“You’ll find I’m full of surprises.” Video: Charlie Hall/Polygon It sounds so simple, but it’s a cunning feat of game design that smoothes out the pace of play. Want to lock your X-Wing’s S-foils into attack position? Then do it during the System Phase. The System Phase exists solely for cool ships to do cool things. The solution in X-Wing Second Edition is a new part of the turn called the System Phase, which takes place after players secretly plan their next move but before they make it. Actor Janina Gavankar is pretty excited about it. You can even hop inside a TIE fighter as Iden Versio from Star Wars Battlefront 2. X-Wing Second Edition will let you fly as Luke Skywalker and Jek Porkins. Advanced play was a constant battle with the ruleset, as exceptions piled up at every turn. Nearly everything that made the newest ships fun to play existed as an aside to the basic structure of the game. Combat plays out with the help of a few custom-made dice.īut over the years, and as more and more new ships were added to the game, the original X-Wing became severely bloated. The game uses curved rulers of various lengths to represent the different turns and stunts that a pilot can pull off, while stats and equipment are tracked with cards and tokens. In X-Wing, players maneuver tiny, pre-painted starfighters across the tabletop, trying to blow each other to smithereens. It’s all thanks to a revamped turn structure.
But after spending a few days with the latest version, titled simply X-Wing Second Edition, I’m convinced that this is the best iteration of the classic tabletop game yet. When Fantasy Flight Games announced that it would be revamping the Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game, fans around the world let out a nearly audible groan.
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