Ep 011: First Round Strategies - Xxcha Kingdom

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It's finally time! Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson have played enough games to start discussing strategies for the early game, and they're going to start off that discussion everyone's favorite Adult Spacefaring Peace Turtles: The Xxcha Kingdom. Topics covered in this episode include starting units and technologies, optimal strategy card picks, mid game goals, faction counters, and how one is expected to WIN with the Xxcha. Afterwards, we have a few more pointers, provided by listeners, to add to our Learn to Learn / Learn to Teach episode.

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0:00.0	This is Spacecats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.
0:12.1	Episode 11 First Round Strategies, X-Cha Kingdom.
0:16.2	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson.
0:21.6	Hello and welcome to our wonderful little podcast we have for you.
0:44.5	We have a really fun episode today.
0:45.7	This is something that people who have been listening to us since the beginning, we've
0:49.0	been teasing this idea for a while, but we've continually not felt comfortable doing it.
0:53.0	Right.
0:53.3	And we keep disappointing fans because they really want our first round strategy.
0:59.2	I won't call it a guide.
1:00.6	I'll call it a discussion.
1:02.4	Yeah.
1:02.6	Our first round strategy discussions.
1:04.9	And we want to kick that off today.
1:06.7	We're going to talk about the X-Cha kingdom, the Peace Turtles, from whom we take our namesake.
1:14.4	And we want to dig into what you should be thinking about when you draw the X-Chaw Kingdom.
1:19.2	What are the first things on your mind? What are the actions you take during your first round,
1:24.1	potentially leading a little bit into your second round and then from there how do you look at
1:29.4	the rest of the game you can't ever say anything definitively about mid to late game but we can say
1:33.9	what are your what are you hoping to look like right yeah as this episode goes on you'll notice we
1:39.4	start painting with a with a wider brush yeah and that's because as this the way we're going to do this is we're going to start more
1:46.9	concrete.
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