Sith Takers Snap Shots

Episode 185 - Swedish Open 2021 Rich and Ben chat to Niklas God and Producer Tim about their games at last weekends Swedish Open! One of them won the event and the other may have cheated on his way to missing out on cut!! (apologies again Jonathan!). We also briefly chat about the GSP Sigma FightClub event before chatting about Vader in a Defender! If you missed the games you can find them on Targ...

Episode 184 - This is not the 186 you're looking for We're fast approaching some important milestones so Producer Tim thought it would be good to get some special guests in for the 186th Episode... however Rich got a little excited and so we have Alex Birt of the 186th Squadron Podcast for you in Episode 184! Plenty of good X-wing content however as Rich, Ben and Alex sit down to discuss the Kyber...

Episode 183 - Delta Champs Ben & Sean are joined by special guest Darrell McDowell to chat about last weekends GSP Delta Fight Club event - and extended two day event set in UK time zone. What lists did well and the ships in them. Plus a quick re-cap on the Organised Play announcement from AMG & FFG. Pre-orders for the new Squadron boxes are up at the amazing Element Games - Wargaming Webstore - g...

Episode 182 - Atomic Transmission Fresh from the Atomic Mass Games first ever Star Wars miniatures games Transmission Rich chats to Ben, Sean and Tim about what we found out regarding the X-wing Miniatures Game now it sits under AMG not FFG. New releases, OP, rules, hobby... lots of cool info and a road map for future streams! Big thanks to Will Shick and Simone Elliot for taking the time to answe...

Episode 181 - Chatting with an Enigma Ben and Rich are joined by Jason from Enigma Wargaming to chat about last weekends Alpha GSP Fight Club event and how everyone is getting on in the Kyber Cup and league. What lists are doing well and what have the guys been flying. Cast – Rich, Ben and Jason from Enigma Wargaming Producer – Tim Recorded 25/01/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from...

Episode 180 - The Sith Takers Open up Rich, Ben and Tim are joined by Commissioner Colm Browne to announce the return of (we hope) tabletop premier X-wing events at our home - Element Games, Stockport, UK - with the 2021 Sith Taker Open! Much like the 2020 Sith Taker Open it's a two day event with Swiss day 1 and Top Cut & Side events day 2. The event will take place on August 7th & 8th and curren...

Episode 179 - Events end long live events Rich, Ben and Tim chat about a couple of events that have recently come to a close - the X-wing Ready Room List Roulette and Steel City Kamino Chaos events - and then chat about the Sith Taker League and how round 1 has gone in the Kyber cup! X-WING READY ROOM LIST ROULETTE https://tabletop.to/xwing-ready-room-list-roulette?fbclid=IwAR1FVZdol3PKuPFiN6VnPDj...

Episode 178 - Welcome 2021 Rich is joined by Ben and Tim to welcome in the New Year! We talk Lego, Kyber Cup (and Tim did forget his S-Foils...), The Royal Rumble and some little rumours! We hope you all had a good New Years! Cast – Rich, Ben, & Tim Producer – Tim Recorded 04/01/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro – LITTLE BIG - S*ck My D*ck 2020 (Official...

Episode 177 - The Festive Hangout 2020 For our end of year podcast we invited a few friends to a special live show streamed on our Twitch channel twitch.tv/sithtakers if you missed us live you can catch the 'content' here! It's fairly heavily edited for the PG audience and to try and keep it fairly on topic but it does get a bit rambly at times so bear with us! Fair warning: There may be an occasi...

Episode 176 - TTS Polish Nats Rich & Ben are joined by Darrell Mcdowell to chat about last weekend's 'unofficial' Polish Nats held online via TTS and run by PolskaXwing. They chat about what Darrell took and how he did plus the winning and Top lists. You can find the lists on List Fortress https://listfortress.com/tournaments/1972 And you can find the Top 16 on PolskaXwing's YouTube channel (make...

Episode 175 - The Final Boogaloo Rich & Ben are joined by Knock the Sith out 2 - Hyperspace Boogaloo Champion Brendon Osmann-Deyman. They talk about the Final, the event in general, a bit about his and Kester's lists and round off the Snap Shot with a follow up to last week's show - the games we had versus the guys from Firestorm Squadron Firecast (which can still be watched on their Twitch channe...

Episode 174 - The Firestorm Face-off Rich & Ben are joined by the cast of the Firestorm Squadron Firecast - Nick, Dom and Phillip - who have challenged our Podcast to an evening of gaming 4th Dec 2020. We chat about streaming, gaming, the pandemic and new releases! You can find the games live at 8pm UK time this Friday over on twitch.tv/firestormsquadronfirecast Cast – Rich & Ben with special gues...

Episode 173 - The New World Order It's all change in X-wing, and maybe the start of something new and wonderful! Ben is joined by Sean & Rich to discuss the recent press release from Atomic Mass Games regarding Organised Play, the November 2020 points update, points for the new ships and also a preview of the Semi Final matches from Knock the Sith Out 2: Hyperspace Boogaloo which with stream live...

