This episode is definitely not an ad for Pokemon Unite. It's also not an ad for chaos the board game and Pope Joan and the worst place to go canamping.  Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

This episode is definitely not an ad for Pokemon Unite. It's also not an ad for chaos the board game and Pope Joan and the worst place to go canamping. Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/92WJYpz" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/92WJYpz</a>

Episode 83: Pokey Mans

In an episode with nothing related even to Star Wars, the Scrubs discuss Spartan racing, Starship Troopers, and Skyrim the campaign style board game. Starship Troopers is at least space themed, right?  Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

In an episode with nothing related even to Star Wars, the Scrubs discuss Spartan racing, Starship Troopers, and Skyrim the campaign style board game. Starship Troopers is at least space themed, right? Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/92WJYpz" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/92WJYpz</a>

Episode 82: This Is the BS Round

Congratulations to Travis, randomly drawn winner of the prize of dubious value of guesting on the podcast! With Travis along for the ride, we discuss park runs, backpacking, and board games.  Timestamps: [00:00:33] Intro starts | [00:00:37] Intro derailed| [00:10:00] Intro finally concludes, Fitwest related content begins | [00:55:00] Geekway and board games Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

Congratulations to Travis, randomly drawn winner of the prize of dubious value of guesting on the podcast! With Travis along for the ride, we discuss park runs, backpacking, and board games. Timestamps: [00:00:33] Intro starts | [00:00:37] Intro derailed| [00:10:00] Intro finally concludes, Fitwest related content begins | [00:55:00] Geekway and board games Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/92WJYpz" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/92WJYpz</a>

Episode 81: Who Drives a Dumpster Fire? (with Fitwest winner Travis)

The cast recaps the glory of the Midwest Scrubdown 2: The Empire Scrubs Your Back with tournament winner Will Scott. And also there's some fresh centaur content.

The cast recaps the glory of the Midwest Scrubdown 2: The Empire Scrubs Your Back with tournament winner Will Scott. And also there's some fresh centaur content.

Episode 80: Scooty Puff Jr (with Scrubdown 2 Winner Will Scott)

The Scrubs are fueled by free desserts, and ready to wrap up the story of the SWRPG campaign.  Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

The Scrubs are fueled by free desserts, and ready to wrap up the story of the SWRPG campaign. Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/92WJYpz" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/92WJYpz</a>

Episode 79: The Dress Rehearsal Was Better (SWRPG Part 4)

The Scrubs are alive, after all contracting COVID at Worlds, and after a brief reminiscence on Adepticon, we're ready to continue the tale of SWRPG. Timestamps: [00:02:00] Worlds | [00:15:00] SWRPG  Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

The Scrubs are alive, after all contracting COVID at Worlds, and after a brief reminiscence on Adepticon, we're ready to continue the tale of SWRPG. Timestamps: [00:02:00] Worlds | [00:15:00] SWRPG Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/92WJYpz" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/92WJYpz</a>

Episode 78: Do Viruses Have Instincts? (SWRPG Part 3)

The Scrubs relate the epic adventure of their Star Wars RPG characters, and discuss some of the narrative strategies and game mechanics used by Clint to keep things entertaining and at least more on track than a Scrubcast opening.  It's almost Fitwest Scrub April Challenge time, so if you want to participate make sure you get in the Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

The Scrubs relate the epic adventure of their Star Wars RPG characters, and discuss some of the narrative strategies and game mechanics used by Clint to keep things entertaining and at least more on track than a Scrubcast opening. It's almost Fitwest Scrub April Challenge time, so if you want to participate make sure you get in the Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/92WJYpz" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/92WJYpz</a>

Episode 77: The Lack of Rails Was Pre-Established (SWRPG Part 2)

If you've been thinking about giving the most recent Star Wars Roleplaying Game from FFG a try, hang on til about halfway through this thing, and we'll get around to starting to tell you about our experiences with it!

If you've been thinking about giving the most recent Star Wars Roleplaying Game from FFG a try, hang on til about halfway through this thing, and we'll get around to starting to tell you about our experiences with it!

Episode 76: A Discussion of Various Liquids (also SWRPG Part 1)

Clint wrecked our content plan by being absent, so we're going rogue, and talking about...wire sheathing? And plausible zombies and eels. And the arrival of metal objective markers! If you want to pick up your order at World's please contact us. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

Clint wrecked our content plan by being absent, so we're going rogue, and talking about...wire sheathing? And plausible zombies and eels. And the arrival of metal objective markers! If you want to pick up your order at World's please contact us. Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/92WJYpz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/92WJYpz</a>

Episode 75: Have You Done Anything Recently?

