Podcasts by The Firm - Another Guild Ball Podcast
Welcome to The Firm, yet another Guild Ball podcast - go on, give it a go.
We're two Guild Ballers who chat after every game and every tournament. Unfortunately for you we've decided to start recording these chats.
Join us for a Guild Ball audio adventure.
Opening and closing music for the first 34 episodes:
Twisted Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Opening and closing music for the episode 34 and beyond:
The music in this episode was:
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"Too Cool" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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33 - Board Feel with the Nu Captains 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We've ran the new captains out. They're good!
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30 - VBoar, Mourn and the Miners from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
So this was meant to come out in the first week of March while the takes were hot. Now they're slightly warm.
Vet Boar, Mourn and the Miners all get a run out onto the pitch in this episo...
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12 - The Nationals Motivational Speech and Vet Cinder from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It's finally here, the episode before British Nationals.
Ryan does what he does best and wheels out a pep talk. Be sure to download this for Saturday morning.
In all seriousness we...
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Introducing the Guild Ball Community Project from 2020-09-08T20:01:23
TheQuestionNL and TheInspiringHat have taken some time out of their busy schedules to answer some of our questions about the Guild Ball Community Project.
Big thanks to TheQuestionNL and ...
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This Is Fine from 2020-08-14T13:53:48
It happened.
Once again we're plagued with lockdown audio issues, sorry about that.
I mention it in the first minute or so, but we hacked a lot out of this pod. So if we seem not ...
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The Guild Ball Field Test Manifesto from 2020-05-20T11:13:11
Hello! Your favourite infrequent Guild Ball podcast is back.
The current hotness is the Field Test and Ryan's put a fair whack of time and effort into taking a run at some proposed chang...
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Little Lost Lambs - A Late Shepherds Chat from 2020-03-19T10:38:23
It took us a while to get them on the board. But we are in love!
Alex's dogs got excited during Hook and Crook chat so expect to hear them join in.
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Welcome to 2020! from 2020-03-13T19:38:03
A podcast is never late. Nor is it early. We've used that line before.
It's been a while! Alex has finally shaken a long loss streak. Ryan hasn't been let out. We haven't had time to try ...
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Festival, Veteran Greede and Soma with Bryce from 2019-12-23T12:41:59
How are you finding the new captains? Enjoying them? Ryan is thoroughly enjoying Soma. Alex not so much.
Lead Guild Ball Developer Bryce is here to talk about the new captains and their d...
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What's the (Game) Plan (Deck) with Perkins from 2019-11-27T12:00:19
The Firm steps out of its cave of hibernation, blinking against the bright winter sun. We're joined in this episode by Steamforged Games Design Lead Jamie Perkins to talk about the new Game Plan...
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2 - A is for Alchemists from 2019-07-23T22:57:28
No Knuckles or Layne chat here, folks. We're still getting to grips with these guys.
A is for Alchemists! Determined to stop knowing nothing about the Alchs we got them on the board and p...
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Episode 34/1? Guess who's back from 2019-06-05T19:41:04
It's been a while friends, but hot (...lukewarm?) off of Scottish Nationals we're back to talk about our last few games and new feelings about Guild Ball.
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32 - Nu Captains 2: Electric Boogaloo with Sherwin from 2019-04-06T11:01
Sherwin very kindly joined us for a meandering frolic through this wave of captains releases.
Spoilers: Sherwin has a disappointing favourite episode of Stargate SG-1
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29 - O Captain! My Captain! from 2019-03-01T12:00
Mourn, Boar, Steeljaw and Yukai are the topics of discussion for The Firm today.
There's a pretty deep dive into Steeljaw and Yukai as they're the ones we got on the board, but if you li...
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27 - Leeds Winter Ball from 2019-02-10T19:40:11
A late tournament report from December.
Ryan was nursing a hangover so Alex rode solo into sunny Leeds.
Recorded this last year but only just got to editing it. Hope you enjoy!
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The Firm & The Rookie's Merry Christmas Part 2 from 2018-12-24T00:05
This is part two of a two part episode - hit up The Rookie's Podcast for Part 1.
Now the housekeeping is out of the way, Ryan and I (Alex) would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christm...
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Navigators Special from 2018-12-17T23:17:15
It's finally here. Wiping the briny sea spray from its brow the Navigators Special looks down from the deck of the ship to the waiting crowd. It doesn't apologise for being late.
Thanks ...
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26 - SteamCon UK - Before and After from 2018-12-06T22:33:11
Late again - look's like we need to get rid of this Navigator's watch and buy a new one.
This is our pre and post SteamCon UK chat about the game.
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24 - Back in Time for a S4 intro from 2018-11-19T22:25:16
Right, so this is super late. We recorded this around October 13th.
These Season 4 hot takes are now super cold.
I've (AJ) been busy. Hope you enjoy it even though it's late!
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25 - The Hooligan's Cup from 2018-10-25T19:24:19
In this episode we basically run down how our tournament went at Leodis Games. It was a really fun friendly tournament and we want to thank everyone who came down!
Eagle eyed listeners mi...
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23 - Season 4 with Bryce - After a Season 3 Memory Lane from 2018-10-08T23:03:33
Listener caution is advised. This episode is incredibly off script.
We just had a chat about Season 3. Properly just a chat.
Bryce joins Alex to talk Season 4, if you want actual...
