Space Cats Peace Turtles

This episode summarized: 1. THERE IS GOING TO BE A UK INTERGALACTICAL SCPT TOURNAMENT JOIN THIS DISCORD (https://discord.gg/qt3Qj9qPyF) 2. THERE IS GOING TO BE AN ONLINE PATREON TWILIGHT'S FALL TOURNAMENT. SIGNUPS FOR YINSTERHOOD AND ABOVE TIERS ARE ON AUGUST 11th AT 11AM EASTERN US TIME. GALACTIC COUNCILORS AND ZINESTERS GET ACCESS ON AUGUST 12th AT 11AM EASTERN. WATCH THE FINALS OF THE TOURNAMENT ON JULY 25th at 9AM Eastern/13:00 UTC over on https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles Come see our comedy show at Gen Con (July 30th 8PM): https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/371208 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Special bonus promo episode for y'all this week. I sat down with Joeri Hessels the Designer of Council of Serpents to talk about the game, it's a game about manipulative strategy card game. I've played it, it's sassy like we are so if that sounds interesting to you check out the interview! Support Council of Serpents on Gamefound: Council of Serpents Gamefound WATCH THE FINALS OF THE TOURNAMENT ON JULY 25th at 9AM Eastern/13:00 UTC over on https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles Come see our comedy show at Gen Con (July 30th 8PM): https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/371208 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/  

Hunter and Jadiim are back in the lab again talking about another one of our most improved TI factions of the old times. It's the first of our original six factions in this cycle: THE BARONY. This episode actually features a lot of compliments for Dane which I feel like we don't do enough, he's the best though we lub Dane. WATCH THE FINALS OF THE TOURNAMENT ON JULY 25th at 9AM Eastern/13:00 UTC over on https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles Come see our comedy show at Gen Con (July 30th 8PM): https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/371208 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week, Hunter and Blasto dig into the ULTIMATE topic for winning this dang ol' game. Legit probably the only episode you ever need to listen to if you want to win more of your games. Please everybody get in here and let's change the way everyone plays this game so that we'll have to record a new episode that is about how to deal with everyone playing so good.  WATCH THE FINALS OF THE TOURNAMENT ON JULY 25th at 9AM Eastern/13:00 UTC over on https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles Come see our comedy show at Gen Con (July 30th 8PM): https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/371208 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hunter drove all of his stuff across the country and things were tough so this is your late episode this week. It's a commentary episode over an old POK era episode where Matt and Hunter had a discussion on winmaking. It's a weird one but it was the best I could do given the circumstances. Next week everything is back to normal I triple dog promise. Come see our comedy show at Gen Con (July 30th 8PM): https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/371208 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week Hunty needs a break while he prepares to shuffle his entire life across the country AGAIN, don't mind him this is just what he does. In the meantime Andcat was willing to sit down the old boy to have a whistlestop discussion of all of Thunder's Edge biggest unanswered rules questions. These would be great to get some feedback on whenever Dane gets some time to work on TI stuff but in the meantime let's just critique these two dorks while they grill through the ideas potluck style. Come see our comedy show at Gen Con (July 30th 8PM): https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/371208 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

The boys are back in town! It's time to finish what we started with another blow-out discussion of all your favorite techs in Twilight Imperium. This week we get into the Level 2 and Level 3 techs along with all of the remaining Unit Upgrades. There are plenty of hot takes so please go nuts on telling us how much we got wrong, we'd just hate that ;P. Come see our comedy show at Gen Con (July 30th 8PM): https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/371208 Watch the Video version: https://youtu.be/lBBWcb8LUYg 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Errata: During the Titan's of Ul Hero discussion we mistakenly clarify it as not being an attachment when it in fact is an attachment! I was thinking of the Keleres IIHQ which players sometimes mistakenly confuse as being an attachment.  Hello there! We're back with one of the big episodes this week, Hunter and JJ burrow deep into their sleepy souls to deliver you one fine guide to playing as the Titans of Ul. I think this is our best work yet as a duo and I have utmost confidence that if you watch this whole thing you'll be able to play as the Titans in your sleep, literally.   Also once you get to the rundown we've got a special surprise if you want to hear people complain about star wars. It's easily skipped!   Come the Kansas City Tournament (June 5-7): SCPT Intergalactical Kansas City Come to our Live Comedy Show at Gen Con SCPT @ Helium Indianapolis July 30th at 8PM 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we've got Elspeth on the show to dig deep into the details on the 36 Prelims tournament games that we played this year. There's a lot of tasty morsels to learn about and I hope you are ready for the Semi-Finals which begin this weekend! Come the Kansas City Tournament (June 5-7): SCPT Intergalactical Kansas City Come to our Live Comedy Show at Gen Con SCPT @ Helium Indianapolis July 30th at 8PM 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week, we're looking to the future and talking about where this beautiful game could be headed. Hunter and Alec wax onward and upward toward the next big release in the Twilight Imperium Saga: CODEX FIVE. We're owed, he said it on FaceBook Live. Come the Kansas City Tournament (June 5-7): SCPT Intergalactical Kansas City 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hunter, Jadiim, and Blasto are here for a roundtable discussion that had to be divided into two parts because it would have been a five hour long episode. It's tier list week over here at SCPT and we've decided now is the time to tackle all the generic technology. This wide ranging discussion is full of solid takes on the state of the game and the importance of tech overall. In this episode we tackle all the Level 0 and 1 tech of every color and we talk about Carrier 2, Fighter 2, Infantry 2, and Space Dock 2. Also if you like Magen Defense Grid we've got some content for youuuuu! Come the Kansas City Tournament (June 5-7): SCPT Intergalactical Kansas City 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we've got a bonus episode to start the week off with. I sat down with the one and only Elspeth to talk about why the Orlando Intergalactical was such a fun time. In this episode we fully explore the dynamics of her games and we even spoil her final in as much detail as we can muster so beware spoilers for a game that you cannot watch anyways! It's a fun conversation and if you like the sound of all of this you should really think about joining in on the next Tournament in Kansas City! Come the Kansas City Tournament (June 5-7): SCPT Intergalactical Kansas City 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week it's very serious. By popular demand of the Galactic Council themselves, I give you our ultimate guide to playing as the fan favorite faction of all time: The Arborec! This show has had a complicated history with this faction as they've been mostly a bottom tier faction for most of the Base Game and POK eras of TI4 but I'm proud to report that we've reached the end of that story: WELCOME TO THE SOLID B TIER ARBOREC! Come the Kansas City Tournament (June 5-7): SCPT Intergalactical Kansas City 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Our first ultimate guide is here! This week Hunter and El Blasto give you every single thing you would ever want to know about Exploration. Each card gets its' due as the boys wax and whine over the nitty gritty details of this system that was introduced during the POK era. It's a simple topic but we really nail it, check it out! Come the Kansas City Tournament (June 5-7): SCPT Intergalactical Kansas City 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

I hope you didn't think we were done with Twilight's Fall content, because we have no intention of stopping! This week we're trying something experimental that I enjoyed quite a bit, we decided to actually simulate an inaugural splice so we talk through some of the decision making process that goes into the initial draft. It's really clear in talking through it that there is a lot of difficult decisions to be made in this game mode. I really want to continue encouraging people to try it as it's an extremely fun way to experience this game. Anyways if you are confused by what we're talking about in this episode I would check out episode 427 about the Twilight's Fall rulebook. 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Arcs is back baby! This week I've got Cole and Josh of Buried Giant Studios on to talk about the future of the best space opera competitive strategy game that isn't called Twilight Imperium. They've really out done themselves with the promise of new leaders, new fates, a new draft system reminiscent of the advanced setup rules for Root and perhaps even secret conversations. It's a new dawn for Arcs and I'm excited to see how it develops.  Check out the kickstarter here: Arcs: Beyond the Reach Kickstarter 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week Hunter and Jadiim are indulging in our yearly tradition of recommending how best to experience Twilight Imperium at this point! We're rounding up all of the various options for getting involved and all of the crazy new and old ways you can experience the game. It's a beautiful overview that would be a great starting place for someone that is looking to play this game more than you ever should. 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we've got a fun one for y'all! In order to celebrate the first six months of Thunder's Edge, I decided to call up my friends and have a nice chat about the state of Twilight Imperium and how different creators see the game, it's fun and nice and sweet! Check out the video version: https://youtu.be/eU4cNTwlPik?si=R6WYQKoN2G-oi8yF 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hey hey! I've got a bonus episode for you all this week. This extra episode is an in-depth interview with the designer of The Old King's Crown Pablo Clark. We had a great conversation about the unexpected success of this deep strategy game that I hope you will enjoy. The game is currently headed for it's second printing so if you feel like this sounds up your weird strategy alley you should check it out below!  The Old King's Crown Campaign page: The Old King's Crown Second Printing and New Songs of Home Expansion 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we finally reach the end of our first pass on everything new included in the Thunder's Edge expansion! Only about six months to talk about everything. We've been very specific about it to, I think we've saved the best for last. The Firmament is far from the greatest faction but I think what they bring to the table is so fresh that it's just too exciting to ignore. So sit down with Me and Blasto as we wax poetic on what works and what doesn't and remember to keep an open mind, there was a time that factions like Arborec and Yin were considered bad and then as our understanding evolves we realize that they aren't bad, they're just mid. Maybe that will be the case here! The Old King's Crown Campaign page: The Old King's Crown Second Printing and New Songs of Home Expansion 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Our final component overview episode for Twilight's Fall! From here on out it's gonna get weirder and more specific so study up this week with Hunter and Blasto as they sit down again for another absolute barn burner of an overview. Every single Genome and Paradigm is spoken aloud into our microphones. I hope you have been following along with the Twilight's Fall episodes because going forward we're going to be changing how we cover this stuff and it's going to get more specific and complicated. This will all be on the test! The Old King's Crown Campaign page: The Old King's Crown Second Printing and New Songs of Home Expansion 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hey y'all! I'm delaying your regularly scheduled episode one day so that I can announce the next intergalactical. Very excited to be heading to Kansas City in June. Tickets will be available starting on April 15th, sign up for the Weird Bear or Wormholigan Patreon tier for access to the Pre-Sale on April 1st. 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week it's a full panel with Hunter, JadiimJedi, and Blasto sitting down for a full on SCPT Ranking episode! We go in depth the hot takes you crave and there is even some decent information for beginner's that might be missing some of the finer details. Like all of our ranking episodes I'd like you to make sure to take it all super serious and if you disagree please tell everyone you know. See you in Florida this weekend! 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We're closing up our initial look at the Thunder's Edge expansion with our first look at the final two Mahact Kings. Hunter and Alec saved two very solid options for last as the Saint of Swords can hit like a truck full of swords and Lurch is just the most interesting option if you like playing underdog factions that have extremely unique options available to them. Very excited to get into our next era of Twilight's Fall coverage! Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We've got Jadiim Jedi in the hot seat this week and we're diving deep into the noble waters of our brand new fish faction! These guys are great and really dig them a lot so this one of those feel good episodes where we just talk about how much we love playin' as our new fishy friends. Download this episode and GO TO SCHOOL. Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th Tickets here: Hunter at Sisyphus Brewing! Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

