I've been a life long Star Wars fan. played the West End rpg, almost all the video games and then years later I see FFG coming out with a miniatures game for starfighter combat. I dropped 40k and used the proceeds to fund getting into X-wing.
So basically Star Wars.
I was in love the moment i saw it on Table Top (Wil Wheaton's show)
As many I loved star wars as a kid. I wasn't even a year old when eps iv came out but my dad really hooked it up big time for christmas by the time empire came out. I loved the trilogy so much and can remember listening to the audio dub(not soundtrack the actual movie script) on vinyl over and over long before vcr's and eventually when the time came I wore every tape I had of the trilogy into destruction.
The prequels disappointed me and I treated star wars like a childhood friend who screwed you over badly as an adult. Still love the guy but stay the hell away from me. This pretty much continued until SWG's came out. Omg that was a great game till they ruined it and I had several rl friends to play it with. My friend had come home with beer and pizza.
This is what lead me to xwing, I am Imperial through and through and worked my butt off to make a decimator in galaxies because I thought it was the coolest looking anti-falcon ever. Then in the game store I saw my baby on display and I tell my wife I'm buying that if I never play the game it is that awesome. Time goes by and rest is history, ship tally 109 ships and counting. This game has the best out of box models I have ever seen and it's worth every penny.
Squints. I wanted to play Squints.
The Flight-path System and of course the ship system drew me to X-Wing.
Responses and Comments on Posts like
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push me away.
2 words.
Royal guards.
Also 2 words: Star Wars.
In the '90s I spent gobs of $ on Magic the Gathering, ICE's Middle Earth CCG, and Decipher's Star Wars CCG. When ICE and Decipher went belly up and MTG changed it's core timing to "THE STACK," I bowed out and swore to never play a game that was collectible again.
I succeeded for about 15 years, until my brother said "Hey, I saw this cool SW minis game at GenCon. I tried to resist, then I lied to myself and said "I'll only need Imperial ships, cool. And I can proxy cards and stuff."
My wife regularly likes to point out the fallacy of all that. . .
Playing X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter growing up meant that I wanted to play X-Wing as soon as I saw it. I just wish they'd release the last few ships from the game!
I came to Star Wars late, in the 90s,in my early teen. Without rose colored glasses, it was OK, but not mind blowing. My friends played the PC games, but I never had a beefy enough computer. What got me was the 90s RPG, reading about the lore and getting into Thrawn's trilogy.
The prequels waned my interest a bit.
Then, Wil Wheaton featured the game, and my sons being 1,3,and 5 at the time, I thought they'd be at the perfect age to really get into Star Wars.
It worked! They're addicted to Rebels and my now 6.5 year old is actually going to play in a 60 point tournament tonight! He was my partner in a team epic tournament and my two oldest took part in the Father's day furball, with my second tying for second place in kills (he's amazing at the game, but gets bored quickly with it).
Tl;DR: to play a game with my sons!
I saw the game pieces/ships when I trolled through Barnes and Noble when my wife or daughters were looking for some book (whatever those are for?). Anyway, thought they looked cool. Fast-forward a few years and I was looking for a gift for my nephew who's turning 12 and loves games and Star Wars; saw an FO Starter Set and purchased it. Later, I ran into a deal, got the original starter set, then Vader, then the Transport, then, then, then....now 2 pretty much filled Battlefoam C4 cases and I love the game. I might be pulled by the game most, but it's more-likely the minatures collection, then the cool card collection, then the game....to be perfectly honest.
Edited by clanofwolves1. Because Star Wars.
2. Pre-painted models (carpel tunnel, arthritis, I'm old.)
3. I had money.
4. Because Star Wars.
"Look, I know you're not gonna believe me, but it's like this game wanted me to play it."
In the '90s I spent gobs of $ on Magic the Gathering, ICE's Middle Earth CCG, and Decipher's Star Wars CCG. When ICE and Decipher went belly up and MTG changed it's core timing to "THE STACK," I bowed out and swore to never play a game that was collectible again.
I succeeded for about 15 years, until my brother said "Hey, I saw this cool SW minis game at GenCon. I tried to resist, then I lied to myself and said "I'll only need Imperial ships, cool. And I can proxy cards and stuff."
