Sith Takers Snap Shots

Episode 262 - It's only wafer thin! This week the cast are joined by special guest Louis Leong to talk about his awesome wafer thin objective markers, his collaboration with Cog'o'Two to bring us Battle of Yavin themed acrylic dial covers, and his work with the Isoplane Initiative! We round out the show discussing last weekends Worlds Open qualifier from Quebec, Canada - the St Lawrence Open! Find objective tokens and Battle of Yavin themed acrylic dial covers here: https://www.pewtinni.com/pewtinni-parts Find more information on the Isoplane Initative here: https://www.pewtinni.com/isoplane-initiative ST LAWRENCE OPEN worlds qualifier https://tabletop.to/lawrence-open-2022/ladder Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and special guest Louis Leong Producer - Tim Recorded 17/10/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Ali G Indahouse - Wicked Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 261 - LGT 2022 1st second The second of two shows covering the London Worlds Open Qualifier - last week was 2nd placed Dimitris this week we have the Champ, Tim Gronneberg, to talk to us about his list, games, how he plays X-wing and other general chit chat! London GT https://listfortress.com/tournaments/3317 Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim with special guest Tim Gronneberg Producer - Tim Recorded 10/10/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - The Reflex - Duran Duran Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 260 - LGT 2022 2nd first The first of two shows covering the London Worlds Open Qualifier - this week the cast is joined by Dimitris 'Old Jester' Stavropoulos of TNX Squadron who may have finished 2nd but gets to talk to us first! We chat to Dimitris about his list and his games including the final vs the eventual Champion Tim Gronneberg (who will be on next week). We also chat about the recent GSP Galaxies qualifier, Mustafar, and to Tim about his Worlds Warm-up event from last weekend! London GT https://listfortress.com/tournaments/3317 Mustafar GSP Galaxies https://listfortress.com/tournaments/3312 Spudgun's Worlds Warm-up https://listfortress.com/tournaments/3314 Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim with special guest Dimitris Stavropoulos Producer - Tim Recorded 03/10/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Frank Sinatra - My Way (2008 Remastered) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 259 - Hot Shots Part Deux Rich is joined by Ben and Tim to chat about the Spoilers for Hotshots & Aces 2! We discuss the recently spoiled cards and chat about new and old pilots arriving in 2.5 real soon! Cast - Rich, Ben and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 26/09/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Tina Turner & Rod Stewart - It Takes Two (Official Music Video) I HD REMASTERED Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 258 - But is there time for a cup of Tea? Ben is joined by Rich, Liam and Tim to chat about the latest GSP Galaxies qualifier, Korriban, what did well and what lists made it to the top. Liam and Tim then chat about their lists and games at a recent Charity event at Board in Brum and we round out the show with some general chat on Organised Play! Korriban GSP Galaxies https://tabletop.to/korriban-galaxies-2022-qualifier Ash's Charity Event https://tabletop.to/army-cadets-charity-event Nordic X-wing worlds qualifier https://www.facebook.com/events/768488684304056/ Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 19/09/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue) [Official Music Video] Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 257 - Catching Up Following the summer we have a bit of a catch up show covering a few announcements we may have missed and also what lists the cast are flying! Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 12/09/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Sophie Ellis-Bextor x @Wuh Oh - Hypnotized (Official Music Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 256 - It's Chrispy On Top Three World's Qualifiers for the price of one show! Rich and Ben are joined by Chris 'Chrispy' Patrick to talk about his victory at the Nova Open last weekend. Chrispy took his First Order all the way at the Worlds Open Qualifier and talks to us about some of his games and his list in general. We round out the show with chat on the Dutch Open won by Faan Langelaan running Republic and the Italian Open won by Daniel Alzueta Curto running Rebels! Nova Open info https://tabletop.to/nova-open-2022-xwing-finals/lists Dutch Open info https://tabletop.to/dutch-open-2022/lists Italian Open info https://tabletop.to/sfi-xwing-world-open-qualifier-2022-day-1a/lists https://tabletop.to/sfi-xwing-world-open-qualifier-2022-day-1b/lists https://challonge.com/poi17shn Cast - Rich, Ben and Chris Patrick Producer - Tim Recorded 05/09/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Tinchy Stryder - Number 1 ft. N-Dubz (Official Video) Used without perm

