Stay On Target | An X-wing Podcast

GOOOOOOD MORNING X-WING!!!! Hey, this is....wait, wrong show. Sorry. The whole gang is finally back together again as Mikhail resumes his co-hosting responsibilities once more after being extradited to Kentucky from Florida. Obviously, that's not true, but this is what happens when they let Gordon write the preview copy. So listen in on some War Stories (what they played recently), some Flight Prep (GenCon predictions), and everyone's favorite segment: Steelers Talk (Steelers Talk!!!). 09:30 - WAR STORIES | 31:15 - FLIGHT PREP | 1:39:30 - STEELERS TALK

Louisville Hyperspace Trial winner Joe Konopa and local Louisville player Rebel Mike join a Mikhail-less cast to discuss the recent tourney that was held in the Bluegrass state. The cast then attempts to host a trail of their own -- of the legal variety -- in which Rebel Beef stands accused. Yes...funnier in concept than execution. 00:00 - INTRO & WAR STORIES | 40:00 - SOT COURT | 01:50:45 - FLIGHT PREP | 1:56:30 - STOLEN PLANS

The title is an Easter Egg. Go find it. 1:41:30 - STEELERS TALK

You're not alone, Gordon didn't know what that meant either. Tune in to find out! Oh look, it's Episode 50. That's right...Stay On Target, where half the amount of content produced takes twice as long! This week's show is mostly the past month's FFG news and discussions about the emerging meta in both formats. Yes, we discuss the elephant in the room. 51:00 - HYPERSPACE | 1:17:00 - EXTENDED

Original Stay On Target host and creator Cory "CooMasterCoo" Cooley joins the gang to discuss his return to X-Wing and reflect on the recent Hyperspace Trial that was held in Murray, KY.

Gordon and Mikhail are joined this week by special guest Ryan Staniszewski of the OCX podcast to discuss their recent experience at the Hyperspace Trial that was held in Springfield, Ohio. In fact, one of them won the tournament! You'll never guess who!! Listen to find out!!! Okay, fine, the title of the episode has a hint!!!!

Mostly about dice, less about men. "Getting diced" sure has come up as a topic a lot lately, so the Stay on Target crew thought they'd chime in as well by compiling amazing amounts of statistical research alongside copious amounts of insight. And then Asa from Back to Dials publishes an article on the day we record that summarizes it all better than we ever could. What a jerk. So we have him on as a guest during his lunch break. 05:30 - WAR STORIES | 35:30 - HYPERSPACE TRIAL PREDICTIONS | 50:45 - INTERVIEW WITH ASA AND FLIGHT PREP | 1:30:30 - HYPERSPACE TRIALS ADVICE | 1:43:00 - RESOURCES | 1:53:40 - FFG Beef | 2:00:00 - QUICKBUILDS

As promised, FFG published the points and ship configuration updates on schedule. It certainly made for some easy-to-write show notes: “Discuss points changes.” 12:00 - GENERICS AND REBELS | 55:30 - EMPIRE | 1:20:00 - SCUM | 1:57:30 - RESISTANCE | 2:03:30 - FIRST ORDER | 2:20:00 - PROUD PAPA

Was there meta-talk? Of course. Speculation about the upcoming point changes? You betcha. A detailed analysis about the Separatist Alliance preview? Eh, not so much. But there was a lot of talk about the recent Outryder Cup VIII event that was recently held in Indianapolis. The crew shares their Outryder experiences, and then Gordon drops an unexpected bombshell. 2:45 - WAR STORIES | 1:05:30 - FLIGHT PREP | 01:41:40 - STOLEN PLANS | 01:50:00 - STEELERS TALK

The release of two new factions makes for a great excuse to get together and record a new episode, right? You would think so, so we decided to do this at the last minute -- apparently Franch doesn't do "last minute." That's okay, Mikhail has an opinion about everything and carries the show because he actually plays the game of X-Wing (whereas Gordon has played just *once* since the last episode). We also spend time with our producer David Cottingham, who shares with us how his X-Wing 2.0 experience has been so far. 14:00 - X-WING | 1:13:00 - PRODUCER DAVE

