Between 2 Sprues

Join the spicey, new, and lanky hosts as they discuss how to evaluate if your shatterpoint list has any win conditions, or if its meant for the drain on the Melenium Falcon.

Join our hosts as they stumble through discussing strategy and goals of a shatterpoint game, and how they use and abuse tactics during gameplay.

Join our hosts 2Legs, Pooz, and SirAche as they interview the beautiful mind of Bartlow the Punny. He share exploits of bounty hunter lists, his distaste for straight forward lists, and a knack for getting emotionally abused by 5 year olds.

Join our hosts as they discuss their latest gaming exploits in Shatterpoint, and Pooz's adventure to the Smite Club Open, where he was clubbed by the big kids and they took his lunch credits.

Our hosts discuss recent games, a local event, and some of the biggest models driving the meta in Shatterpoint.

Join the hosts as they recap weekly games, and dig deep on a non-gaming detour of their most favorite movies and least entertained watches, with a custom rating system!

Overview

2Legs, Pooz, and SirAcha dive into miniatures gaming again. Starting with questionable art school stories, birthday celebrations with pink eye, and enough old man activities to warrant AARP memberships. Between flamethrower weed control and pickleball courts, they manage to squeeze in actual Shatterpoint discussion featuring new list experiments with Cassian, debates about Obi-Wan counters, and the challenges of playing into Republic.

Key Moments

1:19 - Art School Critique Horror Stories

12:29 - New Moff/Grand Inquisitor List Testing

28:38 - Hunter/Lumi Anti-Meta Tech Discussion

43:00 - Cassian with Specters: First Impressions

54:02 - Gen Con Prep & Tournament Structure Questions

1:15:18 - Christmas Traditions: Cheese nuts and Die Hard

Highlights

• Pupa's house: Come for the pickleball, stay for the pink eye
• Baze and Chirrut declared "f*cking busted"
• Kanan played exclusively on Soresu side still "wrecked house"
• Grand Inquisitor/Vader mysteriously absent from meta despite obvious power
• Indianapolis beer scene debate escalates quickly

Game Reports

• Pooz: 0-2 vs Bartlow's Hunter/Lumi list testing Cassian/Moff and Mando/Obi
• Two Legs: Close loss with new Moff/Grand Inquisitor list vs Cad/Mando
• Sriracha: 2-0 with Cassian/Baze/Chirrut/Specters list (supports were MVP)

Join 2Legs, SirAche and Pooz as they have a fun after hours session during GenCon after the first Round of Shatterpoint play. Now with even more meandering, and feels about cosplay.

Overview

2Legs and Pooz dive into the sweaty realities of garage gaming and they exploring the nuts and bolts of tournament organizing. Between Avatar, The Last Airbender-inspired Inquisitor paint schemes and erotic Weequay pirates. They cover 2Legs' upcoming Tournament Organizer debut. Then onto Pooz's Gen Con preparation; Featuring deep dives into meta homework, list pairing strategies, and the Art of dodging tournament busters.

Key Moments

2:47 - Garage Sweat Lodge Updates & 2Legs' Fight Club

16:00 - Tournament Organizing 101: From Rules to Measurements

44:20 - GenCon GT Prep: Player Expectations and Event Rollout

55:20 - Premier Pairings Prep: Obi-Wan / Mundi vs Andor / Moff Pair

1:03:20 - Rock Paper Scissors Theory & List Chicken Strategies

1:20:20 - Tournament Homework: Discord Skulking and Longshanks Data Mining

Highlights

• ​2Legs goes full Avatar nerd painting Inquisitors as the Four Nations (Fire, Earth, Air, Water)
• ​​Weequay pirates and erotic drug deals gone wrong
• ​"Dodge the Douche" established as primary Gen Con tournament goal
• ​​Pooz's Pair has a boogieman: Cad-Cassian "four force and murder"
• ​​Tournament organizing compared to being a D&D DM
• ​​Mustard King crowned as official sponsor with his artisanal Haus sauce empire

Overview

2Legs and Pooz dive deep into the psychology of tabletop gaming! This episode explores why we play games in the first place, what draws us to tabletop (vs video games), and how we choose our factions and models. The dynamic duo discusses their gaming journeys from War Machine to Shatterpoint, debates the merits of different dice systems, and reveals their personal motivations for miniature gaming. Expect philosophical musings on the nature of play as practice, confessions about painting courage versus detail obsession, and plenty of tangents about everything from Polish trains to Critical Role's innovative dice mechanics. Plus: the eternal struggle of finding time for games as a grown-up, husband capital expenditure, and why 2Legs wishes he could stick with one game forever.

Key Moments

2:25 - Painting Dollies: Grand Inquisitor, red armor, and base coating the 13th Custodies

12:46 - Take your Kid to Work List: Luke and Vader refinement

27:27 - Why Do We Play Games?: Motivations for tabletop gaming versus other hobbies

35:18 - Pooz's Play is Practice: Always so serious

41:35 - Social Gaming vs Digital: How tabletop communities self-select for better social experiences

57:47 - Army Size Preferences: Skirmish games versus big army battles, time constraints shape choices

1:07:30 - The Rule of Cool: How aesthetic choices drive faction selection, but is only the start of models that stick

1:29:15 - Dice System Deep Dive: Comparing War Machine's 2d6, Judgment's capped 3-dice, and Shatterpoint's combat trees

1:37:55 - Wait, what RPGS? WTF are we talking about now?!

Highlights

• Pooz shares perspectives on play as practice for real-life, leading to an impromptu therapy session for 2Legs
• Pooz comparing his painting style to "vibe monkey" energy while envying detail-oriented painters
• Judgment is the all time favorite game of the crew, both feeling like it was "the one that got away"
• Epic bathroom coordination strategies during tournaments play because alternating activation games never let you leave
• Husband capital as a finite resource requiring careful budgeting for game nights