Space Cats Peace Turtles
Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson
An Unofficial Twilight Imperium and Strategy Board Game Podcast
- 2 hours 8 minutes447: Every Relic RANKED!
This week it's a full panel with Hunter, JadiimJedi, and Blasto sitting down for a full on SCPT Ranking episode! We go in depth the hot takes you crave and there is even some decent information for beginner's that might be missing some of the finer details. Like all of our ranking episodes I'd like you to make sure to take it all super serious and if you disagree please tell everyone you know. See you in Florida this weekend!
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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
11 March 2026, 6:45 am - 1 hour 31 minutes446: Saint of Swords and Sickening Lurch Beginner's Guide
We're closing up our initial look at the Thunder's Edge expansion with our first look at the final two Mahact Kings. Hunter and Alec saved two very solid options for last as the Saint of Swords can hit like a truck full of swords and Lurch is just the most interesting option if you like playing underdog factions that have extremely unique options available to them. Very excited to get into our next era of Twilight's Fall coverage!
Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
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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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
4 March 2026, 6:00 am - 2 hours 6 minutes445: Deepwrought Scholarate Beginner's Guide
We've got Jadiim Jedi in the hot seat this week and we're diving deep into the noble waters of our brand new fish faction! These guys are great and really dig them a lot so this one of those feel good episodes where we just talk about how much we love playin' as our new fishy friends. Download this episode and GO TO SCHOOL.
Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th
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Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
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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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
25 February 2026, 6:56 am - 2 hours 5 minutes444: Twilight's Fall Unit Upgrades Analyzed
The unit upgrades are the hottest deck this side of the Twilight's Fall, and this week Hunter and Blasto are going to walk you through exactly how these cards DEFINE the beautiful game that is Twilight's Fall. In the rundown section Hunter muses on what old Factions he's most looking forward to covering and announces how future guides will be prioritized in the years to come!
Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th
Tickets here:
Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
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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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
18 February 2026, 7:24 am - 1 hour 28 minutes443: Coexistence Overview and Rules Questions! (WITH ANSWERS)
You've got questions, we've got answers. This week we've got Andcat back on the show and he has convened with a secret cabal of Rules Lawyers in order to dig deep on one of the big new rules concepts that you need to know in advance of the next big faction guide! This is a weird nitty gritty episode but I feel like it's fascinating if you wanna jump into the muck of new interactions that frequently come up. Consider this episode a preview of the hotly anticipated living rules reference update!
Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th
Tickets here:
Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
Tickets here:
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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
11 February 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 36 minutes442: Il Na Viroset and El Nen Janovet Beginner's Guide
Hunter and Alec are back on the case! Taking on the next two Mahact kings is quite the roller coaster today. Il Na Viroset is a real star of the new mode and I feel confident you'll really dig them but El Nen Janovet is a whole other story....
Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th
Tickets here:
Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
Tickets here:
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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
4 February 2026, 6:00 am - 2 hours 13 minutes441: Last Bastion Beginner's Guide
I'm so excited to talk about this faction. Last Bastion is exactly the kind of faction that I love to champion! They're kinda bad but also extremely good given certain situations and contexts, in this episode Hunter and JadiimJedi are gonna dig right into those exact situations. They're the good guys!
Hunter is Headlining his first comedy club weekend in Minneapolis Feb. 27th and 28th
Tickets here:
Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
Tickets here:
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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
28 January 2026, 6:00 am - 2 hours 13 minutes440: Twilight's Fall Ability Deck Overview (Part 2 of 2)
Hunter and Blasto have returned to finish what they started! We've got another two hour barn burner here for you as the two of them sit down to read through and analyze the rest of the Twilight's Fall Ability deck. It's deep stuff here!
Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
Tickets here:
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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
21 January 2026, 5:00 pm - 1 hour 43 minutes439: Thunder's Edge Planets and System Tiles
This week we've got Alec back in the chair NOT talking about Twilight's Fall stuff, instead it's time to put on our cartography glasses and dig deep on all of the beautiful new hexagons Santa gave us! We also spend a bit in the beginning discussing Leonardo DiCraprio so don't get spooked by that.
Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
Tickets here:
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/
Art by Sun Sanders
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
14 January 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 41 minutes438: 2026 Premiere (Featuring EJ Sanders and the Galactic Census Results)
Welcome to 2026! This week we've got a business episode with EJ Sanders as our guest so you can expect some silly stuff. We talk about a lot of our goals for SCPT this year and some of our future events before digging into the results of the first annual GALACTIC CENSUS. This is a new feature of the patreon I'll do at the end of every year where we poll the audience on favorite faction, favorite way to play, and favorite moments from the year in Twilight Imperium. Think of it as a community year in review. After the ad Break stay tuned for Hunter as he breaks down this year's changes to the Patreon structure and tier features.
Come to the Orlando Florida Tournament March 13-15
Tickets here:
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/
Art by Sun
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
7 January 2026, 6:00 am - 2 hours 32 minutes437: (2025 Faction Tier List) The one billion percent essential, always honest, unequaled, unrivaled, indeterminate, obedient, eloquent, obstinate, tubular, cerebral, daring, loquacious, just, monst-
It's faction tier list time! Our first of the Thunder's Edge era! What a time to be alive!
To celebrate the end of 2025 Hunter, Blasto, and JadiimJedi convene to get embark on the first of what will be a series of tier list episodes where we really get to the heart of exactly how good every single faction in Twilight Imperium is. This is a traditional tier list that we tackled in alphabetical order if you want to jump to a particular faction I've given you chapter markers for every faction! Happy New Year!
Signups for our first online Thunder's Edge tournament are LIVE!
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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/
Art by Sun
To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/
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