EMERGENCY PODCAST: RIP Worlds, Long Live Grand Tournaments

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EMERGENCY PODCAST: RIP Worlds, Long Live Grand Tournaments

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54 minutes

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Apr 19, 2024

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The podcast crew gets together for a second episode this week to react to the announcement of AMG's new Grand Tournaments.
Join in the podcast discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt

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Apr 19, 2024

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A weekly discussion of the Star Wars: Armada tabletop miniatures game with your hosts Kelorn, FoxOmega44, and JulietWhiskey.

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Polish Masters with Daniel "Black Admiral" Unzeitig: Daniel stayed up with us until the wee hours of the morning to bring you stellar Polish Master coverage on the Armada Podcast. Come listen as one of the best players gives us his thoughts on tournaments, list building, and tank lists! by The Armada Podcast
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Episode 1 TXO and Downsizeit: The pilot episode is finally here! Join us as we talk to Ben AKA Downsizeit about the Texas Open and the state of the Armada competitive meta! by The Armada Podcast
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Episode 2 UK Worlds Qualifier and Jammers: Jammers joins us from across the pond as we ponder the murky fog of the UK Worlds Qualifiers top 4, grapple with the state of bids in competitive Armada, and discuss the updated Hera. Join in the discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt by The Armada Podcast
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Texas Open Series Championship with Jaypalmany: Jaypalmany joins us as we break down his win at the Texas Series Open Championship and how the meta appears to be evolving once again. by The Armada Podcast
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Episode 3 How to Fix Armada w/ Truthiness (Part 1 of 2): Truthiness from Blissfully Ignorant Gaming joins us in part 1 of a 2 part series on how to fix what's perceived to be wrong with Armada! Visit Truthi and friends at Blissfully Ignorant Gaming: https://www.blissfullyignorantgaming.com/ Join in the discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt by The Armada Podcast
54 min listen
Episode 4 How to Fix Armada w/ Truthiness (Part 2 of 2): Truthiness from Blissfully Ignorant Gaming joins us in part 2 of a 2 part series on how to fix what's perceived to be wrong with Armada! Visit Truthi and friends at Blissfully Ignorant Gaming: https://www.blissfullyignorantgaming.com/ Join in the discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt by The Armada Podcast
60 min listen
Episode 7 Lone Star Open Day Two: Ian Ellison, TO of Lone Star Open, joins the podcast crew to talk about the two day LSO event. This Episode we cover Day Two and our conclusions from LSO! by The Armada Podcast
80 min listen
Ranking Rebel and Imperial Commanders with Shyvalry: Fox and Kelorn hang out with Shyvalry as we rank the Imperial and Rebel commanders before having a knockdown drag out fight about the proper way to roast Marshmallows. by The Armada Podcast
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SSD Mayhem in the VWC with IcedBecker: Things get spicy as Icedbecker joins us to talk SSDs, the Vassal World Cup swiss phase, Mar Tuk, and Giant Hairy Australian Spiders. Fox pulls out a unicorn as Kelorn's arachnophobia goes on full blast and Whiskey can't stop giggling. by The Armada Podcast
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Polish Worlds Qualifer, LCQ, and Thankful Truthi: Our thanksgiving episode includes CPT Tightpants himself, joining us once again to bust his nuggets on the wild European meta from the Polish Worlds Qualifier. A big shout out to Realveers who gave us a lot of background information from this tournament. We also talk about the Last chance qualifier and how thankful we are to be a part of the Armada Community. by The Armada Podcast
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Episode 6 Lone Star Open Day One: Ian Ellison, TO of Lone Star Open, joins the podcast crew to talk about the two day LSO event. This Episode we cover Day one, next episode will cover Day 2 and our conclusions! Day one Lists: https://tabletop.to/lonestar-open-2022-day-1/lists See the Day One top table games here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69TMyxkqa6c Link to the current Armada Tournament Rules: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce432b1f9d2be000134d8ae/t/623b862ee4f60b17eefccf6a/1648068144009/SWM_Tournament_Regulations.pdf Join in the discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt by The Armada Podcast
54 min listen
Episode 5 Bridging the Gap - Newer vs Experienced: This week the Armada Podcast crew talks amongst themselves about how to build competitive fleets and what elements you should think about while designing your fleet and putting it on the table for the first time. Join in the discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt by The Armada Podcast
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Karneck Answers All the Questions: Karneck drops by to talk to us about the upcoming Worlds Qualifiers at the Saint Laurent Open and Golden State Games and chats with us about everything rules in armada! by The Armada Podcast
