You may be able to geuss what this blog post is about due to the title. Whilst it's not a goal on my hobby resolutions, it's been an overarching goal for some time. Indeed, on the "mr & Mrs" video that my wife and I did for when we got married, it was one of my stated aims, instead of things like kids and the like. One thing at a time I say!
In summary, yesterday I went to an X-wing store championships at Titan games in Lichfield. I ran the 4 scum ywings with tlt and unhinged astromech. For this that don't know, that means each ship has a turret that fires twice a turn, as well as being making the ships much more manoeuvrable.
I went undefeated in Swiss, (despite having 1 z95 take out 2.5 ywings on its own!) and then went all the way after the cut. In my semi final/ top 4 game I was very fortunate, and got the drop on my oppenant, who should have had me dead to rights. And then in the final, I played a Biggs/wes/keyan build that is beaten in round 4, and successfully managed to broadside them one at a time.
Further in depth reports will follow as well as a vlog, but I couldn't contain my excitement and had to blog about it!
Congrats Luke! I really need to go to more X-wing events. Good luck at the regionals. Looking forward to the battle reports!
ReplyDeleteThanks man :) the vibe is so different to most 40k events. I went on my own and was really welcomed. It's actually a lot more like a blog wars event, if that makes sense?
DeleteCongrats! Another big win to follow up from your 1932 Bodyline award. It's been a long time coming but at least you've kept your figure!
ReplyDeleteFunny thing is I thought about which tshirt to wear for Vlogging purposes! I went with a nice red one :)
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ReplyDeleteAs you know a couple of my mates have delved into X-wing and I like playing it. Definitely fancy the scum and villainy side more, although I did like that YT-2400 freighter. Does the scum faction come as a starter set?
ReplyDeleteHey Dave :)
DeleteThere is a box called "most wanted" for the scum faction that has 3 ships in it. I'd reccomend that as a starting point. It not only gives you the ships but a bunch of different pilot cards to turn extra ywings, or a firespray into scum ships.
What that doesn't have however, is any of the stuff that comes in the box. If you're never going to play rebel or imperial, then I'd reccomend trying a 3rd party site such as big orbit games or blue rat games. The only things you need out the box are:
-Asteroids
-range ruler
-dice
-damage deck
All of these things you can get online separately. There are some good Facebook groups as well that trade X-wing, ppl who have 2/3 starter sets might have a spare.
(You don't need the rule because you can download them for free)
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