The Midwest Scrubcast: Recent Episodes
Midwest Scrub
A podcast about X-Wing the Miniatures Game by 4 members of the St. Louis Arch Alliance X-Wing community.
The winner of the prize of dubious value for the Fitwest Scrub April is very belatedly announced. And the Scrubs review the variety of board games that we played at Geekway to the West board game convention.
The most important information in this episode is that the Scrubdown is postponed to an unknown date, maybe this summer, it depends on when our venue mysteriously returns or we break down and find a different one.
The less important information is what we did at Adepticon, stuff about dinosaurs, then somehow we got from there to sports where you hit each other, and then founding fathers trivia. I don't know!
The Scrubs are getting geared up to go to Adepticon, and to start in on Fitwest April! We discuss various games we're currently playing such as Helldivers, Senjutsu, and the Fast & Furious board game.
Unfortunately, the details of the Scrubdown are still up in the air due to our venue vanishing with no ETA on reappearance. We'll provide updates when we have something.
I don't even know how to summarize the stream of consciousness that is this episode, but it is time to get excited about Adepticon, and then Fitwest April, and then Geekway to the West, and then The Midwest Scrubdown itself! It's going to be a fun spring!
Most importantly, this episode announces the tentative date for the Midwest Scrubdown 3! Less importantly, there's Nintendo trivia, mead, and laser eyes.
At long last our October Fitwest winner of the dubious prize has joined us, and it's not the winner that was foretold! Thank you to Conor for joining us to talk about teeth and Deadlands and etc.
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We're drawing the winner of the Fitwest Prize of Dubious Value [00:08:00], and this leads to all kinds of health and fitness talk, along with tales of Dan's roomba. Thanks for participating in the Fitwest October Challenge, and we hope you'll join us again in April!
If you're a tabletop gamer, which we have to assume you probably are, check out the soon-to-be-releasing game Senjutsu, which Clint describes about 40 minutes into the episode, it's a really neat Samurai-themed concept.
Senjutsu website: https://www.stoneswordgames.com/senjutsu
Senjutsu overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCgRD0JM8xM
Senjutsu TTS mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2869392837
It's the start of the October Fitwest Challenge, and among other things we're talking about why don't school buses have seatbelts, why aren't pies made of oranges, and what is a Kolache to you?
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Like a lot of other nerds, the Scrubs are getting into Baldur's Gate 3 right now, but first we had to talk about broken feet and Lorcana and Crystal Pepsi.
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This episode is definitely not an ad for Pokemon Unite. It's also not an ad for chaos the board game and Pope Joan and the worst place to go canamping.
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In an episode with nothing related even to Star Wars, the Scrubs discuss Spartan racing, Starship Troopers, and Skyrim the campaign style board game. Starship Troopers is at least space themed, right?
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Congratulations to Travis, randomly drawn winner of the prize of dubious value of guesting on the podcast! With Travis along for the ride, we discuss park runs, backpacking, and board games.
Timestamps: [00:00:33] Intro starts | [00:00:37] Intro derailed| [00:10:00] Intro finally concludes, Fitwest related content begins | [00:55:00] Geekway and board games
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The cast recaps the glory of the Midwest Scrubdown 2: The Empire Scrubs Your Back with tournament winner Will Scott. And also there's some fresh centaur content.
The Scrubs are fueled by free desserts, and ready to wrap up the story of the SWRPG campaign.
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The Scrubs are alive, after all contracting COVID at Worlds, and after a brief reminiscence on Adepticon, we're ready to continue the tale of SWRPG.
Timestamps: [00:02:00] Worlds | [00:15:00] SWRPG
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The Scrubs relate the epic adventure of their Star Wars RPG characters, and discuss some of the narrative strategies and game mechanics used by Clint to keep things entertaining and at least more on track than a Scrubcast opening.