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List Building Strategies and Unpopular Commanders with Geek19: Geek19 from the cannot get your ship out blog and the unamed armada podcast stops by to chat about how to build lists and unpopular commanders in various factions. by The Armada Podcast
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Golden State Games with Patrick: Kelorn and Whiskey are back as Patrick, winner of Golden State Games, joins us to discuss the two day tournament in the Bay Area! by The Armada Podcast
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Episode 9 Hannover World Qualifier: Truthiness joins us again as we discuss the Hannover Open World Qualifier from July 31st. Listen in as we break down the Top 8, discuss the European meta, and laugh it up in Hot Take 30! by The Armada Podcast
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Episode 8 International Team Competition: Cylindrical Bobcat from the West Coast Ignition Kings of Swiss stops by to chat about their exciting end to the ITC against Kelorn and Fox from Republic of Texas. by The Armada Podcast
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Gencon Top 8 with John the True from Ion Radio: John from Ion Radio joins us as we discuss what worked and what didn't in the top 8 at the Gencon Worlds Qualifier! by The Armada Podcast
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Republic and Separatist Commander Rankings with Ta5erface: Ta5erface joins us as we discuss our commander rankings for the Clone wars factions and pickle juice is NOT refreshing. by The Armada Podcast
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Utah Open, OutboundFlight, and Opinion Whiplash: Outbound flight joins us as we talk about his win at the Utah Open, along with our various and varied Armada Podcast shenanigans. Topped off by some crazy breakfast food opinions. by The Armada Podcast
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Vassal World Cup Pod Phase by The Armada Podcast
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The Italian Worlds Qualifier with IrishMadcat: This week IrishMadcat stops by to give us his impressions of the Italian Worlds Qualifier held in Rome the same weekend as NOVA Open! Tune in for some great analysis and Moralo Eval talk! by The Armada Podcast
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NOVA Worlds Qualifier with Joshua Gorhau: Join us as we talk about Joshua's NOVA Worlds Qualifier win with an interesting and unconvential Romodi Interdictor list! by The Armada Podcast
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Vassal World Cup Week 2 with Biggs: Biggs drops by to talk about cooking... and a little bit of Aramada as we dive into the results from Week 1 of the Vassal World Cup as well as talk about ArmchairJedi's amazing spreadsheet with the meta stats from the full pod phase field! by The Armada Podcast
70 min listen
Ohnaka's Celebrity Deathmatch: Geek19 joins us as we talk about our Caster team's adventure's in the Ohnaka's Celebrity Deathmatch with frivolous abandon. We round out the episode with some absolutely horrific Dr Pepper hottakes. by The Armada Podcast
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Gencon Day One with Ken from Ion Radio: Ken from Ion Radio joins us to talk about Day one of the Gencon Worlds Qualifier, what the meta was like, and his foray into making content for Armada on Youtube! by The Armada Podcast
73 min listen
The Art of MSU with Jason Dedrick: FoxOmega is joined by our guest Jason Dedrick to discuss MSU style fleets. We dive into fleetbuilding concepts, the why behind this style, and decide once and for all: how to properly take care of leaves in your lawn. Join in the discussion on discord at: https://discord.gg/3StPRmsFSt by The Armada Podcast
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Skycake talks LVO and the West Coast Meta: The vassal world cup updates are thin on the ground this week as we pivot to the two day extravaganza at the Las Vegas Open worlds qualifier. The winner, Skycake, joins us to give us the good news about his lord and savior Mar Tuuk with an epic Oscar winning speech. The question, though, is what do we expect at worlds in March? by The Armada Podcast
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A VWC Roadtrip with the Armchair Podcast: ArmchairJedi joins us again as we recap the swiss rounds of the Vassal World Cup, talk about what's been climbing to the top of swiss, and our predictions for the exciting finale of the the Vassal World Cup. Along the way our customary derailments result in mass chaos of topics and shenanigans. by The Armada Podcast
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May the Fourth be with... Crabbok?!: May the Fourth be with you! Joining us on this special episode is YouTube rock star and all-around great guy Crabbok. We delve into his thoughts on the game and the community and talk a little about RR2's impact on the future of Armada. Are Ackbar Nebulons as OP as everyone thinks? And is seltzer just loud water? by The Armada Podcast
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EMERGENCY PODCAST: RIP Worlds, Long Live Grand Tournaments

EMERGENCY PODCAST: RIP Worlds, Long Live Grand Tournaments

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