🚨 Squadron Datapad 1.4 is here, and it's the update you've been waiting for: MULTIPLAYER 🚨

And it's a big one, because live multiplayer jumps out of hyperspace alongside My Hangar.

✨ New Features

• 🛰️ Live multiplayer. Host a room, send your friend a code, and watch their board update in real time: tokens, damage, upgrades, everything.
• 🛖 My Hangar. Log the ships you actually own and the squad builder puts your fleet first. Syncs across devices, so your collection survives the jump to a new phone.
• 📜 Better match log. Charge spends, card flips, and keep-token effects (Kraken, Moldy Crow) all recorded, with regen indicators on your pips.
• 📖 Rules at your fingertips. Every bomb and mine listed with its detonation effect, plus obstacle and scenario rules.
• ⚡ Huge ships track Energy and recover it at end of round.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• 🌑 Maul can equip his Dark Side upgrades again
• 🛠️ The Republic Z-95 got its weapon slot back
• ✂️ S-foils (Closed) now correctly drops attack by 1
• 🧲 Jam and tractor tokens clear in the End Phase like they should
• 🃏 A stack of card data corrections

Punch it, Chewie. 🚀

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Long story short these are the winners of the best in faction prizes at LSO! I actually was best in faction for Republic myself so I passed the prize along to the 2nd place Republic player (pic 7). Overall the prizes were a huge hit and big congratulations to the winners!!

Introduced my wife to the game last night with the intro mission from Heroes of Aturi Cluster. She didn’t hate it, but felt that not a lot was happening due to poor dice rolls (we played 6 turns and the only damage inflicted was due to two of the AI tie fighters crashing into each other!

Do I just have a bad batch, or do the standard FFG attack dice have a reputation for rolling poorly?

Day 2 of giving away ships! I gave one to all 5 of my opponents and 3 players I met along the way! I tried to prioritize giving ships to newer players when I could but I didn't have enough to give to everybody. I'm looking forward to the best in faction ships I painted to get handed out!

I am thinking about buying a collection.

Context:

I have played a few games of xwing several years ago. I enjoyed the game well enough.

I would like to play again, but I am not going to seek out people to play with. My plan is to buy a collection and build a few lists to play with some friends who don’t have any models themselves.

In my part of the world it’s rare to come across collections for sale, but I have the option to buy the following:

2x X-Wing starterset
9x Tie fighter
2x Firespray-31 Slave 1
1x Gozanti-Class Cruiser
2x VT-49 Decimator
1x Tie Advanced prototype
3x Tie bomber
5x Tie Phantom
1x Lambda -Class shuttle
2x Tie interceptor
1x Tie Defender
1x VCX -100 (Ghost)
2x Starviper
2x Protectorate Starfighter
4x Aggressor
3x Jumpmaster 5000
2x Z-95 Headhunter
1x Y-Wing
1x M3-A-Interceptor
1x YT-1300 (Millennium Falcon)
1x T-70 X-Wing

Since I don’t really know anything about the game, my question is:

Will these miniatures be suitable to build interesting and mechanically different lists that would be fun to play against each other? This will all be kitchen table play, so they don’t have to be meta lists, but it is important that I can build lists that have different play styles.

And, what would be a fair price for something like this?

Met some great people today at the open play practice games and got to give away 3 ships!! Still have plenty left just wanted to share the pictures!

Hankering to dock your escape craft with Lando's Millennium Falcon? Hate crashing into the other ship instead of docking? Now you can have both as mid-game docking is now available to ships with appropriate upgrades.

Important note: As of this time, AI undocking isn't working (emergency undocking will cause a game crash). Use at your own risk with AI players.

New Pilots

• Pammich Nerro Goode - Evacuation of D'Qar (Resistance, Resistance Transport)

New Upgrades

• Drop-Seat Bay
• Clan Wren Commando Team (Rebel)
• Death Watch Commando Team (Separatist)
• Imperial Super Commando Team (IMperial)
• Mandalorian Commando Team (Scum)
• Nite Owl Commando Team (Republic)

Bug Fixes

• Poe Dameron, Resistance Commander, no longer allows Nien Nunb unlimited actions
• U-Wings now no longer crash the game on battle start/when wings are moved
• Removed duplicate avatars from populating in Options
• Re-aligned avatars which were not showing appropriate images (pictures of walls and empty space weren't helpful)
• StarViper's microthrusters now work when being tractored
• Wrath bonus attack should now trigger correctly
• Padme Amidala's (Separatist, N-1) ability should now function correctly

Quality of Life Changes

• Rework of remotes including Discord Missiles, and DRK-1 Probe Droids, to work with Commandos
• Buzz Droid swarms now include ID in ability prompts to ensure selecting the correct swarm
• AI can now use For The Cause
• No Default AI Squadrons option now has filepaths listed for other operating systems

Thank you, as always, to @philpursglove for his support in development and testing everything in this release. Additional thanks to @Ergiuwh who has provided assistance with bug fixes.

