New player - looking for patient Vassal tutor!

By Rets, in X-Wing Organized Play

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Hi,


I'm completely new to X-wing, I have played four games and I ******* love this game. I found a great local store with a great community but they play only once a week, I Wanna play a lot more and that's what leads me to Vassal!


I've installed it, learnt how to set it up and squad build, and now I'm looking for someone who will be patient with me going through a few games.


I have a really ropey left-hand so I'm mainly using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts will be hard, I'm sorry already at this stage as this will slow down play. It also restricts me from typing messaging so if anyone uses Skype or hangouts for voice messaging that's great. I actually use software that voice to text but it's really buggy whilst running Vassal.


Based in the UK running on GMT, would love to know anyone's availability.


I'm sure there is a post for people in my situation so admin please feel free to point me in that direction.


Thanks for taking the time guys to read this and I hope to play you soon. Fly casually, Rets

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Find anyone? I'm in the same boat. Looking for a patient person to get used to vassal with. I'm in the states/ mountain time zone.

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I'm not a regular Vassal player, but I'm willing to help out and play some more myself. I've just got a couple of games under the belt on Vassal.

I live in Sweden so the time difference isn't that big :)

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Wish I'd gotten here sooner (don't really check here but like once a month to see if any of the lists are neat).

The www.reddit.com/r/xwingtmg has a pretty vibrant crowd. I'd actually wager more folks hang out there vice here. If you want to coordinate a training session, I get messages on reddit at /u/aged_whiskey. I run boot-camps for people every once and a while and I have a basic lesson plan for teaching people the ropes. There's a Slack (phone app) channel that we can use for coordinating via voice if that's a concern. The server for that is ETV3UAe .

Like ole' boy at the top said, if you learn the basic functionality, learn to build a squad via the youtube videos that are out there, and have a pretty solid understanding of the rules of the game before stepping into boot camp it'll help a lot.

Also, don't be scared of the term "x-wing boot camp". I am like military and stuff, but I won't yell at you or digitally knife hand you, much less make you push. I'm just here to teach and have fun, but I figured it'd make for good branding.

PCGamerpirate originally started this "let's do vassal training" thing so props to him on that.

Also, if anyone knows how to do the youtube video thing, I'd like to put some kind of comprehensive training video together.