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)