I have been playing X-Wing for about two months and I just bought my first mat to replace my homemade, foam-board mat. I decided on a 3'x3' from War Mats. It is magnetic and comes with 20 magnets for your ship bases, plus a really nice carry case.

Looks nice. Not tournament legal though.

As beautiful and colorful as some of the nebula or planetary maps are, I prefer simple starfields for actual gameplay. this looks very nice.

Magnets sound useful.

If someone made those asteroids as fridge magnets, that would be super!

Looks nice. Not tournament legal though.

Not everything has to be about tournaments, you know. It could be about having a better playing surface at home. *gasp*

Looks nice. Not tournament legal though.

FFG needs to change that. Ridiculous!

Looks nice. Not tournament legal though.

who brings their own mats to a tournament...

or for that matter who cares if its tournament legal anyway (oh right the like 10-15% of the community)

I did not buy it with tournaments in mind. Home and my FLGS are my locations of choice, so this mat will serve nicely. The reviews on Youtube are what made up my mind. Seeing a small ship hit with some rolled dice and not moving...that was something I had to check out for myself. Plus, maneuver templates do not bump the ships like on other mats.

Spacebug, I thought of that exact thing. Asteroids, space debris, ion fields, etc. Any type of obstacle would be well suited as a magnet. I tried some refrigerator magnets, the simple vinyl types, earlier today, but they were not strong enough to hold position any better than on a regular mat.

Looks nice. Not tournament legal though.

How so? No problem if the TO borrows it ahead of time. Who takes their FFG mat to tourneys anyway?

I would guess that some neodymium magnets would be strong enough to hold the asteroids down. Even a small one should probably do.

Edit: I was curious so I checked. I have some that are 12 mm diameter x 3 mm tall. One will secure my largest asteroid to my fridge vertically. I also have some very tiny ones: 3.2 mm diameter x 3.2 mm tall; those are not strong enough.

I might need to either get one of those mats or make one from one of my FF mats.

I attended a regional championship last weekend and only about half the mats were FFG "official" mats. There's a huge gap between what FFG says and what actually happens.

Magnets sound useful.

If someone made those asteroids as fridge magnets, that would be super!

Magnets are useful. Being in Europe, we didn't want to buy the warmats because of the horrible shipping fee.

So we made ourselves, using a magnetic white board, on wich we use a PVC printed mat (cheap at publicity printers).

Ships and asteroids have magnets to avoid moving them by accident, and we use little powerful magents to pin the bomb tokens on the bale so they don't move when bumped either.

It is a real improvement in comfort !

Little plus with our solution : we have a very big white board, so we can write our lists each on our side with an erasable pen, and keep track of damage/crits/etc.

I have been using these mats since the first Kickstarter and they are awesome. The magnets are strong enough to pick the mat up and the ships don't move. I use two magnets per small base and 4 per large base and they are rock solid.

I attended a regional championship last weekend and only about half the mats were FFG "official" mats. There's a huge gap between what FFG says and what actually happens.

You should read the rules again. If the venue provides the mats, 3rd party mats are legal. The venue can request people bring their own, that's ta way of providing them. A player may always replace a 3rd party on with an official FFG one. It's not written, but it's generally accepted that if the venue requests people help with mats, people play on assigned tables, not their own mat. That avoids any even remote advantage from knowing their own play mat.

Looks nice. Not tournament legal though.

While unofficial game mats are not tournament legal, mood enhancing tabletop images that make it easier to visualize the game taking place in space are still acceptable within in a tournament setting.

this is not a game mat - it's a mood enhancing tabletop image that makes it easier to visualize the game taking place in space - and therefore 100% tournament legal.

LOL, so I quick did a search on eBay for War Mats and got floor mats .