X-wing Announcements – Week of 5/28

Good afternoon X-wing players!

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend and are enjoying yet another week of X-wing goodness. In case you didn’t make it down on Monday for our usual night, we’ve got an X-wing Tournament in North Liberty, the Mercenaries X-wing Tournament at Geek City Games.

We also have the monthly tournament at Jays Cd and Hobby taking place this Sunday at noon. Stop on by and get in some fun rounds of 1.0 🙂

Also, in case you missed it Monday, we’re on Week 2 of our DSMX Aces League. As a reminder, here’s the schedule for ships starting this week and running through the following for list-building:

• 5/28
  • Empire – Tie Punisher & Tie Interceptor
  • Rebels – U-Wing & T-65 X-wings
  • Scum – Starviper & YV-666
• 6/4
  • Empire – Tie Advanced Prototype & Firespray-31
  • Rebels – E-wing & Y-wing
  • Scum – G-1A Starfighter & M3-A Interceptor

Remember to not only get in your games, but also make sure you send all completed sheets to the official DSMX email address:
desmoinesareaxwing@gmail.com

As noted on Facebook, remember to tally up your points for each game and for each faction. For the league we’re tracking and scoring based on overall points – 1 point for generic kills, and 2 points for ace kills. We’ll provide updated “Confirmed Kill” sheets next week with clearer instructions.

Finally, we’ll be posting standings from the prior week in the store on Mondays. But as of right now, here are the current league leaders:

Week 1
DSMX Ace – Jeff Linacre
Imperial Incinerator – Jefferson Hansen/Ryan Praska/John Siebens
Rebel Ravager – Justin Brown
Scum Slayer – Andrew Finke

As always, good luck and fly casual!

X-wing Events – Week of 5/28

This Week in Des Moines:

Open Play – Mayhem Comics– Monday 5/28 at 4pm (weekly)

Monthly X-wing Tournament – Jay’s Cd and Hobby (Clive location) – Sunday 6/3 at 12pm

Mercenaries X-wing Tournament – Geek City Games and Comics – Sunday 6/3 at 12pm

Upcoming Events:

Monthly Ames Open Play Night – Mayhem Comics (Ames location) – Thursday TBD at 5:30pm

Monthly X-wing Tournament – Jay’s Cd and Hobby (Clive location) – Sunday TBD at 12pm

DSMX Aces League 2018 – Rules and Schedule

Hello X-wing players!

For the next 6 weeks, your DSM X-wing crew will be a running an “Aces League” for local players. League players will play standard 100-point games over the course of the league, running the usual 75-minute rounds. However, the Aces League has two interesting wrinkles.

First, players only earn points by killing ships. Win or losing doesn’t matter. You’re going for kills. If an enemy ship dies during your game, you earn 1 point, even if they fly off the board or run over a rock, or explode via unfortunate crit. This includes weird R5-TK shenanigans. Named pilots are worth 2 points. So make sure you aim for death and glory!

Second, list-building has been modified as well. Each list must have a single named pilot worth 40 points or less. The rest of the list must be made of generic pilots selected from that week’s random ship per faction.

Each week, two ship types are selected from each faction. Players then build and fly lists that only include a single “Ace” of their choice, plus generic pilots from one (or both) of the selected ships for their faction. There’s no other restrictions and players are free build the generics as they choose, they just need to match at least one of that week’s chosen ships for their faction.

The selected generics for each week will be announced at the beginning of the league and reminders will be sent each Monday during announcements. Players can build lists and play up to 3 games each week earning kills against other league players with any list that follows the list-building guideline. You are not obligated to use the same list nor stick with a faction between games. You simply must earn points during gameplay against other league players.

All points, tracked via your “Aces League Confirmed Kill” sheet, must be turned in to the League TO by 5pm on Sunday to be counted for that week. Per the instructions on the kill sheet, you track the points earned per game, mark the date of the game, and then get initials from your opponent confirming that your total is accurate.