The unit upgrades are the hottest deck this side of the Twilight's Fall, and this week Hunter and Blasto are going to walk you through exactly how these cards DEFINE the beautiful game that is Twilight's Fall. In the rundown section Hunter muses on what old Factions he's most looking forward to covering and announces how future guides will be prioritized in the years to come! Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th Tickets here: Hunter at Sisyphus Brewing! Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

You've got questions, we've got answers. This week we've got Andcat back on the show and he has convened with a secret cabal of Rules Lawyers in order to dig deep on one of the big new rules concepts that you need to know in advance of the next big faction guide! This is a weird nitty gritty episode but I feel like it's fascinating if you wanna jump into the muck of new interactions that frequently come up. Consider this episode a preview of the hotly anticipated living rules reference update! Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th Tickets here: Hunter at Sisyphus Brewing! Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hunter and Alec are back on the case! Taking on the next two Mahact kings is quite the roller coaster today. Il Na Viroset is a real star of the new mode and I feel confident you'll really dig them but El Nen Janovet is a whole other story.... Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th Tickets here: Hunter at Sisyphus Brewing! Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

I'm so excited to talk about this faction. Last Bastion is exactly the kind of faction that I love to champion! They're kinda bad but also extremely good given certain situations and contexts, in this episode Hunter and JadiimJedi are gonna dig right into those exact situations. They're the good guys! Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th Tickets here: Hunter at Sisyphus Brewing! Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hunter and Blasto have returned to finish what they started! We've got another two hour barn burner here for you as the two of them sit down to read through and analyze the rest of the Twilight's Fall Ability deck. It's deep stuff here! Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we've got Alec back in the chair NOT talking about Twilight's Fall stuff, instead it's time to put on our cartography glasses and dig deep on all of the beautiful new hexagons Santa gave us! We also spend a bit in the beginning discussing Leonardo DiCraprio so don't get spooked by that.  Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Welcome to 2026! This week we've got a business episode with EJ Sanders as our guest so you can expect some silly stuff. We talk about a lot of our goals for SCPT this year and some of our future events before digging into the results of the first annual GALACTIC CENSUS. This is a new feature of the patreon I'll do at the end of every year where we poll the audience on favorite faction, favorite way to play, and favorite moments from the year in Twilight Imperium. Think of it as a community year in review. After the ad Break stay tuned for Hunter as he breaks down this year's changes to the Patreon structure and tier features. Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

It's faction tier list time! Our first of the Thunder's Edge era! What a time to be alive! To celebrate the end of 2025 Hunter, Blasto, and JadiimJedi convene to get embark on the first of what will be a series of tier list episodes where we really get to the heart of exactly how good every single faction in Twilight Imperium is. This is a traditional tier list that we tackled in alphabetical order if you want to jump to a particular faction I've given you chapter markers for every faction! Happy New Year! Signups for our first online Thunder's Edge tournament are LIVE! Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Happy Holidays! I got you this gift of a weird conversation featuring Bane Salami and Katt Fartens. Honestly I don’t even remember what we talked about. Enjoy!

Hunter and Alec are back for some more Twilight's Fall discussion! This week is all about the broken as heck Money Mahact who can legitimately conjure more Trade Goods then any seat in the entire game. In the second half we break down the Arborec themed Mahact which has very tasty production mechanics. These are both very solid choices so consult these if you wanna play the good Kings! Signups for our first online Thunder's Edge tournament are LIVE! Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

I hope you like lizards and or geckos because Hunter and Jadiim Jedi are back to dive into our next brand new faction, the Ral Nel!  These funky geckos like to shrink down their structures and fly them around to wherever they feel like it. I love them! I think plenty of you all will love them too. Also we've got some errata from our Crimson Rebellion guide so check that out too! Signups for our first online Thunder's Edge tournament are LIVE! Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hunter and Blasto are back for the first half of an extremely in-depth discussion overviewing the Ability Deck for Twilight's Fall. This deck has an overwhelming number of cards and is the real backbone of this new mode so I would consider this conversation essential for understanding the potential strategy that this game mode unlock. The second part of this discussion will drop in January, we decided to split it up because it was looking to be an incredibly long episode and we'd love some more time to think about the ability deck! Feel free to hit us with some errata on this one and we'll get to it in part 2. Signups for our first online Thunder's Edge tournament are LIVE! Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Your next intergalactical tournament is locked in!    We'll be at The Haven Games in  Casselberry, FL on March 13th through the 16th 2026!   Weird Bear and Findergardner Pre-Sale will be on December 16th at 11AM Central!   General tickets will go on sale January 1st at 11AM Central!

It's a Hunter and JadiimJedi episode! Expect it to go long and feature lots of tangents. This week we're taking a look at all the new action cards added to Thunder's Edge (We'll do a separate episode for the Twilight's Fall cards don't you worry). Also reminder! Many of the codex ACs also got makeovers so expect us to cover that as well. Someday we'll do another episode about the entire AC deck and I hope on that day you will witness the first 7 hour SCPT episode.  Signups for our first online Thunder's Edge tournament are LIVE! Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles Qualifier Slices: It's Gashlai O'clock | 26,28,115,43,19 Fisherman's Horizon | 39,110,62,49,63 The Bellagio | 79,109,107,47,74 Triples is Best | 102,76,111,114,48 The Tempestations | 40,108,100,44,37 A Starpoint in your Starpoint | 113,27,99,46,24 Atlas "Shrugged" | 64,73,67,42,59   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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week on SCPT, we dig deep into two of the Mahact Kings of the Twilight's Fall Game Mode! Can you believe we're doing faction guides for these Mahact Kings which only have two faction abilities? How ever will we manage???? Signups for our first online Thunder's Edge tournament are LIVE! Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles Map of the week goes to Bells with the "Brainiac" Map: 101 19 63 114 48 37 76 80 31 40 74 47 27 24 105 50 113 107 0 39 59 0 72 46 0 97 62 0 115 102 0 34 61 0 100 44 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Okay well here we are. The first of the new wave of guides for Thunder's Edge. For this first pass we'll be going over each of the new factions over the course of several months. This first guide features Hunter and Blasto breaking down the components for the Crimson Rebellion and pondering the deeper implications of their strategy. It's definitely not our last word on the matter but it's a great starting point. We have our first online tournament coming up, signups start TODAY at 16:00 UTC/11AM Eastern! Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week Hunter and Alec sit down to overview the Twilight's Fall Strategy Cards and talk about the Edicts! It's a great episode for gearing yourself up for any upcoming Twilight's Fall game.  We have our first online tournament coming up, signups start on November 12th at 16:00 UTC/11AM Eastern! Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

CLARIFICATION: Several times in this episode (and in the ad) I mention that the signups start on November 12th at 16:00UTC/NOON Eastern which is incorrect. I meant to say that signups start on the 12th at 16:00UTC/11AM Eastern. Hello! Special bonus episode for you today. Hunter is here solo to explain to you how and WHEN to sign up for our first Online Tournament for Thunder's EDGE. Also we go through an overview of the tournament rules for new and returning competitors. Subscribe to the patreon to get in on the action! 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Yo this week, Hunter and JadiimJedi sit down to rank and discuss all 25 breakthroughs for the old factions. It's a blow-out discussion that essentially covers the entire game in brief excluding the newest factions. Also for the first 45 minutes we review the new rules for breakthroughs and synergies in an attempt to clear up some confusion. HAVE FUN! Thunder's Edge, forver. For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hunter and Alec are seating down for a read along! This time we're diving into the Twilight's Fall rulebook to cover what this great alternate game mode is going to offer us. If you found the previous reveal episode confusing this episode should clear a lot of what the mode is actually about up, however even this discussion is just the beginning of our coverage! Enjoy and remember this Friday Hunter will be streaming his first official gameplay video for Thunder's Edge on twitch! For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Matt is back this week with Hunter for a special occasion. We're doing a special bonus episode this week so that we can fit in all the juicy SCPT content we want! So for this episode we're going to hit y'all with the last and best POK TIL submissions that we have received! Thanks to everyone who sent us any stories over the years, y'all mean so much to us!   For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we're back with a fresh start! Hunter and El Blasto (TI Tournament extraordinaire) sit down to work through the new rulebook. Now that Hunter has his copy of Thunder's Edge we've gotta begin our project of analyzing all of the new content! It starts here with the beautiful rulebook but soon we'll get to Faction guides, component overviews, and click-bait hot takes. Long live SCPT!     For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we've got a weird episode for ya, we went to the Galactic Council to ask them for questions regarding the end of the POK era of the TI. A lot of it involves Hunter and Matt looking back at their 8 years of working on the show but also we've got a discussion at the end that pertains to Matt's continued involvement in the show. It's a bit of a downer but I hope y'all will stick with the show even if Matt will be less involved going forward. For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hunter, Matt, and Dane are all here to talk about the big elephant in the room for the new Twilight Imperium expansion. What exactly is Twilight's Fall? Is it simply an official take on frankendraft? How wildly does it differ from regular Twilight Imperium? Is it the new "real" way to play the game? Did Dane make us two expansions??? ALL THIS AND MORE, WITHIN!   For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we've got a full on FACTION REVEAL. Dane is here to give us a full component reveal of one of the wildest new additions to the faction roster and I couldn't be happier. If you've been wondering who the weird robed figures are on the cover and back of the new box, well it's time to find out what their whole deal is. Special thanks to Dane for bein' my buddy and giving us all the good spoilers. BUT ALSO Ethan over at Cardboard Crash Course is simultaneously revealing a whole different faction too! How will you cope with all of these juicy details???? Watch Ethan's video here: https://youtu.be/ae8SD6XilMU?si=nNnfZaxQslvxN-Li   For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles   Twilight Imperium Digital Trailer: https://youtu.be/V5-TK-5JTm4?si=hoawipqgcs43yma3 Wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3669430/Twilight_Imperium_Digital/   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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This is easily one of the craziest episodes of this podcast we've ever produced. So first up we're going to cover FOUR new Thunder's Edge component teasers because I got to make it up to you for all the weeks I wasn't able to share the new stuff. Then we're going to talk about the new announced Twilight Imperium game "Twilight Imperium Digital" and only after all of that will we get into the meat of the episode where Hunter, Matt, EJ, and some fun guests talk about our shared love for the social deduction game BLOOD ON THE CLOCK TOWER. If you've never played this game before hopefully you'll get a good idea of why people love it and what kinds of gameplay experiences you can find within!   For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles   Twilight Imperium Digital Trailer: https://youtu.be/V5-TK-5JTm4?si=hoawipqgcs43yma3 Wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3669430/Twilight_Imperium_Digital/   Blood on the clock tower resources are here: https://bloodontheclocktower.com/   Follow Victoria on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/yourqueerbigsister/   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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/   Special thanks to EJ Sanders, Victoria Jocko, and Joshua Yearsley! 

