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We’re finally wrapping up our GenCon coverage this week, and to do it we need to tell you all about the tournament! This week covers what we saw in the Qualifying Rounds of the tournament and some spoiler-free discussion of the Finals so that you can still enjoy our wonderful coverage on YouTube . Afterwards that are a few notes on the rest of our GenCon 2019 experience, which was wonderful! Music...

While at GenCon, we had the opportunity to sit down with designers Bill Eberle of Dune and Patrick Leder of Root. We spoke with them about their upcoming releases and about the ways fans interact with their games. We also got to see Dune played and have been playing a fair amount of Root ourselves, and in this episode you’ll hear our first impressions on both games. Music provided by Ben Prunty. F...

THIS EPISODE OF SCPT IS RATED PG-13 FOR SUGGESTIVE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE. We finally had our first LIVE SHOW! This was our event held at GenCon 2019, where we played the archaic Twilight Imperium RPG (which is quite bad). We were joined by fellow Portland comedian Steven Wilber and member of the RPG group Rat Queens , Jessica Lynn Verdi! This was an incredible experience that we look forward to doi...

GenCon starts THIS WEEK! We’re freaking out, and with so much going on, we decided to give you something a bit different this week. First up is a break down of LAST YEAR’S GenCon tournament video, which is FINALLY RELEASED. We talk about what took so long and how things will be different this year. There is also more details on our Live show and ways to hangout and get your Twilight Imperium fix w...

THIS EPISODE HAS SOME AUDIO QUALITY ISSUES. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MIX THE PODCASTERS IN WITH THE RIFF RAFF! But no, seriously, we apologize for any discomfort in your listening experience. TgWelch has been a mainstay of the Tabletop Simulator community for some time now, and it’s entirely possible that he has more games played of Twilight Imperium than any other person. Today, he joins us...

A recent game left Matt obsessed with a particular matchup. Sol and Yin are both masters of infantry, but how do they fair when pitted directly against each other? This episode breaks down this peculiar relationship and seeks to find out how players should behave when faced with their counterpart as a neighbor. If you’re attending GenCon, be sure to sign up for our GenCon LIVESHOW our GenCon LIVES...

And now the premiere of your new favorite game show with only one episode: Can It War Sun? Today we’ll go through each faction and answer this ever-important question. At some point, we might finally decide this tech just isn’t good, but for today we’re doing our best to play devil’s advocate. If you’re attending GenCon, be sure to sign up for our GenCon LIVESHOW our GenCon LIVESHOW! Music provide...

Daddy is away this week, so it’s up to your Show Buddy and Actual Daddy to steer the ship. And what better way than to do a player profile on our favorite guest host: EJ! EJ helped up commentate the finals of the tournament and makes regular appearances on the show, so it’s time to hear how he approaches Twilight Imperium. If you’re attending GenCon, be sure to sign up for our GenCon LIVESHOW our...

Podbean iTunes Google Play Stitcher Spotify YouTube Last week we were only able to cover *checks notes* FOUR promissory notes?! So now it is our duty to cover the remaining 17 faction promissory notes. Strap in, because it’s sure to be a bumpy ride. If you’re attending GenCon, be sure to sign up for our GenCon LIVESHOW our GenCon LIVESHOW! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic....

The Galactic Council has another great pick for you this month: Promissory Notes. These little things are something we notoriously had trouble analyzing early on in TI4, but now that we’ve had some time to sit with them, we’re starting to feel more confident with how to use them. There’s a LOT of meta-meat on these bones, so it’s not all going to fit in one episode! If you’re attending GenCon, be...

Dane Beltrami (designer of TI4) has a huge announcement, and he agreed to make it on our show. You’re not going to want to miss this episode where we dig deep into the details of the huge surprise Dane has brought us If you’re attending GenCon, be sure to sign up for our GenCon LIVESHOW our GenCon LIVESHOW! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com   J...

After some notes about a recent game with our Good Yin Brotherhood patrons, Matt and Hunter begin to lay out the case for the five games proposed to be our “game #2.” The poll is live now to all of our patrons, and we wanted to make sure people had an adequate understanding of each game so that their vote could be informed. We’re excited to add something alongside Twilight Imperium, we just need h...

