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. 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.
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.wordpre...
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/pred...
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 Astromec...
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=1nG2Z...
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...
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.listfortres...
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)
