May the 4th be with you-----X Wing first impressions

Greetings once again InterWebs!!!! It is May the 4th and several of my friends stopped by to try out the newish game from Fantasy Flight Games called X-Wing, we decided to give this game a try in celebration of May the 4th being the unofficial 'Star Wars Day'. X-Wing is a game of starfighter dog-fighting/ship-to-ship combat which we found really enjoyable.

The first thing to do was assemble the ship models. The models come prepainted and only require attaching to their bases. The whole process did not take long at all and was kind of fun:

The group of friends (including the tall Mordian 7th) getting ready to start the fun:

Some game play pictures (note that Star Wars: A New Hope was playing!):

The super nimble X-Wing rolling 3 'evasion' results to avoid the Imperial firepower:

Movement and turns are measured with special templates:

Mid-space collision!

After getting a few basic games in to learn the rules we all decided to try a team battle which would use the awesome looking YT-1300 model and asteroids!

The YT-1300 model is in scale with the rest of the ships making it look big and impressive!

All in all it was a great time and everyone agreed that X-Wing was a game we were looking forward to playing again soon! The game seems simple and fun but has a ton of tactical possibilities that will keep the game from getting stale/old. The best part of X-Wing was the games went quick (about 20-40 minutes) allowing the group of us to get several games in during the course of a few hours. I will be looking at making some 3D asteroids and other 'space debris' as well as looking into getting some nice outer space/nebula/Death Star maps to play on which should really look awesome! Thanks again for stopping by and taking a look! Take care and May The Force Be With You Always!

Something a little different and shorter

Greetings once again!

I have been so very busy getting ready for the Summer Convention Season and the first one is only weeks away. Origins 2012 (May 30-June 3) is being held in Columbus, OH and I travel out there each year to meet with good friends, run a few Star Wars RPGs, do a little hobby shopping, take some hobby classes, and drink too much! I have been editing a couple of Star Wars modules (which will be run at Origins) which has taken up a fair amount of my time lately (along with working 50+ hours a week). So to reward myself a little I decided to paint up my roleplaying character for use this summer.

I would like to present to you: D'Abu'Da Abassk, Sullustan Privateer and Hero of the Rebellion!

The miniature comes from West End Games from the mid to late 80's! There is not a whole lot of detail (and what there was is not cast very clearly) on these old miniatures. The miniature also came with a solid metal base which I cut off so I could attach him to a resin tech-base (to represent the starships he usually can be found on).

I have had a couple of requests for photos which include something to give the miniature a sense of scale (especially useful with this tiny miniature) so here is a picture with a US Dime and a British Pound coins to give it a sense of how small the miniature is:

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look! Take care!

David