Sith Takers

14/08/2024

12/08/2024

As promised! All the team pictures from the Battle for Malinas X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship

You can find the results & lists here:
https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

12/08/2024

As promised the awards from yesterday’s X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship in Mechelen, Belgium.

1st place - Southern Pirates
2nd place - Flying Dutchmen
3rd place - Germany - Beta Squadron
Wooden spoon - Les Potes Au Feu
Favourite Opponent (joint) - Oliver Pocknell & Corentin Roux
Best Painted Squadron - Tom Candlin

Individual team photos will go up later today

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrex

Asmodee UK

11/08/2024

And that’s a wrap! After 10 gruelling rounds & 350 games of X-wing at the WTC: World Team Championship the Southern Pirates have emerged victorious!

Congratulations to them and thanks to all the players for being a pleasure to TO & Judge!

We’ll upload the pictures from the awards & all the team photo’s once we have them. For now a little rest for Liam & Tim! 😎

Hopefully next year will be bigger and better!

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrexqqq

Asmodee UK

11/08/2024

Final round is off and running in the X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship!

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrexqqq

11/08/2024

Penultimate round from the X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship in Belgium - and it’s tight at the top!

Round 9 is Assault at the Satellite Array

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrexqqq

11/08/2024

More action from the X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship in Belgium

Round 8 is Scramble the Transmissions

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrexqqq

11/08/2024

And we’re back for the final day of the WTC: World Team Championship - 5 games down, 5 games to go in the X-wing Team event!

Round 6 is Salvage

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrexqqq

10/08/2024

Last round of the day at the X-wing WTC: World Team Championship! Time to rehydrate! 😉🍻

Round 5 is Assault at the Satellite Array

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrex

10/08/2024

In to round 4 of the X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship - and we couldn’t start without first having the whole event sing Happy Birthday to Oli P! Hope you have a great day Oli! 🥳🎉🎂🍹

Round 4 is Salvage

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrex

10/08/2024

In to round 3 of the X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship - the Tartan Tuskens are on the bye so have gone to the Bar! 😁

Round 3 is Assault at the Satellite Array

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrex

10/08/2024

10/08/2024

In to round 2 of the X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship

Round 2 is Scramble

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrex

10/08/2024

And the X-wing Team event at the WTC: World Team Championship is underway! 15 teams of 5 players plus support staff are here to battle over 10 rounds! Can the Tartan Tuskens retain their title? Or will some one sn**ch it from them?

Round 1 is Chance Engagement

For lists and pairings check out the longshanks https://www.longshanks.org/event/17241/

You can follow the action on https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrex

09/08/2024

Time for some international X-wing! Today we have the X-wing singles event at the WTC: World Team Championship, team event kicks off tomorrow!

Liam and lots of the players are already out in Mechelen, some are playing and some are sleeping off the night before! Tim is just about to board his flight to Brussels ready to assist Liam in running the Team event!

Remember there is a stream! Get over and support the live x-wing!

https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrex

Also you can find the pairings, lists and results from the singles event here:

https://www.longshanks.org/event/17384/

08/08/2024

A little under 18 hours left in the crowd funding campaign for volume 2 of Aerodome. Tim & Ben are fans of the game, it’s quick and easy with similar mechanics to x-wing but manoeuvres are set from a hand of cards!

Perfect for a distraction between rounds or the end of the day in the bar after a hard days X-wing! Check it out here:

Rise to the skies with us for Aerodome: Rising Horizons Vol. 2. The launch of two expansions for Aerodome.

07/08/2024

Friday the WTC Singles kicks off before we have the Team event Saturday & Sunday… but the 40k players are already at it! With the singles event half way through day two! Looking forward to our welcome away in Belgium!

07/08/2024

Episode 341 - Double USA GT Trouble

After we have a quick catch up on XWA Organised Play news we have two GT's from the USA to discuss!

First up from Indianapolis we have GenCon won by Duncan running Empire (Jendon, Vader, Tomax, Feroph).

For seconds we head to Utah for the Salt Lake Open won by Liam flying Rebels (Gina, Keo, Gemmer, Wedge & Luke).

And before we finish up we have a little chat about the X-wing World Team Championship happening in Belgium this weekend! Be sure to catch the events live stream at https://www.twitch.tv/xwingrex and give the channel a follow!

GenCon Grand Tournament
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1663

Salt Lake Open
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1597

https://on.soundcloud.com/WMPWQDFEmgJXrRtt9

Episode 341 - Double USA GT Trouble After we have a quick catch up on XWA Organised Play news we have two GT's from the USA to discuss! First up from Indianapolis we have GenCon won by Duncan runn

02/08/2024

Two years since one of our most enjoyable international X-wing trips away! Looking forward to catching up with our Euro friends in Belgium next week!

And hopefully with XWA Organised Play news we’ll have plenty of trips to look forward to in 2025!

01/08/2024

Episode 340 - Chile GT Down

This week we have another GT to discuss but this time from Chile! The Corellia Alicatan Chile has a few surprises for the cast to chat about before we finish up with some general chat about X-wing Alliance, World Team Champs in Belgium and the online X-wing Team Champs.

Corellia Alicatan Chile, Grand Tournament
https://www.longshanks.org/event/17259/

https://on.soundcloud.com/7tihph1kxaQkQsnM9

Episode 340 - Chile GT Down This week we have another GT to discuss but this time from Chile! The Corellia Alicatan Chile has a few surprises for the cast to chat about before we finish up with some

31/07/2024

We all love playing events, from casual club nights & store champs, system opens, nationals all the way to Worlds! And the XWA will be there all the way supporting us all! And some familiar names to the podcast will be leading the way!

What’s more - the first kit produced by Dan, of Sheffield X Wing - Steel City X-Wing fame, is available to order! Check out the QR code on the image!

31/07/2024

This weeks podcast where we discuss the Corellia Alicatan Chile, Grand Tournament should be out tomorrow morning. Also find out why Tim has had to drive to Liverpool’s Passport office nice and early today!

Also later today we should have some more news from the XWA!

30/07/2024

Blowing the dust off some lesser seen ships with some Extended action down the club tonight!

24/07/2024

Can anyone say…. JUDGE!!!!!

24/07/2024

Episode 339 - Sheffield & Lone Star GTs

Warning - audio is a little sketchy this episode! We apologise for Tim's flakey internet, Ben's rubbish mic and Conor's potty mouth! :D

This week Ben is joined by special guest Conor Holmes to catch up on the last two Grand Tournaments - Sheffield, UK and Lone Star Open, USA.

Sheffield GT lists & results
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1624

Lone Star Open lists & results
https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1600

https://on.soundcloud.com/PkzkzzKBraATd3Bb9

Episode 339 - Sheffield & Lone Star GTs Warning - audio is a little sketchy this episode! We apologise for Tim's flakey internet, Ben's rubbish mic and Conor's potty mouth! :D This week Ben is joine

22/07/2024

Want some more XWA news? Check out the AMA from last night with Nic Sperry at 312 Squadron/XWA PR Lead. This stage features core members of the X-Wing Alliance, including Stephen Kim (Leadership Council), Greg Kash (Points Squad member), and Maui (Rules Squad Lead)

This stage features core members of the X-Wing Alliance, including Stephen Kim (Leadership Council), Greg Kash (Points Squad member), and Maui (Rules Squad L...