X-Wing: Battle in the Skies!

Well, with the repaint that I had recently completed on the X-Wing, it wasn't hard to get cajoled into a match!  We ended up inviting a couple of pro-gamers (Rick, and Chris) to come down and show some of the local boys, how to play Star Wars X-Wing!  With the promise of cold sodas and some pizza, they graciously accepted!

Here is a pic of everybody getting together to begin; one thing you gotta love about gaming, is that it is not age specific!  Great time for parents, and grandparents, to connect with their kids!

 

Chris is giving some basic instructions on moving, allocating your action, and so forth... young jedi-wanna-be's are perking up!

 

The Asteroids are down, the Ties are now positioned and we are ready to place our academy pilots!

 

Aside from showing off Chris's very cool "stealth" X-Wing, I was able to get in a rear shot of mine as well.... Go Gavin Darklighter!

Getting some instruction from a pro on how to get our ships in line with each other so we can fight with our "wingman" close!

 

Looking good mate! Let those ties come in after us now! "Red Five standing by!!!"

 

"Gulp!" Here comes Vader sneaking around an asteroid!

As you can see by the placement of the ships here, we really got into a pretty messy dog fight!  With some pros piloting the Ties (...and some noobs behind the stick on the X-Wings, B-Wing and Shuttle) it wasn't pretty! But, "hey" we had a good time rolling the dice, eating some pizza and enjoying good company!  Maybe next time I will have the rest of my ships complete... I hear when they are custom painted, they fly better! ;D

X-wing Repaint!

Recently, I was fortunate enough to play a game of X-Wing.  In preparation for said game, I new that the participants would be bringing their "prepainted" minis... so I took a stab at painting up an X-wing for Gavin Darklighter.

This first pic is of the pre-paint X-wing (on the left) with the regular 'out-of-the-box' model on the right:

It might not be readily visible, but the X-Wing on the right is a shade darker than the one on the left.  I tried to bring out more of the 'white' that I envision the models having like in the movies a grew up watching as a kid.

My repaint (on the left) has the Rogue Squadron markings of "Rogue 5" which (at one point in time) was Gavin's ship!

 

Side view of the repaint (left) and the model (right) straight out of the box set.

 

On the back side, my repaint on the left has the 'afterburners on' which I tried to employ with some reds, oranges and yellow. Let me know what you think.

 

Miss the old X-Wing run on the Deathstar? Here it is!!! :D

Star Wars X-Wing!

With the Deathwatch Space Marine Kill Team finished, I was wanting to save some paints for next week... I was privileged to get introduced to the Star Wars X-Wing miniature game by Fantasy Flight Games by my friend Rick.

In my first match-up, ships were pre-selected for me due to the noobiness value of my inexperience.  Not clearly understanding piloting and the mechanics of the game, I spent the first match learning abilities, but more importantly... I was learning how to pilot these ships!

After getting eviscerated by losing all three of my ships (with my opponent keeping all three of his) I decided to change things up a bit... and just then a HUGE Star Wars fan walked in! The new guy (Reed) has a bumber sticker on his car that reads, "Chewy is my co-pilot!" So there was no question he had to play the Falcon!

We decided it was best if I cued off of him... so we started rolling the dice!

(Two hits, and two Criticals!!!)

 

 

Being new to the game, we brought in Han and the Falcon with his crazy "Shoot First and ask questions later!" ability, along with two academy X-wing pilots.  Rick (our opponent) brought in Vader and two of his top Interceptor aces!

 

As noob players, we thought we would try something a bit crazy; using the Falcons size and bulk to block and 'bump' the Ties in order to gain the upper hand and use the x-wings to pick off the Imperial swine! *wink* 

 

After quickly eliminating the two interceptors by bumping, placement and sacrificing a few shields and hull shots, we finally whittled down the odds!

(click any pic to enlarge)

 

 

It was then an academy pilot against Vader! (Not very good odds!) But Vader must have been distracted...

 

By the Falcon and the other X-wing moving in behind, because Vader missed his shots!  With the Falcon, and two X-wings breathing down his neck, we fired off shots for the win!  (Wahoo!) But Vader successfully buggered out,,, for "he who runs away, lives to fight another day!"

 

 Chalk up some experience to those Rogue Squadron academy pilots!

 

And to settle the debate about Han's "Shoot First" ability... best check this out!