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22 - WTC with Aaron Hypetrain Wilson, Smoke, Falconers VSiren, Boiler and Esters from 2018-10-02T22:58:21
Sorry this is a little late.
We round up the last of the solo cards spoiled in blogs and then talked to the Hypetrain himself about WTC and why you should go next year.
All aboard...
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21 - Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner from 2018-09-26T00:40:24
**Apologies for the trash tier audio. We were almost at our max storage allowance for the month - AJ**
We hit up a local tournament this weekend and came first and second after a not so h...
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20 - Scalpel, Ratcatchers and Skatha from 2018-09-15T17:31:13
With some new blogs out it's time to talk about some Season 4 models with zero context again.
It's an exercise in futility, but one we enjoy.
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19 - Anvil & Sledge, Ploughman and the Salty Sea from 2018-09-09T11:39:35
Get the popcorn ready. This is one hell of a salty episode.
Our inability to play into the Blacksmiths makes us sad about Anvil & Sledge and Ryan tilts hard about Alex's constant Navigato...
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18 - Dave Millington on The Coin Wars, Granite and Salvo from 2018-09-02T08:09:56
We kick off this episode rattling through the new Granite and Salvo before getting into the real meat. Dave Millington joins us to talk about his upcoming campaign, The Coin Wars.
It's re...
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17 - Snakeskin, Navigators Board Feel and Kung Fu Fighting from 2018-08-30T23:40:15
16 - Cardinal's Cup and Chess from 2018-08-19T12:31:23
Sorry we're late!
We're having a catch up after missing last week.
Alex went to a tournament and we tried to play Chess as some kind of learning mechanism. It didn't work.
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15 - Big League, Apps, Alex's Personal Best and EVO from 2018-08-08T20:23:04
Rise and shine! We recorded at half five this morning to get this out only a little late.
We talk Big League, Rookie League, Apps, Navigators, Minor Guild Bonuses, Alex's best ever perfor...
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14 - Navigators, Cooks and Mixed Roster Tournaments from 2018-07-31T20:04:28
**Oh, at one point we said Singled Out when we meant Strictly the Worst in this episode. Sorry.
First things first we catch up on all the blog posts we've missed. Horizon, Fathom and a wh...
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13 - GB Nationals Results from 2018-07-24T00:08:37
This weekend was GB nationals.
We did not do well.
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11 - Breaking the Blacksmiths, Outgrowing Our 6 Man Method and Ryans Guild from 2018-07-11T19:30:33
I wrote a load of episode notes and timed out during the upload so these haven't got quite as much effort in them.
Firstly sorry for Alex's attitude. We played a game of Fish vs Blacksmi...
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10 - VFangtooth, The Church then a descent into nonsense from 2018-07-04T21:56:18
So in this episode we started off talking about Veteran Fangtooth and The Church. Then it sort of went freestyle.
We've sad before, this podcast is just us chatting after games and we hop...
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9 - Training, SSpigot VChisel and Some Questions from 2018-06-30T10:14:25
Sorry this episode is a bit late. We will donate all downloads to charity.
In this episode Alex talks about Ultimate Frisbee, Ryan talks about boxing and we get around to Guild Ball at so...
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8 - Leodis Games Cup: The Falconers Launch (ish?) from 2018-06-17T12:30:54
We recorded this episode hot off the tail of a tournament at www.leodisgames.com 's new brick and mortar store.
Both of us were disappointed wit...
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7 - Veteran Sakana, Killing the Ball and what makes a good model? from 2018-06-11T17:28:03
So we tried to talk about Vet Sakana. We really did.
It turned into a chat about killing the ball. Then guessing about what's gonna change in S4.
Then we went back to Sakana. Then...
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6 - A Brief (?) Analysis of Player Types, Vet Rage vs Grange and Listener Questions from 2018-06-05T21:37:37
We've been trying to get more experience against other captains so we've strayed away from Theron and Corsair for a bit.
Alex brought Vet Rage and Ryan didn't look impressed. We kick off...
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5 - Going back to our first loves from 2018-05-29T22:08:56
Recently we've both made a lot of improvements in our Guild Ball game. To see how much we've really progressed we've gone back to our first sixes to see if we see anything we didn't see before.<...
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4 - Post Vengeance Chat and the Navigators from 2018-05-21T21:38:56
Alex is back from Vengeance and reports in to coach Ryan. There's a lot of chatting about mindset and being your own worst enemy.
Then Alex gets too excited about Navigators because he ca...
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3 - 12-0, 0-12, Devana and a Vengeance pep talk from 2018-05-13T14:56:28
This episode goes around the houses a bit. We keep wandering off topic, backtracking and wandering off again but it was fun to talk through so we kept it all in.
We've dropped a message a...
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2 - Tilting, Minerva and Resin from 2018-05-06T20:28:58
We kick off with a chat about how much tilting can affect your game then we talk about the two games Ryan tried Minerva in before rounding off with a brief discussion about the newly announced c...
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1 - The North West Frontier Cup, Mataagi and Pride from 2018-05-04T21:51:54
We went to a great tournament at a great venue recently where nothing exciting at all happened in the final round so you should skip that bit.
Then we get into the meat of this episode, M...
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0 - Who Are These Nerds? from 2018-05-04T19:15:55
Welcome to The Firm.
We're two Guild Ballers who chat after every game and every tournament. Unfortunately for you we've decided to start recording these chats.
In this introductor...
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