Yet another fix thread. But this time we're not fixing X-wing, but wife/girlfriend in order to convince her to play x-wing. I'm sure that there are not many things which would involve a wife and could give more satisfaction, than playing X-wing with her. I guess. Correct me if I'm wrong

Do you play X-wing with your better looking second half? I tried to make an agreement with mine, so that she would be obliged to play with me once a month, but after getting too large oder of new ships she told me, that the deal is over... Do you have some similar or other funny stories about playing with wifes or girlfriends? And if you play with them - please, reveal your tricks to help your fellow player in need

Also, do you play with your children and when have you started teaching them? To be honest, my only hope now is my 9-month old son... I hope that he will grow faster to play with me

My wife will play X-Wing with me from time to time. It is easier to convince her to play Heroes of the Aturi Cluster. Occasionally she will play a 100/6 game with me if I really need to practice for an upcoming tournament that I'm excited about, but she doesn't enjoy it as much. Instead, we usually play Imperial Assault—she loves that game!

I'm fairly lucky. My wife enjoys games, we both do. From broad games to strategy games. I've also enjoyed war games with and without miniatures. She is slowly trying these. X-Wing, Wings of Glory, Ogre. On the horizon is Gettysburg, Panzerblitz and a couple of others. She, like me, doesn't really get into the deck/building aspect. Oddly enough both of us find it a bit overly complicated.

Ken, do you and your wife play Imperial Assault or Descent?

I've given up on getting my wife to play. Luckily, my son is old enough now to play all the games I love. We got into X-Wing together. I introduced him to Star Wars RPGs last week and he is enamoured with it now.

My son (18) introduced me to the game and our passion for the game and Movies is about equal. (He surpasses me based on the Jedi costume he has for the movie premieres and other events...)

My oldest daughter (21) will not try the game, but will watch the movies.

My youngest daughter (15) tried the game and didn't like it, but she loves the movies.

I can't get my wife to watch the Star Wars movies, let alone play X-wing. I have won her over on my playing in tournaments by making sure I stop at the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop afterward to bring her home a dozen.

If my wife offers to play a game of X-Wing with me I know that she wants something pretty badly. ?

We're shameless trekkies in our house. She has no interest in playing either X-wing or Armada, but that doesn't stop us playing a plethora of other games, so we get plenty of nerd time in (she's a goddamn shark at Star Fluxx. I prevented her from winning once, and she's still sour about it. I didn't even win, someone else did, but she still talks about it like I shot a puppy. That was 3 years ago).

Unfortunately, there are smeg all decent trekkie tabletop games, unlike Star Wars. She puts up with my habit, and my bi-weekly sessions of either X-wing or Armada taking over the kitchen for several hours with a good buddy. Hell, she even makes snacks, so I'm not going to hold a dislike of plastic space ships against her. She's already a goddamn saint.

40 minutes ago, stonestokes said:

Ken, do you and your wife play Imperial Assault or Descent?

We tried Imperial Assault once and haven't gotten back to it yet. It was just the sample game and I was only so-so on it.

It's a lot easier to be able to claim playing X-Wing with offspring counts towards my share of childcare. My 6 yr old daughter can fly a mean Vader...

My wife played the game with me twice. Despite being pretty good at it, she has not shown much interest in continuing to play. Her spatial recognition coupled with the fact that she works in millimeters all day (jewelery design) made her a darn fine pilot. She managed to get tie fighters behind my ships more times than I wanted to count. Close too, like every move I swore she'd bump, but nope, she was able to drop them right in. I remind her how good she was to entice her to play again, but she doesn't seem interested anymore.

My son did play back in the wave 1 days, but has since moved on from the game.

As a female gamer, I can say we do exist. But that said, gaming isn't for everyone. Communicate your passion and how you'd like to share something you enjoy and care about with anyone you're wanting to show the game to (female or not). People like to see a passion and that you wish to share something with them. Also, take it easy when playing, start small and slow, do the starter box fight, fly casual. I know its exciting to show off your favorite build or ship... but having your teeth kicked in on the first game by something complicated or fancy can be a huge turn off. I know I've turned partners off by doing just that, even when I thought it was nothing to crazy... but Deathrain tossing bombs in your face and rolling away giggling is not good for an introduction game... my mistake there. Let them look at your collection and see if anything sparks their interest visually... who cares if you're out numbered or have 3 times the points against you, for early games, at last you're playing right? Be casual, be fun, and show your passion and love. But ultimately, be welcoming and meet their needs, don't force them to meet yours, at least not right away. Once they come to enjoy the game, it can get more advanced. Give it a try and let this flygirl know how it went.

While my wife loves all things Star Wars, she in equal measure dislikes all games. She played a few times with me when I was trying to learn the game, but in truth, it was a bit more like me playing 1 1/2 sides of the game.

I have friends with gaming wives, and I have had a girlfriend who used to tell her friends that I was out playing cards (M:TG) with friends and would not correct them when they made the incorrect assumption it was poker.

