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Space Cats Peace Turtles

442: Il Na Viroset and El Nen Janovet Beginner's Guide

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Hunter Donaldson

Hobbies, Leisure:games, Leisure, Games

4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Hunter and Alec are back on the case! Taking on the next two Mahact kings is quite the roller coaster today. Il Na Viroset is a real star of the new mode and I feel confident you'll really dig them but El Nen Janovet is a whole other story.... Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th Tickets here: Hunter at Sisyphus Brewing! Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15 Tickets here: Orlando Intergalactical 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 Sanders  To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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0:00.0

This is Spacecats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.

0:12.8

Episode 442.

0:15.1

Il Navaroset, an El Nanzanovet guy.

0:19.7

With music by Ben Prunty,

0:21.7

art by son Sanders,

0:23.1

hosted by Hunter Donaldson,

0:24.6

and featuring Alec Keeler.

0:48.3

Music What, so you just moved.

0:50.6

You've moved to, you're in Milwaukee now.

0:51.6

You moved from... I moved from Milwaukee to a new place in Milwaukee.

0:54.7

I moved from Madison to Milwaukee last year.

0:57.2

I just moved like five blocks.

1:00.5

Which is great. I'm very excited. I have an office now.

1:03.6

Yes.

1:03.9

I can actually host board games.

1:06.6

Yo.

1:07.7

You can play board games at your house now?

1:10.3

Yeah. It's pretty exciting. That's a big move. Are you going to kind of christen it? Like, what's the board game party going to be at your house? Also, am I invited? Can I come? Dude, sure. Yeah, I haven't planned like a party. But yeah, you and I can, like, I'll plan a party for you to come down too for sure. That sounds great. I think I great. I think I've got a buddy here that I think I'm going to have over later this week to play War of the Ring.

1:33.1

I've never played that game in spite of the fact that it's a bummer that I haven't played that game because whenever me and Matt were first starting Spacecats, we also talked about starting like a regular board game show. That wasn't just about one board game. By the way, I would never do that now. I'm married to this thing. But we talked about War of the Ring because we were like, oh, there's two of us. We could do all the research, just the two of us and that be it have you played it before is it good

2:02.2

i've i've played it once now he and i played it once a couple months ago and honestly yeah it's

2:07.3

it's good it was a lot of fun yeah it definitely is complex it's it's got a lot of finicky rules when

2:14.6

it comes to like the combat and sieges and stuff like that. Like there's there's a lot going on that maybe maybe they could have simplified it a little bit but they didn't. So it's cool. I mean, it's Lord of the Rings. You don't expect it to be short and, you know, simple, right? Yeah. Does it have Tom Bombadil in it? Is there any Tomadil stuff it's it's possible that he's like referenced on a card or flavor text or something but i just haven't seen i don't i don't know but no i don't not to my knowledge i guess he doesn't play a big role in the war itself you know what i mean like that's not really what he provides i think that's accurate i think i think the time Lord of the Rings is happening, I think he's I think he's sort of taking a backseat at that

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