X-Wing:
Well, technically had the very last v1 event, but as it was
just the two of us there to play I played my X-Wings and Arc against his “Death
Rey” build with the intention of making sure he got his Regional Bye… SO many little things in there I am thrilled
to see just go away with the changing of the edition. And that was not even one of the more broken
builds honestly… But in any case I
picked up my Core Set and the Upgrade Kits.
Starting to unpack them, there are a LOT of things in those kits. FFG has an official Squadron Builder, and as
the bugs get fixed it is looking better.
YASB is still a bit better I think with the dials showing in the
builder, but a minor quibble…
I know several of the podcasts have declared the Rebels DoA,
but honestly I think they’ll do fine.
Nora in her new Y-Wing is awesome, X-Wings are solid ships for the first
time I’ve seen them be so… Yes, the
uber-Turrets are just gone (mostly), but flying the way I enjoy it seems to be
the way of things there now. I am
actually quite comfortable with risks and variance (“Sometimes your stuff just
dies” and “Green Dice WILL betray you”).
Gone are the card combos that could just do things without actually
resorting to dice rolling, and gone are the token stacking that was so prevalent
at the end of v1… When a 1 Agility ship
like say, the Falcon could easily dodge a 3 Hit Attack (100% of the time) and
was not really a long shot to simply didge a 4 Hit Attack… There was a problem. Now, there are only a few things that can ADD
a result (Nora being one of the very few), usually it is CHANGE a result and
you cannot dodge more Hits than you have Agility anymore. I am looking forward to flying Star Vipers,
TIE Phantoms and yes, even X-Wings now that I CAN do both reposition actions on
a basic X-Wing. Phantoms, Interceptors,
Fangs and Vipers are all going to be slippery and for me at least a blast to
fly… For shorter events J… I might get a chance to put a few of them on
the table tomorrow as Titan (Champaign) is doing their release events on
Tuesday nights it seems for the “Casual Night”…
Dunno, have a random post work meeting, but will see…
Word out there in the wild is that there are a LOT of people
picking up v2 and coming back or just starting now… Hope so.
I have seen far too many games just die out while doing an edition
change, especially after things got so bad that the edition change was
absolutely needed.
Back to getting serious about the diet thing… Going to give Advocare another shot and
see. It worked well enough last time,
just was REALLY rough on my system and per usual, once I stopped paying
attention and logging all of the food, etc. the losses were reversed. Mostly, I am still quite a bit lighter than
my heaviest… Just wanting to be a good
30-40 pounds lighter to be actually “in shape” again. Running and working out continuing, but seem
to have hit a plateau there. No longer
losing weight on my own, not really getting much stronger or faster by any
means. So, started the “cleanse” phase
today and it sucks every bit as much as I remember it, but of course real
weight loss is always a caloric deficit, and paying attention to what I eat and
drink should keep me in that range. Will
see I suppose.
Bike and truck are running fine I suppose. Need to fix my daughter’s exhaust and my
windshield before winter…
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