Practicing on my lunch break

By Duke of Advil, in X-Wing

To practice maneuvering by myself on my bench at work I place all my asteroids on a 18"X36" playing surface with them primarily in the middle.(leave a straight lane about 2" wide from end to end) Then I randomly place the satellite tokens by some of the asteroids. The goal is to navigate the field, with your ship and get within "Firing range 1" of the satellite to capture it. Then you fly off to the next one. On the opposite side of the asteroid field I have a TIE fighter fly straight thru the 2" wide open area. I choose his flight by rolling a six sided die. 2=2...3=3 or K3...4=4 or K4...5=5. Roll a 1 or 6=reroll. When you roll a 3 or 4 you must choose the straight or Koiogran turn depending on which moves you closer toward your ship. Once past the asteroid field the TIEs next move is a K3 bringing him back into play. The reduced width of the playing field makes gathering the satellites more difficult while avoiding the TIE. You can make it more challenging by assigning damage cards every turn that you are within range 1 or two of the TIE while in his firing arc, and or add another enemy ship with a different flight path.

Anyone else do something like this?

(Remember, you must make a green maneuver to clear your stress caused by a red maneuver before you can do another)

some times, but I have used a website that will "play" your opponent based on position to it. Though its not always to smart, when I got the Slave 1 and Falcon, I flew the falcon, and Hal 2000 flew the Firespray, well my moves stayed in his dead spot between the arcs, THE WHOLE TIME. he kept flying in circles to get me, but I just was able to stay in the sweet spot.

I setup an obstacle field for flying my shuttles through when I was working on how to pilot them. Not as elaborate as your setup here, but it really helped me. I applaud your efforts. You're going to be a scary pilot when you're done. :)

some times, but I have used a website that will "play" your opponent based on position to it. Though its not always to smart, when I got the Slave 1 and Falcon, I flew the falcon, and Hal 2000 flew the Firespray, well my moves stayed in his dead spot between the arcs, THE WHOLE TIME. he kept flying in circles to get me, but I just was able to stay in the sweet spot.

I would love to do this but they keep a close eye on bandwidth at work so I need to break out the Miniatures.

some times, but I have used a website that will "play" your opponent based on position to it.

What site is that?

heres one

I used a different one as this one looks "new" with less ships

actually that is the one. they must have an ipad site, as its got more of the ships (missing the HWK and bomber and Bwing) but it was pretty good.

I think it is your link itself that is the issue. Your link is going to version 1.3.0 whereas the latest stable version is 1.4.1. They also have a couple of beta versions.

http://xwing.runbam.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

Just click on any of the links on the page my link sends you to to run that version of the AI.

that and the look different just a little bit from web to ipad one

I've used a windows program that I found on Board game geek.

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/924037/working-on-a-maneuvers-test-bench/page/1

I do both sides (no Ai) but it helped me learn how to stay in formation and fly an HWK with no K-turn stay within range for all the named pilots.

That's the one I use too. It's a good one. Going to need some big updates after aces hits to not have to "force" some of the interceptors maneuverability though.

that and the look different just a little bit from web to ipad one

What is this "ipad" one that you keep referring to? I didn't find anything in the App Store.

Some websites have "mobile decice" versions designed to load better on phones/ipads etc...