biggest thing to overcome is remembering how the ships move and how much with what speed.

More often than not when i try some fancy maneuver, i end up overshooting slightly or turning more than i intended. This is because i am a 40k player, been one for years, and i am ingrained with spotting distances at a glance in inches. I dont premeasure in 40k even though its legal now, because i never need to.

However, x-wing ranges and movements are not in inches. In fact they feel sorta random-ish to me, so its insanely difficult for me to judge it.

I'd suggest just playing around with the ships and movements. As in, grab a couple ships and try to fly like a pro and not really do anything else. I learned a bit from watching videos but that doesnt help the original problem of being bad at judging the ranges lol while just constantly messing with the markers does.

Serious, no joke. If you want to get a better perspective of the game, train your mind and enhance your concentration...

PLAY GO!!!

It is an amazing game and enhances your "Perception"

chess is good for forward thinking

Those look like suggestions to try some cross-training. While I don't know how successful it would be painting or drawing could help you with certain spacial relationships.

Vassal provides an interesting perspective for me on X-wing; the way the program moves the ships is entirely different from how I see it on the table. Maybe that helps? Maybe it just disorients my thinking. I haven't decided for sure yet. Still, it's something to keep in mind. While the starting and final positions are just what they'd be in a real game, looking directly down on it is different, as is the turn however many degrees, then move straight forward dynamic.

Given that we've already eliminated actual games as means of practice for this thread, my preference is to get out the ships I'm practicing with as well as their dials, and either engage in solo play or use the Aturi Cluster AI to field some Imperials. Honestly, playing both sides myself tends to create a more capable enemy than Aturi Cluster, though, partly because there's more opportunity to incorporate various upgrades and their effects. You kind of have to be able to play without bias for or against either side of the match, of course.

Squad benchmark is a decent little tool to learn to fly without getting everything out of the box.

I can't figure it out. I built a squad but it dosn't 'stick' and it keeps telling me that the Emperor is not implimented so I can't add him to my shuttle.

Squad benchmark is a decent little tool to learn to fly without getting everything out of the box.

I can't figure it out. I built a squad but it dosn't 'stick' and it keeps telling me that the Emperor is not implimented so I can't add him to my shuttle.

The Emperor is not implemented yet. The site creator actually did do a big jump in putting in more stuff. It's much more complete at this point. It does have some bugs. I've had games lock up and sometimes the "Fire" button doesn't appear under the dice rolling, and I can't progress the game past that.

Not sure what problem you're having with squads. You click on the "New" box under a side, build it, then hit the little "Next" button in the top right corner.

At that point, that squad should show up in the squad field in a text list format.

I'm aiming to enter the competitive aspect of this game more than I have done so far and have attended a couple of tournaments. My success has been so-so with about as many wins as I have losses. I try to cram in as many games as possible and have tried out as many lists as time permits, but I have had the most luck with palp ace (Vader and Soontir), reb regen 3 x T-70 (Poe, Ello and novice) and my personal favourite 3 imp aces (Vader, Soontir, Turr).

While I have fun flying I have to admit that I fly more by the seat of my pants than by design and long-game planning. Thus I feel I need to improve my skills but don't rightly know where to begin apart from watching batreps online and reading blogs and posts.

Should I limit myself to just playing one list at every opportunity, should I play with myself (pun intended), should I memorize moment dials etc...etc...

What does the big guys in this "sport" do? What have you done and what worked for you?

Thanks for any inputs.

If you find one list you like and play it non-stop, you'll get used to it and the way it functions will be second nature to you. This will allow you to focus on other things happening in the game more.

So just do that. Pick one power list and stick with it. I do significantly better when I'm well practiced with one list than if I'm constantly switching them out.

Squad benchmark is a decent little tool to learn to fly without getting everything out of the box.

I can't figure it out. I built a squad but it dosn't 'stick' and it keeps telling me that the Emperor is not implimented so I can't add him to my shuttle.

The Emperor is not implemented yet. The site creator actually did do a big jump in putting in more stuff. It's much more complete at this point. It does have some bugs. I've had games lock up and sometimes the "Fire" button doesn't appear under the dice rolling, and I can't progress the game past that.

Not sure what problem you're having with squads. You click on the "New" box under a side, build it, then hit the little "Next" button in the top right corner.

At that point, that squad should show up in the squad field in a text list format.

pretty much, after I build my squad and hit next, it doesn't show up in the squad field.