Hunter and Absol sit down this week to talk about all of the lore teasers that we have for where the story of Twilight Imperium is going to be headed into the upcoming expansion, Thunder's Edge. She is absolutely an expert in this arena and she has a lot of really good information that is public that you might not know about because you might not have read all of the TI books for the RPG, so check it out! For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we've got Alec back in the Virtual studio to discuss the history of Twilight Imperium as an E-Sport and also how Thunder's Edge might change all of that! For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

After a puzzling announcement up top we get into the our final RPG session! How will our Keleres Agents save the Mecatol Rex from bacterial weapons? Special thanks to our cast this week of EJ, Sun, Alec, and our wonderful GM Absol! For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles   Music provided by Ben Prunty and Keanerschnitzel 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/

Big Announcement up top so stay tuned for information about upcoming Thunder's Edge teasers! Exciting times to be a Twilight Imperium fan! This week on the show Hunter sits down with Ethan from Carboard Crash Course to chat about what we think the new Mahact filled alternate mode will be. Will it be frankendraft to the letter of the law? Will it disrupt everything? Is it good? None of these questions are fully answered but we did have a great time thinking about it. Stay tuned till the end for this week's Thunder's Edge component teaser! For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles Check out Ethan's Twilight Imperium youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@CardboardCrashCourseTI 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/ Art by Sun To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This is easily one of the most important episodes of SCPT since the very beginning. This week Hunter and El Blasto sit down to talk piece by piece about every single new component that Fantasy Flight Games has revealed for the upcoming TI4 expansion, THUNDER'S EDGE. Buckle up because this is a long one and there is so much to talk about. Also keep in mind that not all of the components discussed in this episode are fully confirmed however, we tried our best to note each time we talked about the less "concrete" examples. For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/

Matt is back with an episode we recorded before Gen Con. This week we're catching up with him on all of the new components introduced with Codex 4. His premium takes are finally bestowed upon us and we will learn the good stuff finally! Also Hunter comes to you twice from a post-Gen Con universe to talk about the expansion announcement and give you some taste of what was a Gen Con for the ages. For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/

Well the elephant is out of the box now! For this special episode of SCPT we sat down with Liv Sheppard of Fantasy Flight Games for an interview about the just announced Twilight Imperium expansion titled THUNDER'S EDGE. Get it! For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles   Thunder's Edge Trailer: https://youtu.be/L_2BkZTNjZ4?si=GrFehCYJH7VGRudl   Music provided by Ben Prunty 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/

Another no preamble start as we get into the second part of our three part Twilight Imperium RPG story! Will our boys solve Absol's mystery? Special thanks to our cast this week of EJ, Sun, Alec, and our wonderful GM Absol! For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles   Music provided by Ben Prunty and Keanerschnitzel 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/

Today we're rounding out our Codex Four coverage with our final new Galactic Event (It's actually kinda old) Minor Factions! It's a super solid mode that I recommend whole heartedly to anyone who might be a little squeamish about these alternate game modes. It's not too much craziness and there is still plenty of room for classic Twilight Imperium strategy. My guest today is Jadiim Jedi who you might recognize from the Tournament 6 online Finals and the Portland Intergalactical finals from this year. For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/

This week we're talking about what is likely the goofiest of the new Galactic Events! It basically blows the lid off the tech game and enables everyone to lend each other into an apocalypse of SHARING. Our guest this week is El Blasto who was featured in the Finals of our online tournament this year and is also an accomplished streamer and commentator of our beloved game. For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/

This week Hunter sits down with community member Andcat (and frequent merch collaborator) to talk about our experience with the Age of Exploration Galactic event. This is one of the more reasonable events and I think it brings a fun chill experience to the game. We moved the rundown to the end with this episode and you might want to stick around for it if you have missed having Matt in these episodes.   For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/

This week we've got a special presentation for you. No preamble! We just get right into another episode of us playing the TI RPG. Specifically this week we're tackling the first part of the module included in Codex 4! Expect part 2 in a few weeks. Special thanks to our cast this week of EJ, Sun, Alec, and our wonderful GM Absol!   For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles   Music provided by Keanerschnitzel 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/

More Codex Four coverage! This week Hunter sits down with JadiimJedi to talk in-dept about the Total War Galactic Event. It's a fun new way to play that game that I really encourage you to check out.   For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/

This week, Hunter sits down with Alec to answer the Galactic Council call! How do you beat the evil masters of the ancient galaxy? Find out within. For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here: https://linktr.ee/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/

And we're already back! Extra episode for you as an apology for last week. This time me and Root aka Alec are going to talk about our recent playthrough of the teaser scenario introduced in Codex Four. Also in the Intro I talk about the new Omega Components for X-89 and Magen Defense Grid so stay tuned for that.   Liberation of Ordinian Gameplay Video: https://youtu.be/DLElMoj7CGM?si=vaUd9Y7ZZMnawJyJ You can buy tickets to our LIVE SHOW in Portland OR on June 27th at 8:30pm right here: https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/shows/space-cats-peace-turtles-live?date=2025-06-27T20:30:00 You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229 You can join the Intergalactical Discord here: https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99   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/

April showers have brought June flowers it appears. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/twilight-imperium-fourth-edition/   You can buy tickets to our LIVE SHOW in Portland OR on June 27th at 8:30pm right here: https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/shows/space-cats-peace-turtles-live?date=2025-06-27T20:30:00 You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229 You can join the Intergalactical Discord here: https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99   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/

Hey there friends! We had a lot of plans blow up on us last week so we've had to pivot a bunch of plans, I promise we'll be back to normal next week! For now I've got an experimental episode for you. Hunter is going to listen to episode 26 of SCPT and give you his PODCASTER'S commentary. It's a weird thing we've done once before and it's a great nostalgic way to listen to our old ideas and compare them to the current SCPT paradigms. This old episode was originally called "Kingmaking and Support for the Throne" and it features Matt, Hunter, and our buddy Alex. It's a fun old episode to think about in the context of our current talk around winemaking.   You can buy tickets to our LIVE SHOW in Portland OR on June 27th at 8:30pm right here: https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/shows/space-cats-peace-turtles-live?date=2025-06-27T20:30:00 You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229 You can join the Intergalactical Discord here: https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99   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/

Sorry friends! We'll make it up to you, I promise.   You can buy tickets to our LIVE SHOW in Portland OR on June 27th at 8:30pm right here: https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/shows/space-cats-peace-turtles-live?date=2025-06-27T20:30:00 You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229 You can join the Intergalactical Discord here: https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99   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/

And we're back with more TRY HARD VS. GUIDES! This episode will teach you to absolute dominate the sneaky gerblins. In this episode we expose their EXTREME WEAKNESS. This episode is basically a top ten reasons why the tribes are bad actually. JK we try out some ideas in this episodes but you could do everything we tell ya and it could still go wrong so couch your bias and explore the ideas with us! You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229 You can join the Intergalactical Discord here: https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99 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/

This week we continue an SCPT tradition and provide advice for the listeners out there in the congregation that do not actually play TI. It's a great time to get into this game! Especially before the homework INTENSIFIES maybe? In this silly episode Matt and Hunter walk you through all of the different angles you can approach Twilight Imperium from. It's a newcomer invitation with a lot of our go to common sense advice baked in. In the second half of the episode the boys audit themselves and explain exactly how the business works. It's not complicated lol but you wanted to know! You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229 You can join the Intergalactical Discord here: https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99 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/

And with this the final SCPT Prophecy of Kings Tournament arc is complete! Rejoice! You can watch the game here on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2450129216 You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229 Special thanks to Matt, Root, Karnal, and Elspeth for their incredible work on the finals! tangs incredible qualifier game: https://youtu.be/Q9yHQl5fn4s?si=E18WFzEvn1wbjqdl 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/

Another year, Another SCPT Twilight Imperium Finals! In this episode Matt and Hunter split up to interview the finalists right ahead of the big game. This is a great crop of players for our final game of the POK tournament era. Special thanks to our finalists dzhiriki Bannerspear tang catoftheyear and El Blasto!   Please come watch the game LIVE over on twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles on May the 4th starting at 14:00 UTC! It's gonna be a fun one!   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/

This week Matt and Hunter celebrate 8 years of SCPT by reflecting on the past and looking to the future while their friend Dane teases them and the audience with the promise of new content!  If you want to see what was released please go to the discord but we encourage you to listen to the episode till you get to the reveal because it will be more fun. Thanks for all of your support, really. You da best.   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/

Okay, this is it. This is the last of the Super Guides. It's a wild one and it's a long one! Matt and Hunter conquer the most important phase of the game and wind through every Strategy Card in the game. The discussion is wide reaching and is a great focal point for new and old listeners. We hope you enjoy it, and we hope you are excited for what happens next on the show. Thanks for listening! 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/

This week Matt and Hunter sit down to talk through the entire Agenda deck! Every Agenda gets some time on this blow-out episode. With this episode the boys look back on a part of the game that improved in the POK era but it's time to say goodbye to it. So bye bye Agenda phase as we know it!  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/

Hey there! Sorry for a late episode but this one was a victim of all of the wonderful fun we had last weekend at our first in-person TI tournament in Minnesota. Special thanks to the gamezenter for hosting us. This week Hunter is going to give you some solo information for the next tournament so you can go ahead and get geared up for that. Also we've got a wonderful interview with the winner of the first tournament whose identity I will not spoil here! Intergalactical discord: https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99 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/ Ahmed Khalaf's  new comedy album: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kkBc6WPAqkCXSrxH8EA2Ah8QclavYPAkY

Sorry about the late episode! We are swamped this week but we still were able to deliver you a hot plate of classic SCPT content. Listen as the brothers go classic mode on all of the faction Leader Suites! We're closing in on the end of the POK era of TI so this feels timely to look back at one of the eras biggest improvements. Also wish us luck on the big event this weekend. ALSO ALSO big announcement in the rundown regarding the Portland Intergalactical. 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/

This week we've two anchor segments for you! For the first half we've got an interview with Tristan Palmgren about his new book "Voice of One" which is set in the Twilight Imperium Universe and it sounds great! For our second half Hunter will re-cap the Prelims in general and give you a play by play of his recent Prelims game. Also the Semis are right around the corner! Also the Intergalactical is even sooner! Everything is happening! Get tickets to our live show in Minneapolis March 27th https://ccug.yapsody.com/event/book/839087/31732025 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/

