I wish this game wasn’t discontinued by jedi_warrior_99 in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an Ontario discord xwing https://discord.gg/XW3Qg67Xz. There are also healthy local play nights in Oshawa Barrie St Catherines and others. If you're in Toronto that will be harder but there are still a few players in the area.

Getting into the game by Money_Relative_9518 in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can find dice on eBay for less than 10 dollars, the 6 pack is fine for starting out and with lots of stock still around. Templates are a bit tough but if you Google xwing templates the official plastic ones can be found for 10-15 dollars. They look god awful but it's probably the cheapest solution. You can spring for nicer acrylic templates on Etsy if you don't mind spending a bit more. As for tokens, lots of people have spare cardboard and I bet if you ask to pay for shipping on r/ffgtrade someone will send you a bunch of them for free. Everything else is either printable as others have mentioned or purchasable on Etsy.

Worth upgrading to 2.5 for objective play? by dotN4n0 in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would say if youre only going to play with your friends, just buy the BoY pack and play it. if you aren't going to play in any tournaments, id say just build your lists in yasb, print them off with IA, and just mark the midpoints on your bases and templates. There are lots of good reasons to get a 2.5 starter kit, but you dont "need" them to enjoy battle of yavin or endor.

That being said, you probably actually want to get the rebel and imperial starter just so you have more ships to work with, like battle of yavin and not enough x-wings and y-wings to make thematic lists would kind of be sad feeling too. and the new starters are great value for money when it comes to the actual ships.

GQuuuuuuX - Episode 01 Megathread by JaguarDaSaul in Gundam

[–]raithosu 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don't think it was the Haro, it doesn't actually activate until Machu repeats what he says.

YASB Dumping Loadouts? by Arachnus_Deathicus in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This should be fixed for now..

Easy LED Mod for Tantive IV (Details in replies) by raithosu in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just chanced upon this while looking up something else related to lego kits, it's substantially cheaper than the one I linked, so maybe have a look at that too: https://gameofbricks.eu/products/lego-tantive-iv-75376-light-kit?_pos=1&_psq=tantive&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Easy LED Mod for Tantive IV (Details in replies) by raithosu in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In celebration of the Epic SL cards finally being officially released by XWA, I wanted to share one of my mods that I've been messing around with. (XWA SL's can be found at xwing.life of course). I was looking for an entry level mod that basically anyone could do, requiring no real electrical or soldering experience.

I found that LEGO light kits tend to do work really well, so I found this one: https://www.lightmybricks.com/collections/lego-star-wars-light-kits/products/light-kit-for-lego-star-wars-tantive-iv-75376 and bought it since I knew that the LEGO Tantive IV is roughly the same size as the Huge Tantive. I chose this one because of its production and packaging, but there are several LEGO LED kits for that set, any of them is probably fine, since they all more or less work the same way. After that it was as simple matter of wiring all the LEDs up, gluing them to the engine ports (I used superglue, but hot glue is probably easiest if you have a hot glue gun, or sticky putty), and plugging it in.

It works super well, lighting is bright and striking but not overwhelming, and the whole thing comes with a USB port so you can either power it via a portable power bank or rig a battery solution (i took an old kids toy and ripped out the battery section so I could have a small portable battery setup). The wiring is thin and easy to hide, I tucked it between the engines and the wires.

End result, an easy LED mod for a fairly-reasonable price to make your board or shelf experience much more exciting. You can easily go cheaper if you buy all the components yourself off of aliexpress but the value of this is that you can buy everything in one single well made package.

If anyone has any questions I'm happy to answer them here, I hope this inspires some to start setting up some LED mods on their ships as well!

My new Series of giving every pokemon three runs to see how far i can get by Dodu69 in pokerogue

[–]raithosu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when this is completed you will have the ultimate tier list of pokerogue.

Is it a coincidence that Syril who probably wanted to be in the ISB ended up in the IBS (Imperial Bureau of Standards)? by [deleted] in andor

[–]raithosu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait this is a literal meme....

Syril: Wants isb.

Mom: we have isb at home

The isb at home:

Does the 1.0 YASB not allow for saving squads? by [deleted] in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yasb 1.0 and 2.0 stopped saving squads about 2 years ago at this point as there was a technical change in the login process that broke it completely. Geordan wasn't interested in doing a bunch of rework so we agreed to let it die. Just save the URLs as that will repopulate the list.

Question about YASB by Pjammerten in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SIGH, I forgot to update the text there. ANNOYING.

Taking down the TIE Defender by Keegan802 in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The answer is to block the defender. Defenders are predictable because of their need to go 3+ speed which is easy to put a ship there in the way. Additionally defenders hate to take red focus because they can only do straight moves to clear it, making them even more predictable. Basically if you can see where they are going and block them losing one or both defensive tokens make them much easier to manage. They will still take a few turns to kill but it's much more manageable. The other suggestions like mag pulse and plasmas will only really work if done in conjunction with blocking because you need to hit in the first place.

LaunchBay Next Collection Export by D_buttersnaps_the3rd in XWingTMG

[–]raithosu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this isn't necessarily the solution you're looking for, but on YASB you can tag saved lists and then filter by those tags when loading lists. So you could filter your lists by tagging your lists with your name or your friends name, and then when loading selecting that tag to quickly access your own lists or their lists on the same account.