X Wing Musings

Pew pew from the peanut gallery…

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I’m Dave, an avid X Wing Miniatures player. If you’re reading this, you probably are too! I play in events all around the UK and on TTS. I’ve been playing for over 10 years… you’d think I would know better by now!

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  • The Road to Sith Taker Open… weeks 4 and 5

    Over the last couple of weeks, there’s been a LOT of X-wing! We’ve seen the winding down of all 3 TTS leagues I was signed up to and in person event in Bromley, not to mention club nights – in total 13 games of X-wing! Over this period, I have been sticking to Scum and…

  • The Road to Sith Taker Open… weeks 2 and 3

    Doing a double as for the last 2 weeks something odd has happened: people were busy!!! In the online leagues I’m in, a few people couldn’t play me in time and conceded. Nothing like a free win! But not terribly helpful when I’m practicing for a big event. As such out of the 9 scheduled…

  • The Road to the Sith Taker Open… Week 1

    New Year, new plan! After dallying with FO for most of Q4 last year, change was long overdue. I’m signed up to a number of leagues online and in most cases I’ve been using it as an excuse to try out something completely different. In 3 events, I’ve been trying out: Soontir Fel (BoE) –…

  • Back to the start

    What happened? One minute I was musing about what FO can do and the next minute… well, I had to travel for work, then for a short holiday, then pre-christmas stuff, then Christmas… and here we are! 4 weeks later. Doesn’t time fly! In x-wing terms, I played a bunch of games, all online. In…

  • Contain your enthusiasm

    This week I played 4 games of X Wing… 2 in person and 2 via TTS. Over these, I have come to a few conclusions about containment and value, and once again changed my preferred list from the one I THOUGHT was really good last week to one that’s already 2 games in this week…

  • The Magic Number (or “How I learned a lot in a week by losing”)

    When I closed out last weeks blog, I was sure I was going to talk through some more Hux Abuse I had been thinking about: Epsilon Squadron Cadet – TIE/fo Fighter (6)Ship Cost: 6 Loadout: (0/0) Half Points: 3 Damage Threshold: 2 Epsilon Squadron Cadet – TIE/fo Fighter (6)Ship Cost: 6 Loadout: (0/0) Half Points:…

  • Remember the Alamo…

    So the Joy of Xwing comes in may formats, and a very convenient format for bringing the community together is online play (“Pornwing” as it’s known in our local group) via TableTop Simulator (TTS). It’s a great mod and is pretty gosh darned realistic… also comes with the benefit of allowing you to play lists…

  • And the winner is…

    Having established last time that all factions seem to be relatively equally placed in this Brave New World, there were 2 big events worldwide over the weekend: the Cornish Nationals and the Californian Open. Great timing for someone just starting a blog, as it gives real content to analyse! Starting with the Cornish Nationals, 22…

  • Welcome to the Wild Wild West!

    Jumping straight in to the recent news that X WING HAS CHANGED IN A BIG WAY, there’s been a couple of weeks to consider what lists to build. Just to recap, here’s what’s happened: The squad point limit for lists have gone up to 50. Yay! Unfortunately, the squad point cost of all ships has…