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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  • “Mystic Dave” Rides Again!

    With STO done and Adepticon / Worlds on the horizon, I’m in a bit of a funk. I’m not going to Worlds, so the next “Big” event in my diary is the UK Games Expo at the end of May. Before then, there’s a few store events (including the Mandos Spring Event on the 18th…

  • Sith Taker Open – Didn’t they do well?

    So the dust has settled on the Sith Taker Open, which seems to have been the largest and most successful event of the year. 140 showed up to play and my spies in the room say it was a great weekend! Obviously, I couldn’t attend (as I mentioned last time) but there’s a LOT to…

  • 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…