly addicted to the game. My next move was to get regular tournaments started at my local game store. I still TO to this day.

It was fall of 2013. I had just started law school, and I realized that over the years my time to build and paint for other games (40k, warmahordes) had evaporated and that was never going to change. When I had free time, I wanted to play. Also living in a small condo, have no room to store terrain or a proper gaming table. I was wandering around Barnes & Noble (looking for Black's Law Dictionary) and I walked through the game section. I had seen the core set before but it never really piqued my interest. Now I saw it for what it was: Star Wars, minis, no need to paint or base. Since this was right after wave 3, they had a nice selection of expansions. It was the HWK, oddly enough, that sold me. I figured a company willing to delve into the EU and do it so well was definitely worth my attention. I bought a core set, a HWK an A-Wing and a B-Wing.

Fast forward just 2 years and I am a total FFG fanboy. I had Descent and Twilight Imperium before I got into X-Wing, but now every single gaming product I own fits in 3 categories: D&D, Iron Kingdoms RPG, or FFG products. From X-Wing and Armada (don't worry, imperial assault is next) to board games, disk wars and RPGs, I have yet to purchase an FFG product that I was disappointed in (just need to find more people to play some of them). I'm hooked. Haven't had an active X-Box live account for quite some time, haven't even really done a ton on my 3DS. If I have free time, I'm looking for a game of X-Wing. That's one of the greatest parts about this game: if I only have a couple of hours free, I can get a couple of full games in, rather than a couple of turns in one of the other miniature games out there. Plus in my experience this community has been almost exclusively comprised of classy folks.

I was basically out on all things Star Wars, thanks to thirty years of it getting steadily worse and nostalgia only going so far.

Then Shut Up & Sit Down did their bloody video review of X-Wing. And I thought "oh, actually, that looks kind of interesting. And the core set's not that expensive, and if I don't like it I'll still have some nice models for my desk or whatever."

Now every time I get an expansion my wife Looks at me and says "Quinns SAID that you'd end up buying more stuff for it than you thought!" And she's right, **** her. SHE'S RIGHT.

Preordered first Core set October 2011, for release "first quarter 2012" and not being fluent in how FFG interprets a calendar didn't realise it would be a full year before I had it in hand. Preordered 2nd Core set and 2 of each expansion June 2012 upon initial announcement of a third quarter release.

I had been out of miniature gaming since 2000, and stumbled on The Falcon at Amazon in 2012.

Hunted up related info and discovered FFG... the rest is glory.