Announcements

Beta Points Version 3 Update

The X-Wing Alliance (XWA) is pleased to announce the points team has updated the beta points to version 3. These changes will reflect in the squad builders promptly, but may take several hours for a full update. 


The breakdown of changes can be found at xwing.life/resources/points. These adjustments are based on the vast array of playtest submissions. With this update, The XWA strongly recommends you continue to submitting your feedback via playtest forms found at xwing.life/resources/ptform. 


Please stay tuned for very exciting news, updates, and teasers on the XWA roadmap coming soon!


X-Wing Alliance Wave 0 Tournament Kit  - October 25th 2024

The X-Wing Alliance (XWA) is excited to bring you our first Organised Play tournament kit!

These kits are perfect for Tournament Organizers to provide prizes to players at local, store level tournaments over the coming months.

The theme of these wave packs will focus on the ace pilots from the game. They will contain an initiative 6 pilot and associated upgrades from the featured factions. 


Follow these links for additional information:



Playtest Form Announcement - September 17th 2024

The X-Wing Alliance (XWA) is pleased to announce its playtest squad lead by Daniel Lim (Isophane)! Daniel will work with his team on current and future releases to ensure that proper data is gathered to support the efforts of the Development Squad. Playtesting is vital because it is the last line of defense for components before being handed over for public use. A lack of data can lead to an unintended meta. 


In addition to internal playtesting, the XWA now has a public playtest form for its Beta Points release that any and all players, including your opponent, are encouraged to use after their games. Here are some key points when using the form:



Lastly, the points team has incorporated the newly released Imperial standard loadout pilots into the beta points structure. These additions accompany a handful of points updated across multiple factions. To see all changes and the playtest form, please visit xwing.life/resources



XWA Beta Points v1 available - September 1st 2024

The X-Wing Alliance (XWA) is pleased to announce its beta points for public use! The Points Team has been extensively playtesting and revising points, and are excited to share them with the X-Wing community at large! In addition to the points release, the XWA is also unveiling its centralized site, xwing.life, for an easy and accessible repository for the XWA. Please head to xwing.life/resources/points for the beta points patch notes, points documents, and more! 

With the beta points being released, the Points Team would like to add the following rule advisory for consideration: We'd like players to have the ability to build lists below the 20 point threshold without penalty. Currently, if you build below 20, the unused points would be automatically scored by your opponent. However, building to exactly 20 can sometimes implicitly restrict list building, or lead to choices you normally wouldn't consider because you need to fill the points. 

We'd like players to consider building without this rule in effect for these points to see if doing so helps promote more diversity in list building and a healthier meta. While this rule alone isn't going to dramatically change the way lists are built, we hope that it will be a small first step to improving the game beyond the balance of the meta.

Later today , at 4 PM UTC, the XWA is hosting a discussion stage in the 2.5 Edition discord server with Points Team Lead Oli Pocknell, to discuss the beta points and the philosophy behind the changes made for list building. We are thrilled for this next chapter of X-Wing and are excited for you to join us!

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The Development Squad (Design) - August 14th 2024

The X-Wing Alliance (XWA) is excited to highlight Design Lead Paul Heaver! Paul is well known across the X-Wing community, having won multiple world championships and participated extensively in playtesting for both FFG and AMG. 

Future content design is pivotal for the sustainability of the game of X-Wing. For now, Paul, joined by Ryan Staniszewski (Gold Squadron Podcast) are both focusing on testing data and addressing epic play. When asked about his short and long term goals as Design Lead, Paul says: “The first priority for the XWA Design Team is to release Epic updates for the current version of the game. This will test the Design process, and work it out for bigger design updates in the future. If you’re interested in playtesting the Epic game mode, let us know! As for those bigger design updates, we’re not prepared to release any details yet, but we have plans for more play modes, more pilots and upgrades, more scenarios, more Standard Loadout pilots! The big challenge will be to avoid adding [needless] complexity: one of the things I love about X-Wing is the relative simplicity of the system. I want to keep the fun, thematic play of X-Wing and I also want to make sure tournament players have the challenging metagame play they desire.”

The Design Team, alongside the Rules and Points Team, is tasked with working in a unified manner to ensure a solid foundation for long term success. Look out for exciting updates on the XWA’s beta points in the near future! 