The Scrubs ramble with the official winner of the Fitwest Scrub Challenge prize of dubious value. We learn about long days, bees, and trains, and get a casual European player's perspective on the new AMG changes.  Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

The Scrubs ramble with the official winner of the Fitwest Scrub Challenge prize of dubious value. We learn about long days, bees, and trains, and get a casual European player's perspective on the new AMG changes.  Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/92WJYpz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/92WJYpz</a>

Episode 74: The Actual Winner with TsukinoOokami

A podcast about X-Wing the Miniatures Game by 4 members of the St. Louis Arch Alliance X-Wing community.

The Midwest Scrubcast

Special guest and fellow Arch Alliance member Mark Myers joins the cast to take on some topics that hit close to home for him and (most of) the rest of us. Where do you find the balance between fun and winning, especially as a competitive player?  Timestamps - Self-imposed restrictions: Mark [00:01:45], Matt [00:12:50], Dan [00:22:15], Clint [00:30:10], Emily [00:45:00]. Flying what you love [00:50:30]. Rey/Poe and the tribulations of two-ship lists [01:04:00]

Special guest and fellow Arch Alliance member Mark Myers joins the cast to take on some topics that hit close to home for him and (most of) the rest of us. Where do you find the balance between fun and winning, especially as a competitive player?  Timestamps - Self-imposed restrictions: Mark [00:01:45], Matt [00:12:50], Dan [00:22:15], Clint [00:30:10], Emily [00:45:00]. Flying what you love [00:50:30]. Rey/Poe and the tribulations of two-ship lists [01:04:00]

Episode 6: Self-Imposed Restrictions and Flying What You Love

Fresh from a good showing by Arch Alliance at the St. Louis Grand Championships, the cast members report back on Warfaire Weekend. Special guest Tim Oursler fills in for Matt Cary, who lost his voice after co-commentating on the Gold Squadron stream all day Saturday (no big deal).

Fresh from a good showing by Arch Alliance at the St. Louis Grand Championships, the cast members report back on Warfaire Weekend. Special guest Tim Oursler fills in for Matt Cary, who lost his voice after co-commentating on the Gold Squadron stream all day Saturday (no big deal).

Episode 4: A Special St. Louis Grand Championship Edition

The cast ventures deep into the darkest depths of metawing to talk about some ships that have been chronically under-performing throughout Second Edition. Why do they suck? And what if anything might revive them? Timestamps: [00:03:00] General Impressions | [00:04:30] Bottom 5 Countdown to the Worst! | [00:54:30] Worst Performers per Faction | [01:07:00] Honorable Mentions of Terribleness To see the metawing ship type ranking as we referenced it while recording, go here: https://meta.listfortress.com/ships?ranking_start=2018-09-13&amp;ranking_end=2019-12-14&amp;large_tournament_multiplier=true&amp;widespread_use_multiplier=true&amp;use_ranking_data=all&amp;tournament_type=&amp;format_id=&amp;

The cast ventures deep into the darkest depths of metawing to talk about some ships that have been chronically under-performing throughout Second Edition. Why do they suck? And what if anything might revive them? Timestamps: [00:03:00] General Impressions | [00:04:30] Bottom 5 Countdown to the Worst! | [00:54:30] Worst Performers per Faction | [01:07:00] Honorable Mentions of Terribleness To see the metawing ship type ranking as we referenced it while recording, go here: <a href="https://meta.listfortress.com/ships?ranking_start=2018-09-13&amp;ranking_end=2019-12-14&amp;large_tournament_multiplier=true&amp;widespread_use_multiplier=true&amp;use_ranking_data=all&amp;tournament_type=&amp;format_id=&amp;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://meta.listfortress.com/ships?ranking_start=2018-09-13&amp;ranking_end=2019-12-14&amp;large_tournament_multiplier=true&amp;widespread_use_multiplier=true&amp;use_ranking_data=all&amp;tournament_type=&amp;format_id=&amp;</a>

Episode 7: Iterations of Suck

The cast visits a few more hot topics in X-Wing game mechanics, and then joins the rest of the world in giddy fangirling over Aces High (which, it turns out, is a really enjoyable format for local casual tournaments). SPOILER WARNING: stop at the hour mark if you don't want to hear about the Mandalorian. Timestamps: [00:01:00] Sense and Perfect Information | [00:29:00] Bidding | [00:41:00] Final Salvo | [00:51:30] Aces High | [01:05:00] Mandalorian Talk (SPOILERS)