It's almost Fitwest Scrub April Challenge time, so if you want to participate make sure you get in the Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz
If you've been thinking about giving the most recent Star Wars Roleplaying Game from FFG a try, hang on til about halfway through this thing, and we'll get around to starting to tell you about our experiences with it!
Clint wrecked our content plan by being absent, so we're going rogue, and talking about...wire sheathing? And plausible zombies and eels. And the arrival of metal objective markers! If you want to pick up your order at World's please contact us.
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The Scrubs ramble with the official winner of the Fitwest Scrub Challenge prize of dubious value. We learn about long days, bees, and trains, and get a casual European player's perspective on the new AMG changes.
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Color us Andor fans. Especially Matt. But most importantly, the date for the Midwest Scrubdown 2: The Empire Scrubs Your Back (working title) is announced!
Timestamps: [ANDOR] | [the last 7 minutes] Announcements
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Our guest today is the backup winner of the Fitwest Scrub October Challenge randomly drawn prize of dubious value, Drew Brody, whose excellent photographs are a joy to us all during Fitwest season. Featuring the surprising power of walking to keep your organs from exploding, and the promised centaur content (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/922213722049642496/1044283457670488166/unknown.png). Stay tuned til the end for Drew's fascinating perspective on why Dan and Clint never succeeded in math.
Timestamps: [00:04:30] Scrub AA Meeting | [00:30:00] The Crazy Benefits of Walking | [00:45:00] Centaur Content | [01:00:00] Drew's Ted Talk
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The Fitwest Scrub October Challenge randomly drawn winner of the prize of dubious value is announced! Also, the Scrubs disagree philosophically with SOS, and Matt shares what he's learned about the possibly no longer cannon legend of Jar Jar's father.
Timestamps: [00:02:00] Fitwest October Wrapup | [00:14:00] Actual X-Wing Talk | [00:33:00] George R Binks | [00:50:00] Announcements
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The Scrubs welcome back special crew member Johnn (with 2 N's) to regale our listeners with the tales of our recent Fitwest-themed adventures. Also, Matt hates droids, and Clint's burning curiosity about Johnn is finally satisfied.
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The Scrubs share some Fitwest adventures, and give positive recommendations for bidets. Stick around til at least minute 41 for the bad news about the scrub objective markers...
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The Scrubs explore their feelings on new pilots and the recently announced 2.0 Legacy errata and rules changes, worry about TTT, plug Unmatched, and plot to abolish daylight savings.
To find points updates, rules, and other information about the Legacy X-Wing initiative such as links to their Discord and squad builder, go to https://x2po.org/.
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Matt reports on his continual un-scrubby tournament performances, and we debate the merits of 2 point ships. Also, get yourselves mentally prepared for the fast approaching Fitwest Scrub October Challenge!
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Some familiar voices from the X-Wing podcasting world join the Scrubs to talk about their latest, less Star-Wars-related endeavors. We took advantage of having guests experienced in reviews to finally air all our joys and grievances about the Kenobi series!
For some much better reviews of TV and film than we Scrubs can manage, you can find Spoilers Intended at https://www.spoilersintendedpodcast.com/ or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you somehow don't know where to find it already, let me direct you to https://www.etsy.com/shop/CurledPawCreatives for all your X-Wing acrylic needs!
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Gencon first impressions from the Scrubs who watched it, and then we get to what Dan actually cares about, grilling Matt about how Minecraft works.
Timestamps: [00:17:00] Gencon | [00:42:00] Games We've Been Playing | [01:23:00] Announcements
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We Scrubs meant to talk about more than just this one recent Disney Star Wars series, but somehow we talked about other things and then got stuck on Boba Fett for way too long.
Timestamps: [00:03:00] Actual X-Wing Talk Devolving Into Nonsense | [00:20:00] Games We've Been Playing | [00:40:00] Book of Boba Fett
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With the excitement of the Scrubdown past and no guests to entertain us, the Scrubs have to re-remmeber how to make content. Hang on til the end if you want food talk! Before that, Matt shares the 2.5 tournament he actually enjoyed playing in, and Outer Rim is a definitively better game now.
