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Space Cats Peace Turtles
Author: Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson
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An unofficial podcast for fans of Twilight Imperium and other strategy board games. Each episode is a humorous analysis of mechanics and strategies for new and experienced players alike!
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This week we've got Alec back in the Virtual studio to discuss the history of Twilight Imperium as an E-Sport and also how Thunder's Edge might change all of that!
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
Art by Sun
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
After a puzzling announcement up top we get into the our final RPG session! How will our Keleres Agents save the Mecatol Rex from bacterial weapons?
Special thanks to our cast this week of EJ, Sun, Alec, and our wonderful GM Absol!
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty and Keanerschnitzel
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
Big Announcement up top so stay tuned for information about upcoming Thunder's Edge teasers! Exciting times to be a Twilight Imperium fan! This week on the show Hunter sits down with Ethan from Carboard Crash Course to chat about what we think the new Mahact filled alternate mode will be. Will it be frankendraft to the letter of the law? Will it disrupt everything? Is it good? None of these questions are fully answered but we did have a great time thinking about it. Stay tuned till the end for this week's Thunder's Edge component teaser!
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Check out Ethan's Twilight Imperium youtube channel at:
https://www.youtube.com/@CardboardCrashCourseTI
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
Art by Sun
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
This is easily one of the most important episodes of SCPT since the very beginning. This week Hunter and El Blasto sit down to talk piece by piece about every single new component that Fantasy Flight Games has revealed for the upcoming TI4 expansion, THUNDER'S EDGE. Buckle up because this is a long one and there is so much to talk about. Also keep in mind that not all of the components discussed in this episode are fully confirmed however, we tried our best to note each time we talked about the less "concrete" examples.
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
Matt is back with an episode we recorded before Gen Con. This week we're catching up with him on all of the new components introduced with Codex 4. His premium takes are finally bestowed upon us and we will learn the good stuff finally! Also Hunter comes to you twice from a post-Gen Con universe to talk about the expansion announcement and give you some taste of what was a Gen Con for the ages.
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
Well the elephant is out of the box now! For this special episode of SCPT we sat down with Liv Sheppard of Fantasy Flight Games for an interview about the just announced Twilight Imperium expansion titled THUNDER'S EDGE. Get it!
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Thunder's Edge Trailer:
https://youtu.be/L_2BkZTNjZ4?si=GrFehCYJH7VGRudl
Music provided by Ben Prunty
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
Another no preamble start as we get into the second part of our three part Twilight Imperium RPG story! Will our boys solve Absol's mystery?
Special thanks to our cast this week of EJ, Sun, Alec, and our wonderful GM Absol!
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty and Keanerschnitzel
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
Today we're rounding out our Codex Four coverage with our final new Galactic Event (It's actually kinda old) Minor Factions! It's a super solid mode that I recommend whole heartedly to anyone who might be a little squeamish about these alternate game modes. It's not too much craziness and there is still plenty of room for classic Twilight Imperium strategy. My guest today is Jadiim Jedi who you might recognize from the Tournament 6 online Finals and the Portland Intergalactical finals from this year.
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
This week we're talking about what is likely the goofiest of the new Galactic Events! It basically blows the lid off the tech game and enables everyone to lend each other into an apocalypse of SHARING. Our guest this week is El Blasto who was featured in the Finals of our online tournament this year and is also an accomplished streamer and commentator of our beloved game.
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
This week Hunter sits down with community member Andcat (and frequent merch collaborator) to talk about our experience with the Age of Exploration Galactic event. This is one of the more reasonable events and I think it brings a fun chill experience to the game. We moved the rundown to the end with this episode and you might want to stick around for it if you have missed having Matt in these episodes.
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
This week we've got a special presentation for you. No preamble! We just get right into another episode of us playing the TI RPG. Specifically this week we're tackling the first part of the module included in Codex 4! Expect part 2 in a few weeks.
Special thanks to our cast this week of EJ, Sun, Alec, and our wonderful GM Absol!
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Keanerschnitzel
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
More Codex Four coverage! This week Hunter sits down with JadiimJedi to talk in-dept about the Total War Galactic Event. It's a fun new way to play that game that I really encourage you to check out.
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
This week, Hunter sits down with Alec to answer the Galactic Council call! How do you beat the evil masters of the ancient galaxy? Find out within.
