Title is misleading I see no one talking about a "fix"

but then again every Thursday I get to leave her and the kids at home play games all night, leave here and the kids again on the weekends and go play tournaments and spend every other night editing batreps for the game and upload them to you tube.

Maybe I don't need a "wife fix"?

3 hours ago, Frostthorn said:

but Deathrain tossing bombs in your face and rolling away giggling is not good for an introduction game... my mistake there.

I'm sorry, but his visual is going to stick with me. Flight suited TIE pilot giggling inside the bomber after sheningans

Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne went well.

X-wing was a bit of a blank reaction. If she got more into it then my 'Oh... The ships only cost a couple of quid' would be at risk.

2 hours 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.

X-Wing was in your wedding vows?!?

6 hours ago, Jedu said:

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

Uhhhhhh try being an adult and accepting that she isn't you and it's OK for you guys to have different interests?

4 minutes ago, FourDogsInaHorseSuit said:

Uhhhhhh try being an adult and accepting that she isn't you and it's OK for you guys to have different interests?

Easy... I don't see it - her not playing x-wing - as a problem It's normal, that somebody likes something, and somebody dislikes it. I'm just curious about other guys situations. Of course I know that there are not only boys playing x-wing, but also girls.

My wife is a gamer, we play casual games like Splendor, Ticket to Ride, Carcassone, Citadel, Catan, etc. I made just a huge mistake by ordering too many ships at once (it was 4 small ships). My bad

She's fallen in love with SW after I've shown it to her, as she didn't know it before meeting me, so I think that (besides other obvious reasons) I'm a very lucky man! I didn't throw her onto a deep water (we have such phrasal in my country, I'm not sure if it's common elsewhere) and started with easy lists. Maybe if she gives me another go I'll try with HotAC. It's nice to hear about other people having similar situations

7 hours ago, Jedu said:

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

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm looking forward to the day when my 10-month old can start playing not only X-Wings, but any board/miniature/RPG game. He might be on the way because when he was 6-months old he came to a store tournament that I was playing in and sat in my lap for a couple of minutes as we took some pictures. It just so happened that game happened to be recorded and uploaded to YouTube, so he'll live forever on the internet with an X-Wing game already under his belt.

2 hours ago, Darth Onyx said:

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm looking forward to the day when my 10-month old can start playing not only X-Wings, but any board/miniature/RPG game. He might be on the way because when he was 6-months old he came to a store tournament that I was playing in and sat in my lap for a couple of minutes as we took some pictures. It just so happened that game happened to be recorded and uploaded to YouTube, so he'll live forever on the internet with an X-Wing game already under his belt.

I hear ya. My four year old son is getting closer to being able to try a game of X-Wing. My 15 month old daughter will be a while yet. They've both expressed interest in my X-Wing models, though, in their own way (my son wants to play with them and my daughter wants to know what they taste like).

My wife has no interest in miniature games but she likes board games so it's all good.

8 hours ago, TheHumanHydra said:

X-Wing was in your wedding vows?!?

Yes it was, she said "she will always support my interests and hobbies like basketball, videogames, and xwing" Got that on video! She cant take it back!

Tell her the winner gets diamonds, which clearly are a girls best friend. At least that's what Monroe said.

You'll get roflstomped by OP netlists then.

Tell her to rub the lotion on the skin or else she gets the hose again.

Ooh, this thread opens up a bad wound of mine. While my wife enjoys board games and loves Star Wars, she just won't give the game a chance. I know her pretty well after 13 years, so I definitely know that she'd have a good time. I don't know what's the big deal with just sitting down for 30 minutes for a Starter Box tutorial game and doing something that's important to your spouse and that you might really grow to like. But whenever I ask her, it's always "maybe another time". She never tells me that she's not interested at all. I've made my peace with the situation, but I really can't understand the reason because she never gives me one. When I ask her why she won't just give it a quick try, she gets really upset and shuts down the main reactor. I would be fine with her just telling me that she's not interested. That would be some kind of closure. *sigh*

Oh man I tried... she humored me for a few games but after the millionth time of saying that range one gave one extra red and range three gave an extra green I lost all hope in transforming her into a fellow gamer. Some women are just not built for it!

Sounds like it is time for Wife 2.0.

I just thought of another thing that convinces a lot of people to give X-wing a try: seeing my 7 year old playing against grown ups (and often winning).

More than a few family wandered over during store kits at the local store to see what this game was that kids could play against adults and both could have a good time doing so. We had a casual night at a local store yesterday, and this being spring break, we could have him stay up later, he was thrilled. One of the guys had his girlfriend along, showing her how it works and I'm pretty sure having a nice 7 year old across from the table makes it look more approachable.

