Episodes

  • 378: Guide to Tournament Play
    Nov 20 2024

    This week Matt and Hunter sit down to share their elite insights into what it takes to play competitive TI at a high level! Find out exactly how to vanquish your foes in the SCPT tournament, or just find out how to have a good time playing a silly complicated board game for fun but it's also kinda serious. We've got something for everyone this week!

    Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles

    Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

    Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

    To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • 377: Arcs - The Empire, The Blight, and You!
    Nov 13 2024

    This week we're diving deeper into the rulebook of Arcs - The Blighted Reach! Matt and Hunter break down the implications of the "neutral" players you will add to the game. How will you adjust to life within a crumbling Empire? Will the Blight overrun us all? FIND OUT THIS WEEK

    Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles

    Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

    To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • 376: Playing Against the Jol-Nar
    Nov 6 2024

    This week we're starting a small series of episodes for tournament season that are meant to teach players high level strategies to use against some of the best factions in Twilight Imperium. This episode we'll talk about mostly above the table policies you can utilize against the Universities of Jol-Nar. Let us know what you think in the discord!

    Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles

    Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

    Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

    To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 375: Arcs - The Blighted Reach: Learn to Learn
    Oct 30 2024

    This is a very excited start to what is going to be a very long ARC of Matt and Hunter talking about space games. Today we begin our discussion of the Arcs expansion "The Blighted Reach" aka "Campaign Mode" aka "Arcs: Imperium." What follows is a list of pointers and anecdotes for beginning to think about learning this excellent version of Arcs. While none of it will succinctly teach you how to play the game, it is helpful to hear about the experience of learning this huge game so as to learn it faster, better, and stronger than these two fools ever could have.

    Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles

    Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

    To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 374: Super Barony of Letnev Guide
    Oct 23 2024

    Here we are with our penultimate Faction guide and this one is a bit rough, Barony seems to struggle a lot in the data and the boys don't quite get to the bottom of it. There is one thing we are sure of, they're good at fighting, but is it enough? If all else fails I do hope that we inspire someone to figure out exactly how to reliably succeed with our Irish space warlords!

    Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles

    Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

    Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

    To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • 373: Arcs - Leaders and Lore Finale
    Oct 16 2024

    This week we reach the end of our Base Game Arcs coverage. The boys sit down to reflect on their feelings before we move forward into the wild world of Campaign Arcs. This one is heavy with feelings and theory and gets only a little bit meta at times. We hope you have enjoyed our coverage of base game Arcs! Looking forward to returning to it sometime in the coming years.

    Music provided by Brian Kupillas. Check out more of his music at: https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

    To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 372: SCPT Episode 001 COMMENTARY
    Oct 9 2024

    Today we have something weird and experimental for you all. While Matt is still in Germany attending Essen we've got Hunter all alone cookin' weirdo soup for the SCPT faithful. This week Hunter is sitting down to listen to the audio from the very first SCPT episode while giving his thoughts, heckles, and commentary. Let's see just how far we've come on this show and with Twilight Imperium.

    Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles

    Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

    Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

    To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • 371: Tournament 7 Qualifiers BEGIN!
    Oct 2 2024

    Hunter and EJ sit down this week to talk celebrate the beginning of Tournament 7! The slices are out! The game slots are open and people are playing their games! Get in there! For this episode the boys talk about advice for both players and streamers and go over some details that may not have been covered in a long time, it's also a very silly episode where we are just havin' fun. Hang out with us.

    Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles

    Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

    Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

    To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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    1 hr and 8 mins