Geez, we have so many X-Wing threads. I know I'm guilty of making like 4 of them lol This one is probably the relevant thread, though. Finally played, with my girlfriend at that. We played the basic game, first. I was Imperial, she was Rebel. She blew up both my ships and won the first game. Our second game she decided to play as Luke Skywalker, so I took the guy that lets you focus on Green moves and an Obsidian TIE. We played with some modified rules, slowly introducing the more complicated stuff to make it easier on her (and thus me). For an example, we treated Red Moves as White Moves. We did Shooting like the basic game, either you are in range, or you're not, no dice adding or subtracting, however the Range 1 vs 3 works (I wasn't worried about it yet). I managed to get Luke to 1 Hull Point, but she destroyed both of my guys. Although, at one point she thought about...well, in her words "You mean I can have Luke commit suicide and end this game?" The game had been going for over an hour at that point, with both us evading each others shots, or not having each other in range.
After the game, she said that she enjoyed it more than she thought she would and that she'd play again. I asked her if she'd like to try Attack WIng, she asked if it played the same, I told her very much the same, just things about stats changed, but moving and shooting was the same. I'll be picking up Attack Wing sometime soonish.