Eeeew. It had been a month since the last episode and the Steelers just lost another game, so we had no choice but to record a new show and asked Ryan Fleming to once again join us. It's strictly pure coincidence that Ryan also earned his World's ticket at the recent System Open in Philadelphia, but this let us talk actual X-Wing for a while, thereby keeping the whining about the Steelers to a relative minimum at the end. 11:45 - WAR STORIES | 45:00 - FLIGHT PREP | 01:15:00 - STOLEN PLANS | 1:31:00 - STEELERS TALK

This episode was recorded on Gordon's 52nd birthday. As tempting as it might have been to make the entire discussion about just him -- which would have been really great, mind you -- special guest Mark Moriarty joined the crew to talk about actual X-Wing content. Even Gordon couldn't ignore something as rare as that on this show. Listen in as Mark discusses the Fundamentals of List Building that sometimes eludes newer and older players alike. 6:40 - WAR STORIES | 27:45 - META TALK | 41:10 - FUNDAMENTALS OF LIST BUILDING | 1:56:00 - CLOSING

Getting us together to record these days is basically a miracle. Almost didn't happen again! But record we did. There's some brief discussion of a Second Edition tourney Mikhail and Franch attended and then some discussion about more X-Wing stuff. Don't really remember what it was all supposed to be about because Gordon just couldn't get past Franch being, well, Franch. Regardless, Steelers talk was kept to a minimum at the end of the show. You're welcome.

At least Franch wrote up our show notes, so not a complete loss. With our little tricycle of a podcast still missing its third wheel, Gordon and Mikhail try to pedal along by talking about the recent lists they've flown before eventually asking Ryan Fleming to hop on and save us. After all, Coruscant is this weekend, so who better to talk Coruscant with than Ryan? Turns out Ryan agreed to join us only if he was allowed to complain about the Steelers. After Ryan's rant, we washed his mouth out with soap. 4:00 - WAR STORIES | 26:00 - META ANALYSIS | 1:05:00 - OUTRYDER CUP VIII | 1:21:00 - STOLEN PLANS | 1:27:00 = STEELERS TALK (WHINING) | 2:00:00 - MORE X-WING TALK!

We know you already knew that, but he's a super-idiot this episode. He might know what a Luddite is, but he still doesn't know how Iden Versio works. We apologize in advance. 12:30 - SHIRTS! | 18:15 - PLAYER'S PATH | 1:21:20 - TOURNEY TALK | 1:33:50 - STEELERS TALK

Gordon would have preferred to have had the episode titled "You must unlearn what you have learned", said in his best Yoda voice no less, but Mikhail was inclined to go with the quote by a whiny, murderous brat. Having not recorded for almost two months, it was finally time to get together again to share their thoughts on the sunset that was X-Wing First Edition and the dawn of a new era that begins this week with the launch of X-Wing Second Edition. Non-football fans (or just non-Steelers fans) might want to skip forward to the 11:00 minute mark. Also, parents take note -- a word is in the Steelers segment you might not want to have to explain. 03:15 - STEELERS RANT | 11:00 - WAR STORIES | 45:10 - FLIGHT PREP | 1:30:00 - STOLEN PLANS

We mean that sort of literally. We spoke with Andrew Savoie, who happens to be an actual M.D. What does that have to do with X-Wing? Absolutely nothing, but we're still impressed. Turns out Andrew used to play X-Wing years ago. Now that he's done with his residency, he has more free time and thought he'd give X-Wing another go. Has he heard the good news? Does he know about X-Wing 2.0? We interview him to find out.

That's right, the Stay On Target crew find themselves excited about X-Wing 1.0 again. Thanks Wave 14! 02:00 - WAR STORIES | 30:30 - WAVE 14

Mikhail and Franch share Worlds stories from their recent trip to Minnesota, but it becomes clear soon enough that the crew wanted to talk more about the recently announced X-Wing 2nd Edition. 00:30 - WORLDS | 50:00 - X-WING 2.0

Those who listen to OCX get the reference, and Stay On Target now owns said reference. We won the right to say so and explain why at the end of the show. But don't try to skip ahead, because we'll know and then you'll be in trouble. Mikhail and Franch speculate about what will show up at World's in two weeks, but Gordon doesn't care (because he's not going). Gordon instead prefers to ponder about the overall state of the competitive game and speculate about X-Wing 2.0. 00:30 - WORLDS TALK | 57:00 - STATE OF THE GAME | 01:38:00 PROUG PAPA | 01:45:00 - EVENTS