X-Wing™ Star Wars™ 40th Anniversary - Ideas?

By Jedi1993, in X-Wing

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https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/op/x-wing/x-wing-40th/

With the 40th Anniversary coming up, this looks like a cool way to get new players involved.

Anyone have any ideas for a "Special Rules" tournament for this?

Some ideas:

- Epic

- Ep IV canon only

- 40 point dogfights

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In a lot of cases I suspect the answer will be 'we're giving out extra prizes at our Store Championship'.

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This is what I did a couple of weeks ago:
Time for another silly Monday Night Tournament!

As we're close to to Star Wars day, and the 40th anniversary of the original film's release, I thought we'd go for A New Hope theme!
That's right, just ships seen in the original Star Wars film!

We'll have 3 x 40 minute rounds.
75 point lists.
2 ship minimum.

Just 2 extra conditions:
TLT is UNIQUE.
If you insist on flying the Falcon, any unique pilots or crew MUST appear in the original film....

And I can guarantee you that the prizes will be just as crap as last time!! ?

Merry Star Wars, and may the fluff be with you!! ?
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Be warned when running OT only formats: Han/Jake is by FAR the best possible list, except just maybe the Pattiswarm, and is definitely the least demanding. We ran one a few weeks ago and the top 3 places were all Han/Jake, and there wasn't another Han/Jake list anywhere else in the tourney. I came fourth with Vader/Crack Miniswarm and only barely failed to win the one match I did have against Han/Jake...

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Got another one on the next bank holiday.

Only difference is you get to pick the movie, rather than sticking with A New Hope.

So if you wanted to fly Poe for example, your entire list needs to be from The Force Awakens.

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4 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Be warned when running OT only formats: Han/Jake is by FAR the best possible list, except just maybe the Pattiswarm, and is definitely the least demanding. We ran one a few weeks ago and the top 3 places were all Han/Jake, and there wasn't another Han/Jake list anywhere else in the tourney. I came fourth with Vader/Crack Miniswarm and only barely failed to win the one match I did have against Han/Jake...

If its 75pts like Stevey wrote its just Han ;)

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2 minutes ago, Vitalis said:

If its 75pts like Stevey wrote its just Han ;)

yeah, 75 points makes a big difference, sorry I missed that.

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Just now, Vitalis said:

If its 75pts like Stevey wrote its just Han ;)

2 ship minimum. ;)

I won with this:

Luke Skywalker (28)
A Score To Settle (0)
R2-D2 (4)
Integrated Astromech (0)

Chewbacca (42)
Draw Their Fire (1)

Total 75

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3 hours ago, Jedi1993 said:

sw40_feature.png

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/op/x-wing/x-wing-40th/

With the 40th Anniversary coming up, this looks like a cool way to get new players involved.

Anyone have any ideas for a "Special Rules" tournament for this?

Some ideas:

- Epic

- Ep IV canon only

- 40 point dogfights

Okay, so as I'm typing this I notice that you said "tournament," which this is not, but oh well I'm going to post it anyway rather than posting a new thread.

Our game store is keeping it casual- no tournament or prizes (other than the "show up any play a game and get R2-D2 alt art" prize). I was thinking of grabbing a few other players and running Dagobah Dave's Trench Run Scenario, or perhaps a game of HotAC.

But what I'd really like to do is combine the two ideas and run a HotAC Trench Run scenario, with each player flying an X-Wing or Y-Wing against a bunch of AI-controlled TIEs and Turrets. Does anyone know if such a thing has been attempted before? If so, a link to the appropriate thread/post would be greatly appreciated.

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5 hours ago, thespaceinvader said:

Be warned when running OT only formats: Han/Jake is by FAR the best possible list, except just maybe the Pattiswarm, and is definitely the least demanding. We ran one a few weeks ago and the top 3 places were all Han/Jake, and there wasn't another Han/Jake list anywhere else in the tourney. I came fourth with Vader/Crack Miniswarm and only barely failed to win the one match I did have against Han/Jake...

But Jake isn't in A New Hope, so that's not an issue.

Also, Herowannabe, running Dagobah Dave's trench run may be a good event. Would grab the attention of passerbys.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/859775/dagobah-daves-death-star-trench-run-mission

Was mostly saying tournament because that's what our local lot like, other fun event ideas are welcome! :)

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They made the first promo double upgrade card and it wasn't the emperor? BOOOO!

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3 hours ago, Jedi1993 said:

But Jake isn't in A New Hope, so that's not an issue.

Also, Herowannabe, running Dagobah Dave's trench run may be a good event. Would grab the attention of passerbys.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/859775/dagobah-daves-death-star-trench-run-mission

Was mostly saying tournament because that's what our local lot like, other fun event ideas are welcome! :)

I've run the Trench Run scenario before. You can find printable cardstock turrets out there, those help add a whole other level of immersion to the scenario.

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I saw that logo and thought, FFG bring us the 40th goods.

Idk I would just be happy with anything X-wing at this point, though and FFG HOTAC thing would be amazing (not that FFG is going to do HOTAC as the guy who created it turned them down)