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DO I WANT... a HMP Droid Gunship expansion pack?
I've already looked at the Xi Shuttle and LAAT Gunship from Wave 7 and now it's the turn of the HMP Gunship that's joining the Separatist arsenal.It's not a ship that I know very well but that seems to...
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Starbird Slashing & You: The Value of Strain
Heralds of Hope is here and when the points were revealed last week one of the things that got the strongest immediate responses was that Starbird Slash was only 1pt.Already one of the cards that...
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Variance, Oliver Pocknell, Niels Vos, Scyks and Pack Rats
juxtapositionnoun: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.eg. "the juxtaposition of these two images" Exhibit A)Exhibit B)What's going on in these two...
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"There's too many of them!" - Why Generic Efficiency Has Gone Too Far
So I was really proud of my last blog. It was on a topic I'd been wanting to hit for a while (the importance and value of variance), the juxtaposition of the two different player reactions from one...
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X-Wing Buying Guides Updated
This is a quick note to say that I've finally gotten round to updating my Buying Guide pages, which were getting a little bit out of date seeing as they still talked about Vonreg's TIE as coming soon!...
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Five squads, thirty-one ships, ninety-four red dice... and SPAM!
In my last blog I attempted a Thanos-style finger snap to sway FFG ahead of the November points changes. I laid out why I felt like the raw efficiency of generic pilots, particular cheaper 3 agility...
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Getting To Know: Captain Phasma and 'Friends'
Not every blog I write can be full of deep strategic insights (or, arguably, any of them) and this is certainly not. Instead I'm going to start an infrequent series that looks at the background of...
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X-Wing Strategic Framework: Part 1 - Three Pillars and Beyond
On one level X-Wing is a really simple game. The rules are quite light, there's not many pieces on the table at once, the turns flow quickly, and you can just push your spaceships around and roll dice...
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X-Wing Strategic Framework: Part 2 - Follow The Flow
Well as far as unexpectedly long waits before installments go this is starting to be up there with The Winds of Winter or The New Testament. January 1st: X-Wing Strategic Framework Part 1. The...
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SITH TAKER OPEN 2021 - Top-16 with Rebel Aces
A very unusual thing happened this weekend: I played an X-Wing tournament. Even more unusually I played an X-Wing tournament with actual X-Wings!THE SITH TAKER OPENThe Sith Taker Open was held at...
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A Barrel of Laughs - Squadbuilding handcuffs for fun & profit (mostly fun)
If you skim-read my blog you may wind up mistaking me for a hardcore competitive player because it's so often about tournaments or my trying to find a chink in the competitive metagame for a new squad...
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Points Changes & Rules Changes - 2 Good / 2 Bad
The times, they are' a changin'. New points, new rules, new owners, new ships. I'm going to touch one some of the big winners and losers I can see in each faction after this latest points change, but...
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Hit The ROAD, Jack!
So, how's about that Random Player Order, huh?In case the atomic explosion of X-Wing social media hasn't reached the rock you are living under, AMG shared their vision of what Random Player Order...
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The ROAD Warrior
Not long ago I wrote a blog that was broadly very critical of AMG's proposed changes to X-Wing, and what we know as ROAD (Random Order After Dials).Quite a lot has changed for me over the past week, in...
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My Shortest ROAD Blog
I didn't set out to write a ROAD trilogy, but here we are.My first ROAD blog was 2,343 words, my second ROAD blog was even longer at 3,461 words. This, hopefully my final ROAD blog (though let's be...
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I'm a humble Jack, and that's ok
Warning; This blog is very self-centered. There's no metagame tips or strategy or any of that good stuff in here this time. But it's about being a gamer, about being competitive, about winning some...
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WORLDS PREP I: Infinite Possibilities... But Not Infinite Time
I'm going to play in the World Championships of X-Wing at the end of March, at Adepticon.This is exciting, and because it's probably the biggest competitive event I've played in for a long time I want...
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WORLDS PREP II - The Wampa Warm-Up
In the last blog I shared how I’d quickly managed to cut my virtually infinite World Championships squad options down from being ‘faction-agnostic’ to being able to commit (almost) fully to First...
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WORLDS PREP III - Unscheduled Downtime
There’s been a bit of break in my regular blog updates on Worlds Prep because, well… there’s been a bit of a break in my Worlds prep. A couple of weekly game nights have come and gone without me...
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WORLDS PREP IV - Sith Taker Open 2023
This past weekend was the long-awaited Sith Taker Open, a large event held by my local team (the Sith Takers) at Element Games in Stockport. The STO had already become a fixture on the UK tournament...
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