I have been working on some rules for a campaign in X-Wing. I have come up with the following. I also created some pilot sheets for each ship type. They show specific availability of Pilot Talents, Ship Upgrades, Secondary Weapons, Droids and Crew cards that a ship can have.

Named crew are NOT considered unique cards, their card can be used ONCE ONLY per ship, but each player may use that crew member, I just assume they are a different name. Example, Chewbacca might be Aron Greis, same skill, new name.

As GM I will fly the Imperials, matching points will be simple as the rebel squad will fly against the same number of Imperial points as they have total Mission Points between them plus the cost of the basic ship. Example, 2 X-Wings at 21 pts per ship and a pilot with 6 Mission Points total and a pilot with 9 Mission Points total would face 57 points of Imperials, plus or minus mission variables.

Certain cards are only available on certain ships as well. Example the Ion Turret card is only available to the Y-Wing and YT-1300. Crew cards only to the YT-1300 and Y-Wing. Droids only to the Y-Wing and X-Wing. Heavy Laser only to the YT-1300 and Y-Wing.

I added a rule I missed

"You may only have one upgrade per pilot skill level so at level 2, you may buy up to 2 upgrades at level 9 you may buy upto 9 upgrades."

This should keep pilots from overloading on upgrades and will force people to choose what upgrades they want.

I wanted to try something like this

Sweet, let's try it. We could play 1 game when we all meet as a campaign game. I can write one scenario a week that makes a campaign. Each scenario would be based on the results of the prior one.

Here is my first scenario.

Discovered !!!!

You and your squad mates and their support crews have been hiding out on a remote asteroid, now Imperial fighters have been detected in your area and are almost certain to have spotted your base.

You are currently jamming their signals but it's only a matter of time before they get a message out.

Mission Objectives :

Destroy All the Imperial Ships within 12 game turns. 1 Mission Point per pilot.

All other Mission Point scoring as per basic rules.

Play Area 3' x 3'

Place 6 ateroids on the play area representing the asteroid field the rebel base is in. No asteroid may be within range 1 of another asteroid, no asteroid may be within range 1 of the play area edge.

The Imperial player (GM) and rebels take it in turns to place an asteroid.

How may rebel ships?

My gaming group has just finished its 2 ^nd mission in our ongoing story based league play. The results are posted in the Battle Reports section. You might find some helpful items there.

1 rebel ship per player. Max 4 players per table. If we are short a player or 2 on a table, we can use 'generic pilots' controlled by players, but not part of the ongoing campaign Mission Point collection.

I figure right now we'd get 3 regular rebels, if we got extra players, we could run 2 tables with 2 GM's same campaign.

The beauty is we can keep a story going and accomodate less regular players as being of varied skill levels in this game isn't a big issue, and missing a mission won't stop people taking part.

Bigdogg,

I'll certainly check it out.

Thx

I'm glad to see these sorts of variants popping up (this, x-wing league, and another I saw). Super cool! Please, keep coming up with missions.

Sounds interesting.

I came up with 1 last rule for 'dieing' as a pilot. To encourage people to think of this as a tactical mission, not a suicide mission where getting your ship shot from under you is no issue, I'll be adding the following rules.

If a player or team feel they are in jeopardy of being reduced to zero hull points, they may withdraw from the battle by flying of the nearest table edge.

They incur no penalty to Mission Points other than they may not gain certain mission points based on the scenario or basic rules.

If you are shot down;

Roll a D6 and consult the table below.

1. Pilot Injured. Randomly select a pilot talent, that talent cannot be used in the next battle. Put an X next to it on your pilot sheet. If you have no pilot talents, your pilot skill is reduced by 1 for the next battle to a minimum of zero.

2. Crew killed. Randomly select one of your crew. They are considerd unavailable to you for the next battle. Put an X next to it on your pilot sheet. If you have no crew, see 1 above.

3. Weapons Damage. Randomly select a Secondary Weapon, you may not use it in the next battle. Put an X next to it on your pilot sheet. If you have no secondary weapons, your primary weapon has damaged, you must take 1 hit or critical die from every attack and re-roll it.

4. Ship Upgrade. Randomly select one ship upgrade, it is not available for the next battle. Put an X next to it on your pilot sheet. If you have no ship upgrades, you must deduct either 1 from your hull points or shield value for the next battle. Players choice.

5. Droid damage. Randomly select one of your droids, it may not be used in the next battle. Put an X next to it on your pilot sheet. If you have no droids, see 4 above.

6. Roll twice on this table. If you roll another 6, ignore that roll, you got lucky and take no added damage. 3 sixes in a row would mean your ship was disabled but not badly damaged.

Englishpete,

thanks for this. it's great. for the pilot dying stuff, perhaps an attack die would work better, since it's readily to hand?

An interesting thought, but it has only 4 results, which is a bit limiting.

On another note, I have refined the rules and will post them all again soon.

Looking forward to it.

How about this?

"Roll an attack die.

On a hit , the pilot has been injured and must spend the next game you play recuperating. The pilot is unavailable for the next game.

On a critical hit , the pilot is dead, irrevocably and invariably. Too bad, so sad.

On a focus , your opponent may choose one upgrade card, a droid, a weapon or a ship upgrade. That card is unavailable for the next game due to the need for repairs.

On a blank , nothing happens. 'The Force is strong with this one.' Phew!"

You should make a Imperial version with missions.

The imperial version is in the works.

The new rebel version, along with 4 missions will post this weekend.

Then I plan to make the Imperial changes and alter the missions to be the same missions, but from the Imperial Viewpoint. That way, groups can play on either side, generating some rivalry and not needing a GM :-)

Englishpete said:

Awesome! Thanks

any ideas if i want to play like the empire?

waiting for it

thanks

weekend got really busy. I'll post as soon as I can.

Thx Pete