Sunday 10 March 2013

X Wing Competition at "Mi Tesoro"


My son Alex and I went to our first X-Wing competition today, organised by a local games shop in our neighbourhood called "Mi Tesoro" (= Gollum's "my precious" in Spanish). This a small but extremely well-supplied shop run by brothers Juan and Josema, two very nice chaps and where my son spends his Friday evenings after school playing Magic.

Alex with Juan, owner of Mi tesoro
We played 100 points and decided to go for the Rebel Alliance, deploying a squadron with two X-Wings (manned by Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles) with some droids and a Y-Wing model with the ionic gun tower. Being a kind of a rookie pilots, we did not have a brilliant performance, but ended up in second place... starting from the bottom, of course (sigh). The balance was that we lost 300 points in 3 games and shot down 42 points worth of Imperial spaceships. 

Nonetheless, we had a lot of fun, the games were very friendly and all the participants were happy to share tactics and squadron formation ideas with us, so at the end of the day I think we significantly moved ahead in our learning  curve.


Furthermore, Alex is now fully engaged in the game (a victory for the father!) to the extent that he decided to invest his monthly allowance in the recently released Slave 1 model.

Given the shop's space constraints, we could not use our game mat which attracted a lot of attention and good comments from the participants, as well as our recently acquired card box, both made by Lex Stormwalker, a Spanish X-Wing aficionado, blogger and entrepreneur with an interesting online shop.   

Now some photos from the three games played...





... and the winners with Víctor, from Edge Games Spain (the official distributor in our country)


14 comments:

  1. Looks like a lot of fun. It's great that you have managed to show your son how great the hobby can be.

    Those accessories by Lex look awesome. I wonder what the shipping would look like to the US. Something to think about.

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    1. Yes, I'll be looking to start playing Wings of War sometime in the last quarter of this year.

      Not sure if this guy Lex serves outside the European Union.

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  2. Sounds as a very nice gaming day !

    Might have to get mi some of those my self, but I have so far recisted the temtation...

    Best regards Michael

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    1. C'mon!! Join the Dark Side my young Padawan...

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  3. Brilliant report of having fun. Your son and you did really well.

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    1. I concede it was fun... not sure that we did well at all. Anyway, we've just finished abother game at home this afternoon applying the tactics learnt this morning

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  4. Muy divertido el evento. "X-Wing" es realmente bueno como reglamento!

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  5. Grandes noticias, me alegro de que lo hayáis pasado tan bien. A ver si podemos organizar algo parecido en el Club Dragón... ;-)

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    1. Pues a ello!! Cuando hacemos reunión de coordinación?

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  6. Looks great. Iv just picked up some of the new A-wings. This is a cracking game and glad you and your son enjoyed the tournament.

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    1. I saw one player with this small ship and they can do wonders in a game. I'll be buying a model next month: I cannot keep spending so much money in this game, I ned to rationalize a bit; this month is Father's Day (19th march) and I have "suggested" my wife that the Millenium Falcon will be a very nice gift... :-)

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