I am still in because despite the warts, salt, changes, powercreep, the Jumpmaster, and so forth, everything else sucks more.

Still a great game! Regardless of the naysayers, a bad day of X-wing is better than a good day doing anything else. Except for taking a nap. Those are always good.

22 minutes ago, Stoneface said:

Still a great game! Regardless of the naysayers, a bad day of X-wing is better than a good day doing anything else. Except for taking a nap. Those are always good.

Plus you can dream about how you are gonna be better in the next game.

And I found that overthinking this game is bad.. Y'all gonna be happier if you just do fun stuff!!

I'm all in. Have been for the best part of three years. My only regrets are that I didn't discover and buy the game from Wave 1, and that I don't get to play in as many competitive events as I'd like.

My only regret is that I don't get to play enough. ?

This thread, right here.

#IamIn

Everyone gets a like for the positively this is what the game needs.

Of course I'm in! It's a good time to begin the game, pretty good meta!

Yes there's a lot of complain here....then you see the Regional Results Topic and you see a lot of new and different lists as winners. But of course no one will talk about that: that is REALITY.


Pff, screw reality!

To be honest, I've never not had fun playing X-Wing. I went 0-5 at a store championship, still enjoyed the day. Lost all but two of my games over two days at the European Championships, had a blast.

This is the single best tabletop miniatures game I've ever had the good fortune to play. It may not be perfectly balanced, but it's still light years ahead of most other games out there. I remember playing 40k and Fantasy Battle at Warhammer world, taking 30 minutes to set up then taking one look at my opponent's list across the table and knowing I was doomed before a dice had been rolled in anger. I've never seen that in this game; the opposite, in fact.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe - lists that have no right winning go on to shock everyone, players coming back from losing three quarters of their list in the opening exchange to win, attack shuttles on fire off the shoulder of Orion...

...erhem.

...but most of all, I've had fun. Even during my most crushing defeats or in the middle of my worst runs, I've never had a game which wasn't fun.

It's X-wing. Anything can happen, anything. You just have to stick with it.

There will be rough patches. But did we quit when the game was ruled by fat turrets? No! Did we quit when the Phantom could out maneuver everything in the game? Of course not! Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? **** no!

It will evolve. It will change. But it will be there.

So get out there and play. When the dice are down, when the jukes are beating the evades, remember to go out there and win just one for the Gipper.

15 minutes ago, Hawkstrike said:

But did we quit when the game was ruled by fat turrets? No!

Because we were flying them.

15 minutes ago, Hawkstrike said:

Did we quit when the Phantom could out maneuver everything in the game? Of course not!

Because our ships had turrets.

But yeah, I agree. I don't get to play X-wing nearly as often as I'd like, but every time I do, it's amazing fun.

It's been forever (at least 2 years) since I used anything but swarms:

• 5 TIE Strikers - 5 Scarif Defenders (Adaptive Ailerons/Lightweight Frame)
• 6 TIE/fo Fighters - 4 Epsilon Squadron Pilots, Epsilon Ace (Comm Relay), Epsilon Leader (Primed Thrusters)
• 8 TIE Fighters - 7 Academy Pilots, Youngster (Rage)

And they're still fun to use. More than anything else, the fact that manoeuvring matters, in a way that it doesn't with 40k and Warhammer, allows you to take dice out of the equation far more than in any other game I can think of (except maybe Battlefleet Gothic and Stormcloud Attack, which are my other favourites!).

44 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

To be honest, I've never not had fun playing X-Wing. I went 0-5 at a store championship, still enjoyed the day. Lost all but two of my games over two days at the European Championships, had a blast.

This is the single best tabletop miniatures game I've ever had the good fortune to play. It may not be perfectly balanced, but it's still light years ahead of most other games out there. I remember playing 40k and Fantasy Battle at Warhammer world, taking 30 minutes to set up then taking one look at my opponent's list across the table and knowing I was doomed before a dice had been rolled in anger. I've never seen that in this game; the opposite, in fact.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe - lists that have no right winning go on to shock everyone, players coming back from losing three quarters of their list in the opening exchange to win, attack shuttles on fire off the shoulder of Orion...

...erhem.