It's teaching him humility in victory and staying positive when he loses, on top of the strategic aspects. That alone really makes my wife respect the game, even though she has no intention to try it. Maybe HoTAC someday...

One thing I'll add on the other side of the coin. I tell my wife that she in an enabler. Often I'll be looking at a new game or X-Wing model and she'll say go on, get it. Here logic is that I could be out golfing every weekend, greens fees, cart, new clubs every so often, etc. I can tell you from years of gaming that most, not all, of my games have paid for themselves in what they've saved me compared to my earlier days going out.

6 hours ago, debiler said:

Ooh, this thread opens up a bad wound of mine. While my wife enjoys board games and loves Star Wars, she just won't give the game a chance. I know her pretty well after 13 years, so I definitely know that she'd have a good time. I don't know what's the big deal with just sitting down for 30 minutes for a Starter Box tutorial game and doing something that's important to your spouse and that you might really grow to like. But whenever I ask her, it's always "maybe another time". She never tells me that she's not interested at all. I've made my peace with the situation, but I really can't understand the reason because she never gives me one. When I ask her why she won't just give it a quick try, she gets really upset and shuts down the main reactor. I would be fine with her just telling me that she's not interested. That would be some kind of closure. *sigh*

Ouch. Do you do things with your wife that are distinctly "her" hobbies or interests?

My wife is actually pretty into board games and will try just about any of them, but there's something about X-Wing that just turns her off. I think its the fact that you have to spend time before the game coming up with and creating your lists. I think she would rather just have a good, well-written, tightly mechanical game. I can;t blame, her - X-Wing is the jankiest and most bloated game that I somehow really, really enjoy.

We play almost once per week or twice a month, but lately she doesn't like it as much. There are too many actions, or the way she says it: "It takes forever until we get to shoot each other!"

She's quite good, and in fact she was best of our little group when we all joined for our first tournament.
But she's not into list building, at all, as she enjoys the flying before everything else. Also the more dice the better...

TBH I think it's healthier if you have some things you do together and some things you can do on your own.

Forgive me, but this all sounds almost like all of us talking about our experiences trying to get our Significant Others to do naughty stuff.

Anyway, the thought made me chuckle.

7 minutes ago, Force Majeure said:

Forgive me, but this all sounds almost like all of us talking about our experiences trying to get our Significant Others to do naughty stuff.

Anyway, the thought made me chuckle.

Me too, especially when I read the original post and saw this.

On 3/1/2017 at 11:17 AM, Jedu said:

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

My first thought was 'well I can think of a couple of things' But honestly having my wife, even though not a 'gamer', play board and miniature games plus indulging me to play or by more of them truly does give me a great deal of satisfaction.

My Fiancee and I had our first date the day after a regional event I played in. She knew it and her son already had a love of Star Wars (as did she a little). She was at her parents visiting and we exchanged a few text and I sent a couple pics of game action of ships that looked cool. She showed those pics to her mom who said, "That looks fun."

Now she has been to 4 casual nights with me at the FLGS I hang out the most. I give her more points if we dog fight but she has also participated in a night of Heros of Aturi as well as Mario Kart racing. Last Thanksgiving at brought ships and her and her mother flew against each other with me helping the both of them.

Her son (soon to be my stepson) is 7. He loves the ships. I'm hoping to get him playing someday soon.

Extended family loves card and board games together. They played Sequence... I introduced them to Five Crowns, Splendor, and recently Pandemic. Then last Christmas her sister-in-law and brother brought over Machi Koro. Just awesome that we will be a board gaming/miniatures family. Hosting board/card game nights at the house once a month with a few couples will be the norm.

A week ago we were out at a children's hands on science event at a library in the evening. After it was done I said, "Let's go check out a store that I think he (her son) would like?" It's a giant meca of a store with tons of games, miniatures, comic books, collectables, etc. Her son is also into Pokemon cards (though he never plays the game) and I told him they had that too. There was a 10-12 year old and an adult playing SW Armada and he sat and watched them play for 20 minutes. I think he's almost ready to start playing his first xwing.

She's coming to casual night xwing again tomorrow. Trying to lay the seeds to see if she might be willing to join me for Campaign Against Cancer Tournament this April.

IF I WAS TO GIVE ADVICE... it would be to be a part of her passions as well. I play volleyball with her on drop in nights and I canoe with her... because those are the things she is passionate about.

Heh. My wife humored me for two games and beat me twice. No interest in the two years since.

I showed her the thread and she asked " Where's the fix for my husband so he'll do dog agility with me?"

3 hours ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

Ouch. Do you do things with your wife that are distinctly "her" hobbies or interests?

Of course. And she does things I wanna do, too. She's just really weird about X-Wing. Maybe it's because I usually play with my dorky friends. And she just won't be put into that demographic. ;-)