Radio Mecatol

Radio Mecatol

Everything Twilight Imperium, by Kalle (two-time TI-champion) and Ola (game designer). If you enjoy what we do, you can buymeacoffee.com/radiomecatol You can find our Discord here: https://discord.gg/muz96jMYBH

Episodes

April 10, 2026 28 mins

How are feelings expressed and handled during a game? What is ok and what not? How should we think about feelings when playing TI?

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How do you define what is the best action card and which are they? Ola plays a game with Kalles stats from the internet.

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March 13, 2026 36 mins

How do you play Hacan in TE? Kalle has a 67% winrate with them and gives his explanation.

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February 27, 2026 25 mins

What has changed from base game to Thunder's edge when it comes to promissory notes? In this episode we look at the design choices made and offer an alternative direction.

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February 13, 2026 32 mins

In this episode we look at how you should choose what ships to build.

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January 30, 2026 34 mins

What is a great slice and what to beware? In the episode we examine the results of a tournament and Ola gets to evaluate and guess which slices performed best and worst. If you want to se the slices you can find them on our Discord: https://discord.gg/VFGk7Qzs (Should work 31st Jan and 1st week of feb)

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January 16, 2026 26 mins

In this episode we compare two very different strategies.

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January 2, 2026 28 mins

How is Sardakk N'orr in Thunders edge? We talk it out while rehashing some stuff from our last Sardakk-episode, because we forgot we already made one. Oops! Goes to tell how many episodes we managed to make, which we also celebrate in this episode. 

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December 24, 2025 5 mins

In this short Christmas special Kalle gives a brief overview of how the game went in last episode.

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December 19, 2025 29 mins

In this episode Kalle detail a situation in a correspondence game that he is playing where the last round is about to start. Four players can win, but who will and what should Kalle do?

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December 5, 2025 36 mins

What are the new legendary planets in Thunders Edge? Good, bad? How to use them?

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November 21, 2025 27 mins

In our second learning episode we talk about the Fracture, but also some other new mechanics, such as trade stations and the entropic scar.

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November 7, 2025 32 mins

Learn what the planet Thunders edge is all about, what a breakthrough is and which new cool powers are available.

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November 5, 2025 14 mins

Hello there weirdos of the internet! This is an ASMR style audio unboxing of Thunders Edge. A normal episode comes this Friday as usual.

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October 24, 2025 30 mins

Which TI hero is really the best? And are there aspects of some hero that you missed?

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October 10, 2025 31 mins

Five factions have been revealed for the upcoming Thunder's Edge expansion. Here we give our first impressions about them.

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September 26, 2025 22 mins

In our twentieth episode (yay!) we touch upon the touchy subject of honesty in Twilight Imperium. Are you ready to talk real about lies?

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September 12, 2025 42 mins

We had a lot of fun with this one – I think you can tell. Which secret objectives do you think are easy and which ones hard? Find out our assessment and what the stats say, and maybe learn something on the way.

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August 29, 2025 28 mins

Strategy episode about Argent flight. Ola is amazed and curious.

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August 15, 2025 32 mins

In the 17th episode of Radio Mecatol we look at different ways of doing trade deals with a focus on specifically trade goods and commodities. We critically examine the so called "x-1 and wash"-meta that one might find in tournaments and online.

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