So, at this point, I'm happy to be somewhere in the middle.

My wife loves games, but from the moment I saw the original demo, and especially a year later when the Core Set was finally available, I made the mistake of gushing about how awesome the game is. She taught geometry, among other math classes, so I knew she'd like the flight path system. But alas, I had talked her ear off, and she has refused to ever play the game with me in the 4+ years it's been out. I've even had two co-workers over (a woman and a man) and said, "Hey, we need a fourth player to make the teams even." She considered it, and almost came over to the table to play, but she declined in the end. It's the closest she's ever come to playing X-wing with me.

For me, the first trick would be getting the wife to actually like Star Wars. Or, for the one part of Star Wars she likes, FFG could put out a Jar Jar pilot.

"When your maneuver overlaps an obstacle or another ship, perform a barrel roll, then add one stress token to your ship and any ship you overlapped."

Sadly, the kids only came to us after their parents screwed them up in terms of taste. I can get one to play Zombicide, but that's the best I've got.

I can't remember how I convinced my gf to learn and play the game with me. But I think the key to her continuing to play again with me was always giving her 115ish points to my 90ish points. That made it a nice challenge for me and also gave her a decent chance at winning. I also made her fly good forgiving ships and upgrades like ptl x7 countess and atc eu vader. The key is to never tell her she used more points than you.

Another tip is to shy away from using potential negative play experience stuff against them such zuckuss , kylo, biggs, x7

My wife doesn't play games. During holidays I can sometimes get her to join in on King of New York, or Splendor. Codenames Pictures went smoothly as well. I am just glad she supports my X-wing habit and even got her to say so in the wedding vows, so now she can never go back on it That is good enough for me.

I've seen a few couples get into the game together via HotAC (Heroes of the Aturi Cluster). It's co-op and each person has their own ship. Since it's mission based, it allows for each week to have a different feel to it. I'd honestly say it's one of the best ways to get anyone into X-Wing.

34 minutes ago, MarekMandalore said:

For me, the first trick would be getting the wife to actually like Star Wars. [...]

Which reminds me of this...

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24 minutes ago, wurms said:

My wife doesn't play games. During holidays I can sometimes get her to join in on King of New York, or Splendor. Codenames Pictures went smoothly as well. I am just glad she supports my X-wing habit and even got her to say so in the wedding vows, so now she can never go back on it That is good enough for me.

It was my wife's idea to play the Main Theme to get everyone to play attention that things were starting at our wedding. She nixed the idea of playing the Imperial March as we walked to the podium. . .

Surprised this thread has not been trolled to death yet.

Mine like seeing and hearing about my x-wing exploits but she won't ever play. She likes simpler games like Carcassonne and Dominion. She did show interest in Imperial Assault though as soon as the app releases, but not if one of us is playing the imperials. I have offered for her to play Aturi with us (and I've seen a few women around town playing Aturi) but she's not taking the bait. Ah well. Now I just have to wait like 5 years for my kiddo to be old enough to play!

My wife enjoys board games. She does not, however, enjoy those where you are in direct competition and can actively act to prevent your opponent from doing something. So, yeah, X-wing is not her cup of tea and never will be. Her birthday gift from the family was the Harry Potter deck builder. Sadly, it did not come packaged with time and energy to play, so it sits unused for now...

That said, we have 3 sons

The oldest (7) utterly loves the game, comes to kit tournaments and is still on my case for not bringing him to Regionals (it was 9 games in a row, that's way too long a day!). The middle son (5) is not a fan of active confrontation, so he'll happily play mario kart x-wing and didn't hate HoTAC, but standard games are not his thing (yet). The youngest (3) wants to pew-pew with us, and he's careful enough to do so, but the mechanics of the game are far beyond his capacities right now.

I'm going to the game store with the oldest tonight, he'll get to play people that never faced him before, that's always really entertaining (for me).

4 minutes ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

Surprised this thread has not been trolled to death yet.

I introduced my girlfriend to X-wing as a generic board game to be played casually on a Saturday evening over a couple of beers. She had no knowledge about SW but wanted to do an activity with me instead of wasting time watching TV, so I jumped at the chance. I started easy with the tutorial missions and then built her an easy list to use. She proved to be very good at maneuvering and quickly took to the game. She then began experimenting with building her own lists to get a better understanding of the different upgrades and ships, and it grew from there. I play tournaments as often as I can and so she decided to tag along to one, and now we regularly play at tournaments together and being the only girl in our community has given her quite a standing with the other guys, which again gives her motivation to play more. She's been to Yavin last year, several regionals this winter and even finished 3. in our (non FFG) nationals earning us the monicker of Mr. and Mrs Smith. The EC in Birmingham in June is next. I find her motivation to be more of socializing and performing well when playing, than the pure win (that I strive for), though when we play each other now we both bring our A-game and this has provided more than one evening with dice being thrown at the walls and arguments about being in or out of arc. I'm very proud of her!