Game 1 had no pics taken and sadly was just getting interesting when I made the fatal mistake of miscalculating distance with my prior move.... Any move I could make mean Slave 1 flew off the table to a gory death. Win to my brother.
Game 2 got a few pics while I was playing him, hopefully uploaded below. Must say going into it I was thinking it'd be an easy-ish win for the Falcon, more hull points and shields but in the end not so. Careful moving this time made for some good shots going in on both ships, but my rolls and that extra evade die with Slave 1 really saved the day. I think my brother knew it was going to go downhill after one of my rolls at range 1 ended up with 2x Crits and 2x Hits. His 1 Evade die utterly betrayed him and due to a mishap with an asteroid, he had been unable to take an action. Luckily he'd taken an upgrade that allowed him to ignore a critical's text and regain a shield. Just the same the single crit he got in on me was brushed off thankfully by my upgrade to ignore the crit text for Pilots.
All in all I love X-Wing as a game, this was my first win using the full rules so was chuffed with that. I think in many ways going for that single ship battle can be more fun, you get to really focus on what your ship can do and how best to use it where as in games where its been 100+ points and multiple ships (E-Wing, X-Wing, Y-Wing, A-Wing, etc) can be heavily bogged down and full of ships hitting each other in the movement phase.
Also I'd have to say sometime's playing for the fun and learning factor is sooo much better than that stupid play to win, uber awesome unbeatable army thing.
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