3 hours ago, heychadwick said:

Pictures or it didn't happen!

challenge accepted, if we had the technical ability we'd attempt to stream one of the tables

Streaming would be so cool!

I'm going to try something new for my next play through; each maneuver can be treated like a SLAM.

You can still take actions and my thinking is that it will speed up the race. I'll let you know how it goes.

23 hours ago, heychadwick said:

Pictures or it didn't happen!

ok, track creation is going well, pictures are in this dropbox for the moment as I've got no other way of uploading, https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wu9ayga5o1bvrb4/AAAQmk9GD-M3Q2i2ONEJ_TXpa?dl=0

should be three tracks by the end of the day

The multi-route madness that is Yoshi Valley

Toads Turnpike

And finally, Bowser's Castle, minus the big plastic castle that will be sat in the bottom left hand corner for tomorrow's event

15 hours ago, Biff said:

Streaming would be so cool!

The store would let us, unfortunately I simply don't have the equipment available to stream.

On 2/23/2017 at 5:36 AM, heychadwick said:

Negative. I have not.

Maybe have the blue affect all ships in range one of the lead ship for the blast radius

our starting tracks, with terrain

mid-game madness

race two, Bowser's Castle is underway

proof you can get through the gate

event over, massive fun had by all.

Bowser's castle was the favourite track, and all the players have asked when we are doing the next one

That is some impressive scenery!!!!

9 hours ago, Surak said:

proof you can get through the gate

This picture will be perfect once I edit out those incredibly ugly non-Star Wars ships !

Thanks for sharing ! Absolutely wish I was there.

On ‎23‎/‎02‎/‎2017 at 1:36 PM, heychadwick said:

Pictures or it didn't happen!

so do we get a shout-out on the pod-cast

15 minutes ago, any2cards said:

This picture will be perfect once I edit out those incredibly ugly non-Star Wars ships !

Thanks for sharing ! Absolutely wish I was there.

yeh, apologies for any eye injury sustain by looking at the models used (I enjoy the game but am the first to admit x wing has to beat hands down on looks)

the next one we run should be an x-wing one so I'll make sure to keep you all in the loop

13 hours ago, Surak said:

so do we get a shout-out on the pod-cast

Yes! I record in 25 min. I'll certainly give you and Rochester Games and Models a shout out. Of course, with our latest schedule, it won't be this next episode to be released. Look to the 2nd Tuesday from now. That's March 7th.

26 minutes ago, heychadwick said:

Yes! I record in 25 min. I'll certainly give you and Rochester Games and Models a shout out. Of course, with our latest schedule, it won't be this next episode to be released. Look to the 2nd Tuesday from now. That's March 7th.

awesome!

back on topic,

I'm starting to prep for the next Mario kart event at the store, and as we use these events as pick-up-and-play demo days I basically end up building a ton of ships and then the players picking what they use through random draw.

so, what points limit do people build to?

can anyone suggest some builds?

oh, and at the same time show off as much of the games' variety as possible

regards

How large do you make your powerup cubes? Also, how wide are your tracks normally?

Hey guys, I was playing in Surak's Attack Wing event. It was brilliant fun!

Chrisrivers - For the power up cubes, we used the objective tokens from the Attack Wing starter box (circles about an inch and a half across) and our tracks ranged from two to four base widths across (surak made templates to ensure all parts of the course were doable).

Those look super awesome!

Our power up cubes are slightly larger than an inch, I believe.

Our tracks tend to be roughly a Range-and-a-half wide most places.

Anyone else having a problem getting into the drive folder with the card files? I went to print them on better cardstock today and it says the folder is missing.

If you are having difficulty with the drive location I posted, it has been removed. I'll go back and remove the link to avoid the frustration/confusion.

I'll make an inquiry and see if a new link can be posted here.

Sorry

On 2/19/2017 at 10:36 PM, DagobahDave said:

That's more like what an X-Wing racing track should like, based on my experiences running these sorts of things. Wide lines, simple turns. I'm thinking about running another race soon, and I think I'll use a similar layout to what you're using there, but starting in one corner and having the ships follow a Z-shaped course, no loop.

Instead of package tokens, I'll probably designate special zones on the track. In the red "stress zone" any ship that ends its maneuver overlapping the zone receives 1 stress. In the green "boost zone", you get a free boost if you land there. In the yellow "charge zone" you get a token that you can spend to make a full-power attack (because you can't attack without one).

For the ships' Pilot Skill, I want to try letting the players choose their PS each round. As you've probably noticed, there are sometimes racing advantages to be gained by having a low Pilot Skill, so I think I might give each player a D6 (maybe D8 or D10) and let them secretly choose their Pilot Skill while setting their maneuver by indicating it with the faceup side of the die. At the end of the Planning phase, all players reveal their Pilot Skill settings. Initiative order would be used as a tiebreaker. This would prevent the weird situation in which players who choose a high PS think they deserve to win the race if they cross the finish line later in the same round as a pilot with lower Pilot Skill.

To give the players something to shoot at other than each other, I might distribute some satellite tokens around the track. The racers' weapons are set to low power, making them useless against enemy ships (unless charged up). The satellites will self-destruct when a harmless targeting beam strikes them in just the right place, if you need a plausible explanation for how this works. The satellites would have stats like maybe agility 1 and hull 1, and when they pop they splash some damage or stress tokens or something like that to everything in Range 1.

We reversed PS to allow High PS ships to move first and low PS ships to shoot first and found that to work pretty well.