The Midwest Scrubcast

Sorry that some of this episode is newscasting, we haven't really had anything else on our minds except the AMG announcement of the end of the bid. And vegetables, I guess. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

Get ready for an enthusiastic endorsement of Aces High with Wings, and an in-depth analysis of why Dan's Guri angst may finally be at an end (at least until the points change). Timestamps: [00:02:00] Aces High...With Wings! | [00:28:00] Guri's new BFF | [00:42:00] Complaining about Roombas again | [01:00:00] Advanced Sensors Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

The Scrubs welcome back Nick Sperry from 312 Squadron to help us do some complaining about power creep. Join us as we try to narrow down where we think lines are being crossed in the inevitable forward progression of X-Wing. You can find Nick's content at https://www.twitch.tv/312_squadron Timestamps: [00:02:00] Jedi at Jedha | [00:24:00] Power creep Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

The Scrubs are high on in-person X-Wing, and also lacking a gunner and a clear agenda. This is a recipe for perhaps the longest, most detour-filled intro yet. Also, Dan is having existential Guri angst again. 

Clint has some perhaps controversial opinions about how official TTS should be, and what the definition of casual play is, and the scrubs decide to hash it all out. Timestamps: [00:08:00] Should Official Tournaments be on TTS? | [00:38:00] What is a casual list and do we even know how to casual? Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

It's an all-female crew in the party bus today, talking about what it's like to be among the few female players in X-Wing, and speculating on some of the reasons why there might be so few of them. Content Warning: While we normally try to keep our episodes relatively free of adult language, there are a few more adult words and topics than normal in this one.

Join us as we catch up with our friend Nick Sperry of 312 Squadron! We learn how to build an E-Wing the right way and what it's like to have positive associations with First Edition. You can check out Nick's stream at https://www.twitch.tv/312_squadron Timestamps: [00:10:00] Small Detour into Outer Rim | [00:15:00] Actual Nick Interview  Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

Don't worry, our less math-enthused co-hosts will assure you this is still pretty entertaining for a math episode... Emily has been thinking about doing math on the base stats of ships again, and it yielded some numbers-based thoughts on what ships are a "good buy" for survivability and which are not so much.  The data-set we're referencing in the cast can be found here: https://drive.google....

This week our non-Matt special guest is Fitwest April Challenge drawing winner Goose (Or Drew)! Somehow, we even managed to get everyone's audio in the episode. Woo! This is our first time chatting with a guest who didn't know X-Wing before COVID, which led to some interesting conversations that you'll find somewhere in between all the jokes about kicking avian wildlife. Enjoy!

This week it's the exciting announcement of the winner of the Fitwest Scrub April Challenge drawing! Followed by a discussion of the lately-much-more-fashionable category of talents: Faction talents. Timestamps: [00:01:30] Fitwest April Challenge | [00:11:30] Faction Talents

We hope you'll have as much fun as we did with this rambling Scrub-style interview with Stay On Target podcast's Gordon Berg, on his year-long hiatus and his hopes and fears about the future of X-Wing. Sorry about the technical difficulties and the delayed release...at least we got our guest's audio right this time...

The title says it all, doesn't it? Well not quite all, there's a good bit about the Flight Club Aces Championship in here too, since a certain Scrubcast member performed pretty well over the weekend. 

The episode so lost it had to be re-recorded! Special guest Matt Behr joins us as his extremely belated reward of dubious value for winning the Fitwest Scrub October Challenge. 

The scrubs have a bit of a soapbox to get on about how 3 agility swarms are getting old. Here are the charts we were attempting to describe: https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/episode-32-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-meta-supplemental-post/ Don't forget about Scrub Aces High night on Friday March 5th!

The scrubs start with a strongish recommendation for the half blood point if you're going to play Aces High with medium/large bases. Otherwise, Clint finally admits the ETA might be fun, Poe is finally an Ace, and the Scum players among us have some beef with our former FFG overlords. Extended tournament that we hyped for real this time: https://tabletop.to/tricity-tournament

Matt Cary is making Pelob great again, Dan is still trying to solve the Guri problem, and the rest of us...uh, have hair? Here's a link to the tournament that we said we didn't know the details to: https://tabletop.to/tricity-tournament

We've been without competitive play for so long, the only thing in the socially distanced world that can get us excited any more is Aces High. That and Guri of course. Here's the link to the Attack of the Clones league we mentioned in the episode: https://tabletop.to/nocost-online-league-february-2021 Timestamps: [00:02:00] Aces High format ideas | [00:25:00] Some alternate format tournaments we t...

Last episode we issued a challenge to build Dan a new Guri list. After quite a few submissions from the listeners, now we’re challenging Dan to find one he would actually be willing to try! Which Guris will make the cut?

The scrubs relive their resounding and shameful defeat at the Mini-Clorian, and share some of their struggles with the current TTS meta. For those who want to participate in Aces High, make sure you join our discord: https://discord.gg/U7NXWxp9wq  

The Scrubs play catch-up after losing Episode 25 to the Sarlacc pit of misfortune and/or incompetence. Sorry, Matt Behr! We've got a Mini-Clorian coming up, and Clint has thoughts about ETAs and the systems phase, and game balance. Also who wants to play Aces High with us?

The X-Wing community has spoken! The results from our "Ace or Not" Survey are in and we scrubs are here to share it with you. Shout-out to Matt Cary for all the beautiful charts, which you can find here: https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/10/30/ace-or-not-survey-results/ Timestamps: [00:02:00] Scrub adventures at Ryloth & Mustafar | [00:35:00] Ace or Not Results

The heroic effort to make a coherent podcast continues.  A little bit of Crait talk, and a little bit of Squadrons talk, a unanimous consensus on who's the best Doctor...this episode has it all.  Timestamps: [00:01:30] Scrub adventures at Crait | [00:26:00] The Fitwest Scrub October Challenge | [00:35:00] Squadrons

The scrubs make a heroic effort to string more than two coherent sentences together while talking about some of the almost-aces in X-Wing that are hovering on the edges of viability. Stay tuned at the end for a little extra info about our plans for Patreon rewards!

Special guest "The Falcon King" Bob Howe joins us for an in-depth discussion of his favorite chassis. Across all 3 Falcon-containing factions we discuss what's good, what's not, and how best to kit them out, with the help of Bob's hard-earned wisdom and insight. 

With the Nantex win at Corellia extremely fresh on their minds, the Scrubs fall down a rabbit hole of grievances as they discuss the strength of Separatists and the underwhelmingness of Scum.