Wave 0 Kit Update - August 7th 2024

Hello pilots! We are very excited about our first tournament kit. After announcing the prizes, we decided it was best to update core parts of the kit. We greatly appreciate the excitement and feedback around these prizes, and we want to make sure we start off the XWA prize era with our best foot forward!

Once the tournament kit is updated, the document and registration links will be updated. 

We will be sure to notify you when this is ready for pre-registration, something we eagerly look forward to in the coming weeks! We value your interest in hosting events with XWA prizes and thank you for your patience while we update the kit! Stay tuned! 

Wave 0 Organized Play Kit - July 31st 2024

The X-Wing Alliance deeply believes that Organized Play is an essential factor in cultivating and sustaining the X-Wing community. We are thrilled to announce the elections of key members of the Organized Play (OP) team! Making up the OP team, we have Tim King as OP Planning Lead, Dan Athey as Prize Support Lead, and Mark Hall as Tournament Organizer (TO) Support Lead. 

The XWA believes both in-person and online support deserves to be accessible for all players around the world! Tim, Dan, and Mark leading their respective teams, are committed to bringing the excitement of X-Wing OP to as many local communities as possible. Tim, as OP Planning Lead, is tasked with creating a comprehensive and inclusive OP calendar looking ahead to 2025 and beyond. Mark, as TO Support Lead, will look to set up event organizers for success running tournaments of all sizes. Dan, as Prize Support Lead, will ensure events provide players with exciting additions to their X-Wing collections. 

The Prize Support team is already planning our first tournament kit, one that will get players of all factions eager to get their ships on the table. Dan gives us future insight on the kit by saying “We've designed a modular tournament kit.. with the prizing designed around 9 of [some of] the best pilots across all 7 factions. A TO will be able to select two (or more) of the 9 pilots and have a tournament with unique prizing based on the pilots they chose.”

This kit is now available for registration!

Look out for information on XWA OP planning and future prize kits coming to a store near you! 

The Development Squad (Rules)- July 24th 2024

Today we’re highlighting Mike Thompson, aka ‘Maui’, XWA’s recently elected Rules Lead and his vision for the coming months.

Maui is best known for his active part in a vast number of X-Wing communities where his understanding and ability to deliver consistent and accurate rulings makes him the go-to guy for rules queries. When asked about his goals as Rules Lead, Maui said, “As the Rules Lead, my goals are first: to build a lasting structure that will enable the XWA Rules Team to do its work effectively, and second: to create easily accessible online resources for reading the rules, having rules discussions, and making rules queries. In the long term, I will also be looking to improve the various X-Wing rules documents for clarity and for ease of reference.”

Maui and his team (Chris Allen, Conor Holmes, Dee Yun, Eirik Munthe, Kris Mitchell and Pete Lambro) are committed to making rulings consistent, accessible, and understandable for players. X-Wing is a game of nuance and the rules interactions are what can make or break games. The rules team is excited to be a cohesive team of incredible people with extensive backgrounds in ruling decisions.

Look out for our features on Design Lead Paul and an announcement on Organized Play in the coming weeks! 


The Development Squad (Points)- July 17th 2024

Today we’re highlighting Oli Pocknell, XWA’s recently elected Points Lead and his vision for the coming months.

Oli is best known for his contributions with his 186th Squadron Channel, as well as his World Championship win in 2019. When asked about his goals as Points Lead, Oli said “We want to keep the game of X-Wing fresh and exciting and will do that by regular updates. You should expect [regular] points changes each year, deliberately rotating a competitive environment so your favorite ship will never be out of the sun for long. On that note, extended ships will be [a key] focus of our upcoming beta points update, giving you an opportunity to dust off some iconic ships that have been on the shelf for too long.”

Oli and his team are already hard at work crafting beta points for release soon. Joining Oli on the Points Team are Greg Kash (Nickel City X-Wing), Dale Cromwell (Rogue Outpost), and Catherine Nyxsera (Community Rep). Internal playtesting is set to begin soon, and we look forward to sharing more details on next steps for wider testing soon!

Look out for our features on Rules Lead Maui and Design Lead Paul in the coming weeks! 


The Development Squad- July 10th 2024

The X-Wing Alliance is excited to announce the election of three Leads for its Development Squad. The Development Squad is tasked with the overall direction of the game, with each Lead taking responsibility for one of Points, Rules and Design elements.  

