09-03-2013, 07:48 PM | #1 |
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X-Wing Miniatures
My brother has brought the game to my attention. I have not played yet, but it looks to be the hot new thing (in certain circles, I suppose).
Has anyone played it? Is it worth the investment?
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09-03-2013, 08:08 PM | #2 |
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Re: X-Wing Miniatures
It's a pretty good game. It's fairly simple but still interesting to play, and there's enough chrome to play with to give you good replay value. It is, though, pretty expensive, particularly if you're looking at buying additional ships. If you've got a very tight gaming budget, I'd reluctantly not recommend it.
BTW, they play it on Tabletop. You should watch them play it to get a better idea of whether or not it'd work for you. Oh, and Wizkids (I think) just came out with a Star Trek game using the same rules. Don't know about the pricing there, but I gather that the quality of the miniatures isn't as good.
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09-04-2013, 12:25 AM | #3 |
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Re: X-Wing Miniatures
Expensive game for sure.
I bought the Millenium Falcon just to get a nice model to display and it is quite nice and detailed. However, from my perspective the main drawback is that it seems to be for fighter and small freighter scale combat only, unless you use models of different scales to simulate bigger capital ships. |
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Re: X-Wing Miniatures
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http://www.themetalbikini.com/ This is a blog on the game. Pretty well written, both to learn about the game as well as just enjoy the author's POV.
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09-04-2013, 07:19 PM | #5 |
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Location: Ventura CA
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09-05-2013, 11:21 AM | #6 |
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Re: X-Wing Miniatures
I've been buying them a bit. The models are good enough that I wanted them regardless of the game itself. Turns out that it's pretty fun to play. I'm interested to know how they handle larger ships. IMHO they did a better job than I expected on the rules expansion for the YT-1300 and the Firespray. They added a fun element to the scenarios we played.
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09-05-2013, 11:22 AM | #7 |
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Re: X-Wing Miniatures
In that case, buy!
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09-06-2013, 04:15 AM | #8 |
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Re: X-Wing Miniatures
What I heard at GenCon is that these won't be tournament legal. The corvette and transport will be mission/scenario ships. But at less than $200 for the pair I'm totally happy with what I saw.
Now they just need a few larger ships for the Empire.
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09-06-2013, 03:18 PM | #9 |
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Re: X-Wing Miniatures
"That's no moon...that's my rent check." ;)
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09-06-2013, 03:25 PM | #10 |
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