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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  • 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…