My wife regularly likes to point out the fallacy of all that. . .
Fortunately for you X-Wing is NOT a "collectable game" along the order of MtG and any of those other random BS games. It may be collectable (as is just about anything) but that part has nothing to do with the "game" part of it as if you learn there is something you want it is relatively easy to just go out an buy it straight from the company for the same price everyone else has paid.
I'd love it if I could just go out and buy each of MtG's Power Nine for just the price of a standard booster pack and I don't even play MtG anymore.
I got into X wing in an attempt to find something to play with my 12 year old son. I am a die hard wargamer, especially Advanced Squad Leader, I have been going to ASL tourneys for 20 years or more. Unfortunately ASL is too much for a 12 year old. We do play Ticket to Ride, Settlers, and Formula D together. I always stayed away from miniatures because I had no time to paint, I want to play! So when I saw Armada and X wing being played between rounds at a ASL tourney my interest was piqued. My son is a HUGE Star Wars fan. After reading a few reviews and talking to people I settled on X wing rather than Armada. Success, my son liked the game. We play once a week or so. However, I think I like the game more than my son. We started in February of this year. I am now about $600 into it. Still learning, but I plan to try a tourney in 2017.
In the '90s I spent gobs of $ on Magic the Gathering, ICE's Middle Earth CCG, and Decipher's Star Wars CCG. When ICE and Decipher went belly up and MTG changed it's core timing to "THE STACK," I bowed out and swore to never play a game that was collectible again.
I succeeded for about 15 years, until my brother said "Hey, I saw this cool SW minis game at GenCon. I tried to resist, then I lied to myself and said "I'll only need Imperial ships, cool. And I can proxy cards and stuff."
My wife regularly likes to point out the fallacy of all that. . .
Fortunately for you X-Wing is NOT a "collectable game" along the order of MtG and any of those other random BS games. It may be collectable (as is just about anything) but that part has nothing to do with the "game" part of it as if you learn there is something you want it is relatively easy to just go out an buy it straight from the company for the same price everyone else has paid.
I'd love it if I could just go out and buy each of MtG's Power Nine for just the price of a standard booster pack and I don't even play MtG anymore.
Unfortunately I have what you might call "an addictive personality." My fleet is NOT in my sig cuz it would be kinda embarrassing.
THE SHIPS!!!
Need I say anymore!
I love dogfighting games, and as soon as I knew xwing was coming, I was in. So far have at least one of every ship and a couple of each core set and have been in since wave one. Can't wait until my kids are old enough to play xwing. Pew Pew!
When I was a kid, I invented this sort of tabletop game with Flat Carboard starships as the pieces. I never came up with a name, so me and my friends just called it "Carboard ships" it was simple, and semi-based off of Axis and Allies Miniatures (The naval version) I saw Xwing in a comic-book store, and was like "This is what Carboard ships was meant to be!" A week later the Core set arrived in the mail.
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It worked! They're addicted to Rebels and my now 6.5 year old is actually going to play in a 60 point tournament tonight! He was my partner in a team epic tournament and my two oldest took part in the Father's day furball, with my second tying for second place in kills (he's amazing at the game, but gets bored quickly with it).
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My 6.5 year old did not come last with his fat Chewie. He lost his first game to Inquisitor and Omega, got a bye, then lost to the Deci who had only 1 hull left, not rolling the evade on that range 3 would have been a win for him. People were seriously impressed, they learned quickly to not give him chances. Having experienced wargamers comment on his abilities felt nice. It also makes me feel better that my win ratio is not that high anymore...
He rocked and debried himself a bit too often, but, given that, he was nonetheless awesome!
The fun part is that he hadn't flown that fat Chewie before, and had barely flown Falcons period. I am a seriously proud father!
There was a final salvo in each of the 3 rounds! The last one was Red Ace and Ezra v. Inquisitor and Omega and the rebels completely blanked out.
Like many, I've been a Star Wars fan since I was a very small child.
