Space Cats Peace Turtles – Details, episodes & analysis

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/

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/

We've been taking some time recently to revisit old topics deserving of an update. One of those is surprisingly recent: Exploration. We've only had this mechanic since Prophecy of Kings was released, but we've learned a lot since we first introduced it, and it's about time we cleaned up our thoughts a bit. So, here we'll read the exploration cards for every deck, including Frontier and Relic, and analyze what a player is meant to do with all of that.

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/

We're big time important kids and our opinions matter. That's why we were sent a copy of Twilight Inscription to give our unbiased, unfiltered, uncompromised, objective review. You came here for hard hitting journalism and boy howdy I tell ya that's what we're here to deliver. Game Journalism matters A LOT, and we take our roles very seriously.

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/

We're making our way back through all of the factions, starting with those that got recent updates in Codex 3. Xxcha only received a new hero, but it seems that simple change was enough to make us reconsider everything about this faction. It's now an economic powerhouse if you play it right and it's time to explore how to do that and what it means for the faction! 

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/

It's been so long since we've tuned into Root, and there's been a new expansion out for a while now! This isn't a strategy guide, but we do intend to do some down the road. Instead, this is an overview of all of the things that came with the Marauder Expansion, as well as what Root even looks like these days. There's more than just these big box expansions and it can all be a bit hard to follow, so consider this your guide to Root in 2022!

Mentioned in the show:

Woodland War Machine Podcast

Weird Root YouTube and Twitch.

GIVEPAUSE hobby

Also not mentioned, but we love him: Lord of the Board

ALSO ALSO check out: NitroRev and Nevakanezah

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/

August's Galactic Council Episode is the season wrap on GC episodes that fit this kind of vibe. For a while now we've been doing GC episodes off the cuff, and for the next batch we want to put in a bit more time on each episode. But for this "Improv Finale," we've saved the best for last. It's time for the Definitive Hero Tier List.

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/

I know you just loaded up this episode and saw that timecode. That ain't no joke. This episode is nearly 3 hours and 35 minutes long and it's because we have to talk about every single Action Card in the game. Yes, we HAVE to. Never forget that this is our job and we will treat it as such. Prophecy of Kings and Codex 1 both introduced a lot of new cards that we have not talked about in depth so prepare your mind and body. It is time.

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/

We ran around GenCon for three days and talked to some amazing folks!

0:00 - First up, James Kniffen, the designer of the new TI Roll and Write Twilight Inscription. We discuss his background with FFG and what inspired this crazy genre shift for our beloved franchise

13:13 - Then, Sam Gregor-Stewart whose team at Edge have been trying to release the hotly anticipated Twilight Imperium sourcebook for the Genesys RPG, Embers of the Imperium. We're digging deep into what to expect with some of the upcoming lore, and where the inspirations for this book came from.

28:50 - Finally, we got to hang out with our dear friends Leder Games. Cole and Patrick joined us to discuss Ahoy, Arcs, and what it's like to be back at conventions as well as in a new bigger office!

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/