The Midwest Scrubcast

The X-Wing community has spoken! The results from our "Ace or Not" Survey are in and we scrubs are here to share it with you. Shout-out to Matt Cary for all the beautiful charts, which you can find here: https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/10/30/ace-or-not-survey-results/

Timestamps: [00:02:00] Scrub adventures at Ryloth & Mustafar | [00:35:00] Ace or Not Results

The heroic effort to make a coherent podcast continues.  A little bit of Crait talk, and a little bit of Squadrons talk, a unanimous consensus on who's the best Doctor...this episode has it all. 

Timestamps: [00:01:30] Scrub adventures at Crait | [00:26:00] The Fitwest Scrub October Challenge | [00:35:00] Squadrons

The scrubs make a heroic effort to string more than two coherent sentences together while talking about some of the almost-aces in X-Wing that are hovering on the edges of viability. Stay tuned at the end for a little extra info about our plans for Patreon rewards!

Special guest "The Falcon King" Bob Howe joins us for an in-depth discussion of his favorite chassis. Across all 3 Falcon-containing factions we discuss what's good, what's not, and how best to kit them out, with the help of Bob's hard-earned wisdom and insight. 

With the Nantex win at Corellia extremely fresh on their minds, the Scrubs fall down a rabbit hole of grievances as they discuss the strength of Separatists and the underwhelmingness of Scum. 

The Midwest Scrubs are here to reveal some official misinformation on how many points FFG's recently revealed ships will cost. How much will Jango be? How many Brutes will be able to fit in one list? Brought to you courtesy of Mark Sandford's X-Wing Cost Prediction AI. https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/predicting-pilot-costs-with-the-power-of-ai/

This week we're following up with and/or diving deeper into some recent conversations from the blog about theoretical ship changes that Matt proposed for the StarViper and the E-Wing. This format seemed like a good one for clarifying some of our positions on the changes, as well as evaluating some other alternative suggestions we got from the community.

Original articles are here: 

https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/guri-and-the-problem-of-advanced-sensors/

https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/how-to-fix-an-e-wing/

Timestamps: [00:01:00] Matt's Loremaster Adventure | [00:11:00] Guri/Starvipers | [00:43:00] the E-Wing

The scrubs start off discussing the considerations for handling the cautious return of in-person X-Wing. Completely unrelatedly, we also discuss Things We Learned By Playing Weird Creative Lists in TTS League. 

Timestamps: [00:01:00] In-Person X-Wing | [00:18:00] Things We Learned in TTS League

Arch Alliance's Mark Sandford returns to the podcast to share a little project he's been working on. What a relief, actual X-Wing content that the pandemic hasn't put a damper on! Mark is trying to use computer brains to analyze X-Wing pilot costs, and it might reveal some good-value pilots or even give us a window into the future...

If you want to see the AI model behind all this for yourself, you can find the link here in the second paragraph. https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/predicting-pilot-costs-with-the-power-of-ai/

Timestamps: [00:01:30] What the heck is this AI thing? | [00:17:00] Predictions for Wave 7 | [00:33:00] Pilots the AI thinks are good value

Nope, it's just about a bunch of scrubby Star Wars fans having fun. With so little excitement on the X-Wing scene, we'll just ramble for a while about how much we miss all of you, and then critique the last season of Clone Wars. This is fine.