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Episode 235 - Excelsior! This week Rich, Ben and Liam are joined by Richard Greenaway to talk about his experiences running one of the first 2.5 Tournaments in the UK, at his local store - Excelsior! Comics in Bristol. Richard shares some useful tips and observations that may help you and your local group running events with the new rules, plus we chat about what sort of lists he saw and what did...

Episode 234 - 21 days later So with the updated Rules, List Building and Scenarios released by AMG around 3 weeks ago how have the cast found it all now they've been able to get a fair few games under their belts! We chat about what we've been flying and how we've found list building, and some lessons learned from the scenarios. You can find all the updated Rules, points and scenarios on AMG's web...

Episode 233 - X-wing Satellite Defense Scramble your Satellites and grab your cache's - Rich, Ben, and Tim return for the second show this week! With a little over half a dozen games under their belts each, both in person and online, we talk more about Scenario play, list building and are we actually enjoying the new game? We talk through the basics from set up/turn 0, actions and scoring and a li...

Episode 232 - The Future Is Now Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim get together to discuss the release of 2.5 Rules by AMG! It's a fairly big topic so we're going to have two shows go out this week. Today we're talking about rules changes, list building and a brief touch on scenarios as we're all going to be heading down to Element Games for Games night and thrashing out the different scenarios with a select...

Episode 231 - Upton Funk This week Ben and Liam are joined by Sith Taker Open side event topper Michael Upton to talk about New spoilers from the Razorcrest release, the ROAD side event at STO and a new project he's part of, Vector Squadron Creative, who are bringing alt arts to a table near you soon! You can find more about Vector Squadron Creative on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/VectorSquad...

Episode 230 - Sith Taker Open 2022 It's a busy session all about the 2022 Sith Taker Open! Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim are joined by the Event Champion Matija Mandurov!! We chat to Matija, Ben and Liam about their games, for Matija and Liam it was their run into Top cut but for Ben we talk about the day 2 ROAD side event. 116 players started Swiss for the main event and the side event had around 80 pl...

Episode 229 - Paying the Beskar Price Rich is joined by Ben, Liam and special guest Louis Leong for a bumper yet concise episode on Organised Play! First up we talk about Louis' Mandalorian inspired Organised Play kits he's created to help Tournament Organisers and Store Owners with a one-stop-kit for events whilst we await the return of official OP kits! Beskar ingot charge tokens, coins and alt-...

Episode 228 - Trilogy Tournament Rich is joined by Ben, Liam and Tim to talk about the Trilogy Tournament - a 3 player Team event where each player is running a list from a different Trilogy and we can't duplicate archetypes. The event is being run by Nobbie from Fearless Gundarks and we've just finished round 2 of the group stage! We also chat about a few Pride of Mandalore spoilers that have bee...

Episode 227 - Fund Raising For Phoebe This week Rich, Ben and Liam are joined by a very special guest, former Director of Organised Play at FFG and all round great guy - Alex Watkins! Alex is on primarily to talk to us about the raffle he's running to raise funds to support Phoebe, a daughter of a friend, who has kidney failure due to Anchor Positive Vasculitis - an extremely rare condition. But w...

Episode 226 - New Year New Gear Rich, Ben and Liam return with a bumper first show for 2022 discussing a ton of new Mandalorian spoilers that AMG have released over the Festive break. We also have some Event news for the Sith Taker Open and the Trilogy Tournament! Note: Audio is a little ropey this week as Rich got a new Mic for Christmas so comes in a little hot start but settles down... and for...

Episode 225 - The Chain Gang This week Ben and Tim are joined by Filippo 'Piffo' Bosi to talk about Project SWChain. A community created project to produce a central resource portal for X-Wing, Legion, Armada players and event organizers all over the world! The portal will offer store/club/player locator, event calendar, sanctioned tournaments (for relevant circuits), international player rankings...

Episode 224 - News from Mandalore Rich is joined by Ben and Liam to chat about the some of the spoiled Mandalorian cards we can expect to see in the next wave. Both actually Mando's but also many characters from the Madalorian TV series. What crew will you be taking? We also round out the show with a little shout out to the Hexiled Gaming Wild Space Open Champion! Cast - Ben, Liam and Rich Produce...

Episode 223 - The Hyperspace Junkie Ben and Liam are joined by Jordan Bishop from The Hyperspace Junkie blog to talk about his victory at the recent Store Champs at Firestorm Games in Cardiff. What list did he take and how did he get on. We also ask Jordan 'the questions' as well as chat about some upcoming events. You can find Jordan's blog here: https://hyperspacejunkie.home.blog/ Cast - Ben, Li...

