So a good friend of ours - Marc - invited us over to play a session of a tabletop strategy game that Russ started collecting, after he had seen it demonstrated at ICON over a year ago. Russ, of course, dressed the part of the X-wing pilot. Along with 4 other gamesters, we played a 50 point 4-on-3 team skirmish, it was the Rebels vs the Empire. Luke Skywalker and an unnamed A-wing pilot got destroyed almost immediately by Darth Vader and his two TIE-wing cohort escorts. Mark and Russ came back as a Y-wing hotshot and a rookie A-wing pilot to defend their B-wing compatriot. Unfortunately, the Imperials won in the end, but not before Russ avenged Luke with his Ion cannon on Darth Vader.
Maybe next time we play, Russ will wear his TIE-fighter shadowtrooper suit!
Plus a Star Wars joke:
Did ya hear? After Padme's death, Lord Vader remarried a girl named Ellie. But that relationship was a real up-and-down one.
- not mine but I wish I had come up with it
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