Asetru

With "Rising Tensions" getting shipped, the next box is already on the horizon.

Um WAS???

Umberto!

"Maybe AI is a new sphere of existence?"

"No!"

Lars Klingbeil im heute journal

After replacing my TV, I can't get my blu ray player to properly play. It's driving me nuts and I'd really like to avoid buying new stuff.

Here's the setup that previously worked:

• An old Samsung plasma TV to display stuff.
• A fire tv stick to stream stuff.
• A Teufel Impaq 3000 AV receiver with a 5.1 speaker system that unfortunately refuses to directly play back blu ray discs since it overheated brutally before I realised the fan was broken.
• A Sony BDP-S370 that we use to play back blu rays and DVDs.
• A Sonos connect box attached to the teufel as well, but that doesn't really matter.

I attached the blu ray disc player to one of the TV's HDMI inputs and the AV receiver's digital coax input. While the TV had an optical out, using that to get the audio channel to the receiver resulted in loss of quality (I know it's all digital, but the TV seemed to mess with the audio before sending it out), so the coax cable helped with that. That worked well. Until I replaced the TV.

Current setup is essentially the same as before, except the fire tv stick got removed and we replace the old Samsung plasma tv with a

• Sharp 55GL4260E.

All hate for smart devices aside, the primary use case of streaming from German public broadcast "mediathek" services, netflix and prime works well so far and we no longer have a messed up glass front, which is a big plus. However, I can't get the blu ray player to work properly. Essentially, I have tried two approaches to connect the devices.

• As previously, bdp to TV via HDMI. That doesn't work. Like, at all. The TV doesn't show anything unless I force the bdp to only output SD signals, at which point the TV at least shows something, but the image then is an artifact-ridden mess of purple weirdness. Searching for that issue leads me nowhere, except some very old forums with replies that are 90% clueless and some indicating it might be an issue with the devices being unable to perform their HDCP handshake. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures, but there are some websites that show similar issues (albeit usually at least at full resolution). I tried several different HDMI cables.
• Connecting the bdp via HDMI to the AV receiver (which has two HDMI inputs), which connects to the TV. Oddly enough, this works - so the receiver must do more than just pipiing the signal through (remark here: I used the same cables for this, so the pink-image-issue really can't be a cable problem). However, after I briefly thought I had solved the problem, I realised that with this setup, the audio and video signals are out of sync. I hate it. Sometimes the video will stutter briefly and the audio will lag a full second or so behind afterwards, but even without that issue, audio and video are almost always slightly out of sync, which is just annoying as hell. I use physical media primarily to have better image and audio quality and this ruins the whole experience.

I'm kind of at a loss. My next step woul be to buy a new blu ray player, but it feels like overkill for something that should still work somehow. Any ideas what I could try?

When this song started I knew I was in for something special. Playing at pretty much the beginning of the game, it set the tone for a strategy game that was so emotional and story focused, it has imho since turned into a true classic.

Barber composed this piece for strings in the 1930s and turned it into the vocal "Agnus Dei" in the 1960s. The Homeworld version is iirc performed faster than originally written but works really well, especially within the game.

See a gameplay video here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xtoDkda9Aio

Ich weiß, ich weiß... Die Winterreifen. Die Heizung. Die Batterie, die bei den Temperaturen ein wenig weniger aufnimmt. Alles in Summe. Vielleicht will ich bei dem miesen Wetter und der Dunkelheit auch schneller zu Hause sein.

Das dachte ich mir alles schon. Kennt man ja. Hab mir deswegen auch die letzten Wochen nichts dabei gedacht.

Und was war's tatsächlich? Bremse hinten fest. Und zum Schluss so arg, dass ich as erst gemerkt habe, als nach einer längeren Fahrt die Felge hinten so heiß war, dass man die kaum anfassen konnte. Schrauber hat hinten die komplette Bremse tauschen müssen weil die durch die Hitze komplett im Eimer war.

Yay.

Schön: während die Karre in der Werkstatt war gab's einen elektrischen als Leihwagen. Man stellt sich langsam auf uns ein. Daumen hoch dafür.

So, the core box has been shipped to known Star Wars Armada content creators, it seems, so the first gameplay reports are dropping, which is nice to see and should help to decide if the game's for you...

• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AStYvFH2RsU
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LrqBXCjzo
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-2CGRI7V4nE

Tbh, especially the ship movement seems odd to me. Too many steps involved to get a ship to its next position. The emphasis on story and interaction beyond fighting on the other hand seems very star trek-ish and at first glance well done.

So, there's a page with lots of links for various X-Wing TMG resources... But it's hosted on the FFG forums and with the game being discontinued and having been transferred from FFG to AMG literal years ago, I thought I'd just copy them here. This is, for now, just the copy-pasted link collection. I'll go through them to remove stuff that's no longer online and maybe add stuff I found elsewhere, but right now I'd just like to keep MidWestScrub's links alive in case FFG decides to finally pull the plug on the forum.

This is meant to be an addition to the excellent post @MajorJuggler has kept updated over the years. For that 1.0 thread, click here.

Podcasts:

Gold Squadron Podcast .

Mynock Squadron Podcast .

Radio TCX.

OCX Radio.

Birmingham Barons.

The Inland Empire Aces.

Scum and Villiany Podcast.

Carolina Krayts.

