Sith Takers Snap Shots

Episode 210 - It's gone Rome! It's all over! After a hard fought weekend of X-wing at the 2021 X-wing Team Championship Finals Team Italy have emerged victorious and Ben, Rich and Tim are joined by Italian First Order player (and fellow Sith Taker!) Alessandro Zaramella to talk about the event! A big thankyou to all the players, organisers, judges and streamers for playing in, running and sharing...

Episode 209 - War of the Worlds It's the show before the XTC! Rich & Ben and joined by new regular Liam to chat about the Resistance Y-wing teasers from AMG, a public service announcement about how to treat people online, an update on the Sith Taker Open and some general pre-XTC chat plus Rich continues his thought experiment asking Liam and Tim about what they do when it's 'back to dials'! Discla...

Episode 208 - More Fury Bit of a bumper show once again with more teasers from AMG from the Fury of the First Order Squad Pack, we chat a little about the XTC lists (although if you want to know more you should check out Oli P's youtube episode - link below!). We announce a couple of events including the Sith Taker Open 2022 and round out with a little chat about last weekends event at Board in Br...

Episode 207 - Back Once Again for the Sith Taker Open It's good to be back running in person events! Ben and Rich are joined by TO Tim and Champ Tom Reed to talk about the 2021 Sith Taker Open including a review if the Top 16 lists. We also chat to Tom about his list and games. We'd like to thank all the players again for being awesome! Head Judge Darrell McDowell and Phil Pond from Firestorm Squa...

Episode 206 - The worst kind of news We start off the episode with some bad news for those heading to Stockport for the Sith Taker Open. But things do get better! We also re-cap the top cut lists from the recent Lone Star Open and some more of the teased cards from the upcoming First Order squad pack and Resistance Y-Wings. If you're coming to the Sith Taker Open 2021 make sure you've joined the E...

Episode 205 - New Whispers Colm returns for a brief bout of hosting with Ben, Rich and Liam to chat about the upcoming Sith Taker Open, last weekends Lone Star Open and the recently teased information on the Resistance Y-wings and First Order Squad pack including the jammy Tie Whisper! Cast – Colm, Rich, Ben and Liam Producer – Tim Recorded 26/07/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from...

Episode 204 - Irish spice! Rich and Ben are joined by XTC All-Ireland Captain Gary McDowell and XTC England Captain (and part-time hot sauce enthusiast) Oliver Pocknell for a final wrap of the XTC Group stages. One Captain led his team to 1st place in Group C, the other only managed 2nd place... but both teams have qualified for the Finals at the end of August! Plus we chat briefly about GSP's lat...

Episode 203 - Not so bored in Brum Rich and Ben chat Tim and Darren (and eventually Liam) about last weekends rearranged 2020 Store Champs held at Board in Brum in Birmingham. How their first in-person went and who was flying what. You can find the event here: https://tabletop.to/board-in-brum-store-championship After that we catch up on the XTC and the Final of the Ready Room Roulette event that...

Episode 202 - XTC Things are starting to get spicy Rich and Ben are joined by fellow Sith Taker Liam to walk about the XTC groups. Things are starting to heat up with more 'big' teams losing games. We discuss some of the spicy upsets before generally X-wing and event chat with face-to-face events coming back over the next few weekends including the Sith Taker Open! Cast – Rich, Ben and Liam (Ian B...

Episode 201 - Home Nations catch up Rich and Tim are joined by Rory Wilson, Captain of Scotland, and Stephen Gage, Captain of Wales, for a bit of a home nations catch up. We find out how their teams are doing, chat about the results at the XTC from the last two weeks, and then some general chat about other news and happenings in the X-wing world! Cast – Rich, Tim with special guests Rory Wilson &...

Episode 200 - The Double Century It's our 200th episode! Rich and Ben are joined by X-wing rules aficionado Darrell McDowell to chat about the new X-wing Rules Forum from AMG, week 2 results from the XTC, general event chat about the Sith Takers online and in-person events and finally Producer Tim hitting us with some stats covering our previous 199 episodes! Thanks again to everyone who has liste...

Episode 199 - The Beautiful South Despite the lack of quality hosts available Producer Tim continues our trip around the XTC globe for a South American focused episode with special guests & Captains Pedro Zegarra of Peru and Juan Quinche of Colombia! We find out more about their teams, their groups, how their teams have faired round one and also cover the rest of the groups and round one results u...

Episode 198 - XTC from the other side of the World Keen to shake some of the Euro-bias from our last episode Ben and Rich are joined by Joe Congdon of Team Japan and Akhter Khan of Team Australia to review the XTC groups and chat more about their Teams. How they feel about the draws and their chances (and the other Oceania/Asian teams) of making it out the Group stages. Hopefully we can one or two...

