So I was vacationing in Scotland this summer and wanted to check out the X-Wing scene while there. Glasgow was already on my agenda so Spellbound Games that’s hosted a number of championships seemed the perfect place to stop in. I planned to spend a few hours there during an afternoon with hope that someone would be available for a game of X-Wing.

I have this large lunch box that fits a list worth of ships and components (except the range ruler) perfectly. So it didn’t take up much space in my suitcase (It’s traveled the states with me too). I brought a fun list for me – 3 academy pilots, and 3 bombers with EM and proxy mines.

After a little time browsing the store, it happened better than I could have planned - someone noticed the range ruler sticking out of my lunch box and we were soon preparing to play a game. He had a party bus and some Z-95s. I figured this would play perfectly to my strength and goal – clogging up lanes with proxy mines.

I rushed to the middle and placed my first round of mines to clog outlets between asteroids. He was slow playing at the start to see what I was doing. My gambit failed as he skirted the edge around and I had to exit out of the open side of the asteroid field to chase. This drew the game out as we cat and moused around the map. Attrition pulled my fighters and his Zs off the board and I was finally in the position to line up a solid strafing run on his party bus.

That’s when he noticed the time and said his ride home was about to arrive. We had a good time up to that point so we called the game a draw and I helped him pack up. Walking toward the front of the store, he awkwardly reached into his pocket, froze in place, then turned to me. I found this odd and uncomfortable so I asked him, “what do you need from me?” He replied, “I need about tree fiddy.”

Now it was about that time I realized that my opponent was 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era. Well I said, “dammit monster, I ain’t giving you no tree fiddy. I work for my money.” At that point he ran off, and I never saw him again.
As a disclaimer, I’d like to visit Europe at some point in the future and even visit Scotland for the first time. I’ve only ever been to Ireland and Northern Ireland, and that was before I started playing X-Wing.

So I was vacationing in Scotland this summer...

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Walking toward the front of the store, he awkwardly reached into his pocket, froze in place, then turned to me. I found this odd and uncomfortable so I asked him, “what do you need from me?” He replied, “I need about tree fiddy.”

Now it was about that time I realized that my opponent was 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era. Well I said, “dammit monster, I ain’t giving you no tree fiddy. I work for my money.” At that point he ran off, and I never saw him again.

As a disclaimer, I’d like to visit Europe at some point in the future and even visit Scotland for the first time. I’ve only ever been to Ireland and Northern Ireland, and that was before I started playing X-Wing.

What??

/enters thread

/reads a bit

/slowly backs away

Pfft all I found on my last trip up north was metrosexuals, the one potential bar fight ended in hugging.

I was very disappointed.

Also by the dark gods the zoo in Edinburgh is flaming steep, in fact the whole sodding area is up hill what's up with that?

Had some awesome weather until the last day though, hottest day of the year and stuck in a car for six hours, so much fun.

So I was vacationing in Scotland this summer...

...

Walking toward the front of the store, he awkwardly reached into his pocket, froze in place, then turned to me. I found this odd and uncomfortable so I asked him, “what do you need from me?” He replied, “I need about tree fiddy.”

Now it was about that time I realized that my opponent was 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era. Well I said, “dammit monster, I ain’t giving you no tree fiddy. I work for my money.” At that point he ran off, and I never saw him again.

As a disclaimer, I’d like to visit Europe at some point in the future and even visit Scotland for the first time. I’ve only ever been to Ireland and Northern Ireland, and that was before I started playing X-Wing.

What??

It's a joke from South Park. An attempt to lighten things up. Too much seriousness in everything I've read lately. Would recommend watching the South Park episode it's from.

Also, that lunch box is sweet for holding a single list.

Also that list I claimed to have played is next up for me on the table. I played a variant of it before EM was released. More bombs = more shenanigans.