Recently, I saw that the Clone Wars series was on Netflix, and decided I'd see if it was any good (Yes, it is. Some poor episodes, but overall a great watch and some really amazing characters). After I'd polished off CW, I was chatting with a friend about how much I liked it and he mentioned I should watch Rebels... I think his exact words were "Hera is exactly the kind of character you make for an RPG*". I went home, watched the first episode, and LOVED it. After that, I marathoned the entire thing (pausing only briefly to sleep and eat).
A few days later, I was at the FLGS and I saw the
Ghost
in the X-Wing display. I'd sort of been tangentially aware of X-Wing for a while via friends and just being at the FLGS. And I had thought it seemed like it might be fun, but I didn't really want to invest in another game. After falling completely in love with Rebels, my resistance was shattered. I bought the Ghost, the TFA core, and Rebel Aces right then and there, and I've been having a blast since
* My friend was absolutely right. I would totally make Hera as my character for an RPG.
Edited by Aaron FossI first saw X-wing on youtube when they were first demoing it at gencon while I was in high school and I thought it looked cool, I ended up forgetting about it only to rediscover it on youtube a while later again on youtube, I think from where team covenant was doing videos of the tournaments, before the announcement of wave 3. Seeing that got me hooked and ended up buying the core set, a tie interceptor and a Y-wing, back then the standard tie fighters and x-wings were sold out at my local store. From there I started buying little by little until I had a nice little fleet of ships and have been buying them wave after wave.
And then Armada was announced at gencon and I knew I'd have to get that and I did. And they announced Imperial Assault and I saw it was unpainted so I decided against that only to check out Sorastro's videos on painting and took the dive and bought into it as well. FFG is too good at making star wars miniatures crack, I'd love a large scale ground based combat game for Star Wars by FFG but I know if they make one my wallet will only become a hollow husk, haha.
I was a long time Star Wars fan, I remember seeing Empire at my local drive in in 1980/81. Have always been drawn to table top wargaming. Started off with Warhammer fantasy and 40K, also dabbled in Napoleonics. 40K turned stupid, Fanrasy turned into the gutter filth that is Age of Sigmar. Visited my brother on the other side of the country for Christmas 2015. Loved the game, just had limited access to a group back home. 8 months later the only thing I don't own is the Tantive IV and the Rebel Transport. It's a great game in a genre that takes me back to my childhood. I just hope the power creep doesn't take it away from its roots.
Quad jumper gets 4 seconds of screen time... It's now a thing.
I used to play Wings of War, and then the WWII version with a bunch of friends. We played a wide assortment of games, but Wings of War was my favorite. Then X-Wing came out. It was Wings of War with (1) maneuver dials instead of boards, (2) maneuver templates instead of cards, (3) dice instead of chits, and (4) STAR WARS!
I was in! I picked up two core sets when they were first released, then some of the expansions through Wave 3. But by then I had moved to a different city and couldn't find anyone to play, so it went to the bottom shelf of games. Then last December I talked some friends into trying it out, and it exploded. Several of them went all in, and we've had a weekly game ever since.
The Force.
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...I don't play in tournaments, although I did attend one with Dan playing [he's autistic, and sometimes needs support in social situations], and everyone seemed nice, but I'm too careless to ever be successful at that level, and not really good at remembering card synergies, so it's just casual play for me, HotAC is ideal, and it's great to hear everyones thoughts on these forums, and see others amazing creations and paint jobs...I can finally realise those childhood and teenage imaginings, and for a comparatively reasonable cost, ahem...
For some years I had been eyeing tabletop games, Warhamner 40k in special, but the investment was too high for a teenager with no job.
Few years later on a vacation with wife I walk by a GW store in Barcelona and manage to leave with a Tau batteforce. I convince a couple of friends and we get into 40k making contact with the local wargaming community. I struggle with it for about one year, with growing frustrations: I don't always have time to sit aroud 3+ hours to finish games (about 1 game on 3 I need to leave before finishing) and painting is a chore.
So when a friend suggested 'let's try x-wing' the main selling points were pre-painted and short games. That was 1.5 years ago, and my Tau army has been gathering dust ever since(still unpainted)
I've been a life long table top gamer...
I enjoy Wings of War.
This was STAR WARS!
The bloody X-wing.