X-Wing Second Edition – do you really need this?
The announcement by Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) of their intention to release a second edition of the popular X-Wing Miniatures Game has generated numerous hours of YouTube [...]
X-Wing Miniatures Game
X-Wing – Flying Casual
I’d noted in my first post about Dilution Theory that I hadn’t played the X-Wing Miniatures Game this year, despite very much enjoying the game. One of the [...]
Imperial Assault Gunboat announced for X-Wing
This was probably one of the first views I ever got of the Imperial Assault Gunboat. It was the mid-1990s, I was playing the Lucasarts X-Wing Space Combat Simulation [...]
X-Wing: Swimming against the meta
It’s the X-Wing Regional at Battlefield Hobbies this coming weekend. Following my somewhat dismal attempt at flying a TIE swarm in the last X-Wing competition I [...]
Musings on Meta – X-Wing Miniatures Game
It’s a fairly well publicised fact that Jervis Johnson does not like points values and army building, and indeed, back in the late 1990s and early 2000s when this debate [...]
X-Wing Dogfight @ Galactic Models, Derby – 26th November 2016
This year I started playing the X-Wing Miniatures Game again with Josh, having not played it much after originally buying it. Playing it again has made me realise just what a [...]
Out with the old? Not at all! (Well, not most of it anyway)
As I write this, GenCon 2016 is in full swing, and with it comes a whole host of new releases. The tabletop gaming hobby, and most especially boardgames, seem to rely more [...]
Big Ships coming for Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures from FFG
At GenCon today, Christian Pietersen, CEO of Fantasy Flight Games, gave his annual ‘In Flight’ report, which highlights how FFG have been doing, and what we can [...]
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game Online Squadron Builder app
As you are probably aware, I’ve become a big fan of the Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game in the last few months, and have built up a fair collection of models for the [...]
The ‘lost’ episode of Tabletop now posted on YouTube
Have you ever watched ‘Tabletop‘ on YouTube? If not, you really should. It’s a show hosted by Wil Wheaton (yes, Wesley Crusher himself) where he and [...]
Meeples & Minitaures Episode 110 – FFG Star Wars games
Download Episode 110 Welcome to Epsiode 110 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show, I am joined by Rich Jones and Mike Hobbs and we discuss several games within [...]
Fantasy Flight Games announce X-Wing Wave 3 ships
One of the announcements eagerly awaited by many was to take place on ‘Star Wars Day’ – May 4th 2013, during Fantasy Flight Games gaming weekend: The [...]
X-Wing : Welcome to the party, Pal
You may remember last year that I posted a blog entry about the X-Wing Miniatures Game, and how I was going to stick with the Titanium Die-Cast range of models that I had [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 95 – Raven’s Shadow, Dreadball, Judge Dredd, X-Wing & W40K
Download Episode 95 Welcome to Episode 95 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show, I am joined once again by Rich Jones & Mike Hobbs and we discuss what [...]
X-Wing: Does size matter?
X-Wing, the new miniatures game from Fantasy Flight Games, has just started shipping in the UK, and I got a copy for a friend from Totalwargamer today. I didn’t [...]
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