Summer Time... more social relationships and less hardcore wargaming. When a person outside gaming circles comes to my house quite often is interested in visiting my war room. I do not talk about this. Only if asked about my hobby. I am a dedicated warhammer since I was a child. So my relatives, co workers etc know about this. Not a "cammo pants and Patton T shirt" wargamer. But a dedicated one.

And while watching the shelves loaded with X Wing ships (391) the words... "This should be a difficult game to play...".

And it is not you need more time to teach somebody to play Catan than to start flying 2 X Wings vs 4 Ties. If we want to try more complex games we mess with objectives, resource management, hidden info...

A beautiful mechanic of red vs green dices. A fast and intuitive rulebook that works fine. Twice this long hot summer a person with no prior experience as a minis player came to our weekly Double Epic game. And no problem flying a bunch of unnamed Ties trying to catch Han.

Love simple and streamlined X Wing

Well said Hexdot.

Yep, one of my best X-wing experiences was buying the TFA starter set and playing it with my younger cousin over Christmas break. No complex strategies or synergies, just fly or die.

But don't get me wrong, playing and learning the game and delving into the strategies and synergies is also fun and rewarding experience. But sometimes you just need to keep things simple for a day.