Episodes
The podcast crew gets together for a second episode this week to react to the announcement of AMG's new Grand Tournaments.
Published 04/19/24
Published 04/19/24
This episode we have our interview with the brand new world champion, Peter! He gives us the rundown of how his championship Starhawk list was born. After that, Armchair and Fox rejoin to give the rundown of our impressions of Peter's win as well as a recap of the Top4/Top8. We close with a super juicy Tim Curry Hottake.
Published 04/19/24
This week the guys talk about the massive Worlds Day 1 field, how it relates to the LCQ and seasons stats, along with a few player anecdotes from Kelorn and judge anecdotes from Fox. Armchair digs deep in his stat spreadsheets and printouts to repeatedly find answers to questions Kelorn and Fox could have asked him about earlier. Plus, a special breakfast discussion.
Published 04/05/24
Andrew Preyer, the winner of the 2024 Last Chance Qualifier at Worlds joins the show to give us the run down on what the LCQ was like. Armchair has the stats to help us understand what happened and what archetypes did well in the LCQ. We wrap up with an invite to Worlds winner Peter as well as some truly terrible food takes from Kelorn.
Published 03/29/24
Hopeful Rebel players have been building their fleets all year in preparation for the ultimate test, WORLDS, which is just one week away. KELORN and ARMCHAIRJEDI evaluate the stolen plans to predict their outcomes!
Published 03/15/24
raely42, ArmchairJedi and VWC champion Arcwelder get together to talk about the last game of the event and then go through Arcwelder's path to victory!
Published 03/13/24
Fox and Armchair discuss the trends of Imperial lists over the season and what we expect to see at Worlds. While Kelorn is a scrub and off on some silly hunting trip.
Published 03/08/24
raely42, ArmchairJedi and returning guest Stewbucket shoot-the-shit with absolutely no plan for a solid second-to-last episode! We talked about the finals fleets, and things we'd do differently next year in both the organization of the event and the podcast!
Published 03/05/24
raely42, ArmchairJedi and King of Jank Mr. Louis Andre himself talk about jank and dark horses. All 3 are sick, but all 3 give a good podcast go anyway. Armchair finishes off with his lovely recap of the last 2 weeks of the event!
Published 02/27/24
Armchair is back this week as we do a deep dive into the giant leap forward CIS took post Rapid Reinforcements 2 Errata, and what we expect to see from CIS going forward.
Published 02/23/24
Fox and Kelorn are back after our hiatus, rearing and ready to go for the Upcoming worlds. Fox starts us out with a bombshell announcement before we dig into how GAR has done over the past year. Pre-errata versus post-errata, GAR had some of the biggest changes in playstyle. Then we round out the episode with our predictions for what GAR fleets will show up at Worlds and our normal hot take nonsense.
Published 02/16/24
raely42, ArmchairJedi, and m3rcier talk about that objective data for the survey ya'll submitted! What gets played and what gets flipped, and what you can prep for (by the numbers).
Published 02/13/24
raely42, ArmchairJedi and Machi talk about bids, 1st vs 2nd player, strategies around these things. We get deep into AmrchairJedi psychology only for him to ignore the question, then finish off with a recap of week 1 of the Swiss.
Published 02/05/24
ArmchairJedi plays both Fode and Beed tonight as raely42 takes a ski trip to Hoth. mmusterer navs in to talk about speed 2 ships and how they've faired in this year's turbulent meta and in the VWC itself. In our Swiss recap we suggest that the shame may have passed, like a fleeting shadow, and we miss a golden opportunity to use the hype horn...
Published 01/30/24
raely42, ArmchairJedi and guest TheRedScourge talk about squad build patterns in the event and then do a recap of week 3.
Published 01/23/24
raely42, ArmchairJedi wheel FoxOmega44 out of his retirement home to talk about the faction and commander spread in the VWC 2024 compared to last year, and discuss what it means for the health of the game. ArmchairJedi gives a recap of week 2 of the VWC.
Published 01/16/24
raely42, ArmchairJedi and Stewbucket discuss Stews rise to power, a few things they noticed changed in fleet stats from last year, and a recap of week one of the event.
Published 01/09/24
raely42 and ArmchairJedi talk about some small format changes to the podcast and what they’re both looking forward to in this year's event.
Published 01/04/24
Mulitple Texas tournament winner and Texas Series Champion, Drew Hunnicut (aka TxHunnibadger) joins us as we talk about the recent squadless heavy ship meta that's been dominant in the Texas tournaments this fall. Add in our usual Hot take shenanigans and this is a spicy end to our 2023 podcasts.
Published 12/22/23
Fox and Kelorn host a roundtable discussion where we rank all of the Commanders in Armada 1 through 38 with Truthiness, Ta5erface, and Outbound Flight. Get your pitchforks and torches ready as we shit on your favorite commander for fun and laughs!
Published 12/08/23
Fox and Armchair tackle an indepth look at Defensive Retrofits sandwiched by delicious food talk about Thanskgiving and just how delicious is Turkey anyway?
Published 12/01/23
The first round of post errata tournaments have been played and we look at the 100 lists we have data for. After that, we continue last week's discussion about objectives and do a deeper dive into what objectives to take with certain fleet archetypes. We wrap up with some truly appalling wikihow hottakes from Fox.
Published 11/03/23
Come and join the podcast crew as we talk about what objectives are, how to choose an objective for your fleet, and how to play your opponent's objectives. After that, we quickly choose the best card for each slot and give some hot steak takes.
Published 10/27/23