Episode 351 - Cornish Nationals 24 This week we're all focused on the Cornish Nationals run by our friends down south, Tin Squadron! Unfortunately dark schemes conspired to keep us away from Cornwall and we weren't able to attend but we can at least talk about the games and lists, all using new shiny XWA points! Full results and lists can be found here: https://www.longshanks.org/event/16934/ And Firecast Focus covered the event which you can watch games back...

Episode 350 - Episode Tree Fiddy For our 350th Episode we have a bumper show of events to discuss! First up an AMG points Grand Tournament from Canada, with a XWA side event, then to Poland for a Store Champs using XWA points, and then two XWA point local X-wing events from the UK! We round out the show with a little general chat about dice variance and stuff before finally a little update on the XTC! SLO - X-Wing Grand Tournament https://www.longshanks.org/event/20087/ SLO - XWA Side...

Episode 349 - Revelling in Resistance We're back and we've got a few things to run down this week! First up we chat about the recent GT from Alaska, then Tim rounds up the XTC Group stage and what teams will be heading to the Finals before Rich is let loose on the Resistance Faction to give us the run down on what's hot in XWA points! Battle Zone Ursa 2024 https://listfortress.com/tournaments/5513 Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 15/10/2024 via Discord Intro - Obi...

Episode 348 - London G&T Rich is joined by Liam and Tim to chat about last weekend's X-wing Grand Tournament using new AMG points at the London GT. What lists did well and how did the factions in general fair after the points update. We wrap up the show with a little XTC chat. Lists & results can be found here: https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1690/players Watch back the games at Firecast Focus: https://www.twitch.tv/firecastfocus Cast - Rich, Liam and Tim Producer -...

Episode 347 - XWA Transformers XWA certainly seemed to have transformed the fortunes of the lower placed factions with CIS doing very well at the weekend and the Top 16 cut from Poland featuring at least two lists from every faction! This week Ben and Liam are joined by Steel City's very own Tom Veale to chat about his recent success in Sheffield but also chat over lists from Scotland, Poland, Sheffield and Canada (may have forgotten to talk about the latest AMG GT but I've put the link...

Episode 346 - Quad Comps We have four different events to talk about from France, Canada and Italy featuring Old AMG Points, New AMG Points, XWA Beta Points and even 2.0 Legacy points! That's a lot of X-wing!! And we round out the show with Liam giving us the run down of the Separatist Faction in XWA Beta Points and why he thinks you should be flying them! Mini Legends X-wing Grand Tournament - France https://www.longshanks.org/event/15764/ Mini Legends X-wing Side Event - XWA...

Episode 345 - Remember me? Out of the blue Atomic Mass Games drops not only a Standard Points update which will be legal for forthcoming Grand Tournaments but also a Print & Play pdf with existing cards and new Standard Loadouts for the TIE/PH Phantom and the Alpha-class Starwing! We chat about the impact (hopefully positive) these updates will have for the remaining GTs and review the new standard loadout options. Updated points document can be found...

Episode 344 - XWA Gon' Give It To Ya They're here! The X-wing Alliance have released their first ever points update! It's a Beta set of points and they want us (all of us) to go out and play X-wing and see what works and doesn't! The cast go through some of the changes and discuss some of the design choices the XWA Points team have made. Thanks to all involved in getting these to us as they've done a lot of work in around 2 months, and this is only the start! They won't be perfect, but...

Episode 343 - The X Rated Show Don't worry! It's still a family friendly show but we're talking about a lot of 'X' rated stuff this week - namely XWA points teases and XTC! The cast is joined by Filippo 'Piffo' Bosi for a little update on the XWA in general before we dive in to the 4 teases from Greg of NCX regarding the XWA points update. What could it mean? And then a quick chat about this years online X-wing Team Championship that will see 21 teams fighting it out over 2-3 months. This...

Episode 342 - WTC 2024 Liam and Tim have returned from Mechelen, Belgium after a weekend of Judging at the WTC: World Team Championship. 15 teams of 5 players entered the X-wing event, playing 10 games over the two days. Find out how the event went, what lists and players did well and who eventually won it here! Be sure to check out all the pictures on our Facebook page! Results & lists can be found here: https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241 Streamed games can be watched back...

Episode 341 - Double USA GT Trouble After we have a quick catch up on XWA Organised Play news we have two GT's from the USA to discuss! First up from Indianapolis we have GenCon won by Duncan running Empire (Jendon, Vader, Tomax, Feroph). For seconds we head to Utah for the Salt Lake Open won by Liam flying Rebels (Gina, Keo, Gemmer, Wedge & Luke). And before we finish up we have a little chat about the X-wing World Team Championship happening in Belgium this weekend! Be sure to...

