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Space Cats Peace Turtles

428: Breakthroughs and Synergies RANKED

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Hunter Donaldson

Hobbies, Leisure:games, Leisure, Games

4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 210 minutes

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Summary

Yo this week, Hunter and JadiimJedi sit down to rank and discuss all 25 breakthroughs for the old factions. It's a blow-out discussion that essentially covers the entire game in brief excluding the newest factions. Also for the first 45 minutes we review the new rules for breakthroughs and synergies in an attempt to clear up some confusion. HAVE FUN! Thunder's Edge, forver. 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/

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0:00.0

Hello, Space Cats and Peace Turtles. I am your host, Hunter Donaldson, and I am coming in for another one of my pre-show announcement things that I've been having to do lately.

0:11.2

I'm doing it this week because we, I don't know if you've seen the time code on this episode.

0:16.3

It is, I think, the longest episode in Space Cat's history, maybe, or at least it's close.

0:22.2

All right.

0:22.5

It's not necessarily for sure.

0:24.1

It's hard for me to remember off the top of my head how long everyone has been.

0:27.2

This is a crazy long episode, okay?

0:30.0

And the reason is pretty simple.

0:32.0

In the first half of this episode, or the first little chunk of this episode, me and

0:36.0

Jeem Jedi are going to sit down and talk about and kind of review all of the new rules in regards to breakthroughs.

0:44.2

These are the big new mechanic of Thunder's Edge that adds a lot of detail to every single faction of the game.

0:50.2

Old and new alike.

0:52.6

Okay.

0:53.1

And then in the second half of this episode we talk in depth about all

0:58.6

25 of the new breakthroughs for old factions that is any faction that we have covered in depth

1:07.0

on the show already including all the way up through the council Caleris.

1:12.4

And we are going to talk about those in a very listical type way.

1:15.8

We're going to rank them back and forth.

1:18.2

Okay.

1:18.5

So we each get a 25 ranked list here of all of the breakthroughs.

1:25.3

It's really, really fun, but obviously the discussion took a long,

1:28.9

long time. So that's just how it is. Okay. I wanted to get out in front of it, though, and just do

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