Episode 197 - XTC 2021 Group draw hot takes Ben is joined by three representatives of Group C from the 2021 XTC - Rich (Ireland), Tim (England) and special guest Matija Mandurov (Captain- Croatia) to chat about the XTC Group draw, who will progress to the final and how the three think their team will fair in Group C. Will any teams receive 'nil poi'?!?! We also chat to Matija about the recent Wome...

Episode 196 - No defence Rich and Ben are joined by Tom Reed to talk about his recent attempt to defend the Sith Taker Cup (spoiler... it didn't happen!). How the game went and a bit of chat about the two lists. They then talk a bit about other events and the upcoming online XTC! Cast – Rich, Ben & Tom Reed Producer – Tim Recorded 17/05/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge o...

Episode 195 - First Order whispers Rich, Ben & Tim chat about some of the rumours surrounding the teased First Order Squadron pack and Resistance Y-wing. Also some general chat about events including the Sith Taker Cup 2 Final and the Sith Taker Open. Cast – Rich, Ben & Tim Producer – Tim Recorded 10/05/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro – Pigeon John - "...

Episode 194 - Mon Cala Maple Leafs Richard & Ben are joined by Andrew Oehler, Champion of the GSP Mon Cala Galaxies and finalist at the Firestorm Firecast Cup, to talk about the events and the list that's seen him to two top tables! Cast – Richard, Ben & Tim with special guest Andrew Oehler Producer – Tim Recorded 03/05/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro...

Episode 193 - Firecast Cup Judgement Rich and Ben are joined by X-wing Judge supremo Filippo Bosi and Rey No. 2 Fan Tom Fieldsend to talk about last weekends Firecast Cup. How the event went, what lists did well and how did Tom get on (we skipped over Rich's performance - it's for the best!). We round out the show with some chat about this years XTC which Rich, Tim, Filippo and Tom will all be tak...

Episode 192 - Lessons learnt under Lockdown In this episode Rich, Ben & Tim chat about some of the things we've been doing differently in our games of online X-wing that we think transfer over to the tabletop - do you agree? What would you like to see? We also cover some event chat & games we've played this week including Tim's Inferno Squadron's crushing defeat in the Kyber Elimination to Nébal's...

Episode 191 - Flawless Victory Rich & Ben are joined by Matthias 'Sad Toaster' who seems to be making a habit of going unbeaten in Swiss at events including our 193 player SITH TAKER CUP “THE SEQUEL”. We also chat a little about Tin Squadron's Balance of the Force and Hexiled Gaming's Kyber Elimination League! Cast – Rich & Ben with special guest Matthias 'Sad Toaster' Producer – Tim Recorded 05/0...

Episode 190 - Skystrike Stand Up Ben and Rich are joined by Chris Burnett from Tin Squadron to chat about last weekends GSP Aces event and see how the new releases faired. We also chat a little bit about Balance of the Force lists as the group had the opportunity to tinker with their lists after Round 2. Cast – Ben, Rich and Chris Burnett Producer – Tim Recorded 29/03/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi...

Episode 189 - Macho Man Vader Savaged World Champ Oli Pocknell crashes the recording! Ben, Rich and Colm discuss some of the points, ships & abilities and possible list ideas with all the new stuff shortly hitting our shelves before Oli comes along and gives his opinion! Fans of Firesprays and moaning about Vader in a Defender look away now...! Cast – Ben, Rich, Colm, Oli and briefly Tim Producer...

Episode 188 - Can It Be All So Simple Tim and Ben are joined by Pavel Morawski from Poland who called us out for getting his list wrong last week (probably Rich's fault!). We have a simple show discussing a last weekend's Recruit GSP event and some First Order & Kyber Cup chat with Pawel! Cast – Ben, Tim and Pavel Morawski Producer – Tim Recorded 16/03/2021 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there...

Episode 187 - Goji's explosive Kyber Final Rich, Ben and Tim sit down to discuss the Final from Season Five of the Kyber Cup run by Hexiledgaming which concluded at the weekend followed by some discussion over the Tri-City Tournament run by Nickel City X-wing, 312 Squadron and The Canded Clarinetist also run over the weekend. After that we look forward to the Firecast Cup and Balance of the Force...

Episode 186 - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Rich & Ben are joined by Dom Flannigan from the Firestorm Firecast for a bumper Snap Shot! We chat about the Firecast Cup, last weekends Omega GSP Fight Club event and the recent teaser articles on the Skystrike Academy, Phoenix Cell and Fugitives and Collaborators Squadron packs, including of course... Vader in a Defender! Cast – Ben, Rich and Dom Fl...