Monday, September 17, 2018

X-Wing 2.0 is live and minor other stuff...


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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