Huge X-Wing Fun

Amy is visiting friends in San Francisco this weekend, so the boys and I are on our own. We've been keeping busy with a lot of games. We had some raucous King of New York action yesterday, when Nathaniel won the game and yet still freaked out anyway (apparently he thought we were just letting him win). We also played some X-Wing, bringing in the huge rebel transporter (from the Hoth evacuation scene in The Empire Strikes Back) for the first time. 

Maneuvering the transporter is a challenge, to say the least. In X-Wing, huge ships automatically destroy small and large ships if they ram them, and that rule came into effect when Matthew plowed his lumbering cargo vessel directly into a TIE Interceptor that was tangled up with one of Matthew's own X-Wing fighters. The transporter obliterated friend and foe alike, and we all learned the valuable lesson of keeping the hell away from that sucker.

The battle ended in a draw when Nathaniel and I spent numerous turns chasing Matthew's transporter around the map, only to watch it regenerate its shields every time. So, we all jumped to hyperspace, vowing to return and resume the fight another day...with reinforcements!