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To celebrate Star Wars I am going to be having a large game of Xwing on Monday.

Any of you guys have any ideas, tips, or suggestions? I have never played more then a couple hundred points and this game could be more then double that very quickly. As far as I know there won't be any epic ships but who knows what may show up.

Thanks guys. I hope you are all having great holidays.

Sounds awesome. I played a tester game of X Wing a couple of weeks back. It was a blast, seriously considering getting into it.

Take pics of the big game!

EDC

More than 300 pts without epic is pretty unmanageable, just so you know! I guess up to 400 is feasible but it's a bit unwieldy. @EDC it's awesome - do it!

Okay, here is the scenario as it stands.

We both start with 200 points on the table. The table is much larger then a standard game size. There will be plenty of asteroids and debris. There will also be some satellites. We will each have two more 100 point squads that will be brought in as reinforcements. Every so many turns we automatically get our next wave of reinforcements. HOWEVER, if you get one of your ships to land on one of the satellites and you forgo making an attack that round you may remove the satellite from play to boost your signal. Meaning, your next wave of reinforcements comes in one turn sooner. The waves that arrive will be randomized to see what arrives next.

Game victory is determined by total points left on the board after a set number of turns.

Here is my only question, how many turns? In xwing you can play a TON of turns, they go by pretty quick. Should reinforcements be every 10 turns? 5 turns? Should the game last for 30 turns? I need to think about it. What do you guys think?

Okay, before getting back to our regularly schedule program. Here are a couple pictures of the big game from yesterday.

Here is my Imperial Force. Back row is wave one at 200 points. The other two waves were 100 points each. One of the problems I ran into when making this list is that I really don't have enough Imperial Ships. I ended up over equipping a couple of them.


Here a couple of action shots from various turns.





Overall we played for about six hours total. We stopped at dinner time. When we did, he had more hull / shield points left. He was declared the winner. The satellite idea worked well. Bringing in waves of reinforcements kept the game turns consistent in length. The game was fast paced and well played by my opponent. His Han Solo was the bane of my existence. His K-wing with its SLAM drive was also a nuisance. Those two ships probably caused more damage then the vast majority of his force. By the time we had stopped they were both down to one hull point but his other remaining ships were still rather fresh. Mine on the other hand were becoming wasted space debris. My biggest lack luster units were my Firespray and my Shuttle. Whisper also got his butt kicked by some dismal rolling on my part. My MVP's were my two Interceptors. Kir Kanos and Carnor Jax, the two of them were very effective and lasted substantially longer then expected. In fact, Kir Kanos was in wave one and lasted the entire game. He had an amazing strafing run on Han Solo earlier on and rolled 6 evades in one turn. Overall, I don't think I would change to much other then borrow some additional imperial ships so that I don't end up with extra expensive ships.

Or you could... pony up the cash for a couple of extra ships... cheapskate.

Looks great! Firesprays are tricky ships. I still think the best way to run them is Scum, tbh (Kath, Andrasta, all the Bombs) much as pains me to say that! Interceptors are glass cannons so that's pretty impressive. Me, I love the Defender.

Looks and sounds like you had a blast. I finally cracked and picked up the starter set, just deciding on which version was tough.

My X Wing career hasn't got off to the most successful start, talked my wife into playing the tutorial game with me, and she promptly whipped me.

EDC

Gitsplitta wrote:Or you could... pony up the cash for a couple of extra ships... cheapskate.

Yes thank you Gitsplitta. I will end up with more of them but typically I play Scum or Rebels. I do really want to pick up a decimater, it is such a cool looking ship.

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks great! Firesprays are tricky ships. I still think the best way to run them is Scum, tbh (Kath, Andrasta, all the Bombs) much as pains me to say that! Interceptors are glass cannons so that's pretty impressive. Me, I love the Defender.

