Sunday; less drizzle than Saturday as I walk from 8th and Market St station to the Philadelphia Convention Centre, waiting for the inevitable imposter syndrome to kick in. This is my second big event I’ve made Day 2 of, and I’m wondering if I’ve just gotten lucky or maybe I’m better at the game than… Read More You Don’t Make Friends With (Resistance) Salad! (Part Two)
PAX Unplugged. Premiere winter gaming event on the US East Coast. 60 X-Wing players descended upon The City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia) for two days of action-packed X-Wing action. Including this guy! Having not really meshed with the four-ship Yavin list at ECG the last time I played, I was greatly anticipating the release of… Read More You Don’t Win Friends With (Resistance) Salad! (Part 1)
I’ve had a rough couple of weeks, X-Wing wise; the list I had hoped to take to NoVA (which is in two months), simply hasn’t been working out for me due to me either outplaying myself (i.e. doing moves that I think are big-brain but really are small-brain), making stupid mistakes in my formation (like… Read More The Dead Pilots Ride Again!
2.6 is upon us, and since the points and scenario changes dropped I have played exactly 1 game of X-Wing. On stream. And I lost. Typical. I kind of ranted about this in my last article, and a lot of people disagreed with my theory that Resistance were now bottom of the pile; this got… Read More The Dead Pilots Society
As of last week, I was 2-0 with the two Defenders with a respectable MoV thanks to their tankiness and ability to points fortress. This left me not only top of the Crait Pod, but also top of the entire Ban League. Going into Week 3 would be something of an issue, however, as the… Read More Victory Over Crait!
Back in April, I attended the UK System Open, which I believe remains to this day the largest X-Wing event ever. Things did not start well, having purchased (well, re-purchased) my ticket during a low point in my competitive X-Wing career. I finally settled on a list, a modified version of the “Danger Zone” Resistance… Read More Journey to PAX Unplugged – System Open the Second
I have now resided in the United States for nine days, and life is proving to be different in some ways and remarkably different in others. For example: in New Jersey there are petrol station attendants who fill your car up for you, and the prices on things do not include tax. The weather has… Read More A Wargamer Abroad: Settling In
April is drawing to a close; the System Open is long done, there are no Hyperspace Trials or serious events in the near future, and aside from a few TNX colleagues heading to the UKTC on the 5th of May, it’s time to relax and break out the silly lists for some poops and giggles.… Read More Embrace the Silliness 2.0 – “Two Ship Paul” Returns!
So, the big weekend has been and gone, and I’d like to start with something of an apology. My last blog entry was somewhat negative, as have some of my other posts that discuss the concepts of fun, mental health, etc. It turns out that several people (more than I’d expected) have become concerned about… Read More Journey to the System Open: Highway to the Danger Zone!
Greetings all, and welcome to the last entry from this blog in 2018! It’s been an interesting few weeks in the X-Wing world; the worldwide release of Wave 2 has happened, we’ve been treated to the first looks of what the Hyperspace half of the Organised Play tree will look like for the first six… Read More Hyperspace, Hangar Bay, and Leagues, Oh My!
Ramblings of a Wargamer 