Space Cats Peace Turtles

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...

Today we celebrate with SCPT’s first Space Kitty. JattaPake made a name for himself in the community early on and he continues to be one of the funniest and kindest people out there. For his Space Kitty episode, we all decided to break down an hold forum post of his called The Metagame List. It’s a list that covers all of the behaviors that one might see above the table and outside of standard tac...

The Prelims are over! 18 games on one map in 7 weeks, and we’re finally ready to move on. Today, we cover the last five games as well as an overview of the statistics of the Prelims overall! After breaking down our thoughts, we go IN DEPTH on the new map for the second round of the tournament. It’s a very different kind of map than the Prelims map and expects a lot more out of its players. To see...

We seem to be in an alternating pattern, with the large volume of tournament games necessitating another update-filled episode. This week, details of games 8-13 are all scrunched together, hopefully offering more insight in what seems to lead to the most success in our tournament structure. After the breakdowns is errata from last weeks Action Cards ranking!   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find mo...

The epic conclusion to Action Cards Part 1: Action Cards Part 2! This is our DEFINITIVE list of action cards, ranked from worst to best with no room for dispute. What card will get #33? What will get #32? The whole community is dying to know! Come inside and find the answers you seek!   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

This weekend had such intense games in our Patreon Tournament that we had to dedicate the whole episode to it! I know many listeners were looking forward to Action Cards Part 2, and now you get to look forward to it even more! This episode covers games 6 and game 7, as well as a special announcement from our friend in Austin, TX, DavidSNorr!   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymu...

It’s Galactic Council Week! This time, we’re dipping our toes into the pesky action cards, and there’s no way we can contain it all in one episode. So instead we’ve already decided this will be a two parter! But before we can even get to action cards, we have THREE Patreon Tournament Games to overview. Strap in, because this is a long one.   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusi...

This week is our inaugural SPACE KITTY episode. As part of our highest Patreon tier, we allow contributors to produce an episode with us! This week, longtime contributor InMacKWeTrust joins us to talk about the evil maps he has inflicted upon us, as well as a discussion about why we make weird maps and why we diverted from the original map making process altogether. Before that discussion kicks of...

The tournament has begun, and this week is a quick recap of the first game. It was a fun game with a lot of surprises, which bodes well for the rest of the tournament. Afterwards, there is a lot of errata about last week’s Tier List!   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

The year is over and it’s time to RANK THINGS. We wanted to talk about how this year felt for all the different factions and give you a DEFINITIVE list of how they compare against one another. This is the most serious episode ever and our opinions are final. We are nerd masters and we have thought many eons longer than your tiny human peon brain has. FEAR US. No errata!   Music provided by Ben Pru...

THIS IS IT. As I type these words, we officially involved ourselves in Twilight Imperium related activities for 15 hours. I'm going to bed. Please enjoy this post game(s) wrap-up discussion, recorded after our one serious game of TI and our one....less serious game.   Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Prepare yourself for the high octane action of probably something like 12 to 14 hours of TWILIGHT IMPERIUM! This week’s episode is a bit of a filler, but for those of you who have never tuned in to a streamed game we’re here to convince you to join us! We play some normal TI, but also some very strange TI, and this episode is all about breaking down those strange games. It’...

The Galactic Council has voted again, and this time, despite all of our expectations, is an episode about fleet compositions! Today, we break down the role of each ship within a fleet and how different factions think about putting fleets together. Afterwards, there’s some errata in there about four player games. Make sure you don’t get any on your shoes, I hear the stench never goes away.   Music...

Matt played a four player game and was reminded how long it has been since he’s done Four Player. This is because Hunter despises Four Player games of Twilight Imperium. So, today is a regular old duel to the death over whether or not Four Player games are “good.” Afterwards, there is some important errata on the Tournament Prelim Round Map, including a couple of changes to the map itself.   Music...