For Twilight Imperium Tournaments and SCPT live-shows, click here:
https://linktr.ee/spacecatspeaceturtles
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
And we're already back! Extra episode for you as an apology for last week. This time me and Root aka Alec are going to talk about our recent playthrough of the teaser scenario introduced in Codex Four. Also in the Intro I talk about the new Omega Components for X-89 and Magen Defense Grid so stay tuned for that.
Liberation of Ordinian Gameplay Video:
https://youtu.be/DLElMoj7CGM?si=vaUd9Y7ZZMnawJyJ
You can buy tickets to our LIVE SHOW in Portland OR on June 27th at 8:30pm right here:
https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/shows/space-cats-peace-turtles-live?date=2025-06-27T20:30:00
You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229
You can join the Intergalactical Discord here:
https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
April showers have brought June flowers it appears.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/twilight-imperium-fourth-edition/
You can buy tickets to our LIVE SHOW in Portland OR on June 27th at 8:30pm right here:
https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/shows/space-cats-peace-turtles-live?date=2025-06-27T20:30:00
You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229
You can join the Intergalactical Discord here:
https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
Hey there friends! We had a lot of plans blow up on us last week so we've had to pivot a bunch of plans, I promise we'll be back to normal next week! For now I've got an experimental episode for you. Hunter is going to listen to episode 26 of SCPT and give you his PODCASTER'S commentary. It's a weird thing we've done once before and it's a great nostalgic way to listen to our old ideas and compare them to the current SCPT paradigms. This old episode was originally called "Kingmaking and Support for the Throne" and it features Matt, Hunter, and our buddy Alex. It's a fun old episode to think about in the context of our current talk around winemaking.
You can buy tickets to our LIVE SHOW in Portland OR on June 27th at 8:30pm right here:
https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/shows/space-cats-peace-turtles-live?date=2025-06-27T20:30:00
You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229
You can join the Intergalactical Discord here:
https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
Sorry friends! We'll make it up to you, I promise.
You can buy tickets to our LIVE SHOW in Portland OR on June 27th at 8:30pm right here:
https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/shows/space-cats-peace-turtles-live?date=2025-06-27T20:30:00
You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229
You can join the Intergalactical Discord here:
https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
And we're back with more TRY HARD VS. GUIDES! This episode will teach you to absolute dominate the sneaky gerblins. In this episode we expose their EXTREME WEAKNESS. This episode is basically a top ten reasons why the tribes are bad actually. JK we try out some ideas in this episodes but you could do everything we tell ya and it could still go wrong so couch your bias and explore the ideas with us!
You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229
You can join the Intergalactical Discord here:
https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
This week we continue an SCPT tradition and provide advice for the listeners out there in the congregation that do not actually play TI. It's a great time to get into this game! Especially before the homework INTENSIFIES maybe? In this silly episode Matt and Hunter walk you through all of the different angles you can approach Twilight Imperium from. It's a newcomer invitation with a lot of our go to common sense advice baked in. In the second half of the episode the boys audit themselves and explain exactly how the business works. It's not complicated lol but you wanted to know!
You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229
You can join the Intergalactical Discord here:
https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
And with this the final SCPT Prophecy of Kings Tournament arc is complete! Rejoice!
You can watch the game here on twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2450129216
You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229
Special thanks to Matt, Root, Karnal, and Elspeth for their incredible work on the finals!
tangs incredible qualifier game:
https://youtu.be/Q9yHQl5fn4s?si=E18WFzEvn1wbjqdl
Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com
Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
I like eating cheesecake while listening to the dulcet tones of these two gentlemen talking about stuff.
excellent podcast, 5 star
excited for the new podcast!!!
I LOVE Draft Day idea!
your comments about 4 player game are rude. Especially the way you say it...
This is an amazing podcast. I played one game of Twilight Imperium and came here for more information about the game and am now completely addicted.
cool 😎
daaaaang yo, almost 3 hours!
I thoroughly enjoy this podcast. I appreciate the hosts opinions and take on the game. They go in depth and keep you entertained. I recommend it to all players before inviting them over for 4th.
I thoroughly enjoy this podcast. I appreciate the hosts opinions and take on the game. They go in depth and keep you entertained. I recommend it to all players before inviting them over for 4th.