Tales From The Periphery

In which Mike aten't ded (to quote Nanny Ogg). Also, he gets to have a long (and rather delayed) chat with Aces designer Josh Derksen.

The obligatory useful links:

Josh's page on BoardGame Geek

Lynnvander Studios

A 480p rip of Fang Of The Sun Dougram (you'll need to listen to understand why) - there are probably better quality rips out there.

Twine - "an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories."

My interview with Ed Jones and the sadly missed Kendall Leask.

And finally, there's a small prize for the first person to comment and tell me what I messed up when I put all the audio for Episode 15 together...

In which Mike finally gets to chat to Ed from Buy The Same Token about their fabulous AS tokens.

Useful links, as ever:

the tokens themselves can be found here along with some better photos than mine!

the BTST discord (this link shouldn't expire)

the Krita open source drawing software Ed mentioned that BTST use - runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.

I will grab some decent 'posed' token shots when I get back from Germany next week.

In which Mike is back from UKGE, and mostly awake again! Featuring interviews with a bunch of the demo agent team from the show.

Useful links:

SciFi Trader. Note that this site is in German, but most modern browsers will do a decent enough job of translating if you ask them to, to enable you to sign up, sign in and buy stuff.

Fortress Miniatures and Games.

In which Mike mostly gets to catch his breath, and report back from a game with the Enfield crew, some painting, listening and a whole load of admin!

Useful links:

The Hexperts Podcast - Spotify | YouTube

Recent Loren Coleman blog posts on tariffs and how they affect Catalyst - 1 | 2

CGL acquire IWM!

Upcoming events

UK Games Expo BattleTech Events

Bryan Young's "Lone Wolf And Fox" anthology - Amazon

Loren Coleman's "Double Blind" - Amazon

Randall Bill's "Fall From Glory" - Amazon

In which Mike gets to chat with BattleTech author Tom Leveen about his experiences as an author, and the upcoming "Blood Will Rise"

Useful links:

Blood Will Rise - Tom's intro | Amazon UK | Catalyst Store (link coming soon)

Tom's "How To Write Awesome Dialogue" - Amazon UK

Blood Will Tell - Amazon UK (print, Kindle or audiobook)

Embers of War - Amazon UK (Kindle or audiobook)

Mike on OnTableTop from Salute

UK Games Expo BattleTech Events

Element Games

Leisure Games of Finchley

Upcoming events

Also not mentioned in the podcast (for reasons of time!), the new UK BattleTech podcast Hexperts who, being more organised and efficient than me, already have six episodes out and I'll talk more about next time!