Reddit mentions of JIELISI 9" Paper Cutter, A5 Portable Scrapbooking Trimmer, Paper Trimmers, Pink

My group absolutely loves the game. We've been playing it for about 4 of the last 5 evenings straight. My one house rule is that the mission objective does not fly off the map (unless it is supposed to). I will alter it's movement to just skirt the edge every time. No one wants to spend 45 minutes working to capture a shuttle only to have the AI card fail it.

To anyone interested in playing the campaign I have a few notes:

1. Use a professional print shop.
   
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2. Make sure you have a good color printer and buy some card stock to print the materials out on. Without looking I would estimate there were about 30-40 pages worth of things to print aside from the ~80 page manual.
   
   
3. Have the print shop laminate the materials except for the player ship cards. Or buy one if printing yourself.
   
   
4. On that note buy a paper cutter. Something like this is fine and it will save you a massive amount of time.
   
   
5. Have a good number of ships. The last mission we played had around 8 Tie Fighters and 2 Tie Interceptors on the board at once. We have 4 players, and the number and type of ships on each mission is adjusted by number of players and average pilot skill. Now, that doesn't mean go buy 10 Tie Fighters, but you will need at good number of bases and ship cards. It doesn't matter which as you only really need them for their range fans and movement nubs. The cards included with the game will show all applicable stats. We usually end up with Tie fighters being proxied by Phantoms, Advanced, or whatever other imperial ships are not currently being used.
   
   
6. Table space. As you probably already know X-Xing is not a small area game. With HotAC you not only need space for up to 6 players, their cards, tokens etc, but also a spot to place the AI maneuver templates, cards, tokens, etc. Out table is about 5'x3' and I needed a tray table to house the AI cards as the other game stuff had taken up all the space.
   
   
7. Read the manual at least twice, and reference it constantly for a game or two. I noticed that I had missed several details (some important, most minor) as I didn't notice their importance until I was actually playing the game.
   
   
8. If you have the opportunity TRY THE GAME! It's freakin awesome. My girlfriend has zero interest in the base X-Wing game, but cannot get enough of the RPG.

I currently use a label printer, as someone else suggested here, but i used to print them the old fashioned way like I see in the pic here.

What I did back then- I printed it normal size, but I used a paper trimmer to cut off all of the excess- the paypal stuff up top, the blank on the bottom, and anything outside of the black lines.