The Armada Podcast

Armchairjedi is both Fode and Beed, and he's joined by the 2025 Vassal World Cup Champion, Angry Ewok! We learn about the man behind the legend, find out what makes his fleet tick, and talk about the future. And speaking of the future, stay tuned for a special announcement at the end! This is the final episode of season 3 of the Fode and Beed Show. On behalf of LargePackage and Machi, thank you al...

Join ArmchairJedi, Machi, and LargePackage as we talk VWC Top 4, Worlds, and peer into the future of competitive play. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

Mack is away enjoying some well earned R&R, so we're joined by a guest Beed: friend of the podcast and VWC2022 winner Sam! We chat about the dominance of the Civil War factions in the VWC and try to peg the score needed to make the Finals. On the 2nd Chance side we see some strong Rebel fleets and some new CIS tools coming into their own. Did the 1.6 changes make for an extra-fishy Worlds meta? Pl...

It's the very 4th episode! May it be with you! We check in on the VWC Swiss and 2nd-chance tournaments. Then we look forward to Worlds, talk about our first times, and how much practice you should have (Warning: getting as much practice as Machi can lead to blindness) Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

Beed and the Fodes talk the VWC Swiss, the cool new lists in the 2nd Chance tourney, and take your questions! Is the new meta no meta at all? Tune in to find out! Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

Fode and Beed (and Beed) talk about the VWC, the October Update, LVO, the October Update, and what to call the October Update, before digging into all the changes and opportunities in the Octember Update Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

Armchair Jedi and Kelorn sit down to parse through AMG's erratta/points change/update to the game that was released this week. As we go category by category, we give our thoughts on what will be impactful and lightly speculate on what's to come of these changes. Stay tuned for further analysis as we find out what the consequences of these changes will be over the coming months! Join in the podcast...

  The Fode and Beed show returns for the 2025 Vassal World Cup! We say goodbye to one host,  and welcome 2 new voices to the show. Will data and facts prevail, or will they be buried under big parcel of nonsense? Join us to find out! Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

The podcast crew is all back together! We promptly get off topic before pulling ourselves back together to discuss this year's NOVA open and Truthi's win with Ackbar. We wrap up with insane ideas from Armchair about how to help the Separatists. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

Fox and Kelorn discuss our expectations of the upcoming AMG announcement as well as the results of the recent tournaments. Ending with yet another truly outrageous food discussion. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

The podcast is back! Summer has been difficult for the hosts, but we're ready to jump back into the Armada action. Arcwelder, winner of LSO 2024, joins us to discuss the first Grand Tournament post AMG's Armada shutdown. With a balanced top 8, lots of positivity, and more than 30 players, LSO 2024 is declared a success! Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

It's group therapy time as we struggle with grief, anger, and sadness over the end of 'development' of Armada by AMG. We shit on everyone as the poo is flung all over the place. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

Armchair and Fox get together for a short episode reacting to the news of the day, Armada officially ending 'development' of Armada and Xwing. Tune back in next week as we continue to explore the ramifications of the Armada community being left adrift. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

ArmchairJedi and Kelorn are back to talk about takeaways from the first Grand Tournament of the season at the UK Games Expo as well as a prolonged discussion on Fortressing in the game. ArmadaMatt's Survey: https://slicer.tools/survey Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

ArmchairJedi takes the helm as he walks Fox and Kelorn through their games at Texas Open. After narrowly avoiding a Bridgerton hottake, we talk about IPA. That can't be controversial, can it? Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

Armchairjedi and Kelorn get together tonight to discuss AMG's revival of Armada Worlds, an analysis of their broken public relations, and some expectations for just how this new World's format will work. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

The podcast crew gets together for a second episode this week to react to the announcement of AMG's new Grand Tournaments. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

This episode we have our interview with the brand new world champion, Peter! He gives us the rundown of how his championship Starhawk list was born. After that, Armchair and Fox rejoin to give the rundown of our impressions of Peter's win as well as a recap of the Top4/Top8. We close with a super juicy Tim Curry Hottake. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

This week the guys talk about the massive Worlds Day 1 field, how it relates to the LCQ and seasons stats, along with a few player anecdotes from Kelorn and judge anecdotes from Fox. Armchair digs deep in his stat spreadsheets and printouts to repeatedly find answers to questions Kelorn and Fox could have asked him about earlier. Plus, a special breakfast discussion. Join in the podcast discussion...

Andrew Preyer, the winner of the 2024 Last Chance Qualifier at Worlds joins the show to give us the run down on what the LCQ was like. Armchair has the stats to help us understand what happened and what archetypes did well in the LCQ. We wrap up with an invite to Worlds winner Peter as well as some truly terrible food takes from Kelorn. Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord...

Hopeful Rebel players have been building their fleets all year in preparation for the ultimate test, WORLDS, which is just one week away. KELORN and ARMCHAIRJEDI evaluate the stolen plans to predict their outcomes! Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

raely42, ArmchairJedi and VWC champion Arcwelder get together to talk about the last game of the event and then go through Arcwelder's path to victory! Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

Fox and Armchair discuss the trends of Imperial lists over the season and what we expect to see at Worlds. While Kelorn is a scrub and off on some silly hunting trip.  Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

raely42, ArmchairJedi and returning guest Stewbucket shoot-the-shit with absolutely no plan for a solid second-to-last episode! We talked about the finals fleets, and things we'd do differently next year in both the organization of the event and the podcast! Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

raely42, ArmchairJedi and King of Jank Mr. Louis Andre himself talk about jank and dark horses. All 3 are sick, but all 3 give a good podcast go anyway. Armchair finishes off with his lovely recap of the last 2 weeks of the event! Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt