Learn to fly Medium Bases!

By acegard, in X-Wing

4 hours ago, acegard said:

The Back to Dials Podcast presents our 3D-Printed Medium bases and how to fly them!

Listen to the podcast episode here!

Read the companion article (Image-heavy!) here!

They work, I promise - but it's confusing and it can cause huge problems based on alignment with other bases.

I could have sworn there were pics from UKGE that showed the medium bases to be slightly bigger than 1.5 bases. I'll do some more digging.

Edit: found it!
https://imgur.com/a/KbICG98

Edited by skotothalamos
9 minutes ago, skotothalamos said:

I could have sworn there were pics from UKGE that showed the medium bases to be slightly bigger than 1.5 bases. I'll do some more digging.

@apoapsis , did you have a pic from UKGE comparing medium bases to movement templates? Tying to find that pic...

If they are, that goes against everything I have heard, as well as the traces I took off of FFG's unboxing using the maneuver dials as a template. We used a 3d-print from Thingiverse, but verified its dimensions to the best of our ability. It's as close as can be to 1.5 Base Lengths on each side!

That said, if it turns out it's slightly off, then the same rules will still apply, but just follow the golden rule of formation flying: Separation!

The blog was great, thanks! Do you have a similar one for small and large bases from previously? Noob player here.....

3 hours ago, acegard said:

If they are, that goes against everything I have heard, as well as the traces I took off of FFG's unboxing using the maneuver dials as a template. We used a 3d-print from Thingiverse, but verified its dimensions to the best of our ability. It's as close as can be to 1.5 Base Lengths on each side!

That said, if it turns out it's slightly off, then the same rules will still apply, but just follow the golden rule of formation flying: Separation!

found the pic.

1 hour ago, skotothalamos said:

found the pic.

Post it? Or send it my way? Maybe it's just not showing up because I'm on mobile.

4 hours ago, Max Teranous said:

The blog was great, thanks! Do you have a similar one for small and large bases from previously? Noob player here.....

The best thing I can point you toward is our Video Learning series, which starts with all of the template relationships and small/large base ships here:

jmTcoum.jpg

56 minutes ago, acegard said:

Post it? Or send it my way? Maybe it's just not showing up because I'm on mobile.

Edited by hawk32
3 hours ago, acegard said:

Post it? Or send it my way? Maybe it's just not showing up because I'm on mobile.

Oops. Thought I did. Luckily, @hawk32 had my back!