...but most of all, I've had fun. Even during my most crushing defeats or in the middle of my worst runs, I've never had a game which wasn't fun.

This 100%. I always fly what I think will be fun, usually lose doing so, and have yet to not enjoy it.

Having fun means that you're winning. Winning games isn't necessarily fun either. My list with Porkins in has a 100% record - that's 12 tournament games which have all been fun.

What this game needs is more people flying things like Commander Alozen vs Garven Dreis and less wailing that the sky is falling.

I always find it more fun if you ignore the meta, just pick some ships you like or haven't used before. Throw on some random upgrades and see what happens. Half the fun is experimenting with different lists

Still my favorite game!

so many likes for people in this thread

56 minutes ago, benskywalker said:

This 100%. I always fly what I think will be fun, usually lose doing so, and have yet to not enjoy it.

Exact reason im flying an imperial firespray saturday at my LGS's SC. I bought into x wing a little over 2 months ago and have loved every second of it. (Even tuesday against the new fair ship rebels.)

2 hours ago, FTS Gecko said:

I'm all in. Have been for the best part of three years. My only regrets are that I didn't discover and buy the game from Wave 1, and that I don't get to play in as many competitive events as I'd like.

My sentiments exactly, except for the competition part.

2 hours ago, FTS Gecko said:

I'm all in. Have been for the best part of three years. My only regrets are that I didn't discover and buy the game from Wave 1, and that I don't get to play in as many competitive events as I'd like.

I'm not sure when I got into the game, but it was well before Scum&Villain faction came out because I collected decent amount of Rebels and Imperial factions.

Where I live there is way too little tournaments, but there is good casual scenes.

100% into X Wing Epic Casual Play. By far the best minis game I never tryed. And Star Wars.

0% into competitive play.

Many ways to play this game. And plenty of room for eeeeeverybody.

2 hours ago, FTS Gecko said:

To be honest, I've never not had fun playing X-Wing. I went 0-5 at a store championship, still enjoyed the day. Lost all but two of my games over two days at the European Championships, had a blast.

This is the single best tabletop miniatures game I've ever had the good fortune to play. It may not be perfectly balanced, but it's still light years ahead of most other games out there. I remember playing 40k and Fantasy Battle at Warhammer world, taking 30 minutes to set up then taking one look at my opponent's list across the table and knowing I was doomed before a dice had been rolled in anger. I've never seen that in this game; the opposite, in fact.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe - lists that have no right winning go on to shock everyone, players coming back from losing three quarters of their list in the opening exchange to win, attack shuttles on fire off the shoulder of Orion...

...erhem.

...but most of all, I've had fun. Even during my most crushing defeats or in the middle of my worst runs, I've never had a game which wasn't fun.

I don't know why not all people have same attitude when playing X-Wing. I lost so many games in a row, something like seven and after that I had three game winning strike, every single game was awesome.

I am more in than I have been in a while. Two years of local play has gone from being me to 9-14 every Tuesday and 32 player store champs. And I dropped one of the 3 L5R GenCon tournaments to take part in NA champs even though I know I will get stomped. Getting ships custom painted for the day too.

1 hour ago, Zazaa said:

Where I live there is way too little tournaments, but there is good casual scenes.

Where I live I usually have to travel for 2-3 hours just for a couple of casual games, let alone a tournament. I don't mind doing it though, not at all.

Just now, FTS Gecko said:

Where I live I usually have to travel for 2-3 hours just for a couple of casual games, let alone a tournament. I don't mind doing it though, not at all.

Right, well that is long ways away. I'm hosting games at my home so I just wait friends to get over and my spouse trying to learn also, so that is always big bonus!!

All though living in a "big" city has its own benefits, but not always that size really matter either, because I used to live few years in Mexico City and now I'm back in my real home and have more active group than DF(short name for Mexico City).. They had more tournaments but here is better scene.

The 'I'm out' mentality comes off as childish to me. I haven't played in a few weeks and despite buying ships from this wave, I'm not super interested in playing right now. Could be competing in four SCs in five weeks (won two!).

That doesn't mean the game is bad or I'm going to sell all my stuff in a huff, I'm just going to take a few weeks off.

Now, once Guns for Hire comes out... I'm gonna be the 5 Kihraxz guy!