So I basically inherited a large collection of X-wing miniatures, cards, tokens, dice, everything. I'm told that it is 100% complete. The person basically opened many boxes, took the miniatures out to display, emptied all the contents into a box, and now gave me all of it. I just don't know where to start with organizing all the contents to produce a playable game, or does that really not matter? Does each ship have its own cards and tokens I need to sort out, or are they interchangeable?

I imagine a big box full of loose X-Wing stuff looks pretty intimidating!

Each ship has it's own pilots - usually a couple of generic pilots (i.e. in the case of the X-Wings Rookie Pilot, Red Squadron Pilot) and a couple of named ace pilots (Biggs Darklighter, Luke Skywalker). These cards are the standard playing card sized cards, and each one relates to a single ship on the table.

Then you have the upgrades. These are the smaller, half-sized cards and they come in a variety of flavours - elite talents (pilot abilities), modifications (ship upgrades), titles (ship names), cannons, turrets, missiles, torpedoes and more. Most of these upgrades are ingterchangeable and can be assigned ot a pilot card, so long as the pilot card is able to equip that type of upgrade (i.e. Biggs and Luke can both equip torpedo and astromech upgrades, but only Luke can equip the elite talent upgrade).

What I would do is take a look at the miniatures game wiki at http://xwing-miniatures.wikia.com/wiki/X-Wing_Miniatures_Wiki and see if you can organise the cards into their respective ship type and upgrade type. Maybe start with gathering everything together from the Core Set ( http://xwing-miniatures.wikia.com/wiki/X-Wing_Core_Set) and go from there. If you've got the rules, maybe try finding all the bits and pieces you need for the "Learn to Play" scenario and go from there.

Ironically, you don't actuallly need the miniatures to play the game. Just the bases, and the cardboard tile that goes on top!

For a lot of us, it sounds like a dream situation.

All in all, I hope you enjoy the game. It's pretty fun, but the SW community makes it worth sticking around.

Good luck!

I recommend sorting things in like piles and going from there. For the big pilot cards, but all the same factions in same piles. So all Rebels with Rebels (etc). The smaller cards should just be sorted by the pictures on the backs of the cards. They don't matter which faction/team you are on (For the most part, but don't worry about that now). You might not need all those tokens that are there. You can put them in Ziploc bags for now, but many people put a few of each in a pill container for old people. The kind with pills for different days.

That should get you sorted at least.

I know the feeling.i sometimes buy three or four cars to park in the yard for a month or so then give them away to the neighborhood kids.

Disposable income is wierd.

1 hour ago, Velvetelvis said:

Disposable income is wierd.

So is your spelling of weird

1)Locate and set aside all the rulebooks and rules inserts.

2) Set aside all the ships.

3) Set aside all the clear plastic parts that are the stands for the ships. You should have two clear pegs and one base for each miniature. Bigger ships have bigger diameter pegs and larger bases.

4) Gather up all the normal playing sized cards. These are the pilot cards. You'll likely also have some rules cards that explain stuff introduced with an expansion.

A)Sort the pilot cards into factions by their backs. This should be four piles depending on the collection. Rebels and resistance, Empire and first order, Scum & Villainy, Rules cards.

B)Then sort those piles into ship types. Under the picture of the ship on the front is the pilot name and type of ship. You're sorting by X-wing, A-wing, and so on.

C)Sort those piles further either by pilot name or by the various pilot skill numbers (large and orange on the left near the top with the ship type and pilot name)

When this is completed you should have four pilot cards for each miniature.

5) Gather up all the small sized cards. These are the upgrade cards. Sort these by the icons on the back. There are a dozen-ish (depending on how large your collection is) different types.

A) Alphabetize the individual piles.

6) Cardboard. You're likely facing one or both of all the various cardboard bits still being "unpunched" still connected together in a larger sheet of cardboard or having been broken out. Depending on what's in the box the cardboard will be:

Movement templates.

Range ruler.

Obstacles and things for scenarios.

The two parts that assemble into the maneuver dial. (There should also be a collection of small black plastic things that insert together to form the axis for these. One dial with two bits of plastic to each miniature ship.)

Ship tokens that will go on the bases. There will be a name and numbers on each side of these matching a pilot card. You should have two of these tokens to each four pilot cards. So Miniature - Base and pegs -- four pilot cards -- two ship tokens/cards -- maneuver dial.

Various other tokens needed for keeping track of various things in game play. Evade tokens and focus tokens and shield tokens and so on.

If all the stuff is unpunched you can look for the little expansion number on the cardboard. Match up the numbers and you'll have the cardboard bits that came with any particular expansion. Many will have a white square that gives it a name. Most of this stuff will need punched out or if it is already punched out (you probably won't need to punch all of it out though) and organized. Baggies and various containers for orgainzing screws or pills or so on are very useful. You'll need most of these various tokens during gameplay and you'll be pulling things out and returning them to the pile.

You're now ready to read the rules although you might do that first or look up some learn to play videos. You might do that first which should also help with identifying all the stuff.

Late to this but sites like this can help with sorting which cards go with which expansions or sets http://x-wing.fabpsb.net/extensions.php?lng=en