Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game - Millennium Falcon

With a long and storied history this YT-1300 light freighter has had many owners and flown under many names, including the Fickle Flyer, the Second Chance and the Stellar Envoy.

But we know it best as the Millennium Falcon and what a legendary ship it is. Bestowed with countless upgrades and modifications over the years, the Falcon boasts warship grade shielding, debilitating sensor jammers and a 4 player hologame table... Let the Wookie win.

Alongside the recently released Slave 1, the Falcon introduces large ships to the game of X-Wing and aside from new rules, ship upgrades, named pilots and crew, we also get a fantastic looking, well executed model - When placed alongside other ships, it really looks the business...

'Looking good Han!'....  'Don't get cocky kid!'

For around £20 you get quite a bit of bang for your buck, including 4 new named pilots, 3 of which are unique and with some cool special abilities. Han Solo clocks in as a level 9 pilot and has the ability to re-roll all of his attack dice, but if you choose to do so you have to re-roll as many dice as possible. Lando is a level 7 pilot and following the execution of a green maneuver, his special ability allows a friendly ship in range band 1 to perform a free action as represented on it's action bar...

Han's partner Chewbacca, a level 5 pilot, gives you the ability to ignore all face up dealt damage cards. Finally, the generic Outer Rim Smuggler has no assigned special abilities, thus allowing you to take more than one of this kind of ship in your games. For me though, there will only ever be one Falcon, so not sure I could cope with seeing two on the board at the same time!? Mind you, if you've got the modelling skills, imagine having Dash Render and his ship the Outrider pairing up with the Falcon on the same table top...

The Outrider

There are a lot of new upgrade cards to play with, many of which are exclusive to this expansion. These include items such as Concussion and Assault Missiles, Veteran Instincts (increase pilot skill by 2) and some named co-pilots in the form of Luke, Chewbacca, Nien Nunb and the Weapons Engineer, who enables you to target lock two different ships...

One of the cool things about the Falcon is it's 360 primary weapon firing arc. Whilst secondary weapons are still required to fire within the forward facing 90 degree arc, the ability to bring the main cannon to bare in all directions creates a monster threat to lightly armored fighters who may be tempted to get too close...

The Falcon also packs a hefty 5 shields and 8 hull points and coupled with the option to further upgrade your shields, could prove a tough nut to crack...

The only thing that may let the Falcon down is it's lack of speed and agility. So whilst heavily armored, expect enemy ships to target the Falcon with relative ease...

Finally, it's worth mentioning the inclusion of a new mission: 'Den of Thieves', which sees the Rebels attempting to intercept prototype starship material currently on route to rendezvous with the Imperial Fleet. New game pieces representing these objectives are included and all help to bring this mission further to life...

I think the Millennium Falcon expansion represents good value for money and a great addition to both the X-Wing game and the Rebel Fleet in general. I can see this baby getting a lot of game time...

Punch it!

Until next time ;)