193: Empyrean Introduction

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

We’re on the final lap of our Prophecy of Kings faction introductions, and Hunter completes his task with the Empyrean. It’s a wildly fun faction that has a little bit of everything, while rarely feeling “too good.” So, how do you best take advantage of all of these tools? I dunno, but here’s our ideas! Vagabond Errata - 5:54 Empyrean Overview - 14:32 Strategy Cards - 44:39 Tech - 1:08:24 Exploration - 1:16:57 Trade - 1:22:01 Victory Points - 1:42:57 Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.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, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.
0:11.2	Episode 193.
0:13.0	The Empirion Introduce.
0:15.9	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins.
0:19.5	And Hunter Donaldson. We should do a clue as a stream because it's not a good game, but I think it would be funny if we played it.
0:53.3	Hey, hang on a second.
0:53.9	Clue's a bad game. No, no, no, no, no. Clue is a pretty decent game. No, Clue is a bad game.
0:58.6	Clue is a great idea. Clue has one bad mechanic. What's the, what is the one? The movement,
1:03.7	the movement between rooms. Yeah, that's a pretty big, you kind of hit the nail on that one but you're doing it with this tone like
1:11.8	oh that's not a big deal they give you a lot of tools to not have to go between the rooms very
1:15.9	often yeah which that even begs the question why have the hallway why have them I know why just
1:21.4	have it at all I think that's the number one best house rule is to just like just go to the room
1:25.2	you want to go to man go to the room you want to go to
1:27.7	but that doesn't work though because the game mechanics strategically are like you need to go to
1:33.2	these rooms strategically in order to get all the things that you need to get what what were you
1:37.6	going to what were you going to say i was going i mean i think clue as a game that just kind of
1:43.9	comes out of nowhere and it's like, here's a game about this.
1:46.7	I think it's genius.
1:48.1	Yeah.
1:48.5	I think it's beautiful.
1:49.4	But I think that it is a game that sort of suggests a lot and doesn't, is not mechanically sound.
1:59.1	Yeah.
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