The cast visits a few more hot topics in X-Wing game mechanics, and then joins the rest of the world in giddy fangirling over Aces High (which, it turns out, is a really enjoyable format for local casual tournaments). SPOILER WARNING: stop at the hour mark if you don't want to hear about the Mandalorian. Timestamps: [00:01:00] Sense and Perfect Information | [00:29:00] Bidding | [00:41:00] Final Salvo | [00:51:30] Aces High | [01:05:00] Mandalorian Talk (SPOILERS)

Episode 5: X-Wing Game Design Part 2

The Scrubcast team comes together to question all of FFG's life choices. Or a few of the more contentious ones anyway. We tried to keep it as low sodium and level-headed as possible, focusing on logical arguments and well reasoned suggestions for improvement. Did we succeed? Judge for yourself! Topics covered: [00:02:00] Gas Clouds || [00:19:00] "Fully" Execute || [00:32:00] Regen || [00:52:00] Force 

The Scrubcast team comes together to question all of FFG's life choices. Or a few of the more contentious ones anyway. We tried to keep it as low sodium and level-headed as possible, focusing on logical arguments and well reasoned suggestions for improvement. Did we succeed? Judge for yourself! Topics covered: [00:02:00] Gas Clouds || [00:19:00] "Fully" Execute || [00:32:00] Regen || [00:52:00] Force

Episode 3: X-Wing Game Design Part 1

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.  

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.

Episode 15: I Thought This Podcast Was About X-Wing

With COVID-19 preventing a lot of table time (not to mention in-person recording - sorry about any quality issues!) the scrubs are focusing more on the list-building end of things for this episode. Join us as we delve into the Astromech slot. Will we come up with a reason to use any of these faction-specific named droids that don't see meta table time?  Timestamps: [00:05:30] Ships with Astromech slots | [00:13:00] Rebel Astromechs | [00:20:00] Republic Astromechs | [00:33:00] Resistance Astromechs | [00:50:00] Scum Astromechs | [00:58:00] Generic Astromechs

With COVID-19 preventing a lot of table time (not to mention in-person recording - sorry about any quality issues!) the scrubs are focusing more on the list-building end of things for this episode. Join us as we delve into the Astromech slot. Will we come up with a reason to use any of these faction-specific named droids that don't see meta table time?  Timestamps: [00:05:30] Ships with Astromech slots | [00:13:00] Rebel Astromechs | [00:20:00] Republic Astromechs | [00:33:00] Resistance Astromechs | [00:50:00] Scum Astromechs | [00:58:00] Generic Astromechs

Episode 14: These Aren't The Droids You're Looking For

Since Adepticon is on all of our scrub minds, we decided to take this episode to focus on tournament prep and etiquette for big events: an especially important subject given the recent spread of COVID-19. 

Since Adepticon is on all of our scrub minds, we decided to take this episode to focus on tournament prep and etiquette for big events: an especially important subject given the recent spread of COVID-19.

Episode 13: Perfect Elocution

Emily did some math trying to compare base ship stats across all 7 factions, and she made her dubious co-hosts talk about it with her! But don't worry, we didn't spend the whole hour rattling off numbers and discussing the relative merits of the factions - there's some Boba talk and a roundtable on "how many times do you test a list before you decide if it works" in here too. The stat sheet we were referencing during the math part is here if you’re curious: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nG2ZJn2_N6Euu6wupL2Yn3nPul5KJbrm Timestamps: [00:02:00] Average base stats comparison by faction  | [00:42:00] Boba and Slave 1  | [00:49:00] How long to test a list

Emily did some math trying to compare base ship stats across all 7 factions, and she made her dubious co-hosts talk about it with her! But don't worry, we didn't spend the whole hour rattling off numbers and discussing the relative merits of the factions - there's some Boba talk and a roundtable on "how many times do you test a list before you decide if it works" in here too. The stat sheet we were referencing during the math part is here if you’re curious: <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nG2ZJn2_N6Euu6wupL2Yn3nPul5KJbrm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nG2ZJn2_N6Euu6wupL2Yn3nPul5KJbrm</a> Timestamps: [00:02:00] Average base stats comparison by faction  | [00:42:00] Boba and Slave 1  | [00:49:00] How long to test a list

Episode 12: Math is for Scrubs

Let loose without a responsible adult in the room, the guys have some conversations about...things. Something about the TIE/ba, something about Hyperspace...I'm not even going to timestamp this, have fun!

