Space Cats Peace Turtles

By Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

What's Space Cats Peace Turtles about?

An unofficial podcast for fans of Twilight Imperium and other strategy board games. Each episode is a humorous analysis of mechanics and strategies for new and experienced players alike!

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Space Cats Peace Turtles episodes:

05.15.2024
351: Finals from a Champion's Perspective
We've got one more episode about the big Championship match we had back on May 4th. When the Finals finish, everyone involved is always so exhausted that it's impossible to squeeze in any post-game report or interview. So instead, we...
05.08.2024
350: 2024 Tournament Finals Recap
In this episode we talk about the Finals of the SCPT 2024 Twillight Imperium tournament. THERE ARE SPOILERS. So don't listen if you don't want the outcome of the tournament spoiled. We also talk generally about how the tournament went...
05.01.2024
349: Road to the Finals 2024
THE FINALS ARE ON MAY 4th, Saturday starting at 15:00 UTC (10AM Central). Come watch at https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles As is our yearly tradition we bring you interviews from Matt and Hunter with all six of your finalists. Special thanks to them and everyone...
04.24.2024
348: Arcs Leaders - Agitator, Quartermaster, and Noble (w/ Tom Brewster)
It is finally time to dig in deeper to Arcs! The base game adds asymmetry to each player via the Leaders, and it's more asymmetry than many of us realized. Our excitement just wasn't enough; we had to go and...
04.17.2024
347: Super L1Z1X Mindnet Guide
This week we're back to our classic formula and doing a deep dive on one of our favorite aggressive factions: THE L1Z1X. This one has a fun energy and we really go to town on these guys, I wish we...
04.10.2024
346: Matt's Job at Leder Games
This month's Galactic Council Poll episode is coming to your a week early! We needed the time to prepare for new episodes. We also talk a lot about the upcoming TOURNAMENT 6 SEMI-FINALS. This episode contains the schedule for those...
04.03.2024
345: 2024 Tournament Updates
This episode is for the competitive scene as the boys talk about how they feel about the soon to be finished prelims round of this year's tournament. How has the process been? Are there things we would like to improve?...
03.27.2024
344: Super Mentak Coalition Guide
Uh oh, it looks like we've saved a lot of the "bad" factions for last which means all of these Super guides are about to get a lot more FUN. Mentak, the most autocorrected faction, is definitively COOL and NEAT,...
03.20.2024
343: Most Anticipated Board Games 2024
Beach episode time! This week we've taken the Galactic Council poll results and really ran with it. Instead of just hearing about what games Matt and Hunter are looking forward to we've basically asked everyone we know to submit their...
03.13.2024
342: 8 Player Games
This week, we're tackling a much requested topic. 8 Player Games! Matt and Hunter have both done some research and are reporting on strategic differences they found in their limited experience. Lot's of talk is devoted to why we don't...
03.07.2024
341: Arcs - Resources and the Court Deck
More Arcs! We're having a lovely time learning this new game and before we start diving into guides for different Leaders and eventually getting into the Campaign expansion (where we'll spend most of our time), we needed one more episode...
02.29.2024
340: Super Universities of Jol-Nar Strategy Guide
Let's do another Faction Strategy Guide! Universities of Jol-Nar are discussed a lot. They've been around since the very beginning, and in every edition of the game they've been a powerful faction. They have a -1 to combat and that...
02.21.2024
339: Twilight Imperium Second Edition Overview
Let's travel back in time to the year 2000! FFG was still a young company and Christian T. Petersen decided to take another stab at the design of our favorite game. At times, Second Edition almost feels like the version...
02.14.2024
338: Agenda Phase Mailbag!
We've both been in the process of trying to find new homes in Minnesota, which means it's time for a beach episode where we dip into our mailbag! Our patrons submitted these questions for our Agenda Phase segments, but this...
02.07.2024
337: Arcs - Actions and Ambitions
More Arcs! It's getting incredibly fun starting to dig into the meat of this game. You can refer back to episode 333 to hear our Learn to Learn guide about the game, but now we're going to start getting more...
01.31.2024
336: Super Clan of Saar Guide
Despite the chaos in both our lives, Matt's ready with another Super Faction Guide! Due to the wonders of Async, Matt's found a lot more opportunity to work on guides and this is one that definitely benefited from that since...
01.24.2024
335: Guide to the Prelims
The Prelims are already a couple of weeks underway and we're learning a LOT. This definitely feels like a new, distinct year for the tournament given the outcome of the majority of these games. So what does that mean for...
01.17.2024
334: Winmaking Roundtable with Dane and Milty
The topic of "winmaking" is constantly evolving and changing. Every year we see tournament play handle shenanigans at the end of the game differently and it's nice to check in from time to time and evaluate the community. Today, we...
01.10.2024
333: Learn to Learn Arcs
New Year, New Us, New Job, New Game, New Lease on Life. This is the beginning of hopefully a long series of episode covering Arcs by Leder Games! They made a game so enticing to us that Matt went and...
01.03.2024
332: 2024 Season Premiere
New year and there are some big plans and changes in the works. Today we'll do our best to reveal and talk about what we can but also expect more updates in the future. 2024 is going to be a...
12.27.2023
331: 2023 Holiday Spectacular
This episode is a particularly stupid energy coming right off the back of our Holiday Spectacular stream that featured hot "wings" and cool kids. Thanks for a wonderful year everyone, we love each of you individually. Music provided by Ben Prunty....
12.20.2023
330: Democracy Quest 400 - Definitive Edition: Flight of the Federal Reserve Bank Note for Nintendo Switch
It's that time of year again! These Twilight Imperium factions have been out here all year running amok and making us look stupid because last year we did a really good faction ranking but you all played wrong. So we've...
12.13.2023
329: Hunter’s Journey Through the Qualifiers
Hunter has been playing in this year's Patreon Tournament Qualifiers since October. He's had about a half dozen games and he's finally made it through to the Prelims! It's good timing, because we always had this week's episode slated as...
12.06.2023
328: Super Federation of Sol Guide
Who needs this? Well hopefully, you're someone relatively new to Twilight Imperium and a friend of yours has suggested you play Federation of Sol and you're looking to jumpstart your winrate. If so, welcome. You've made an excellent choice of...
11.29.2023