Timestamps: [00:03:00] Windy City Trials | [00:24:00] Outer Rim Expansion | [00:46:00] Matt's 1v1 League
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Several members of the interim council of 2.0 X-Wing are on the cast to explain their mission to keep everyone in the game, regardless of which edition they prefer to play. You can find the X-Wing Legacy squadbuilder at https://xwing-legacy.com/ and here is an invite link to the Legacy 2.0 discord: https://discord.gg/rU5agW6W5u
The champion (Tommy Adams) and runner up (Doug Howe) of the possibly-inaugural Midwest Scrubdown join the cast to cover the tournament.
Congratulations to the randomly drawn winner of the April Fitwest Scrub prize of dubious value! He joins us in this episode to talk about pushups and ARC-170s.
The Scrubs recount their first X-Wing adventure with the whole cast since The Changes, and then eventually get to what they really care about this week, a recently discovered board game.
Turns out, brains are really weird. And the Midwest Scrub Himself has a more different brain than most of us! Dan shares how his SDAM does (and doesn't) affect the game of X-Wing and the game of life.
Matt reports back from the first big 2.5 event, and we discuss details for the Scrubdown and for the Fitwest Scrub April Challenge!
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The Scrubs seek insight from our friend Goose (or Drew), who is one of the lucky few to have experienced version 2.5 tournament play in the Cherokee Open.
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The Scrubs welcome Ben of the Rogue Outpost blog, who has dropped by to talk about content creation in the current era of X-Wing.
You can read the insightful X-Wing words of Ben and his fellow contributors at https://rogueoutpost.co.uk/.
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Matt reports on a excellent LVO run that is bringing his status on the podcast even further into question.
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Amid the usual detours, the Scrubs are reviewing a homebrew Aces High scenario from community member Goose, and answering some excellent audience questions.
Timestamps: [00:06:30] Secret Sith! | [00:21:00] Audience Question | [00:57:00] Announcements and Nonsense
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Since we won't be recording over the holidays, the Scrubs are happy to instead present this extra episode, featuring Italy's Filippo Bosi discussing (in between our many tangents) the SW Chain initiative. You can see one version of his press release post explaining the highlights here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/flybetter/permalink/3222569077975599/. Keep your eyes open for developments on this very exciting effort!
It's a milestone episode, and the Scrubs are answering all your listener questions, whether insightful or nonsense!
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The infamous Bruno LaVigueur is here to give us a French Canadian perspective on the X-Wing world. Who is Joann, and how badly can some scrubs butcher the French language?
You can (and should) find all the episodes of the Loremaster Quiz at: http://www.milleniumcondor.com/
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The Scrubs welcome Johnn with 2 Ns, the winner of our Fitwest Scrub October drawing! We had some things to say about X-Wing, some things to say about vegetables...and our eyes have been opened to the power of interns.
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We tried to at least have fun with the bread that surrounds the the inevitable sour lunchmeat inside this episode sandwich.
Timestamps: [00:07:30] Fitwest Scrub Challenge Winners! | [00:20:00] What else can you talk about except ROAD? | [00:57:00] Annoucements and Nonsense
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The Scrubs have several recent adventures to relate, both X-Wing related and not. Turns out we're not just Scrubs about X-Wing games!
You can follow Wolf Squadron here to stay tuned in for news about next year's NEA Game Fest if you're interested: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wolf.squadron.ar
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The Scrubs welcome special guest Jan Ullerup, creator of the Pink Brain Matter X-Wing statistics site. He tells us all about the magic behind it, and what the data says about our beloved mascot Guri. You can find Pink Brain Matter here: https://www.pinksquadron.dk/pbm/ and Thule Squadron Radio here: https://thulesquadronradio.podbean.com/
Timestamps: [00:07:30] Pink Brain Matter Behind the Scenes | [00:30:00] Guri Data | [00:55:00] A Pink Brain Matter Perspective on New Changes & Points
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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.com/file/d/1WwVjtA9_tkGENbAXS49KHnYVDGPewioZ/view?usp=sharing
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 think are cool | [00:35:00] Dan's Guri testing book report
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.