Episode 255 - Canada Crush the XTC Tim and Liam are joined by a member of the XTC 2022 Championship winning Team Canada - Brendon Osmann-Deyman - and Captain of the Runners-up - Oliver Pocknell - of Team England to chat about last weekends X-wing Team Championship Finals! We chat to both about Team selection, what happened in the Group stages and how did each prepare for the finals. We then touch on some interesting results and how the Finals played out to see Canada grab the top spot! Plus Brendon's take on Resistance! Finally congratulations to Canada again! XTC Round Results https://tournamentscheduler.net/schedule/MTMxNDQzMzg3NTY XTC Final standings https://tournamentscheduler.net/schedule/MTMxNDQzMzg3NTY/results XTC lists https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=9CCF3163751730D6!1095&ithint=file%2cxlsx&authkey=!AKHn8iz5Lf8zy3Y Cast - Tim, Liam and special guests Brendon Osmann-Deyman and Oliver Pocknell Producer - Tim Recorded 30/08/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge

Episode 254 - Send Liam Away Tim takes the reins as Ben and Rich are away and is joined by Liam and Special Guest Conor Holmes. We start by talking about a couple of community efforts to help support players in making the trip to Worlds. Firstly Isophane's Isoplane Initiative and then Conor's Send Liam to Worlds Raffle. The second part of the show we chat about the lists in the XTC Finals. What factions are heavily featured and which are on taken by a few teams. We discuss the common themes and maybe the occasional oddity! Good luck to everyone flying in the XTC Finals and the GSP Galaxies event! Isoplane Initiative https://www.hexiledgaming.com/isoplaneinitiative Send Liam to Worlds Raffle https://www.facebook.com/sithtakers/posts/pfbid025Fhyajcs85RMhHEzqbF8SFNFgXrdNd4KAnYoLHLGvbFUkUysEToZT5Zbwc3VXh1pl XTC Finals info: http://thextc.space/ XTC lists https://1drv.ms/x/s!AtYwF3VjMc-ciEeh5_Is-S3_M8t2?e=R3NOSL Cast - Tim, Liam and special guest Conor Holmes Producer - Tim Recorded 23/08/2022 via Dis

Episode 253 - GenCon list chat Ben is joined by Tim and Liam to chat about some of the lists that took part in GenCon 2022. Some of the top lists that made cut but also some that just caught our eye! We round out the show with some chat about events we're going to at Board in Brum over the next few months! Ash's Charity event - 18 September https://www.facebook.com/events/532854024993772/ World's Warm-up - 01 October https://www.facebook.com/events/708041016938667/ Sith Taker Squadrons - 12 November https://www.facebook.com/events/356617819824800/ Cast - Liam, Ben and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 15/08/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Hot Chip - Dancing in the Dark (Live at Glastonbury 2015) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 252 - Hanover Holiday Rich chats to Tim and Ben plus special guests Dave Cromwell and Cormac Higgins following their trip to Germany to play in the Hanover X-wing Worlds Open Qualifier. We find out how everyone got on and how the event went. We then cover GenCon, catch up on the XTC and round out with a little general event chat. You can find lists and results for Heat 1 here: https://tabletop.to/amg-star-wars-2022-world-open-qualifier-star-wars-xwing-heat-1 Your can find lists and results for Heat 2 here: https://tabletop.to/amg-star-wars-2022-world-open-qualifier-star-wars-xwing-heat-2 Top 16 bracket here: https://challonge.com/wkhczt2v?fbclid=IwAR2n1iVCGBToB_43XKX4AL2sCLAKqW6dyGE0h133Jx-FlBHUfu0__RaTMZk You can find the all info for the XTC including lists and streaming schedule here: thextc.space/ Cast - Rich, Ben and Tim with special guests Dave Cromwell and Cormac Higgins Producer - Tim Recorded 08/08/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Ramms