327: Empire Falling with Robbie MacNiven
A new series of Twilight Imperium books is right around the corner! Empire Falling, the first of the new trilogy by Robbie MacNiven releases December 5th and we were lucky enough to get Robbie on to discuss writing for established...
11.22.2023
326: Super Ghosts of Creuss Guide
Matt's back in action! His last guide was for a fast faction that doesn't always have a way to close out games. This time, to shake things up, he's going with a fast faction that doesn't always have a way...
11.15.2023
325: The Commentators of Twilight Imperium
We're about halfway through this years Qualifiers in the tournament and it seemed high time we celebrate the people that make the tournament a pleasurable viewing experience! Over the years, more and more amazing folks have taken on the task...
11.08.2023
324: System Tile Tier List
You are not prepared for this one. We have 82 system tiles in Twilight Imperium. In theory, the visuals matter quite a lot for this discussion or would at least make this go a lot faster...but then again why should...
11.01.2023
323: Super Nekro Virus Guide
We're back on that old grind. We've done "Super Guides" as our way of revisiting base game factions post-PoK, but up until this point it has also been a mark of a faction that received new components via a Codex....
10.25.2023
322: TI Zero Edition First Update
The Homebrewer's Guild has been hard at work on a big project. The work has been largely philosophical up until this point and it was finally time to lay track down before we design this train. So today, we'd like...
10.18.2023
321: A Guide to Terran
It's a crossover episode! Our video game podcast, Old Gamer's Almanac, is doing a big Starcraft blowout this month and we wanted to get this show in on the fun. What better way than attempting an exhaustive strategy overview of...
10.11.2023
320: Leder Games’ Project Update
We spent a week hanging out with the fine folks over at Leder Games and learned more about their ongoing projects while we were there. Nick Brachmann joined us to walk through everything he's planning to add to Ahoy in...
10.04.2023
319: This Imperium Life
We've been teasing it for WEEKS and it's finally here. After a huge hiatus, we're pleased to finally present another This Imperium Life, our show where we share YOUR stories of the best moments of Twilight Imperium Music provided by Ben...
09.27.2023
318: Agenda Phase 2023 Mailbag
It's the weekend before the tournament starts and in the madness we decided to answer all of your burning questions! That's right, after over 6 years, we're finally doing a mailbag episode. We cover a lot of TI topics, but...
09.20.2023
317: Tournament Champions’ Advice
Tournament 6 looms before us and in the build up to it we wanted to take a look back. We sat down with the 5 previous winners of the Patreon Tournament and got their take on the changes to the...
09.13.2023
316: Playing Against the Emirates of Hacan
The Space Cats are a domineering force when it comes to Twilight Imperium. They're the closest thing the game has to a mascot and when they're in game a lot of things seem to revolve around them. They've also often...
09.06.2023
315: Async [w/ the 9 of Spades]
We did an episode about the Async Twilight Imperium discord (https://discord.gg/vY3nBkegkn) a while ago, but it's had a slew of major developments over recent months and it was well worth revisiting. Not to mention we wanted to have a conversation...
08.30.2023
314: Tournament 6 and the Rest of 2023
We JUST finished Tournament 5 but TOO BAD, it's time to talk about Tournament 6. We've got details on the structure and process on how to play in the 2024 tournament that starts in October of 2023. Once our website...
08.23.2023
313: Spirit Island Wrap Up
Early this year, we set out on a goal, (well a few goals really, but one of them was:) to learn GreaterThanGames' Spirit Island and hopefully help you learn it as well. We tackled the 8 spirits provided in the...
08.16.2023
312: Leder Games at GenCon[feat. Lord of the Board]
We went to GenCon, had a live show, then checked out what our friends over at Leder Games have been working on. Sam from Lord of the Board (https://www.youtube.com/@LordoftheBoard) joined us to demo a base game session of Arcs and...
08.09.2023
311: 2023 GenCon Live Show
This episode was recorded LIVE at the Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis, IN during the week of GenCon 2023! If you want to hear all of the stand-up, you'll have to come in person yourself someday, but this recording includes...
08.02.2023
310: Twilight Imperium: The HBO Mini-series
The Galactic Council went chaotic evil this week and wanted us to provide you with the sequel to everyone's favorite episode: TI The Movie. This time we have to design a mini-series set in the Twilight Imperium universe, meant to...
07.26.2023
309: Super Nomad Guide
We've done it! After today, all of the Prophecy of Kings factions will have been revisited on this show as part of our Super Guide series! Don't talk to me about Council Keleres! We finish up with the Nomad, which...
07.19.2023
308: Spirit Guides - Lightning’s Swift Strike and Shadows Flicker Like Flames
It's our last venture into the base game Spirits for Spirit Island! And we didn't do it on purpose, but we're each going out of spirits that didn't click with us quite as much, but that didn't stop them from...
07.12.2023
307: Super Titans of Ul Guide
We're nearing the end of our super POK faction guides and today we get to tackle the first faction we ever dug deep into in POK, the Titans of Ul. They're a powerful faction that has always performed very well...
07.05.2023
306: Road to the Finals 2023
It's been a whole year and now it's time for us to prepare for the upcoming SCPT Patreon Tournament Finals! We've got interviews from all of the wonderful players and I'm so excited for you to hear them. Special thanks...
06.28.2023
305: Top 10 Tournament Moments
The galactic council have bestowed us with a wonderful treat. The semis of Tournament 5 have concluded and before we get to the Finals, we are taking a look back at tournaments gone by. After some fun honorable mentions, we...
06.21.2023
304: The Gathering Storm Part 3 (Embers of the Imperium RPG)
And now the thrilling conclusion to the tale of Gasha, Rick, Wrexx, Borin, and Ser. It's time for our heroes to sort out a bit of a bug situation, learn the secrets of mysterious artifacts, and handle a bit of...
06.15.2023
303: Spirit Guide: Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares and River Surges in Sunlight
We're back with more Spirit Island content! This week, we were tired of being pushed around, so we're talking about two spirits that do a lot of pushing back, the fear based Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares and the nuclear...
06.07.2023
302: Super Vuil’raith Cabal Guide
We've been having TOO MUCH FUN over here at SCPT the last few weeks, so it's time for some more chunky content. Today is a guide to the Vuil'raith Cabal that it feels like we've been working on for two...