This week, Matt and Hunter sit down and go real deep into the specifics of the Agenda Phase. We'll talk about all of the Agenda deck in the future but for now we found enough to talk about in just going through the order of operations within the phase itself. It's classic nuts and bolts SCPT so we hope you enjoy! Get tickets to our live show in Minneapolis March 27th https://ccug.yapsody.com/event/book/839087/31732025 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/

This week we're finally addressing all of the teasing that we've been doing since late last year about a new project. We've got a new podcast coming your podcast feeds right now and it's all about the Leder Games oeuvre with the early emphasis being on Arcs. We've got podcast are by Kyle Ferrin, new music from Ben Prunty, and lots of surprises! We hope you check it out!   Get tickets to our live show in Minneapolis March 27th https://ccug.yapsody.com/event/book/839087/31732025 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/

This week your boys are going to look back at where it all started for us. We're digging deep into the components and rules of TI 3rd edition. Check out all the beautiful details and unexpected differences. In this first part we talk about Strategy Cards, Unit stats, and Technology.   Get tickets to our live show in Minneapolis March 27th https://ccug.yapsody.com/event/book/839087/31732025 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/

We've got an off-book episode this week for you. Matt and Hunter have a frank conversation about what they value in high level Twilight Imperium play. I'm not sure we find an absolute metric but these are thoughts we've been having lately so check that out. Matt also admits that Hunter is a really smart guy finally. After so many years of Matt shooting his friend down, he finds the truth.   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/

It's another component Super Guide! We've had a lot of time with Prophecy of Kings now and the last time we discussed Exploration at length, we were still learning. But we have a clearer picture these days of what makes exploration good and what's not worth investing in. Allow us to divulge these brilliant findings... 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/

THE INTERGALACTICAL MINNEAPOLIS TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-minneapolis-tickets-1217327823289?aff=oddtdtcreator Low ticket alert! Today we talk about the incredibly well crafted Twilight Imperium Homebrew project: Discordant Stars! Listen as the boys survey the over-arching goals of the project and do a component overview for 3 of the 34 custom factions. We're excited to dig more into it while we are in this arc where we are patiently waiting for the box shaped thing that is heading right for us!    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/

THE INTERGALACTICAL MINNEAPOLIS TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-minneapolis-tickets-1217327823289?aff=oddtdtcreator Get them while they're hot!   Remember when we told you we were releasing the final super guide? Well just like the Keleres themselves we have been added to the crew AFTER THE FACT! This was a fun guide to research and write so I hope you enjoy the listen. This is our final faction guide for the POK era of SCPT it has been a multi-year process! Congrats to us.   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/

THE INTERGALACTICAL MINNEAPOLIS TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-minneapolis-tickets-1217327823289?aff=oddtdtcreator Get them while they're hot!   This week Matt and Hunter jump into the Playtester's Hideout to talk about all the submissions they've received for alternative Level 2 and 3 technologies for the future release of the SCPT Codex (Due some time in 2026). Come listen as we nitpick our fans and chase after a chance at making the TI tech system sing with more beauty. Stay tuned for even more Prelims games this weekend and check out the first playtest on Sunday!   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/

We're going back to the history books! And this time, it's history that we took part in. This is the beginning of what will actually be a decently long journey of charting the development of the Third Edition of Twilight Imperium and breaking down all of its various components. If you've seen our episodes about 1st and 2nd edition, don't let those fool you. We intend to talk a LOT more about 3rd Edition. And to start, it's a bunch of information about before the game even released... 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/

This week, we're circling back to one of our favorite strategy topics, Technology! For the last time in this era of TI we're going to work through the entire generic tech tree giving our feelings and thoughts on each component. This is a big episode for us as we begin our "farewell" arc to Prophecy of Kings. Stay tuned through the end for updates on this months patreon benefits. Also next week we will begin the Weird Bear and Findergardner pre-sale for the first North American Intergalactical event. If you don't know what that means check out last week's episode!   Check out our Patreon here for some new benefits! 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/  

Happy New year! We're back for a solo Hunter episode where he's gonna tell you about an exciting new project from SCPT. We're starting a North American cross-country in-person Twilight Imperium Tournament. It's crazy, It's exciting, It's wild! In this episode Hunter is going to break down how you can sign up for it and what exactly it is. We'll touch on some of the rules and start the ball rolling on a project that has been cooking for a very long time. See you in Minneapolis March 28-30! Check out our Patreon here for some new benefits! 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/

This week the boys talk about their favorite presents, 2024 in film, and the board game Stationfall. Happy Holidays! We'll see you in the New Year!   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/

This week we're lookin' to Santa for some holiday cheer in the new year with a list of wants and desires for the new "box shaped" thing from FFG coming sometime soon. We get very hypothetical and very specific in ways that are sure to get your galaxy brain just burstin' with possibilities! 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/

This month is getting busier and busier. We were in Philadelphia for PAX Unplugged and that seemed like a perfect opportunity to have some guests on and hold the annual Faction Tier List episode. Rwise and Teddysjamforyou both joined us in Matt's dirty hotel room, so get prepared for THAT kind of energy. We also didn't strictly do a Tier List this year, but instead decided to hold a Faction Draft and subsequent Tournament to determine not only the best Faction but the best Faction Drafter! 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/

We're back with some more Tournament focused TI content. Come sign up for the final wave of Qualifier games that will be running through December 22nd! Also say hi to us at PAX this weekend if you're going. This week the boys sit down to talk through what players should think about when using the milty draft SCPT tournament tool and they even spend some time doing a mock draft where they roleplay as various exciting characters like Dinky and Horse. Great fun. 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/

With this episode Matt and Hunter have completed a two year cycle of covering every single faction in TI to the deepest of our ability. It's been a long journey and we didn't get everything perfect (give us one more go around!) but we did pack a lot of very good detail into all of these guides. They should stand as a great resource until the oncoming codex four wipes out their relevancy! For this final guide we dive into the bug boys of Sardakk N'orr, a faction that is not great but is very fun and has very interesting abilities. Bug boys love mom!  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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

This is it y'all, the episode you have been waiting for, for a long time. Today we're going to talk about the famous and beloved zombie plants that we love to hate and you love to love. They're the best, they're the worst and we can't get enough of them.   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/

Today we cross a major finish line! This is our final set of Leader introductions for Arcs base game! After this, we start venturing off into the great unknown of the Blight Reach Campaign, but first we have to tell about two of our favorite Leaders of the whole set! And who better to join us to noted Leder Games fanatic, Lord of the Board. Check out Lord of the Board's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LordoftheBoard 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/

This week all your questions about the upcoming 7th SCPT Twilight Imperium Patreon tournament will be answered. The important news is that you can sign up for the first games on SEPTEMBER 18TH at 15:00 UTC/11:00AM Central Time. Also if you are interested in playing in the tournament this year I recommend last week's episode also if you haven't listened to it yet.   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/

It's finally here! We're ready to announce our SEVENTH annual Twilight Imperium Patreon Tournament. We'll go in depth on the details, but head to the discord to ask us more questions and we'll follow up in next week's episode. We're also excited to announce our intent to do an even dumber idea than a TI tournament, a tournament for Blight Reach Campaign Arcs! How do we have time for all of these events? Honestly, I wish I knew... 0:00 - Twilight Imperium Tournament Info 38:38 - Arcs Campaign Tournament Info 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/

This week we're back with friend of the show, Tom Brewster of Shut Up and Sit Down! Listen as we turn the corner on three more of the arcs leaders and dig even further into what makes Arcs a unique strategy game. These three leaders really showcase the different styles of Arcs leaders with interesting abilities, obvious applications, and one of them is just kind of bogus. You'll love it! Also stay tuned next week for the imminent announcement of PATREON TOURNAMENT 7. You will not want to miss that.   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/

The Galactical Council is still letting us cool down a bit from GenCon and some travel that followed, so this week we're taking it easy and letting you in on the big project we have planned for NEXT year. We want to host a series of North American Twilight Imperium events IN PERSON. We've been teasing this for a while, but 2025 finally feels like the year we can make it happen. We want 6 tournaments around the US and Canada that all play into one Championship match, and we want to put as much effort in as we can to bringing those games to the global audience! We'll film the 6 semi-final matches in each of the different cities, as well as the Championship for your viewing pleasure! Tune in for more info!! 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/

We're back with more of our Gen-Con coverage from this year. We've got two excellent conversations with wonderful people talking about new games. First up we have Nick Brachmann talking about his new game Swarm! It's heavily inspired by Pikmin and we're very excited for the potential future fun. Following that we have the thing you really waiting for, our first conversation about the new Root Expansion with Joshua Yearsley. It sounds wild y'all.   Come see Hunter perform in Portland! https://linktr.ee/HunterDonaldson   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/

This episode is not for the faint of heart! It is actually BOTH OGA and SCPT segments of the back-to-back live shows held at the Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis, IN during the week of GenCon. Special guests Anica Cihla (https://x.com/anicacihla) and Jake Michels (https://woodlandwarmachine.podbean.com/) join us to improvise some game designs, and EJ Sanders joins us to read your board gaming horror stories. There are swears words and much much worse in this episode, so please don't listen to this with your family. 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/

The Galactic Council finally did us a solid, so we brought Sun and EJ Sanders to pretend this show is Old Gamer's Almanac and bring you 15 video games we like. We're friends and this is normal friend energy, okay? 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/

We've got another batch of Arcs Leaders to overview for you today! We're gearing up to finish our Base Game Arcs coverage before we go full hog wild into the campaign Arcs. Prepare for that content to become the mainstay to go along with our traditional Twilight Imperium coverage. Also this episode features a guest appearance from Arcs developer Joshua Yearsley! We let a developer write a strategy guide FOR THEIR OWN GAME, WE'RE THAT CRAZY. COME TO OUR LIVE SHOW ON AUGUST 1ST IN INDIANAPOLIS: https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/events/95653   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/

Finally the most important episode of the year! Today we're talking about the cats we are named after. We love these poster children of the Twilight Imperium brand and we want you to care about them too. Grab a bag of a money and sit down for this big one!   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/

It's another Arcs episode! Hunter is out this week so we've gone a bit lighter and just have two guides brought to you by Matt and EJ. Don't worry, it's not like we don't have an hour and a half worth of stuff to talk about even though it's only four sentences worth of text to evaluate... Music provided by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/ To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we're back in the shadows, we have your guide for the Yssaril Tribes! This tricky faction is full o' surprises. Don't turn your back on these guys! Also this episode is kinda grumpy and we apologize for that we were feelin' spicy.   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/

