X-Wing Second Edition Soars Out For Release
September 14, 2018 by dracs
The time has come to jump into the cockpit and join the fight for the fate of a galaxy far, far away as X-Wing Second Edition swoops out for release.
This new edition of the much-loved game features refined rules designed to focus on the act of flying your spacecraft in intense dog fights.
The starter set comes with one X-Wing and two Tie Fighters, along with all of the different dials and cards you need to get stuck into the game's latest iteration.
Expanding the Galaxy
Alongside the main core set, Fantasy Flight Games have released a number of expansions to support it.
These start with the various conversion sets to bring your games over to the new edition.
Galactic Empire Conversion Kit
Scum and Villainy Conversion Kit
Each of these factions has their own ship expansions for your to grow your fleets.
For the Rebel Alliance, you will find:
Serving the might of the Empire, we have:
Not to be outdone, the forces of Scum and Villainy have some goodies of their own.
As well of these, each of the different factions receives its own Maneuver Dial Upgrade kits.
It's great to see Fantasy Flight providing the game with so much support right out of the gate. X-Wing has become a firm favourite for many, and one which I know has brought plenty of new people into the hobby.
This new edition should help to make the game more accessible once again and help engage players, both new and old.
What do you want to see in this second edition?
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While yes, the embargo has been released, there are distribution issues and not everyone is going to get their items as soon as was promised. I know my order is going to be 1 to 2 weeks late depending on the item.
that fang fighter is just so…Buck Rogers!
Great – another ‘occasional’ game asking for £100 to upgrade and continue playing…
Rock on version one, I say!
Could not agree more! Too much invested during the years I collected x-wing; would cost me a fortune to convert. Apparently a lot of people in my gaming community feel the same, hence we decided to continue playing version 1 and ignore this change.
Agree for how I play, and how often, I see no reason to change
£100?? way too optimistic. If you own all three factions you’ll need (in €) about 50€ per side, that is 150€. AND you need the core game, so add up 50€ more. BUT now some of the minis from old factions have been “upgraded” to another standalone faction, so you need two more conversion kits (the price is still unknown, so you don’t get too scared), one for First order, another one for Resistance… more than 300€ IF you are lucky enough that your collection fits the contents of ONE conversion kit… most players need two or three because the… Read more »
the falcon/shuttle looks nice.
They can forget it ,I’m sticking to version 1
It will be great when they start to bring in the Clone Wars fighters. But this is looking great.
At first, I was very excited about what the new edition would be changing. Then I realized how expensive it was going to be to convert my collection, even if I didn’t buy the pieces to fly every ship I own, and I left a bunch of them on the shelf. Then I started having doubts… I know that FFG can’t really do it another way, because the ‘edition’ is baked right onto the cardboard components. It never seemed like much of an issue before, other than being annoyingly fiddly to get all your cards and dials sorted before a… Read more »
You are not alone, I’ll pass. To waste so much time, effort and money in an already played, seen, and owned game when you have tons of NEW games out there seems to me frustrating. First Edition is still here for me to play with if I feel inclined.