186th Squadron Podcast.

Sith Takers Snap Shots.

Thule Squadron Radio.

Evergreen Squadron Radio.

512 Squadron Podcast.

Liberty Squadron Podcast.

Stay on Target.

Back to Dials.

Hornet Squadron.

Renegade Squadron Podcast.

HitHitCrit Podcast.

Lack of Focus Podcast.

Cloud City Radio.

The Salt Mines Podcast.

Sea to Sky Squadron Podcast

Florida Man Plays X-Wing.

Turn Zero.

Tosche Station X-Wing Podcast.

The Midwest Scrubcast.

Millenium Condor. (French)

South Wookiees Squadron Podcast. (Portuguese)

These next two actually cater specifically to a more casual set of players.

**** of a Pilot.

Shuttle Tydirium.

YouTube and Twitch Streams:

Gold Squadron: YouTube. Twitch.

First Earth: YouTube. Twitch.

Back to Dials: YouTube. Twitch.

Birmingham Barons: YouTube. Twitch.

VTTV: YouTube. Twitch.

Sith Takers: YouTube. Twitch

**Echo Base X-Wing: **YouTube. Twitch.

X-Wing Selbsthilegruppe : Twitch. YouTube.

Firestorm Squadron: YouTube.

Weekend Warlords: YouTube. Twitch.

Game Chief: YouTube.

Fly Casual X-Wing: YouTube.

Purrfect-Blinky: YouTube **. **Twitch.

312 Squadron: YouTube **. **Twitch.

**Arch Alliance: **YouTube. Twitch.

X-Wing Battle Report Archive.

Non-stream Video Content:

Hairy Nick.

Crabbok.

Blogs:

Such an X-Wing Hipster.

Eruletho, Tales of the Silver Ace.

Deathrain's Blog.

Starfighter Mafia.

Blair Bunke's Blog.

Zombie Squadron.

Nathan's X-Wing Blog.

Friday Night X-Wing.

What the Actual Zuck?

D20 Radio.

Back to Dials.

Tantum Imperium.

Ramblings of a Wargamer.

Fishy Wargaming.

Space Owls.

X-Wing Tavern Wars.

Bloglette Generator.

Joust Me .

Stay on the Leader.

X-Wing Analytica.

Dylan-Jones

Confessions of a Midwest Scrub.

The following blogs have released Second Edition content, but it's been a while. (Note this article was released March 2019).

It's Getting Hoth in Here. Nothing since December 2018.

Taking the Sith. Nothing since December 2018.

X-Wing Puzzle Club. Nothing since December 2018.

Yes, More X-Wing. Nothing since early January 2019.

Squad Building Apps and Websites:

Yet Another Squad Builder 2.0.

Launch Bay Next.

X-Wing 2nd Ed. Squad Designer.

X-Squad.

FFG's Official Squad Builder.

Quick Build Squad Builder. For all your Quick Build needs.

Tournament Organization:

Tabletop T.O.

Best Coast Pairings.

Cryodex .

Tome.

Simulators:

Vassal. Gold Squadron has a tutorial video on how to download it here .

• Vassal Quick Download for the X-Wing Module.

• Vassal play and installation guide.

• Vassal bug reporting

• Vassal X-Wing League.

• Vassal Tutorial Video.

Fly Casual.

TTS.

X-Wing A.I.

Rules Reference:

Rules Documents and Tournament Regulations. At the bottom of the page under the Support heading, click the appropriate tab for either Rules or Tournament Regulations.

FAQ . On FFG's forums, under "X-Wing Rules Questions" you'll find this forum thread with their official rulings.

Community Rules Committee. This is a group of judges and other community members that have come together to get answers to questions that FFG hasn't yet taken the time to answer. Their document can be found here, and you can submit questions here.

Other:

List Fortress . An online repository of Second Edition tournament results. Everything from eight person kit tournaments to System Opens with hundreds of participants. It shows the format, the number of people, what lists they were flying, and the number of wins and MOV (Margin of Victory). All data is voluntarily submitted, so there may be some holes in the information depending on how in depth the submission was.

Pink Brain Matter. This is a recently released site that analyzes data from List Fortress. It can tell you the percentage of Rebel lists in major tournaments since the recent points change, and the percentage of those lists that took certain pilots, etc.

Probability Calculator. This will allow you to enter in a ton of variables for numerous different attacks to see expected damage under various circumstances. For those of us who are math impaired, it's a vital tool.

Infinite Arenas. This awesome site has a number of tools available, including an unofficial rules reference, a card browser, and printable maneuver reference cards for most Second Edition ships, among other things.

X-Wing Mapper. This fantastic tool will show you all the available final positions of any ship in any faction. Toggle variations for Afterburners, Advanced Sensors, Supernatural Reflexes, or any other possibilities, choose your maneuver and see all the different places your ship could end up.

We Tabletop . A searchable event locator.

X-Wing Second Edition Wiki.

Metawing. An analysis tool to quickly find out what has had success and what hasn't.

X-Wing Card Creator.

2.0 Buying Guide.

Highground: An X-Wing score keeping app. Android download. IOS download.

How to get into X-Wing. A beginner's guide to getting into the game.

X-Wing Battlereport. A searchable database of X-Wing related videos.

For a short review of most of the above links, check out: Before Setting Dials: A Guide to Community Resources.