Flight of Fancy joins the show to talk Argent Flight, playing factions that aren't strong, beating BLT in a Ministers game with the Strengthen Bonds secret, and whether BLT likes mayo on his BLTs. 0:55 - Async Rank Update 1:53 - Flight of Fancy joins the show 3:00 - Getting into TI4 and Async TI4 6:20 - On playing fast 8:01 - Argent Flight (of Fancy) 12:55 - Argent's starting tech (and why you should go green/yellow) 19:58 - Tech of the week: Neural Motivator 24:02 - Does BLT put mayo on his BLT...
Jan 12, 2024•31 min•Ep. 12
BLT congratulates the Tournament 2 Semifinalists, invites you to play F(r)og of War, and fails to invite a guest or to make progress on his faction tier list. 1:42 - Best thing I saw this week - Tournament 2 quarterfinals are finished 3:47 - Weird game mode of the week - Fog of War 10:43 - Tech of the week - Predictive Intelligence (gah!) 14:52 - Weird rules thing of the week - Spatial Conduit Cylinders + PDS II 17:05 - Various updates
Jan 05, 2024•21 min•Ep. 11
BLT wishes you a happy new year, shares another edge case that makes Crown of Thalnos almost good, and starts off his Faction Tier List with his D Tier factions. 1:12 - Best thing I saw this week 1:29 - Weird game mode of the week: Pally's Ixthian Variant 3:17 - Tech of the week: Hyper Metabolism 6:09 - Weird rules thing of the week: Letnev and Sol agents can improve Crown of Thalnos! 8:40 - BLT's Faction Tier List! D Tier: 25) Barony 24) L1Z1X 14:53 - Various Updates...
Dec 29, 2023•19 min•Ep. 10
kRuthless (Kyle) joins the show to talk about pbd1, Ghosts, Mentak, burnout, and being ruthless on the board and friendly above it! 0:45 - pbd266 finally finished! 2:34 - kRuthless joins the show! 4:01 - How did you join the async community? (and pbd1) 8:46 - Burnout and knowing how many async games to be in at once 13:48 - Being a different persona in-game vs in real life 17:14 - Being more "ruthless" in response to having too much heat 29:31 - Ghosts tips 36:33 - Mentak tips (written version i...
Dec 22, 2023•55 min•Ep. 9
BLT goes solo again to talk about the server feeling both fast and slow, solo TI, and the first Async Rank - Agent. 0:40 - intro on the server feeling slow and fast, pbd266, and an IRL game 5:19 - Best thing I saw this week 6:04 - Weird game mode of the week - "Solo Mode" by BigAlCupaChino and Hadouken 9:35 - Tech of the week - Scanlink Drone Network 12:29 - Various updates - OfficialDaveAcct is the first Async Rank - Agent!
Dec 15, 2023•15 min•Ep. 8
Chassit joins the show to talk about Async Tournament 2, taking home systems (or not), 3D maps, and Bio-Stims! And BLT continues to learn how to edit audio. 0:30 - Chassit joins the show 1:35 - Chassit's playstyle 2:15 - Do you expect to need to take somebody's home system? 3:39 - Async Tournament 2 4:38 - Homebrew flourishing on the server 7:30 - Recent Tournament 2 winners 7:55 - Tournament 2 slice design principles 12:44 - Teaser: Tournament 2 winner prize! 13:56 - Tech of the week: Bio-Stims...
Dec 08, 2023•29 min•Ep. 7
BLT welcomes Argocontrol to the show to talk about playing a lot of games and the TIGL ranks, plus — intro music! 0:33 - Best thing I saw this week (6 Z'eus per round) 1:56 - Argocontrol joins the show! 3:21 - The Argocontrol origin story 4:06 - Joining too many games 5:45 - TIGL chat 13:17 - Weird game mode of the week - Oath of Kings mod from Jangles 15:36 - Tech of the week - Integrated Economy 18:06 - Weird rules thing of the week 19:51 - Various updates -- Rules for Oath of Kings mod from J...
Dec 01, 2023•24 min•Ep. 6
BLT professes his love for Muaat, new tournament semifinalists and ministers, and PupRock joins the show to talk about how cute the Vuil'raith are. 0:17 - Muaat love 1:26 - Best thing I saw this week (Kolione winning on accident - https://discord.com/channels/943410040369479690/1174301137768288336/1174425239778758656) 3:26 - Weird game mode of the week (Gunboat Diplomacy - pbd1445, Oops All Ixthian) 5:25 - Tech of the week (Magen Defense Grid Omega) 8:12 - Kid insight of the week (Vuil'raith are...
Nov 25, 2023•13 min•Ep. 5
0:35 Errata 2:07 Best thing I saw this week - Tactical Bombardment 3:39 Weird game mode of the week - Odds and Evens 6:18 Tech of the week - Stroter 2! 9:14 Weird rules thing of the week - Crown of Emphidia scoring timing 10:46 Server updates - Song of the Stroter from Brassbird: Github links to the async bot: https://github.com/AsyncTI4 https://github.com/AsyncTI4/TI4_map_generator_bot...
Nov 15, 2023•13 min•Ep. 4
BLT talks about TIGL, the Twilight Imperium Global League, and how much he loves Arborec. 0:00 Intro 1:12 Best thing I saw this week 2:16 TIGL and the new Async Ranking 6:25 Weird game mode of the week 8:08 Tech of the week - Sarween Tools 10:20 Weird rules thing of the week 12:20 Server updates
Nov 10, 2023•16 min•Ep. 3
BLT shares his feelings about Ixthian Artifact voting and Graviton Laser System, and updates on the cool Halloween war suns you may have seen this past week. Apologies for the quiet audio, I'll get it eventually! 1:14 How I got into async 3:00 Ixthian Watch update! 6:46 Weird game mode of the week 8:23 Tech of the week - Graviton Laser System 11:27 Weird rules thing of the week 13:23 Server news
Nov 03, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 2
BLT bumbles through episode 1 and shares a few highlights from the async TI server this past week. Send feedback to BLT on discord!
Oct 30, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 1
