281: A Guide to Setup

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

We've taught you how to learn this game and how to teach this game, but we've never taught you the proper way to set it up! So today is a treat for relatively new players or players looking to change up their faction drafting and map building as well as different tools to help enhance the Twilight Imperium experience. We've got tips, tricks, and herbal supplements to get you feeling 150%!! 0:00 - Faction Drafting and Map Building 45:57 - Online and In Person Toolshttps://milty.shenanigans.be/ 1:21:05 - Homebrew Review: Garbozia Legendary Planet by Bradley Sigma 1:28:17 - The Agenda Phase: Wysper - If you could change one rule, what would it be? 1:33:33 - Tournament Recap: Qualifiers 5, 9, 11, 14, & 15 Links Mentioned in Episode Map building - https://joepinion.github.io/ti4-map-lab/ and https://keeganw.github.io/ti4/ Miltydrafting - https://miltydraft.com/ and https://milty.shenanigans.be/ Color Picker - https://www.ti.vetinari.net/ Battle Calculator - https://ti4battle.com/ Extracomputer - https://extraboard.net/extracomputer Homebrew Card Maker - http://ti4-card-images.appspot.com/static/card.html Printable Hyperlanes - https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/161185/ti4-hyperlane-sector-5-players Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, 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.
0:11.7	Episode 281.
0:14.0	A Guide to Set Up.
0:16.3	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson. Hey, at the top of this one, real quickly, before anything else happens, we should say, this Saturday is finally the invitational finals.
0:52.8	It's been a little while since the previous six games, but it's finally time to finish the fight.
0:59.0	Let's do the invitational finals.
1:01.0	This Saturday, the game starts maybe a little bit earlier than some people are used to.
1:07.0	It's a 7 a.m. Central time start.
1:10.0	That's what? A 1,300 UTC start. We've's a 7 a.m. Central time start. That's what?
1:11.1	A 1,300 UTC start.
1:13.9	We've got a handful of Europeans in this one.
1:15.9	It was a fair enough.
1:16.7	We tried to get a little bit of both.
1:19.0	So hopefully our Europeans aren't playing long into the night.
1:22.0	So we start a little bit early.
1:23.1	I do think there's someone on the Pacific Coast that's starting this game at like 5 a.m. But I forget who it is. No. That sucks. Well, yeah, good luck to all the players. Really excited.
1:32.3	Definitely come watch the game. It'll be fun. Me and you are on commentary, right? It's the two of us.
1:38.0	Yep. I would assume. I mean, I hope you'll be there. I don't know. I think I'm going to show up. Yeah, yeah. My plan is to be there. And I'll, I'll just
1:45.6	kind of, you know, patiently wait for the game to be happening and then for it to be over. It's really,
1:53.5	really exciting stakes with this one. It's a really interesting group, a lot of really good players.
1:57.9	It's also perhaps our first opportunity for a repeat tournament champion,
2:03.2	which we've never had that opportunity before. Now, this is just within the invitational,
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