About

Squadron Benchmark is a web app for testing squadrons built for the X-Wing miniatures game. The user moves the different units and can try new strategies, squadron composition, maneuvers and placement. It can be used to build scenarios, benchmark against squads you can find in competition, try new ships or pilots...
The app offers the following features:
  • Build your squads, or import them from your favorite squad builder, export and print them. The squad builder integrate a strategy guide, rulings and compact graphic representation of how dangerous a pilot is, with hitmaps
  • Move units and perform their actions as in the real game. All ship maneuver dials and of all actions in their bars are handled. The app automatically sets/removes tokens according to the maneuver and action selected.
  • Detection of collisions with other ships and asteroids, automatic handling of stress, action and combat effects, rolling hit dice for possible damage automatically.
  • Automatic handling of card effects (pilots, upgrades, ...). Biggs for instance is the unique possible target when in range of a ennemy. Howlrunner effect is automatically taken into account. A console provides feed back on what happens and which effect is triggered.
  • Combat is as simple as selecting a target and using tokens. Dices are rolled, damages and criticals are delivered automatically, shields are used, ... 
  • Assess the probabilities to hit, to kill, the mean number of hits and criticals a unit can deliver, at any time and taking into account range, tokens, card effects.
The app is not really a game since the user plays both sides, there is no multi-player version of the app and there will not be. This is in no way a substitute for the real game but is a complementary tool.

This site is not endorsed by Fantasy Flight Games, Lucasfilm Ltd. or Twentieth Century Fox and is intended for entertainment and information purposes only.

49 comments:

  1. Loving your work on this - getting ALOT more xwing practice in now.

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  2. love playing around with this, only issue seems to get stuck while ai looks at waht to do every time between round 7-8

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  3. I really like this one too, it's a fun way to test your ideas, but I just now saw a mayor bug: two Y-Wings with the BTL title firing on ships that were clearly behind them.
    Keep up the good work!

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  4. Great Work, but I can't understand a lot of functions, e.g. how to set AI for only 1 faction... there's a manual/tutorial somewhere? Thank you... and keep up the good work!

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    1. Hi Fabio,
      There is no manual yet, but this is now on the top of my priorities ! Cheers

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    2. Well, there is a how to play/replay now.

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  5. Hi- Can you please tell me the best way to submit bugs to you?

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    1. Yes, so far just leave them here in the blog, or by email (deniswings@free.fr)

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  6. R4 Agromech seems to crash the script when he already has a lock.
    Also I can't figure out how to select which dice to re-roll for Target Lock.

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    1. Yes, it crashed badly when played by the AI. Corrected, but you cannot use the TL the same attack you use the focus. To be corrected still.

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  7. Seems to be a bug with Drea Renthal (Scun Y-Wing pilot) when using a Twin Laser Turret. Following the first TLT attack you should be able to gain a target lock and take a stress, however instead it seems there's no option and the 2nd TLT attack cannot be performed. The only way I saw to continue was to skip to the rest of the combat phase and go to the next planning phase. Maybe I just missed the icon on the UI. Great job tho, much appreciated! :)

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  8. hi, I love this game, I have all the ships and I would like to learn to play more, but you can not get in Spanish ... and in a version for PC game software (.exe) .... is excellent, it is helpful for the original game, but could do so in spanish language, it is easier to enterder all cards ...

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  9. This is AWESOME! Too bad there's no way to play other people online.

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  10. thank you so much for this. You have done an amazing job!!!!!

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  11. It appears that both primary and secondary weapons are firing in the combat phase. This should not be the case its is primary OR secondary unless stated as an ability (ex: TIE/D).

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    1. hmmm, for which unit/upgrades both weapons are firing at the same time ?

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    3. I don't have time to play it through but I think I figured it out. What I was seeing was the TLT on the Y-wings. Sorry for the fuss.

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  13. I've noticed a bug with one of my builds. My build is:
    Leebo + Expert Handling + Ion Cannon + Saboteur + Tactical Jammer + Outrider
    Chewbacca + Draw Their Fire + Luke Skywalker + Nien Nunb + Tactical Jammer + Millennium Falcon

    Everytime I fly this build, some if not all of the following occur:

    -my ships are the only ones that can actually fire
    -Even when both ships could fire, sometimes only one is allowed to fire.
    -Occasionally the sim just freezes up when transitioning between turns.

    Otherwise, this benchmark is excellent! Keep up the good work and fly casual!

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    1. Thanks ! I corrected a few bugs around second attacks such as provided by Luke. Maybe it corrects your bug (not sure though).
      Cheers!