Episode 340 - Chile GT Down This week we have another GT to discuss but this time from Chile! The Corellia Alicatan Chile has a few surprises for the cast to chat about before we finish up with some general chat about X-wing Alliance, World Team Champs in Belgium and the online X-wing Team Champs. Corellia Alicatan Chile, Grand Tournament https://www.longshanks.org/event/17259/ Cast - Rich, Liam, Ben and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 29/07/2024 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there'...

Episode 339 - Sheffield & Lone Star GTs Warning - audio is a little sketchy this episode! We apologise for Tim's flakey internet, Ben's rubbish mic and Conor's potty mouth! :D This week Ben is joined by special guest Conor Holmes to catch up on the last two Grand Tournaments - Sheffield, UK and Lone Star Open, USA. Sheffield GT lists & results https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1624 Lone Star Open lists & results https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1600 Cast - Ben, Tim and...

Episode 338 - Welsh Open 24 This week we're joined by the 2nd Best Burnett (and 2nd Best Tin Sqn it turns out...!) Chris Burnett to talk about last weekend's Welsh Open held at Firestorm Games in Cardiff. Find out how Rich and Chris got on and did Liam survive the weekend as Head Judge! Find the event results & lists here: https://xwing.longshanks.org/event/15526/ Pattern Analyzer https://www.pattern-analyzer.app/tournament/longshanks/15526 Cast - Rich, Liam, Tim and special guest...

Episode 337 - Have Your Say Short-ish episode this week as we cover the latest press release from the X-wing Alliance, chat about the latest X-wing Community Survey and of course the build up to the Welsh Open! X-Wing Survey VIII: The Last AMG Points! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK5a5rIk4UwhWlNTqvqRBV1Wco9g1P7YsQ09vJx6DHetBpBA/viewform Cast - Rich, Liam, Ben and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 01/07/2024 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro -...

Episode 336 - Mixing It Up This week we're joined by Nick Sperry of 312 Squadron to chat about XWA news and alternative X-wing formats. The X-wing Alliance (the community effort starting up to look after the X-wing Miniatures Game) has elected it's 3 'leaders', these people will be steering the development of the group and looking to establish some sort of organisation! Whilst we await the future of the game at large we chat about some of the events or alternate formats that are around or...

Episode 335 - X-wing is dead, long live X-wing! We're back already! And today we're chatting about the news that although Atomic Mass Games may have given up developing the X-wing Miniatures Game... the community is not ready to give up on the game! Earlier today there was an announcement by around 30 members of the community that are looking to take over the stewardship of X-wing. You can find this on our Facebook page and Discord, as well as on many others out there! This group is...

Episode 334 - AMG admits defeat In an Emergency recording Rich, Liam and Tim respond to Atomic Mass Games announcement that they have officially ended development of the Star Wars X-wing and Armada Miniature Games. Was managing all the Star Wars games too much for the small studio? They claim external factors were the reasons it became too difficult? Find out the hot takes from the cast here and maybe we'll be back Monday with a more measured response... there may be one or two Babu Frik's...

Episode 333 - UK Games Expo 24 You wait for Organised Play and then two come along at once! This week we chat about the recent news from Atomic Mass Games about the Grand Tournament locations and the first two official GT's - Bilbao and the UK Games Expo! Rich chats to Ben & Liam plus special guest Tom Candlin about how they got on at the UK Games Expo, how the event went and what we might do about the new menace that is double B-wings! Someone else did quite well at the UK Games...

Episode 332 - Let's go Expo 24 This week Rich & Tim are joined by Dylan Jones to talk about the Welsh Open, UK Games Expo and other AMG Grand Tournament news! We also chat about a recent interview from Crabbok with Will Shick. UK Games Expo tickets & info https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1809-star-wars-x-wing-main-event-ukge-2024/ UK Games Expo Rollbetter page https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1479 Welsh Open tickets &...

Episode 331 - The X-wing Game State A nice simple show where Rich, Liam and Ben catch up about Organised Play, X-wing news and the state of the game! (yes they get a little grumpy...) Cast - Rich, Ben, and Liam Producer - Tim Recorded 20/05/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - The Monkees - Daydream Believer (Official Music Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 330 - Incom Pew Pew A short-ish show this week as Ben & Liam cover last weekend's one day event from Incom Gaming in Cheltenham! We chat about what lists Liam and Adam took, what did well (Tin Squadron on top!) and what else caught our eye. Find all the lists and results here: https://www.pattern-analyzer.app/tournament/longshanks/15452 Cast - Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 13/05/2024 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro -...

Episode 329 - Real Steel This week we're joined by the Captain of the self proclaimed greatest X-wing Squadron in the known Universe - Daniel Athey of Steel City X-wing! We talk with Dan about his recent victories at the Element Games Legends & Yorkshire Team Event 2: Lightspeed to Belgium events that have happened over the last two weeks! We round out the show with some general X-wing news and Atomic Mass Games OP chatter. Element Games Legends - April...