I agree 100% with everything in that sentence except the last part. I like defenders currently. When Imperial Aces 2 comes out, I will then Love Defenders. Currently though they seem a bit over priced. In this game I brought Rexler Brath and he only took shields or did critical hits so he never actually got to use his ability.

evildrcheese wrote:Looks and sounds like you had a blast. I finally cracked and picked up the starter set, just deciding on which version was tough.
My X Wing career hasn't got off to the most successful start, talked my wife into playing the tutorial game with me, and she promptly whipped me.

It is a great game. It is currently filling my hobby time. My wife and I play a lot and she often does well. Ask Moonpie, she pretends to not understand the game then she swoops in and destroys everything. X-wing and pathfinder are the reason there haven't been any actually painting or modeling posts. Sorry guys. It'll come back around though.

Merry holidays and new years of Happiness to you ( read in your Yoda voice )

I had a nice little battle today. 1000 points. Easy lists orks vs ice angels. I don't play nearly enough any more so we kept the lists very basic just to have a game without making it to complicated. Here are some pics of the battlefield and game in order.




My guys running through the ruins trying to get a meltagun into range of the battlewagon.

Him return firing. Both of us did NOTHING to one another.

His battlewagon rounding the corner before it disembarked his warboss and boyz. My terminators had just landed in that street moments ago.



The game was a blast and an absolute slug fest. Around turn 6 neither one of us had much left. By turn 7 this is all that was left on the board, a wrecked battlewagon, a handful of boyz, his warboss, and my four tactical marines. I had a drop pod on the other side of the board as well.


On his turn he was 10 inches away. He decided not to charge to try and keep my overwatch from taking effect. On my turn, I gunned down his warlord due to his awful rolls and saves. We ended the game here.


For funsies we reset this last instance and we played out him declaring the charge. I missed with all of my overwatch, not a single 6. He then rolled a 10 which would have got him into combat. It was a great game with a couple great moments. We also managed to play the whole game in only about 2 hours.

Cool. The 1000pts level is oft overlooked,, but it's one of my preferred game sizes.

Great pics.

EDC

That looks classic fun, no silly strings attached. Board looks great.

Thanks guys. It was a blast. I am already looking forward to round two.

I just love games that come down to only a few figs on each side. They're just so much more epic feeling. Looks like a really fun game there Ice. Glad you had a chance to get some table time in.

I agree completely! I have so much going on right now but after just one game it fills me with the feeling that I need to back to painting and building. Or writing, more importantly.

Where is the ice man!!!

I am still here. However, I am not working on any Painting or Modeling projects at this time. I will let you know when I do.

Ok just let us know

Hang in there Ice... we can be patient.

Ditto. RL comes first.

Thanks guys.

I do have something 40k to look forward too. I am getting a special shipment tomorrow and it looks like I will actually be partaking in a battle next week. Pics for proof will arrive!

Patiently waiting bud, no worries, but interested to see what the package was.

This is the awesome collection of terrain that Solar_lion brought me. I can't wait to have a game with it. I was planning on having a game today but other things came up and we didn't have the time. I almost want to set up my table just so that I can take some pictures and share with you guys. I have Wednesday game night tomorrow, perhaps I can convince some of those guys to help me set everything up really quick. Then pics on Thursday.

Yep, that may happen.

I like the way the ork buildings look like giant ork faces...

Worth waiting for, they look amazing. And can't wait to see them used in anger. Well OK things being used in anger about them.

Glad you like them. They really are just basic and based off the generic terrain I built for my FLGS. I think they will need to have a bit more detail based off the current terrain Ice currently has; a possible touch up re-paint to match his stuff.

Got to see his Orks in person and they look great in person. Very nice work indeed! Look forward to the pics.

Great buildings !!!

Hey I thought I'd see some battle pictures by now. Time to get back in it.

The battle fell through unfortunately, but it will be had and there will be pics.

Meanwhile, this week is GenCon. I am super amped, as always. My P&M blog probably isn't the best place to talk about it. Where would you suggest I start up a thread about it?