This week Matt and Hunter sit down to share their elite insights into what it takes to play competitive TI at a high level! Find out exactly how to vanquish your foes in the SCPT tournament, or just find out how to have a good time playing a silly complicated board game for fun but it's also kinda serious. We've got something for everyone this week…

This week we're diving deeper into the rulebook of Arcs - The Blighted Reach! Matt and Hunter break down the implications of the "neutral" players you will add to the game. How will you adjust to life within a crumbling Empire? Will the Blight overrun us all? FIND OUT THIS WEEK Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon…

This week we're starting a small series of episodes for tournament season that are meant to teach players high level strategies to use against some of the best factions in Twilight Imperium. This episode we'll talk about mostly above the table policies you can utilize against the Universities of Jol-Nar. Let us know what you think in the discord! T…

This is a very excited start to what is going to be a very long ARC of Matt and Hunter talking about space games. Today we begin our discussion of the Arcs expansion "The Blighted Reach" aka "Campaign Mode" aka "Arcs: Imperium." What follows is a list of pointers and anecdotes for beginning to think about learning this excellent version of Arcs. Wh…

Here we are with our penultimate Faction guide and this one is a bit rough, Barony seems to struggle a lot in the data and the boys don't quite get to the bottom of it. There is one thing we are sure of, they're good at fighting, but is it enough? If all else fails I do hope that we inspire someone to figure out exactly how to reliably succeed with…

This week we reach the end of our Base Game Arcs coverage. The boys sit down to reflect on their feelings before we move forward into the wild world of Campaign Arcs. This one is heavy with feelings and theory and gets only a little bit meta at times. We hope you have enjoyed our coverage of base game Arcs! Looking forward to returning to it someti…

Today we have something weird and experimental for you all. While Matt is still in Germany attending Essen we've got Hunter all alone cookin' weirdo soup for the SCPT faithful. This week Hunter is sitting down to listen to the audio from the very first SCPT episode while giving his thoughts, heckles, and commentary. Let's see just how far we've com…

Hunter and EJ sit down this week to talk celebrate the beginning of Tournament 7! The slices are out! The game slots are open and people are playing their games! Get in there! For this episode the boys talk about advice for both players and streamers and go over some details that may not have been covered in a long time, it's also a very silly epis…

This is it y'all, the episode you have been waiting for, for a long time. Today we're going to talk about the famous and beloved zombie plants that we love to hate and you love to love. They're the best, they're the worst and we can't get enough of them. Tournament 7 is open for signups now! Get in there! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtl…

Returning from our brief fall hiatus in order to pay tribute to our very first 'Master Splinter', Peter Renaday; as well as shine the spotlight on a couple other massive voice actors we lost in recent memory: Emi Shinohara and of course the one and only James Earl Jones. Join us in celebrating their careers and stay tuned as we'll be back with regu…

Today we cross a major finish line! This is our final set of Leader introductions for Arcs base game! After this, we start venturing off into the great unknown of the Blight Reach Campaign, but first we have to tell about two of our favorite Leaders of the whole set! And who better to join us to noted Leder Games fanatic, Lord of the Board. Check o…

This week all your questions about the upcoming 7th SCPT Twilight Imperium Patreon tournament will be answered. The important news is that you can sign up for the first games on SEPTEMBER 18TH at 15:00 UTC/11:00AM Central Time. Also if you are interested in playing in the tournament this year I recommend last week's episode also if you haven't list…

It's finally here! We're ready to announce our SEVENTH annual Twilight Imperium Patreon Tournament. We'll go in depth on the details, but head to the discord to ask us more questions and we'll follow up in next week's episode. We're also excited to announce our intent to do an even dumber idea than a TI tournament, a tournament for Blight Reach Cam…

This week we're back with friend of the show, Tom Brewster of Shut Up and Sit Down! Listen as we turn the corner on three more of the arcs leaders and dig even further into what makes Arcs a unique strategy game. These three leaders really showcase the different styles of Arcs leaders with interesting abilities, obvious applications, and one of the…