You asked and we're here to provide! For months Dane has been leaving a trail of bread crumbs. And recently that trail led to some substantial components! The Galactic Council has asked us to talk about what seems to be brewing in Dane's Workshop. Here's the thing...it's not actually very much so get ready for us to make a lot out of very little.... 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/

Hunter's out on tour this week which means Matt needed a new friend! Good for him he works with some pretty cool folks, including Nick Brachmann! Nick is a Senior Developer at Leder Games and is responsible for the upcoming Ahoy: New Horizons expansion. It more than doubles what is possible in Ahoy and Matt has been playing a lot of it recently. Let's talk game development, creativity, and fostering strategic depth! Also MAPS. 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/

It's a Muaat Guide! Embers of Muaat is one of those factions that some people in the community insist is "actually really good." I haven't been convinced, but they do have tools that can FEEL good if everything else went right. What does it take to get this faction from their bad start and to a game that feels good? 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/

More Arcs! And this time, we've got Hunter around. He's been thinking about the Overseer for months now and is ready to get it all off of his chest. Meanwhile, EJ and Matt are back, this time with the Upstart and Rebel. It's a mix of Leaders that all seem to want to strike very early in different ways which honestly made it incredibly difficult to play them against each other so many times! Some games of Arcs are all about chapter 5 and it turns our some games the whole game gets played in the first two chapters and the rest of the time you're just living with your mistakes... Please go to Hunter's comedy shows and Space Cats Live! https://linktr.ee/HunterDonaldson   Music provided by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Here begins a series of SCPT episodes that will absolutely get to the deep dark depths of strategy you've been waiting for. The show really begins here, everything else has just been a precursor. He who controls the direct hit, controls the universe!    Please go to Hunter's comedy shows and Space Cats Live! https://linktr.ee/HunterDonaldson   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/    

Sit your butts down and get ready to be schooled in the classroom by your god-tier Winnu player: THE MATT MARTENS. Jk Winnu is bad and we'll cover in depth the why and the how. There is a lot of useful information here for those of you that feel the determination to pilot them regardless of their ineptitude. It's one of our shorter super guides but it also makes a strong case so I hope you enjoy it!   Hunter standup and Space Cats Live shows: https://linktr.ee/HunterDonaldson   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/    

We've got one more episode about the big Championship match we had back on May 4th. When the Finals finish, everyone involved is always so exhausted that it's impossible to squeeze in any post-game report or interview. So instead, we decided to wait a week and take a full hour to hang out with this year's winner! See, good things come to those who wait. 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/

In this episode we talk about the Finals of the SCPT 2024 Twillight Imperium tournament. THERE ARE SPOILERS. So don't listen if you don't want the outcome of the tournament spoiled. We also talk generally about how the tournament went and what we see as the future of our events. It's a bit of a beach episode, but one that could have future consequences.   Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

THE FINALS ARE ON MAY 4th, Saturday starting at 15:00 UTC (10AM Central).   Come watch at https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles   As is our yearly tradition we bring you interviews from Matt and Hunter with all six of your finalists. Special thanks to them and everyone who has supported our patreon and the tournament over the years, we really couldn't do it without you!   Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/  

It is finally time to dig in deeper to Arcs! The base game adds asymmetry to each player via the Leaders, and it's more asymmetry than many of us realized. Our excitement just wasn't enough; we had to go and recruit Shut Up and Sit Down's Tom Brewster to join us in presenting three Leaders and offering up what strategic insights we could muster. We started with three Leaders available in the Leaders and Lore expansion, the Agitator, the Quartermaster, and the Noble. Why did we start with expansion leaders over the ones available in the base game? Hey, quit asking so many questions! We got a fun special guest and you're embarrassing us in front of him!   Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we're back to our classic formula and doing a deep dive on one of our favorite aggressive factions: THE L1Z1X. This one has a fun energy and we really go to town on these guys, I wish we had more positives to say but I think spiritually L1 is too cool to be the best so let's just enjoy them for what they do best. Watch the Semi-Finals this weekend! Game 4 and 5 will be on Saturday and Sunday starting at 10AM central US time. https://www.twitch.tv/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/

This month's Galactic Council Poll episode is coming to your a week early! We needed the time to prepare for new episodes. We also talk a lot about the upcoming TOURNAMENT 6 SEMI-FINALS. This episode contains the schedule for those games in the rundown so check that out. See you at the first 3 semis games this weekend at https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles   SE7EN's new track to commemorate playing in the prelims (strong language): https://soundcloud.com/user-293112643/ti-dis-2?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing   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/

This episode is for the competitive scene as the boys talk about how they feel about the soon to be finished prelims round of this year's tournament.  How has the process been? Are there things we would like to improve? When do the semis start? All these questions will be answered somehow!   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/

Uh oh, it looks like we've saved a lot of the "bad" factions for last which means all of these Super guides are about to get a lot more FUN. Mentak, the most autocorrected faction, is definitively COOL and NEAT, but can struggle to score points... Let us examine why! 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/   kRuthless guide to the mentak: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1--oDRBYUV61y-f3b7HU-TSC-riEzesQPIYhfcxJG5bY/edit?usp=sharing To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Beach episode time! This week we've taken the Galactic Council poll results and really ran with it. Instead of just hearing about what games Matt and Hunter are looking forward to we've basically asked everyone we know to submit their games. Get your pen and paper out because you about to get a big ol' list of interesting suggestions from people with excellent taste, also EJ is in there.   Special thanks to Cole, Nick, Brooke, Ted, and Alita of Leder Games. Normal Regular thanks to EJ Sanders of the Walmart Corporation.   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/

This week, we're tackling a much requested topic. 8 Player Games! Matt and Hunter have both done some research and are reporting on strategic differences they found in their limited experience. Lot's of talk is devoted to why we don't prefer the player count so prepare yourself. We've also got an excellent discussion with Tactic Blue on the upcoming Discordant Stars Twilight Imperium Homebrew Expansion that you'll definitely want to hear about. At the end of the episode we have some surprise guests you'll definitely want to hear from.    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/

More Arcs! We're having a lovely time learning this new game and before we start diving into guides for different Leaders and eventually getting into the Campaign expansion (where we'll spend most of our time), we needed one more episode covering the basics. We've talked about the limited action economy of the game and alluded to the fact that you are able to improve upon it, but it's time to discuss that in depth! Resources and the Court Deck are your key to improving your action set and taking better control of the game, so let's learn about them! 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/

Let's do another Faction Strategy Guide! Universities of Jol-Nar are discussed a lot. They've been around since the very beginning, and in every edition of the game they've been a powerful faction. They have a -1 to combat and that just doesn't seem to hold them back! So what makes them good and how can we best harness their power? 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/

Let's travel back in time to the year 2000! FFG was still a young company and Christian T. Petersen decided to take another stab at the design of our favorite game. At times, Second Edition almost feels like the version lost to time. It's quite simple in it's approach to the game and it chooses to add very little over the course of it's life. It's mostly just a refinement of the rules of First Edition, but let's take a closer look to see what that means. 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/

We've both been in the process of trying to find new homes in Minnesota, which means it's time for a beach episode where we dip into our mailbag! Our patrons submitted these questions for our Agenda Phase segments, but this is a collection of, generally, more off topic questions than usual. That just means it's a good time to hang out with your friends Matt and Hunter. And no criticism! 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/

More Arcs! It's getting incredibly fun starting to dig into the meat of this game. You can refer back to episode 333 to hear our Learn to Learn guide about the game, but now we're going to start getting more specific! We wanted to kick things off with a component episode where we cover the Actions in the game as well as the Ambitions you'll be using to score points and win. There's a lot to chew on and we're really only at the surface, so get ready for a lot of Arcs episodes to come. 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/

Despite the chaos in both our lives, Matt's ready with another Super Faction Guide! Due to the wonders of Async, Matt's found a lot more opportunity to work on guides and this is one that definitely benefited from that since he got to play big meaty games with Clan of Saar legends TheDeftPiper and Imsen. This is a powerful faction whose strategy is more about pumping the breaks a bit so you aren't the premiere target at the table. How can you preserve peace when you show up to the party with your knife collection? 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/

The Prelims are already a couple of weeks underway and we're learning a LOT. This definitely feels like a new, distinct year for the tournament given the outcome of the majority of these games. So what does that mean for folks testing their mettle in the prelims or for people wanting to adapt to the newest waves in the meta? Let's take a closer look at what makes the Prelims of our tournament unique and what players can do to try and find success. 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/

The topic of "winmaking" is constantly evolving and changing. Every year we see tournament play handle shenanigans at the end of the game differently and it's nice to check in from time to time and evaluate the community. Today, we have two very special guests to help us in that endeavor! The designer of Twilight Imperium 4th Edition, Dane Beltrami, and rules guru and creator of Miltydraft, Milty! 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/

New Year, New Us, New Job, New Game, New Lease on Life. This is the beginning of hopefully a long series of episode covering Arcs by Leder Games! They made a game so enticing to us that Matt went and got a job with them. Today, we're just starting out by offering up advice to those interested in checking out the game and how to go into it with the right mindset. What kind of game does Arcs feel like to play? What is the process of getting better? What are the pitfalls in your way? Explore with us! 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/

New year and there are some big plans and changes in the works. Today we'll do our best to reveal and talk about what we can but also expect more updates in the future. 2024 is going to be a very cool year for Space Cats Peace Turtles and we hope you'll all be along for the ride. 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/

This episode is a particularly stupid energy coming right off the back of our Holiday Spectacular stream that featured hot "wings" and cool kids. Thanks for a wonderful year everyone, we love each of you individually. 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/

It's that time of year again! These Twilight Imperium factions have been out here all year running amok and making us look stupid because last year we did a really good faction ranking but you all played wrong. So we've adjusted some numbers and let you all contribute as little as we could possibly allow and now we have the true Definitive Ranking of all faction in the game. This time we mean it! 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/

Hunter has been playing in this year's Patreon Tournament Qualifiers since October. He's had about a half dozen games and he's finally made it through to the Prelims! It's good timing, because we always had this week's episode slated as his chance to talk about his experience, whether he'd made it or not! So what is it like to play in your own tournament? Do people treat you differently? Probably not, right? For TI tutorials in Italian, find Il Cap Games, mentioned in the show, at https://youtu.be/osCe7-lbblU?si=JymbjbWaUMDF0w89 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/

Who needs this? Well hopefully, you're someone relatively new to Twilight Imperium and a friend of yours has suggested you play Federation of Sol and you're looking to jumpstart your winrate. If so, welcome. You've made an excellent choice of faction because Sol is really good and we're here to explain why. Hopefully, you come out of this with ways to consistently do well! Also we love you. 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/

