Sith Takers Snap Shots

Episode 315 - Careless Whispers We're back for 2024! We have news, leaks and resulting changes to playtesting at Atomic Mass Games. Battle over Endor is coming end of February and we have a few reveals to chat about! We also start to get hyped for Worlds and the Sith Taker Open with a quick run down of recent Store Champs. Battle over Endor news https://twitter.com/atomicmassgames/status/174442284...

Episode 314 - Fairytale Of XTC23 In our final episode of the year Liam & Tim are joined by the new XTC Champions -Team USA! We chat about the XTC format - group stage vs finals, list choices, faction choices. We get a bit of insight in to the pairings process and possible improvements for the XTC in future years. As it's the last show of the year we thought we'd also chat to our guests about their...

Episode 313 - Isoplane II: The Sequel This week the cast are joined by Daniel 'Isophane' Lim to chat about the return of The Isoplane Initiative! A fund raising initiative started by Isophane and a few other pillars of the community to help those who need it get to Worlds! Tim (and Liam to a lesser extent) benefited from the 2023 Initiative - can you help the next group fly to Worlds?! After we ch...

Episode 312 - Crazy for X-wing This week, once we've tackled the recent Atomic Mass Games Worlds Open Qualifiers from Germany and PAX Unplugged and a couple of Store Champs, Rich and Liam are joined by fellow X-wing enthusiast and actual Clinical Psychologist Niels Detert to talk about Mental Health and Psychology in the game! Why don't we sleep well before a big event? Why do we stress about a ga...

Episode 311 - The French Republic Tim returns from France to chat about his run at the Atomic Mass French Worlds Open Qualifier but he's also brought the Event Champion Niels Vos along to chat about the event and their Final match! Find out how they both got on, what they thought about the event and venue and most importantly - Intentional Draws! Swiss standings, lists and results https://www.long...

Episode 310 - Polish WoQ This week we cover the results from last weekends Atomic Mass Games Worlds Open Qualifier from Poland. 57 players, won by something expected but a blast from the past finished 2nd! We then wrap up the XTC Group stage with a run down of the 10 teams that have (likely) qualified! Polish WoQ https://www.longshanks.org/event/11193 Groups for XTC 2023 Group A https://longshanks...

Episode 309 - Ben is Back! After a number of weeks Ben has finally remembered the password for his laptop and re-joins Rich and Liam to talk X-wing! This week we cover the Atomic Mass Games Western Canada Worlds Open Qualifier, the day two 32 player Store Champ side event won by Scum, and we cover the Cornish Nationals from our friends down south! Tin Squadron! We rap up with some XTC chat and Ric...

Episode 308 - Just the two of us A slightly shorter episode as we're down to just Rich and Liam. They do a quick re-cap of recent Atomic Mass Games Store Champs and the XTC including the Comics, Games and Coffee: Store Championships won by Pond from Firecast Focus! Comics, Games and Coffee: Store Championships https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/938 Lost Star Store Championship https://rollbetter.gg...

Episode 307 - Accentuate the Positive This week we chat about our recent trip to Sanctuary Gaming Centre for their Atomic Mass Games Store Championship! Although the results may not have been quite what we wanted we had a good day and chat about some of the more unusual lists. We round up with a few more events from across the globe and chat about week 2 at the XTC. Sanctuary Gaming Centre Store C...

Episode 306 - Negative Nancy After we fall down a little rabbit hole we move on to better things! Organised Play! We chat about the Team event we ran last weekend at Board in Brum - Sith Taker Squadrons 2023! We then cover the World Open Qualifiers from Saint-Laurent and New Zealand before covering a few choice Store Champs! Finally we get round to chatting about the XTC group stage including some...

Episode 305 - Down Under with Onyx This week Liam and Rich are joined by Rob Crumlish from Onyx Squadron to chat about his awesome alt-art cards, Organised play support and of course another load of Atomic Mass Games Store Championships! You can find out more about the Onyx Squadron alt-arts here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1223725924392410 And events we discussed this episode: Galleon Games...

Episode 304 - The French Resistance This week Rich and Liam are joined by Milan WoQ Champion Aurélien Coudray to catch up on the Italian & Nordic Atomic Mass Games World Open Qualifiers plus another load of Store Championships! To round out the show Liam and Rich quiz Aurélien, Rich's question is at least X-wing related! AMG Star Wars: X-Wing 2023 Milan World Open Qualifier Won by Aurélien Coudray...