The Space Kitties have gotta thirsty. Only blood will quench their thirst. Blood or the tears of podcasters. This week’s episode is brought to you by Space Kitty Yin4Life, who took Hunter on a tortuous journey. The game was 14 points, 4 players, and Hunter was required to play as the Embers of Muaat. Joining him was Matt as the Winnu, Yin4Life as Sardakk N’orr, and UnalignedMagi as the Arborec. Wi...

We’re on the precipice of a new arc of the show, and it felt necessary to take the time to hold a bit of a shareholders meeting for all of our listeners and patrons. We’re planning some big changes, and as always, we want you to be a part of them. So please, check out this episode, and help give us your feedback so we can keep discovering new things with this show together. To sign up for our GenC...

It’s that time again! We are joined by our dear friend Blarknob so that we may yet again prepare for the GenCon Twilight Imperium Tournament. This episode gives the details of the setup for the GenCon tournament and how to sign up, as well as your hosts swapping notes with the most prolific TI moderator out there.   To sign up for the GenCon TI Tournament, add ONE of these events to your wishlist:...

Part Two of our Expansion Wishlist kicks off with some errata. This whole episode is a mixture of your responses to the first part of our wishlist, some of your ideas, and some of ours. So join us on this wild adventure of pretending we actually have an expansion... To sign up for our GenCon LIVESHOW, make sure to add our event  to your GenCon wishlist!   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at...

It’s beach day! We’re gonna relax and have a fun conversation, per the request of our Galactic Council. This time around, the council has chosen our wishlist of everything we’d like to see in an expansion for Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition. Now, there’s a lot to cover here, which means this is just part one. And for next week’s episode, we want to include some of your wishlists, so be sure to ge...

Today is a day to unwind a little. We’ve learned a lot during this process of hosting a tournament and we wanted to share it with you. In this episode you’ll find our overview of what surprised us, what we expected, and what we hope to do going forward.   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

And so another chapter is completed. The Patreon Tournament is over and we have a champion. Today’s episode is all the details behind that player’s victory. There is some non-spoiler stuff up at the top if you want to listen a bit before you watch, but from then on out, we break down the entirety of the game, which you can watch here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRzUStXyiU8 Music provided by...

The Patreon Tournament FINALS are this Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 2:30pm CDT! And before you join us LIVE (at twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles) to watch, you MUST listen to this episode! Today we’re talking to all 6 finalists and getting a better idea of how they approach each game of Twilight Imperium. Matt and Hunter also analyze what they believe victory and defeat looks like for each player. M...

The Patreon Tournament Knockouts are officially over, and we now know our 6 finalists. Today, we detail the three very different games and discuss what led to victory for our three winners. Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

This Imperium Life is LONG overdue. We’ve been promising a collection of stories about salty behavior for a while now, and we finally have enough to make a show out of them. There’s a little bit of sweet mixed in, but it certainly doesn’t lessen the flavor of the salt contained within. These are YOUR stories, and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at b...

We have a special treat this week! Space Kitty James Bocks would like to present to you a discussion on content creation in the Twilight Imperium community. We discuss how Matt, Hunter, and James have gone about creating things in the past, and James makes many impassioned speeches to convince YOU to get out there and make something! So don’t sit there and let James down! Makes something, already!...

The Semifinals are OVER and we now know three of the players that will be in the Championship game of our tournament! This episode details the stories of each of their victories and some analysis of the games all of these top contenders played. Afterwards, a brief errata about our Knockout Map Analysis, which includes details on our Five-Player Drafting Method. Stick around to the end as well for...

The Semifinals for the tournament aren’t even over yet, but we may not have a better opportunity to do some in depth analysis of the Knockout round map. To check out the map while you listen, visit this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/twilightimperium/comments/ax7w23/scpt_patreon_tourney_knockout_map_5_player/ After the analysis is some errata from last week’s Metagame List with JattaPake.   Music...