A new series of Twilight Imperium books is right around the corner! Empire Falling, the first of the new trilogy by Robbie MacNiven releases December 5th and we were lucky enough to get Robbie on to discuss writing for established universes, historical fiction, and which TI faction is the most Scottish! Interview starts at 22:30 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/

Matt's back in action! His last guide was for a fast faction that doesn't always have a way to close out games. This time, to shake things up, he's going with a fast faction that doesn't always have a way to close out games! It's the Ghosts of Creuss and actually they're maybe a little bit better than Cabal but that's just because you get more blue tech, probably... 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/

We're about halfway through this years Qualifiers in the tournament and it seemed high time we celebrate the people that make the tournament a pleasurable viewing experience! Over the years, more and more amazing folks have taken on the task of streaming games of Twilight Imperium and it takes such an immense amount of effort that there's honestly not enough praise we could heap upon them. So for now, here are their delightful voices to brighten your day... 20:13 BigAlCupaChino (https://www.twitch.tv/bigalcupachino) 33:12 Rand (https://www.twitch.tv/tijunkies) 49:36 clawforce (https://www.twitch.tv/clawforce) 1:03:58 EJ (https://twitch.tv/uvula9000) 1:16:54 Duke LukeM (https://www.twitch.tv/dukelukem_ti) 1:26:30 Elspeth (https://www.twitch.tv/jeolircam) 1:35:34 Karnal (https://www.twitch.tv/karnal313) 1:57:29 Jasper (https://www.twitch.tv/jasperti4) 2:07:41 Root (https://www.twitch.tv/root711) 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/

You are not prepared for this one. We have 82 system tiles in Twilight Imperium. In theory, the visuals matter quite a lot for this discussion or would at least make this go a lot faster...but then again why should it be easy? What follows is a 2 hour decent into madness to try and sort all of the system tiles into tiers. What do those tiers signify? Who knows? Is there any consistency to the sorting? Who cares? You asked for this... 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/

We're back on that old grind. We've done "Super Guides" as our way of revisiting base game factions post-PoK, but up until this point it has also been a mark of a faction that received new components via a Codex. But from here on out, it's all faction untouched since the introduction of PoK. That doesn't mean there's nothing to say, of course! And one of the bigger factions to tackle when it comes to strange exceptions to rules and weird ways to get lost is the Nekro Virus. You could compare this faction to an old taped together hunk of junk if it wasn't so good at punching you in the face and winning games. Let's break down why (and just ignore those tournament statistics, okay?) 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/

The Homebrewer's Guild has been hard at work on a big project. The work has been largely philosophical up until this point and it was finally time to lay track down before we design this train. So today, we'd like to catch you all up to speed on the project known as Twilight Imperium Zero Edition. This is intended to be our fun modification to Twilight Imperium and act as a stripped down, simpler version of Twilight Imperium. Exactly what form that takes will be a longer process, but for now we can talk about some of the things we want to see. In addition to talking design goals, we decide to make a Prophecy of Kings compliant faction design for the Lazax Empire so that we have something to work backwards from once we decide to design them as a faction in Zero Edition. 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/

It's a crossover episode! Our video game podcast, Old Gamer's Almanac, is doing a big Starcraft blowout this month and we wanted to get this show in on the fun. What better way than attempting an exhaustive strategy overview of one of the game's factions!  Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com Old Gamer's Almanac music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey 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/

We spent a week hanging out with the fine folks over at Leder Games and learned more about their ongoing projects while we were there. Nick Brachmann joined us to walk through everything he's planning to add to Ahoy in its upcoming expansions and Cole Wehrle followed up with us to show us more of Arcs' development. 11:05 - The Ahoy additions add new complexity and richness to the strategy, which is something we've really been craving for that game. 44:35 - As for Arcs, we focus the conversation on the more TI-adjacent mechanics like negotiation heavy Summits, Edicts, and Events as well as talk about the thematic Flagships. 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/

We've been teasing it for WEEKS and it's finally here. After a huge hiatus, we're pleased to finally present another This Imperium Life, our show where we share YOUR stories of the best moments of Twilight Imperium 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/

It's the weekend before the tournament starts and in the madness we decided to answer all of your burning questions! That's right, after over 6 years, we're finally doing a mailbag episode. We cover a lot of TI topics, but also focus on tournament questions for a good amount of time. 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/

Tournament 6 looms before us and in the build up to it we wanted to take a look back. We sat down with the 5 previous winners of the Patreon Tournament and got their take on the changes to the Qualifiers as well as any advice they could offer to people hoping to succeed in the tournament. You could basically ignore all of the advice from all other episodes of this show because these are the 5 people who have the proven track record! Jonno's Twilight Imperium Mastery Institute: https://www.jtimi.eu/ 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/

The Space Cats are a domineering force when it comes to Twilight Imperium. They're the closest thing the game has to a mascot and when they're in game a lot of things seem to revolve around them. They've also often been accused of dramatically slowing the game down. Today we evaluate what it means to sit down at a table where the Hacan are playing, but not BY YOU. How can you utilize their wares to improve your own position? Are there things you need to do to slow them down? Is Quantum Datahub Node a death sentence for the table?! 1:05:14 - Homebrewer's Guild: Barony of Letnev Heroes! 1:21:02 - The Agenda Phase: ncurry asks “In a vacuum, would you rather have Naalu's 0 token or draw Obsidian?  If you chose the 0, what about it versus a custodian point?  If you instead chose Obsidian, what about the 0 versus Classified Document Leaks? I guess more generally, it comes down to do you value locking down R5 speaker order or the potential for an extra point more?” 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/

We did an episode about the Async Twilight Imperium discord (https://discord.gg/vY3nBkegkn) a while ago, but it's had a slew of major developments over recent months and it was well worth revisiting. Not to mention we wanted to have a conversation about our first Tournament Champion, The 9 of Spades, and it's his newest fascination. So it seemed best to wrap it all up in one episode together! 9 of Spades also finds himself trapped in the Dadlands with Matt and playing TI asynchronously has been a welcome return to everyone's favorite board game! 45:37 - Homebrew Review: Let's Talk Twilight Imperium Zero Edition 50:53 - The Agenda Phase: Craiken asks “Can you tell us more about the TI dream video? Has there been any progress on that front?” 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/ Also....Sanctuary by Utada Hikaru...   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We JUST finished Tournament 5 but TOO BAD, it's time to talk about Tournament 6. We've got details on the structure and process on how to play in the 2024 tournament that starts in October of 2023. Once our website is up again we'll have the details typed out for you to pass around to your friends and hopefully I'll remember to come back and change this episode description when that link is available. Until then, listen to this to learn how radically different the tournament will be from years prior! After that, we give some details on the episodes to expect for the last few months of 2023. 1:16:12 - The Agenda Phase: Brassbird Asks: “I've been listening for a long time and I love a lot of your old content. Which old school SCPT episodes are your favorite? Which ones do you think are deserving of a reboot or revisit?” 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/

Early this year, we set out on a goal, (well a few goals really, but one of them was:) to learn GreaterThanGames' Spirit Island and hopefully help you learn it as well. We tackled the 8 spirits provided in the base game and have learned a lot along the way. It was the first time for this show to try and tackle a cooperative game, so today we're going to kind of rate and reflect on how we did and what it means to cover a game like this! Also there's a very extended edition of the Homebrew Review where we discuss many iterations of Yin's Impulse Core tech. For more Spirit Island content check out: Kindred Spirits Podcast: On Spotify or plenty of other podcast platforms! Kalen Noreth: https://www.youtube.com/@kalennoreth 1:17:29 - Homebrew Review: Impulse Core Homebrew Royale Music provided by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We went to GenCon, had a live show, then checked out what our friends over at Leder Games have been working on. Sam from Lord of the Board (https://www.youtube.com/@LordoftheBoard) joined us to demo a base game session of Arcs and chat with Cole as well as a demo of and chat about the "pre-alpha" build of Patrick Leder's "working title Blok." It was a splendid time with wonderful people and we hope you love our little conversations. 7:38 - Arcs with Cole Wehrle 36:40 - Blok with Patrick Leder 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/

This episode was recorded LIVE at the Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis, IN during the week of GenCon 2023! If you want to hear all of the stand-up, you'll have to come in person yourself someday, but this recording includes Old Gamer's Almanac playthrough of an old Sonic the Hedgehog Choose Your Own Adventure book as well as the SCPT Live show. 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/

The Galactic Council went chaotic evil this week and wanted us to provide you with the sequel to everyone's favorite episode: TI The Movie. This time we have to design a mini-series set in the Twilight Imperium universe, meant to be released on HBO circa 2010. We totally took the prompt really seriously and this is a very earnest attempt at that. There's no funny business, there's no references to the Watchmen, and there are absolutely no Muppets. Agenda Phase: RockPaperLizard asks “Would you be interested as content creators in recording games specifically oriented for ‘Listenability.’” To check out the Community Plays TI Discord: https://discord.gg/FXWFN6g5Q 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/

We've done it! After today, all of the Prophecy of Kings factions will have been revisited on this show as part of our Super Guide series! Don't talk to me about Council Keleres! We finish up with the Nomad, which is the first faction we ever learned about on this show and we've come a long way since then. Nomad has had some high highs, but they feel like they're slowing down a bit in their performance. What made them so good before and why have we seen that change over time? Come see us perform live during GenCon at the Helium Comedy Club on August 3 at 8:00 PM! https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/218650 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/

It's our last venture into the base game Spirits for Spirit Island! And we didn't do it on purpose, but we're each going out of spirits that didn't click with us quite as much, but that didn't stop them from being engaging to learn! Also we've got a lengthy Homebrew Review and Agenda Phase as well as a big important announcement at the end regarding our upcoming Weird Bear Exhibition "Tournament." 0:00 - Lightning's Swift Strike 56:14 - Shadows Flicker Like Flames 1:32:49 - Homebrew Review: William's Willard's Mentak Coalition Abilities 1:40:36 - Agenda Phase: DragoThaxton asks “Describe your dream TI4 IRL gameday" Music provided by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/   Tickets to our August 3rd show in Indianapolis: https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/218650

We're nearing the end of our super POK faction guides and today we get to tackle the first faction we ever dug deep into in POK, the Titans of Ul. They're a powerful faction that has always performed very well in our tournaments, but this year had a bit of a decline. (into the middle of the pack, so don't freak out) What makes this faction so strong and how can you make the most of their toolkit? 1:25:36 - Agenda Phase: OfficialDaveAcct asks “You mentioned in your Empyrean episode that you thought that faction was a great faction for a new player. What other factions would you recommend for someone's first time playing Twilight Imperium and why?” 1:33:57 - Homebrew Review: Simple's Vuil'Raight Idol Action Card 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/

