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Space Cats Peace Turtles

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

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 - 403: How to get into Twilight Imperium in 2025
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05/14/25 • 104 min

This week we continue an SCPT tradition and provide advice for the listeners out there in the congregation that do not actually play TI. It's a great time to get into this game! Especially before the homework INTENSIFIES maybe? In this silly episode Matt and Hunter walk you through all of the different angles you can approach Twilight Imperium from. It's a newcomer invitation with a lot of our go to common sense advice baked in. In the second half of the episode the boys audit themselves and explain exactly how the business works. It's not complicated lol but you wanted to know!

You can buy tickets to the Portland Intergalactical Tournament here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-twilight-imperium-intergalactical-tournament-portland-tickets-1350685680229

You can join the Intergalactical Discord here:

https://discord.gg/j5FwYsRW99

Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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Space Cats Peace Turtles - 319: This Imperium Life

319: This Imperium Life

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10/04/23 • 71 min

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 Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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Space Cats Peace Turtles - 399: Super Guide to the Strategy Phase
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04/16/25 • 161 min

Okay, this is it. This is the last of the Super Guides. It's a wild one and it's a long one! Matt and Hunter conquer the most important phase of the game and wind through every Strategy Card in the game. The discussion is wide reaching and is a great focal point for new and old listeners. We hope you enjoy it, and we hope you are excited for what happens next on the show. Thanks for listening!

Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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Happy New year! We're back for a solo Hunter episode where he's gonna tell you about an exciting new project from SCPT. We're starting a North American cross-country in-person Twilight Imperium Tournament. It's crazy, It's exciting, It's wild! In this episode Hunter is going to break down how you can sign up for it and what exactly it is. We'll touch on some of the rules and start the ball rolling on a project that has been cooking for a very long time. See you in Minneapolis March 28-30!

Check out our Patreon here for some new benefits! https://www.patreon.com/spacecatspeaceturtles

Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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Space Cats Peace Turtles - Ep 104: Barony of Letnev Strategy Guide
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10/15/19 • 126 min

After a week of delay, we’re ready to present our Barony of Letnev Strategy Guide! Hardly as straight-forward as the Federation of Sol, The Barony require a bit more planning to find success. Unarguably powerful, they are still surprisingly hard to actually win with. So take a listen, and discover your safest use of the most massive fleets in the galaxy.

3:27 Barony of Letnev Overview

28:41 Early Game

1:12:20 Tech Paths

1:23:11 Trading

1:28:30 Mid Game

1:39:08 Pre-Errata (or Cheesy Bread of Letnev, by imsen)

1:47:05 Episode 103 Errata (Patreon Tourney 2020)

1:52:48 Episode 102 Errata (Can It Rex?)

Join in on the discussion here, on our Discord, or at our Board Game Geek Guild. Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. And send us your in game moments for Play of the Week! and This Imperium Life at [email protected]

We appreciate all of the feedback and discussion, but there are more ways you can contribute! If you want to join in and decide future games and topics to cover, visit our Patreon

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Space Cats Peace Turtles - Ep 099: Why You Should Play Dune

Ep 099: Why You Should Play Dune

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09/11/19 • 53 min

Our copies of Dune finally came in, and we’ve been getting a lot of questions about what makes our second game so special. So we thought we should take the time and break down all the reasons we’re excited about Dune by Gale Force Nine, and how we hope to be able to start covering it on our show!

Join in on the discussion here, on our Discord, or at our Board Game Geek Guild. Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. And send us your in game moments for Play of the Week! and This Imperium Life at [email protected]

We appreciate all of the feedback and discussion, but there are more ways you can contribute! If you want to join in and help us organize and record more games and tournaments, visit our Patreon

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Space Cats Peace Turtles - Ep 095: Dune/Root GenCon Impressions

Ep 095: Dune/Root GenCon Impressions

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08/13/19 • 64 min

While at GenCon, we had the opportunity to sit down with designers Bill Eberle of Dune and Patrick Leder of Root. We spoke with them about their upcoming releases and about the ways fans interact with their games. We also got to see Dune played and have been playing a fair amount of Root ourselves, and in this episode you’ll hear our first impressions on both games.

Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

Join in on the discussion here, on our Discord, or at our Board Game Geek Guild. Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. And send us your in game moments for Play of the Week! and This Imperium Life at [email protected]

We appreciate all of the feedback and discussion, but there are more ways you can contribute! If you want to join in and help us organize and record more games and tournaments, visit our Patreon

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The year is over and it’s time to RANK THINGS. We wanted to talk about how this year felt for all the different factions and give you a DEFINITIVE list of how they compare against one another. This is the most serious episode ever and our opinions are final. We are nerd masters and we have thought many eons longer than your tiny human peon brain has. FEAR US. No errata!

Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

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Space Cats Peace Turtles - Ep 062: Holiday Spectacular Preamble

Ep 062: Holiday Spectacular Preamble

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12/20/18 • 59 min

SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Prepare yourself for the high octane action of probably something like 12 to 14 hours of TWILIGHT IMPERIUM! This week’s episode is a bit of a filler, but for those of you who have never tuned in to a streamed game we’re here to convince you to join us! We play some normal TI, but also some very strange TI, and this episode is all about breaking down those strange games. It’s a strange episode, but IT’S THE HOLIDAYS and we’re going to stream literally all day on Dec. 23...so bear with us...

Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

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Space Cats Peace Turtles - 383: 2024 Holiday Spectacular (Some Sonic the Hedgehog 3 spoilers)
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12/30/24 • 47 min

This week the boys talk about their favorite presents, 2024 in film, and the board game Stationfall. Happy Holidays! We'll see you in the New Year!

Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/

To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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Space Cats Peace Turtles currently has 424 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Leisure, Hobbies, Games and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Space Cats Peace Turtles?

The episode title '313: Spirit Island Wrap Up' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Space Cats Peace Turtles is 89 minutes.

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Episodes of Space Cats Peace Turtles are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of Space Cats Peace Turtles was released on Sep 13, 2017.

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