158: X47 Gon Give It To Ya

“I am not pleased with this meta…”

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-The Big War: Each sides prospects for victory and what that could look like, The Battle of X47 (10 trillion in the dirt!), status check on the northern and southern fronts

-ATXVI: Review of the emerging metas and comp archetypes, Artimus pines for AT comps of old, some match highlights, and a look at next week’s brackets

-Wildlands War 2: Alek runs down a timeline of the major battles and developments in his home region of Great Wildlands over the past two weeks. Artimus and Alek share war stories from the front lines.

157: The Big One

“Those ‘newbie organizations’ have THE LARGEST supercaptial force in the game”

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-The formation of Imperial Legacy

-Imperial Legacy vs PanFam/Holy League/Winter Coalition/GOTG: One of the largest wars in the game’s history (nearly every sov nullsec alliance)

-We cover the recent highlights and strategies for success in the conflict’s northern and southern fronts

-Super fleets commit and brawl in UALX-3: One of the largest battles in the game’s history

Great Wildlands power vacuum explodes into hard hitting regional conflict. Alek delivers a first person account of the action so far.

-Alliance Tournament begins next week! We run down the first round’s brackets to highlight the most dramatic and spicy matchups to look forward to

 

156: IT BEGINS

“The absolute state of your knowledge of My Little Pony…”

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-CSM voting is underway! Artimus and Alek reveal their ballots, discuss the controversy around candidate removal

-Artimus reveals an inability to name types of apples, but thankfully Alek is here to help

-In a major controversy, ATXVI is short on teams, cuts feeder rounds (and poor Alek)

-Hugh Caswakk from the New Eden Report joins us via satellite to give us a nullsec news update

-DRF completely implodes, losing all their space and half their capital fleet

-Inside the campaign: Alek’s Capitalist Army heads into The Spire to secure an Outpost before the Faction Fortizar patch

-Where will the next big conflict kick off? War brewing between Legacy and their eastern neighbors?

 

155: CSM13 Candidate Roundtable w Suitonia, Commander Aze, and Brisc Rubal

“Whoever picked out the URL briscforcsm.win deserves a bonus”

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-In addition to getting to know some of 2018’s most promising CSM candidates, this years roundtable takes on war decs, balancing, transparency, and what each candidate thinks will be the next CSM’s biggest challenge

Suitonia: Our only incumbent on the show, Suitonia is best known for his prolific content creation on YouTube and Good Posting. As a CSM representative he’s been a huge contributor to CCP’s recent balancing efforts, particularly on Assault Frigates, underused Destroyers, and T1 Cruisers. Suitonia seeks reelection this year on the back of his packed resume, long list of endorsements, and a proud performance on CSM12.

Commander Aze: Try, try, try again. Commander Aze has run for CSM several times before, coming close but never being elected. Aze hopes to follow in the foot steps of Mike Azariah and have his persistence pay off this year. What’s different this year around? In addition to deepening his background with empire gameplay like the War Dec Project, Aze has expanded his horizons to include both wormholes and nullsec.

Brisc Rubal: Brisc is running to represent the line members of the Imperium and nullsec alliances around the game. A faithful pilot of the Initiative, Brisc has seen the PVE and PVP offerings of nullsec both large and small but is not an FC, director, or diplomat. But he does have leadership experience IRL where he has been involved in US politics for quite some time. He’s hoping his professional lobbying expertise blended with his everyman EVE experience makes him an effective member of the CSM.