It's been a whole year and now it's time for us to prepare for the upcoming SCPT Patreon Tournament Finals! We've got interviews from all of the wonderful players and I'm so excited for you to hear them. Special thanks to JadiimJedi, Arratain, Sir Craigsworth, dzhiriki, Aljce, and Deshuga.   *SOME EXPLICIT LANGUAGE*   Are you going to Gen-Con this year? Maybe you should come see our live show at the Helium in Indianapolis: https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/218650   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/

The galactic council have bestowed us with a wonderful treat. The semis of Tournament 5 have concluded and before we get to the Finals, we are taking a look back at tournaments gone by. After some fun honorable mentions, we present to you Matt and Hunter's Top 10 Tournament Moments! 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/     The Moments Duke ascends to valhalla (https://youtu.be/kCIjhyynpPE?t=3294) Craiken’s participation in the tournament (https://youtu.be/oGrbxKIwFxU) Jeol-Ir Cam (Tournament 3) (https://youtu.be/QQcOWT8EFCQ?t=2179) The Meta has 4 home systems (https://youtu.be/UBs_BHKIJ3E) Planet Erf uses Dice Magic (https://clips.twitch.tv/InventiveSaltyEggplantRedCoat-4lrGrE3Xw5v7aOvm) Jasper sabos 3 flank speeds (https://youtu.be/GZIPRaxqPbs?t=2231) Cody loses due to holding to his deal (https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles/clip/SmoggyBigGooseYouWHY-5VmlHhDoWVr1kwLU?filter=clips&range=all&sort=time) Ixthian destroys squidtm’s entire game worst tournament ixthian (https://clips.twitch.tv/KnottyColorfulRadishBCWarrior-oCsxEodwTrqZ8wT-) The players elect a winner (Qualifier 18 Tournament 5) Clown fiesta with Spanish Streamers (https://youtu.be/wzJEHyqpO1o) Honorable Mentions Teddy can’t score his secrets and Visioness has a perfect opening (https://youtu.be/K9z4v6sSMIA) “The Plan” (https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles/clip/FriendlyWimpySmoothieKeyboardCat-TE3JbLN0eyhbpJrX?filter=clips&range=all&sort=time) “Boot the dude” Rando retakes his HS in a stacked prelims game (https://youtu.be/GGiQvx8bjEA)

And now the thrilling conclusion to the tale of Gasha, Rick, Wrexx, Borin, and Ser. It's time for our heroes to sort out a bit of a bug situation, learn the secrets of mysterious artifacts, and handle a bit of a ghost issue.  We've really loved making these and it's been especially rewarding to hear everyone respond so positively to them. We absolutely hope to make more in the future! To join other fans looking to roleplay in the Twilight Imperium universe using this system, check out the RPG Cats Tabletop Turtles Discord! (https://discord.gg/CxEHsBxWNP) Music by Michael Keane. Find most at the Twilight Symphonium: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSGXR2L8DPl_sHV_8m-R2CQ 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/

We're back with more Spirit Island content! This week, we were tired of being pushed around, so we're talking about two spirits that do a lot of pushing back, the fear based Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares and the nuclear missile that is River Surges in Sunlight. After that, it's some Agenda Phase and the finale of the Tournament Prelims Recaps! 0:00 - Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares 50:47 - River Surges in Sunlight 1:27:39 - The Agenda Phase: Will asks: “What is your favorite, and least favorite, codex change?” 1:41:06 - Tournament Recaps: Games 33, 34, 35, & 36! Music provided by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/ To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We've been having TOO MUCH FUN over here at SCPT the last few weeks, so it's time for some more chunky content. Today is a guide to the Vuil'raith Cabal that it feels like we've been working on for two years. Have we finally unlocked the secret to this faction, or has Matt mostly just learned to stop sweating the small stuff? Or is he capable of learning to stop sweating... 0:00 - Cabal Guide 1:46:26 - Homebrew Review: Wekker’s “Anomalous Anomalies Assortment” 1:53:10 - Agenda Phase: My Cabbages! asks "When you are dealt a hard to achieve secret objective do you start working on it right away or ignore it and plan to draw another later?" 2:06:45 - Prelims Report: Games 15, 29, 30, 31, & 32. 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/

Our story continues as Borin, Ser, Gasha, Rick, and Wrexx must consult with a Naalu diplomat, investigate a violent rebellious group, and earn the chance to speak with a Sardakk N'orr general. They're far from the most qualified but they might be the luckiest group the Council Keleres could send to handle this galactic crisis. Music by Michael Keane. Find most at the Twilight Symphonium: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSGXR2L8DPl_sHV_8m-R2CQ 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/

Thank you to everyone who has played Twilight Imperium. Thank you to everyone who has helped foster this magnificent community. Thank you to everyone who has listened to our show. Thank you to everyone we've played with. You all mean the world to us. Special Thanks to this episode's contributors: Dane Beltrami, Corey Konieczka, Chris Hosch, Sam Gregor-Stewart, Shea Parker, Ruel Gaviola, Tom Brewster, Rand and Henry from TI Junkies, Calvin Wong Tze Loon, Cole Wehrle, and Patrick Leder. 0:00 - Twilight Imperium Is 10:52 - Memories 22:39 - Stories 30:34 - Factions 37:45 - Nourishment 39:59 - How to Play 45:17 - Contribution   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/ Jesse Gallagher. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD5hjK3sDzk2W-jw9roHuVw Unicorn Heads. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDplVvtIq05AdyYKjVSUIw To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We are excited to present part one of our three part series playing Embers of the Imperium, the Twilight Imperium RPG. This is available from Edge Studios as a sourcebook to their Genesys RPG system. The de facto lore goddess Absol takes Hunter, Matt, Sun Sanders, and Kate Thompson on a journey into Lisis space to settle a dispute between the local government, the Naalu Collective, and the Sardakk N'Orr. The Council Keleres is trying to keep tensions amongst its governments low, but unfortunately they won't be able to send their best to solve this deeply complicated crisis. Music by Michael Keane. Find most at the Twilight Symphonium: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSGXR2L8DPl_sHV_8m-R2CQ 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/

Our Super Faction Guide schedule has been shaken up a bit and a part of that is because the Empyrean one was just so dang easy to right we were able to get it out ahead of schedule. Hunter loves these ding dang bat-folk and honestly not a WHOLE LOT has changed since our Introduction to the faction. We have some things we feel you can rely on less, but mostly have fun getting rich and not dying easy! 0:00 - Empyrean Overview 54:05 - Empyrean Tech, Trade, etc. 1:35:40 - Homebrew Review: Relic Stan’s “Gyroscopic Gamma Cannon” faction 1:41:13 - Agenda Phase: Phi Smith asks “If you had to run a tournament for literally any boardgame other than Root or TI, what game would it be?” 1:52:26 - Prelims Report: Games 25, 26, 27, 28, & 29. 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/

We've been doing our part as historical record keepers recently by looking back and previous editions of Twilight Imperium and noting how the game has changed over time. Today, we'd like to dig deep with you and walk through 1st Edition's life-cycle. What are the Twilight Imperium "fundamentals" and what has been tossed out over the decades? For tickets to our GenCon Live Show, visit https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com/shows/218650 0:00 - The History of Twilight Imperium 1st Edition 1:52:40 - Homebrew Review: AddictUnraveled’s Conquest and Galactic Progression Chart 2:00:50 - Agenda Phase: Moutstainz asks “How do you explain this game to someone who has never played before?” 2:10:58 - Prelims Report: Games 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, $ 24. 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/

The Galactic Council gave us permission to goof around this week and we couldn't be happier. We get to combine our two loves: Root and Twilight Imperium. Our task? To take a Root faction and distill it's essence into a crystal then smash that crystal against a treasure chest, open the treasure chest, and pull out a Twilight Imperium faction. We wanted to do this really earnestly, okay? But then really wild, funny ideas were too good to pass up... 0:00 Deciding Which Faction 30:04 - Translating the Faction 2:21:03 - Agenda Phase: Imsen asks: “Why should I swap supports with you guys?” 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/

We're back with more Spirit Island! It's exciting to continue exploring this game and this week we're both tackling potentially more complex factions. But stick around after for plenty of TI talk, including another round of Prelims Reports! I did it three weeks in a row everybody! A new record! 0:00 - Errata for 290 (Spirit Guides - Vital Strength of Earth and Thunderspeaker) 13:49 - Ocean's Hungry Grasp 1:13:21 - Spread of Rampant Greent 1:53:58 - Homebrew Review: BradleySigma’s Test Site 7 planet: New planet & tile. It’s a unit upgrade technology speciality; you can exhaust the planet when researching a unit upgrade technology to ignore one prerequisite of any color. 1:57:39 - Agenda Phase: LuckyLizzard asks: Please on the spot create a TI "knock knock" joke.  HG Kool-Aid asks: What do you love about TI the most? What's the most enjoyable part of the game for you? 2:07:39 - Prelims Recap: Games 11, 12, 13, 16 Music provided by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

This week we got distracted and decided to run with it. We couldn't stop thinking about how we haven't seen a Codex yet this year and we just wanted to sit and dream up what sort of potential there could be to more Twilight Imperium content. We've done wishlists before, but this is a bit more off the cuff. Also we don't necessarily agree on most points, so come join us for a back and forth discussion about what we'd like to see added to TI! 0:00 - Dreaming 1:47:36 - Homebrew Review: Wekker's Bioplasmosis 1:52:46 - The Agenda Phase: Wonderflonium asks “I would like to hear more about Hunter's comedy work: favorite venue, stories from the road, hecklers, etc. If there needs to be a TI tie-in, which faction would make the best comedy audience?” 2:01:50 - Prelims Report Games 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10. 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/

Since PoK, we've had two player counts that have gone relatively unexplored by this show. We change 50% of that today! We're talking about some of our recent 7 player games and our takeaways about the differences between 6 and 7 player (with some healthy chat about 5 player games sprinkled in). Also, there is a whole segment about Magi's Madness, the 7 player asymmetric map released in Codex 2 (https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/ff/fe/fffe5e9d-33fb-4149-a3a2-cd6dfadb4de3/ti_codex_ii_rules_web.pdf) 0:00 - 7 Player Games 43:23 - Magi's Madness 1:03:07 - Homebrew Review: William Willard’s “The Big Naaz Cowboy” 1:07:00 - Agenda Phase: Walter asks “Will you consider going back to premade (non-Milty) maps in future tournaments?” 1:26:04 - Tournament Recap: Prelims Games 1, 2, 3, & 4. 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/

