Tabletop Plays Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars X-Wing
August 9, 2013 by brennon
Fantasy Flight's Star Wars X-Wing is the subject of the Geek Week Tabletop! Check it out above and then tell us your own tales of daring dogfighting below...
Pew pew pew! What did you think of the episode and are you looking forwards to playing more of this game yourself on the weekend?
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They got some of the rules wrong (even though they were using the simplified intro ruleset), but overall it looks like they had a ton of fun, and that’s what counts. That crack about Kenobi telling Luke, “Your father says it’s okay for you to be here. He’s in the hospital,” was so wrong and yet so right.
spotted several rules mistakes there, bad wheaton! bad!
Even if they’re playing a game i’d never ever play, I usually really enjoy Tabletop but this was just rubbish.
How the hell did they manage to take an awesome game and make it look boring?
This was delayed to be made “more awesome.”
I think the main problem lies in how complicated they made the game seem. It’s actually much simpler than they made it seem, but Wheaton’s explanation of the rules was terrible. I don’t think he actually plays miniature games regularly so it’s possible that all of them were just too unfamiliar with the concept to really get it in the time they had to learn to play.
possibly, but most of the rules that were wrong that i noticed benefited Wheaton in some way. it may have been an honest mistake and he’d misread the rules but it does seem a bit convenient.
Not to mention that this is a supposedly semi-professional production that they get money to make. At the very least you’d think they’d get the the rules down properly. I mean. c’mon, the rules are only a couple of pages long. It couldn’t have been that hard to learn them.
I wondered why they’d delayed this video for so long. Now I know. And if this is the ‘improved’ version then just how dire was the original?
i would imagine the delay was more to do with waiting until the Falcon & Slave 1 models were released rather than any conspiracy theory about ‘improving’ the video.
The video was delayed to coincide with Geek Week.
@greyjoy The Falcon and Slave 1 models have been out for like 8 months now. This video was delayed for probably two reasons: 1) Geek week 2) Their editors obviously struggled with this one. You can see it in the terrible rules explanations, which tabletop normally does very well. For some reason, this game was a challenge for them. I think it might be that they were trying very hard to retain the humorous moments (which this video had a lot of), but they knew they needed more time to really present the game. In the end, they didn’t present… Read more »
TBH I have never played the game.
So any rules mistakes went unnoticed.
Do I watch Table Top for instructional purposes? No
Do I watch Table Top because it is rollicking good fun? Do of course I must young padawan.
It’s Fantasy Fight so in all likelihood there will be a tutorial on their website.
There will be tutorials and playthroughs on Youtube
IMHO The important thing is that they made the game look like it was a Death Star full of fun.
So people who had no idea that they screwed up might see Wheaton having a blast and get into a minis game.
Completely agree. I just don’t get the griping over the rules mistakes in the Tabletop videos. They’re not tutorials, their purpose is to give an overview of the game and hopefully introduce new games to viewers. I enjoy the x-wing game but if they stuck rigidly to the rulebook Wheaton would have to spend most of his time correcting the new players on their mistakes and that would make for a boring video.
the problem isn’t with having mistakes, it’s having a large number of mistakes in a simple game.
tbh it didnt strike me as being a fun game .. but then i havent tried it myself yet 🙂
This is the problem with this video. Their misrepresentation of the rules made the game appear slow and complicated. The action phase was never explained, much less shown. The combat phase was handled completely wrong (never roll simultaneously, the attacker has to choose to spend their focus/target lock before they know what you roll, not after). The terrible explanation of the rules, combined with the ponderous presentation of the early phase of each turn, make this game look slow and boring when it is anything but. This is a very fast-moving game. The game normally takes very little time to… Read more »
Ok it was an unmitigated disaster. I should not have enjoyed it. I am stupid and ignorant for not knowing the rules. Wheaton should be hung drawn and quartered for being so useless at this game he may not have played much of before. He should not have played it if he did not know how. I will pierce my eyelids with turd encrusted earrings as penance. My God it’s the end of civilisation as we know it. Point still stands. If you play the game and already have it, then the errors mean diddly squit to the enjoyment of… Read more »