You may take a picture of your league tracking sheet and send it to the TO in lieu of handing in physical paper.

League Entry Fee – $10

Prizes will be based on total overall points, faction points, and of course the proper pacifist with the least amount of points.

Our schedule of generics can be found below:

• 5/21
  • Empire – Tie Aggressors & Tie Bomber
  • Rebels – B-wings & K-Wings
  • Scum – Kihraxz Fighters & Z-95 Headhunters
• 5/28
  • Empire – Tie Punisher & Tie Interceptor
  • Rebels – U-Wing & T-65 X-wings
  • Scum – Starviper & YV-666
• 6/4
  • Empire – Tie Advanced Prototype & Firespray-31
  • Rebels – E-wing & Y-wing
  • Scum – G-1A Starfighter & M3-A Interceptor

• 6/11
  • Empire – Upsilon-class Shuttle & Tie Fighter
  • Rebels – YT-1300 & A-wings
  • Scum – Y-wing & Lancer Pursuit Craft

• 6/18
  • Empire – Tie/sf Fighter & Tie Phantom
  • Rebels – VCX-100 & Z-95 Headhunters
  • Scum – Protectorate Starfighter & HWK-290

• 6/25
  • Empire – Tie Defender & Alpha-Class Starwing
  • Rebels – HWK-290 & Auzituck Gunship
  • Scum – Jumpmaster 5000 & Quadjumper

Hope to see you there and as always, good luck and fly casual!

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X-wing Announcements – Week of 5/21

Good afternoon X-wing players!

We had a fantastic weekend at MuseOn Con 2018, with some stellar gameplay taking place Friday to Sunday. The Unsung Heroes Hangar Bay was an absolute blast and we want to congratulate our winners, John,  Trent, and Adrian for their success. And of course, a hearty congratulations to Jose Perez for his first Hangar Bay experience 🙂

On Saturday we not only had the 3rd annual MuseOn Con Cup, we also ran our first White Whale Tournament. Congratulations to Dave Hintz for his victory during the cup and Jared Crumly for his victory during the White Whale.

Finally, Sunday morning saw the 4th Annual Fel’s Free-for-All turn into a marvelous two round, six ship bloodbath, with it coming down to Final Salvo between Trent Erickson and Jared Crumly, with Trent coming out on top.

The DSMX crew would like to thank Muse on Minis for hosting, as well as all the participants in the convention for coming out to make it an outstanding event 🙂 We hope to see even more make it out next year!

With that sad, we’re even more excited to launch the first DSMX Aces League! Tonight, come down to Mayhem Comics in Clive, Iowa for our kickoff event starting at 4:30pm.

Sign-up is $10 at the door for 6-weeks of killing nonsense! The details of the event will be provided tonight (short version – you score 1 point for each generic kill and 2 points for each Ace kill over 3 games a week), along with score sheets to track your kills.

Full rules can be found at the kickoff event page, as well as the link below:

DSMX Aces League 2018 Rules

A reminder, the list-building limitation for tonight is as follows:

• Empire – Tie Aggressors & Tie Bombers
• Rebels – B-wings & K-Wings
• Scum – Kihraxz Fighters & Z-95 Headhunters

So come on down and get your Ace killing on for the next 6-weeks 🙂

As always, good luck, fly casual, and we hope to see you there!

X-wing Events – Week of 5/21

This Week in Des Moines:

Open Play – Mayhem Comics– Monday 5/21 at 4pm (weekly)

DSMX 2018 Aces League Kickoff – Mayhem Comics – Monday 5/21 at 4pm

Upcoming Events:

Monthly Ames Open Play Night – Mayhem Comics (Ames location) – Thursday TBD at 5:30pm

Monthly X-wing Tournament – Jay’s Cd and Hobby (Clive location) – Sunday 6/3 at 12pm

Mercenaries X-wing Tournament – Geek City Games and Comics – Sunday 6/3 at 12pm

X-wing Announcements – Week of 5/14

Good afternoon X-wing players!