This was a live recording of the Space Cats Peace Turtles Portland Hootenanny Liveshow at Helium Comedy Club on March 22, including opening act Old Gamer's Almanac! Featuring: E.J. Sanders, Jamie Carbone, Steven Wilber, Katie Nguyen, Aaron Harleman, and Sun Sanders! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We're in full prep and travel mode for our Portland live show and Hootenanny, but we have a special treat for you! We've been a part of a couple of "Fog of War" games recently and decided to bring resident Fog of War Weird Bear Correspondent Brassbird in to help us make sense of this very odd game mode. It's an adventurous, cutthroat, thematic way to play and there are a number of ways to try it out! Also, Matt and Absol read the first short story from The Stars Beyond, A Ghost of a Chance and are here with reactions and analysis. It's the first extended universe story we've read that wasn't written by Tim Pratt, so it's time to see how other author's handle our beloved franchise. 00:00 Fog of War with Brassbird 52:05 A Ghost of a Chance with Absol Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

NEW GAME NEW THEME. We've dabbled in Spirit Island as a show so far, but it's time to fully take the plunge. We've been practicing as some specific factions and we now come to you as two novices hoping to help you get started with two of the base game factions Vital Strength of the Earth and Thunderspeaker. Some of you definitely know more of us, but this episode is primarily geared to the people that don't yet! But also, this is the kind of episode where you get to jump over on the discord and roast us over the coals for all the things you think you know better! 0:00 - Vital Strength of the Earth 1:02:17 - Thunderspeaker 1:55:56 - Twilight Imperium Homebrew Review - BradleySigma's "Resonance Cascade" agenda 1:59:06 - The Agenda Phase: Nick asks: “What do you look for in a slice when Milty Draft?” Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

It's time to get back to trusty ol' faithful. Argent Flight just have a lot of things that make sense and go well together. Despite that, they've actually had a bit of a rocky history in competitive play. However, that rockiness is generally in relation to wins, but not necessarily total points scored. That's right, it's time to talk about how to reliably not stall out at 9 points as one of the more defensive factions in the game. 0:00 Argent Flight Overview 39:32 Problems and Strengths 46:56 Technology 1:02:35 Trading 1:14:26 Early Game 1:30:28 Mid and Late Game 1:57:45 Homebrew Review - Absol's Neural Motivator 1:59:50 The Agenda Phase - Eagan asks: “is fighting to be elected for Search Warrant worth it? Are there some factions that are better with it/need it more than others?” Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

The Galactic Council finally got to vote on an episode again and they've chosen a very very odd one. Hunter and Matt are not ethicists or philosophers and yet we are tasked with ranking the 25 TI factions on the basis of their morality. Some of this will be based on their established lore, but some of it will be based on mechanical and strategic implications. Anyways, this is really stupid and please take none of it even remotely seriously. Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Hey look! It's a really good faction. That doesn't mean we can't sit around for 2 hours and talk about the "best" ways to win games as the Naaz-Rokha Alliance. Sometimes it's fun to crush your opponents with friendship and kindness, okay? Open your heart up to kissing that little goblin on your back. 0:00 - Component Overview 40:29 - Strengths and Technology 1:16:41 - Economics 1:32:30 Round 1 Strategy Cards 1:46:10 - Mid and Late Game 1:59:15 - Homebrew Review - Baldrick:  An unnamed Green tech. ACTION: Exhaust this card to discard 1 AC or 1 SO. Then, draw a new card of the same type. 2:00:54 - Agenda Phase - Furniture Damage: "Which factions do you think have the strongest flavor? And do their in-game mechanics reflect that strong flavor?" Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

One project we wanted to tackle this year on the show was doing more to explore the history of this game we know and love. So to start that journey, we wanted to learn to properly play Twilight Imperium: First Edition from way back in 1997. It's the game that launched this franchise as well as Fantasy Flight Games as a company and we were curious how many elements are central parts of the TI DNA. Turns out...it's pretty good! Go figure! 1:06:07 Homebrew Review - Absol's Relics 1:13:12 Agenda Phase: Lucreitiel "How much of the meta do you think is "truly" best practice for the game, vs how much is simply evolved against only what is "considered" current best practice? Do you think if we could magically totally reset everyone's knowledge of TI strategy that we'd eventually arrive at the same meta, or would different strategies and then counters become dominant?" Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Listen, y'all. I don't know what to tell you. Sometimes you've got questions and we've got answers. Sometimes we ask questions because we secretly have answers we think are clever. And sometimes Matt asks a question thinking he'll find an answer along the way and that answer never really turn up. The concept of "the midgame" is referred to in a lot of our commentary and faction guides, but it's hard to say what we specifically mean by that. So we THOUGHT it'd be good to try and define that and offer up some strategic advice for your Midgames. But it turns out asking the question was a bigger challenge than we planned for... 0:00 The Early and Late Game 34:04 The Midgame 1:09:54 Homebrew Review: wekker: Action card: Facsimile Fabrication 1:14:41 The Agenda Phase ElBlasto Do you think that there's a strategic advantage to being nice in TI (washing, letting score for little-no cost, etc)? Merki How could the game be changed to have a 6pm game complete in 4-5 hours? Losing the least amount of the TI experience. BigAlCupachino What pie do you buy yourself and what qualities do you look for? What pie would you buy for the other if heading over to their place? Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Prepare to KNEEL! It's been two years since we last approached the topic of Mahact, and so much about our understanding of Prophecy of Kings has changed. So it's time to set the record straight, especially as we've seen Mahact's win-rate skyrocket in the last year or so. What makes this faction so complicated and how can you best control the reins? 0:00 - Mahact Component Introduction 40:53 - Problems, Tech, and Economics 1:16:39 - Round 1 Strategy Cards 1:27:03 - Mid Game and Late Game 2:09:22 - Homebrew Review - TimeThief: Alternate Space Docks 2:14:17 - The Agenda Phase - Seras: "Given an unlimited budget, where would you hold an IRL tournament finals?" Keep an eye out on this feed for an upcoming Tournament Recap bonus episode! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

It's our first strategic foray into Spirit Island, but we're still rookies over here. But we've got a good grasp on how the game is played now and we'd like to relay our experience of learning the game to you. Hopefully we can provide some tips to getting started but mostly we want you to not be intimidated by the many many words that Spirit Island is going to throw at you. But stick around if Spirit Island isn't for you, because we have a prolonged TI topic about being kind to each other and a small handful of Tournament Recaps! 0:00 - Learn to Learn Spirit Island 1:13:08 - The Agenda Phase: Visioness - I want to hear about strategies to mend relationships when things get heated in a game. 1:35:18 - Tournament Recap: Qualifiers 7, 8, 10, 11, & 12. Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

There's no codex or expansion or rules FAQ. Sometimes we just want to talk to our friend Dane and learn more about him and force him to be our friend. And we figured you all would want to be his friend to, so you get to listen in as we chat about his roots in board game designing, his love of Final Fantasy, and we also force him to answer a whole slew of strange TI design questions! It's a fun episode, y'all! Dane's 5 Year Anniversary Portrait: https://twitter.com/FFGames/status/1603819802648248325?s=20&t=LNXTnyvA6_A2OW5ffv-RxQ Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We've taught you how to learn this game and how to teach this game, but we've never taught you the proper way to set it up! So today is a treat for relatively new players or players looking to change up their faction drafting and map building as well as different tools to help enhance the Twilight Imperium experience. We've got tips, tricks, and herbal supplements to get you feeling 150%!! 0:00 - Faction Drafting and Map Building 45:57 - Online and In Person Toolshttps://milty.shenanigans.be/ 1:21:05 - Homebrew Review: Garbozia Legendary Planet by Bradley Sigma 1:28:17 - The Agenda Phase: Wysper - If you could change one rule, what would it be? 1:33:33 - Tournament Recap: Qualifiers 5, 9, 11, 14, & 15 Links Mentioned in Episode Map building - https://joepinion.github.io/ti4-map-lab/ and https://keeganw.github.io/ti4/ Miltydrafting - https://miltydraft.com/ and https://milty.shenanigans.be/ Color Picker - https://www.ti.vetinari.net/ Battle Calculator - https://ti4battle.com/ Extracomputer - https://extraboard.net/extracomputer Homebrew Card Maker - http://ti4-card-images.appspot.com/static/card.html Printable Hyperlanes - https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/161185/ti4-hyperlane-sector-5-players   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

It's a new year! Our custom 'round these parts is to use this time to take stock of how the last year of episode and Patron bonuses went and what we can do going forward. This year is very little change in how things operate on the Patreon, but some big changes coming your way for the show. And part of those changes was our desire to hash out the next slew of episodes with you in the room and then get your feedback on what the next few months of the show looks like! So take a listen and then hop on the discord and tell us what you want to hear more of! 1:41:25 - Tournament Recap: Qualifiers 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 Come to our Portland Live Show March 22! https://portland.heliumcomedy.com/shows/200093 Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

We played a game on Dec 27 2022. There were 7 of us. That game should be on Youtube. It was a good game! You should go watch it. This episode is what we recorded right after that game, when we were all quite tired. Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, we love you, see you in Tournament 5! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

And you all thought we'd learned to listen to you. HA! Don't forget who steers this ship. There are only two opinions that matter and they are ours and they are absolute. You are just lucky enough that we grace you with our guidance and thoughts! Our yearly faction ranking is here and it has never been more correct than this... Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

December had two Galactic Council polls, the latter of which was for us to feature ANOTHER non-Twilight Imperium board game. They chose the space negotiation game Sidereal Confluence. It's a wild, non-violent game about slinging cubes and makin' deals as fast as you can before there's no deals left to make. But the bigger question is how would SCPT cover a game with so much math and interpersonal conflict? We're good at neither! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

The first of your two December Galactic Council episodes is another opportunity for us to make a list of demands for Dane before the holidays. The dust from Codex 3 is beginning to settle, and rather than be happy with what we've got, it's time to beg for more delicious board game content. So we sat down and thought through what we'd most like to see in another Codex if Dane were ever to make another. Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

THERE'S IMPORTANT BUSINESS TO TEND TO. The Tournament 5 Signups email is going out December 10 at 20:00 UTC. This is to all members of our Patreon who were active during the months of October and November. We also detail our hopeful schedule for this year's tournament and what everyone can expect. Then it's time to have fun. The Galactic Council wanted us to play Spirit Island, and I bet only a few of them knew we'd like it as much as we did. So let's talk about WHY we liked it and what that could mean for the show. Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Twitter, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

Matt's been playing games with the Homebrewer's Guild this year and he had a very specific project in mind. Today's episode is a sort of Abstract of the findings of that project. We were after a sort of "Tournament Mode" or some set of rules that could shake up that conventional Tempo of a game of Twilight Imperium without too much rules overhead. Was any of it successful? Well here's your report. Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Twitter, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/