Hello there.

I abandoned my blog in a post-Worlds fugue and, in the meantime, Fantasy Flight Games announced everything I ever wanted. They even laid the groundwork for prequel factions.

So in the interest of catching up, I’m going to do a speed round here. If Christgau can nail Sgt. Peppers in two sentences, I can knock out the second edition of this game with bullet points.

Here’s my review of everything Star Wars-related I’ve been mulling over for the past three months, in no particular order:

X-Wing 2.0: Awesome, necessary

Force tokens: Neat

Calculate action: Delightful

The Last Jedi: Misunderstood

Moralo Eval flying off the board: Hilarious

New Firespray: Perfect

New Defenders: Overhyped

Four-dice YT-2400 primary: Gross

Luke crew: Perplexed why it exists

Heir to the Empire: Not bad

New docking rules: Being slept on

Miranda 2.0: Still the best regen?

Generics: Back in a big way

Three-dice primary Moldy Crow: The best

Dark Force Rising: Don’t remember what happens in this one

Solo Falcon: Exciting!

Falcon: Exciting! Solo itself: Boring!

New Rebel Fenn Rau: Still annoying

New Scum Fenn Rau: Still amazing

Howlrunner: Works on herself!

Six-TIE swarm: Tired

Seven-TIE swarm: Wired

Calling five ships a “swarm”: Expired

Revenge of the Sith: Underrated

Two Tubes bros: Two tubes way up

Alpha-Class Star Wing: Sleeping giant in second edition?

Lambda-class shuttle: Elegant and iconic

TIE Reaper: Ugly usurper not worthy to transport the Emperor!!

Scarif Base Pilot: Properly rated

“Vizier”: Underrated

Captain Feroph: Underrated

Major Vermeil: Overrated

Reylo: Canon

Dice mods: Will be missed

New TIE Phantom: Balanced but boring

The Last Command: Satisfying

Cavern Angel Zealot: New favorite pilot

New Leebo: Better than Dash

Guri at initiative five: Justice

Talonbane at initiative five: Crap

Ketsu: Will finally rival Asajj in 2.0 (pending reveal)

Kanan: Will once again be great in 2.0 (pending reveal)

New Lando rebel pilot card: Finally worthy of the character

Podracing in Destiny: The best FFG Star Wars product ever

Lowhhrick: Still evil

OK, that should get us more or less caught up. I’ll have more X-Wing posts in the lead-up to Second Edition which will cover all the above points with which you disagree. In the meantime, I’ll be playing Destiny. Podracing!