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Super Kaiju, Author at Spikey Bits

Remember when Fantasy Flight announced that those couple of guys who are considered some of the best in the world at X-Wing, with that ‘championship win’, would get to create their own cards for the game?

Read More | September 2nd, 2014

Fantasy flight has decided to show us some more of the new Rebel Aces, sadly, its just the A-Wings as this time. Will these updates help bring an underused ship into a more prominent role? lets find out!First we see the guy previewed last time, Jake Ferrell. Still not a bad ability, getting a free […]

Read More | July 7th, 2014

Seriously, does the Hype train even have brakes? With wave 4 on the edge of release, Fantasy Flight throws out Wave 5! Weirdly enough though, its only 2 ships. Just a taste of things to come or we finally hitting that wall of what the original Star Wars can offer? Guess time will tell, till […]

Read More | June 17th, 2014

And we end the wave 4 previews with the TIE Phantom. All I can say about this ship so far, least with first impressions, is “Wow…wait….what?”  What do I mean by that? Well, read on and lets discuss shall we?  Taking a quick look at the movement dial we can see that it is in […]

Read More | June 3rd, 2014

Epic Format. New GR-75. Lots of fancy new things in the world of X-Wing. They worth your time? They worth playing? Lets take a look at all these new goodies and see shall we? Also a special thanks goes to Chuck Stocky and Andrew Young for helping me play this new format, as it is […]

Read More | May 21st, 2014

Super Kaiju here again with another Fantasy Flight reveal!  This time its the Rebels super advanced fight the E-Wing! Lets see what this baby can do, shall we? First thing we’ll notice that in the long running tradition of Rebels the ships aren’t cheap. But these babies can take both astromechs and system upgrades. I can […]

Read More | May 7th, 2014

Sweet, Fantasy Flight has revealed exactly how Cloaking would work in X-Wing. Yes, I realize this has been out for a bit so I’m a little late to the game but I figured I’d give it some time, for a few reasons. 1, I wanted to see if it was a hoax or not. Given […]

Read More | April 29th, 2014

The TIE Defender. A ship released just before the battle of Endor, it was leagues above prior models and was more than a match for the Rebel ships, easily performing maneuvers and bring firepower they just couldn’t handle. And from what I’m told in the TIE Fighter Computer game this was an instant win god […]

Read More | April 22nd, 2014

Aw Snap Fantasy Flight is throwing more scrapes to the hungry hype dogs and this time it’s on the Headhunter, a ship I’m very much looking forward too. First thing shown here is the movement dial. If my memory serves me, they never showed this before, so that’s cool. Not too fast, not too slow, […]

Read More | March 28th, 2014

Another day another tournament here at FTW Games (the home of Spikey Bits), and this day we’re talking about Star Wars X-Wing Store Championships! Ten people showed up and after Three hard fought rounds we found ourselves a winner in Shane McRoberts, who went undefeated through the whole tournament with his 2 Rebel Smugglers and 2 […]

Read More | March 21st, 2014

Aw snap, now the rebels got aces too! Lets take a look at the preview.  No joke, 5 seconds before seeing the new Rebel Aces here I saw a quick thing on Reddit on my phone and thought ‘Ya know, its a shame that to get the Rebel Aces you have to buy the GR-75 […]

Read More | March 19th, 2014

Boy oh boy. More previews of the upcoming GR-75 and this time we get to see the brand spanking new X-Wing Pilots! And these guys are looking good. For the most part heh. Fans of Rogue Squadron will be happy to see some of the named guys from there finally making their appearance in X-wing. […]

Read More | March 13th, 2014

After months of waiting to see what the deal is, Fantasy Flight has finally shown us a preview of the new Tantive IV.I can say so far is’…uh…wait what?’ As well as ‘Oh wow, that’s awesome!’ You’ll see what I mean as we continue through this article. Starting off we have the same deal as […]

Read More | February 27th, 2014

Can’t stop, won’t stop! The hype train don’t stop here at Fantasy Flight, as we now have Wave FOUR to look forward to! Wait? Wave 4? What does that not make the Imperial Aces and Large ship expansions? I dunno… but now we’re knee deep into the extended universe here. HWK-290, you are no longer […]

Read More | February 11th, 2014

Somehow during my looking through the last few teasers and leaks for the upcoming ships, a part of me never noticed there wasn’t to much shared about the large ships outside of leaks. Imagine my surprise that Fantasy Flight throws out a look at the new GR-75… and its time to hop on the hype […]

Read More | February 3rd, 2014

Awhile back Fantasy Flight revealed their new expansion for the Empire by not adding a new ship, but by giving an existing ship more options. Not only that but a fresh paint job and 2 per box for the convenient price of…well, the same price you’d pay for 2 regular interceptors. But hey, new paint […]

Read More | January 27th, 2014