Good Day,

I am giving an elective at a university about X-Wing Miniatures. I Currently have 20 students enrolled, and would like to hear from all of you, on how to approach this environment.

I have been playing Xwing for a year now and have a Epic collection, however for the classroom I have bought 10x Core Sets exclusively. I have also made gaming boards out of hardboard and created PowerPoint presentations for explaining the basic rules. What I Need however is some brainstormed Ideas on how to approach this curriculum and classroom sessions. Do you have any ideas, suggestions or comments ? Please let me know.

Regards

H

I would recommend a campaign style format. It will allow you to teach them the rules with a forgiving environment and force them to work together towards a common goal. You will be teaching them an outstanding game, how to work together, and how to think strategically. The only draw back is that a campaign is more fun when you have the chance to start in a crappy ship and earn your way towards better ships...

Which core sets have you purchased? All original, all force awakens, or did you get a mix of both?

If you would like to use any of our (X-Wing Miniatures Maine) resources you, and everyone else, is more than welcome. Follow the website link in my signature and navigate to the "Campaign Format" tab. We will supply full support and meet any reasonable requests from those that use our resources. Currently we have a Rebel and an Imperial campaign. A Scum & Villainy (you will not be teaching teamwork with this puppy) campaign rulebook is currently being drafted. I expect our custom content section to be populated by early to mid February.

Mix in Vassal. You invest in learning how to use the system, but it reduces the overhead on students or you trying to acquire a lot of ships. Keeping it on the table is still more valuable, but mixing it up for homework or to have them demonstrate knowledge and provide screenshots from vassal is great. Heck, it is great to be able to demonstrate using Vassal as well.

Use ideas like the Outer Rim Smugglers Flight Academy for knowledge based skill checks. Generate your own so that it isn't easily studied when they find it.

Good Day,

I am giving an elective at a university about X-Wing Miniatures. I Currently have 20 students enrolled, and would like to hear from all of you, on how to approach this environment.

I have been playing Xwing for a year now and have a Epic collection, however for the classroom I have bought 10x Core Sets exclusively. I have also made gaming boards out of hardboard and created PowerPoint presentations for explaining the basic rules. What I Need however is some brainstormed Ideas on how to approach this curriculum and classroom sessions. Do you have any ideas, suggestions or comments ? Please let me know.

Regards

H

Where were you when I was in school? I would have LOVED to take an elective on X-Wing minis. A bit off topic, but I'm incredibly curious, is it just a class where students play X-Wing or is there more to it?

These are the kinds of games that students would love in school. My sister was a teacher and she had the kids play Civilization. They loved it and became immediately and fully engaged in the game.