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  14. Great site! Thank you for building this. I have noticed a bug where the AI will crash if it overlaps an obstacle, freezing the turn. It was flying Agressors at the time. Also, the AI will shoot even though it is overlapping an asteroid.

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  15. enjoying this a lot. bit of feedback on a few upgrades though Juke doesnt seem to have an option to activate it, and Electronic Baffle forces the damage to ditch the stress after every red maneuver, there doesnt seem to be an option to advance ot the next phase without taking the damage, even if you don't want to, and when you do use electronic baffle it doesnt let you take an action.

    however its still very enjoyable and useful.

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  16. I've come across Youngster's ability with Squad Leader does not work with the rest of the TIEs.

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  17. Just a note, the Tie Advanced Prototype should have a green 4straight but has white instead.

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  18. Did you disable AI ? There is no more possible to play versus AI in all my browsers.

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    1. Yes it is, but now you have to go the next screen (setup) and here you can choose which side is the AI. This way, it is possible to start again a game, changing sides for instance. Cheers !

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  19. Hi. Great program!

    I get a hangup when flying Manaroo, when she has Focus and TL and tries to pass it on to another ship. The Focus will switch, TL not. When I press NEXT, nothing happens.

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  20. Whatever change was made yesterday has made it skip all attacks during combat phase and just forces you to go to planning phase.

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    1. yes, sorry for this bug, it's corrected ! Cheers !

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  21. Do you plan to upgrade your scripts for a simple multiplayer ? Not too hard and complicated scripts but just simple multiplayer between 2 IPs (at least)? Vassal is too complicated, and your interface is great for this.

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    1. Squadron benchmark includes most of the rules. As this is only a one player simulator, it's a complementary tool for the real table top game, for training and testing. As it was said in the post "One year after", it has not the look and feel of a miniature game of course, and playing for real against a real human is way better. Making the app for two player games, it could be seen as a computer alternative to the real game. There's no technical limitation, but I'm not going to do it without the explicit agreement of FFG. Cheers !

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  22. Thank you so much for this online game!

    I am having trouble with Vader's Advanced Targeting Computer upgrade card. When I select it, it shows up fine. But when I start the game, it vanishes and I can't use it in the game (which defeats the purpose of flying Vader.)

    Just thought I'd bring this to your attention and hope to be able to use this with Vader in the near future.

    Thanks again!
    PT

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    1. Same here. A fix for this would be perfect.
      Doesn't work for all tie advanced, by the way.

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  23. awesome site mate, absolutely love it.
    couldnt find where to report a bug,
    tried flying the heavy syck today and when ever i tried i stripped the cannon from the ship (built list with flec cannon but didnt appear "in game"

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  24. Hello, I have tried dozens of times but the tie bomber with shuttle is not letting me take Systems officer or Fleet officer. I removes them once I start a game. Also trying to equip two elite pilot upgrades for Awings removes which ever elite card I chose second. Is there a known error for this?

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  25. I've had the same problem with Systems Officer and Fleet Officer on TIE Shuttles: They are removed at the start of the game.
    Awesome program btw! I really like it!

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  26. Damage weapon ion captures shield? Do you straight to the hull receives?

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  27. Same problem here with fleet officer on tie shuttle.

    Also, problem with primed thrusters, doesnt allow the ship equipped with it to take an action, thus the game cannot continue

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  28. You do a great job with this web app. I really appreciate your hard work, and it has helped me test things out as an x wing player. Thanks for all you do for the x wing community, Denis.

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  29. I noticed that Bossk's pilot ability doesn't work properly

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  30. Thanks again for this app. There has been an increasingly frequent problem with the "fire" button not appearing during combat, forcing the user to skip the entire combat phase repeatedly throughout the game. This just started a couple of months ago.

    I hope there's some way to fix this (as well as Advanced Targeting Computer).

    Thanks!!

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  31. Hi Guys,
    First of all, great work with that app - it's really well written.
    I just wonder whether you're still working and expanding it with new ships?

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  32. Are you still accepting donations towards new updates on the app? Thanks.

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  33. Nice to see a new version, but I can't play my squad.
    Trying to set a 99points KananBiggs squadron, but I end up with 86 points.

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  34. Hi, love the look of the latest version but getting problems with it. Seems to happen mainly after new squads created. I create, press 'go' and play. Then I come back later and select the new squads from saved squads and either no rocks show or nothing shows except one ship top left but screen frozen so can't get up there. Any suggestions? Thanks

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