Midwest Scrub

04/07/2024

The Scrubcast and our Fitwest winner react to the news that the game that brought us and our blog and our podcast together is now at its end of official development.

What, the Scrubcast talking about X-Wing? Fitwest winner Conor returns for his slightly more legitimate prize of dubious value, which ends up being a chance to wax nostalgic about X-Wing. The news of X-Wing's end of official development gives rise to an emotionally complicated mix of grievance and h...

30/05/2024

We finally managed to get another podcast episode out, mostly about the board games we played at the Geekway to the West convention 2 weeks ago. If you haven't been to Geekway, especially if you're local to St Louis, we recommend!

The winner of the prize of dubious value for the Fitwest Scrub April is very belatedly announced. And the Scrubs review the variety of board games that we played at Geekway to the West board game convention.

18/04/2024

As we discuss on the latest podcast episode, the Scrubdown is postponed to an unknown future date due to the venue "moving" to a yet undisclosed location.

We were holding off announcing this hoping the new location would materialize, but it has not. Stay tuned for someday when we figure out what to do about this...

The most important information in this episode is that the Scrubdown is postponed to an unknown date, maybe this summer, it depends on when our venue mysteriously returns or we break down and find a different one. The less important information is what we did at Adepticon, stuff about dinosaurs, the...

26/10/2023

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/midwest-scrubcast/episodes/Episode-86-A-Controlled-Burn-e2b0vnp

I think I've been forgetting to post episodes here for a bit, so here's our latest! Make sure you listen past the usual nonsense to our discussion of Senjutsu, a new tabletop game that we think would be a good fit for anyone who likes strategy-focused tabletop play. It's not specifically like X-Wing in any way, but it kinda scratches that same strategical dueling itch, trying to out-guess and outmaneuver your opponent, kind of thing.

If you're a tabletop gamer, which we have to assume you probably are, check out the soon-to-be-releasing game Senjutsu, which Clint describes about 40 minutes into the episode, it's a really neat Samurai-themed concept. Senjutsu website: https://www.stoneswordgames.com/senjutsu Senjutsu overview vid...

23/10/2023

For those who like X-Wing content, St Louis local Biophysical has resurrected his Starfighter Mafia blog with an insightful discussion of 2.5 list building strategies:

Wow, almost 4 years since the last post, yet here we are… Introduction: I won Crossroads Classic VI in October 2023. I'm happy to have wo...

03/06/2023

Congrats to Travis, the randomly drawn winner of the Fitwest prize of dubious value! Thanks for joining us!

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....

08/05/2023

Highlights from the Scrubdown 2! Congratulations again to winner Will Scott, and runner up Lexi Bell!

We had a lot of fun doing this tournament, and we had so much positive feedback, which was very rewarding and makes all the work worthwhile. Thanks to everyone who came and made this weekend amazing!

08/05/2023

07/05/2023

Follow along with top cut of the Midwest Scrubdown 2 live on Gold Squadron Podcast!

The Midwest Scrubdown - Swiss

07/05/2023

If you're playing in our Legacy 2.0 side event at the Scrubdown today, make sure you build your list using https://xwing-legacy.com/, in the Standard format (which is basically "Extended").

If you made the cut, pairings and scenario for round 1 should be available on rollbetter, and good luck today! Doors are at 10 and we are aiming to start by 10:30.

YASB - Xwing 2.0 Legacy is a simple, fast, and easy to use squad builder for X-Wing Miniatures by Fantasy Flight Games.

06/05/2023

The Scrubdown 2: The Empire Scrubs Your Back is live! Follow along on Gold Squadron Podcast and the Miniature Market Youtube stream.
https://www.twitch.tv/goldsquadronpodcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht-d-khiVO4

This is the official Stream of the Gold Squadron Podcast. Bringing you live X-wing games from Regionals, Worlds, and more!

04/05/2023

Just in case you need to make a last minute list decision for the Scrubdown based on faction prizes, here are the top in faction painted ships! The FO ship is by St Louis X-Wing player Tim Wertin, and the rest were done by the Scrubcast members themselves.

16/04/2023

Prize support plan for the Scrubdown has been finalized, and details are now on the blog post! Once again, the top prize is a Saberforge lightsaber. (We don't have images for the top in faction ships because we're still working on the paint jobs, but we'll share some of those once they're done.)

And if you haven't signed up yet, get to it!