Episode 172 - Atomic News Rich is joined by Ben & Sean to talk about the recent news of X-wing, Armada and Legion are to leave FFG and move to Atomic Mass Games. They round out the show with a little on our Sith Takers events - Knock the Sith Out 2 is in to the top 8 and the new League season is fast approaching! Cast – Rich, Ben and Sean Producer – Tim Recorded 17/11/2020 via Discord Intro - Obi...

Episode 171 - The Galactic Finals Ben & Rich are joined by Producer Tim, released from his dark editing room, to talk about The Gold Squadron Podcast's Coruscant Galactic Finals that took place at the weekend. We run over some of the Top 32 lists plus Tim's run to the Top 8! You can find the pairings, results and lists here: https://tabletop.to/coruscant-invitational-galactic-championship-2020-fin...

Episode 170 - Hope against the Nantex Rich is joined by Ben and Sean to chat about the new releases - Heralds of Hope & the Tie Brute, the teaser article for Jango Fett & Slave 1, points for the new releases plus update for the Nantex and Sean tries to round it out with chat about the Mandalorian but Rich is having none of it! (no spoilers contained!) Cast – Rich, Ben and Sean Producer – Tim Recor...

Episode 169 - Let's try that again! Following the Jawa incident last week we've got a bumper episode for you today! Ben and Rich are joined by Dan from Steel City X-wing to talk about their latest event - 'Kamino Chaos', a couple of spoiler articles from FFG (V-wing and the Tri Fighter) plus we have event talk with Ryloth, Mustafa and Knock the Sith Out 2 - Hyperspace Boogaloo! And for refence - t...

Episode 168 - ETA to the Actis Rich and Ben are joined by special guest Matthias 'Sad Toaster' from Germany & our online x-wing community to discuss the recent spoiler article from FFG on the ETA-2 Actis Jedi Star Fighter. What new pilots and upgrades are we getting and do they think they are any good? Link to the article: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/10/7/push-the-limit/ Cast –...

Episode 167 - What's the craic at Crait Rich is joined by Sean and Liam Baker to chat about last weekend's latest Gold Squadron Podcast's Galaxies qualifier - Crait. How did Liam get on, what lists caught the guy's eyes and who actually won it? You can find lists, results and match ups on Tabletop.to https://tabletop.to/worlds-qualifier-crait-edtutc-4/ladder Also Rich talks a little about X-wing A...

Episode 166 - Concussion Protocol Rich is joined by Tim and Colm to chat about the LAAT/i, HMP Gunship and Xi Shuttle now that they've hit the table top. What sort of lists might we see or are the guys playing around with plus a quick chat about the Heralds of Hope squadron pack. If you missed the article you can find it here: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/9/23/fight-to-the-finis...

Episode 165 - Positive Spin Rich is joined by Ben and Producer Tim to chat about the weekends results from GSP Concord Dawn and Coppa Starfighters Italia plus a touch on meta and ships & lists - but with a positive spin! Concord Dawn lists & results https://tabletop.to/worlds-qualifier-concord-dawn-aestutc-10/ladder COPPA STARFIGHTERS ITALIA lists & results https://tabletop.to/coppa-starfighters-i...

Episode 164 - The Darrell Download Rich and Ben are joined by Dathomir Top 32 player Darrell McDowell to chat about his list that went 6-0 in swiss at Dathomir, interesting lists and ships that are about at the moment and a brief chat about the new Droid Gunship! Lists can be found on List Fortress listfortress.com/tournaments/1836…wH3qRrNvcyben4LU Cast – Rich, Ben and special guest Darrell McDowe...

Episode 163 - Dathomir Debrief Tim and Ben are joined by Dathomir Finalist Andrew Prevot for a 1 hour special looking over the lists that made the Top 32 at the latest Gold Squadron Galaxies online event. How did Tim and Andrew do and what do they think of the other lists that made the cut? Lists can be found on List Fortress https://listfortress.com/tournaments/1836?fbclid=IwAR1nFDJM0eQ7O1zs_9jW9...

Episode 162 - It's God to talk Rich and Ben are joined by special guest and Knock the Sith Out Champion, Niklas God to talk about the event, final vs Wouter, x-wing lists and the new Xi Shuttle! Cast – Rich, Ben and special guest Niklas God Producer – Tim Recorded 31/08/2020 via Skype Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro – Loreen - Euphoria (Official Audio) Used without per...

Episode - 161 Corellia Galaxies event Rich is joined by Darrem to talk about the Fly better/Gold squardon, not worlds, but still a series of great events to help get us through this covid rubbish, event 1 Corellia! also, we should all support Table To https://tabletop.to/ There is a Donate button at the bottom. Its free to use, and your not going to be buy mates a beer at worlds this year, so if y...