Let loose without a responsible adult in the room, the guys have some conversations about...things. Something about the TIE/ba, something about Hyperspace...I'm not even going to timestamp this, have fun!

Episode 11: Much Ado About Nothing

Special guest Mark Sandford of Arch Alliance joins the cast to talk about recruitment and community growth as we break down the results of our recent "Why Do You Play X-Wing" poll. A visual representation of the results is available here on the blog: https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/poll-results!-why-do-you-play-x-wing?/ Timestamps: [00:02:00] Poll Results: Why did you start playing X-Wing? | [00:16:00] Mark talks advocating for X-Wing and resources for new players | [00:41:00] What keeps people in the game? 

Special guest Mark Sandford of Arch Alliance joins the cast to talk about recruitment and community growth as we break down the results of our recent "Why Do You Play X-Wing" poll. A visual representation of the results is available here on the blog: <a href="https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/poll-results!-why-do-you-play-x-wing?/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://midwestscrub.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/poll-results!-why-do-you-play-x-wing?/</a> Timestamps: [00:02:00] Poll Results: Why did you start playing X-Wing? | [00:16:00] Mark talks advocating for X-Wing and resources for new players | [00:41:00] What keeps people in the game?

Episode 10: Fostering X-Wing Addictions

The cast reminisce about the previous year, and air their joys and grievances about the recent rules update. Gas clouds have consequences for players! Nantex have consequences for rules references! Timestamps: [00:04:00] 2019 Retrospective - Bests and Worsts of the Year | [00:44:00] Some opinions on the Jan 2020 rules changes

The cast reminisce about the previous year, and air their joys and grievances about the recent rules update. Gas clouds have consequences for players! Nantex have consequences for rules references! Timestamps: [00:04:00] 2019 Retrospective - Bests and Worsts of the Year | [00:44:00] Some opinions on the Jan 2020 rules changes

Episode 9: Not Talking About New Points

Special guest Mark Myers returns to help us ramble around the topic of two-ship lists. Second Edition hasn't exactly encouraged low ship counts, but several of our cast members have spent a lot of time trying to succeed with only two ships on the table. Is it really nothing but pain? Is there a place for it in Second Edition? Does double-repositional ace play constitute an NPE? The answers to these questions may or may not lie ahead!

Special guest Mark Myers returns to help us ramble around the topic of two-ship lists. Second Edition hasn't exactly encouraged low ship counts, but several of our cast members have spent a lot of time trying to succeed with only two ships on the table. Is it really nothing but pain? Is there a place for it in Second Edition? Does double-repositional ace play constitute an NPE? The answers to these questions may or may not lie ahead!

Episode 8: Nothing But Pain

Matt Cary reports back from World's, the surprising results of the top 8 are analyzed, and Dan fills us in on his run to the final table of the Springfield, IL Hyperspace. [00:01:00] Matt's report | [00:27:00] Top 8 | [1:00:00] Springfields

Matt Cary reports back from World's, the surprising results of the top 8 are analyzed, and Dan fills us in on his run to the final table of the Springfield, IL Hyperspace. [00:01:00] Matt's report | [00:27:00] Top 8 | [1:00:00] Springfields

Episode 2: World's 2019 and Other Stories

[Please excuse our sub-par audio quality; we promise it gets better in future episodes!] The Midwest Scrubcast members introduce themselves, discuss what makes a scrub and how to (try) not to be one, and talk lists for the upcoming Hyperspace in Springfield, IL. Timestamps: [00:01:20] Scrubcast host introductions | [00:05:45] Ways to scrub off scrubiness | [00:30:00] Springfield, IL Hyperspace lists | [00:54:00] Worlds and Warfaire Weekend. More information on Warfaire Weekend at https://warfaireweekend.com/. 

[Please excuse our sub-par audio quality; we promise it gets better in future episodes!] The Midwest Scrubcast members introduce themselves, discuss what makes a scrub and how to (try) not to be one, and talk lists for the upcoming Hyperspace in Springfield, IL. Timestamps: [00:01:20] Scrubcast host introductions | [00:05:45] Ways to scrub off scrubiness | [00:30:00] Springfield, IL Hyperspace lists | [00:54:00] Worlds and Warfaire Weekend. More information on Warfaire Weekend at <a href="https://warfaireweekend.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://warfaireweekend.com/</a>.

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