Category: Miniatures Games
X-Wing: Q&A with designer Alex Davy
Alex Davy, one of the lead designers on X-Wing, and now also Armada, grew up in Fargo, ND gaming at Paradox Comics n Cards. I go to Paradox at least once a week to get my comics and to play games. Paradox has had some great support for the local …
X-Wing Tournament Report: Battle Over Yavin
Over the past weekend my Friendly Local Game Store put on an event, called Battle Over Yavin, to get people excited for the upcoming release of the Scum and Villainy faction. First prize was a full free preorder of all of the wave 6 ships.
X-Wing: Meet the Droids
Astromech droids! Who doesn’t love a good astromech droid? They’re the coolest. They’re an iconic part of the Star Wars universe and they also have a little niche in X-Wing Miniatures. There are only a few ships in X-Wing that can take an astromech; the X-Wing, the Y-Wing, and the …
X-Wing Thematic Squads: Battle of Endor Rebels
Aaaand we’re back! Last time we looked at the Imperials present at the climactic Battle of Endor. Now we’ll look at all of the Rebel’s who were there so you can have a go at putting together Rebel squads with a Battle of Endor Theme. Let’s get things started with …
X-Wing Thematic Squads: Battle of Endor Imperials
In our last article on thematic squad building in X-Wing we looked at crafting squadrons around the Battle of Yavin. This time we’ll look into the Battle of Endor, one of the most decisive battles in the Galactic Civil War. Since there’s a lot to include on both sides, this …
X-Wing Thematic Squads: Battle of Yavin
One of X-Wing’s greatest strengths is that it simply oozes with theme. You’re not pushing little plastic pieces around a table, you’re piloting a starfighter through asteroid fields at blistering speeds. You’re not rolling 8-sided dice, you’re dodging laser fire or doing your best to blast an enemy ship into …
X-Wing Tournament Report: My first run-in with “Fat Han”
Over the weekend I attended a casual X-Wing tournament at my friendly local game store. They run these tournaments usually twice a month and they’re sort of aimed at getting new players in the game. You’re entrance fee of $5 is waived if you’re a new player, or if you …
X-Wing: Favorite Pilots
We’re going to look at our favorite pilots in X-Wing. Leo and Joe will be picking two pilots, one from each faction, (no Scum yet…) and explaining our choices. They may not be the best pilots, but they certainly are our favorites.
Jodo Kast has come to X-Wing Miniatures!
Ok so this obviously isn’t official. I figured all of you adoring fans of The Jodo Cast would want to be able to fly Jodo Kast himself in all of our favorite miniatures game! I found two different customs where someone converted the Lambda shuttle into Kast’s Foxcatch.