Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing miniatures game has attracted a large following within a short time. This has, of course, led to plenty of coverage on the world wide web, too. This post lists sites and forums I have stumbled across.
Information
- Official product site with rules (including tournament rules) and FAQ.
- Team Covenant, number one fan site with plenty of strategy articles and interesting discussions.
- X-Wing Miniatures Wiki, with useful information such as upgrades contained in each expansion.
- List of all promo items on BoardGameGeek.
- Major Juggler’s list of useful links.
On-line tools
- Voidstate squadron builder, probably the best online squad builder out there.
- Geordan’s squad builder, works great on smartphones and tablets.
- Jason Fuller’s Rebel and Imperial online squad builder.
- Pilot card generator, for making your own pilot cards.
- Fab’s squadron generator.
- X-Wing squadron benchmark, test your lists online.
Forums
- Fantasy Flight Games forum, the official forum including a rules section.
- BoardGameGeek forum.
- A Few Maneuvers, fan-based forum with lots of useful information, but mostly abandoned.
- Mos Eisley Raumhafen, German community.
Podcasts
Templates, tokens and game mats
- Litko, movement templates, tokens and bases. Not cheap, but renowned for quality.
- Applied Perspective, acrylic templates and tokens.
- GameCraft Miniatures, affordable MDF movement templates.
- CorSec Engineering, also sell starfield play mats.
- Cog’O’Two, acrylic templates and tokens.
- MyGameMats.com, mousepad-material game mats.
- Team Covenant maneuver templates and tokens.
- Greenman Designs, templates and tokens including full-color.
Carrying & storage solutions
Useful & interesting stuff
- Sir Willi’s workshop, cardboard boxes for ships and accessories.
- The Alternative Wargamer, repaints, scratchbuilds and tutorials.
- Maneuver reference cards.
- Docking Bay 416, site with repaints and the co-operative Aturi cluster campaign.