From nail biting one-on-one dogfights to spectacular battles between fleets of starships, X-Wing: the miniatures game provides a brilliant and thematic Star Wars setting for fans of every faction and era of the franchise, from the swarms of separatist droids to the ramshackle freight craft of the scum.
What Do You Get?
The Rebel Starter Set for X-Wing focuses on three types of rebel ship and comes with all of the components to start playing as the heroes of the rebellion. This includes: a rulebook, dice, range rulers, a damage deck, obstacles, objectives, cards, dials and of course the pre-painted miniatures! In this set comes the most up to date rules and cards, introducing new pilot load out cards – thematic, premade loadouts which are perfect for beginners to the X-Wing game.
Newest Rules and Erata
The Rebel Starter box is up to date with the 2.5 X-Wing system which focuses on few unique pilots and their abilities, as opposed to the more favoured swarms of generic pilots, more powerful in the 2.0 ruleset. This brings a much stronger star wars identity to the game with the rich flavourful characters and carries a more tactical, dogfight feel to the smaller number of fighters on the board.
The Ships
The ships included in the starter set are:2 A-wings
1 X-wing
1 Y-wing
This assortment is practically perfect, not only for a beginner player of X-Wing, but any fan of star wars – the three most recognisable ships (aside from the b-wing) in the rebel faction. The ships mesh perfectly, aiding players to understand all the primary mechanics of the game; A-wings are fast, manouverable fodder for the empire, but if you can equip them with Proton rockets, they can hold their own against larger opponents; X-wings are the tough, heavy hitting ships that are relatively nimble despite their increased armour and weapons, perfect for protecting high priority allied ships; Y-wings are all armour and ordinance. These lumbering bombers can drop huge payloads of bombs, eviscerating smaller ships unfortunate enough to be within range of the explosion. Equipped with heavy plating and turrets it can fend off a fair few attackers before conceding.
Conclusion
In summary, this starter box seems to be a perfect way for new wargamers interested in the IP to pick up the hobby, existing ones to start a new game or veterans of X-Wing for exclusive cards and a bundle of extra reinforcements for their rebel force. It is up to the current date in terms of rules and comes with the most high quality miniatures that have been produced for the game. All in all, if you are at all interested in X-Wing and enjoy the idea of thwarting imperial plans with small strike forces of armoured fighters, the Rebel starter set for X-Wing is for you!
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