Hello X-Wing Players! Join the Midwest Scrubcast as we host the second instance of our potentially annual Extended X-Wing tournament on May 6-7, 2023! Once again, Miniature Market at 13380 Manchest…

02/04/2023

The Midwest Scrubdown 2 is happening! May 6 -7, the first weekend in May. Signups are open now. Come eat cookies with us and play those Extended ships you've been missing!

Hello X-Wing Players! Join the Midwest Scrubcast as we host the second instance of our potentially annual Extended X-Wing tournament on May 6-7, 2023! Once again, Miniature Market at 13380 Manchest…

22/03/2023

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/midwest-scrubcast/episodes/Episode-77-The-Lack-of-Rails-Was-Pre-Established-SWRPG-Part-2-e20qivr

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 par...

10/03/2023

A Midwest Scrub blog post? In this economy?

It seems that an old and familiar enemy has made its way back into the X-Wing game despite the efforts of developers to see it gone – the Points Fortress. For the uninitiated, points fortress…

16/02/2023

In honor of perpetual snuggling compartment resident Matt Cary's birthday, we finally have a new episode for you!

https://anchor.fm/midwest-scrubcast/episodes/Episode-75-Have-You-Done-Anything-Recently-e1v062m

Anyone who ordered objective tokens and will be at World's, please let us know if you want to pick them up from us there.

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22/12/2022

I'm getting a lot of "Out for Delivery" notifications for stuff that I ordered 3 weeks or more ago. And today is the worst day for them to have to deliver. Good luck delivery folks, your TaunTaun might freeze before you reach the first marker, though.

13/12/2022

Thanks to Drew Brody for joining us on this very belated episode!

Our guest today is the backup winner of the Fitwest Scrub October Challenge randomly drawn prize of dubious value, Drew Brody, whose excellent photographs are a joy to us all during Fitwest season. Featuring the surprising power of walking to keep your organs from exploding, and the promised centaur...

10/11/2022

https://anchor.fm/midwest-scrubcast/episodes/Episode-71-George-R--Not-to-be-Confused-with-Jar-Jar-e1qh2if

The Fitwest Scrub October Challenge randomly drawn winner of the prize of dubious value is announced! Also, the Scrubs disagree philosophically with SOS, and Matt shares what he's learned about the possibly no longer cannon legend of Jar Jar's father. Timestamps: [00:02:00] Fitwest October Wrapup |....

08/11/2022

We got a provider for the metal objective tokens! There is a caveat that it the tokens are now part of the Isoplane Initiative which is charity to help folks from other countries get to X-Wing Worlds. This means that one side of the token will have Isoplane logo-ing on one side. We are keeping the Dumpster Fire for our side, but will add lettering to that side that says "The Midwest Scrubcast". If that breaks the deal for, please let us know.

27/10/2022

https://anchor.fm/midwest-scrubcast/episodes/Episode-70-Twas-the-Night-Before-Sparta-with-Johnn-e1pqarr

The Scrubs welcome back special crew member Johnn (with 2 N's) to regale our listeners with the tales of our recent Fitwest-themed adventures. Also, Matt hates droids, and Clint's burning curiosity about Johnn is finally satisfied. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

18/10/2022

In this article, we wrap up our evaluations of the faction points changes with the Separatist faction.

Hello, X-Wing world. If you are a fan of the blog, you may have noticed that we have been on hiatus for a little bit. For that, I apologize. Each of us have had our own reactions to the change from…

13/10/2022

https://anchor.fm/midwest-scrubcast/episodes/Episode-69-Teeheehee-e1p6sp0

The Scrubs share some Fitwest adventures, and give positive recommendations for bidets. Stick around til at least minute 41 for the bad news about the scrub objective markers... Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/92WJYpz

12/10/2022

Hello Scrubcast fans. I have some unfortunate news. We placed the order for the metal Dumpster Fire objective tokens last week, but then our supplier backed out. THIS SUCKS. We reached out to another supplier that we knew made metal objective tokens, but they declined citing that they do not do commissions. THAT SUCKS. So unfortunately, it does not look like the tokens will be made. We will start making the refunds within the week.

11/10/2022

We evaluate the Republic factions points changes in the article. Republic might have been the most challenging to make changes as they have so many somewhat similar chassis.

Hello, X-Wing world. If you are a fan of the blog, you may have noticed that we have been on hiatus for a little bit. For that, I apologize. Each of us have had our own reactions to the change from…

04/10/2022

In this blog we look at the First Order faction!

Hello, X-Wing world. If you are a fan of the blog, you may have noticed that we have been on hiatus for a little bit. For that, I apologize. Each of us have had our own reactions to the change from…