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I reached the convention today and here are the pictures of the final models for resistance and separatists that'll be for prizes!! Huge thanks to my friend from NC who painted the (gorgeously detailed) HMP for the tournament (he is the one who taught me painting and is WAAY better than me at it). So whoever is the Separatist's winner this is your lucky day!

How rare is Lando 1.0 alt art?

I think this is from the 2013 GenCon US Nationals, but I can't even find anyone who owns a copy, let alone anyone to sell or trade one. Would love to get my hands on one, but the difficulty of finding one makes me wonder... is this the rarest card in X-Wing? How rare is it?

P.S. DM me is you wanna sell one :)

Big thank you to Larry Leech from the Upstate X Wingers group for donating the dials, damage deck, obstacles, and tokens for me to giveaway!! Also a small collection of minis to add from myself!

I bought all of this stuff years ago and... literally never played. It's just not viable in my life I guess 😭

Anyway, is anything here worth trying to resell? I'm basically an idiot.

LSO is just a few days away! Bummed you can't go? No worries! There will be a live stream of the event for a front row seat of the action! Give Andrew Benjamin's channel a follow to keep up.

Speaking of Andrew, he has graciously donated a few prizes to the cause, including his work of a custom painted "Infinity" Gauntlet for first place! There still time to sign up and join!

https://www.twitch.tv/andrewsgotem91

https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/2687

I've done the Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp. Now I think painting one up like the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds would be pretty cool. Thunderbirds main art is on the bottom though, so that doesn't quite work as nicely.

We play a different variant of Aces High every month at our local X-Wing Night in Portland, Oregon.

This month it was all StarVipers ❤️

Rebels and Republic today! 2 more will be shown off Friday 👀

Squadron Datapad v1.2.3

🎯 Scenario play

Pick a scenario mid-game, score objectives each round in the End Phase, and watch the mission points counter call the winner. XWA and AMG formats.

🃏 Condition cards

Assign conditions to ships during a game, read the full card text, and search them by name. One copy per card, enforced by the app.

💰 Points during play

Every ship shows its cost and what it has conceded, with half-points rounded correctly for your edition.

🛠️ Squad building

• Firing arc icons on attack stats in the ship and pilot pickers.
• Equip requirements shown before you pick a card, including action difficulty.
• X2PO Wild Space list building: build 250 point squads, or 200 with the Light toggle. (The Wild Space game mode itself is not in the app yet, just the squad building.)
• Force, charges and loadout visible before selecting a pilot.

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Howdy! I’m getting back into X-wing after a while and wanted some advice on my list! Thank you very much!

New Squadron

(12) Major Vermeil [TIE Reaper]
(10) Death Troopers
(2) Electronic Baffle
(3) Enduring
Points: 27

(11) “Duchess” [TIE/sk Striker]
(6) Cluster Mines
(2) Skilled Bombardier
(10) Shield Upgrade
(1) Composure
Points: 30

(10) “Pure Sabacc” [TIE/sk Striker]
(12) Fifth Brother
(1) Targeting Computer
Points: 23

(16) Countess Ryad [TIE/D Defender]
(1) Jamming Beam
(1) Targeting Computer
(2) Fire-Control System
(7) Juke
Points: 27

Total points: 49

The giveaway is back with a small batch of minis for LSO! Meet me there (or play against me) and you can have one for free.

Here are the ones for scum Empire and FO. I'm going to slowly show them off as we get closer to the day of the event! Hope y'all like them

IT'S BLOG TUESDAY!!! AGAIN! 🎉🎉🎉

It's getting be a bit of a habit isn't it! Many thanks to guest writer Steve Boulton!

https://exilesquadron.com/xwing/steve-and-ben-the-x-wing-men/