Year: 2015

Iowa City Epic Tournament – Sunday 8/23 at Geek City in Coralville

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Hello X-wing Players!

In celebration of the release of the Imperial Raider, our friends at Geek City in Coralville, IA are putting on an epic tournament. The tournament will follow standard Fantasy Flight Games rules for Epic play, with the following exception – each player must bring at least 3 Epic Points worth of ships. As a friendly reminder, the Raider and the CR-90 are each worth 3 Epic points, while the GR-75 is worth 2 Epic points. This is to ensure each list will have at least one epic ship in play 🙂

Registration for the tournament will open at 11am, with an entry fee of $5. As a “thank you” for participating, Geek City will be giving 100% of the entry fees back to the players in the form of store credit, so the more people who can make it, the more prizes we’ll have to win!

If you need a reminder of how Epic Tournaments differ from regular tournaments, check out all the details on the X-wing Main Page, under the “Support” header. The tournament should an absolute blast and we look forward to seeing you there.

For those who won’t want to make the drive alone, we’ll be discussing carpools at league night over the next two weeks. You can follow us on this page, in-store, or at our Facebook Page.

Good luck and Fly Casual!

Imperial Raider

New Ship Announcements!

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Man, you’re out for a few days and Fantasy Flight just goes ahead and drops a whole boatload of goodies on you! Looks like we got our first look at Wave 8 as well as the second epic imperial ship, the Gozanti or “Imperial Assault Carrier”.

Wave 8 Official Announcement

Wave 8 Announcement

Imperial Assault Carrier Announcement

Gozanti Cruiser

Both releases look just insane, with our first dip into the Rebels TV series, as well as some very deep dives into Star Wars Legends. While the G-1A is an….interesting design, the Jumpmaster 5000 looks simply fantastic.

Of course, the real excitement is the second epic ship and a commitment to the “deploy” mechanic introduced in Wave 7. 100 point games will likely see minor adjustments to ships entering late, but in Epic format getting your fleet in the right position is so key that this will likely be a big game-changer.

As we find out more, we’ll keep you posted and we’d love to hear your thoughts either here or at our Facebook page.

Good hunting and fly casual!

New FAQ – Becoming an Ace

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It looks like FFG dropped another FAQ on us last week. While we haven’t had a chance to dig into it fully, the biggest change has already been highlighted – Tactician is now considered “Limited” meaning you can only run one version of this card on any given ship.

As more details are found, we’ll post updates below:

-Tactician is now “Limited”

-Ships can no longer boost or barrel roll off the edge and get destroyed. If a ship attempts either maneuver, they may select a different action or different direction for their action

-Official FFG Tournaments must run 75-minute rounds

League Announcements – Week of 7/27

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Good morning X-wing Players!

Monday’s here at last and that means another night of X-wing madness at Mayhem Comics. As always, we’ll be there at 6pm to start the fun, so if your in town come on down!

And don’t forget, this weekend is the Fel’s Free-For-All Invitational at Rodman Comics! It’s shaping up to be a crazy awesome tournament put on by local X-winger Kyle Doerhoff and has some pretty spectacular prize support. You can find details on the event on our website and on the event’s facebook page (links below):

Fel’s Free-For-All Invitational – Website Link

Fel’s Free-For-All Invitational – Facebook Page

In an effort to drive interest in the game locally, we’d love it if you could take pictures of some of your games and send them to desmoinesareaxwing@gmail.com so we can post them to the website.

Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you there 🙂

Good luck and Fly Casual!

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Fel’s Free-For-All Invitiational this Weekend – Saturday 8/1 at Rodman Comics-

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Hello X-wing Players!
We’re running a special tournament this Saturday August 1st starting at 1p at Rodman Comics in Ankeny, Iowa. The Fel’s Free-For-All invitational will be run as follows:
-Each player will bring a single ship worth no more than 35 points (including upgrades).
-Each table will play four 30 minute rounds with four players participating at each table.
-Players will then attempt to destroy every other ship on the field. Each kill made by a ship adds 1 point to that player’s MOV. Player’s only gain points if their shot kill’s an enemy ship, so an opponent is free to swoop in and deal that last point of damage for a full point 🙂
-Any player that intentionally fly’s off the map will forfeit all points earned for the round. Any player that forces an enemy ship off the map due to blocking/ion’s/stress will receive 1 point to their MOV, with no penalty to the affect player
-After four rounds, the four players with the highest MOV with then compete against each other until only one player’s ship remains. That player is then crowned winner and will have first choice of prize support, like the Golden Interceptor pictured below:
Tournament Prize - First Place Golden Interceptor
You can more pictures of prize support in our gallery. Check it out!
You can find some pre-tournament discussion as well as additional details about the tournament on the Facebook page.
Good luck, fly casual, and we hope to see you there!