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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.
The Midwest Scrubs are here to reveal some official misinformation on how many points FFG's recently revealed ships will cost. How much will Jango be? How many Brutes will be able to fit in one list? Brought to you courtesy of Mark Sandford's X-Wing Cost Prediction AI. https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/predicting-pilot-costs-with-the-power-of-ai/
This week we're following up with and/or diving deeper into some recent conversations from the blog about theoretical ship changes that Matt proposed for the StarViper and the E-Wing. This format seemed like a good one for clarifying some of our positions on the changes, as well as evaluating some other alternative suggestions we got from the community.
Original articles are here:
https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/guri-and-the-problem-of-advanced-sensors/
https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/how-to-fix-an-e-wing/
Timestamps: [00:01:00] Matt's Loremaster Adventure | [00:11:00] Guri/Starvipers | [00:43:00] the E-Wing
The scrubs start off discussing the considerations for handling the cautious return of in-person X-Wing. Completely unrelatedly, we also discuss Things We Learned By Playing Weird Creative Lists in TTS League.
Timestamps: [00:01:00] In-Person X-Wing | [00:18:00] Things We Learned in TTS League
Arch Alliance's Mark Sandford returns to the podcast to share a little project he's been working on. What a relief, actual X-Wing content that the pandemic hasn't put a damper on! Mark is trying to use computer brains to analyze X-Wing pilot costs, and it might reveal some good-value pilots or even give us a window into the future...
If you want to see the AI model behind all this for yourself, you can find the link here in the second paragraph. https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/predicting-pilot-costs-with-the-power-of-ai/
Timestamps: [00:01:30] What the heck is this AI thing? | [00:17:00] Predictions for Wave 7 | [00:33:00] Pilots the AI thinks are good value
Nope, it's just about a bunch of scrubby Star Wars fans having fun. With so little excitement on the X-Wing scene, we'll just ramble for a while about how much we miss all of you, and then critique the last season of Clone Wars. This is fine.
With COVID-19 preventing a lot of table time (not to mention in-person recording - sorry about any quality issues!) the scrubs are focusing more on the list-building end of things for this episode. Join us as we delve into the Astromech slot. Will we come up with a reason to use any of these faction-specific named droids that don't see meta table time?
Timestamps: [00:05:30] Ships with Astromech slots | [00:13:00] Rebel Astromechs | [00:20:00] Republic Astromechs | [00:33:00] Resistance Astromechs | [00:50:00] Scum Astromechs | [00:58:00] Generic Astromechs
Since Adepticon is on all of our scrub minds, we decided to take this episode to focus on tournament prep and etiquette for big events: an especially important subject given the recent spread of COVID-19.
Emily did some math trying to compare base ship stats across all 7 factions, and she made her dubious co-hosts talk about it with her! But don't worry, we didn't spend the whole hour rattling off numbers and discussing the relative merits of the factions - there's some Boba talk and a roundtable on "how many times do you test a list before you decide if it works" in here too. The stat sheet we were referencing during the math part is here if you’re curious: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nG2ZJn2_N6Euu6wupL2Yn3nPul5KJbrm
Timestamps: [00:02:00] Average base stats comparison by faction | [00:42:00] Boba and Slave 1 | [00:49:00] How long to test a list
Let loose without a responsible adult in the room, the guys have some conversations about...things. Something about the TIE/ba, something about Hyperspace...I'm not even going to timestamp this, have fun!
Special guest Mark Sandford of Arch Alliance joins the cast to talk about recruitment and community growth as we break down the results of our recent "Why Do You Play X-Wing" poll. A visual representation of the results is available here on the blog: https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/poll-results!-why-do-you-play-x-wing?/
Timestamps: [00:02:00] Poll Results: Why did you start playing X-Wing? | [00:16:00] Mark talks advocating for X-Wing and resources for new players | [00:41:00] What keeps people in the game?