Episode 251 - A lot of nothing In today's episode we reveal details about the 2023 Sith Taker Open, chat about Tabletop.to closing down, GSP Malachor and catch up Tim and Rich on the goings on at the XTC! You can find the all info for the XTC including lists and streaming schedule here: http://thextc.space/ Cast - Rich, Ben and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 25/07/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - The Notorious B.I.G. - Notorious B.I.G. (Official Music Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 250 - Hot News Who's idea was it to record a podcast in the middle of a heat wave! Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim get together for Episode 250 of the Snap Shots podcast! We mainly chat about the news from AMG from ministravaganza but round out the show with some XTC chat! You can find the all info for the XTC including lists and streaming schedule here: http://thextc.space/ Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 18/07/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off (Official Music Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 249 - Resistance chonk What's beefier than Resistance Beef? We chat to Rich about his recent win at Board in Brum with Poe and Y-wings before catching up on some of the action from the first two rounds of the XTC! You can find the all info for the XTC including lists and streaming schedule here: http://thextc.space/ Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 11/07/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Wet Leg - Chaise Longue (Official Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 248 - Kyber Party It's a bumper competitive X-wing episode with the culmination of Season 6 of the Kyber Cup, the Element Games Legends event and the start of the 2022 X-wing Team Champs. Ben chats to Rich about his Top 4 Kyber finish and about the winners list - Chrispy's First Order! We chat to Tim about his win with Republic at the local one dayer and then Tim and Rich fill us in on the action from week 1 at the XTC! You can find the TTT page for Kyber Season 6 results and lists here: https://tabletop.to/kyber-cup-season-6-tournament You can find the TTT page for Element Games Legends results and lists here: https://tabletop.to/element-legends-xwing-june2022 You can find the all info for the XTC including lists and streaming schedule here: http://thextc.space/ Cast - Rich, Ben, and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 04/07/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - C.O.O.L Party · Confidence Man Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 247 - Plummer posts A mixed show where we start off with Rich taking us through recent rulings from the AMG forums, a touch on last weekend's Sallust Galaxies event from GSP and then round out with some early info on the XTC! You can find the TTT page for results and lists here: https://tabletop.to/sullust-galaxies-2022-qualifier Cast - Rich, Ben, and Liam Producer - Tim Recorded 20/06/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereje) (Spanglish Version) (Official Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 246 - Evil Empire This week Rich, Ben and Liam are joined by Tom Reed - a formerly vocal anti-2.5 player - who decided to give it a go at the UK Games Expo and has had a change of heart! Find our how Tom got on, what he thinks about the game and why he's changed his stance on the new version of the game. The second half of the show we catch up with Liam after he's had some time to consider the UK Games Expo. Liam, despite the great start, just missed out on cut, but has learnt from the experience! You can find the TTT page for results and lists here: https://tabletop.to/star-wars-xwing-2022-world-open-qualifier-at-uk-games-expo And you can catch all the streamed games at Firecast Focus here: www.twitch.tv/firecastfocus Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and special guest Tom Reed Producer - Tim Recorded 13/06/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name (Official HD Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 245 - Do you hear that buzz? It's the post-UK Games Expo show and we're joined by the UK Worlds Open Champion Martyn Chivers of the 186th Squadron! We chat to Martyn about his list and games, what the run to 5-1 in Swiss was like! We also catch up with Ben and Tim on how they did and what the buzz around Expo was like! You can find the TTT page to sign up to and register here: https://tabletop.to/star-wars-xwing-2022-world-open-qualifier-at-uk-games-expo And you can catch the all the stream games at Firecast Focus here: www.twitch.tv/firecastfocus Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam, Tim and special guest Martyn Chivers Producer - Tim Recorded 06/06/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Iron Maiden - Aces High (Official Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Episode 244 - UK Games EXPO 2022 Let's go! With only a few days to go till the UK Worlds Open Qualifier at UK Games Expo 2022 we're joined by Head Judge Kris Mitchell to talk about the event. We find out from Kris what we need to do before the event (register on Tabletop.to, print our lists, pack our ships) but also a little more about how the day will run, how to call a Judge and a bit more about the Expo for those who've not been before! You can find the TTT page to sign up to and register here: https://tabletop.to/star-wars-xwing-2022-world-open-qualifier-at-uk-games-expo And you can catch the Live stream at Firecast Focus here: https://www.twitch.tv/firecastfocus We also catch up on some of the news coming out of Star Wars Celebrations and a quick report from Liam from last weekends event at Firestorm Games Newport run by Exiles Squadron. Cast - Ben, Liam, Tim and special guest Kris Mitchell Producer - Tim Recorded 30/05/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro

Episode 243 - All change here! We kick off the episode with a chat with Tim about his trip down South to Excelsior Comics in Bristol for their latest one day event before moving on to the hot news! New points, new rules and new scenarios! What has changed and what does the cast think has improved (or not). How do we think the changes will affect the upcoming World Open Qualifier at UK Games Expo. You can find all the new documents on AMG's website https://www.atomicmassgames.com/xwing-documents Cast - Rich, Ben, Liam and Tim Producer - Tim Recorded 23/05/2022 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Take That - Everything Changes (Official Video) Used without permission - it's just for fun!