u/raithosu

I never had mistsplitter so I'm jealous of you, the drip is immaculate. My only consolation is the 343 Crit dmg after using skill.

In case anyone is interested, team is: Ineffa c1r1, columbina c0r0, jahoda c6, dps around 155k

You should play second edition with the kids. The reason is that about half the ships available out there are 2nd edition ships, with no backwards compatibility with 1.0. People have made efforts to make them backwards compatible, but out of box you it will be as much work as taking 1.0 ships and converting them to 2.0. The main benefit to you (and to teaching kids), are better streamlined rules, and wider access to the community, lists, and resources.

That being said, buy whatever is cheapest and available. The things you need you already have (bases, ships, templates, dice). Draw midline marks on your templates. Print off the second edition rules (which are cleaner and more comprehensive than the 1st edition rules). You can also print off 2nd edition generic baseplates and glue them to your 1st edition bases. Use infinite arenas to create and print squads. You don't need to specifically buy anything, you should arts and crafts everything that's missing through infinite arenas. 3D print ships that you can't find. Find used collections in bulk and purchase those. Whatever you can do to save money.

https://xwhub.com/ as always for a new player

As an addendum to this, I would do a check and see if there are any local groups in your area playing. If there are, play that format. Even if you and your friends never go to a local event, its better to have the option to go rather than create another friction point preventing it from happening. It will also mean that there are people in your area that can act as local support to your hobby and make it much easier to answer those questions.

BTW, I think you've made the right choice in choosing ships for him that he likes, and then giving him a small ship to counterbalance the large ships, and get a sense of which he prefers on the board.

1.0! I haven't thought about it in so long.

I would say avoid using autoblasters on bossk. It wont be fun for him to get hit with an attack that cant be blocked, even if its not particularly strong. there are better upgrades you can slot in on bossk that would have better synergy anyway. My recommendation for a replacement would be something like weapons engineer + dead man's switch. weapon engineer would be a strong upgrade in this format, and dead man's switch is thematic and fun.

Your IG is probably too strong for this format. adding a double tap where you can also accuracy corrector onto ships with low agility will likely allow you to pull ahead quite quickly, especially if you pile in on the shuttle with both your ships. I'd say switch to IG-A or C instead. As well, in general I dont recommend using bombs. Bombs are a really complex timing window for a beginner. Its great for a second or third game, but for a first game, its going to be complex enough to remember triggers and phases, you dont need to layer in a new mechanic on top of that with lots of fiddly bits that will slow down gameplay. I'd recommend contraband cybernetics instead.

On that same wavelength, I'd avoid using any bombs and mara jade as well for the first game. Bombs I explained above, and mara jade is an ability that is easy to forget so just adds mental load when hes going to be focused on just remembering his phases. abilities that have optional triggers like you have with weapons guidance are better. As a recommendation for a replacement for mara jade id recommend darth vader crew, and for the bomb i'd recommend the dauntless title, which acts as a simple get out of free jail card if he makes a mistake on his maneuver.

Depending on how good you are at the game, you can also fudge the difficulty in his favor by giving him more synergistic upgrades, while giving yourself more non synergistic choices. it wont look much difference on the points scale, but it will have a big impact on the board allowing you to play with some challenge as well. It will depend on how fast he picks up the game, but common issues for new players is avoiding obstacles and bumping into ships, not taking actions, and setting the wrong maneuver. If you do skew the difficulty, that will be the way to equalize the game, while teaching him that every decision he makes can have a huge impact on how games turn out.

Dark passenger

Going to add on to this concept, you could have a 1/100 or 1/60 scale at each table as table centerpieces, have a bunch of customization tools and maybe have a little gunpla showcase/contest during the festivities.

There's an Ontario discord xwing https://discord.gg/XW3Qg67Xz. There are also healthy local play nights in Oshawa Barrie St Catherines and others. If you're in Toronto that will be harder but there are still a few players in the area.

You can find dice on eBay for less than 10 dollars, the 6 pack is fine for starting out and with lots of stock still around. Templates are a bit tough but if you Google xwing templates the official plastic ones can be found for 10-15 dollars. They look god awful but it's probably the cheapest solution. You can spring for nicer acrylic templates on Etsy if you don't mind spending a bit more. As for tokens, lots of people have spare cardboard and I bet if you ask to pay for shipping on r/ffgtrade someone will send you a bunch of them for free. Everything else is either printable as others have mentioned or purchasable on Etsy.

I would say if youre only going to play with your friends, just buy the BoY pack and play it. if you aren't going to play in any tournaments, id say just build your lists in yasb, print them off with IA, and just mark the midpoints on your bases and templates. There are lots of good reasons to get a 2.5 starter kit, but you dont "need" them to enjoy battle of yavin or endor.

That being said, you probably actually want to get the rebel and imperial starter just so you have more ships to work with, like battle of yavin and not enough x-wings and y-wings to make thematic lists would kind of be sad feeling too. and the new starters are great value for money when it comes to the actual ships.

what stand is that for the bits?

I don't think it was the Haro, it doesn't actually activate until Machu repeats what he says.

This should be fixed for now..

I just chanced upon this while looking up something else related to lego kits, it's substantially cheaper than the one I linked, so maybe have a look at that too: https://gameofbricks.eu/products/lego-tantive-iv-75376-light-kit?_pos=1&_psq=tantive&_ss=e&_v=1.0

In celebration of the Epic SL cards finally being officially released by XWA, I wanted to share one of my mods that I've been messing around with. (XWA SL's can be found at xwing.life of course). I was looking for an entry level mod that basically anyone could do, requiring no real electrical or soldering experience.

I found that LEGO light kits tend to do work really well, so I found this one: https://www.lightmybricks.com/collections/lego-star-wars-light-kits/products/light-kit-for-lego-star-wars-tantive-iv-75376 and bought it since I knew that the LEGO Tantive IV is roughly the same size as the Huge Tantive. I chose this one because of its production and packaging, but there are several LEGO LED kits for that set, any of them is probably fine, since they all more or less work the same way. After that it was as simple matter of wiring all the LEDs up, gluing them to the engine ports (I used superglue, but hot glue is probably easiest if you have a hot glue gun, or sticky putty), and plugging it in.

It works super well, lighting is bright and striking but not overwhelming, and the whole thing comes with a USB port so you can either power it via a portable power bank or rig a battery solution (i took an old kids toy and ripped out the battery section so I could have a small portable battery setup). The wiring is thin and easy to hide, I tucked it between the engines and the wires.

End result, an easy LED mod for a fairly-reasonable price to make your board or shelf experience much more exciting. You can easily go cheaper if you buy all the components yourself off of aliexpress but the value of this is that you can buy everything in one single well made package.

If anyone has any questions I'm happy to answer them here, I hope this inspires some to start setting up some LED mods on their ships as well!

when this is completed you will have the ultimate tier list of pokerogue.

Wait this is a literal meme....

Syril: Wants isb.

Mom: we have isb at home

The isb at home: