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Space Cats Peace Turtles

184: Root - Learning the Underground Duchy

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9663 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Today we get to complete the meat of our Learning Root episodes (don’t worry, we have more planned!) by learning the Underground Duchy. A faction of order and structure, fittingly, has many detailed ways of playing. Here, we cover what we believe to be one of the safest and easiest to pick up Duchy strategies, saving some of the more complicated stuff for the future.   6:30 - Ep 183 Errata (Relics and Legendary Planets)   15:40 - Learning the Underground Duchy 20:34 - Setup and Abilities 30:28 - Turn Structure 48:55 - Opening Ideas 55:48 - Crafty Corner: Base Deck 1:14:58 - Crafty Corner: Exiles and Partisans 1:35:50 - Pitfalls 1:41:40 - Where do we find our victory? Music by Brian Kupillas. Find more at wanderinglake.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Twitter, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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0:00.0

This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, an unofficial podcast for Leader Games Root.

0:18.8

Episode 184.

0:21.7

Learning.

0:23.1

The Underground Ditchie.

0:24.3

Featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson.

0:28.7

Music by Brian Capillis. All right, what's the bit this week?

0:58.5

Genius.

1:04.7

As long as you recognize who's in charge here, you know who brings the bits, baby.

1:09.9

The comedy maestro who comes in and says,

1:15.8

this is what's what? This week, it's this one. I don't, I got nothing. I've been so hyped up on

1:21.2

the tournament that just has been taking place this last weekend. I can't believe we have to do

1:25.2

the show and the tournament at the same time. Every year, I can't believe that. How dare they expect it? I can't believe we have to do the show and the tournament at the same time. Every year, I can't believe that.

1:28.5

How dare they expect it?

1:29.9

I can't believe that every year we have to do both at once.

1:36.3

It's insane.

1:37.3

So obviously one game a weekend is Duke, Glucum, and Flat Tomatoes helping us out.

1:43.2

But even if we count that into like the product

1:46.2

that SCPT is putting out, I mean, that's, it's, it is roughly like 26 to 30 hours of content

1:55.0

weekly. This show, two hours and like three eight plus hour games.

2:01.6

Yeah.

2:02.5

Yeah.

2:04.0

That's, boy, howdy.

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