Oli Pocknell has been elected as Points Lead. Oli is best known for his World Championship win in 2019, and contributions with the 186th Squadron Channel, Look out for a fun and fresh meta from the beta points that Oli and his team are already cooking up!

Mike Thompson, AKA “Maui” has been elected as Rules Lead. He is best known for his contributions to rulings and answering ruling related questions across a vast array of X-Wing communities. Maui and his team will work to create a streamlined approach in ruling structure, and create an accessible environment for players to find answers to their ruling questions.

Paul Heaver has been elected Design Lead. Paul is best known for his extensive involvement in playtesting X-Wing as well as winning multiple world championships over his X-Wing career. Paul and his team will soon be exploring the design space and potential within X-Wing to make it ever more exciting to play.

In the near future, we’ll focus on each Lead, laying out their goals and vision on the road ahead. Stay tuned for future announcements!


First Statement from Formed Council- June 28th 2024

Hi everyone,

It’s been a whirlwind two weeks since AMG announced the end of X-Wing development. We’re thankful and delighted that we could quickly muster some community leaders and come together to keep the X-Wing game system going for what we hope is a very long time. Let’s get straight to the things you want to know:

 Yes, we will be focusing on preserving the current X-Wing ruleset for the immediate future. We know there is a vibrant community of people out there playing and enjoying the game, and we want to maintain that. This also means Tournament Organizers who have put their resources and energy upfront to run GTs can be assured that they have our support. Over the longer term (not before the World Championships 2025 at Adepticon), we will assess the benefits of adjustments to the ruleset.

Yes, we have already started looking at points tweaks. This is tricky because the GT season will run using official Organized Play documents, which means current official points. As such, we will not release any updates for Standard until at least Adepticon 2025.

HOWEVER: over the coming months, we will offer beta versions of our points tweaks for the community to open playtest and feedback for iteration. You will be free to use those points as you wish and for your own events, but please remember that GTs will be using official documents.

Yes, we are considering applications to join the X-Wing Alliance group. We have had over 120 applications already through the dedicated form*, many of them from esteemed community leaders that we respect greatly. As we’re still settling into a working structure, we will be looking at these on a case-by-case basis while we build our team. Please understand this might take a little time: If you’ve applied, thank you for your commitment to the game and passion to help. Thanks again for your patience and bear with us while we establish solid foundations!

Yes, we are aware of the X-Wing Legacy project and other community-run initiatives. We are communicating, but it is too early to comment beyond that. We know there is an opportunity as a global playerbase to heal divisions, and move forward towards a future we can build on together. Regardless of the ruleset or game mode you enjoy the most, we want you out playing X-Wing!

What’s next? Over the coming weeks, we will be working on a lot of internal group structures. Ways of working, plans for the coming months, people to lead workstreams. Then fun things like points tweaks and ‘what if?’ can start; we’ve already got OP plans and Alliance prize support in the works. 

 You’ll have questions, comments, feedback. We’re reading everything we see on social channels, and if you want to get in contact, please use the form below** or feel free to message any of the current X-Wing Alliance signatories. If you don’t know any of them, you can always message one of us directly: our Discord handles are below. 

 We have a vision of X-Wing as a thriving community playing tabletop and online pewpew for years to come. Whatever got you into the game, however you enjoy playing it, we’re here to help you continue to do so for as long as we can. Fly casual, and see you at the tables! 

 Filippo (@piffo), Louis (@ootinni) & Stephen (@raith)

X-Wing Alliance leadership team

*Form for applying for the XWA: CLICK HERE

**Form to contact us: CLICK HERE

First Announcement - June 16th 2024 

Dear X-Wing Community, By now most of you have read the news of AMG ending development of both Star Wars: X-Wing and Star Wars: Armada. 

After that news went public, a group of players representing communities across the world came together to create a unified organization to take community stewardship of X-Wing. This group includes the people behind several high-profile X-Wing communities and resources, and our collaborative goal is to keep the game healthy and guide it into the future. This is not an exclusive or closed group, and we will strive for transparency at all times.

Rest assured that we will do our very best to make sure that the end of the officially development does not mean the end of this game that we all love. We are still in the early stages of defining what needs to be done, and more communication will follow as the details become available. 

For now, keep playing the game, and look to the future with hope and anticipation, Today marks the start of a new chapter in the X-Wing story, and we are out to make it the best one yet.


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