The Galactical Council is still letting us cool down a bit from GenCon and some travel that followed, so this week we're taking it easy and letting you in on the big project we have planned for NEXT year. We want to host a series of North American Twilight Imperium events IN PERSON. We've been teasing this for a while, but 2025 finally feels like t…

Meet Dan and Bryan, 2 millennials fast approaching middle age. Join us while we recap the animated series that played a major role in shaping our (as well as many of your) childhood: the 1987 Fred Wolf produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! We revisit the series 35 years later to see how well each episode holds up, what our takeaways were/are now, …

We're back with more of our Gen-Con coverage from this year. We've got two excellent conversations with wonderful people talking about new games. First up we have Nick Brachmann talking about his new game Swarm! It's heavily inspired by Pikmin and we're very excited for the potential future fun. Following that we have the thing you really waiting f…

Meet Dan and Bryan, 2 millennials fast approaching middle age. Join us while we recap the animated series that played a major role in shaping our (as well as many of your) childhood: the 1987 Fred Wolf produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! We revisit the series 35 years later to see how well each episode holds up, what our takeaways were/are now, …

This episode is not for the faint of heart! It is actually BOTH OGA and SCPT segments of the back-to-back live shows held at the Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis, IN during the week of GenCon. Special guests Anica Cihla (https://x.com/anicacihla) and Jake Michels (https://woodlandwarmachine.podbean.com/) join us to improvise some game designs, an…

Meet Dan and Bryan, 2 millennials fast approaching middle age. Join us while we recap the animated series that played a major role in shaping our (as well as many of your) childhood: the 1987 Fred Wolf produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! We revisit the series 35 years later to see how well each episode holds up, what our takeaways were/are now, …

The Galactic Council finally did us a solid, so we brought Sun and EJ Sanders to pretend this show is Old Gamer's Almanac and bring you 15 video games we like. We're friends and this is normal friend energy, okay? Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. h…

We've got another batch of Arcs Leaders to overview for you today! We're gearing up to finish our Base Game Arcs coverage before we go full hog wild into the campaign Arcs. Prepare for that content to become the mainstay to go along with our traditional Twilight Imperium coverage. Also this episode features a guest appearance from Arcs developer Jo…

Meet Dan and Bryan, 2 millennials fast approaching middle age. Join us while we recap the animated series that played a major role in shaping our (as well as many of your) childhood: the 1987 Fred Wolf produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! We revisit the series 35 years later to see how well each episode holds up, what our takeaways were/are now, …

Finally the most important episode of the year! Today we're talking about the cats we are named after. We love these poster children of the Twilight Imperium brand and we want you to care about them too. Grab a bag of a money and sit down for this big one! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com Addit…

Meet Dan and Bryan, 2 millennials fast approaching middle age. Join us while we recap the animated series that played a major role in shaping our (as well as many of your) childhood: the 1987 Fred Wolf produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! We revisit the series 35 years later to see how well each episode holds up, what our takeaways were/are now, …

It's another Arcs episode! Hunter is out this week so we've gone a bit lighter and just have two guides brought to you by Matt and EJ. Don't worry, it's not like we don't have an hour and a half worth of stuff to talk about even though it's only four sentences worth of text to evaluate... Music provided by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.band…

This week we're back in the shadows, we have your guide for the Yssaril Tribes! This tricky faction is full o' surprises. Don't turn your back on these guys! Also this episode is kinda grumpy and we apologize for that we were feelin' spicy. Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com Additional Music and …

Meet Dan and Bryan, 2 millennials fast approaching middle age. Join us while we recap the animated series that played a major role in shaping our (as well as many of your) childhood: the 1987 Fred Wolf produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! We revisit the series 35 years later to see how well each episode holds up, what our takeaways were/are now, …

You asked and we're here to provide! For months Dane has been leaving a trail of bread crumbs. And recently that trail led to some substantial components! The Galactic Council has asked us to talk about what seems to be brewing in Dane's Workshop. Here's the thing...it's not actually very much so get ready for us to make a lot out of very little...…