{"id":176,"date":"2018-08-15T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:59:43","slug":"game-review-x-wing-miniatures-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/15\/game-review-x-wing-miniatures-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Review: X-Wing Miniatures Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"X-Wing
X-Wing Miniatures Game<\/figcaption><\/figure> Ah, Star Wars. I was in high school when the first movie (strangely titled “Episode IV”) came out. Back then if you wanted to see a movie, you went to see it! There was none of this newfangled streaming over your phone…heck, we didn’t even have smartphones! And we liked it!<\/p>\n

Anyway, that was then, this is now. Now we have little tiny X-Wings and TIE Fighters and a Millennium Falcon that we can push around on a tabletop and make “pew-pew-pew” sounds until somebody blows up.<\/p>\n

And somebody always blows up. <\/p>\n

Fantasy Flight Games — after securing a licensing agreement with Lucas\/Disney — announced the game system in 2011. Gen Con 2012 showcased the release of the first core set which included one X-Wing (Luke!) and two Imperial TIE Fighters. The core set comes with dice, movement templates, maneuver dials, asteroids, pilot cards, upgrade cards, and a variety of tokens. I had never heard of the game until my son came home one day talking about playing Star Wars with a friend of his. He played it a number of times and then started asking if he could go up to a particular game store where they played on Wednesday nights. Hmmm, okay, I guess?<\/p>\n

I stopped in to watch at one point. The game seemed really fiddly to me. So many moving parts, I just wasn’t interested. Little did I know.<\/p>\n

A few years later (and many dollars of discretionary income as well) and I need a dolly to transport my X-Wing stuff to the game store (yes, the same one where my son learned to play). I have enough Imperial ships to run two simultaneous campaigns of “Heroes of the Aturi Cluster” (more on that later) so yeah, it’s a big box. I read a comment online that suggested if you spend over $250 on the game, you had a mild problem, but if you had spent more than $250 on storage for your game, then you really <\/strong>had a problem.<\/p>\n

I really have a problem. \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n

\"\" A few years later and Fantasy Flight released a second core set to coincide with the release of “The Force Awakens.” It included Poe as a pilot (later upgraded in the X-Wing upgrade pack) and BB-8 as a droid.<\/p>\n

Recently Fantasy Flight announced that version 1.0 of the game (we didn’t know it was called that, we just thought we were playing X-Wing<\/em>) was going to be retired, and version 2.0 would get released in September, 2018. There have been plenty of articles written since then, but this post is supposed to be a review of the game, not a history article, so let me get to the review part.
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\nTitle: Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
\nPlayers: 2
\nPlay Time: Varies
\nDesigner: Jason Little et al
\nPublisher: Fantasy Flight Games
\nYear: 2012<\/p>\n

The review below is based on multiple years of experience with version 1.0. Once I have enough experience with 2.0 I will review that as a separate post.<\/em><\/p>\n

Overview<\/strong>
\nThe game supports two players (although multi-player variants are available \/ documented multiple places online). Each player builds a squad from a particular faction (Rebel, Imperial, Scum are the primary factions). The first part of your squad is your list of pilots; pilots are paired with ships and cannot be moved. Luke flies an X-Wing, Han files the Falcon (although Chewie and Lando are also options) and so on. There is a base cost for each pilot\/ship combination as shown in some of the sample cards below.
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