Episode 303 - London Calling This week the cast are joined by Robin Farndon, 2023 London World Open Qualifier Champion! We chat to Robin and Tim about their experiences at the event before moving on to briefly cover the Milan WoQ (we'll be back to cover this in more detail next week where we hope to be joined by Champ Aurélien) and Golden State Games WoQ plus a few Store Champs from across the glo...

Episode 302 - There's too many of them! There's so many events going on around the globe we're bound to miss one or two... and then the winners get in touch to let us know! This week Rich and Liam are joined by Store Champ Winners Chris Burnett and Toby Harris to catch up on a few events! And we also chat about the big bad Han! Neutral Ground X-wing Store Champs https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/3...

Episode 301 - Wishing on a Star (Wars) After covering another chunk of events including the Madrid Worlds Open Qualifier and Brazilian Nationals, as featured as part of the X-wing Xtravaganza coverage, the cast are joined by Sam Webb to ponder about what ships Atomic Mass Games could still bring to the tabletop. Sam wrote an article about the topic and we were thinking the same... Sam's Blog https...

Episode 300 - This is Sith Takers! We made it! Episode 300! Come join us as we spend some time looking back at our favourite shows and guests, plus some stats from Tim (will Liam by the show's and his own biggest fan again?). We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for listening, guests for taking time out of their lives to come on and talk to us, Event TO's for getting us lists, and an...

Episode 299 - Tim King Maker Another packed show running through some of the new releases from Atomic Mass Games with the YT-2400 and Imperial Bombers and a load of new Store Championships! True friends help you win events! And Tim did just that last weekend for Liam! Find out more about this Tournament bromance and others on this week's Sith Takers Snap Shots podcast! Element Games, Stockport UK...

Episode 298 - Dude where's my X-wing? We're back with another bumper episode of Atomic Mass Games Store Championship coverage with events from the UK, US and Chile! We chat a little about prep ahead of our local Store Champs at Element Games (over 20 tickets sold already!) and whether Tim will have any ships to fly!?! We chat a little about the player draft at the Nickle City X-wing draft league....

Episode 297 - Battle for Malinas 23 Fresh(ish) from their weekend away attending the Battle for Malinas / European Team event at the 40K World Championships Tim and Liam talk to Rich and Ben about their time in Belgium! We talk about the event format, standings, best lists in each faction plus more on the social side, and one of the many positives from the weekend, Team format X-wing! Plus catchin...

Episode 296 - He will rock you! Note: Few audio glitches in this episode! my (Tim's) audio failed so I've tried to trim bits I was involved in or you won't hear my pearls of wisdom... and Steve struggles with technology so he may have been chewing his phone at some point. Stick with it! It's worth it! :D This episode we cover the 4 day's of X-wing from the atomic mass games World Open Qualifier at...

Episode 295 - Sweet 16 This week Ben and Liam are joined by new-ish player & Sith Taker, Matt Flockhart, to cover the latest batch of Atomic Mass Games X-wing Store Championships and discuss some of the finer points of needing 16 players to be able to award the Worlds Invite! 29-07-23 - Pro Tech Games Store Champs - 10 players Winner - Matt Farr - Resistance - no lists https://www.longshanks.org/e...

Episode 294 - The Devil is in the Detail After a week off we have some catching up to do! After we discuss the YT-2400 news including Scum Dash (personally opinion ;) ) we cover an atomic mass of events! We also chat to new-ish player Oliver Taylor-Holmes for a different perspective on events and games! 01/07 - Poznan X-wing Store Championships - 25 players Won by Karol Pietrowicz - CIS - Jango, Z...

Episode 293 - A flood of Store Champs! We thought we had a lot of events to cover last week! This week we bring you coverage of 11 (or at least as best we can - submit your lists people!). Before we jump in to the events we cover Atomic Mass Games World's Qualifer article https://www.atomicmassgames.com/star-wars-transmissions/amg-star-wars-world-open-qualifier-schedule-20232024-season Our event c...

Episode 292 - Thick & Fast events Rich and Liam give us a round-up of 3 Atomic Mass Games X-wing Store Championships that happened last weekend. See the links below for lists (those that are submitted), pairings and results. After that they then discuss what the best 4 point ships are in each faction! Do you agree with them? Or did they miss something? The Gaming Den, Basingstoke, UK https://www.l...

Episode 291 - King for a day! We're back in the North after a great trip to Cardiff for the Welsh Open at Firestorm Games in Cardiff and we're joined by King of Swiss Tom Veale! We chat to Tim and Tom about their lists, games and how the event went in general. X-wing Welsh Open pairings, lists & results https://www.longshanks.org/event/8192/ And if you missed the event the awesome Firecast Focus,...