Strengthen Bonds: an async Twilight Imperium podcast

pally joins the podcast to talk about what makes TI fun, some of his favorite stories from games, Daxcive (or is it Dacxive?) Animators, and of course, Arborec. Also BLT continues to experiment with sound settings and isn't sure this one was the best :P 1:05 pally joins the show! 1:47 On dialing back how much TI we play 2:58 On novelty of TI wearing off over time 6:32 Weird game modes bring more n...

BLT opines about factions again, and encourages folks to use Sarbor's shoutout channel to send good vibes throughout the community (for devs, or for anyone!) 1:00 - Best thing I saw this week - Sarbor's shoutout channel 2:43 - Anecdote of the week - Kaiser and BackAtMatt 4:10 - Stats thing of the week - TIGL faction win rates 6:13 - Tech of the week - Light/Wave Deflector 9:01 - Weird rules thing...

1:20 - BLT's SCPT qualifer win 3:00 - susan's excellent treatise on mutiny 5:46 - Best thing I saw this week - pbd2000 8:20 - Anecdote of the week - IronMandalorian almost uses the Argent hero for victory 9:26 - Weird game mode(s) of the week - Bunkerdraft and Wekkerdraft 12:04 - Stats thing of the week - Sigma's survey on Relic ranks 16:00 - Tech of the week (Fleet Logistics) 20:18 - Weird rules...

1:07 - Best thing I saw this week (Will's stats) 3:10 - Most and least played factions 4:06 - Weird game mode of the week - FoW30, FoW41, and Ghoti fishing (hat tip to hawkeye52, whose idea that last one was) 7:30 - Weird rules thing of the week - what you have to declare before sabos 9:40 - Tech of the week - gravity drive 12:50 - Brief chat about having guests on the show 13:38 - BLT's faction t...

somno joins the show to talk about the history and pre-history of the async TI4 server, from BoardGameGeek play-by-forum games 6 years ago, to getting all the  image files loaded up for the maps, and seeing the community grow from 20 to 2000. 1:17 - Best thing I saw this week 3:12 - Tech of the week - Self-Assembly Routines 6:10 - somno! 7:00 - Starting on BGG forums, descriptions of early maps, n...

Flight of Fancy joins the show to talk Argent Flight, playing factions that aren't strong, beating BLT in a Ministers game with the Strengthen Bonds secret, and whether BLT likes mayo on his BLTs. 0:55 - Async Rank Update 1:53 - Flight of Fancy joins the show 3:00 - Getting into TI4 and Async TI4 6:20 - On playing fast 8:01 - Argent Flight (of Fancy) 12:55 - Argent's starting tech (and why you sho...

BLT congratulates the Tournament 2 Semifinalists, invites you to play F(r)og of War, and fails to invite a guest or to make progress on his faction tier list. 1:42 - Best thing I saw this week - Tournament 2 quarterfinals are finished 3:47 - Weird game mode of the week - Fog of War 10:43 - Tech of the week - Predictive Intelligence (gah!) 14:52 - Weird rules thing of the week - Spatial Conduit Cyl...

BLT wishes you a happy new year, shares another edge case that makes Crown of Thalnos almost good, and starts off his Faction Tier List with his D Tier factions. 1:12 - Best thing I saw this week 1:29 - Weird game mode of the week: Pally's Ixthian Variant 3:17 - Tech of the week: Hyper Metabolism 6:09 - Weird rules thing of the week: Letnev and Sol agents can improve Crown of Thalnos! 8:40 - BLT's...

kRuthless (Kyle) joins the show to talk about pbd1, Ghosts, Mentak, burnout, and being ruthless on the board and friendly above it! 0:45 - pbd266 finally finished! 2:34 - kRuthless joins the show! 4:01 - How did you join the async community? (and pbd1) 8:46 - Burnout and knowing how many async games to be in at once 13:48 - Being a different persona in-game vs in real life 17:14 - Being more "ruth...

BLT goes solo again to talk about the server feeling both fast and slow, solo TI, and the first Async Rank - Agent. 0:40 - intro on the server feeling slow and fast, pbd266, and an IRL game 5:19 - Best thing I saw this week 6:04 - Weird game mode of the week - "Solo Mode" by BigAlCupaChino and Hadouken 9:35 - Tech of the week - Scanlink Drone Network 12:29 - Various updates - OfficialDaveAcct is t...

Chassit joins the show to talk about Async Tournament 2, taking home systems (or not), 3D maps, and Bio-Stims! And BLT continues to learn how to edit audio. 0:30 - Chassit joins the show 1:35 - Chassit's playstyle 2:15 - Do you expect to need to take somebody's home system? 3:39 - Async Tournament 2 4:38 - Homebrew flourishing on the server 7:30 - Recent Tournament 2 winners 7:55 - Tournament 2 sl...

BLT welcomes Argocontrol to the show to talk about playing a lot of games and the TIGL ranks, plus — intro music! 0:33 - Best thing I saw this week (6 Z'eus per round) 1:56 - Argocontrol joins the show! 3:21 - The Argocontrol origin story 4:06 - Joining too many games 5:45 - TIGL chat 13:17 - Weird game mode of the week - Oath of Kings mod from Jangles 15:36 - Tech of the week - Integrated Economy...

BLT professes his love for Muaat, new tournament semifinalists and ministers, and PupRock joins the show to talk about how cute the Vuil'raith are.  0:17 - Muaat love 1:26 - Best thing I saw this week (Kolione winning on accident - https://discord.com/channels/943410040369479690/1174301137768288336/1174425239778758656) 3:26 - Weird game mode of the week (Gunboat Diplomacy - pbd1445, Oops All Ixthi...

0:35 Errata  2:07 Best thing I saw this week - Tactical Bombardment 3:39 Weird game mode of the week - Odds and Evens 6:18 Tech of the week - Stroter 2! 9:14 Weird rules thing of the week - Crown of Emphidia scoring timing 10:46 Server updates - Song of the Stroter  from Brassbird: Github links to the async bot: https://github.com/AsyncTI4   https://github.com/AsyncTI4/TI4_map_generator_bot

BLT talks about TIGL, the Twilight Imperium Global League, and how much he loves Arborec.  0:00 Intro 1:12 Best thing I saw this week 2:16 TIGL and the new Async Ranking 6:25 Weird game mode of the week 8:08 Tech of the week - Sarween Tools 10:20 Weird rules thing of the week 12:20 Server updates

BLT shares his feelings about Ixthian Artifact voting and Graviton Laser System, and updates on the cool Halloween war suns you may have seen this past week. Apologies for the quiet audio, I'll get it eventually! 1:14 How I got into async 3:00 Ixthian Watch update! 6:46 Weird game mode of the week 8:23 Tech of the week - Graviton Laser System 11:27 Weird rules thing of the week 13:23 Server news  

BLT bumbles through episode 1 and shares a few highlights from the async TI server this past week. Send feedback to BLT on discord!