Friday 27 October 2017

Interlude

Last wednesday i played star wars X-wing at my gaming club, first time i have played it. And want MORE.
The game we played involved four of us, Neil and Steve had two TIE fighters each, they were chasing a Rogue TIE fighter who was deserting to the rebellion, this TIE fighter was jointly controlled by me and Jim plus we had an X-WING fighter each.

The Rogue TIE fighter escaped, our X-wings went head on into the TIE fighters and pulled some impressive manouvers to quickly tail the TIE fighters.
At the end of the game we had shot down one TIE, seriously damaged two while the fourth flew around (lost?) in the asteroid field.

All movement is acheived by choosing a manouver on a card dial, when all manouvers are chosen they are then executed, this means you have to guess your opponents moves.
Firing uses Eight sided dice with its own attack and defensive symbols meaning you can miss, hit or cause a critical hit.
Defense is the same with no defense and evasion.

Special abilitys assigned to pilots really do give them an individual feel and make Ace pilots a serious threat without being far too overpowered (i was actually using Poe Dameron)

Really enjoyed this game and will be buying this, just cannot decide on Rebels or Imperials as all the pre painted modles are fantastic.

Sunday 22 October 2017

A pause!

I am painting the modles for the next game of 5 parsecs along with some buildings, taking a while as i have done some tradeshows lately which has taken up painting time.

Hope to be back soon to continue the adventures of Rafflesnap and the crew.