Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game

For the original two-player game, use the Rebel and Imperial ships, templates, dials, damage deck and tokens. Standard play uses a 3-by-3-foot area; agree on equal squad-point limits when building squads.

Rounds proceed through Planning, Activation, Combat and End. During Planning, secretly select a legal maneuver on each ship’s dial; do not test maneuver templates in advance.

Activate ships from lowest to highest pilot skill. Reveal the dial, execute its template, check stress, then normally perform one available action. Initiative resolves opposing equal-skill timing.

A red maneuver adds stress and a green maneuver removes one stress. A stressed ship cannot perform actions, including free actions. Under FAQ v4.4.1, a revealed red maneuver that remains red while stressed becomes an unmodifiable white straight speed-2 maneuver.

Actions depend on the ship’s action bar and card effects. A ship cannot perform the same action more than once in a round, even if another effect grants a free action.

A target lock normally requires Range 1–3 but no firing arc. Declare the intended target before measuring. The matching lock tokens persist until spent, replaced or removed by an effect.

In Combat, ships act from highest to lowest pilot skill and normally may make one attack. A primary weapon needs a target inside its arc at Range 1–3; Range 1 adds one attack die and Range 3 adds one defense die. These range bonuses do not apply to secondary weapons.

Spend focus to change all focus results on the relevant roll; spend a target lock on the defender to reroll chosen attack dice. Each die can be rerolled only once per attack. An evade token adds an evade result; each token type’s normal effect can be used only once in the corresponding modification step.

Evades cancel ordinary hits before critical hits. Uncancelled results remove shields first, then cause facedown damage for hits and faceup damage for critical hits. Hull damage destroys a ship, subject to the same-pilot-skill Simultaneous Attack Rule.

Ending a maneuver overlapping a ship requires backing up and skipping the Perform Action step; ships touching through that overlap cannot attack each other. Asteroids can cost the action and cause damage, and a ship on one cannot attack. At End remove focus and evade tokens; ordinary dogfights aim to destroy the opposing squadron, while missions specify their own goals.