Just through i'd try to get a Poll like question going, to see where most folk game at.. is it at a store, or someone's house?

Does that change based on whether doing casual gaming, vs strict gamers?

At home now that our FLGS went under.

In my experience, both can be casual. My store is almost ENTIRELY casual play up until two weeks before a tournament, but then again, our store community is kinda small. Hitting a store is a great way to meet new people to play against though and that will keep things interesting.

We have quite a bit of game stores around, so you can find games on almost any night. I game at my house when just me and my brother want to practice lists though.

I only have one game store within an hour and 30 minutes drive with not much of a x wing community, so my buddies and I play at someone’s house (usually the friend without kids). Works well for us much of the time.

Both!

We're quite lucky to have a few stores within a 45min drive, so I can get more store games in than I have the time or petrol for

I only play at home on a casual basis.

Usually at the shop. We have a sort of loosely organised club, with activity a couple of days a week, so getting a game is usually easy enough. I do play at home sometimes, but I live in a tiny inner city flat, which is a little limiting.

4 hours ago, TwiceBorn said:

I only play at home on a casual basis.

Don't rule out playing at a store or even a tournament.

I played at home for 9 months (epic, furball, multiplayer) before ever trying 'normal' 100pt (now 200pt) games. Still prefer the various multiplayer formats, but love them all. Went to my first event (90 player regional!) after just 6 normal games.

Most of my local crowd fly casual, with just a few who won't play anything except tournament style.

I used to home play a lot. Then I wound up getting a casual gaming night all set at the FLGS.

So, mostly to almost all games are now at the LGS, and they’re still as casual as at home. Just a bigger crowd and more space than hosting.

We’ve as a group already decided once the epic box drops we’re going to deviate from standard games periodically - standard will still be there for those who want it but we’ll also be trying some fun missions and other goodies out of the box.

Mostly at the store myself.

Used to rotate through HotAC, huge ships, scenarios and standard play in 1.0, and even up till the spring we were still rotating huge ships into our monthly routines. We've slipped into a holding pattern of mostly standard play until FFG releases epic/huge/scenario type play but I've got some of my own scenarios on paper that will need some testing soon.

Even our standard play can be a little more casual. Most of the lists played wouldn't likely be super competitive at a big tournament.

I play mostly at my house.

And we have a club that plays once a week. (It is currently at someone's house, but it has moved in and out of game stores as they pop up and cease to exist)

Most of my free time for gaming is in the evenings and stores around here aren't open that late, so most of the time I play at my house/friends' houses. I do try to make it out to the local stores when I can though to help maintain the community.

Mostly on Vassal and at a friends house - I only go into the store for tournaments.

There is no store that sells xwing within 100km so not really an option.

Miniature/boardgaming club has a locale which we usually play in and there will actually open a mini store there in 2 weeks but it's more like the store is in the club than the other way around.

Home.

I've always been lucky to have a large gaming group with lots of friends. Also, I really don't have a convenient FLGS that hosts at times I could play.

Although that might change soon.

Lastly, Standard XWM is not my bag, so until now I've been more of a homebrew-ing player. I'm really hoping Environments and Epic allows me to play Official XWM in public the way I prefer it.

I play mostly at home with friends who either don't own the game or have very small collections of their own. There is a pretty large and active local community at stores around the city but I just haven't really felt at home in the tabletop community when I've ventured out to them.

Its usually an even split between home and store. Our tournament scene is dead right now but our league is strong.

At home we play by tournament standards (my play group likes aces and games need to end).

The league it just depends on who you are playing. Some people like casual some like match play.

Waves 2-7 of 1.0 was at home, and there were only 5 or 6 against a live opponent, mostly just me pushing ships around the table. Finally found a FLGS but had to move away a month later. Then nothing for about 2 years. Finally a local store opened where we do about 3 leagues a year growing from about 6 to 12 regulars in the last 18 months or so. We check in on the store's Facebook page and set up games when we can.

Good group of guys and one new guy has his wife playing. She gave me all I could handle last week with a "girl power" list of Amidala, Handmaiden and Ashoka.

I’m almost exclusively an at-home player due to scheduling, kids, et cetera. Me and my buddy try to be as serious as we reasonably can be, though we also fly a fair amount of jank.

About once a year the stars align and I get out to the local store and get my face kicked in, which I honestly enjoy. Although this last time I managed to do the kicking, courtesy of my 3 ARCs and 2 Torrents!

Our store was (filthy) casuals through and through. With one guy being the reliable meta player. It made experimentation on list comps enjoyable to see how well new lists stacked up. Then when he'd get too big for his britches we'd smack him back down with the old staples like prenerf dengaroo, paratanni, FSR, etc.

Our tourneys were also extremely casual, and similar to our open play lists but with prizes. The competitive players came from other store areas for the prizes etc and mostly played meta.

After our 3 closest stores finally shuttered, our group generally maraudes all the farther stores or round Robins each others houses.

TL;DR It depends on how close and available for play your FLGS is for casual gamers. The more competitive travel and play at the event hosts and trials stores to at least stay in the scene.

Neither, I play in the pub!

Most games in the last 4 years are at home against my son, though we've gone to monthly 1.0 tournament since 2016 and have just gotten back to the competitive scene with 2.0 for a hyperspace trial.

I used to be pro-store for playing X-Wing, but the store scene turned a bit too competitive and... critical(?) for my tastes. That, and the store stopped providing sufficient space for the players that were showing up. Made me feel like miniature players weren't wanted. Two tables that fit three 3x3 playmats is not enough 8-10 X-Wing/Legion/Armada players.

These days I prefer playing just with friends at someone's home. Far less stressful and I can experiment with lists much more.

Store play. None of my kids are there and I can get some peace!

But really, it is easier for me to find games at the local store than to make arrangements and find space to play at home.