I don't see a problem people wearing their medals to games - I certainly wouldn't typecast them or think less of them...

For me, it's the same as someone using any other prize (range rulers, tokens etc) - I don't think "show off".

, wear whatever medals you want went we plsy with tiny plastic ships on a pretend space... I'll think no less of you.

If you can't wear one of the medals to an X-wing event, where else could you wear it? That would be the point of the medals. No discussion about the patch?

when ever I won a tournament I would pin the Medal to my shirt and where it the rest of the day letting others know that I returned victories from an epic struggle of good vs evil. the first time I came home from wining my first tournament I told my wife of the adventures I had she just rolled her eyes and said "do you want a medal?" I said "No I won one".

Now as a reward for bringing peace to the galaxy I am given a coin that will most likely fall out of my pocket on the drive home into the spot between the seat and the centre console never to be seen again. Without a medal pined to my/your chest people who pass me/you in the street will have no idea of my/your accomplishment and would not know a hero walks among them.

Now the only way people will know we are hero's is if someone taps us on the shoulder and passes us back our coin and say's "here you dropped this" or asks us to help them pick between 2 options. This can also only happen as long as we don't make the mistake useing the coin in a vending machine to buy a bar of chocolate.

I love you!

when ever I won a tournament I would pin the Medal to my shirt and where it the rest of the day letting others know that I returned victories from an epic struggle of good vs evil. the first time I came home from wining my first tournament I told my wife of the adventures I had she just rolled her eyes and said "do you want a medal?" I said "No I won one".

Now as a reward for bringing peace to the galaxy I am given a coin that will most likely fall out of my pocket on the drive home into the spot between the seat and the centre console never to be seen again. Without a medal pined to my/your chest people who pass me/you in the street will have no idea of my/your accomplishment and would not know a hero walks among them.

Now the only way people will know we are hero's is if someone taps us on the shoulder and passes us back our coin and say's "here you dropped this" or asks us to help them pick between 2 options. This can also only happen as long as we don't make the mistake useing the coin in a vending machine to buy a bar of chocolate.

I love you!

I love you to

x wing nut be like 'I need more medals'

I agree with the earlier post, I love the military tradition of coins. I liked it long ago when I was in the army, and now that I work at the VA I have found that several veteran's groups still use them.

The coins are 10,000 times more cool than some ridiculous medal that no one in their right mind would ever wear.

would you tell that to an Olympic athlete? I see this Game a one of my sports winning medals is apart of it

Most medalists just toss that thing in a kitchen drawer or in a cupboard somewhere. Especially if they have a bunch. At least the athletes in the Netherlands do.

If you ask me the only difference between a commemorative coin and a medal is the ribbon. Make a ribbon and wear your victory coin with pride.

The coin is a cleverly disguised weapon of lethal intent. Say you see your opponent is running the newest ship of I can hit everything and still fly away unscathed, suggest a "coin toss" for initiative. A carefully aimed "challenge coin" can easily put any ship down for the count. Have you guys held one of these yet, it is a brick. Not to mention the slap and boom the coin makes when it lands on the play surface. Be warned there will be investigations of stunned opponents with coin sized divots in their foreheads.

What Otacon and Tuls said. I always carry a challenge coin with me, mostly because I'm sentimental, but for other tradition related reasons too.

Challenge coin all the way!

I have a couple of Challenge Coins. I wasn't always a grumpy archaeologist.

The biggest problem with either Challenge Coins or Medals for winning a tournament is the secondary market. The people who win them, deserve them, but when people buy them from the interwebs we get this type of scenario -

Me: Wow, you've got more medals than a Soviet General on combat drugs. Did you really win 87 regional medals?

Walt: Yes.

Me: But you've only been playing the game for like 3 weeks.

Walt: It's been 3 weeks of hell.

Cheers

Baaa

What Otacon and Tuls said. I always carry a challenge coin with me, mostly because I'm sentimental, but for other tradition related reasons too.

Challenge coin all the way!

I have a couple of Challenge Coins. I wasn't always a grumpy archaeologist.

The biggest problem with either Challenge Coins or Medals for winning a tournament is the secondary market. The people who win them, deserve them, but when people buy them from the interwebs we get this type of scenario -

Me: Wow, you've got more medals than a Soviet General on combat drugs. Did you really win 87 regional medals?

Walt: Yes.

Me: But you've only been playing the game for like 3 weeks.

Walt: It's been 3 weeks of hell.

Cheers

Baaa

On No X-wing "Stolen Valor" nerds!!!

I like the coins. Some of the side tournaments have been making them and they've gone over quite well. Just something fun to have. Heavy as hell and loud if you flip them on a wood board or non-mousepad mat.

I was fairly ambivalent on the coins, until I actually got one yesterday in the store championship. They're pretty heavy-duty, and seriously nice. As is the acrylic range ruler. Definitely better than my tatty card one that can now be retired...

So the store champ kits finally landed in Australia and I got to pick up my prizes and to everyone who said wait till you see them you will be impressed. I can honestly say that I am not. Its a heavy lump of steal that has no real use and no way as prestige as a medal

maybe some one will trade me for something good in the future but for now it ill sit in the bottom of my X wing box

Please FFG bring back the medals.

Medals are some of the worst parts of the Star Wars universe, not problem seeing them go.

do you think that because Chewe didn't get one?

I landed in the top 4 at the last store championship I attended and came home with the challenge coin. I was able to show it off to my son who was super excited for me. It also gave him an incentive to work harder on learning the game, so he can win one of his own. He is 8

After seeing the Challenge Coins in person, I prefer the cardboard storage boxes, or tokens, or playmats, or range rulers, or cards, or even the medals. Not sure where I rank them against the dice bags?

Each to their own, though.

Man, no fun. These things are awesome. And potentially deadly. I am gladly paying for the special Resistance/First Order challenge coin I can get at the Campaign for Cancer tournament.

So the store champ kits finally landed in Australia and I got to pick up my prizes and to everyone who said wait till you see them you will be impressed. I can honestly say that I am not. Its a heavy lump of steal that has no real use and no way as prestige as a medal

maybe some one will trade me for something good in the future but for now it ill sit in the bottom of my X wing box

Please FFG bring back the medals.

Send it to Ballarat and have them melt it down for something you can use it for (or chuck it outside and It'll melt on its own)