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Space Cats Peace Turtles episodes:

351: Finals from a Champion's Perspective

350: 2024 Tournament Finals Recap

349: Road to the Finals 2024

348: Arcs Leaders - Agitator, Quartermaster, and Noble (w/ Tom Brewster)

347: Super L1Z1X Mindnet Guide

346: Matt's Job at Leder Games

345: 2024 Tournament Updates

344: Super Mentak Coalition Guide

343: Most Anticipated Board Games 2024

342: 8 Player Games

341: Arcs - Resources and the Court Deck

340: Super Universities of Jol-Nar Strategy Guide

339: Twilight Imperium Second Edition Overview

338: Agenda Phase Mailbag!

337: Arcs - Actions and Ambitions

336: Super Clan of Saar Guide

335: Guide to the Prelims

334: Winmaking Roundtable with Dane and Milty

333: Learn to Learn Arcs

332: 2024 Season Premiere

331: 2023 Holiday Spectacular

330: Democracy Quest 400 - Definitive Edition: Flight of the Federal Reserve Bank Note for Nintendo Switch

329: Hunter’s Journey Through the Qualifiers

328: Super Federation of Sol Guide

327: Empire Falling with Robbie MacNiven

326: Super Ghosts of Creuss Guide

325: The Commentators of Twilight Imperium

324: System Tile Tier List

323: Super Nekro Virus Guide

322: TI Zero Edition First Update

321: A Guide to Terran

320: Leder Games’ Project Update

319: This Imperium Life

318: Agenda Phase 2023 Mailbag

317: Tournament Champions’ Advice

316: Playing Against the Emirates of Hacan

315: Async [w/ the 9 of Spades]

314: Tournament 6 and the Rest of 2023

313: Spirit Island Wrap Up

312: Leder Games at GenCon[feat. Lord of the Board]

311: 2023 GenCon Live Show

310: Twilight Imperium: The HBO Mini-series

309: Super Nomad Guide

308: Spirit Guides - Lightning’s Swift Strike and Shadows Flicker Like Flames

307: Super Titans of Ul Guide

306: Road to the Finals 2023

305: Top 10 Tournament Moments

304: The Gathering Storm Part 3 (Embers of the Imperium RPG)

303: Spirit Guide: Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares and River Surges in Sunlight

302: Super Vuil’raith Cabal Guide