TG Plays X-wing Minis

Ramblings and lists from a new player, mostly just playing around and sharing my love of X-Wings in general.

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Note the Second

I am an opinionated fan, and will occasionally talk trash about certain aspects of Star Wars. Due to the wide variety of age ranges of people who enjoy the game though, I will try to limit cursing and generally keep this blog clean. (I see it a bit like Torchwood and Doctor Who, where I'll occasionally reblog from this blog to that one, but never from the one with semi-adullt material to this one.) As such, I'll try to answer asks in a relatively quick fashion, but asks with inappropriate language will not be entertained.

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Note

I reserve the right to reblog (not repost) pictures of cool Star Wars ships here, which I doubt fans will find as a downside. :)

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I love my new ARC-170, but Shara Bey is still an A-wing pilot. Sorry, I don't make the canon. :D

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Friday I should have time to get pictures of our current collection. I know there are pictures out there already if all these ships, and I'm not the best photographer out there, but I need some practice and I'd like to have better pics for the blog, in an attempt to make it semi-serious.

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Hello World

Just to give a little perspective (Mostly as to why my lists are going to seem amateur-ish for a while. Hint, hint, it's because I'm an amateur.) on where I'm coming from and what we've got going on. I've played 9 games so far, counting the beginner games with the modified rules. Of those I've won 8, but that was before we started researching and reading up. I got my husband (J) and FIL (let's call him... Dogbert) into the game at Strategicon in February and they have both played miniature games a *lot.* This is my first one. So I'm still fairly impressed that I've managed to beat them this much. :D (I'm still so new at this that I have trouble moving the miniatures without knocking them. I've finally stopped knocking them *over.* I would like to get to the point where I've got most of the movements - both of the ships and the minis - before I go out into public and play in game stores.) But I've always liked planed and one of the best parts about the new Star Wars movies were the scenes with the ships. The Resistance coming over the lake in TFA still makes my heart skip a beat. TG is a shortening of my main username, @tereghan (I probably won't mention this much over there, but feel free to stop by. Be warned though, there's shipping. The other kind.)

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Quick Beginner Thoughts on the Z-95 Headhunter

I’ve been a fan of the Z-95 Headhunter since reading about them in Before the Awakening. In our Edge of the Empire game my Twi'lek flies one out of our cargo ship, and has the piloting skill to back it up.

(Side note, J thinks I designed that part of my character off of Mara Jade, but no. It’s Poe. It’s always and always has been Poe.)

Sadly at 2, 2, 2, 2 they just aren’t that viable as much more than missile boats. The aren’t as strong as an X-wing or as agile as an A-wing and I’m thinking the point cost right now makes them not that worth it. It’s easy enough to run one in with Biggs protecting it, but I had trouble getting the missile off about half the time. If you aren’t using it for its primary purpose, then that’s a lot of points sunk into a ship with not much attack power for more than one round. I love Airen Kracken’s ability, but running him with Poe when Poe has BB-8 and Push the Limit means that often Poe has more important things to do (like corner high PS TIEs) and I frequently found more of and advantage moving Poe out of Range 1 from the slower and less maneuverable Z-95. If I did it in the future I think I would run Kracken alongside a less expensive ship, but by the time you spend the points to get him really useful it’s almost as expensive as just running another T-70.

But you know what, it not a great ship in the canon either. Personal affection aside, I think it has a bit of a niche use in the game and that helps keep it distinct from other, similar ships.

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Just some casual starting lists from before we delved into the depths of the internet and podcasts.