The cast reminisce about the previous year, and air their joys and grievances about the recent rules update. Gas clouds have consequences for players! Nantex have consequences for rules references!
Timestamps: [00:04:00] 2019 Retrospective - Bests and Worsts of the Year | [00:44:00] Some opinions on the Jan 2020 rules changes
Special guest Mark Myers returns to help us ramble around the topic of two-ship lists. Second Edition hasn't exactly encouraged low ship counts, but several of our cast members have spent a lot of time trying to succeed with only two ships on the table. Is it really nothing but pain? Is there a place for it in Second Edition? Does double-repositional ace play constitute an NPE? The answers to these questions may or may not lie ahead!
The cast ventures deep into the darkest depths of metawing to talk about some ships that have been chronically under-performing throughout Second Edition. Why do they suck? And what if anything might revive them? Timestamps: [00:03:00] General Impressions | [00:04:30] Bottom 5 Countdown to the Worst! | [00:54:30] Worst Performers per Faction | [01:07:00] Honorable Mentions of Terribleness
To see the metawing ship type ranking as we referenced it while recording, go here: https://meta.listfortress.com/ships?ranking_start=2018-09-13&ranking_end=2019-12-14&large_tournament_multiplier=true&widespread_use_multiplier=true&use_ranking_data=all&tournament_type=&format_id=&
Special guest and fellow Arch Alliance member Mark Myers joins the cast to take on some topics that hit close to home for him and (most of) the rest of us. Where do you find the balance between fun and winning, especially as a competitive player?
Timestamps - Self-imposed restrictions: Mark [00:01:45], Matt [00:12:50], Dan [00:22:15], Clint [00:30:10], Emily [00:45:00]. Flying what you love [00:50:30]. Rey/Poe and the tribulations of two-ship lists [01:04:00]
The cast visits a few more hot topics in X-Wing game mechanics, and then joins the rest of the world in giddy fangirling over Aces High (which, it turns out, is a really enjoyable format for local casual tournaments). SPOILER WARNING: stop at the hour mark if you don't want to hear about the Mandalorian. Timestamps: [00:01:00] Sense and Perfect Information | [00:29:00] Bidding | [00:41:00] Final Salvo | [00:51:30] Aces High | [01:05:00] Mandalorian Talk (SPOILERS)
Fresh from a good showing by Arch Alliance at the St. Louis Grand Championships, the cast members report back on Warfaire Weekend. Special guest Tim Oursler fills in for Matt Cary, who lost his voice after co-commentating on the Gold Squadron stream all day Saturday (no big deal).
The Scrubcast team comes together to question all of FFG's life choices. Or a few of the more contentious ones anyway. We tried to keep it as low sodium and level-headed as possible, focusing on logical arguments and well reasoned suggestions for improvement. Did we succeed? Judge for yourself! Topics covered: [00:02:00] Gas Clouds || [00:19:00] "Fully" Execute || [00:32:00] Regen || [00:52:00] Force
Matt Cary reports back from World's, the surprising results of the top 8 are analyzed, and Dan fills us in on his run to the final table of the Springfield, IL Hyperspace. [00:01:00] Matt's report | [00:27:00] Top 8 | [1:00:00] Springfields
[Please excuse our sub-par audio quality; we promise it gets better in future episodes!] The Midwest Scrubcast members introduce themselves, discuss what makes a scrub and how to (try) not to be one, and talk lists for the upcoming Hyperspace in Springfield, IL. Timestamps: [00:01:20] Scrubcast host introductions | [00:05:45] Ways to scrub off scrubiness | [00:30:00] Springfield, IL Hyperspace lists | [00:54:00] Worlds and Warfaire Weekend. More information on Warfaire Weekend at https://warfaireweekend.com/.