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The Second Circuit

Podcast door Jesse Kay & Focht’s Network

Engels

Cultuur & Vrije Tijd

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The Second Circuit: A Casual BattleTech Hangout is a chill, low-intensity chat with folks from the Focht's Network Events Team about the world's greatest way do to math on charts that makes big stompy robots shoot at each other. Also sometimes planes.Stay tuned for new episodes every Monday morning!

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aflevering TSC Ep33: Dragons, and Vikings, and Bears, Oh My! artwork

TSC Ep33: Dragons, and Vikings, and Bears, Oh My!

Jesse, Avalyn, and Scott talk the next Battle of Luthien! Woo woo Wednesday wepwesent! Too bad the first one was a lot better in the games and the novels than the actual sourcebook. Let's come up with something more practical. Alpha Strike for sure, right? Recreating the tension from the book is not just objective focused, it's character focused. Dracs, tradition versus modernity. Rasalhague, joiners versus deniers. Overlapping and contrasting secondary/sub objectives. Make it Aces' campaign size. Katana Tormark and the Dragon's Fury with Yori Kurita and the Dragon's Claws. The world's most disrespectful Katana summary. Allies, but Katana wants Yori dead. Both allies can get a supply depot, but only one faction gets the points. Similar for the Joiner and the Denier? Capture a supply depot. Hold a location. Advance before your ally! Turret control. Do main objectives prioritize over sub objectives? With Avalyn (professional game designer), Scott (professional writer), and Jesse (professional Jesse) working together we come up with some cool stuff! Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Game Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated. Come find us and all the other cool things we're doing! Focht Hyperpulse Discord: https://discord.gg/8uNkRGM5Nu Focht's Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fochtsnetwork Six Sides of Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sixsidesofgaming BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fochtsnetwork.bsky.social Theme song 'Spacesynth' by Liborio Conti: https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

18 mei 2026 - 1 h 11 min
aflevering TSC Ep32: The MechTech's Lament artwork

TSC Ep32: The MechTech's Lament

Jesse, Scott, and Jo are 'MechTechs today! Remember MechWarrior 2? Customizing works in the videogames but not on the table. How do we solve that? Scott's made some killer LAMs in MegaMek, but would never bring them to the table. Does BattleTech have to change to allow for customs? Compounding BV? RAT tables for equipment? Can tonnage, C-bills and BV work together in a way to make that work? Are we just reinventing the MUL? What if you can only change a little. Maybe that's where the different weapon-type slots in the videogames come from. Stick to doing it by tonnage? How do we stop medium laser boating in that case? More of Jesse's food analogies. Way back when the constructions rules were as much for the designers as the players. Maybe it's just a different kind of game.    Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Game Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated. Come find us and all the other cool things we're doing! Focht Hyperpulse Discord: https://discord.gg/8uNkRGM5Nu Focht's Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fochtsnetwork Six Sides of Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sixsidesofgaming BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fochtsnetwork.bsky.social Theme song 'Spacesynth' by Liborio Conti: https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

11 mei 2026 - 1 h 14 min
aflevering TSC Ep31: LRPF-20; Long Range Painting Frustrations artwork

TSC Ep31: LRPF-20; Long Range Painting Frustrations

Jesse and Jo are getting in depth with a brush! How do I paint missile launchers?? Sometimes there are missiles and sometimes there are not. Jo says it's a question of scale. Some mistakes can be interpreted as battle damage. Art versus 'realistic'. Context specific is important for the art. Make different parts different colours. Yell-oh-no! This applies to bases as well - Jesse can't do basing because of the risk that a desert base goes on a snow map. Jo would love to hypothetically take it a bit further. Painting is subjective in the end. Jesse is moving on to continuing to kitbash an all RAC unit. Jo hates kitbashing with missile launchers.  Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Game Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated. Come find us and all the other cool things we're doing! Focht Hyperpulse Discord: https://discord.gg/8uNkRGM5Nu Focht's Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fochtsnetwork Six Sides of Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sixsidesofgaming BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fochtsnetwork.bsky.social Theme song 'Spacesynth' by Liborio Conti: https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

4 mei 2026 - 1 h 10 min
aflevering TSC Ep30: Jesse and Scott's Imaginary Armoury artwork

TSC Ep30: Jesse and Scott's Imaginary Armoury

Jesse and Scott are exchanging memory cores about their homebrew gear!  - Loitering Missile Ammunition (It's a floating long-range minefield!) - Plasma Sword (Tsushima/Yotei fans get hyped!) - Magnetic Grapple (Lasso up a Fire Moth!) - Torvold Drone Targeting System (Behold the Hammer of Dawn!) - Rotary Micro Pulse Laser (Cutting down on attack rolls!) - Scott Pod (It's a BattleMech briefcase!) - Continuous Beam Laser (The GTVA Colossus had a ton of these) - Scott Gun Thing (Targeting Governor - Streak PPCs!?) - Neuro Myomer (Skilled pilots should be skilled pilots!) - CVIS (Component Void Integration System - Make Vaccuum Playable Again!) Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Game Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated. Come find us and all the other cool things we're doing! Focht Hyperpulse Discord: https://discord.gg/8uNkRGM5Nu Focht's Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fochtsnetwork Six Sides of Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sixsidesofgaming BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fochtsnetwork.bsky.social Theme song 'Spacesynth' by Liborio Conti: https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

27 apr 2026 - 1 h 19 min
aflevering TSC Ep29: BattleTech! In! SPAAAACE! artwork

TSC Ep29: BattleTech! In! SPAAAACE!

Jesse, Scott, and Jo are talking Warships! Jesse likes sc-fi because of big machines that shoot lasers. BattleTech scales well, so let's see what happens at the biggest scale. The Hunters has a cool space battle! Naval assets - using a lot of ECM? Some of the secrets are buried in many old books. The wargaming table could be like a holotank! Please don't mess with electronics if you are untrained, and please don't sue us if you do. Do we lose something not being in 3D? 2D does save a lot of mental load. There is nothing in space. Relatively. Or is there? BattleTech with no terrain sucks. Six-thousand squares!?!?!? The space battle in IKEO wasn't so great. Just one Star Destroyer; is that the golden ratio? Are the Ravens building more warships in the periphery? Is a warship fleet the ultimate weapon? Not if you're looking to actually conquer anything. Clan names, great bands, we'll have to get back to that.  Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Game Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated. Come find us and all the other cool things we're doing! Focht Hyperpulse Discord: https://discord.gg/8uNkRGM5Nu Focht's Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fochtsnetwork Six Sides of Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sixsidesofgaming BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fochtsnetwork.bsky.social Theme song 'Spacesynth' by Liborio Conti: https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

20 apr 2026 - 1 h 9 min
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