I have wargaming A.D.D. It's a problem, I know, but I really just don't care. To illustrate my gaming A.D.D., I provide the following example:About three weeks ago, Fantasy Flight Games released their Star Wars X-Wing miniatures game. I have been following the development of this game for about a year, and was excited about its release. When it came out, I bought a starter box set and one of each of the expansions. Subsequently, I bought a number of additional expansions to grow my fleet, and am now up to four X-Wings, five Tie Fighters, two Y-Wings and two Tie Advanced (did I happen to mention my wargaming A.D.D.)
The game's rules are a very quick read, and easy to pick up. Also, Fantasy Flight Games put the game rules online, which allowed me to read over them while I was waiting for the box set I ordered to arrive. As I said, the rules are easy to get a basic handle of, but with the combination of different ships, pilots, skills, astromechs, and secondary weapons, there is enough variation in the game which allows for deeper strategies and is difficult to truly master.
On Saturday I headed over to Game Parlor in Chantilly, Virginia to get in my first game of X-Wing. The guys over at A Few Maneuvers (the unofficial Star Wars X-Wing game site) set up a meet up, and when I arrived, Roy, the creator of A Few Maneuvers, was going through the ropes with his friend Jarrod. After Jarrod was done putting the Imperial smack down on Roy's Rebels (just what the Rebel scum deserve, what with their trying to upset the law and order the Imperial military has tried so hard to maintain), we decided to get a team game going.