Episode 222 - Yoda Best Liam hosts his first show and is joined by Ben & Rich as well as SPUDGUN’S WORLDS WARM UP 2021 Champion Matt Cook to chat about last weekend's events. Ben, Rich and Matt were at the World's Warm-up so that takes the focus but we also briefly discuss the Kamino Open Top cut and Firestorm Games Store Champs. We also find out how Rich did with his community voted list! https:/...

Episode 221 - Coin flip time No, we're not talking about how to determine first player... Rich wants your help for what list to fly this weekend at Tim's event! A poll will follow shortly. We cover the recent Tauntaun squadron Team event and build up to 'Spudgun's Worlds' Warm-up 2021'. We'll be back next week with some list discussion and how the cast got on. You can follow the event here: https:...

Episode 220 - Positive Waves Rich returns to chat with Ben and Liam about the recent AMG news and develops but this time looking to put a positive spin on things. We also spend some time to chat about a couple of events that happened over the weekend at Board in Brum and in Ireland! Cast - Ben, Rich & Liam Producer - Tim Recorded 15/11/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of...

Episode 219 - That's No Moon Ben and Tim are joined by Dale Cromwell & Conor Holmes to firstly discuss the recent AMG news and game developments. Once we hear from Dale & Conor we move on to chat about the recent Battle For Alderaan Invitational where Conor & Tim did quite well! A 255 player online event and the Final for the 2021 Gold Squadron Podcast Galactic Championship! We cover the top 8 lis...

Episode 218 - ROAD to nowhere A few days after AMG released proposed new rules for determining First player - Ben, Rich and Tim got together with Tom Reed to discuss the changes, and how they were announced! Cast – Ben, Rich, Tim and special guest Tom Reed Producer – Tim Recorded 01/11/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro – Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (...

Episode 217 - Tins on Top Ben and Liam speak to Tim and special guest 'King of Swiss' Tin Squadron's Chris Burnett to talk about the last GSP Galaxies qualifier - Scarif - that took place online last weekend. How did they get on, what did they fly and what other lists made the cut and did well. How do the new points, releases and importantly game changes affected the meta. https://tabletop.to/scar...

Episode 216 - Invisible Proton Torps Rich and Ben are joined by Andreas Tolman to talk about a couple of recent events - Tin Squadron's Kernow Cup and the Worcester Store Champs. We cover the top 8 at each event and see what impact the new points and releases are having on cuts. Rich wraps up the show finding out from Andreas how he goes about 'back to dials'. Kernow Cup https://tabletop.to/kernow...

Episode 215 - So, what's good? Rich get's together with Liam and Tim to chat about what they've been flying. Have any of the new releases featured or have old ships with new points found a home? Also how have they found facing against the new releases? Anything caught their eye? Cast – Rich, Tim and Liam Producer – Tim Recorded 11/10/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of t...

Episode 214 - Talking to the Toaster It's been a little over a week since we've had the new releases and points. Rich and Ben are joined by Sad Toaster - Matthias - from Hanover, Germany, to chat about the new toys. What's been doing well and what might we see more of! We also touch briefly on last weekend's Hyperspace Hoth event for GSP Galaxies. Cast – Ben, Rich and special guest Matthias/ Sad T...

Episode 213 - Hey hey! It's new points! We have points! Rich is joined by Liam and Tim to review the first set of point changes released by Atomic Mass Games. First we look at some of the old Meta staples that featured in the XTC Finals - which lists have gone up and by how much. Then we go over the pilots, ships and upgrades that have changed +/- three points so we can keep the podcast to under 2...

Episode 212 - Mandostravaganza Warning it's a long one! Ben, Rich, Liam (and occasionally Tim) have a lot to cover! We start off with a couple of in-person events from last weekend. On Saturday Ben, Liam and Tim headed down to Board in Brum for Craig Reed's surprise birthday/x-wing event and then from Sunday we have a little report from Ben who attended the Hyperspace Format Store Champs From Just...

Episode 211 - A Tauntaun at Tatooine Rich and Ben are joined by Darren and special guest, from the Tauntaun squadron, Conor Holmes to chat about last weekends Gold Squadron podcast Tatooine Galaxies qualifier. How did Darren and Conor (and Tim) get on and what lists did well. Plus we chat about the Europa Cup, also on last weekend, a big in person X-wing event in Milan, Italy, before rounding out...