We are less than a week away from one of the best miniatures conventions in the Greater Des Moines Area – that’s right, MuseOn Con 2018 is happening this Friday! And your DSM X-wing crew has not one, not two but four separate and exciting events planned for this weekend of miniature madness.

You can find links to the individual events on our events page or on Facebook, so let us know if you’re planning to go via the link below!

https://desmoinesareaxwing.wordpress.com/league-events/

Tickets can be bought online or at the door. Our first X-wing event “Unsung Heroes Hangar Bay” starts at 5pm on Friday. We’ll be sorting into pods of four on a first come first serve basis so get there to get your weekend started right.

Check-in opens at 11am that day so feel free to stop in any time to get signed in for the convention and pick up your prize booklet. As a reminder, rather than individual prize support for each game, you earn generic points that can be traded in for prizes so do your best to get your game on!

And even if you can’t make it this weekend, starting Monday 5/21, we’ll be kicking off our “DSM Aces League 2018”. You can find the rules for the event on our Facebook kickoff event, as well as the website (link here).

The generics for the first two weeks can be found below:

• 5/21
  • Empire – Tie Aggressors & Tie Bomber
  • Rebels – B-wings & K-Wings
  • Scum – Kihraxz Fighters & Z-95 Headhunters
• 5/28
  • Empire – Tie Punisher & Tie Interceptor
  • Rebels – U-Wing & T-65 X-wings
  • Scum – Starviper & YV-666

It’s a $10 sign-up at the door – we’ll have tracker sheets available for you in the game room. Remember to mark down your kills each game, get your opponent’s name and initials on your sheet, and turn it back into the TO before 5pm on Sunday so we can get you counted. If we don’t have your sheet by then, we won’t be able to get it tracked.

Confirmed kills can be submitted via emailed to desmoinesareaxwing@gmail.com – a clear picture of your sheet with your opponent’s initials will work 🙂

And of course if you’re just looking for some pickup games, we’ll be there Monday at Mayhem Comics starting around 4pm.

As always, good luck and fly casual!

X-wing Events Week of 5/14

This Week in Des Moines:

Open Play – Mayhem Comics– Monday 5/14 at 4pm (weekly)

2018 MuseOn Con – Holiday Inn (Merle Hay Location, DSM) – Friday 5/18-5/20
Friday – Unsung Heroes Hangar Bay
Saturday – MuseOn Con Cup 2018, White Whale Tournament
Sunday – Fel’s Free-for-All

Upcoming Events:

Monthly Ames Open Play Night – Mayhem Comics (Ames location) – Thursday TBD at 5:30pm

Monthly X-wing Tournament – Jay’s Cd and Hobby (Clive location) – Sunday TBD at 12pm

DSMX 2018 Aces League Kickoff – Mayhem Comics – Monday 5/21 at 4pm

X-wing Events – Week of 4/30

This Week in Des Moines:

Open Play – Mayhem Comics– Monday 4/30 at 4pm (weekly)

Monthly X-wing Tournament – Jay’s Cd and Hobby (Clive location) – Sunday 5/6 at 12pm

2018 X-wing World Championship – Fantasy Flight Game Center – Wednesday 5/2-Sunday 5/6

Upcoming Events:

Monthly Ames Open Play Night – Mayhem Comics (Ames location) – Thursday TBD at 5:30pm

Monthly X-wing Tournament – Jay’s Cd and Hobby (Clive location) – Sunday TBD at 12pm

2018 MuseOn Con – Holiday Inn (Merle Hay Location, DSM) – Friday 5/18-5/20
Friday – Unsung Heroes Hangar Bay
Saturday – MuseOn Con Cup 2018, White Whale Tournament
Sunday – Fel’s Free-for-All

DSMX 2018 Aces League Kickoff – Mayhem Comics – Monday 5/21 at 4pm